The first seven Big Blood releases are up on our Etsy in limited numbers. Go here.
--------Coming Soon--------- MARCH/APRIL Big Blood - "Fight For Your Dinner" CD & Cassette Inspector 22 - "Devil is Friend" CD & Cassette The Agrarians - "Love Songs from 2011" CD
---------Out This SUMMER/FALL----------- Big Blood - Unlikely Mothers Double LP on Blackest Rainbow Records(UK).
Thanks to Ted Lee of the incredible label/store FEEDING TUBE in NOHO Massachusetts for bringing it to light.
I did a post about this idiosynchractic experience of a store. Tons of art accompanying this double vinyl. It's a soundtrack for rainy days and dark nights. Below is a track from Radio Valkyrie and a review from our man Ted @ Feeding Tube.
We've got 'em for sale on our Etsy page.
You can pick up this fine record in Maine @ Strange Maine and Moody Lords.
Big Blood "Radio Valkyrie 1905 - 1917" 2xLP/DL
Edition of 500
This is only the second proper full-length LP by this Portland
Maine-based duo, although there are vast arrays of CDRS and split
releases littering their wake. After spending time with both the
cosmically-shifting Cerberus Shoals and the folkily psychedelic Fire on
Fire, Caleb Mukerin and Colleen Kinsella decided to opt for something
more personal and hermetic. Thus, we have Big Blood.
The band's multi-phasic discography has thus far reminded people of
everything from the Parson Sound to Opal to Portishead at different
moments, yet none of these thumbnails comes close to capturing the
elegant mystery of their essence. Sometime electric guitar lines weevil
hauntingly in the aether while acoustics strum quietly up front. At
other points, muted chimes of freedom push against vocals and cloppety
rhythms that recall White Noise's “Making Love Without Sound”. Still
others vibe early Comus or The Third Ear Band. In all, the scent of
smoke hangs as heavy over this record as any we've heard. And friend,
we've heard a few.
Feeding
Tube Records is a fine recordings shoppe. We carry a wide selection of
new and used LPs, CDs and tapes as well as many rare records from the
Ecstatic Yod collection. Call for specific inquiries. We also release
handsome limited edition vinyl documents of artists operating on the
fringe of obscurity.
Also...Micah Blue and Asa Irons will be on tour in Europe with their brand spanking new solo albums. here's some info on Micah and their greuling Tour schedule! Have a great time guys!! Say Hello to our Friends in Camerone, Maria, Charlie, Jorge & Gregor in La Faena II in Madrid! Asa Micah Blue Smaldone
A new album titled “The Ring of the Rise” will release on April 16.
Click on the above link to hear a promo track, featuring Colleen Kinsella from Big Blood, and my brother Tristan on violin!
The LP is available for pre-order here: http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/the-ring-of-the-rise/
I will bring a bundle of these to Europe soon, the tour is seven weeks with my man Asa Irons. Check out his new album here: http://www.turnedword.com/bands.html
And here is our itinerary, to be updated often en route:
04.07 Loubières, FR @ Chemin du Col del Fach (houseshow)
So we are having the best time with our snow days. Plenty of time off from the regular routine to make space for fires, music, food and snow fun. Speaking of music, Feeding Tube Records a label and an actual record store in WMASS will be releasing Radio Valkyrie this Spring.
Everything is done. Now we just wait...go here for more details about Feeding Tube and our record. If you happen to be in Northampton, MA go to Feeding TubeRecords(90 King Street in beautiful Northampton, Massachusetts. Open Wednesday to Sunday from Noon to 6pm.) It's heartbreaking how many incredible records they have. I blew all my money the last time I went through and I am a stingy record shopper. I am still kicking myself for passing up a rare Can record set and a Howling Hex Box set.
After 11+ years of working alongside each other, my friend & colleague in Print at MECA, Elizabeth Jabar and I set forth to create a space entirely crafted, printed, & sewn by us and our community of Printmakers here in Portland.
Please join us Nov. 8th from 5-8pm for coffee, music and viewing of this collaboration of epic proportions!
_____________________________ F U T U R E + M O T H E R S Tent, Text + Totem _____________________________ Elizabeth Jabar +Colleen Kinsella
The World Over 2012 MECA Faculty Exhibition November 7, 2010 – December 22, 2012O Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (ICA at MECA) in Portland
Featured artists include Jeffrey Clancy (Metalsmithing & Jewelry), Elizabeth Jabar (Printmaking) and Colleen Kinsella (Printmaking), Adam Manley (Woodworking & Furniture Design), and Gail Spaien (Painting). All are current faculty members of the BFA program at Maine College of Art. The World Over is the sixth in MECA’ s series of juried thematic faculty exhibitions. This exhibition was juried by Amie Scally, Deputy Director/Curator of White Columns, New York.
