Index Of Releases
- Love Cry Want Self-Titled 2xLP
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Nearly 40 years after its creation, Weird Forest is proud to release this seminal jazz album for the first time ever on vinyl. The incendiary grooves captured in this wax defy description. It is not free, funk, fusion or fire music — it encompasses all of these sounds and then blasts far beyond them. Featuring the late great organist, Larry Young (Miles Davis circa Bitches Brew, Tony Williams’ Lifetime, etc), this album is mandatory listening for fans of Miles Davis' “Live Evil” fusion era, Young’s own “Lawrence Of Newark”, Sun Ra’s cosmic explorations and even Japanese guitar terrorists like Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi. Beautifully packaged, Weird Forest-style, in a deluxe double-gatefold cover and remastered for vinyl by Weasel Walter, the Love Cry Want 2xLP is an essential document of a criminally unheralded group. Here’s the scoop:
“June 1972.
“The times were filled with darkness and turmoil. This music, of loving, of crying, of wanting, makes a powerful statement. It is awash with the anguish of the times, yet it heralds the promise of better days to come.
“Love Cry Want was a legendary jazz fusion group based in Washington D.C., and led by guitarist, Nicholas. This recording took place during a series of concerts in Washington, held across from the White House in Lafayette Park, and featured the late, great jazz organist Larry Young, who had just recorded the historic “Bitches Brew” LP with Miles Davis and had left the Tony Williams Lifetime and guitarist John McLaughlin to combine forces with Nicholas and drummer, Joe Gallivan.
“This second incarnation of Love Cry Want featured the triumvirate of Nicholas, Gallivan, and Young performing some of the most important music in the history of jazz. No record company would release this music, which was ahead of it's time.
“Nicholas, who pioneered the development of the first guitar synthesizer (in association with Electronic Music Laboratories) performs on the first prototype guitar 'synth' along with fellow musician, Joe Gallivan, who pioneered the development of the drum synthesizer with inventor, Robert Moog.
“June 1972, Lafayette Park.
“Richard Nixon was President. There was a nasty war going on in Vietnam, good people were rioting in the streets and cities were aflame. During this series of concerts outside the White House, President Nixon ordered aide, J.R. Haldeman, to pull the plug on the concert fearing that this strange music would “levitate the White House.” This is that music, remastered for this first time-vinyl release by Weasel Walter.”
Personnel:
- Nicholas: prototype guitar synthesizer, ring modulator, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, water, hi-tension wires and wailing dervish
- Joe Gallivan: drums, steel guitar, moog synthesizer, and percussion
- Jimmy Molneiri: drums and percussion
- Larry Young: Hammond organ.
- Package design by Aaron Winters. Mastered for vinyl release by Weasel Walter.
- Limited to 500 copies with deluxe Stoughton tip-on style gatefold jacktets.
- $22
- Sam Goldberg Current LP
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Sam Goldberg is a Cleveland, Ohio multi-instrumentalist/ composer who has been running in the garage rock/electronic underground circles for the last half of the ’00s. He also curates and operates the Pizza Night cassette label, one of the most beloved underground cassette headquarters of the midwest as of late. Unique, timeless, and clever constructions of sound created with many instruments like synthesizers, rhythm boxes, and electric guitars provide a wide scope of varied colored tones from release to release. This debut record, Current, is an early document of Sam’s solo guitar work. Side A consists of a hazy and humid melodic stasis that may be known from the Emeralds/Sam Goldberg 2007 tour cassette. An untitled piece that evokes a sense of longing and discontent while simultaneously hitting the deep and raw channels of the subconscious past that bring an understanding to the spaces between experience and memory. A gorgeous wash of clouded, ringing guitar not unlike Glenn Branca’s “Symphony No. 2.” On the flip side another phantom composition played only a few times live and recorded over a year ago in a similar weightless, sky guitar fashion rounds out the double side long debut. “Carol” is a great example of massive tone landscapes that can be born with minimal processing and careful compositional dynamic. Indeed, the sound of the instrument remains quite impressive throughout the album. The universal longevity of this record, however, will lie in the perfect placement of simple musical practices like chord changes, timbre and dynamics. Current has a style quality all it ’s own from the avant garde to pop rock with everything in between. No pretentions, no exponentiating contemporary concerns. Current stands as a pure and unwaivering document of self-expression, a characteristic that the all-time best albums have. It’s a rare case when a music with no lyrics or vocals can pave a path to an extraordinary understanding to one ’s own augmented reality. Outstanding debut album that defies the past and future and only breathes in the present moment. — John Elliott, 12/01/09, Cleveland.
- Unique clear silkscreen-on-offset design by Aaron Winters.
- Limited to 300 copies.
- $14
- Maurizio Bianchi M.B Das Platinzeitalter 2xLP
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Have you ever looked into the abyss? Man, it’s scary! An infinite void of the blackest black where not even a gleam of light can escape its dark talons. Needless to say, it’s not the most popular destination, but hey, it is there. And believe me, sooner or later that day will come when you will sit on the cusp and fix your eyes on the vast nothingness that is everything. But until that hour beckons, you may as well prepare yourself by spinning Das Platinzeitalter by Maurizio Bianchi.
’Dark ambient’ barely captures what is engraved in these grooves. Loops from the history of dust, ancient as the catacombs and spectral like the last rays of hope. There’s an eerie calmness to all four sides of this LP. Timeless and inevitable as the setting sun, as if this music has always been here. Which it has. It was up to Bianchi to find it. This recording captures the never-ending decay of beauty at the point when it is realized that resistance is futile and the metamorphosis has begun. There are not many musicians who can distill this essence: early Zoviet France, Nature Unveiled-era Current 93, Lustmord and Andrew Chalk/Mirror to name a few, but Das Platinzeitalter sounds like it comes from hallowed grounds, the once sacred is now profane. It forces your head to turn toward the abyss. It’s up to you to open your eyes and look.
Then the next thing you know, it’s over. It’s all over. —Dennis Yudt
- Screenprinting faithfully reproducing original CD art by Seizure Palace, Portland, OR.
- Limited to 500 copies on silkscreen foldover covers and hand-numbered in silver ink.
- $20
