Blind Man Walking - " Late Diner." (Year Zero Records YEAR 013) 2012

Latest release from experimental DIY label Year Zero.
Blind Man Walking's first long player is a challenging mix of smoggy atmospheres, glitchy electronics, and post modern free jazz saxophony.
Kinda like listening to a combination of The Solar Myth Arkestra jamming with Cluster and Eno through three miles of steel piping leading from a stage in a Late Diner at 4:17 am.
Download it before mediafire fucks everything up for everybody!
Check out a non album video below:

Imposition from Vimeo.

Track Listing:
1. The Late Diner
2. Feels Like Metro
3. Embolism
4. Haemotoma
5. Remembering The Snake
6. Like a Weed
7. Just a Soul
8. Felt like Metro
9. Use / Overuse (Mp3 sample)

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Volcano The Bear - " Volfur " (Volucan 04) 1998 Re-post

My original post(view it here for the review) of this classic performance was on a cd-r purchased from VTB's Aaron Moore, which over time had disintegrated into an inaudible mush; but he has kindly re-furbished me with pristine MP3 versions, which you can now download and listen with ease and ,hopefully, pleasure.
DOWNLOAD HERE!
This is very timely because they have a new album out, and are on tour(scroll down for details). So buy the record and go and see 'em. They're one of the few bands worth supporting.
I'm going to the gig in Albi,France, if anyone wants to slag me off in person.

ADVERTISEMENT (NORMALLY AGAINST MY PRINCIPLES,BUT THIS IS A WORTHY CAUSE):

Tour itinerary etc:

NEW ALBUM:

the new studio album 'Golden Rhtyhm/Ink Music' has been released by Rune Grammofon. it's available on CD and LP (w/free download link). it's currently only available from Rune Grammofon in Norway: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/volcano-the-bear/ but we will have copies for sale on our forthcoming tour. it will be released worldwide sometime in april and we will have copies for sale directly from us in the uk and the usa once we return from tour.

pre-orders are welcome!

you can preview a track from the album here: http://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/volcano-the-bear-buffalo

TOUR

EUROPEAN DATES

March 2012

20th - Allonnes, France @ Peniche Excelsior w/ The Chap http://lexcelsior.fr/archives/6741

21st - Paris, France @ Instants Chavires w/ Cut Hands http://www.instantschavires.com/spip.php?article529

22nd - Lyon, France @ Sonic w/ Les Marquises http://sonic-lyon.blogspot.com/2012/02/volcano-bear-les-marquises-le-22032012.html

23rd - Berlin, Germany @ Kater Holzig http://www.katerholzig.de/

24th - Malmo, Sweden @ Moriska Paviljongen http://www.moriskapaviljongen.se/node/399

27th - Oslo, Norway @ Blå w/ Layers Of The Onion http://www.blaaoslo.no/arrangementer/27-mars-volcano-the-bear-uk/

29th - Albi, France @ GMEA http://www.gmea.net/activite/diffusion/albi/journeesElectriques/2011_2012/index.htm

31st - Marseille, France @ GRIM w/ Xiu Xiu http://www.grim-marseille.com/grim/actualites_2012.html

UK DATES

April 2012

6th - Glasgow @ Mono ( Counterflows Festival After Party - Free Entry) http://www.thearches.co.uk/events/gigs/counterflows

9th - Manchester @ Castle Hotel w/ Hayden/Joinson/Jones Trio http://www.buriedbones.co.uk/

10th - Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club w/ Temperatures http://www.britishwildlife.info/2012/01/volcano-bear.html

11th - London @ Vortex w/ Braindead Collective & Glockenspiel http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/coming-months/april-programme.html

12th - Coventry @ Taylor Johns House w/ The Bat Niven http://www.thetinangel.co.uk/events.html

13th - Leicester @ The Abattoir (The Abbey Pub) w/ Scaley Fuego http://www.facebook.com/events/183023345141277/

OTHER NEWS

a bootleg recording of our concert last year in Hannover has been released on Tom Smith's (To Live And Shave In LA) label KSV. a misunderstanding between Tom Smith and VTB led to him releasing the recording in an extremely limited edition without our consent. However, we do have a very small amount of these bootleg cdr's. please contact us for details.

Daniel Padden

Padden has recently released a superb album called 'Ship Chop'. here's some details about it.

Ship Chop is a celebratory cut-up of far-flung musics. Edited, collaged and re-arranged by Daniel Padden from original vinyl sources to create impossible collaborations between musical ghosts.
It is both reverential and sacrilegious, giving the music its full praise whilst also subjecting it to playful subversion. Some of the editing is obvious and transparent, but some of it much less so, where sounds from different recordings and continents overlap into an unlikely whole.

http://www.dekorder.com/059.html

amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ship-Chop/dp/B006E8D3Y2

also available on iTunes...

The One Ensemble have a new LP/CD available very soon on Alt Vinyl & Picked Egg Records

check http://www.danielpadden.com/ for info on paddens other projects

Aaron Moore

Moore has a few new releases out and upcoming. here's some info about them.

Textile Trio - AAA

http://www.intransitiverecordings.com/albums/aaa/

Invisible Sports - Ow Pow Hero Hour (solo live)

http://www.intransitiverecordings.com/albums/ow-pow-hero-hour/

and the Invisible Sports studio LP 'The Future Tastes' will be available soon from Alt Vinyl.

the above releases are available directly from us. please email for details.