Please join us and our families on Thursday Nov. 8th from 5-8pm for the Opening Reception.
11.08.12 Opening Reception, 5-8pm.
12.08.12 Performance, 7:00pm Alhan Middle Eastern Ensemble performs in the Tent.
Free and open to the public.
ICA, Maine College of Art 522 Congress St Portland.ME 04106
Terms like ‘freak-folk’ and ‘psych’ have been tossed around like so much confetti over the past few years, seemingly applied to anyone that has a delay pedal and oftentimes the results have very little to do (in my mind anyway) with the psychedelic experience. This album, however, is the polar opposite of that statement. You can apply generic descriptors to it and they would fit, but they just wouldn’t completely convey just how feral and imaginative it is. You can practically hear this guy’s brain melting onto the tape.
BR Garm is the work of Brendan Evans (Visitations, Strange Maine, Dark-Urrru, etc.), this being his first vinyl release with this project and, incidentally, the first vinyl release on Dontrusttheruin, home label of the Big Blood family. With lines like “My mind is gone/And I don’t want it back” and “Sittin’ on the back porch drinkin’ wine/Sittin’ on the back porch waitin’ for the end of time,” the whole thing has a dystopian punk edge to it that I find quite refreshing in these days of synth bliss-outs. The desperate urgency in his delivery is like the aural equivalent of being 16 and taking acid at the carnival in your shitty backwater hometown, sneaking off to smoke cigarettes behind the Laundromat and make out with your first love, not sure if you’re insane or if it’s just the buzz. The hellish lock groove at the end of side one only serves to drive the paranoia home.
At the core, Garm is just a man and an acoustic guitar, but along the way he’s accompanied by blazing squalls of fuzz, demented background vocals and pretty much whatever else he had lying around from the sounds of it. This is a ‘bedroom-pop’ classic that could’ve come straight outta 1994, but also calls to mind earlier home-recording pioneers like The Great Unwashed and even a hint of R. Stevie Moore. Packaged in a full color jacket with killer artwork by Hilary Irons, it even comes with a songbook with lyrics and chords if you want to play along! It’s been out for several months, but they only made 500 of these puppies. Get it from Time-Lag.
Id M theft Able – Head Down
inna Vitamin BlushCD-R/Cassette - dttr 034
Amazing new album from Id M Theft Able. One of
our greatest (Maine/US/Earth) performer/composers.
A highly evolved album,
super thoughtful and well crafted. Each piece is a journey unto itself and
always serves as a microcosm to the whole. In every sense Id M theft able’s
output could only be made by him, and in our opinion has no rivals.
In a league
all it’s own. Out on both tape & CDR!
Hand made and screen printed (11 songs, 51 minutes)
Sam Gas Can – Supreme
Power– CD-R/Cassette - dttr
035
One of our favorite
dttr releases.
Personal, funny, spirited and
loose Sam does it yet again.
Proving that music is alive and well. At times
there is almost a feel of listening to an old radio program, while retaining
all the personal touch of a masterful bedroom recording. We are pretty addicted
to this one and can’t stop listening. Double release- tape & CDR!
Hand made and screen
printed (12 songs – 31 minutes)
Mudang Rouge - Fantasy Horizon– CD-R – dttr 036
From New York to the moon and back.
Mudang Rouge is a force to be reckoned with.
Chuck Bettis, Jerry Lim, Evan Rapport, and Josh Blair create bone-chilling pieces,with a complete and total disregard for boundaries.Each player brings his own style and voice to create a quilt of sound.
New record with our good friend Micah Blue Smaldone!
This is a beautifully printed record made possible from Immune Reords!
This split LP features new sides of material from Micah Blue Smaldone and Big Blood with a total running time of nearly 30 minutes. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket and cut to vinyl by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering. The LP is limited to 500 copies pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl at RTI with a free download coupon.
Blood and Micah Blue Smaldone have previously worked together in the group Fire on Fire, who released a 5 song EP and an album on Young God Records titled The Orchard (2008). At the request of Immune Recordings, Big Blood and Micah have combined their efforts again to share this LP. Side A features two of Micah’s new songs – “The Mule”, charged with the tension between one’s thoughts and feelings, and “Tell It To The Sun”, a calm reflection on the perils of cynicism. Side B features 3 new pieces by Big Blood centering around the idea of family past, present, and future.
Go see Micah Blue Smaldone on Tour with Coke Weed....
