Child Of Microtones

Mv & Ee

Cap Trips

Child Of Microtones

was buildin’ some kind of cklone in da basement. had to repro to exist, would you call the blues? would u boogie on pavement? cut some kinda rug to shred interstellar carpet rides? this ain’t magic, but we be wizardry. wizen’d MV/EE uploaded this RN, yep right now we covered terrain. you know who mother of thousands were, then you might know this circuit. KNOW THIS trailhead, we recorded this at home in our home studio(s), uploaded on dial up. yup would rather bunt than hit a bust of homer. bust one out for the coach, wav it in this digi legit. we’re zoo’d for u, offer you our sound and hope pig would be rotund.  - coot moon vermont 2020

Matt Valentine Preserves

Galactic Ooze

Child Of Microtones

DEDICATED TO ALL THE DIVIDED ALIENS spectrasound hikes here ->  doobie is a division of the child of microtones terran library of exploratory music  ALL TUNES/BREAKBEAT SCI FI MATT “MV” VALENTINE  PHOTOGRAPHY & COVER ART TRANSAURA: ERIKA ELDER

Ash & Herb

Northern Lights

Child Of Microtones

ASH & HERB is a unit to challenge the very boundaries of duo exchanges within free dankazoid jam fiction. except this is fact, you can blast off. written by one of the medium's most innovative and prophetic voices (matt lajWAH from the mighty herbcraft), he is now found thrice as potent with astral goddess ASH "sister anubis" joining him in sonic rapture, tone and float perfectly realized on a joyous alternative earth. the dual vocal attack reminds me of a look i love & recognize, while the reality of time & death are totally displaced into some kinda homegrown dimension i haven't seen in what seems like an aeon but now is finally here.   and indeed it's all HERE, transportation, extrapolation, whack, zonk machine, action, art, plot, jam, focus…a truly superior work of free folk.   blast off this is C.O.M. 51!  - mvvermontwinter 2017Ash: vocals, Magnus Custom De Luxe (1, 3), Casio MT-210 (2), Rheem Mark VII (4, 6 [organ solo #2], 7, 8), six-string acoustic guitar (4, 8), electric guitar (5, 6 [guitar solo #1])  Herb: vocals, electric bass, 10-string guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 6), six-string acoustic guitar (2), bongos (2, 6, 8), tambourine (2, 3, 4, 6, 8), shekere (2, 3, 5, 6), dilruba (3), tom (4), mijwiz (5), lid (5), buffalo drum (5), jar (6), electric guitar (6 [guitar solo #2], 8), Rheem Mark VII (6 [organ solo #1]), drumkit (6, 7, 8), waves (7)  Produced and mixed Fall 2016 at Matra...

Valentine, Matt

Heap Zone

Child Of Microtones

back on the omni river with some cosmic covers, man overboard and gilded deep see/hear treasures…i acknowledged the masters and jacked into my home studios (maximum arousal farm & green extension studio B!) to tap the maple with an attempt to represent & scope. keep me "posted", no hunting here…just space fruit. this was C.O.M. 48, a tour disc only available at the merch table on the blazing bird road trip and right here while this magic button is UP. keep on pickin', be here now ->  matt "mv" valentine guilford, VT late summer 2016

Valentine, Matt

Before It's Gone

Child Of Microtones

I reckon i first started recording this number back when mick flower was sequestered by the volcano. by that i mean his visit to the USA touring with MV & EE as part of the GOLDEN ROAD was extended when his flight home was delayed due to "nature". so we hung around in vermont for several days jamming some more/canoeing/barbequeing…i had a bunch of new songs lined up that were ready to seed so i showed 'em to mick at my home studio maximum arousal farm and we partied on for awhile with "before it's gone". the structure/vibe was there and we slung some hash, basically just letting the fingers do the walking while he sunned himself with the BIG riff. felt groovy…dude is a GREAT artist and i got to sketch with him. so over the next few summers i developed it. my good friend arbitrary signs spectre folk magik marker pete nolan had just moved up to the pioneer valley and i thought it would be cool to get together by having him guest on the tune with some background vocals. i went down and hung out in his fly by night home studio and we got it on. welcome to the hood! he's got such sweet mojo and no one ever really talks about his vocal zone, which i always felt was right there and perfect velvet side of gone. my kinda tone. speaking of killer harmony tone float, jeremy earl from woods was visiting on one...

