Coastal Vudutronics West Coast Tour 2016:
Corum presents Magic Mirror
Corum announces a West Coast tour in support of
forthcoming Magic Mirror LP on Psychic Sounds and
Coastal Vudutronic Voyage cassette on Moon Glyph.
Updates are coming in as we speak:
SCHEDULED FOR AN ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE OF MARCH
followed by East Coast and European Tour dates
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YAN MARI YO:
Folkloric Griots of Guinea
12" LP
ORDER HERE
West African travels first recorded in 1961 as examples of Guinean music in the post-colonial era capturing a rare and brief glimpse of the early style of folkloric griots playing beautiful Kora, Balafon and Koni solos. For those who love bouncing melodies of harps and xylophone, minimal African Folkways, Lyrichord and Sublime Frequencies. Angelic morning music!
Corum presents Magic Mirror
Corum announces a West Coast tour in support of
forthcoming Magic Mirror LP on Psychic Sounds and
Coastal Vudutronic Voyage cassette on Moon Glyph.
Updates are coming in as we speak:
February 4 - Olympia, WA w/ Arrington de Dionyso
February 5 - Seattle, WA @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center w/ Arrington de Dionyso,Geist & the Sacred Ensemble, God and Vanilla
February 6 - Portland, OR @ Xchurch w/ Arrington de Dionyso, The Tenses (Smegma),Dolphin Midwives
February 12 - Oakland, CA @ Life Changing Ministries w/ FaTHErs (Headboggle / Tusco Terror) / White Gourd
February 13 - Davis, CA @ The Morgue / Quartzthrust / White Gourd /Joe Windslow
February 14 - On the Air @ KFJC - live video & sound streaming w/ White Gourd / Joe Windslow
February 15 - Oakland, CA @ the Church w/ White Gourd / Mummy Dust Trippers (Joe Windslow & Corum)
February 17 - Santa Cruz, CA w/ Village of Spaces / White Gourd / Joe Windslow
February 19 - Los Angeles w/ White Gourd / Joe Windslow
February 20 - Joshua Tree w/ White Gourd / Joe Windslow
more details at: www.planesofcorum.com
more details at: www.planesofcorum.com
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MAGIC MIRROR:
CORUM
12" LP
followed by East Coast and European Tour dates
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YAN MARI YO:
Folkloric Griots of Guinea
12" LP
ORDER HERE
West African travels first recorded in 1961 as examples of Guinean music in the post-colonial era capturing a rare and brief glimpse of the early style of folkloric griots playing beautiful Kora, Balafon and Koni solos. For those who love bouncing melodies of harps and xylophone, minimal African Folkways, Lyrichord and Sublime Frequencies. Angelic morning music!
MILLION BRAZILIANS:
PODEROSO MONICATO 12" LP
ORDER HERE
"Mining different elements in jazz, experimental electronics, and ”eastern" music, Million Brazilians have created their new full length album, and its a deep one stirring of sonic mysteries all woven into a dark jazz backdrop making a super psychedelic trip. Patience is a virtue with this album as it starts out nice with some amazing flute action until it morphs into some contemplative and expansive spiritual jazz exploration; the sort of thing that Million Brazilians has definitely mastered. Poderoso Monicato unfurls into a massive haze of some seriously intense and unique sounds with warbling hooks on electric guitar, percussive skitter, soulful voice, moody melodic horns, warped throat singing, and wonderfully expansive keys evolving into the more far-out, sci-fi aspects of the Sun Ra sound. The flipside features two round table movements verging on dub but mixed with rotating solos of wild free jazz bursts, washed out guitar, crystal clangs, smokey late night double reed grooves only to be interjected by a pang of heavy tribal drum & flute workouts, and finally swirling into a simmer of bubbling haunted cut-up spoken words. Monicato features lots of worldly influences for sure, in the instrumentation, the chant-like vocals, and the arrangements but it's hard to describe, other than to say it's a pretty fantastical trip through the resulting sonic document, and not surprising when Mississippi Record’s co-founder Eric Issacson recently described the Million Brazilians as “Exotica avant garde mystical music that is impossible to classify.” This is the sort of thing that should appeal to freaky jazz lovers as much as outsider avant/experimental music obsessives. Highly Recommended!" - Chris Webb, for psychicsoundrecordings.blogspot.com
