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Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement by Nordile, Max

Nordile, Max

Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
Gilgongo

***"Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the resonating chamber of a trashcan like it’s a campfire, then fill it with wheezy laughter. Only, the steel mesh of Hair Clinic / Max Nordile’s field microphone is all mangled and bludgeoned, and the field extends into his home garage. The same contact-foraging quality of attention goes into the beginner’s brain improvisations, whether on saxophone or skipping stones. And the mixing and editing is in large part a visual process, with Nordile monitoring slips of time and intention for the contours of song. It’s a prickly and startling listen, influenced by sound art, alive with noise. Nordile, a member of Debt Rag and Shelter Music, among other groups in Olympia, WA, traces the album’s inspiration back to the duet of birdsong and idling garbage truck, and named it for the language artifact of a dream. The cover shows degraded spiral forms in Scottish petroglyphs. Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is creative, personal music to mirror the distorted balance of consensus reality."—Sam Lefebvre

LP $20.50

03/15/2024  

GGGR 137 


***Blending guitar, piano, synthesizer and field recordings, Group Material craft an ambient sound that simultaneously captures both intentional and incidental settings, an ambient informed musique concrete. On Intimations, Eric Sanchez and Avalon Kalin offer a series of 4 pieces which would feel as at home on Kranky circa 1999 as they would on any modern tape label in 2023 (as they originally did, via cassette on Slug Spitter). RIYL: Roy Montgomery, Windy & Carl, Brian Eno, Emeralds. Limited edition of 100 copies.

LP $25.00

01/26/2024  

GGGR 136 


It's A Small World After by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

It's A Small World After
Gilgongo

***Intended to sync up with a return to all of our our normal routines, It's All A Small World After resists the temptation to step away from remarking on the mundane (accidentally collecting cardboard, cutting your hand on plastic, the dog's favorite toys, avoiding potential muggings, keeping the floor clean and the 7th and 8th editions of the groups "Repeat" tracks). Recorded alongside March 2023's Smile Building's Exit, the genres again are simultaneously vague yet synonymous with the group, but with influences that can be easy to pin when the right listener puts the record on. This is where the write-up tries to not reference specific groups (The Fall? Scissor Girls? etc), and instead says the LP pays homage to a hypothetical cross-pollination of the entire Fast Product catalog. Written and recorded by James Fella in late 2021, mastered by John Dieterich.

LP $19.95

12/15/2023  

GGGR 126 


Magnetic Stencil 1 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 1
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 131 


Magnetic Stencil 2 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 2
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 132 


Magnetic Stencil 3 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 3
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 133 


***Cheryl E. Leonard builds and plays electroacoustic instruments made out of natural materials such as bones, driftwood, shells, seaweed, feathers, and stones. Jon Leidecker (aka 'Wobbly') responds to the sounds of her creations with synthesized animal voices driven by machine listening. The inaugural collaboration of these two veterans of the San Francisco Bay Area electronic music scene can be heard on the album Multiple Park, a collection of works assembled from both studio and outdoor performances, radio broadcasts and field recordings, as well as outright hallucinations — an album which evokes an abstract yet literal world that exists in the space between city life and utter wilderness. Material for the album’s centerpiece was recorded in three California parks, ranging from deeply urban to abandoned to entirely wild. The result is one “Multiple Park,” filled with noises simultaneously abstract yet bound to the physical events that generated them. Riding a line between a secret history of electronic music that aspires to birdsong, and those dedicated to the preservation of vanishing biophonies, Multiple Park is a visceral meditation on the sounds of “the outdoors,” and how those sounds are changed and framed by our technologically accelerating lives. Cheryl E. Leonard has been composing and improvising with materials from the natural world since the late 1990s. Her performance and recorded history includes many collaborations - notably with Euphotic (Tom Djll & Bryan Day), Thomas Carnacki, Big City Orchestra, and Phillip Greenlief. Jon Leidecker has been creating experimental work since 1987: both solo and...

LP $20.00

05/19/2023  

GGGR 123 


***A follow-up to the duo’s LP, CCTK Music (2021, Gilgongo Records), Performances features three sets from JAMES FELLA and GABRIELLA ISAAC, from Gilgongo Records’ 15th Year Anniversary celebration in Phoenix, AZ - December 2019. Like the event, the record starts with a recreation of the second side of CCTK Music, using six reference lacquers of CCTK’s A-side as source material to make a live collage. Following this are solo sets from Isaac (using her laptop as a feedback loop / sound source / physical device) and Fella (offering a slow moving electro-acoustic / tape-machine based piece). Includes a sketched layout for the CCTK installation and a reproduction of the event’s flier. Recorded and mastered by JOHN WIESE.

