***After being completely blown away by SERVILE SECTS first limited release CD Stratospheric Passenger (on the amazing Sounds of Battle and Souvenir Collecting label) we requested to release it as an LP. It proved to be one of the more significant releases in the marginal world of sci-fi centric black metal. Learninghowtosink.blogspot.com commented, “It's easy to forget time with this band and let yourself slip down that dark tunnel of astral travel as their music sweeps you away.” And Animalpsi.com raved, “Texture is the guiding focus, as the pair generates an astonishing range of sounds bundled in so many palatable and complimentary compositions that the brilliance of each is absorbed seamlessly into the whole, and the whole a fantastic story.” We asked Servile Sect, who we only know as a mysterious duo hailing possibly from Northern California and somewhere deep in Brooklyn, to allow us to unleash a newly recorded CD. Realms of the Queen is an astonishing furtherance of these men’s strange and lonesome rage pealing from the bowels of a god-forsaken earth to the endless scree of the cosmos. An essential document for anyone investigating the forbidden zones of elusive black thought.
CD $10.50
11/23/2010
***LESLIE KEFFER has been one of the most startling and provocative practitioners of 21st century USA noise music since her first harsh emanations on the cassette underground in the early 2000s. Ecstatic Peace released her first full length LP Feels Like Frenching a few years back and it was hailed as a cornerstone in new blood noise exploration. Boomkat.com reported, “she's beating the noise-boys at their own experimental game and winning…Keffer had me at hello.” And Performer magazine heard the LP as “a dense series of coded subconscious messages sent from some buried cerebral cortex.” On this new 12-inch, which has been waiting to be issued or near on two years, she joins forces with local Nashville rockers JOHN EATHERLY (BE YOUR OWN PET, JEMINA PEARL), STEVE POULTON (PAUL K & THE EWATHERMAN) and fellow noise artist VALERIE MARTINO (UNICORN HARD-ON). These two tracks are a departure from the pure noise action Leslie is known for and present her current trajectory into hypno dance dub psychosis with waves of junk filtered radio wash and siren chants. As with the LP the artwork by ADRIANE SCHRAMM is astounding
12" $15.50
11/16/2010
***Ecstatic Peace has been wanting to release a CD by LORD JEFF since we first heard their stray tapes and CDRs floating around the Pioneer Valley like so much spring pollen a few years back. We knew nothing about them except they had some familial connection to THE ENTRANCE BAND who we were most definitely interested in, and subsequently released an amazing LP and CD by. As it turned out Ecstatic Peace founder THURSTON MOORE’s niece LOUISE ERDMAN reported she had been singing backups in this band Lord Jeff so Uncle T went to see them at Union Pool in Brooklyn one fine rock n’ roll evening and was entirely charmed. Plans went into action to release something/anything by these cats and after many moons of them playing in front of single digit audiences they got it together to record this amazing and beautiful disc. Think the genuine heart music of Buffalo Springfield and Wooden Wand with sweet Garcia moves and a punk gleam in the eye. Chief songwriter SEAN GOGGINS is a gentle force of inspiration and his sound and vision are captured lovingly by the legendary JUSTIN PIZZOFERRATO (J Mascis, T Moore, Fat Worm of Error etc.).
CD $10.50
11/16/2010
***I was born into a charismatic-nondenominational family in Nashville, TN.. My mother sang hymns and spoke in tongues. My dad played bluegrass. I hopped trains for the first time when I was eleven years old under the Ben Allen Bridge in East Nashville. At thirteen I was sent to live with my father in Cuhllowhee, NC. Neglected to be enrolled in school, I spent the year running through the backwoods of my father's government-housing-cabin. Soon I ran away from home and traveled around the United States on Greyhounds and trains, looking to start a band. In Olympia, 2004 I formed hardcore band Spread Eagle 1979 with Judd Taylor of Sex Vid and filmmaker Brittany Pisano releasing two live cassette albums and a video. Over the past few years, inspired by folk and world music, I focused on the guitar and writing songs of my own. My greatest influences being southern folk, Delta and Appalachian Blues, I bought a pair of white shoes and moved back to the South. This past year, I have written and recorded my first collection of songs entitled, "Big Bells and Dime Songs", recruiting Kyle Spence of Harvey Milk to back me in his studio in Athens, Ga.. I am currently living in New York, writing my second album, and planning for a tour of US.” -- Luke Roberts, April 2010. “Luke Roberts voice evokes both the great and lonesome Pacific Rail and the wild heart of the Brooklyn J/Z line.” -- Thurston Moore
LP $15.50
10/12/2010
CD $11.25
05/18/2010
***Maybe its something in the raw cows milk one can so fortuitously procure here in Western Massachusetts, or maybe it’s that lysergic haze of Berkshire foothill emanation, but whatever it may be, it is most definitely in manifestation as the five-headed rock n’ noise n’ bleet n’ zzrrp n’ roll n’ weirdcore phenomenon known only as FAT WORM OF ERROR. After more than six years of live gig decimation and confusion and a smattering of cassettes, CDRs, “legit” LP releases (on labels as swank as Load and Ultra Eczema), FWOE has become, along with Noise Nomads and Dinosaur Jr, as one of the most astounding musical whatsis factors in the Pioneer Valley. It was after being stunned into melted delight one evening at our local hang (the Flywheel ‘natch) by the dead battery guitar, silent psycho-killer bass, drums punked beyond the free thump joy of John Stevens n’ Drumbo, and the supremely swinging costume-cuhraziness of the FREEKwency singer…well, we wanted to do a, ahem, “proper” LP. Put this genius fringe into the studio with Justin Pizzoferrato (that’s right, the guy who helps engineer J Mascis and T Moore sides) and capture the delirious magic of FWOE in their inimitable prime. And we did! And Mark Beyer did the cover art! And the drummers name is Neel Young! And this LP rules HARD, and if you happened to be in the same room as the live FWOE this last summer than you know: Fat Worm of Error has got the coolest...