Valentine, Matt

Blazing Grace

Child Of Microtones

if I were to give a sobriquet to my one man band/guitar army of one I'd call it wet tuna. live behind the name...but I went vintage like all those private press folk in the loners & stoners bag. went with the MV thing. somethin' about the vibe of those dank 60's/70's singer songwriters nude under their own grace. accountable. I saw de la soul once at a house party on strong island...drove a ways. I dig chill...high and rising. saw the freeport exit on the way between a circus and sewer, cranked a VU boot. I met davy graham once but he said "I'm not the Davy Graham you know". I've always dug jorma...acoustic & electric -> imagine if that's what i named our dog. spectrasound. wet channel, wetware…DIG, back in 1999 i founded a label called THE CHILD OF MICROTONES TERRAN LIBRARY OF EXPLORATORY MUSIC, C.O.M. for short. it was named after a joseph jarman/art ensemble quote…we released "intimate" music, music for one…or 99. back in the day the third "private press" we did on our label was reissued on wax by nemo. this C.O.M. is also on time-lag. #99. go figure. blazing grace, hashtag love.   THIS IS C.O.M. 47!  special guests: spanish wolfman, p.g. six, mick flower, erika elder, j mascis, meg baird, pete nolan, carson arnold, jeremy earl, muskox, rongoose.

Mv & Ee

Alpine Tenement

Child Of Microtones

BACK TO MONO!  digital edition for those who missed it and/or dig the format. a COMpanion disc to "alpine frequency" featuring completely different songs & performances.  deep mono spectrasound, somehow it sounds quad. jamaica, vermont is near our COMpound, good state park there…follow the trails and rhythm shower. if you can't hear it, you need to find it.  sweet special guests jeremy "woods" earl, mick "vibracathedral" flower, chris "visitations" livengood, doc "transcendental rodeo" dunn & the one and only rongoose.

Mv & Ee

Alpine Frequency

Child Of Microtones

sweet C.O.M. digital edition of our "ALPINE FREQUENCY" double LP jammer released via feeding tube records. a COMmunal golden road zone out colliding with the nu-clear duo exchange featuring prime buds P.G. Six & Marc "spanish wolfman" Wolf from the TOWER RECORDINGS and bevy of special guest heads: Pete Nolan (Spectre Folk/Magik Markers), Mike "Muskox" Smith, Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra), Rafi Bookstaber (Von Himmel, Mendocino), Paulie G (Von Himmel, Aswara), Carson "smokehound" Arnold, Adam Langellotti (Sore Eros/Home Comfort), Chris Livengood (Visitations/Video Nasties), Jeremy Earl (Woods, Meneguar, High Lodge), Doc Dunn!  feel the music, feel the gravitational pull. no one takes you there like MV & EE on child of microtones, often copied -> never duplicated. quality jams since 1999 and before/after prehistoric future. don't be duped, ride pure land. this is C.O.M. 44!

Valentine, Matt

Midden Mound

Child Of Microtones

Massive, expansive new Matt ‘MV’ Valentine double album “Midden Mound”. Featuring a host of guest performers, including Erika Elder, J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Jeremy Earl (Woods/Woodsist), P.G. Six and Michael Flower. An 11-track combination of sprawling jams including the incredible Rudy Rucker inspired “Freeware” and beautiful songs. A truly wondrous, sun-blinded, summer stoner record that throws its sandals in the duffel bag, lets the sand slip through its toes and tramps off in the direction of a mirage of a gigantic effigy of Ganesh. Availalbe on pro-printed / dubbed cassette and deluxe CDR.

Mv & Ee

Alpha Lyrae

Child Of Microtones

"i was feeling rockets all the time when we were creating and listening to this record. sometimes they were bottle rockets, imaginary rockets, estes, space crafts and gimongous star machines that haven’t been built yet. more importantly i was feeling stages, secondary...tertiary…beyond growth. definitely alotta triangulation with the “eye” and geometric eye in the sky -> always liftoff/ground, fruit/roots. ∞ philosophies. those kinda sounds often bless our head to remind us heads, they peak and peek out of the spectra as explosions. hopefully that translates for you, it will if you are that kind. maybe dig it in headphones if at first you don't succeed. in many ways this LP represents the cosmic fire of orgasm. we waited for a long time…" - matt valentine, maximum arousal farm (vermont 2014)  "Some people have a hard time picking sides, not me, not here: I'll take the flip. It starts high on the crazy horse, all gallop and fuzz, and begins to fray in the most glorious way. When the tambourine starts to shake, the jam goes to shambles — they coulda let it in, coulda make some rock heroism out of it, but they let it soak, standing outside, staring through the window as the storm rages on. It's one of those moments that makes it real clear why MV&EE end up on bills with boundary pushers as often as mellow jammers. Of course, matt and erika being who they are and doing what they do, bring it back home,...