LP $18.50

04/07/2023  

GGGR 125 


Smile Building's Exit by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Smile Building's Exit
Gilgongo

***Recorded in late 2020 but catching an extreme pressing plant bottleneck, the new LP from Soft Shoulder could appropriately be subtitled: “More Songs About Nothing Much, Some Entropy Implied”. A document of a slow-moving human experience (being unable to retrieve packages from your post office’s parcel locker, other occupants of the building your studio is in screaming wildly in the hallway while you try to record, vague homage to public-access television, a “how to” in changing your password, ETC) housed inside a dilapidated, but smiling, building and channeled through an amalgamation of sporadic picks from the record collection of James Fella (e.g. / in the key of F: The Fall, Fire Engines, The Futurians, Frumpies). Mastered by John Dieterich, back cover art by Eric Sanchez.

LP $18.25

03/24/2023  

GGGR 124 


MP3 $9.90

03/24/2023 795154140756 

GGGR 124 


FLAC $11.99

03/24/2023 795154140756 

GGGR 124 


***Strega Beata is the third fulll-ength album from SAM AN's dark electronic, genre-bridging solo project under the semi-notorious moniker LANA DEL RABIES. After a brief hiatus, this record is her first full-length release since the gothic, industrial noise of 2018's Shadow World (on Deathbomb Arc). Strega Beata, which loosely translates to "Blessed Witch," is an apocalyptic myth told through dense, textural compositions pulling from the vast corners of dark genre music. The title's meaning is appropriate for the existential, cathartic, and otherworldly themes explored. The record is told through the evolving perspective of a cryptic and obscure "Mother" creator figure, specifically echoing the mother and crone goddess archetypes. This figure is vocalized through LDR's eerie harmonies, spoken words, pleading howls, and frenetic screams aimed towards another archetype, the chosen one. These vocalizations sometimes hover above trip-hop low tempos and unnerving atmospheres ("Mourning," "Hallowed is the Earth"), sink through vintage horror movie darkwave synths ("Master," "Apocalypse Fatigue"), weave through art metal distortions and relentless drone bass tones (Mother), or blast through unconventional industrial rhythms ("Prayers of Consequence," "A Plague").

2XLP $30.00

03/17/2023  

GGGR 128 


CD $10.00

03/17/2023  

GGGR 128 CD 


***WASTELAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who's who in the field, (cassettes, CDrs and records on American Tapes, Troniks, New Forces, Oxen, Torn Light, Nashazphone and of course—there was a split 7" w/ Tiger Hatchery on Gilgongo), the duo of JON LORENZ and JOHN RICH occasionally expand their scathing, feedback-saturated reed work into a full ensemble. Here, as a 7 piece group including DYLAN POSA (guitar), EDWARD RICART (bass), MATTHEW REIS (electronics), RYAN JEWELL (percussion), and BRET NAGAFUCHI (percussion), there are textures and fractured forms throughout this high-volume chaos which calls to mind the work of Hijokaidan, as broadcast through Borbetomagus. A heavy and delightfully excruciating listen! 2xLP, gatefold with extensive liner notes by INZANE JOHNNY.

