Larsen on tour:

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo aka ( r )
04/26/2006 @ Auditorium Controradio, Bari, Italy + Baby Dee
04 /27/2006 @ Spazio 211, Torino, Italy + Mi and L'au + Morose + Baby Dee
Larsen + Xiu Xiu + XXL
05/04/2006 @ Thermos, Ancona, Italy
05/05/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
05/06/2006 @ Covo, Bologna, Italy
05/07/2006 @ Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy
05/09/2006 @ Circolo Degli Artisti, Roma, Italy
05/10/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
05/11//2006 @ Banano Tsunami c/o Porto Antico, Genova, Italy
Larsen
04/28/2006 @ Golden Mt. Zion Festival c/o Zion Club, Morbio Inferiore (Chiasso), Switzerland + Baby Dee
05/24/2006 @ Sala BeCool, Barcelona, Spain + Baby Dee + Six Organs Of Admittance
06/22/2006 @ Hana- Bi, Marina Di Ravenna, Italy
06/23/2006 @ Hybrida, Tarcento (Udine), Italy
06/24/2006 @ Tarfò Bar, Budapest hungary
07/29/2006 @ Safe As Milk , Haugesund, Norway
09/28/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland + Baby Dee
09/15/2006 @ Settembre Musica, Torino, Italy
Larsen presents ABECEDA featuring:
David Tibet, Julia Kent, Baby Dee, James Stewart, Johann Johannsson

Available now for a limited time:
Lee Ranaldo "Vancouver Ambients vol 1-4" 7" - cover art is a screen print designed, signed & #'d to 500 by Lee
Lee Ranaldo "Road Movies" cd & book - Lee's poetry & Leah Singer's photographs. Signed by both and includes a full length cd from Lee.
My Cat Is An Alien "Introducing The Cosmic Blues" 7" - Each 7" is packaged w/ an individual signed polaroid. Only 300 of these were made
My Cat Is An Alien "Cosmic Light Of The Third Millennium" cd - First full length from MCIAA for Important

Ocean vinyl sold out almost immediately. They'll be taking copies across America in April/May. Check out the Ocean website for tour dates.

May will finally see the release of the debut full length from the young Japanese group Anoice. Click their photo below to get to an MP3:

Larsen + Baby Dee
09/03/2006 @ Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, Canada + Fratelli D'italia
10/03/2006 @ Philadelphia , tbc
11/03/2006 @ AS220, Providence, RI, USA + Jack Wright + Work/Death
12/03/2006 @ Tonic, NYC, USA
28/04/2006 @ Golden Mt. Zion Festival c/o Zion Club, Morbio Inferiore (Chiasso), Switzerland
28/09/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland

Larsen + Xiu Xiu + XXL
04/05/2006 @ Thermos, Ancona, Italy
05/05/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
06/05/2006 @ Link, Bologna, Italy + Liars
07/05/2006 @ Zenzero, Bari, Italy
09/05/2006 @ Circolo Degli Artisti, Roma, Italy
10/05/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
11/05/2006 @ Teatro Della Tosse, Genova, Italy

( r ) + Matt Elliott + Manyfingers
29/03/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
30/03/2006 @ Milk Club , Genova + Grails
31/03/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
01/04/2006 @ Hybrida, Tarcento, Udine, Italy
02/04/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (solo set) + Mi and L'au + Morose
27/04/2006, Spazio 211, Torino, Italy

Read the recent Larsen interview in the international fashion mag LABEL

HOTOTOGISU LIVE DATES IN EUROPE
EVENT IN Copenhagen, DENMARK
SAT. DEC 3RD, 8PM, Byens Lys (Christiania):
TAURPIS TULA, HOTOTOGISU, FAMILY UNDERGROUND
Tickets: 50,- kroner
EVENT IN Den Haag, NL.
STATE X NEWFORMS
http://www.state-xnewforms.nl/2005/
DEC 16 & 17

MINAZO 1994-2005

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Photos 2 and 3 copyright Jenny Akita

Minazo, Japan's only male Elephant Seal and Merzbow's muse on the album Merzbeat (as well as the cover star) sadly passed away recently at the age of 11.
Masami and Jenny Akita made frequent trips to visit the seal and his memory will be preserved in the many photographs, paintings and albums Masami made that were inspired by this mighty animal.
Masami & Jenny Akita are both strongly opposed to the containment of animals in zoos and aquariums. Had Minazo lived in the wild he may have been able to live a bit longer as 11 is a young age for an Elephant Seal.

