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Independent record label and on-line mail-order / distro from Tempe, AZ Independent record label and mail-order distro from Tempe, AZ.

12/06/2022

What’s new and/or coming up on Gilgongo Records, with plenty more to be added for mid 2023 on the next one of these things. Still hanging in here, mostly just waiting for release to come back from the plant and looking forward to some manufacturing changes that will hopefully not keep things stuck in place like this for such a long time! Etc!

11/21/2022

Vital Weekly on the new BLORP ESETTE GAZETTE Vol 3 & 4 2CD on Gilgongo Records! *excerpt: “Now Gilgongo Records picks it up again, with 'Volume 3 & 4', a double CD with music that partly deals with the old LAFMS posse but also contains new names. You'll find here a piece recorded from 1972 by Ace & Duce, but also more recent. Most tracks don't have a recording date, judging these to be from a more recent date. The music is in various places, but generally, a free aspect runs through these pieces. Dr. Amazon, in which we find Dr. Id, from Sm**ma fame, doing a very loose rendition of 'White Rabbit', there is guitar noise by Donkey Flybye, James Dewey, and Eric Zann, Ace Farren Ford (who compiled this thing with Ju Suk R**t Meate), doing a contact microphone improv with GX Jupitter-Larsen, spoken word by Lynn Carey and Erica Rawlings, tape-loop experiments by Lee Rockey or radical free rock music by Control Unit, tape-recorder madness of Sissy Spacek and a weird singer-songwriter named Mr. Foon with a track from his 1977, as yet unreleased, LP. Folk is taking the p**s out by Electric Bill Robinson, and Threed might do the same with improvised music. This compilation reads like a gazette, a fine mix of news, oldies, and weird stories, and there are lots to explore. Absolutely great compilation. (FdW)”

10/05/2022

7 track album

09/21/2022

PAUL ARAMBULA / European shows Sept and Oct 2022. There are few people as consistently tied in with the Gilgongo family tree as Berlin’s (for now) Paul Arambula. Be it 10+ years ago in Vegetable, a frequent member of Soft Shoulder (both when near and far), or most recently on his own, Paul always has something in the recent rear view or on the horizon that is some way connected with the label. An incredible person and charismatic performer, never to be missed! Check it out!

09/05/2022

Few people are as dedicated to creation and collaboration in the public square as much as Sandy Ewen. She performs (what seems like) 500 times per year, and she just got a fresh box of her incredible LP on Gilgongo - so next time you see her, make sure you leave with a copy unless you already have (at least) one at home! We also have copies in stock of her recent (incredible) CD with Roscoe Mitchell, Damon Smith and Weasel Walter (self released by Sandy)! Find both from us via Discogs or feel free to send a DM! *original description* SANDY EWEN "You Win" LP (GGGR-099)
While it’s relatively easy to refer to Sandy Ewen’s use of guitar as unconventional or abstract, the true nature of her work is much more exploratory in nature. Without relying on the use of effects or looping, the instrument itself functions as a canvas for Ewen’s ever-evolving arsenal of objects and ever-expanding techniques. Ewen has collaborated and performed with everyone from Henry Kaiser to Roscoe Mitchell, from Jaap Blonk to Lydia Lunch, from Keith Rowe to Tamio Shiraishi, from Damon Smith to Id M Theft Able, from To Carter to Weasel Walter, the list feels endless. Ewen’s drive to create and perform is rivaled by few, and a healthy body of releases documents much of her work in both solo and group settings. However, “You Win”, represents her first solo appearance on the full length, vinyl format. 📸: Peter Gannushkin

07/24/2022

Thurs 7/28 @ in Los Angeles - a LAFMS evening w/ Extended Organ & No Hope. If back to events & in Southern California, it would be a 100% no-brainer! Black Editions Presents a night with the LAFMS featuring **Extended Organ** & **No Hope**

Formed in 1994, **Extended Organ** produces a dynamic otherworldly ambience which can be simultaneously hilarious and frightening. **Joe Potts** lays down a carpet of sound using and his self-engineered drone instrument, the “Chopped Optigan,” over which **Paul McCarthy** performs vocal and guitar improvisations channeled and processed by **Alex Stevens**. Alex also adds his own keyboard triggered synthesized sounds. **Tom Recchion**, renowned as an inventor of homemade instruments, a free improviser, and an accomplished composer of acoustic, electronic and tape music, performs an array of sounds folding lush beauty and horror sensibility into the matrix. **Fredrik Nilsen** plays an antique Rheem Mark 7 organ along with electronic sound and recordings created by **Mike Kelley**. Kelley was a member of the group from 2000 until his death in 2012 and continues to be a contributing member by virtue of sound recordings he provided before his death; “In case I can’t make a gig, I can still play.” They will be joined by interdisciplinary artist **Elaine Carey** who will be playing the musical singing saw.