2XLP $26.95

12/16/2022  

GGGR 118 


Blorp Esette Gazette Volumes Three & Four by V/a

V/a

Blorp Esette Gazette Volumes Three & Four
Gilgongo

***The history of the Blorp Esette, which chronicles the output of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and other entities in its orbit, dates back to 1977, with the release of Blorp Esette Volume One LP (soon to be reissued by Superior Viaduct) and Volume 2 2LP in 1980. Volumes 3 and 4 emerged in 1999, packaged in a boxset with the previous volumes. The Blorp Esette Gazette first appeared with Volume 1 & 2 in 2013. Intended to be an on-going series, it was paused after the passing of Transparency label owner Michael Sheppard who was co-releasing the CDs w/ LAFMS members. While the original Esette is an obligatory who's-who of LAFMS (Doo-Dooettes, Smegma, Le Forte Four), the Gazettes have an even more sprawling reach. Compiled by Ace Farren Ford and Ju Suk Reet Meate, Volumes 3&4 features: Michael Uhlenkott, {AN} EeL, Ace & Duce, Control Unit, Sissy Spacek, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau Mama Baer, Million Brazillians, Lee Rockey, Trance Farmers, Keith Mitchell, Split Second, Mr. Foon, Electric Bill Robinson, Testing Vault, Donkey Flybye, James Dewey, Eric Zann, Threed, Purple Panther Ensemble, Lynn Carey, Collide Burger with Chicken Larry and Patrick Lubow, Dr. Amazon, Io, GX Jupitter-Larsen & Ace Farren Ford, Dan and Letha Rodman Melchoir, Harold Schroeder, Erica Rawlings. Art direction by John Wiese & Ace Farren Ford, with collages from Cody Brant featured throughout the release. Each "issue" of the Gazette features a visual artist (Vol. 1 was Ace Farren Ford, Vol. 2 was Rick Potts).

2XCD $13.75

11/11/2022  

GGR 129 CD 


***CCTK Music combines Gabriella Isaac's exploitative use of laptop as feedback loop / sound source / physical device and James Fella's electro-acoustic / tape as instrument approach. The duo incorporates each other's material in real time (on Side A), cutting the content onto 6 singles-sided reference lacquers. The lacquers were used to assemble a collage in a performance setting in late 2019, and again in a studio setting for Side B. The result is a record that is both scathing but at times harmonious, scattered, and dense but with enough air for the individual contributions to still have room to breathe. Mastered by John Wiese.

LP $17.00

10/29/2021  

GGGR 122 


MP3 $9.90

10/29/2021 733102724276 

GGGR 122 


FLAC $11.99

10/29/2021 733102724276 

GGGR 122 


Formerly On Fluorescent Paper by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Formerly On Fluorescent Paper
Gilgongo

Formerly on Fluorescent Paper delivers 14 jaunts culled from the artist’s tape soup collage of several generations’ worth of punk and no-wave adjacent music. Be it jagged, angular, short tracks… atonal layers in otherwise listener-friendly settings… repetitive string clang aside gurgling synth and flailing reed-bite… Soft Shoulder continues to be the primary vehicle for Fella’s take on songwriting, in whatever the loosely defined genre(s) may be. However, compared to Not The New One (an eclectic collection of various incarnations), Contextual Depreciation (performance and practice tapes from the current group) and the recent Copy Machine Fall Down 7” (an abstract, long-distance-collaboration) …Formerly On Fluorescent Paper finds Fella alone. Written and recorded in the fever-dream of late 2020. Mastered by John Dieterich. (STREET DATE - 7/09/2021)

LP $17.00

07/09/2021  

GGGR 121 


MP3 $9.90

07/09/2021 733102722005 

GGGR 121 


FLAC $11.99

07/09/2021 733102722005 

GGGR 121 


***A screeching smash of searing grit and demolished shock from the trio of Blankenship / Mumma / Wiese, which can be identified as a distinct subgroup within the Sissy Spacek discography, responsible for such carnage as Wreck (2013), Basement (2014), and Slow Move (2017). BMW stands as a sharp-edged monument in the trio’s advancing decay, culled from a session at Blankenship's high-security Bronson studio and utilizing the equipment and environment that fueled sessions by LHD, White Gold, and The Cherry Point. Limited edition, partially metalized CD housed in a 6-panel digipack, featuring a series of detailed collages by Wiese.

CD $8.50

05/07/2021  

GGGR 119 CD 


Copy Machine Fall Down by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Copy Machine Fall Down
Gilgongo

***Compiled by James Fella in late 2020 using remotely recorded components: Side A features the current Phoenix-based line-up (Caleb Dailey, Josh Rodriguez) of the long running junk-kraut post-punk group offering a constructed and dubbed out single while the flip finds a much more far-our free/faux-improvised medley with members old and new, near and far: Paul Arambula (Chandails, Vegetable - Berlin), John Dieterich (Deerhoof - Albuquerque), Hiromi Inada (Nicfit, Free City Noise – Nagoya) Seth Kasselman (Warn Climate - Phoenix).