We will have a commemerative Minazo t-shirt, designed by Jenny Akita, at some point in the near future.
Check out the great photos on this Russian page dedicated to Minazo
Here's a link to the aquarium's Minazo photo page (if it doesn't load just refresh the page)

OCEAN'S DEBUT FULL LENGTH CD COMING IN NOV
LARSEN GETS REMIXED

Early November will see the debut full length release of Portland Maine art/doom metal group Ocean. Here Where Nothing Grows was originally recorded at Volume Studios in Chicago with Sanford Parker (pelican/buried at sea). However, an exhausted Ocean returned home only to be tremendously unsatisfied with the Chicago sessions. They retreated to Tsunami Sound in Portland, Maine and emerged 2 months later with a massive epic. 65 minutes, 3 tracks, all mastered to be played loud. It's as heavy as it could ever possibly be. Recommended to fans of Buried At Sea, Neurosis, Mogwai (their heavier stuff), Sunn O)))),etc.. MP3's soon.

Also in November is the remix EP from Larsen titled HMKE. This features two unremixed Larsen originals excluisve to this release as well as remixes from Deathprod & Origami Galaktika both also exclusive to this ep. A new Larsen full length will follow in early 2006

The Weird Wide World Of Henry Jacobs cd/dvd was recently featured on a nationally broadcasted piece on NPR. listen here

New records from Mars, Vibracathedral Orchestra & Hototogisu are now available. Click on the releases link above for more info

Henry Jacobs will be performing for the first time in many years at Arthurfest in early Sept. See you there!
Farewell Bob Moog

The Henry Jacobs cd/dvd is finally in stock and ready to ship. It's a tremendous honor for Important to issue such a significant piece of audio-visual history. Henry Jacobs' exploratory work in Musique Concrete as well as his work as a humorist (and the combination of the two) marks him as quite a maverick. Plus, the animation documented on the hour and a half dvd was quite a breakthrough for it's time and is hillariously amusing as well as completely fascinating. Again, it's a great honor and we hope you enjoy this as much as we have.
Please click the image below for an elaborate web page dedicated to The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs.

06.11.05: Fe-mail and Wolf Eyes at Bad Bonn Kilbi, Switzerland.
07.08.05 Fe-mail and Wolf Eyes at Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway

Barbez are heading out on a small tour of the midwest.



Thursday, May 19th
Madison, WI
@Cafe Montmartre
9pm
http://www.themomo.com
w/Reptile Palace Orchestra

Friday, May 20th
Kansas City, MO
@the Brick
http://www.thebrickkcmo.com
w/Mr. Marco's V7 and Franklin Delano

Louisville, KY
Saturday, May 21st
@Uncle Pleasant's
2126 S. Preston St.
(502) 634-4147

Sunday, May 22nd
Indianapolis, IN
Broad Ripple Art Fair
11:30 am
http://www.indplsartcenter.org

Sunday, May 22nd
Chicago, IL
@the Bottom Lounge
9 pm
w/Spires that in the Sunset Rise and Dylan Posa (ex-Cheer Accident)
http://www.bottomlounge.com

Thursday, May 26th
Cambridge, MA
@the Middle East
http://www.themideastclub.com
w/Beat Circus

On July 19th we will be releasing the debut album from Cotton Casino's group The Birds. For more info scroll down. We will also be releasing, at the same time, the debut release from the new Acid Mothers Temple lineup called The Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno. This group contains 2 drummers and members/ex-members of Zeni Geva, The Boredoms, Ghost, Miminokoto,High Rise & Mainliner. Here's a message from Makoto Kawabata:

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. was formed in 1995, so this year 2005 marks our tenth anniversary. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O was originally intended as just one part of the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, but over the past ten years it seems that most of our fans have taken them to mean pretty much the same thing. Of course, many of you will have been aware of the various other groups that have come out of the Soul Collective. But it is also true to say that Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. was the core of the collective. But I have never seen Acid Mothers Temple as the collective name for any particular unit or group - rather it is a description of the souls of all those who have gathered together under our slogan, and it is an attitude to life. Acid Mothers Temple is a place of refuge, a hometown for all those excluded by mainstream society who find some resonance in our slogan, "Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!!"