LP $15.50
10/12/2010
***Since their first live performance in 1999 and subsequent first release That Specific Function to their third full-length release on Ecstatic Peace! Boston’s BLACK HELICOPTER have been riding a fine line between mechanical, grinding cyclical rhythms, sparse yet intricate airy psych-outs, and addicting pop melodies. Black Helicopter’s Don’t Fuck With the Apocalypse is no exception, with both meaty slashing layers filled with pounding intent and engaging melodic interludes that stick in your skull. Whether it’s the plight of Soviet soldiers during the second East Prussian offensive (”Invasion of Prussia”), begrudgingly accepting the limitations of one’s self (”In the Blood”), or pining for a bygone era (”Record Player, Golden Days”), the tales told here are relatable to a broad spectrum, yet yield nothing to conventional “product rock.” Black Helicopter takes no orders from passing trends, clearing their own wide swath as they go. TIM SHEA’s vocal delivery falls somewhere between Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kanneberg and J. Mascis, and is what makes Black Helicopter's rangy meat-and-potatoes workouts worth returning to. The man has a soft spot for all manner of sad sacks, erecting sturdy narrative windows into the depths of their doldrums. Comparisons have been made to bands like Shellac, Pavement and Mission of Burma. Instrumentally, Shea lays down tastily distorted treats that get the props in motion and set the course for the path less-traveled. Guitarist ERIC BAIRD plays the foil to Shea’s structured guitar templates, happily squalling at times and reinforcing when melodically necessary. The band is rounded out by...
CD $10.50
05/04/2010
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Psych-garage-noise purveyors AWESOME COLOR coalesced after Michigan skater/musos MICHAEL TROUTMAN and ALLISON BUSCH hooked up with fellow Great Lake State expat DEREK STANTON in Brooklyn, NY, in 2004. Tired of the same old, same old that was passing for NYC underground punk at the time, the trio set out to inject a little Detroit rock know-how into the scene. Succeeding marvelously at channeling the grit and free abandon of the Stooges and MC5 into a propulsive, riff-based, Black Sabbath-informed mule-kick of a live show, the group soon caught the ear of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore who wasted no time in snatching up the band for his Ecstatic Peace! label. Their self-titled debut hit the racks in 2006 and was followed up by Electric Aborigines in 2008. The wake of that second release found the group touring the world in support of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. In 2010, the band plans to release Massa Hypnos on Ecstatic Peace! and jump back in the minivan to play every rock club, basement, and skate park they can, leaving a trail of broken guitars and pizza crusts from Michigan to Mars. Limited edition of 500. Beautiful Gatefold LP comes with 11x17 poster and download card.
LP $15.50
08/31/2010
CD $10.50
04/27/2010
***VIV ALBERTINE is returning to music after a break of 25 years. Her first band, THE FLOWERS OF ROMANCE was formed with her flatmate Sid Vicious. Sid went on to The Sex Pistols and Viv to become guitarist and main songwriter with THE SLITS. Viv debuts her solo career with an EP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label and will be followed by an album early summer. Viv's songs are cute and dark with personal, almost confessional lyrics. The result is beautifully uncomplicated, stripped down and raw. Viv’s band LIMERENCE are: Katherine Wallinger, Dan Donovan, and Rob Beattie.
CD $8.05
03/16/2010
***”Nancy Garcia is among the most galvanizing and evocative provocateurs in the current underground strata of New York multi-media art. Coming from a fully realized performance background Garcia translates the experience to her compositions and delivers Be the Climb, her solo debut for Ecstatic Peace. The album is part of a new project called "I need more", which is comprised of an online video, a live performance, and the album. While the project's components can function independently, together they illuminate one another and produce a single, overarching choreography.
CD $10.50
11/24/2009
***A second installment of post 70s JD & The Coachmen action. Even more left-field and even more uncategorizable then it's predecessor. A completely bizarreout-of-all-known-voids sound/music/junk/chance/noise/don't-ask-us compendium of Coachmen goodness. Ecstatic Peace is only too happy to be there with Thurston Moore’s first band, long may they never break up. Art direction is by David "Duplex Planet" Greenberger.
CD $10.00
09/11/2006