Moore has also recently guested on a couple of releases:

Teatro Plagues - Homesludge cassette on Gold Soundz

http://hifiallergy.wordpress.com/

Layers Of The Onion - Hal-An-Tow on Droning On/Apartment/OHM

http://www.droningonrecords.com/

check http://invisiblesports.com/ for news on Moore's other projects.

speaking of the www. VTB will have a new website up very soon. in the meantime find us on facebook for instant vtbnews http://www.facebook.com/volcanothebear

you can also find us here:

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Volcano_the_Bear/

http://soundcloud.com/volcanothebear

http://volcanothebear.bandcamp.com/

though we still have a myspace page it is largely inactive.

finally both Moore and Padden have remixed a track by Beyoncé!! you can hear and vote for them here:

http://endoftime.beyonceonline.com/tracks/1235

http://endoftime.beyonceonline.com/tracks/1350

please feel free to contact us about what we have in stock. we're expecting some old titles to be back in stock very soon.

cheers

VTB

Tracks:
Produced by Kev Reverb, Physio and Firkin pub, 06/02/1998; formerly of another Leicester band, the terrible 'Crazyhead'.

Track Listing

1		Deli
2		Delicate Swan
3		December Woman
4		Laweaver
5		Tadpole Alphabet
6		Parl
7		Organza

DOWNLOAD Vol Fur HERE!

"The End Of Music" (Radical Phamplet from 1978/1983))

"BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!"

"Never trust a Situationist", just one of many nuggets on this severe slagging off of punk rock and 'punks'. Nobody escapes the punk purity police in this classic pamphlet which contains articles from 1978 to 1983. the titles of the four pieces contained within the starkly gaudy cover say it all: "The Revolution of Everyday Alienation", "White Dopes On Punk", Rebel Music and State Morality", and " Music All Day Helps You Work and Play".
40+ pages of how the Pistols were just an extension of McLaren's consumerist ambition, and basically how full of empty platitudes was the rhetoric of it's chief protagonists; "...the same old hippie trip..." (J.Rotten 1977)
I have to say, although its purist values get on one's proverbials, I have to agree with the large majority of the arguments contained in these pages.
The Pistols do loom large in my legend, but now one has a perspective view, they did rather represent the ugly side of capitalism, and sold it to us as some kind of scam on industry, when it was really a scam on us ,although i'd never describe myself as one, 'Punks'.
'twas a relief when Lydon formed a real 'punk' band with PiL,that some real values resurfaced with what is now labelled, Post-Punk, when we all thought it was still Punk Rock! The jeans and leather jacket brigades left to be Exploited.....White Dopes on Punk indeed.

The first few pages only are displayed above as a taster;for the full booklet click below.

DOWNLOAD the end of music HERE! (all 40 pages in PDF format)

"Sniffin` Glue" No.7 (feb 1977)

More sniffin' glue from Hero of DIY Mark Perry. The man who championed Inclusive Punk rather than the exclusive elitism favoured by the trendy 'Clique' of the inner circle. Especially the awful 'Bromley Contingent', and other poor 'ickle middle class, and worse, fuck up wanna be's. Let's not forget nasty Pop svengali's.
Original Punk rock was basically full of Shit, except for the 'music'. It was left to those who followed in its wake to live out some of it's confused ideology.

DOWNLOAD sniffin' glue 7 PDF FILES HERE!

"Sniffin` Glue" No.1 (1976)

The godfather of DIY ,Mark .p`s year zero fanzine. Responsible for spreading the DIY ethos beyond the Kings Road,if it ever existed in that cesspit of consumerism!?
"Don`t just read this!Start your own Fanzine" he said earnestly in fluent photocopied typeface and scribble,in Sniffin Glue 5.
What he didn`t write ,by the way, was, the infamous,"...here`s three chords, now start a band...." piece. Which appeared at the end of 1976 in the Stranglers fanzine "Sideburns"!
Just had to put that pub myth to bed.

DOWNLOAD the higher quality version HERE!

"Arthur Turner" (Industrial Culture Art Booklet) 1980-ish?

Another DIY artzine from the early Industrial era.Don't ask me who Arthur Turner is or was, although i'm sure there's some aging art bore out there who does.
That aside, this is another fascinating piece of Xerox beauty.

DOWNLOAD Arthur Turner PDF FILE HERE!

"Communication 2" - (Publication in an Industrial Stylee, by Twenty Two Face) 1980

The less pretentious follow up to Communication by Twenty Two Face, from Northampton,UK.
Takes the form of some obscene cut and paste tabloid. Great stuff.


DOWNLOAD the PDF of COMMUNICATION 2 HERE!

"Communication" - (Publication in an Industrial Stylee, by Twenty Two Face) 1980

Interesting booklet from a group of multi-media artists from Northampton called 'Twenty Two Face'. Obviously inspired by Throbbing Gristle's appearance in Town at the Guild Hall in 1979.(incidently supported on the night by a pre-pubescent Bauhaus!)
Also of interest is the list of costs incurred whilest creating this magazine, as listed on the last page. Very Desperate Bicycles indeed.

DOWNLOAD the PDF files for "Communication" HERE!