At the end of our European tour in the fall of 2004, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. decided that this was the last time that we would play such a long tour. Over the years we have tried to play wherever there are people who want to hear us, and we have tried to make our music easily accessible by releasing albums on labels from many countries. We believed that was the best way to reach the fans around the world who have found something to love in our music. However, the repeated lengthy tours (often with no break between them) and the raging torrent of releases have finally begun to wear us down. And if you look back at rock history, even the greatest bands found that their peak lasted for just a few years before they were exhausted by the grind of touring and recording.

Even before the fall 2004 tour I had begun to feel the same warning signs with Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. that I had previously experienced in other groups. By the end of the tour, just as I expected, we were physically and mentally exhausted, like a group of dinosaurs on the brink of extinction. That was why we decided not to undertake any more extended tours. We need to take some time out to recharge our reservoirs of cosmic energy, which is just about run out. It feels like I have been slicing off parts of my soul, in compensation for which the group has been granted a modicum of success over the past couple of years. But I no longer feel the need to continue with the group if it means that Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. will become just one more ordinary rock band. At the beginning Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. did not even exist as a normal group. And to this date we have never had an 'official' lineup - the group has only ever existed as temporary assemblies of likeminded musicians, a miniature soul collective. But through constant touring and recording, I feel that the lineup has fossilized, and the free communion of souls we enjoyed at the beginning has been virtually lost.

Just before setting off on the fall 2004 European tour I accepted a booking for my solo unit, Mothers of Invasion, in Osaka for January 2005. At the time I imagined that we would just play the gig as Mothers of Invasion with a new lineup. But later I began to feel the need for some powerful, new force that could stand against the virtually extinct dinosaur of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., a worthy rival who could read the last rites to the corpse. Perhaps I felt this need because I had nothing to replace the declining power of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Everything that exists in this universe consists of two elements. Just as ancient Chinese yin-yang five-element philosophy states, in everything there are two opposing forces - a front and a back, a yin and a yang. Without the balance between these two forces, the motion of the universe would cease.

With that thought in mind, I chose to mount an attack Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. myself. Of course, if this attack were to succeed I would need musicians just as powerful, if not more powerful, than Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

The first person who voiced their agreement for my ideas was my old friend and partner in Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Higashi Hiroshi. He and I are like two sides of the same coin, yin and yang, and without any explanation from me he immediately grasped my intentions. We decided to take the members of Mothers of Invasion and shift them to the new group, giving birth to a new Acid Mothers Temple. Just then I received a transmission from my own cosmos - the group should be named Cosmic Inferno. It was utterly fitting for this is truly a battle between heaven and hell, between The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. and The Cosmic Inferno.

Though we shall henceforth be Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, the new group will also be known in short as Acid Mothers Temple and this will no doubt sow confusion in the minds of many. But the true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple are many - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple SWR. The future may see yet other groups bearing similar names. But each and all of them will be true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple.

Thus, on this the tenth anniversary of the founding of Acid Mothers Temple, I announce the birth of the hellchild, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno.

Here's an early glimpse of The Birds album art by Pete Fowler. The Birds debut full length has been in the works for over two years and it should see the light of record shops in July. The first 1000 will be packaged with deluxe 3-D cover artwork like the Acid Mothers Temple cds we did a few years ago. The Birds is Cotton Casino (Acid Mothers Temple) and Per Gisle Galaan (Slowburn/Del). Mastered by Deathprod. We'll have mp3's up soon enough, but in the meantime imagine that Brian Eno, Cotton Casino and Per Gisle Galaan morphed into one being and went back in time to record Another Green World all over again. Makes sense to me.