7" $6.00

03/12/2021  

GGGR 120 


MP3 $1.98

03/12/2021 733102720179 

GGGR 120 


FLAC $2.49

03/12/2021 733102720179 

GGGR 120 


Building A Better Void by Nordile, Max

Nordile, Max

Building A Better Void
Gilgongo

***Max Nordile (Preening, Violence Creeps, Uzi Rash, et al.) tosses Gilgongo 30 minutes of trudging, free-form sprawl that draws unassuming and collateral reference points (in the label’s mind) to a highly regarded catalog of outsiders that spans decades (Jandek, Little Howlin’ Wolf, Nihilist Spasm Band). It’s an honor to challenge any listener, with Building a Better Void.  “Max Nordile has a patented collage method. In this day, I almost hate to say it’s perhaps a distinctly American sound, like squawks from the rubber room. Although, this is sharply not a conversation between "Mattie" and "Hattie" concerning the "Wooly Bully" and the desirability of developing dancing skills (with no attempt made to synthesize these divergent topics). What you’re listening to is a tangled mass, a phone call from a scribbled area code, herking and jerking its way off the map. It’s catchy, it’s bent.  After it said so much to me, I returned to the record, and then again and again. “Thanks so much,” I said to it, like it is said in the divine hand of “Diligent Pores.” And once more I’m gripped into powerful clang at the intersection of joy, mystery & abrasion.  It is mercurial; an icy slip wherein the listener is absolutely unable to get the balance or footing to stand upright for all of thirty minutes. Building a Better Void is a jittering slob but a true testimonial to the San Pablo blocks of trauma-cracked sidewalks of Ishmael Reed’s Blues City: Oakland, brawling...

LP $14.75

12/04/2020  

GGGR 108 


Prismatic Parameter by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Prismatic Parameter
Gilgongo

***Uncompromising large ensemble studio recordings from Los Angeles, 2016: JOHN WIESE, CHARLIE MUMMA, BILL NACE (VAMPIRE BELT, BODY/HEAD), MARTIN ESCALANTE, TED BYRNES and elders of the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY—ACE FARREN FORD (SMEGMA) and JOE POTTS and RICK POTTS (AIRWAY, LE FORTE FOUR).

2XCD $13.25

11/06/2020  

GGGR 111 CD 


Not The New One by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Not The New One
Gilgongo

***Not The New One delivers a dose of SOFT SHOULDER which is similar to 2017’s Song and Intermissions LP: sharp bursts which reference no wave, free improvisation, abstract electronics and riot grrrl from various configurations of the group: this time around with members of Oakland’s NO BABIES, Montreal’s FILTHY GRIN, GAY KISS from Phoenix, Berlin’s PAUL ARAMBULA (CHANDAILS, VEGETABLE), etc. Sandwiched between a new 7” and LP from early 2020, and a forthcoming 7” and LP in early 2021, Not The New One ties up loose ends from the second half of the 2010’s. Recorded sporadically between 2015–2019 in various warehouses, practice spaces and bedrooms in the Phoenix area.

LP $14.75

10/23/2020 767870665455 

GGGR117 


MP3 $9.90

10/23/2020 767870665455 

GGGR117 


FLAC $11.99

10/23/2020 767870665455 

GGGR117 


***"ACE FARREN FORD, DENNIS DUCK and JU SUK REET MEATE (three original members) are joined by ROCK ’N’ ROLL JACKIE (35 years in the band), JOHN WIESE (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others form the current third phase SMEGMA. The personnel of this album consists of this line-up plus CHARLIE MUMMA, a member of SISSY SPACEK since 2008. The source material of Ballast was recorded at home and on the Los Angeles radio station Dublab, but what we hear is not exactly Smegma and Sissy Spacek performing together as a live group. Wiese’s production of the recording is a kind of un-doing of the live group playing, forging it into a new collage of sound. The title of the album, Ballast, refers to a weight on a ship which improves it’s stability, but it is also a term for an electrical component that regulates electricity so as to not destroy the other components. It’s double meaning fits between the cover art and the collage process which is constantly partitioning and interrupting the elements of sound."—Takuya Sakaguchi, from the liner notes. (STREET DATE - 10/16/2020)

LP $22.50

10/16/2020  

 


***While it’s relatively easy to refer to SANDY EWEN's use of guitar as unconventional or abstract, the true nature of her work is much more exploratory in nature. Without relying on the use of effects or looping, the instrument itself functions as a canvas for Ewen’s ever-evolving arsenal of objects and ever-expanding techniques. Ewen has collaborated and performed with everyone from Henry Kaiser to Roscoe Mitchell, from Jaap Blonk to Lydia Lunch, from Keith Rowe to Tamio Shiraishi, from Damon Smith to Id M Theft Able, from To Carter to Weasel Walter, the list feels endless. Ewen’s drive to create and perform is rivaled by few, and a healthy body of releases documents much of her work in both solo and group settings. However, You Win, represents her first solo appearance on the full length, vinyl format.