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TWO NEW ALBUMS and a PRINT by CORUM -
AVAILABLE NOW :
BLACK or WHITE ORPHEUS 2:
PLACE OF THE HIDDEN SUN tape cassette
on Lost Discoveries
ORDER AT PSYCHIC SOUNDS
“Place of the Hidden Sun is a minimal abstract mystery of human beatbox style hyper rhythmic arrangements weaved with strange fields of glimmering melody to create lo-fi spiraling pop ambience. Hailing from Milan, Italy, Adele H. uses looping repetitive flowing vocals worked into beautiful circular figures adding pulses of breath, claps and hand percussion paced on repeated short spoken pieces. There's so much going on, and the vocals are more like another instrument, like a more psychedelic, more augmented textual brilliance. Corum plays soft focus prismatic choral shimmers underpinned by woozy high end melodies molded into new warped shapes of sound. The result is is strangely hypnotic, not just the words, but the percussive elements of recorded female vocals that are transformed into beats sprinkled amorphous shards of choral synthesizer, creating weirdly meditative trancelike expanses. It's so easy to get totally lost, letting the words and sounds, the pulse and throb transport you to some strange world where sound and speech, music and words, blur into something wholly other.” - Chris Webb, for psychicsoundsrecordings.blogspot
Running Time: 40 min
-Professionally dubbed in stereo to Chrome tape cassette / Dolby B
-Includes extensive writing sheet
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BEGUILING ISLES: TALES FROM THE VISION PIT
tape cassette
on Lost Discoveries
ORDER AT PSYCHIC SOUNDS
"A much anticipated follow-up to the earlier Effigy Mounds LP, Tales From The Vision Pit takes up where the Mounds left-off creating an atmosphere that is heady and devotional, with a dark, dramatic aspect that is profoundly effective. It could also be described as ‘musical surrealism’. Like the album’s interior artwork of drawings, the music creates hallucinatory effects as soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for a variety of instruments sounding like alien percussion, washes of chanting and dark constellations of bowed non-identifiable instrumentation building into amazingly euphoric moments. Corum’s approach draws upon diverse forms, including acoustic, drone music, sound collage, folk, and progressive rock joining the dots between primitive drums, outer space improvisation and travelogue field recordings that sustains the atmosphere across both sides while nodding to your favorite experimental albums throughout. Pretty much everything you could want from one his records is in here, and that final triumphal trumpet call-and-response by the end is one of the signature moments of his entire back catalogue. All copies come with a fold-out cover of drawings. Highly Recommended!"
- Sarah Thompson, for psychicsoundsrecordings
- Running Time: 62 Minutes
- Professionally dubbed in stereo to Chrome tape cassette / Dolby B
- Cover fold out with drawings by Corum
MULTIPLEX
#3
#3
a magazine with contributions from:
Guy Rombouts, Joris De Rycke, Heta Bilaletdin,
Guy Rombouts, Joris De Rycke, Heta Bilaletdin,
Eva Marie Rødbro, Dennis Tyfus, Roope Eronen,
Tina Schott, Grant Corum, Jeff Hartford, Lauren Pakradooni, Pat Maher, Zeloot, Bramok, Ronnie Oliveras, Dieter Durinck, Elia Buletti, Francesco Cavaliere, Ronan Riou, Amy Faust, Lieven Martens Moana, Rufus Michielsen, Ernesto González, Jonas Frederiksen, Mima Schwahn, Jens Fleischer, Wietske van Gils, Ada van Hoorebeke, Jo Caimo, Carlos Antonio Mattos, Eva van Deuren, Spencer Clark, Floris Vanhoof
32 stencil printed pages, screen printed cover,
post card and a patch. comes in a printed envelope
32 stencil printed pages, screen printed cover,
post card and a patch. comes in a printed envelope
presentation on Sunday July 19th, 4pm
F44, Bleekhofstraat 44, 2140 Antwerpen
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Saturday, September 12
EXPRESSWAY Yo-Yo DIETING / RON SPOONES / SPLENDID IBIS / ANAIKKI DAWN
DJ Tentacle Retraction (Corum of Million Brazilians) / Hobo Moan (Crissy of Taboo)
- RO-HE-GE - 12 Mill Lane / Belfast, ME
EVENT PAGE HERE:
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August 29 -
FEEDBACK MUSIC FESTIVAL
w/ White Gourd / Taboo / Russian Tsarlag / E Manuscript and many more!
