hi all
new releases available to order now.
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COURTIS/MOORE - BROKEBOX JUKE - LP ONLY - NO-FI (hear tracks at www.​myspace.​com/​aaronmooretheac​cidental)

here's what no-fi say:
courtis / moore – ‘brokebox juke’ gatefold vinly lp

alan courtis played electric & acoustic guitars, organ, homemade violin, bells, synth, processing & objects
aaron moore played thumb piano, electric guitar, cello, drums, percussion, trumpet, piano, beard trimmer, violin, voice

you’d never guess that this album was recorded by correspondence between buenos aires and brooklyn, as the sound of a full multi-faceted band in a warm room rises from the vinyl. alan courtis and volcano the bear’saaron moore throw down delicious rhythmic textures, mariachi-​tinged improv, brooding desert psych and more.

in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with photos by moore.

here's a review from foxydigitalis:
If only all postal collaborations sounded as alive as this one, Anla Courtis (Reynols) and Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear) have put together a beautifully organic effort for NO-FI. The most important characteristic of the album is the scintilla of sunlight-​drifting dust that settles over Brokebox Juke, the kind of barely there unifier that makes this LP seem like a real-time recording. From the fly-tipping pastoral charm of “prorgreso = ropes gro” to the duo-​do-​four-​piece krautypsych of “gigngante = anti egg” Courtis/Moore have created finely-formed and textured arrangements across the record. Junk grooves, trumpet parts and acoustic guitar notes are layered like cross-fire breezed melodies from open studio windows looking out on city streets and open fields, this manages to be one of the most engaging, and naturalistic collaborations in recent years – and these guys didn’t even meet! Imagine one piece of gatefolded vinyl that is the summation of everything the Last Visible Dog label has ever promised to deliver. This is it. 9/10 -- Scott McKeating (17 March, 2009)


here's what mimaroglu say:
i make my love for courtis / reynols’ various transgressions known throughout these pages, but i’m also a hugefan of the past & present lineups of vtb ; with these guys’ wildly vacillating stylistic allegiances, this really could have gone in any number of directions ...

well, i’m glad to report that it does !!! starting out with a pastoral piece that bridges richard crandell’s earlyfingerstyl​e work with his later mbira patterns, the duo quickly move on into amp-tremolo gating & scrabblyguitar figures that really wouldn’t seem out of place on either band’s recordings ... but just when you think the album’s going to descend into post-nww tape-mangled improv gurk, they drop a super chilled latin-american sounding phrygian jam, replete with a morricone-​esque distorted trumpet solo.

the record continues on in similar fashion (including a massive la monte young lineage string-drone piece, all but dominating the second side) ; no question these guys are masters of their respective idioms, and it’s great to hear them stretch out ... highly recommended !!!

available now for 10 pounds plus shipping

THE ONE ENSEMBLE ORCHESTRA - OTHER THUNDERS - CD ONLY - NO-FI

OLD STOCK
recently discovered at the back of irmgard mann's closet were these items which are available to you, first come first served

THE ONE BURNED MA
on misra records from 2000
1 COPY ONLY
10 pounds plus shipping

FIVE HUNDRED BOY PIANO
2nd for united dairies from 2001
10 pounds plus shipping

CATONAPOTATO
live cd from 2005 on broken face/digitalis
1 COPY ONLY
10 pounds plus shipping

VOLQUINCE
volucan cdr release from 2007 with hand painted cover insert
7 pounds plus shipping

we also have copies of the recent 7" 'that people don't know they are monsters' on quasi pop for 4 pounds plus shipping

OUT SOON

TEXTILE ORCHESTRA - FOR THE BOSS CD - BETA LACTAM RING RECORDS
aaron moore, alexandre bellenger, arnaud riviere & dan warburton in 4 car pile up. out mid april.

SONGS OF NORWAY - DESPITE THE CLOAK CD - BETA LACTAM RING RECORDS
nick mott, aaron moore & stewart brackley's improv baby on cd for the first time with 20 minutes of extra live recordings and different artwork to the original vinyl issue. out early summer.

VOLCANO THE BEAR/LA STPO - THE SHY VOLCANIC SOCIETY AT THE BEAR AND BIRD PARADE - CD - BLRR
split release from vtb and french masters la stpo. out early summer.

VOLCANO THE BEAR - AMIDST THE NOISE AND TWIGS LP/BONUS 7" - BLRR
vinyl release of last years album. out in the summer.

and more to come

cheers
vtb

Hi all,
2008 was a very quiet year for Volcano The Bear, a few shows, 1 reissue and a few compilation appearances.
2009 will be different so here's what's going on with vtb and our related projects.

VOLCANO THE BEAR

VTB
have a new 7" out on the Ukranian label Quasi Pop. www.quasipop.org.
'That People Don't Know They Are Monsters' b/w 'Bow Heavier My Lord'
are exclusive to this release. You can hear 'Bow......' at
www.myspace.com/volcanothebear.
The 7" can be ordered directly from us for £4 plus shipping. please email for shipping rates.