LP $14.75

09/04/2020  

GGGR 099 


Contextual Depreciation by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Contextual Depreciation
Gilgongo

***A collection of live recordings and practice tapes from JAMES FELLA's long running junk-kraut / no-wave / post-punk group. The band has been releasing a steady output of 7"s and LPs since the mid-2000s with this release capturing one of the more stable lineups of an otherwise chaotic rotating cast of musicians from throughout the world of underground music in Arizona, Oakland, Berlin, etc. Heavy on the repetition, tangents of improvised drone and a few abstract tape collages round out a cohesive document of the group from 2018-2019. Each LP comes with a variety of different inserts / prints and download. Edition of 300.

LP $14.00

09/04/2020  

GGGR 104 


MP3 $9.90

03/27/2020 767870662072 

GGGR 104 


FLAC $11.99

03/27/2020 767870662072 

GGGR 104 


Aerosol Can Stand by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Aerosol Can Stand
Gilgongo

***Aerosol Can Stand finds JAMES FELLA's long running “post-punk / no-wave / junk-kraut” group in a rare moment of pop sensibility (subject to objection and critique). Recorded spur-of-the-moment during practice, these two songs are a snapshot of Soft Shoulder as a trio (with JOSH RODRIGUEZ and Moone Records’ CALEB DAILEY) in late 2019. However, the same variety of haphazard approaches and bedroom-style recording methods which Fella is accustomed to using when processing songs alone were utilized here with the full band. Everything captured on the second take: microphones taped to broken pieces of drum kit hardware and whatever else was sitting around on the floor, overblown overdubs done with a faulty reverb unit, synth later dropped in as an afterthought directly before a maniacal full-volume mix-down in the same rehearsal space later that week. Comparisons aside and credit due as collateral: RIYL The Fall, The Homosexuals, etc. Edition of 600 (includes download and every copy comes with a unique print made using components from the artwork).

7" $5.50

01/10/2020  

GGGR 107 


MP3 $1.98

01/10/2020 767870660665 

GGGR 107 


FLAC $2.49

01/10/2020 767870660665 

GGGR 107 


***The work of JOHN COLLINS MCCORMICK straddles sculpture and music by using sound as material to highlight the ability of sound to change scale through visual and sonic rhythms and textures. What is heard is generated by small objects, percussion and electronics—interactions occurring in the realm of art and noise: a McCormick performance may consist of repurposed motors, clutter jostling on exposed speakers or something familiar from your office rolling across floor in an unfamiliar way. Ad For Nails functions as a sort of audio diary, finding these types of sounds woven between field recordings, captured conversation and old-fashioned drum kit. McCormick’s LP offers a peak into his sonic world and how these pieces of it may be heard (including the types of moments in which we instinctively feel there may be nothing to hear at all).

LP $14.50

09/06/2019  

GGGR 098 


Imminent Fold by Waxy Tomb

Waxy Tomb

Imminent Fold
Gilgongo

***Amorphous and perplexing, JULES LITMAN-CLEPER's work as WAXY TOMB can incidentally incite a notion of chaos or randomness in the foreground while expressing a series of distilled dialogs that are best understood while digesting the project as a whole. On a surface level, Imminent Fold may seem like a playful exhibition of alien commentary—guided by colliding textures and electronic anomalies. This material, in conjunction with her visuals, functions as a field report on the intrusion of industrial and urban landscapes and digital processes on the fabric weaved by natural structure. Jules Litman-Cleper is a Bay Area native and has been offering multi-media performances and releasing work under the Waxy Tomb guise since 2011. Imminent Fold is the first appearance on the LP format and is a 40-minute dive into this petri dish, with a high-quality book of imagery created as an equally important visual accompaniment to the record. RIYL: the place that is slightly further out than the most left field releases from the early years of Rough Trade, Subterranean or Mute, while finding sporadic camaraderie the likes of Laurie Anderson, Metalux and Inflatable Boy Clams.

