ASSOPHON RECORDS NEW RELEASES AVAILABLE NOW! All records are pressed in an ed. of 400 copies $15 ppd (usa)/$18 Canada $25 ppd (international) all three LPs $43 ppd (usa) $48(Canada)/$56(intl) wholesale available payment by paypal to info@seadonkeys.com |
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ASSO-001 THE SEA DONKEYS- S.S.
MARIE ANTOINETTE LP " ... a divinely ragged live blast that combines a more garage rocking taking on the communal folk breakdowns of The Cherry Blossoms with killer Shaggs/Godz style drum violence, drunk choir vocals and the kinda fidelity that makes it all sound like a great VU Bootleg. There are inspired covers of material like “It’s A Rainy Day” by Faust and Albert Ayler’s “Ghosts” (which wins out over countless lame indie free jazz versions by re-staging it as a melancholy avant rock dirge as played by Don Van Vliet and the Maher Shalal Has Baz orchestra) and the more rocking sections are a near perfect amalgam of primitive avant brut, stumble punk oblivion and beautiful melodic chord solos. Recommended. "David Keenan -volcanic Tongue |
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ASSO-002 SPIDER TRIO- RENDEZVOUS
LP "Spider Trio is Wally Shoup’s new avant rock/free jazz group, featuring Soup himself on saxophone, Dave Abramson on drums and Jeffery Taylor on guitar. Shoup is on fire-breathing form throughout, scorching the omni-directional time signatures and bursts of single note violence with rasping smears of breath and almost Peter Brotzmann-like furies. There is some good, responsive dynamite throughout but it sounds best when the guitar and drums get down on their hands and knees and just generate this low, vibrating rumble while Shoup nose-dives into them again and again." David Keenan |
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| ASSO-003 FACTUMS- PRIMITIVE
FUTURE-OST LP "Factums have preciously cut some major art-damaged rock moves for the Siltbreeze label. A Primitive Future is intended as a soundtrack to an imaginary movie and it’s a totally beguiling and mysterious spin. The sound is dense, claustrophobic, Xeroxed rock, taking the more extended strategies of the weirdest Dead C sides and compacting them into blunt riffs and sunken vox that feel like some of the most primordial, defiantly monochrome psychedelia this side of nowhere. There are a bunch of long tracks, all convincing monosyllabic traverses of the nowhere zone, cut up with shorter tracks that use amp-huzz, keyboard bleeps, pinging strings and percussion to generate minimal, almost Sun Ra-styled, instrumental fantasias but the whole thing is so oblique, so perfectly unto itself, that it’s hard to find any truly accurate comparisons outside of suggesting that if you dig the sound of the 90s underground and you like it as distended and alien as all hell then this is the kind of environment you’ll enjoy sinking to the bottom of. A weird-ass one for sure and recommended." David Keenan |