Mv & Ee With The Golden Road

Shade Grown

Child Of Microtones

Studio C.O.M.'s from MV & EE have been rare these days with recent rockets being in the form of the most righteous and mighty live excursions into unknown jam galaxies thru song form (dig the heroines, box sets and residencies!). However, time was when the Child Of Microtones sound worlds were exploding with the most unique and highly personalized solar systems of pre-war/post Takoma environs colliding like COMets with black ark pods from the tapers section. On "Shade Grown" sweet new MV & EE are back in that orbit fusing all that they can give and more to keep America beautiful. Go DIY army, this is greenspace…throw away yr armaments and trade the electric mower for headphones. This is perhaps the closest Spectra, Matt & Erika have come to dub, The ONE could get lost in these tunes/jams for many spins. Bring on hyperspace awareness, you could be in yr very own room beyond inside out and feel all they are right beside you, just like spectrasound wanted you to be.   Special guests/skypilots from the good ol' Golden Road: Jeremy Earl (Woods), Michael Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra), Matt Lajoie (Herbcraft), Doc Dunn, Muskox, Paulie G, Rafi Bookstaber, Carson "Smokehound" Arnold, Rongoose (Sunburned Hand Of The Man).     MV & EE with The Golden Road - Cocola Parabola (Sugar On Snow) SINGLE VERSION by Revolver USA

Mv & Ee

Zebulon Residency

Child Of Microtones

Fantastic sounding/looking collection of the very hard to find 7 disc set from their residency at the very groovy "zebulon" in january 2012. This is the BOMB of the tapers pit to date, we can call it a "section" now because we have moved into the realm of COMpartmentalization regarding the "MV & EE" live sound. This document rises above the sonic meniscus of the prior efforts (april flower/suub duub) as we have brought the multitrack into the form and we thank YOU for that! Why not run hi-fi tape recorders, insist on soundboards with room mics as well as collecting audience recordings from some of the bands greatest "tapers"? Who else would do that for you but C.O.M. -> and the others weren't quite "lo-fi" and raw, and we LIKE that! We dig B-movies, B-music, global primitive…but we went beyond here. YOU are treated to intimate, extremely detailed and often synapse bending renditions of some concert classics and more than a handful of debut live songs. This is the stuff dreams are made of, not only the up close nature of the performances captured in glorious MVspectrasound but the varied moods of acoustic/electric/environments. Intimate duo exchanges, legendary trios and full on Golden Road, mellow chill and life/luv smoke. Cork, tea and burn all around…Special guests/The Golden Road: rongoose/smokehound/herbcraft/steve gunn/andre vida/willie lane/p.g. six/jarvis taveniere/jeremy earl. 

Mv & Ee

Suub Duub

Child Of Microtones

Digital edition of the 8 disc box-set, over 1GB of music!!! Includes digital booklet.  "howdy golden roadies ∞   we got inner ears where you are, but you knew that already! if you grip this here program of suub duub you may let it rip consensually in the privacy of yr very own demense. MV & EE rolled a spirited cloud shield force field known as the "suub duub" tour in summer 2011. this is the COMplete ride, inspired hyperspace from smoky canada to takoma area wilderness. duo exchanges along with various permutations from special guests RONGOOSE/THE WOLFPACK/HERBCRAFT/THE GOLDEN ROAD. there are many rooms and as with heroine celestial agriculture each one can harvest many doors, dig the portals of the "mv & ee" grassroots ride, that which has been revived here for you in the solution of spectrasound, handled with care for you to inhale with many breaths.    there's alotta running time here in the matrix, come have an adventure. why not? there you will inherit. there is merit in your dedication to C.O.M.. we are native." mv  Disc 1 (tracks 1-6) QUABBIN BUZZ - People's Pint, Greenfield, MA 7/27/11  Disc 2 (tracks 7-12) NEW BRUNFUS (forgot my drug rug) - Tumulty's Pub, New Brunswick NJ 7/28/11  Disc 3 (tracks 13-22) HELLO WALLS (sho' is hot chords) - Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 7/27/11  Disc 4 (tracks 23-27) BIG TOP TOE JAM - Easthampton Outdoor Ampitheatre, Easthampton, MA 7/30/11  Disc 5 (tracks 28-36) BIG AND WARM - Shea Stadium, Brooklyn, NY 8/11/11  Disc 6 (tracks 37-46)...