LP+BOOK $17.50

09/06/2019  

GGGR 096 


***While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily navigates across such a vast terrain. In their most often observed environments (TASHI DORJI's relentlessly frequent solo and collaborative releases, JOHN DIETERICH in the untamable and uniquely enchanting DEERHOOF), both artists regularly redefine both themselves and what “guitar” playing may or may not be. On Midden, there is communication and expression that transcends the notion that two people can simply cross paths and play guitar together. Plenty of people do this, but few intersect so naturally and comfortably in this abstract of a context. While captured in the live setting, Midden is not the result of weeks of touring, fine tuning ideas and patterns. Instead, the LP is merely a document which archives the final of three chance meetings, in which two people engage in a natural dialog that at times is jagged and jarring while at others is mesmerizing and beautiful. Unpredictable yet completely organic, such a language is a joy to hear. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)

LP $14.75

09/06/2019  

 


Seven Of Wands by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Seven Of Wands
Gilgongo

***Gilgongo Records presents the highly anticipated debut vinyl edition of JOHN WIESE's acclaimed album, Seven of Wands. Uniquely beautiful, immersive, and transportive, it utilizes strategies and techniques of musique concrète and electroacoustic music, while emphasizing the mixing desk as a true instrument. This new 2×LP set contains a full side of previously unreleased material from the archives—making it essential for aficionados and a perfect introduction to Wiese’s solo work. Previously available as an import CD from PAN.

2XLP $25.50

07/05/2019  

GGGR 100 


Is The Belly / In The Belly by Is In Unsamble

Is In Unsamble

Is The Belly / In The Belly
Gilgongo

***JU SUK REET MEATE & OBLIVIA (SMEGMA, THE TENSES), BRENNA MURPHY & BIRCH COOPER (MSHR), CHIARA GIOVANDO (HARRIUS), JOHANNES LUND & TOBIAS KIRTSTEIN are the IS IN UNSAMBLE. Is the Belly / In the Belly: an old fashioned “jam session” with a deep but distant, natural room sound. Fluttering alto sax and calm, staccato trumpet slowly find their way: spelunking towards a center in which the organ / voice / homemade synth / radio / percussion blend and find their way back to the nervous outer world. They converge with strange but riveting vocals, slide guitar and record skips—mingled with the sounds of dinosaurs canoodling. Song forms rise and fall back against the river-like surface tension: a roaring tale is told, then slowly fades away to nothingness. The jacket art is a collaboration between Ju Suk’s squiggly line drawings and lines / angles / photocopy artifacts and lettering from JAMES FELLA. Recorded September 2015 at Smegma’s Studio in Portland.

LP $14.75

01/25/2019  

GGGR 094 


Saturn In The Mirror by Filthy Grin

Filthy Grin

Saturn In The Mirror
Gilgongo

***GERALD BIGGS developed FILTHY GRIN as a living sound journal to document explorations in the sonification of sculpture and body movement. Currently located in Montreal, over the past decade he has self-released a series of cassettes, performed as a member of PIGEON RELIGION, collaborated with various artists (J.S. Aurelius, James Fella, etc.) as a sound engineer, in live performances, and through sound design. Saturn in the Mirror collects two long-appreciated pieces from many years ago: beautiful and textured material that sees colliding aspects of ambient music, drone, analog synthesis and musique concrète. LP design and concept by JS AURELIUS and collage by Gerald Biggs. RIYL: Yellow Swans, Emeralds. Download includes an excerpt / edit of "Saturn in the Mirror," which was featured on The Wire Tapper 47 (included with The Wire's August 2018 issue (#414). Released in an edition of 300, this is the first full-length vinyl appearance for Filthy Grin.

LP $13.25

08/24/2018  

GGGR 086 


***An entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese. Originally released in 2018 on LP/CS, this crucial CD reissue brings back into a print a pinnacle of modern, harsh musique concrète - with nearly 15 minutes of bonus material!