We
recently conributed music to a short Russian film, 'how i fought
bravely the thirst for knowledge and what happened then', by Elena
Golovnina. It has it's first showing at the National Centre for
Contemporary Arts in Moscow on April the 8th. you can watch the film
here. http://vimeo.com/2084690.

Volcano The Bear hope to tour Europe later this year.

AARON MOORE

Aaron
is undertaking a UK/France tour with Alan Courtis to promote their soon
to be released vinyl album, Courtis/Moore 'Brokebox Juke' on the No-Fi
label. www.no-fi.org.uk for more details.
You can listen to 4 tracks from the album at http://www.myspace.com/aaronmooretheaccidental
The album is officially released on march 2nd but we will have copies for sale at the dates below.

Volucan
have released a live cdr (Volucan16) to coincide with the tour also.
The cdr contains live recordings of Aaron Moore's  Norwegian tour in
December 2008 with Per Gisle Galaen, Sinder Bjerga & Jonas Qvale.
You can buy it direct from us for £5 plus shipping.


COURTIS/MOORE TOUR DATES

UK

16.2
 LONDON - The Miller, 96 Snowsfield Rd, London Bridge, SE1 3SS
 8pm - £6
 With The Rebel +The Hunter Gracchus
 http://wegottickets.com/colourride
 http://www.myspace.com/powreviews    http://www.milesofsmiles.co.uk/

 
 17.2
 BRIGHTON - The Hope, 11-12 Queens Rd, BN1 3WA
 8pm - £5/£6
 With Tcki Tcky + Weirding Vessel
 http://www.myspace.com/tattyseasidetown      tattyseasidetown@hotmail.com
 
 18.2
 LEEDS - Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1 6HW
 8pm - £6
 With Ashtray Navigations
 www.termite.org.uk


 19.2
 MANCHESTER - Bernie's Garage, 76 Demesne Rd, Whalley Range, M16 8PJ (house show)
 7pm - £5 donation
 With Helhesten + Infinite Light + Beach Fuzz
 http://www.myspace.com/goldenlabrecords           goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
 
 20.2
 NEWCASTLE - Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Kings walk, NE1 7RU
 7.30pm FREE ENTRY!
 http://www.no-fi.org.uk
 (Alan
and I are giving a workshop at the University in the daytime and will
be performing with the students as well   as a duo on the night).

 21.2
 GLASGOW - The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield St, G2 3AU
 7pm - £4
 With Daniel Padden (solo) + Sarah Kenchington
 http://www.myspace.com/nutsseeds

 22.2
 EDINBURGH - The Canon's Gait, Canongate, EH8 8DQ
 7pm - £5
 http://www.grindsightopeneye.co.uk/

 FRANCE

 24.2
 PARIS - Rigoletto, 337 Rue De Belleville, (metro - porte de lilas)
 7.30pm - €5
 With Salmigondis + Capricorn Band
 http://marsouinslugubres.blogspot.com/

 26.2
 RENNES - Festival Roulements De Tambour (check http://www.myspace.com/aaronmooretheaccidental for full details soon)
 8.30pm
 NOTE - not volcano the bear as listed

 AARON MOORE SOLO

 27.2
 CLERMONT FERRAND - venue details soon at http://www.myspace.com/handclappinggirls
 8pm

 28.2
 LYON -  GRND ZERO Gerland,  40 Rue Pré Gaudry
 8pm
 With Sister Iodine (ex Bastard)
 http://www.grrrndzero.com


 DANIEL PADDEN
 
 The One Ensemble Orchestra have an album released by No-Fi also on March 2nd.
 The album is called 'Other Thunders'.

 The One Ensemble Orchestra is a seven-piece band incorporating cello,
viola, clarinets and bass clarinets,    accordian, piano, guitar,
percussion and many voices.
 
 DANIEL PADDEN LIVE DATES



Feb 21st Glasgow Flying Duck w/ courtis/moore - details above















www.myspace.com/oneensemble

 AMOLVACY
 
 Amolvacy,
comprising Dave Nuss (No-Neck Blues Band), Sheila Donovan (Sheila 16
& The Creepy Brains) and VTB's Aaron Moore have their 2nd LP comign
out in the Spring. 'A La Lu La' will be released by Black Velvet
Fuckere Records. Hear some of the tracks from this and their first
album 'Ho Ho Kus' at http://www.myspace.com/amolvacy.

Amolvacy
play a New York show on February 11th at The Stone at 10pm. The Stone
is located on the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street in Manhattan. $10
entry.

 TEXTILE ORCHESTRA
Textile Orchestra's debut cd will
be available very soon. 'For The Boss' will be released by Beta Lactam
Ring Records. Textile Orchestra is Alexandre Bellenger, Aaron Moore,
Arnaud Riviere & Dan Warburton.