Mv & Ee

April Flower Tour

Child Of Microtones

Digital edition of the 8 disc box-set. Includes digital booklet.   "i was lookin' for myself in this celestial agriculture and came upon this country store. i was informed. i was told by certain sources that this was the place. you can hear why. i mean from the outside it looked like any other joint. tho' you don't need to cut the cord to know that a C.O.M. is not like anything else. this sounds and feels analog - because it IS and was created with warm technology in every possible stage. you don't need to jettison awareness to realize that this is handmade. would be "good" by the woodstove, in yr ear, for yr pipe - stuff like that. so i went inside and asked if they'd heard us and thought about DIY, keepin' it sustainable. i just asked straight out like that. you can wait right there and look or you can "hear" it - you are there" vibe of the tapers pit recorded live, up close and personal - lovingly assembled/mastered/restored in spectrasound!   MV/EE/MICK FLOWER appearing at certain shows with special guests chris corsano / jeremy earl / harmonica dan and willie lane. nobody does it like C.O.M. * peace ∞"   www.mvandee.blogspot.com   Disc 1 (tracks 1-6) Yorkshire Puddin' - Feeding Tube, Northampton MA 04/04/11 Disc 2 (tracks 7-12) Warm Spa Vibe - Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs NY 04/05/11 Disc 3 (tracks 13-20) Cheapo's Follicle (...In Between A Tweet...

Mv & Ee

Eye In The Pines

Child Of Microtones

Originally released in 2007, "Eye in the Pines" is an outer limb exploration of one of the highest peaks of the MV & EE sound, it is also the first appearance of "Get Right Church" in a gutbucket style that would make will shade moan proud. Space blues crash against lonely tones of the purest amber tinted maple circuit and there is SPECTRASOUND out the ying yang. The material is predominantly the core duo exchange of Matt and Erika but Rongoose shows up on a coupla tracks to let rip some wicked precision bass and Ruth Garbus (of Feathers, Happy Birthday) lays down some wicked-solid awesome traps with vocal calls to ensnare even the furthest depths of MV's sasquatch guitar. Together, they all bag the beast within and in the deepest dub of the forest you can hear Jerry with Lee Perry, Blind Willie Johnson, Jo Ann Kelly, Jorma, Sonny Sharrock and good ol' Neil mellowin' all minds round the campfire. Come on by and roast one.   This was COM 30 issued in an edition of 99 copies packaged in metallic gold paper with hand painted covers by Matt Valentine with insert. 3 colors of paint were used along with a pinner for the grass. Each cover also had "MV & EE" handwritten with love.

Lane, Willie

Recliner Ragas

Child Of Microtones

This was COM 8, Willie Lane's solo debut. Long term guitarist alongside MV & EE and one of the original members of the Bummer Road/Golden Road. Founder of his own label Cord Art releasing second full length on LP as leader called "Known Quantity" followed by a 7 inch single "Sleepy Hands" b/w "Arrested For Decay". Appears on Espers II, has gigged with Tom Carter and Meg Baird, has a duo project Slurp Dogs, a duo with Grant Acker (of Un fame) released on cassette via Sloow Tapes.  "I’d just played a showcase inside a Hampshire College yurt when MV invited me up to Max Arousal to do a COM.  I guess he dug my discreet use of a Distortion+. His offer took me by surprise, as the Child of Microtones imprint wasn’t known for keeping a stable outside the Tower axis.  Nevertheless, I hit my flanger with some pot cleaner and headed north to Guilford, relishing the idea of my own edition of 99. The recording process was country-simple: I spent the day and night riffing in the skyhouse while MV massaged the signal on its path from dov electronics to Tascam.  No prepared material; I just played what I felt, depending on the Slopbucket quotient, and tried to serve up enough raw meat to render a COM-worthy loaf.   EE furnished me with an exquisite sruti bedrock for the Fender-driven ragas.  When frets were fried we adjourned to McNeill’s, where, incidentally, I was hired on the spot to deliver...