LP $14.75

08/24/2018  

GGGR 095 


CD $9.75

08/05/2022  

GGGR 127 CD 


***Gilgongo Records is pleased to announce Continuous Hole, a collaborative album by DREW DANIEL and JOHN WIESE. The fruit of over ten years of home recordings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Baltimore, Continuous Hole melds improvisation and musique concrète composition into a uniquely sweaty document of labor-intensive rhythm. A finger puzzle of reconciled opposites: lockstep structure and constant flux. Many of the tracks reflect the unique blending of the disparate backgrounds of its creators: on “Abhorred Shears,” “Sleek Disorder” and “Cosmic Joke,” the relentlessly variable source material is relegated to precisely timed gated forms and patterns. Without using any sampling or MIDI sequencing, the rhythmic cuts evoke the tempo/BPM of footwork, juke or gabber, but they are constructed entirely from volcanic, gnarled abstraction, and eschew typical genre elements.  “Progress Bar” goes from frantic cuts to weightless slo-mo freefall and back to frenzy. Moving from mayhem to menace, “Surprise” concludes the album with ominous flutters of a pedal steel guitar and the sound of a dog’s toenails scraping a stone floor. In the final milliseconds of the song, the dog leaps for the listener’s throat. Raw yet precise, it’s a dynamic conclusion to an album of strong contrasts from two American artists discovering common ground in the joy of frenzied cutting.  A prolific recording artist and visual artist with an extensive discography under his own name, and with grindcore stalwarts Sissy Spacek, John Wiese is currently based in Cleveland. One half of the electronic band Matmos and all...

LP $14.75

05/04/2018  

GGR 091 


Escaped Language by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Escaped Language
Gilgongo

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Recorded during Ina/GRM’s 2016 Présences Électronique Festival in Paris, JOHN WIESE's Escaped Language is a concise and calculated piece which slowly evolved in various settings over a number of years. While 2015’s Deviate From Balance 2xLP was expansive and chronicled performances and work employing many other musicians, here Wiese dissects and reassembles portions of his vocabulary alone. Simultaneously dense and sparse, delicate and abrasive, free and tactical, the resulting recording stands as a substantial document of his approach to sound, twenty-five years into his prolific tenure.

LP $14.00

09/22/2017  

GGGR 093 


Songs And Intermissions by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Songs And Intermissions
Gilgongo

***Disjointed no-wave, monotonous post-punk, a couple of songs that come as close to “pop” as possible and a handful of intermissions throughout: the new LP from Soft Shoulder collects tracks from 2009-2015. While the group is now on its 19th line-up, most recordings have historically been James Fella, solo. This continues to be the case here (with most tracking done at Gilgongo Records HQ and defunct Phoenix warehouse, Sound Kontrol), but there are collaborations with many regular members of the “live group”(s) and also a track which builds on a Silver Apples recording created by Simeon in 1998 while adding synth to a percussion session from 1968. Edition of 550, includes download and a double sided 11x17 photocopy collage insert with track information and fliers.

LP $12.75

07/21/2017  

GGGR 090 


MP3 $9.90

07/21/2017 647603398624 

 


FLAC $11.99

07/21/2017 647603398624 

 


Injury Train And I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability by Olivia Neutron-John

Olivia Neutron-John

Injury Train And I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability
Gilgongo

***BACK IN PRINT WITH NEW COVER ART IN HIGH GLOSS JACKETS "RAW, GLITTERING, PSYCHEDELIC... OLIVIA NEUTRON-JOHN, is a NON-BINARY, POST-BRO one person music/dance declaration of war on the accepted and the expected. The Olivia Neutron-John LP won't be seen in any record stores. They won't know where to put it. There isn't any card, section, genre, that can contain it The grooves barely fit on the album even… this is a record unlike any other. In an era when groups are formalistic recitations of previous groups, loathe to show any personality, innovation, or opinion—for fear of jeopardizing a future career in sales or politics—Olivia Neutron-John is a vital bolt from the blue, a radical arrival which signals something outside of noise, punk, disco, pop… Appearing fully formed, without a note or groove out of place, the O N-J record is a total statement; something brand new, a strike against complacency, a challenge thrown at the content-less stagnation of modern indie, garage, and whatever other tiresome genre exercises are being paraded around at the corporate festivals. Combining two cassette only releases by O N-J, (Injury Train and I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability), O N-J's debut vinyl album captures the intensity of the same live performance that's transfixing audiences coast to coast. Olivia Neutron-John is ANNA NASTY (CHAIN & THE GANG, VEGETABLE) on keyboards, voice, saxophone… joined on the LP by MISHA POLESHCHUK (NO BABIES) on saxophone for this chunk of pure Casio crystal."—Ian Svenonius.

LP $14.00

07/14/2017  

 


MP3 $7.99

07/14/2017 647603398648 

 


FLAC $8.99

07/14/2017 647603398648 

 


Collection Volume One by Soft Shoulder

Soft Shoulder

Collection Volume One
Gilgongo

Soft Shoulder's "Collection Volume One" 18 tracks compiling the recent "No Draw" LP and material from 7 7"s!