Fri 4.27 Bar Harbor, ME @ the Lompoc
Sun 4.29 Biddeford, ME @ Oak and Axe w/ the Black Swans
Mon 4.30 Portsmouth, NH @ Red Door w/ Food Will Win The War
Tues 5.1 Providence, RI @ AS220 w/ Tig and Bean
Wed 5.2 New York, NY @ Cakeshop w/ Steve Gunn
Thurs 5.3 Brooklyn, NY @ Cameo w/ J. Wise, Sun Watchers
4 track sketches, Odes to the old ways and what we think is a scott walker-esque ballad.
For sale on our etsy page here. 11 tracks free for download through WFMU here
SunWalker – Yoncalla - dttr 030 (CD-R) Eric LaPerna (tarpigh, CS) and Caleb Mulkerin (big blood, CS) Two members from the Mr. Boy Dog era Cerberus Shoal get together and make an album. All over the map sounds: from exotic percussion and strings to angular guitars and drums… repeating themes that weave through out… Handmade and screen printed. Artwork by Cry, Cry.
For sale on our etsy pagehere. 11 tracks free for download through WFMU here
The Agrarians – Love Songs from 2010 EP - dttr 032 (CD-R) The Agrarians is the long-standing project of Baltimorean Matt Perzinski. We have been trading mail with Matt since the days of Cerberus shoal… Though when he sent us this one we just knew more people had to hear it. Bold vocals, bold lyrics and a generally commanding tone dominate this album. A genuine and compelling release (more of The Agrarians here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agrarians/ and another great project of Matt’s called “The New Mystical Troubadours” here http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_New_Mystikal_Troubadours/ ) Hand made and screen printed.
Latest epistle from the
whole “Strange Maine” cultus comes from B.R. Garm, best known as a member of
communal folk/drone project Visitations. This one is a whole other blat of boo,
with a pained/fried atmosphere that sounds like Roky Erickson circa Bleib Alien
power-crying through a set of songs that combine the dislocated/downer feel of
Skip Spence and Bob Desper with War Sucks/Familiar Ugly style Krayola-isms in
way that makes it feel like lysergic protest music made by backwoods Vietnam
vets that have just emerged from the jungle and are convinced that the war is
still on. There’s a kinda warped Higney/Vega sense of urgency to the vocal
delivery while the settings of mile-high acoustic guitar, ginchy fuzz and
howling choirs of cross-eyed backing singers come over like a wild
Philspectrasound DIY hybrid. Throw in the kinda loose, celebratory style of the
Rolling Thunder Revue and some of the most memorable songs ever written about
blowing your own mind and you have one of the most beautiful – and beautifully
confusing – backwoods psych releases of the year w/a nice cracked/personal
edge. Locked grooves on both sides for maximal disruption. Highly
recommended.****
***from
http://honestbag.blogspot.com
First, the artwork alone
on the 78th Morning Tide makes it worthy of your expenditure. Prior to discovering any pertinent
information, or even sampling the goods, I knew that the grooves would bear
fruit. This one has been spinning
constantly for the past week. The
78th Morning Tide, by B.R. Garm of Time-Lag favorite, Visitations, is released
on Dontrustheruin, a label run by Big Blood. If you enjoy any of the aforementioned, then it's likely you
will dig this record.
The smoked out grooves on
offer consist of lo-fi psych nugs of various tempo, utilizing acoustic and
electric guitar. I really dig
B.R.'s style - when he sings, you can feel it. Despite only using guitar, nothing sounds alike and the vibe
is strong throughout. The record
glows warmly into the night, as B.R. does it his way: telling stories about the apocalypse, getting stoned; of
coming together in time of need; watching a girl smoking on rainbows and losing
her mind; leaving the devil alone in the rafters; and the pretty red pony
turning the frown upside down.
Tomentosa sold their stock quickly. The record is still available throughDontrustheruin.
Big Blood - DEAD SONGS
LP
Art by Colleen Kinsella.
Released through Time Lag Records font
Village of Spaces - ALCHEMY & TRUST LP
Art by Amy Moon. Released
by Turned Word
Human Adult Band - MUGWORT
& SAGE LP
SAMANTHA 7" SPLIT w/
Jad Fair
***Big Blood -THE WICKED HEX LP
is available through Pan
http://www.phasejunk.com/index.html
Cerberus Shoal CD'S
THE VIM & VIGOUR OF
ALVARIUS B AND CERBERUS SHOAL
Featuring\\ Alan Bishop of the
Sun City Girls and the 18 minute "Ding"
This the info center for Dontrustheruin Records, specializing in low tech/hi tech handmade one of a kind art and music production. We who run this little operation are Big Blood. We write and play music in Maine.
Caleb does not write any of this blog, but he helps alot.
go here to buy our music if yer tired of the downloads without art!
dontrustheruin.etsy.com
can't find our releases there? check at these fine distro's:
time-lag records,
tomentosa records,
north east indie records
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