Lubelski, Samara

In The Valley

Child Of Microtones

6 super rare sides of gypsy string music with a jaw dropping stomp of stuff. Herein the Loisaida queen of vibrating omnichords launches wild on her radiant solo debut - better than a thousands useless words is a single disc from this beguiling chanteuse on which she wields a magic bow and waves auroral pizzicato spirit spells over the triangulated eye mind and your precious ass.   This was Child Of Microtones #7 (COM 7) - originally released in an edition of 99 copies with gorgeous handmade packaging, fully reproduced here. Reissued by Eclipse on LP, now long out of print and restored/remastered for your listening enjoyment. Produced by Matt Valentine.  Samara Lubelski is a founder of Hall of Fame, one time member of the Tower Recordings and the Bummer Road/Golden Road and is currently leading her own group, also in a new trio coined "Metal Mountains" (with PG six and Helen Rush), in combos with Marcia Bassett and accompanying Thurston Moore on violin.

Mv & Ee With The Golden Road

No Floor Tour (live, April 2010)

Child Of Microtones

Digital edition of the box set from MV & EE featuring 8 shows from their No Floor Tour in USA & Canada in April 2010. The line up for this tour was MV & EE with Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra / Flower-Corsano Duo) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man). There's also guest appearance from J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Eric Chenaux and Doc Dunn. The 8 shows were from Hadley (MA), Ridgewood (NY), Oberlin (OH), Detroit (MI), Toronto (ON), Montreal (QC), Saratoga Springs (NY), and Boston (MA). Originally released in an old style tape pack box.

Mv & Ee

Hick Smoke

Child Of Microtones

“Used to be a time when MV & EE's main means of expression was their Child Of Microtones. Tons of full length albums would be released every year on that label, but nowadays, we're lucky if we get more than one per year). True the band seem to permanently be on the road so there is less time to record anything at the Maximum Arousal Farm. The Heroine Celestial Agriculture label has now gone on to become the main outlet for their live recordings (these seem to pop up everywhere like weed—no pun intended) and I'm not complaining really, but I do miss all the elaborately packaged albums from the early years. Hick Smoke is the first CoM release for 2009 (I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more) and is an interesting mix between the band's bastardized Neil Young clones, their LSD-laced folk tunes and the infamous extended freak-out jams. Sure wish there would be more like this, cuz Hick Smoke is definitely a must for fans.”—The Reall Nitty Gritty.

Mv & Ee

Liberty Rose

Child Of Microtones

***Brand-new self-released COM packaged with full color sleeves and inserts from the duo of MATTHEW VALENTINE and ERIKA ELDER. A collection of massively dosed studio recordings, Liberty Rose opens with beams of elegiac solo guitar before dropping into a classic slow-burning jag with puffs of echo/delay damaged vocals melting into hallucinatory afterimages while Erika slides quicksilver runs all the way down your spine. At this stage Child Of Microtones has the same relationship to the Ecstatic Peace releases that Richard Youngs’ No Fans imprint has to his releases on Jagjaguwar, functioning as a repository for some of the most psychedelic, experimental and personal music to escape from the personal stash. And this is a major installment. Dedicated to Dr Ragtime. Highly recommended.

Mv & Ee

Bollywoe

Child Of Microtones

Matt Valentine & Erika Elder

Fantastic String Music (Ragas & Rainbow Blues)

Child Of Microtones

"howdy lunar listeners, this was the 11th Child Of Microtones release from the good ol' moonphase known as 2003. we made 'em by hand, recorded it in spectrasound and it was originally issued in an edition of 99 numbered copies. it was sold at farmers markets, yard sales, through the great mail order services of that time (much obliged to YOD and ed the head!) and of course at gigs. we were known as the "mv & ee medicine show" during that period and much did flow. this was one of the orange sky peaks of our exploratory "fingerstyle noise/space" years and we were taking alotta love in, senses were wide open and the connections were running deep green. this was our 2nd year in vermont and we were startin' to settle into a groove, barely holdin' on with survival tactics thru sonics but the flannels and saris were startin' to have just the right amount of notions, much like the ragged ragas and blues within. stay awhile while flying. peace ∞, mv"