OUT NOW!!!!!!!!! NEW BIG BLOOD Double LP "RADIO VALKYRIE 1905 -1917"

 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.

Listening to WFMU- Best station in the USA and friends leaving the USA on Tour in Europe!

   Did you know WFMU DJs are Outrageously good AT DJING?
Also they play Big Blood, but that's not why we love 'em...here's a few favorites...

Scott Williams 

100% Whatever with Mary Wing 

Liz Berg 

Ken

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)

04.08 Igualada, ES @ La Bastida

04.09 Barcelona, ES @ La Virgen

04.10 Valencia, ES @ La LLimera

04.11 Alicante, ES @ 8 ½

04.12 Madrid, ES @ La Faena II

04.13 Zaragoza, ES @ La Lata de Bombillas

04.14 San Felieu de Guíxols, ES @ Atzavara Club

04.19 Pedemonte, IT (VC) @ Osteria Pane Vino

04.20 Mantova, IT @ Fuzzy

04.21 Savignano, IT @ Circolo Malfattori

04.23 Tarcento, IT @ Osteria sul Ronc

04.24 Ljubljana, SI @ TBA

04.25 Rijeka, HR @ TBA

04.26 Zagreb, HR @ TBA

04.29 Podgorica, ME @ TBA

04.30 Pristina, KV @ TBA

05.02 Greece!

05.07 Denmark!

05.10 Sweden!

05.14 Finland!

Winter brings gifts - Radio Valkyrie due out this Spring!

Maine Olympics...High Jump

snow sculpting...then drive through town

                                                 big drifts...

                                                          body tobogganing...

                                             Relay Race!

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 Tube Records (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. 

Happy Winter Y'all!

Waited So Long...

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TO US, BIG BLOOD!

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! 

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F U T U R E + M O T H E R S 
Tent, Text + Totem
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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
0 4106

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenkinsella/

http://meca.edu/meca.edu/ica

Big blood "The Grove" Live

Thanks to Erik for shooting the video.
Thanks to Oak & the Ax for their beautiful venue!

Also a review on FoxyDigitalis of BR> GARM

BR Garm, “The 78th Morningtide” LP

October 10, 2012

By Matt McDowell

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.

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!!New!! Tapes & CD-R's from Dontrustheruin

Id M theft Able – Head Down inna Vitamin Blush CD-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. 

For those looking for a reference…

Coltrane/The Boredoms/Fahey/Ikue Mori/Can/Sun Ra/Haack

Improvisation of the highest order.

Hand made and screen printed (12 songs - 52 minutes)

 Listen for free here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mudang_Rouge/Fantasy_Horizon/

http://youtu.be/CNabHWfuLVs

AAAAAAAAAAAAnd a fresh bit of old news…

 we just put up a bunch of releases on cassette including:

Big Blood Old Time Primitives & Dark Country Magic

As well as new stuff by Garm  & Therapy Tapes!

Also be sure to check the 4 tapes for $20.00 here.

Big Blood playing @ The Oak & The Ax, Sept. 29th

Live @ the Oak + The Ax

September 29th, 2012!!!

140 main street
Suite 107-Back Alley

Biddeford, ME 04005

 http://theoakandtheax.blogspot.com/

Big Blood

Jeffrey Lewis

Video Nasties(Brendan & Chris of Visitations)

Tom K

Colesax in Crux(Adinah of Batshelter)

Hyena

New releases Old Time Primitives on tape, IDMTheftable,
 Mudang Rouge &  Sam Gas Can.

The biggest news of all...Q Ball's first day of First Grade!!!!!

Big Blood & Garm Saturday in Belfast, ME

SAT JUNE 23

Common Visions + Village OF Spaces + Big Blood + GARM + Planets Around the Sun + Paint the Face Painter Rose McBurney

Potluck 6 Music 7
12 Mill Lane Lane Belfast, Me 04915 Flier by Dan B and Amy Moon

SAT JULY 28

Big Blood, Village of Spaces

Dreamaway Lodge

http://www.thedreamawaylodge.com/page.php?PageID=595&PageName=The+Legend

1342 County Road
Becket, MA 01223
(413) 623-8725

Immune Records releases Big Blood/Micah Blue Smaldone Split 12"

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.

http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/split-lp/

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

Fri 5.4 Montague, MA @ the Bookmill

Sat 5.5 Hudson, NY @ the Spotty Dog

Sun 5.6 Allston, MA @ Gay Gardens w/ Hyena

www.micahbluesmaldone.net

Out Now!!! Big Blood - Old Time Primitives, Agrarians & Sunwalker

Big Blood - Old Time Primitives - dttr 033  (CD-R)

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 page here.
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. 

For sale on our etsy page here.

7 tracks free for download through WFMU here


Dark UrrrU(Big blood & Cry Cry) play @ the Space Gallery Annex 5pm this Saturday!

NEW Big Blood CD-R ...Old time Primitives Out Next week

Hey Y'all!

we've got some new releases on CD-r...


Big Blood - Old Time Primitives


The Agrarians - Love Songs from Twenty Ten
(Baltimore solo tunes)


SunWalker - Yoncalla 
(Eric of Tarpigh and Caleb of Big Blood)

Sunday @ Strange Maine

 Flyer by Sheela of Soft Touch

+++++Winter Beat+++++

Dontrustheruin Records Updated Etsy store & News 

Garm - 78TH MORNINGTIDE LP

         featuring the artwork of Hilary Irons and Garm

(1st vinyl release by our label!)

REVIEWS

*** from www.volcanictongue.com

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"

        CRASH MY MOON YACHT

       Released in 2000 by Pandemonium Records(Paris).

       GARDEN FLY DRIP Eye

       North East Indie Records

       MR. BOY DOG

       Temporary Residence

       ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURE & PERMANANCE

       Temporary Residence

       HOMB

       Temporary Residence

       BASTION OF ITCHY PREEVES

       North East Indie Records

       CHAIMING THE KNOBLESSONE

        North East Indie Records

Big Blood CDR'S In Stock!!!!

ALREADY GONE I                          

ALREADY GONE II

DARK COUNTRY MAGIC

SPACE GALLERY/SAHARA CLUB

STRANGE MAINE 11.04.06

OPERATORS AND THINGS

and more...

Coming out soon...BIG BLOOD/MICAH BLUE SMALDONE

SPLIT 12" on IMMUNE RECORDS