It finally looks like one of the best but least-known psych-pop outfits on the planet have made the record they've always threatened to. From original demos to final mixdown The Lazily Spun's debut album was assembled over three years, and is a comprehensive showcase for the band's compositional and recording skill. Songs were recorded at the PC-based home studios of Matt Woolham and Harry Sumnall PC based home-studios in Manchester and Liverpool), as well as Testa Rosa studios (Manchester), Elevator Studios (Liverpool) and Living Brain rehearsal studio (Liverpool).
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Our first multimedia CD, containing seven audio tracks and a 12 minute three song video by this disturbingly-precocious NYC singer-songwriter. Marianne is constantly evolving her songs, and the audio portion of the CD contains five new and much more mature versions of some of the best songs on the "Afraid of Me" and "Manmade Girl". These are supplemented by two completely new tracks. One the video side, we give you 2000 performance of "Panopticon", "Sapphire" and "Barely Nearly" taped at Signal 66 in NYC. [More]
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Milwaukee's Petals have always been one of our favourite bands, notable for a stunning series of singles and two fine albums ("Parahelion" and "Cadis Center") issued between 1988 and 1994, and some fine contributions to compilations since then. Few other bands managed to straddle the world of folk-rock and psych-pop so comfortably as the Petals did in their heyday. Needless to say we're pretty darned excited to they they've gone into the studio after a nine-year hiatus and recorded their finest work to date, and that we have the privilege of putting it out. [More] (US$15.00 shipped anywhere)
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CD version of the double LP we issued in 2001 in a very limited quantity (300). These recordings were worked on between 1998 and 2000, and have been remastered for this CD issue. "Birds of Appetite" was still Salamander's most consistent and definitive work to date, refining their mix of eastern-influenced acid folk and giant Ash Ra Tempel-ish cosmic improvisations. It marked the end of a trilogy that documented the first phase of the band.
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Lifesmyth is the recording project of one Scott Smith from Lexington, North Carolina. It's third of four of a series of projects Scott has recorded by not officially released. Spectacular psych-folk that will appeal to lovers of Six Organs of Admittance, Tower Recordings, P. G. Six, Joshua and the ilk. [More]
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With demons of the past erased by their last outing on Camera Obscura, Jesus Acedo and his collaborators move into entirely new territory, for what can be viewed as the first fully-formed work from the resurgent Black Sun Ensemble. Covers the map with resin-impregnated mid-eastern instrumentals, West Coast psych-mayhem, and some actual songs with cool vocals.[More]
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Ghostly home recordings by shadowy US sonic alchemist based in Hudson, Illinois. Calls to mind a range of mainly British adventurers from Bark Psychosis and A. R. Kane through to current masters of atmosphere like Piano Magic and even our very own Patrick Porter. cover is comprised of the artists own stunning paintings.
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Their fourth proper full-length album finds Stone Breath returning to Camera Obscura with "The Silver Skein Unwound," an answer to their last album for Camera Obscura, "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons" This is rural acid folk, informed by the furrowed fields and green forests, shaded by falling leaves and falling dreams; time-worn, weird, blood-red, rattled and ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in mouldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. 13 songs, 57:57, with a full-color hand-lettered and illuminated booklet. [More]
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Camera Obscura is pleased to announce the release of the fifth full-length release of song-bliss from Norwegian psychedelic-pop wizards the Dipsomaniacs, who rejoin their arc of previous releases with their finest collection of songs to date. (Various fine side dishes were served up on Free City Media's "The Tremolo Of Her Mind/The Strings Of Her Soul" but "Praying Winter" is the continuation of the song and studio craft established with increasing authority on earliest albums.) "Praying Winter" is naked, personal and staggeringly beautiful - the band's most intimate and open work to date. [More]
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Jeffrey Alexander talks about this release: "One of the ways in which the Iditarod have always celebrated our favorite season is to make special year-end recordings as gifts for our friends. In fact, our very first release was a cassette-only production in late 1997. We had a release show in Baltimore with Poem Rocket and Bardo Pond and later mailed the tapes (less than 30 copies total) to friends and family. The following year, Hub City records wanted to release it on CD, so we added extra tracks and it became The River Nektar. In late 2000, we decided to make another year-end record. This one was specifically Winter-related and was the first of what would become annual Yuletide releases. They are not so much 'holiday' oriented as they are seasonal - a celebration of the turning of the year, darkness, cold, snow, death and re-birth. We were excited that Camera Obscura asked to re-issue the first two. As these were quickly assembled at home for friends and not initially meant for 'proper' release, we now had the opportunity to spend more time with the recordings. We have included extra material, as well. The Iditarod disbanded in April 2003. It seems appropriate that this double Yuletide collection will be the Iditarod's final, posthumous release, as these are recordings that we love about a time of year that we love. It's great that we're now able to share these with more people."
Note: Not the same at the Elsie and Jack release with Sharron Kraus!
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