Belfast, ME @ American Legion Hall
EVENT PAGE and more info HERE:
CAMERA EYE: A Cinema Salon
Sunday, August 30
featuring films by:
Emily Shinada
Grant Corum: www.planesofcorum.comMaralie Armstrong: http://www.maralie.com/
Jamie Mohr: https://vimeo.com/
Carlos Gonzales: www.facebook.com/
Natalie Purkey
Stefan Christoph
Crissy Puccire
Bonnie Cavanagh
Belfast, ME
Starts at Dusk
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6 / 1 / 15
Corum in front of the new Psychic Sounds show space
& Recording facility now located in Belfast, Maine
(photo by Dalton Carter 2015)
MILLION BRAZILIANS
Now launched their new bandcamp site that they'll be contributing to monthly and uploading many long out-of-print albums, bonus downloads and previously unreleased material over the next year. Meanwhile, two Psychic Sounds classic releases, Hideous Visions and Cult Music of Ajitz, can now be streamed, or available for purchase, for the first time!!:
Psychic Sounds presents:
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
BEYOND HUMAN SCALE (Lazy Magnet)
Opening Ritual at 6pm by WHITE GOURD
Wild World Cuts by DJ Bizango Leaks
Projections by VHS&M (members of Taboo)
12 Mill Lane
Belfast, ME
EVENT PAGE HERE:
www.facebook.com/events/946184835448955/**********
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UNHEARD INDONESIA:
'Pancak Silat Situbondo'
East Java
'Pancak Silat Situbondo'
East Java
Arrington de Dionyso and Lima Jari Sakti Rasyit
12" LP
"The latest in the ever expanding Psychic Sounds collection of sonic treasures is from around the world in East Java, Indonesia documented by artist and musician Arrington de Dionyso (Malaikat dan Singa / Old Time Relijun) during his travels. It focuses on music that accompanied a festival of Pancak Silat, which is a form of kung fu that is part combat form and part dance performance practiced in Java for many centuries with an element of trance that is reinforced by the fast paced repetitive music. This raw recording features a gloriously vibrant din of fiery double-reeded wind instruments, fierce cries, jubilant flutes, and an explosive bass clarinet which all whirl endlessly atop a bed of a dense and dizzyingly assemblage of bells, cymbals, gongs that truly stirs up a visceral and wild concoction of traditional folk music and mutated free jazz. It's all acoustic, but it sounds so loud and incredibly intense. The root sounds of the percussion will definitely sound familiar to listeners of Gamelan music but this is somehow even more manic and spirited. This may be the first ever recording of a bass clarinet crossing frequencies with this particular style of kung-fu music and it's experimental nature succeeds in creating a wild and gorgeous wonderland of exciting images that makes you want to dance, and trance out simultaneously; powerful and exhilarating! Certainly recommended for fans of the raw street recordings of Sublime Frequencies, Nonesuch Explorer series, Ethnic Lyrichord, Indonesian Folkways, or perhaps newer east-meets-free jazz. Like all Psychic Sounds releases, the artwork is as breathtaking as the music, gorgeously packaged in a full color sleeve, screenprinted by artist Corum, and includes a fold out insert with inspired drawings and liner notes by Dionyso as well. Utterly fantastic!"
- Karen for psychicsoundrecordingsblogspot.com
- Karen for psychicsoundrecordingsblogspot.com
ORDER HERE
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UPCOMING RELEASES for 2016:
Corum's
BEGUILING ISLES:
FANTASM COSMOGONIA
Much-anticipated follow-up to last year's Effigy Mounds LP, once more released on Psychic Sounds imprint and new release for bay area label Moon Glyph. From the 2 new featured teaser tracks, Fantasm Cosmogonia takes up where the Beguiling Isles left us off as a triumphal explosion of magisterial organ and alien percussion piece that leads into a kind of heavy tribal serpentine groove of feverish worship. The new atmosphere is heady and devotional, with a dark, dramatic aspect that is profoundly effective "inspired by a lucid vison of another dimension and appearing threshold creatures within it" revealed and translated to sound by Corum.
BEGUILING ISLES:
FANTASM COSMOGONIA
Much-anticipated follow-up to last year's Effigy Mounds LP, once more released on Psychic Sounds imprint and new release for bay area label Moon Glyph. From the 2 new featured teaser tracks, Fantasm Cosmogonia takes up where the Beguiling Isles left us off as a triumphal explosion of magisterial organ and alien percussion piece that leads into a kind of heavy tribal serpentine groove of feverish worship. The new atmosphere is heady and devotional, with a dark, dramatic aspect that is profoundly effective "inspired by a lucid vison of another dimension and appearing threshold creatures within it" revealed and translated to sound by Corum.
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NEW COLLABORATION FROM MEMBERS of
NEW COLLABORATION FROM MEMBERS of
MILLION BRAZILIANS /
(SMEGMA) and MSHR !!!
12" LP
We've only heard a small amount of this massive amount of recordings made by this power trio of strangeness, but what we have heard we're really, really excited about; featuring a unique mesh of horns, electronic biofeedback, flutes, EVP voices (?), and an assortment of unique percussion all organically flowing in and out of a sci-fi landscape of swampy terrain! Much anticipated!!