The Important Records vinyl bags are back in stock with all new colors on the apparel page

On the horizon from Important Records:
Merzbow "Merzbudhha" cd
What did you listen to last summer? Masami Akita, otherwise know as Merzbow, spent most of his summer listening to Horace Andy, Studio One, Dennis Bovel, Keith Hudson and a whole pipe full of other dub mavericks. That's probably why this brand new full length, with cover art by Jenny Akita, is dripping with deep bass riffage and a whole lot of electronic dub vibes and beats.

Diane Cluck "Oh Vanille, Ova Nille" cd (limited edition in packaging made by Diane)
- “This record is by my favorite singer-songwriter in all of New York City. I'm so happy to be alive at the same time she is because i get to see her perform. It's her and guitar or her and piano or her and harmonium. Her lyrics are so good, when i play this for people they stop doing everything and are quiet for hours after." Devendra Banhart

The Hafler Trio "Exactly As I Do" double cd set
- Collaboration with Jonsi Bergisson, singer/guitarist of Sigur Ros

The Weird Wide World Of Henry Jacobs cd/dvd set.
_This project grew out of several gatherings in Mill Valley, CA and Point Reyes, CA over the course of a couple of years. Conceived as a radio program, the CD was compiled, edited and mastered by Jack Dangers as a journey through the found archive of unreleased tapes by Henry Jacobs. The DVD contains three 30-minute programs, The Fine Art of Goofing Off, a collaboration of experimental and playful animation between Jacobs and artist Bob McClay, produced in the early 70's for broadcast on San Francisco public television station KQED. Literally saved from the dustbin by McClay, this is first commercial release of these programs.

Henry Jacobs is a sound artist and improviser par excellence. His influential recordings as well as collaborative projects resonate with an irreverent sense of humor and a love for musics of the world. From the early 1950s into the 1970s, Jacobs experimented with tape music and film, staged early surround sound and visual spectacles (with artist Jordan Belson), and developed an array of absurd characters that would pop up as crank callers, relaxation coaches, or upside-down smiling instructors.
A contemporary of Ken Nordine and Lenny Bruce, Jacobs honed an individual style that was droll and laid-back but winked at you at the same time. On his recordings for Folkways, World Pacific, and Fantasy, as well as on his private label MEA, the world of Jacobs is an audio collage that embraces many cultures and sensibilities. This CD/DVD collection pays homage to Jacobs’ creative play, presenting recovered and restored audio as well as rare animated films that will give you a taste of this man’s special talents.

Lots more in the distant future such as vinyl for all the Angels of Light releases, vinyl for the Mars LP cd, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Hitotogisu, Unbunny, Ocean, Kimya Dawson, Merzbow/Boris, Lee Ranaldo, Hafler Trio, Larsen, R, Larsen with Xiu Xiu, Anois, Acid Mothers Temple

more new release information can be found on the releases page of the site

new interview with Kimya Dawson

recent Beequeen review on Pitchfork

A whole lot of Larsen news straight from Italy:

ciao a tutti from

LARSEN
www.larsen.to.it


this friday, the 28th of January
we will perform a new extended version of CARTOANIMALETTIMATTI,
our soundtrack for Winsor McCay short animated movies, for the first time
it will happen at the MART museum of modern art in Rovereto, Italy www.mart.tn.it
Daniele Pagliero www.lodevalm.net and Paul Beauchamp www.gullinkambi.com
will be with us on this show
PREcordings will release Cartoanimalettimatti on DVD in the autumn
www.precordings.com

see the list of our forthcoming gigs below


the new LARSEN album PLAY has just been released by IMPORTANT RECORD www.importantrecords.com
and in the spring BETA LACTAM RING will put it out on vinyl
along with a ltd. ed 7 " with 2 unreleased tracks too www.blrrecords.com

some reviews of "Play" are already on line:
Brainwashed.com www.brainwashed.com/brain/brainv08i03.html
Aquarius Rec. www.aquariusrecordsorg
Musique Machine www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=576
"Play" has been reviewed on the new issue of "The Wire"


on June IMPORTANT REC. will release another LARSEN album
so far it will be called SEIES and it features contributions by
JULIA KENT, cello wwwantonyandthejohnsons.com/orchestra/juliakent.html
JARBOE, vocals www.thelivingjarboe.com
and a remix by LUSTMORD www.lustmord.com