The LAFMS formed in the early 1970s around a loosely knit group of like-minded musical improvising sound experimenters in eastern Los Angeles who discovered their mutual interest and banded together to design modes of self production and distribution of recordings and publications, helping to develop and propel the DIY movement. In the ensuing 45 years the LAFMS has gone on to create dozens of records and groups (including Doo-Dooettes, AIRWAY, Le Forte Four, Sm**ma, John Duncan and Extended Organ), hundreds of concerts, festivals in both US and Europe, a full-scale gallery retrospective and volumes of artwork, sculptures, homemade instruments, videos, recordings, and other ephemera.

**No Hope** is a large LAFMS ensemble featuring:
Paul McCarthy
Rick Potts
Ace Farren Ford
Keith Lubow
Alex Stevens
Trevor Rounesville

07/21/2022

Sandy Ewen // always on the move.

07/14/2022

New mix up via SPIRAL PROGRAM from Gilgongo’s James Fella. Thank you !
Monorchid "X Marks The Spot: Something Dull Happened Here" (Who Put Out The Fire? LP, 1998)
Lush "Baby Talk" (Scar 12", 1989)
Chromatics "Hannah's Song" (Chrome Rats Vs. Basement Ruts LP. 2003)
Muslimgauze "Carcas Fly" (excerpt) (Farouk Enjineer CD, 1997 (re 2LP, 2021))
Maher Shalal Hash Baz "Symphony No.7, 2nd Movement" (Maher Goes To The Worldly Frequency LP, 2022)
Kevin Ayers And The Whole World "Clarence In Wonderland" (Shooting At The Moon LP, 1970)
Quintron "Mud Bugs (Diamond Rex)" (Are You Ready For An Organ Solo? LP, 2003)
Ratas Del Vaticano "Tema De Las Ratas" (Mocosos Pateticos LP, 2009)
Fat Worm Of Error " # # # # # # # # # # # # # # " (Untitled 7", 2006)
(Augustus) Pablo All Stars "Rockers Rock (Version)" (Rockers Rock 7", late 70's)
Jandek "Bring On Fatima" (Follow Your Footsteps LP, 1986)
Lili Z "Guess Who I Am" (s/t 10", 2002)
Brilliant Colors "Absolutely Anything" (Introducing... LP, 2009)
Black Dice "Smile Friends" (Cold Hands LP, 2001)
The Phantom Pregnancies "Spaceman Tekkaman" (Assassination City LP, 1995)
Broadcast "America's Boy" (Tender Buttons LP, 2005)
Low "Disappearing" (Hey What LP, 2021)
Mars "3E" (3 E / 11,000 Volts 12", 1979)
Sleater-Kinney "Ironclad" (All Hands On The Bad One LP, 2000)
Swirlies "No Identifier" (excerpt) / "Sounds Of Sebring" (Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music / They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons 2LP, 1998)

06/29/2022

Bundle available from both Helicopter & Gilgongo Records. Sissy Spacek ‘Blear’ CD / expanded reissue out 8/1/22 on Gilgongo!

06/14/2022

John Wiese // East Coast July 2022

06/05/2022

If you’ve ever been to Gilgongo HQ, you’ve likely seen some of Ace Farren Ford’s art in rotation on the walls. As a member of Sm**ma and in the inner orbit of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, he has also popped up on several Gilgongo releases: old, recent and upcoming. If you’re in the area, he’s got a show up with Malik Pope at Secretland Gallery - tomorrow Sunday June 5th 3p-6p… and if you’re not in the area, get in touch and pick up some of his work!!

05/29/2022

This Monday in LA / Wish I could be there!

03/28/2022

Soft Shoulder ‘Left Over, Table Top’ available now (find it on Discogs / Bandcamp)! A short and small release, 5” stereo lathe. Not a highly appreciated format (understandable!) - if it’s not your thing, please note: it’s the first of several limited releases that will make up a yet-to-be-titled LP which will follow late 2022’s ‘Smile Building’s Exit’ and ‘It’s All A Small World After’!