 SONGS OF NORWAY
Songs Of Norway's album 'Despite The Cloak' is being reissued on CD by Beta Lactam Ring Records very soon.
The CD contains 20 minutes of unreleased live material of the duo of Aaron Moore & Nick Mott and has new artwork too.

Thanks for your time
VTB
 

'Pause For The Jet' - a solo album by Daniel Padden is now available on CD. Vinyl will be available soon.
Get in touch at Daniel Padden's Myspace page.

hi all
The Mountains Among Us by Volcano The Bear originally appeared in a super limited vinyl issue in 2002. there were 3 different versions available at the time, VTB's handmade gatefold sleeve edition of 40, beta lactam ring records box set edition of 100 and a further standard edition of 50 by BLRR.
it has now been reissued as a cd in a beautiful hard back digipack cd. the design coming from one of the original VTB editions and is limited to 500 copies.
it is available to purchase now priced at 10 UK pounds plus shipping. please email us at volcanothebear@hotmail.com for ordering information. please state where you live.

below is the label's description of this release:
Editionof 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound cd case. This year sees the eruption of the Volcano with a myriad of releases leaving the town folk covered in a fine and mysterious silt of musical entropy. The limited release of 'Mountains' finds our boy's spelunking the creepiest of dream spawned caves, excavating crystalline fragments along the way, which are then set in beautiful mental jewelry appropriate for any formal occasion. Arpeggiated blurs and disinterred voices snap, crackle and pop as an unnamed rusted hulk is slowly pushed across an ever morphing open landscape. More accurately still, it's like that weird wind harp record from the 70's with a mid period NWW and Mauve Sideshow marching up opposite sides of the hill to claim the giant harp. And that's just in the first 19 minutes!. Afterwards, there is a slo-mo interlude battle between rarified VTB brand chamber music and the sounds of...things. As promised, the denouement is a brief,dare I say, pretty little whisper of pizzicato and drone. So pretty and little, in fact, that it caught the attention of my otherwise weirdness deaf partner. A real symphony of the spheres that showcases this Volcano's ability to blow its top and rain sweet tweeky kittens on the valley below.

and below is a review of the original release from mark barton @ losing today:

One of those very ultra limited releases that if youdon't own a copy yet it's safe to say you may have missed the boat. Limited to only 200 copies, the packaging on this cute thingis worth the entrance fee alone and is typical of the delicate attention paid to every aspect of their releases that Beta-lactam ring records who self describe themselves as 'the label dedicated to releasing uncommon music with unique packaging in this age of mass production' make.

This particular copy is a limited pressing of 40 issued by the band direct. The package includes a CD-R of various VTB oddities and offshoots that may or may not be in the pipeline, a plastic toy insect, signed piece of art work by Aaron plus the record itself,two elongated album length tracks pressed on 12 inches of seriously heavy duty vinyl.

'Supreme and sublime, like no other temptress is the sweet golden crest of my distant wave' takes its place on side 1. An unsettling patchwork of ominous melodic mutations, spiritual sounds from the other side, or so it seems, pour through to infect the macabre canvas provided by the Volcanos, making you feel like your partaking in a boat ride with Death. As icy and as disconnected as anything by Stockhausen, 'Supreme and sublime' appears alienated, a confusion of half hinted ideas, the friction between natural devices(the sounds of birds) and the manipulated adds to the unfathomable path which VTB furrow. The formation is all at once eerie, haunting and tense, likened to being the next victim in waiting in a Hitchcock movie.

Whereas their previous release 'Five Hundred Boy Piano' is tangible psychedelia, 'Supreme and sublime' is more intenton creating atmospheres and devising the nightmares to go with them.,in many respects it's a salute to the Radiophonic Workshop, the icy textures and sombre overlays transporting you back to the childhood nights hiding behind the settee riddled with fear at the Daleks.

'Dragon or emperor' inhabiting the flip side is a lot more forgiving,still deep in tense atmospheric textures, the sound manipulations utilise subtle Middle Eastern reference points. Sounding as though it's been divided into sub plots, it still veils a sense of unease on the listener, the drone cycles bear down ominously only to melt towards the close with some dreamy pastoral acoustics. Supplemented by a soothing string section, the pastoral ambience soon melts away to reveal a sinisterish haunting spectacle beneath. Wickedly weird.

other forthcoming releases by volcano the bear and related are:
La STPO & VTB - split LP
Daniel Padden - pause for the jet LP
Textile Orchestra - CD
The One Ensemble Orchestra - other thunders
Songs Of Norway - despite the cloak CD reissue with bonus live material
and a release by Manuelo with vtb and many more others and i don't know anything about it really

thanks
volcano the bear

www.brainwashed.com/vtb
www.myspace.com/volcanothebear

Daniel Padden has a solo LP just out on Ultra Eczema. Its called 'The Isaac Storm'. Its on vinyl only and there are 400 copies available. There is a bit of it on Daniel Padden's myspace page if you'd like to hear some.