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MUMMY DUST TRIPPERS
(SMEGMA) and MSHR !!!
12" LP
We've only heard a small amount of this massive amount of recordings made by this power trio of strangeness, but what we have heard we're really, really excited about; featuring a unique mesh of horns, electronic biofeedback, flutes, EVP voices (?), and an assortment of unique percussion all organically flowing in and out of a sci-fi landscape of swampy terrain! Much anticipated!!
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MUMMY DUST TRIPPERS
12" LP
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Saturday, March 21
The High Water Mark Lounge
VERY SPECIAL EQUINOX SHOW:
MILLION BRAZILIANS "Farewell to Arms" Last West Coast show!
w/ The TENSES (SMEGMA) /
Birch Cooper of MSHR /
Geist & the Sacred Ensemble
DJ by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies ) /
Projections by Colin Manning !
more details to come....
EVENT PAGE HERE
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March 19 @ Hollywood Theatre 7:30 pm $8
Mississippi Records film series presents a night of live music to some of the most bizarre film footage out there!
CHURCH OF FILM GREATEST HITS COLLAGE
featuring live musical scores from:
MICHAEL HURLEY
MARISSA ANDERSON
DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER
MILLION BRAZILIANS
JASON BOKOROS
A film collage prepared by the curatorial team at the Church of film with live soundtrack by some of Mississippi Records favorite musicians! The film is a winding piece of madness - weaving together scenes from all kinds of films on themes like nature, death and sex, war and much more. Not for the faint of heart or spirit. The films will be accompanied by live score work from the following individuals, each musician chiming in separately throughout the program -
There will also be two short films. An evening of psychedelic entertainment not to be missed!
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE INFO HERE.Mississippi Records film series presents a night of live music to some of the most bizarre film footage out there!
CHURCH OF FILM GREATEST HITS COLLAGE
featuring live musical scores from:
MICHAEL HURLEY
MARISSA ANDERSON
DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER
MILLION BRAZILIANS
JASON BOKOROS
A film collage prepared by the curatorial team at the Church of film with live soundtrack by some of Mississippi Records favorite musicians! The film is a winding piece of madness - weaving together scenes from all kinds of films on themes like nature, death and sex, war and much more. Not for the faint of heart or spirit. The films will be accompanied by live score work from the following individuals, each musician chiming in separately throughout the program -
There will also be two short films. An evening of psychedelic entertainment not to be missed!
AMAZING NEW TAPES JUST IN LIMITED QUANTITIES!:
AT THE PSR SHOP: www.psychicsounds.com
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tape cassette
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VOLCANIC GREMLIN MAGNET
Order at Psychic Sounds Store
"Wonderfully weird collaboration, between avant free jazz tribalists Million Brazilians and legendary improvised pianist Thollem McDonas creating a combo of yet another freaky transmission from whatever otherworldly outpost these mysterious Portland free jazz & drone outsiders call home, and lordy, is it chaotic, throbbing and beautiful. Eerie wavering electric insect buzz delicately unfurl near the start, quiet and pretty... that gives way to a ceremonial gong call churning into a rhythmic jam of deep bass and cyclic hand drum groove, super fuzzed-out organ, angular guitar thwack, flute coloration, and wailing sax sometimes in perfect harmony, other times exploding into an eruption of turbulent jazz freak out truly sounding like a primordial opening of volcanic cavern. Within those various sounds, MB & Thollem, intentionally twist everything up, adding all kinds of evocative noises, woozy marimbas, mysterious rumbles, swirling jungle drums, sonic detritus of bells, shakers and ghostly calls that seem to unfold and flower and splinter into all sorts of different shapes and sounds as the set progresses forming some sort of scene like a Central American ritualistic exorcism into ecstatic celebration ending with a gorgeous distant flute calling. The Million Brazilian's sound have managed to be dangerously distinct and totally prolific, but completely enigmatic and underground at the same time. With Thollem's range between spastic gritty textures to enthralling minimalist pulsations of a well tempered synthesizer, "Volcanic Gremlin Magnet" creates a lush, expressive, and alien strain of jazz. It's a fantastic 54 minutes, all right! Highly Recommended!"
-AJ, psychicsoundrecordings.blogspot.com
-Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Mike Erwin
and professionally dubbed onto Cobalt tape
-AJ, psychicsoundrecordings.blogspot.com
-Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Mike Erwin
and professionally dubbed onto Cobalt tape
(MB photo by Jason Edmonds 2014)
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