a short tour of U.S. will follow

more Larsen and Larsen related releases are on their way
Larsenincluding Fabrizio Madonese Palumbo's new solo album as ( r )
and Paolo Dellapiana's MANNYPOL debut
a full list of our forthcoming releases is available here:
www.deathtripper.com/ForthcomingReleases.htm

now Larsen's drummer "Il Bue" plays with the industrial-italian-catwalk-combo NORTHGATE too www.northgate.it
and Fabrizio will join (again) the ambient act MARIAE NASCENTI for some live shows and recordings www.mariaenascenti.com

some loops from LARSEN's songs are the soundtrack of the new art video
by MICHELLE HANDELMAN "This Delicate Monster"
www.michellehandelman.com

also some LARSEN, MANNYPOL and ( r ) music are part of the MARZIA MIGLIORA and MARGHERITA MORGANTIN
performance "Download Now" held at the Italian Cultural Institute of London on Friday 4 February between 6.30 and 9pm. www.italcultur.org.uk

FORTHCOMING GIGS:

28/01/2005 @ MART, Rovereto, Italy www.mart.tn.it
LARSEN play Cartoanimalettimatti feat. Daniele Pagliero www.lodevalm.net
+ GULLINKAMBI www.gullinkambi.com

05/02/2005 @ Usine, Geneva, Switzerland www.usine.ch
LARSEN feat. Matt Howden & Julia Kent
+ SIEBEN www.matthowden.com
+ JOSEPH BUDENHOLZER www.backworld.com

07/02/2005 @ Mercati Generali, Catania, Sicily, Italy www.mercatigenerali.org
LARSEN feat. Matt Howden & Julia Kent
+ SIEBEN www.matthowden.com
+ DIANE AND THE SHELL www.dianeandtheshell.net

16/02/2005 @ AB+, Torino, Italy www.progettocluster.com
FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO / ( r ) www.deathtripper.com
as part of FFWD # 2 launch party www.ffwdmag.org

14/03/2005 @ Cafè Procope, Torino, Italy www.juvarramultiteatro.it
MANNYPOL www.piemontegroove.com/artisti.php?id=84
+ DEAD TEXAN www.brainwashed.com/sotl/deadtexan

6 -10 of Apr: BLOOD AXIS www.diaboli.com/bloodaxis
+ MARIAE NASCENTI feat. Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo www.mariaenascenti.com
3 shows in Italy tba

12/05/2005 @ Teatro Juvarra, Torino, Italy www.juvarramultiteatro.it
... LARSENfeatXIUXIUfeatLARSENfeatXIUXIU ...
www.xiuxiu.org


LARSEN: gigs in Belgium, Slovenja, USA tba

LARSEN
www.larsen.to.it

booking+management+mail order
www.deathtripper.com

Lots of news to report. Most importantly, the self titled album from Barbez was recently reviewed in Pitchfork and received a whopping 8.0. Pitchfork, always elloquently critical and stingy with the points wrote an amazing review. To celebrate Barbez is only $8.00 with free shipping anywhere in the world. This offer will only last a couple of weeks. Read the Pitchfork review here

Portland Maine doom-metal masters Ocean have just returned from Chicago where they recorded their debut album for Important with Sanford Parker (Pelican/Buried At Sea). Expect more news regarding this release in the future. All we really know at this point is that they returned home having lost a drummer with their rough mixes stolen, leaving behind in Chicago some seriously heavy master recordings for Sanford Parker to mix.

Boris has also just completed studio work for an upcoming Important Records release. Again, more information will be available regarding this record as it becomes available.

January will be a busy month for us with full length recordings due from Larsen, Beequeen and an ep from Piano Magic. All 3 releases are milestones for each group with Larsen turning in a post-rockish epic inspired by Autechre; Beequeen recording their most instrumentally arranged album to date (vocals and a Nick Drake cover... for real) and conversely Piano Magic releasing their most electronic recordings yet. Again, more info and special offers for our mailing list will be available.

Lots more new records coming in the next year from Merzbow, Hafler Trio, Wolf Eyes, Dos Tracks, Diane Cluck, Kimya Dawson, Daniel Menche, Sir Richard Bishop, KK Null, ANP, John Fahey, The Birds, Acid Mothers Temple, EAR and the launching of the Brainwashed Archives series.

