YARNLAZER RELEASES (newest to oldest):
TUNNELS COLOUR SEANCE
TUNNELS is Nicholas Samuel Bindeman (of Eternal Tapestry, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Hustler White, Malibu Flacon, Alarmist etc) in full-on beautiful pastoral dreamy psychedelic drifted drone mode. Colour Seance is four ambient clouds of gentle, blurred color-blasts of sampled/looped/delay-drenched guitars chimes, synths, voice, etc. that evolve in dream-time and slowly fold in on themselves. A key example of the power, breadth and sophistication of the Portland Psychedelic-Drone underground.
EDITION OF 100 IN HAND-SCREENED COVERS
now officially SOLD OUT!!
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DARK YOGA BREATH OF LIFE: LIVE BROADCAST HEAVY TRUTH (SECOND EDITION)
Crucial re-press and re-design of the Dark Yoga CD that came out in very limited numbers a little while ago.
Dark Yoga is an obscure Northwest American Psychedelic NOW VIBRATIONAL Music Commune founded in early 06 by Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone. Dark Yoga's music is a heavy heavy weird brown fog of loose psychedelic improv in a fuzz-wah style with 70's Miles vibes, distant flutes, bongos, etc etc etc.
LIVE BROADCAST: HEAVY TRUTH is a Radio Transmission from the Spiritual Heart of this Commune at the Apex of their groove recorded in May of 2006. Its an hour-plus of continuos improvisation that wanders from heavy psyche fuzz funk to strange passages of pastoral hippy bongo and flute melt-downs, and everything in between...
EDITION OF 100 in hand-screened covers
now officially SOLD OUT!!
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ACRE "CANDYFLIPPING":
hand screened covers
edition of 100 copies
now officially SOLD OUT!!
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Acre is our new friend Aaron, who recently moved to Portland from Olympia who knows his synthesis and plays extremely reduced, refined synesthesia-enducing and generally psychedelically affective minimal drone using a (again) minimal amount of equipment (including mixer feedback, sampler/loop, various filters, phase-shifters, tremolos and the like). For more info on Acre go HERE.
CANDYFLIPPING is three tracks of straight-up DENSE micro-tonal, synesthetic stereo brain-wave sync, hallucinatory DRONESCAPES that will seriously TRIP YOUR BALLS OFF
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Dark Yoga -"Live on KBOO":
hand woven/sprayed,/screened/photocopied/glued covers
first edition of 40 copies now officially SOLD OUT!!
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stay tuned for a second edition in different packaging!
Dark Yoga is an obscure Northwest American Psychedelic NOW VIBRATIONAL Music Commune founded in early 06 by Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone. Dark Yoga's music is a heavy heavy weird brown fog of loose psychedelic improv in a fuzz-wah style with 70's Miles vibes, distant flutes, bongos, etc etc etc.
LIVE ON KBOO is a Radio Transmission from the Spiritual Heart of this Commune at the Apex of their groove recorded in May of 2006. Its an hour-plus of continuos improvisation that wanders from heavy psyche fuzz funk to strange passages of pastoral hippy bongo and flute melt-downs, and everything in between...
(Live Dark Yoga Photos from 2007 © Michael J Demeo... more can be found HERE)
also check the cryptic (i.e. not updated that much) Dark Yoga myspace
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White Rainbow "SUNSHIFTS" CD
hand drawn covers
edition of 100 copies
now officially SOLD OUT!!
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one 65 minute track called "sun shifts" recorded in one sitting with guitar, trumpet, voice, bells, gong, bamboo thumb piano, and other weird stuff lying about going through my standard effect and loop pedal chain. sitting there surrounded by that stuff but mostly staring out at the sky and across the train tracks and river over to downtown Portland and the west hills behind - all that through the row of big, old, western-facing windows in our warehouse studio. watching the sun set and the sky turn an infinite and ever changing combination of colors in slow gradations as the day turned to evening dusk.
first i did a 30-ish minute live stereo take, then an overdub that ran an additional 30+ minutes after that first take ended, then an overdub over that last 30 minutes or so.
white rainbow myspace
white rainbow blog
white rainbow website
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ROB WALMART
"CONTAINS THE HIT WATERSKIING IN CANADA" CD
EDITION OF 75 in silk-screened, sprayed, hand painted covers with insert and cd
SOLD OUT!!
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rob walmart myspace
rob walmart fan site
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GHOSTING/BONECLOUD SPLIT CD
1. ghosting "catch waves"
2. bonecloud "campfire"
edition of 200 stencil spray screened covers, insert and CD
SOLD OUT!!
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Ghosting is a group made up of Portland underground avant/out/improv/noise veterans Zach Reno, J.P. Jenkins and sometimes Janice McKeachern. Zach also runs the Onomato CD-R label and curates experimental music events in Portland. Ghosting is a big cloud of debris floating around, getting covered in big clouds of spirit vapor, getting sucked into caves where hermits play home made bells and strange sustained tone string instruments... Bonecloud are a group of two Irish men known only as "Tim and Paul" and they make a deep noisy psychedelic cloud of thick black smoke that sticks to the ears like oil spills stick to your feet at the beach. Total washed out haze of uneasy bliss and mystery. Its all one big circle of fuzzed-out ring-modulated improvise drone smudge. Tim runs the Haunted Trail (aka Haunted Tapes) CD-R label in Ireland and records as QUETZOLCOATL with releases on Onomato (see zach reno above) and others. for order info click here
more info on dudes:
ghosting website
ghosting myspace
bonecloud website
bonecloud myspace
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VALET - "BLOOD IS CLEAN"
1. april6th (8:08)
2. blood is clean (4:57)
3. burmajuama (3:35)
4. tame all the lions ((4:43)
5. mystic flood (4:03)
6. my volcano (7:10)
7. sade4bri (6:11)
8. getnfive (Front Machine remix) (6:53)
total running time: 45:43
edition of 100 silk screened covers, insert and CD
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(re-issued on Kranky April 2007)
Valet is Honey Owens. Valet started off as an exploration of sound and video with video artist Jason Frank and has even explored the realms of audio/video installation, group dynamic performance art events and "happenings" of all sorts. Honey has played in many different projects in Portland over the last decade, most notably as a member of experimental electronic group Nudge (records on audraglint/tigerbeat6/kranky), as well as playing and singing on jackie-o motherfucker's flat fixed fucked, fig. 5, liberation and flags of the sacred harp albums. She co-runs the yarnlazer label with Adam Forkner and they sometimes play together as WORLD(check out Marriage Records for the World CD)... Blood is Clean is Valet's first official release after a couple of very small "private pressings" of DVD-Rs and CD-Rs over the last couple of years. Gone are most of the computer vs live instrument and voice experiments which were more prevalent in early Valet performances and recordings and instead we get a Jon Hassell style exploration of Haitian voodoo drums and chants, Sade ice cream melt voices, dream-time feedback loop guitars, psychedelic paint spill washes, acid-fried guitar solos, hand-drum rhythms, ambient blues raga. Deep psychedelic tribal blues. This mixed with her own weird interpretation of a more Velvet Underground minimalist-blues style of song writing. for order info click here
find out more about VALET:
VALET OFFICIAL SITE
VALET ON MYSPACE