03/14/2022

Max Nordile on the move: 3/13 - 3/18/22

03/08/2022

A portion of some wildy diverse new / recent releases @ Gilgongo Records (distro). Take a dig via Discogs! Joyul LP / Guided By Voices LP / Loopsel LP / Enhet For Fri Musik LP / Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt LP (second edition) / Zorn, Centazzo, Chadbourne, Cora, Kondo, Bradfield LP / Gabriella Isaac cassette / Sewer Election CD / restock on the Cumgirl8 LP - tons more besides these.

03/07/2022

New to the Gilgongo distro: new cassette from the incredible Gabriella Isaac (find on Discogs!), released between her recent ‘CCTK Music’ and upcoming ‘Performances’ LPs, both of which are collaborations with James Fella and ON Gilgongo.

03/02/2022

Max Nordile on the move // West Coast, March 2022.

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IS IN UNSAMBLE "Is the Belly / In the Belly" LP (Gilgongo Records, 2019)

Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia (Smegma, The Tenses), Brenna Murphy & Birch Cooper (MSHR), Chiara Giovando (Harrius), Johannes Lund & Tobias Kirstein are the IS IN UNSAMBLE. Is the Belly / In the Belly: an old fashioned “jam session” with a deep but distant, natural room sound. Fluttering alto sax and calm, staccato trumpet slowly find their way: spelunking towards a center in which the organ / voice / homemade synth / radio / percussion blend and find their way back to the nervous outer world. They converge with strange but riveting vocals, slide guitar and record skips—mingled with the sounds of dinosaurs canoodling. Song forms rise and fall back against the river-like surface tension: a roaring tale is told, then slowly fades away to nothingness. The jacket art is a collaboration between Ju Suk’s squiggly line drawings and lines / angles / photocopy artifacts and lettering from James Fella. Recorded September 2015 at Smegma’s Studio in Portland.

SISSY SPACEK - "Things Take Time" - Blear LP (Gilgongo Records, 2018)

Widening their scope from recent grindcore on Nuclear War Now! Productions, Sissy Spacek's BLEAR LP explores a much more dynamic and spacious approach to sound--an entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and @John Wiese, released in an edition of 300. The group's 8th release on Gilgongo Records. Available 8/19/18: http://gilgongorecords.storenvy.com/collections/164713-all-products/products/24458886-sissy-spacek-blear-lp-gggr-095 Sissy Spacek: http://www.gorejet.com/ @Gilgongo Records: http://www.gilgongorecords.com

Filthy Grin "Saturn In The Mirror" (excerpt), Saturn In The Mirror LP (Gilgongo Records, 2018)

An excerpt from the upcoming FILTHY GRIN LP, "Saturn In The Mirror", on Gilgongo - on The Wire Tapper 47 CD which comes with the August 2018 issue #414 of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music alongside The Space Lady, Actress & London Contemporary Orchestra, KOKOKO!, hifiklub & Lee Ranaldo w/ Ikue Mori and many more. "Saturn In The Mirror" will be available this August. The Wire Tapper 47: https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper-47

A NARROW VIEW OF WHATS NEW @ GILGONGO HQ (6/19/18)

A NARROW VIEW OF WHATS NEW in thee GILGONGO RECORDS MAILORDER DEPARTMENT: brand new / first time on vinyl issue of the 1995 Muslimgauze CD, Maroon - edition of 500 on Staalplaat from The Netherlands // @Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup "Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001" LP edition of the 2002 CD, on Jan's Faitiche label from Germany, Fat Worm of Error "Nzznzzzznnznznnn" LP - also on vinyl for the first time courtesy of FEEDING TUBE RECORDS! The Telescopes (Official) "Splashdown The Creation Days 1990-1991" 2xLP on Italian label Radiation Reissues: compiles their 12"s on Creation and a Peel Session (always in the shadow of Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Loop, but just as vital), restock of the crucial Mats Gustafsson / Thurston Moore LP on Café OTO's Otoroku label, and an archival release w/ material from '73-'75(!!) from Smegma in an edition of only 200(!!) on Italy's Alga Marghen.

A NARROW VIEW OF WHATS NEW @ GILGONGO HQ (6/6/18)

A NARROW VIEW OF WHATS NEW: Brand new LPs from LITHICS on Kill Rock Stars!! Peach Kelli Pop, The Space Lady, restock of the Solid Space LP and JOE MEEK LP on Mississippi, many Dead Moon(s), new cassette from Mia Loucks, a 3xLP from David Fair!, debut from Casual Hex! more of The Desperate Bicycles "Singles" LP and two new Sissy Spacek CDs (new LP on Gilgongo in July or so)!