MP3 $5.99

01/08/2016 642610485343 

 


FLAC $6.99

01/08/2016 642610485343 

 


Silver Shadows by Silver Shadows

Silver Shadows

Silver Shadows
Gilgongo

***Heavy, wavering shoegaze / post-punk group from the Bay Area who recently appeared on the San Francisco is Doomed compilation. This is a reissue of their 5 song EP recorded by BRIAN TESTER and mastered by STEVE ORIOLO in March 2014. A hauntingly beautiful sort of record. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, The Telescopes, The Cranberries. One-sided LP packaged in screened printed covers, with color paste-on for the back, in an edition of just 220 copies.

LP $11.00

04/07/2015  

GGGR 071 


Deviate From Balance by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Deviate From Balance
Gilgongo

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! JOHN WIESE’s long awaited Deviate From Balance is the artist’s first album since 2011’s Seven Of Wands (PAN). Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, the album includes scored ensemble pieces including over 20 musicians on each, recorded in Melbourne and Portland, as well as audio documentation of installation pieces Wind Changed Direction, a four-channel sound piece presented in the garden of the Getty Center (curated by Liars), and Battery Instruments, an eight-channel piece presented at HSP in New Zealand, now heard for the first time. Also included are various collaborations and recordings from live performances. At over 80 minutes, Deviate From Balance has been packaged as a 2×LP with tip-on gatefold jackets. Musicians appearing include Joseph Hammer, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C Spencer Yeh, Joe Preston, Smegma and countless more. The material is extremely diverse and services as a comprehensive and detailed document of this prolific individuals work over the past several years. CD housed in tip-on gatefold jackets.   This release coincides with an artist monograph of the same title, published by Hesse Press in Los Angeles, featuring a number of pieces represented on the double-album. John Wiese will be touring in Europe and US February–May 2015.

CD $8.05

06/23/2015  

GGGR 077 CD 


2XLP $25.95

03/03/2015  

GGGR 077 


Slots / Inner Sanctum / Tusks / Desolation by Fella, James

Fella, James

Slots / Inner Sanctum / Tusks / Desolation
Gilgongo

***Recorded in mid-April 2011, a single 1 hour and 16 minute long improvised piece ranging from free-form / non-music to harsh noise and drone, presented in it’s original raw form, with no edits made to the waves of electronics, voice and saxophone which were used to blindly craft an entity that existed in gradual flux, consisting of small scattered electroacoustic elements folding over on themselves until succumbing to a wall of scathing yet harmonious sound, volatile ambiance spouting off jagged shrapnel, eventually calming into a steady low-end migration and ultimately dispersing at the end of it’s descent. No run-on sentence describing it can possibly compete with the insatiable appetite exercised by the tools themselves during the recording of this movement, a process which was the product of a momentary black-hole in Tempe, AZ and specifically in the main operating room of Gilgongo Records, where the owner and operator could have feasibly been lost for an indefinable amount of time, as it’s very easy to lose control in certain situations, after all.

MP3 $3.99

06/07/2011 655035170022 

 


***Debut single from brand new Tempe, AZ band, VEGETABLE, featuring ANNA NASTY of HELL-KITE and the Tempe junk, clothes and record shop XNA, and PAUL from a criminally unknown Phoenix group, CHANDALLS. Vegetable play a spastic and soulful brand of post-punk, borrowing some of the finest traits of bands like Au Pairs, Delta 5, Kleenex and Devo, but also knowing how to play it calm and cool as needed. Carefully calculated and delivered with sharp tongues, these two songs were recorded late 2010 in the basement of XNA, leaving just enough time for these to have been ready for their winter tour.

MP3 $1.98

04/12/2011  

 


It’s Not Just Kissing by French Quarter

French Quarter

It’s Not Just Kissing
Gilgongo

***PLEASE CHECK STOCK!!! STEPHEN STEINBRINK resurrects the FRENCH QUARTER name for the first time since 2008’s s/t debut LP. Eight national tours later, these fifteen songs (which showcase his bedroom pop sensibilities blending with electronic elements and rhythms and are reflections on life on tour and at home, not wanting to die and not wanting to grow up) have been culled from various short-run tour exclusive CDrs and a VHS tape release, and compiled here. Co-released with Life's Blood Records and Stephen's own imprint: No More Second Chances. For fans of Arthur Russell, Neil Young. One-time pressing of 600 copies.

MP3 $9.90

06/01/2010 655035013312