BARBEZ TOUR DATES:

December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 8pm
Berlin, Germany
@Haus der Berliner Festspiele (http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de)
Barbez will be performing the music to a new episode of John Jesurun's
Chang in a Void Moon as part of this Berlin theatre festival.

December 4th, 10pm
Berlin, Germany
@Haus der Berliner Festspiele (http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de)
Barbez post-Chang performance.

December 5th, 8pm
Dudingen, Switzerland
@Bad Bonn (http://www.badbonn.ch)

December 6th, 7th
Berlin, Germany
@Orphtheater (http://www.orphtheater.de)

December 8th, 9th
Berlin, Germany
@Haus der Sinne (http://www.hausdersinneberlin.de)

December 11th
Potsdam, Germany
@Al Globe (http://www.alglobe.de)

December 13th
Zagreb, Croatia
@KSET (http://www.kset.org)

December 14th
Turin, Italy
@Antidox
w/ Larsen & Matt Howden

December 15th
Ljubjlana, Slovenia
@Channel Zero (http://www.ch0.org)

December 16th
Faenza (Ravenna), Italy
@ClanDestino

December 18th
Paris, France
@Cafe des Trois Freres
w/Catherine Jauniaux

December 19th
Paris, France
TBD

There may be one or two shows added, so please check the Barbez website for updates.

http://www.barbez.com

And here are some upcoming Larsen tour dates:

14/12/2004 @ Antidox, Torino, Italy,
feat. Matt Howden + Barbez

15/12/2004@ Baraonda, Ronchi (MS), Italy,
feat. Matt Howden + Sieben

17/12/2004@ Werk, Campi Bisenzio (FI), Italy,
feat. Matt Howden + Sieben

28/01/2005 @ M.A.R.T. , Rovereto, Italy ,
Larsen play "Cartoanimalettimatti" ( feat. LoDevAlm ) + Gullinkambi

5/02/2005 @ Usine , Geneva, CH,
feat. Julia Kent & Matt Howden + Sieben +Joseph Budenholzer of Backworld

7/02/2005 @ Mercati Generali, Catania, Sicily, Italy
feat. Julia Kent & Matt Howden + Sieben

..more tba...
including: Udine (Italy), Norway
spring 2005: Italy with Xiu Xiu, USA

also
(Larsen's related solo shows):

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo & Paul Beauchamp + Legendary Pink Dots:
29/11/2004 @ Antidox , Torino , Italy

MannYPol (new solo project by Paolo Dellapiana of Larsen)
16/12/2004 @ Cafè Liber, Torino, Italy

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo / ( r )
18/12/2004 tba, Torino, Italy

www.deathtripper.com
for info + booking

Chang in a Void Moon: Unplugged
A Marathon Reading of episodes of John Jesurun's legendary underground serial play: Chang In A Void Moon... (50+ episodes in three days!) You can come and go as you please throughout the evening. We will be interspersing the reading with musical accompaniment...

Date/Time:
Thu August 19 -Episodes 1-15 7pm
Fri August 20- Episodes 16-45 7pm
Fri August 21- Episodes 46-55.5 7pm

Price:
$10/night
$20/ 3-Night "Chang Passport"

Location:
La Mama E.T.C. Annex
66 East 4th St. (betw. 2nd and 3rd Aves) NYC 10003

Tickets:
(212) 868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
More Info: www.howlfestival.com

Appologies for the lack of news updates this summer. If you're paying attention you know that there's been lots of news worthy happenings that haven't been news because we've completely forgotten that our site has a "news" page.

Most importantly, we've recently released a handful of brand new records:

imprec036 Barbez self titled debut CD :
Highly recommended to Dresden Dolls fans since Barbez & The Dresden Dolls were at one time very close, traveling the same musical paths. The Dolls have since departed on their way to fame and fortune leaving Barbez to release this brilliant debut w/ Important.

