Duo guitar/drums electric psych moves from Akiko Terashima of Doodles and Masayuki Toshimitsu. Downer folk songs with forlorn female vox and epic post-Neil Young guitar solos. Edition of 70 copies.

Edition of 100 copies from this long-running mysterious communal folk/kraut unit: Metabolismus take on the kind of ethno-flux style of groups like Embryo and marry it to endless acoustic jams with oracular vocals and microtonal raga detail, somehow tying up NYC and Cologne w/a commitment to group mind dynamics that gives the nod to Crass and Siloah, The Fugs and Yatha Sidhra. Indeed, Brimborium features a suitably slum goddess rendering of The Fugs paean to nada, “Nothing”, alongside endless acoustic ritual and lumbering cultic rhythms. 

Latest instalment in Sloow Tapes’ necessary beat/spoken word cassette series: Valery Oisteanu is a Soviet-born Romanian/American poet who was also known as a DJ and a rock and roll outlaw who travelled across Eastern Europe in buses inspired by the Further>>> aesthetic of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. As his work grew more and more critical of the communist regime he moved to New York in the early seventies. Valery has been called “the lovechild of Wilhelm Reich and André Breton” and his poetry has a wild energy and an insistent musicality, with aspects of the kind of hysteric delivery of Alan Bishop married to bardic Ginsberg-isms and a feel for surrealist juxtaposition. Here he reads from his latest work, Perks In Purgatory. Edition of 100 copies.