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| TRUE CLASSICAL LABEL SAMPLERS |
| TCCD
Label Sampler #1 (CD) (TCCD-100 / 0065) |
$5.00 |
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Featuring:
W.A.C.O., Ape Has Killed Ape, Michael Whitmore Some'tet, Faith of
Our Fathers, Leather Hyman & The Bibs. (13
songs) |
| TCCD
Label Sampler #2 (CD) (TCCD-200 / 0126) |
$5.00 |
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Featuring:
Michael Whitmore Some'tet, Ape Has Killed Ape, Danny Frankel, The Bibs,
W.A.C.O., The Centimeters, Listing Ship, Hannah & Elana and Ultra-Red.
(12 songs) |
| TCCD
Label Sampler #3 (CD) (TCCD-300) |
$5.00 |
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 Featuring:
The Lullabies, Julie Carpenter's Cherry-Coloured Quartet, W.A.C.O.,
Tiffany Anders, Saccharine Trust, Listing Ship (w/ Mike Watt), Damion
Romero/Devin Sarno, Let's Go Sailing, The Eastside Sinfonietta w/ Weba
Garretson, Danny Frankel, Hannah & Elana and Michael Whitmore.
(12 songs) |
| CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TITLES... |
| AZALIA
SNAIL "Avec Amour" CD (TCCD-027) |
$12.00 |
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"Avec Amour" is Azalia Snail's most accessible record to date.
Still dazzling in her own layered and textured way, there is a basic
rock/pop force that should win her many new fans. Azalia has recorded
11 critically-acclaimed albums, gaining recognition as a pioneering
force in the underground "lo-fi" movement of the 1990's. Many
influential labels have released her music, including Sub Pop and Dark
Beloved Cloud, who launched their label with a split 7" 45 by Azalia
and SEBADOH. She was commissioned by MTV to score the music for the
program "Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing". She has also composed
music for several indie features and short films. |
| CRIB
"Remnant" CD (TCCD-013 / 0168) |
$12.00 |
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CRIB
= Devin Sarno (bass). Full length offering of meditative low-end sound
pieces. Features guest musicians Jeff Gauthier, G.E. Stinson & CRIB's
original short film soundtrack w/ Nels Cline, Petra Haden & Joseph
Hammer. "It's contemporary classical music with an indie rock sensibility and will find fans in folks who grew up digging noise bands but are looking for something a bit more beautiful to trip out on in adulthood.." --Rolling Stone.com |
| The
Eastside Sinfonietta Featuring: Weba Garretson "Don't Be Afraid" CD (TCCD-015) |
$12.00 |
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"You
ought to be able to smell and feel it, not just hear and see it. Otherwise
you haven't stuck your nose far enough into the world of Bertolt Brecht,
Kurt Weill and their circle of musical/dramatic accomplices. And the
musicians of the Eastside Sinfonietta help you do that. Not by omitting
baths, but by breathing and jostling the music like the human beings
they are." "Vocalist Weba Garretson gives Lotte Lenya a run for her money, reaching deep into our psyches and hearts with her voice." - Louise Steinman / Los Angeles Public Library |
| Carolyn
Edwards "self-titled" CD (TCCD-022) |
$12.00 |
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Debut solo CD from an artist the L.A. Weekly has declared: "one
of L.A.'s finest songwriters." Carolyn is an ex-member of such
seminal Los Angeles bands as 3-D Picnic, Spindle & The Negro Problem.
CD features performances from: Nick Walusko, Nelson Bragg and Probyn
Gregory (from the Wondermints, Brian Wilson's band), Heather Lockie
from Listing Ship/WACO/The Eels, Paul Lacques from I See Hawks In L.A.,
Marc Doten from Doublenaught Spycar, and many others. |
| Faith
of Our Fathers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (TCCD-005 / 0053) |
$12.00 |
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Hamilton
Sterling's dark and skeptical film Faith of our Fathers was a
hit at the Los Angeles Film Festival a couple of years back. Since that
time, it has played in art houses from New York to Cairo, to audiences
who have found its strange mix of parable and borderline documentary/manifesto
style both alluring and disturbing. One thing noted by reviewers and
spectators alike has been the importance of the music - with opera singers,
prepared piano and exotic percussion augmenting a traditional orchestra
- to the themes of the film. This is a CD of the full score, plus several bonus tracks. All the music was composed, arranged and conducted by Steve Gregoropoulos (of W.A.C.O.) and was produced by the director. It features several well-known names in new music in Los Angeles in uncredited (but nonetheless stellar) performances." |
| Danny
Frankel "The Vibration of Sound" CD (TCCD-011 / 0134) |
$12.00 |
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This
esteemed drummer / percussionist has played with the likes of: Lou Reed,
Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson, Fiona Apple, Bo Diddley, Bebel
Gilberto, Don Cherry, Beck, K.D. Lang & countless others. "This is an organic disc, top to bottom, reminiscent of Miles' "In A Silent Way" or Eno's "Another Green World". But with Frankel's insistent bongoes and congas mixed high, this is a lovely record, pretty without being innocuous, well-crafted without any extraneous showing off, showcasing the auteur as a thoughtful rhythm maker as opposed to hammer-handed acrobat." -- Rolling Stone.com |
| Thomas
Kugler "Lilith - The Rock Opera" 2xCD (TCCD-020) |
$18.00
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A 24-song double-CD set which retells the Creation
story with the addition of Lilith, the first woman created to be Adam’s