“Barbez includes a brilliant theremin player who smokes cigarettes and a full –throated Russian singer who comes across like Joan of Arc with a sense of Humor. They cover everything from Bertolt Brecht to Black Sabbath, but the real attractions is their melodically haunting originals. With a folk-music sound located somewhere between turn-of-century Eastern Europe and modern America, it’s arty rock that moves between brooding and winking.”
-The New Yorker

imprec038 Kawabata Makoto " O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas " CD
O Si Amos A Essere Duas Umbras? is comprised of two epic, deeply meditative, spiritual and transcendental compositions. Track one, titled "Ses Aintro ‘e mene finzas Si Ses In S'Atter'Ala E Su Mundu" is the very first solo track Kawabata has ever recorded on an acoustic guitar. Filtered through 3 reverb units and a single delay this epic acoustic track starts off droning but quickly builds with reverb drenched and finger picked momentum light years away from any of Kawabata's solo guitar work.

imprec039 Jack Dangers "Forbidden Planet Explored" double CD
This double cd release contains Jack's now famous soundtrack for the legendary sci-fi film Forbidden Planet. This recording was performed live accompanying a screening of the film at the I.D.E.A.L. Music Festival in Nantes, France. Since the performance the legend has built as Jack's legions of fans have searched far and wide for this recording. As a special bonus, Forbidden Planet Explored contains a second cd full of sci-fi sound effects inspired by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

"...These ethereal sound effects are captured in
twenty-three thematic tracks that illustrate the
quirky film, and at the same time give it a fully
timeless quality..." Igloo Magazine

imprec025 Muslimgauze "Zuriff Moussa" LP
Color vinyl pressing of this sought after Muslimgauze cd release. 4 colors of vinyl, 250 each. We're down to our last 100 records so you may want to pick yours up quickly.

Coming in SEPTEMBER:

imprec034 King Missile III "Royal Lunch" CD
What is left to say that John S. Hall and King Missile haven't already said? Everything! The notoriously outspoken and eloquently sardonic John S. Hall is back with the third incarnation of King Missile and this time his unrelenting lyrical avant-poetry/spoken-wordism is angry, irreverently subversive and politically charged. Though not the only topic on the album, Hall has taken aim at the Bush administration and Royal Lunch is a direct shot at the heart of the monster. Royal Lunch has the feel of an America on the brink of disaster, the exact climate the album was written in, and as always, John S. Hall channels the socio-political climate of the globe, mixing in his slanted wit, creating a brilliantly acrimonious masterwork.

There's a whole lot of amazing records currently in the early stages of release. We'll be anouncing them as we get closer to the release date. If you have any questions regarding new releases consult our release page or send an email! Thanks!

look around the site for the 2004 Team T Shirt as well as brand new Important Records stickers...

Barbez has anounced dates for a small spring tour. More information available at www.barbez.com. Look for their debut full length to be released on Important in August.

"A Brooklyn based collective that considers cafe decadence from a European point
of view. Barbez takes the violin and accordion of tango and the sultry vocals of
cabaret to skewed extremes; it's repertory includes the music of Kurt Veill
and The Residents." The New Yorker

@Tonic
Friday, May 28th
107 Norfolk St.
Show starts at 8.
Barbez at 9:30

Saturday, May 29th
Baltimore, MD
The Talking Head Club
http://www.talkingheadclub.com for directions, times.
w/Birdland

Monday, May 31st
Louisville, KY
check back on our site for the venue

Tuesday, June 1st
Indianapolis, IN
Radio Radio
http://www.futureshock.net/radioframeset.html

Wednesday, June 2nd
Kansas City, KN
The Brick
http://thebrickkcmo.com

Thursday, June 3rd
Chicago, IL
Schuba's
http://www.schubas.com
w/Nad Navillus and the Zincs

Fe-Mail's debut full length cd,"Skylubb Fra Haelvette," with bonus tracks not on the vinyl version, has just been released. The vinyl edition which was quite limited and is now out of print has become quite legendary in its first year of existence. Please see our release page for more info.

Also just released is Kimya Dawson's My Cute Fiend Sweet Pricess and Knock Knock Who? on color vinyl. This will be the only vinyl pressings and they are limited to 500 copies. One in three include a hand made drawing from Kimya just for you!

We've also got new t shirts from Kimya Dawson, ANP, Acid Mothers Temple and a the brand new 2004 Important Records Team Roster t shirt. See the apparel page of the site.

