We continue our week of non-music albums with “An Album A Day” installment #2. Irv Teibel’s Environments™ series was a ’70s new age phenomenon created by a sound recordist who had the bright…

Welcome to installment #1 of “An Album A Day,” a new feature in which I scour my record collection on a daily basis to bring you some oddities and favorites I’ve accumulated…

“To exhaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and thus receive, realize and create material based on both primal and absent vision.” COAV I-XIII recorded during 16.-19.4.2004.…

An original copy of this record (with the 7″ 45 that was released a year later, in 1980) passed through my hands at work today and, I had to admit, I hadn’t…

UPDATE: MYSTERY SOLVED! FACEBOOK READER ALEX WAS INFORMED BY MARK ASHTON VEY (RARE BIRD, TURNSTYLE) THAT HE RECORDED THIS DEMO. MARK HIMSELF NOTED: “Recorded around 1972. I think it was a Demo…

Someone played this at work yesterday and asked me, “This is pretty good, right?” And I stopped what I was doing and listened for a minute. Yeah, it was pretty good. But…

I’ve only ever held one original copy of this in my hands, but it was a pretty-damned-clean one that I believe sold for $1500. It came from a collection that belonged to…

Ah. A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die (aka The Massacre At Fort Holman). A brilliant film by Italian director Tonino Valerii (Day Of Anger, The Price Of Power). He cut…

Now I’m trying to mix Sudafed with cough syrup in an attempt to both dry out my head (congestion) and stop the cough that has developed during the past 48 hours. I…

Semiramis – Dedicato A Frazz The last time we took a peek at the Italian Trident label, it was Dedalus’s excellent LP entitled Materiale Per Tre Esecutori e Nastro Magnetico. That label…