wife. Coming to life as a spellbinding nymphomaniac, Lilith is instead
condemned by God to Hell to join Satan as his bride; Lilith and Satan
then conspire to bring about Adam and Eve’s fall from grace and
bring sin into the world when they are no longer under God’s protection
in Eden. A story told entirely in song, “LILITH” features
30 musicians and singers, including members of Fang of Love, Pigmy Love
Circus, W.A.C.O., Listing Ship, and Soho Vamp. LILITH’s singers
and players incorporate rock singing and electric instruments with orchestral
arrangements and operatic motifs to create a wholly unique sound and
a fascinating conceptual work. |
| Listing
Ship "Time To Dream" CD (TCCD-018) |
$12.00 |
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Brand
new studio CD out now! |
| Listing
Ship "Dance Class Revolution" CD (TCCD-010 / 0115) |
$12.00 |
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Abstractions
along the borders of tenderness -- songs that express not onlywith lyrical
content but timbre and music concrete. This album starts out with the
best pop intentions, and disintegrates into clicks, cuts, glitches and
field recordings. This is the most commericial AND experimental collection
yet by this quartet. Vocals/guitar: Lyman Chaffee, vocal/viola: Heather
Lockie, bass guitar/sound processing: Pablo Garcia, drums/theremin:
Matt Stein. |
| Listing
Ship "Sunshine and Other Forms of Radiation" CD (TCCD-003 / 0050) |
$12.00 |
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"One of the most suprisingly original experimental
albums of the year." --LA Weekly "Gorgeously uplifting orchestral pieces of admirable brevity." --TheVillage Voice |
| The
Lullabies "Lullabie's Lullaby" CD (TCCD-017) |
$12.00 |
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“An admittedly psycho-acoustic-electric-eclectic flavor”
featuring the songs of Stew and Heidi Rodewald of The Negro Problem,
Michael Whitmore of Whitmore Some'tet & Listing ship and Jeff Merchantof
PG-13. Get this full length CD of what started out as a dinner and casual
living room jam for a low-key one-off coffeehouse gig. |
| Jeff
Merchant "Window Rolled Down" CD (TCCD-024) |
$12.00 |
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Compelling work from a member of the Lullabies. |
| Ultra-Red "FS59" CD (TCCD-008 / 0071) |
$12.00 |
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Ultra-Red has always been about music, but it has always
been about more than music, too. The brainchild of auteur/saboteur Don
Rhein and collaborator/sound molester Pablo Garcia, Ultra-Red has taken
the form of dance hall parties, art installations, manifestos, books,
paintings, political rallies, automobiles and who-knows-what? In this
case, Rhein and Garcia have assembled a series of interviews with a
transsexual firefighter into a lovely musique concrete soundscape that
ranges from bouncy to frightening to simply achingly beautiful, as the
words have become sounds, rhythms and, ultimately, even exquisite melodies.
The CD includes a manifesto on the rights of transgendered workers. Ultra-Red has already amassed an international reputation for surprise and experiment, and "FS 59" will only increase that reputation. "A true to life call to arms..." --XLR8R |
| W.A.C.O.
"Wig Rodeo" CD (TCCD-001 / 0034) |
$8.00 |
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This soundtrack sounds like a cross between Nino Rota's
best moments and late Stravinsky. Soundtrack to a film by Marcel de
Jure; music composed and performed by: Steve Gregoropoulos (piano, clarinet),
Elizabeth Herndon (flute, trombone), Justin Burrill (acoustic guitar),
Adam Brisben (bass), Kyle C. Kyle (drums), Gerry Goldman (percussion),
Celeste Moreno (oboe) & Beth Bergman. |
| W.A.C.O.
"Sylvania" CD (TCCD-002 / 0039) |
$12.00 |
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Masterpiece 72-minute album that's garnered huge critical
praise. An elaborate orchestral avant-pop record from this LA-based
ensemble (guitar, vocals, bass, oboe, piano, clarinet, flute, trombone,
bottle, drums, percussion, viola, violin, bassoon, cello). Press on
this group's prior activities has compared them to Carl Stalling, Los
Lobos, Zappa, Ian Curtis, Brian Wilson, Kurt Weill and Aaron Copeland amongst others. "Twisted orchestral pop that can break your heart." -- Alternative Press |
| W.A.C.O.
"A Game of Cards" CD (TCCD-009 / 0110) |
$12.00 |
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"A Game of Cards is the closest W.A.C.O.
has ever come to a purely pop record Pied Piper flute flurries hover
over the unfolding garden of "Fire Ants" like birds chasing
each other in intertwined flight, while violist Heather Lockie and violinist-singer
Rebecca Lynn stitch everything together jauntily with swooping feints
of their bows. Only the gorgeous ballad "Hydra" moves at a
glacial pace, calving icebergs, as Gregoropoulos laments the loss of
faraway friends: "I can't talk to you in satellite transmissions."
It's all very grand and stately and ambitious and, ultimately, quite
satisfying. " -- LA Weekly
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| W.A.C.O.
"Finnegans W.A.C.O." CD (TCCD-016) |
$12.00 |
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What
else are you going to do with $12?! Buy a freakin' ham sandwich??!!
Get this now or be criminally out of touch with humanity. |
| Michael
Whitmore Some'tet "Juggling The Thing of A Thing of A Thing" CD (TCCD-006 / 0054) |
$12.00 |
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Under a street lamp...drinking songs full of anxious
invention and innocence.
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