And a side note: Absolut Null Punkt has a lot of momentum behind it and is garnering quite a bit of critical praise and chart entries. It's highly recommended so check it out!

Coming soon: King Missile III, Jack Dangers, Muslimgauze, Hafler Trio, The Birds, E.A.R., Kawabata Makoto and a whole lot more so please stay tuned.

The following records have just been released:

Genesis P-Orridge "When I was Young" imprec035 CD $14.99
Dark and dreamy, When I Was Young is a surprisingly unique addition to the P-Orridge catalog. It's emphasis on P-Orridge's unique word play, voice and annunciation create an eloquently pronounced lyrical and music journey

Hafler Trio "Kisses With Both Hands..." imprec027 CDep two versions $13.99 & $19.99
"From the ashes of several points consumed by an inner flame, a construction to rekindle the embers left by "A Small Child Dreams Of Voiding The Plague". Recorded in PERCEPTOVISION(tm), using the latest in emotional resonance techniques, never has a small piece of plastic done so much to move hydrogens to a higer rate of vibration." - Andrew McKenzie

Absolut Null Punkt "Live In Japan" imprec029 CD $11.99
The live setting is a perfect showcase for ANP's diverse inspirations and unique approach to creating music. An echoing chamber of stark,pummeling fusion is created by combining strong elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial noise, glitch and free improvisation dynamics

All of these records are available direct. Please see the RELEASES page for more information and the complete Important Records label catalog.

We're currently hard at work on new records from Fe-Mail, ANP, King Missile III, Jack Dangers, Kimya Dawson (color vinyl for her 2 cds each limited to 500 only), Muslimgauze, Hafler Trio, The Birds, E.A.R., Kawabata Makoto and a whole lot more so please stay tuned. If you have any questions, or want to make a reservation for limited titles, please send an email. Don't forget to drop in on the Important Kitties...

"Out of Norway comes the most exciting noise LP I've heard to date. These two women romp thru stimulating noise compositions fresh and clean w/ a distinct Scandinavian frost. But there's always an undercurrent of warm embrace, sweet and masterful." - Thurston Moore

Happy New Year everyone. We have a big release date coming up February 24th.

Finally available will be:
Imprec022-24 Merzbow "Last Of The Analog Sessions":
Last of Analog Sessions is a 3 cd box set compiling Merzbow's last 3 albums recorded entirely on anlog equiptment. These albums went unreleased until now, and mark a historic compositional change in the world of Merzbow. Upon completion of these three albums Masami Akita traded his analog equiptment for an Apple laptop which he has been composing on ever since. This change in equiptment marks a change in sound and a whole new period for Merzbow. This box set marks the end of an era and the beginning of another.
Imprec026 Space Machine "3" :
Space Machine is Yamazaki Maso's solo synth-psych side project. This single cd release includes both the Space Machine 3 studio sessions as well as Space Machine live at Big Cat in Osaka, Japan with Makoto Kawabata of The Acid Mothers Temple
Imprec030 John Fahey "Hitomi" 2x LP:
John Fahey's second to last album, inspired by Fahey's Japanese girlfriend and Japanese music, pressed on 180 gram double vinyl and housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. limited edition. The first 100, which will only be available through our website will be on clear vinyl.

Prices will be listed soon.

We're currently hard at work on new records from Fe-Mail, ANP, King Missile III, Jack Dangers, Kimya Dawson (color vinyl for her 2 cds each limited to 500 only), Muslimgauze, Hafler Trio, The Birds, E.A.R., Kawabata Makoto and a whole lot more so please stay tuned. If you have any questions, or want to make a reservation for limited titles, please send an email. Don't forget to drop in on the Important Kitties... They're getting so big!

HAFLER TRIO TOUR DATES w/ EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN:

<o3h> 29.2. Warschau
<o3h> 1.3. leipzig
<o3h> 6.3. Wintherthur/CH
<o3h> 11.3. Stuttgart
<o3h> 12.3. Prag
<o3h> 13.3. Berlin
<o3h> 15.3. Offenbach
<o3h> 16.3 Mnchen
<o3h> 6.4. Paris