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Maher Shalal Hash Baz / Curtains - Make Us Two Crayons on the Floor CD (Yik Yak 001) Split CD coinciding with the arrival of legendary Japanese underground music collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz, who have come to the United States for the first time to tour the west coast with California music maestros the Curtains (members of Deerhoof, Open City). Features recordings from Maher's highly-acclaimed performance at Le Weekend in Stirling, Scotland 2002. Out of Print

Whysp - s/t LP (Love Tape Love/Yik Yak 002) Hugh & Josh play the Renaissance Faire, as these former Lowdown members befriend gnomes and play some impish faerie-and-unicorn folk inspired by Incredible String Band, Forest, etc. Limited Edition 300 green vinyl. Recorded by Phil Elvrum. Out of Print

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Faux Départ CD (Yik Yak 003) JEWEL CASE REISSUE! Originally released as a limited edition souvenir of their 2003 west coast tour, Faux Départ remains one of the strongest releases in the Maher Shalal Hash Baz catalog. Recorded at Dub Narcotic with help from an all-star cast featuring Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) on synthesizer, Chris Cohen (ex-Deerhoof, Curtains) on guitar, Arrington De Dionyso (Old Time Relijun) on bass clarinet, McCloud Zicmuse (Le Ton Mité) on bassoon, and Andrew Maxwell (Open City) on drums, Faux Départ captures the Japanese shambolic-pop legends performing material inspired by the palm trees in L.A., seals & seagulls in Olympia, and the long trek up Route 5 as well as thunderstorms, clouds, wind, and lightning. Recommended for fans of the Raincoats, Belle & Sebastian, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Full length CD priced like an EP. $8

Le Ton Mité - We Need To Grow To Giant Size CD (Yik Yak 004/Zicmuse) Baptized in the flames of the music world as openers for the likes of Deerhoof, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Calvin Johnson, Le Ton Mités "off hand influences simmer amid a mire of Morse-code tones resulting in the spirit of the guitar being thrown to the ground if not the actual instrument itself" (LA Weekly). Based in Olympia, Washington, Le Ton Mité takes its cues from broken folk to reinvent the wheels of rock. The trio of vocalists, duo of guitars and solo keyboard play songs based on group improvization and the boiled down compositions of ringleader McCloud Zicmuse. "We Need to Grow to Giant Size" documents the seed from which the band has indeed grown. This recording is a limited edition of 500 numbered copies in handmade letterpressed packaging designed and printed by Zicmuse. $8

Comets on Fire / Burning Star Core - LP (Yik Yak 005) Comets on Fire meet Burning Star Core and his familiar [Hair Police] in a rehearsal space and get buckwild recording two long sides of noise-damaged psychedelia. One side is funkier than the other, and apparently a "roadhouse" number got nixed. What remains is pure expando-band blown-jam sorcery. Shirts were shed, inhibitions forgotten, magic was made. Limited edition pressing packaged in sweet screened sleeves. Out of Print

OCS - 3 LP (Yik Yak 006) The third album from this two-piece acoustic guitar project led by John Dwyer (Coachwhips, Pink & Brown). Given the nature of Dwyer's other pursuits, the muffled, far-off quality of 3 is a departure, and while some tracks are minimalist beauties, the majority are full of sharp ideas drenched in an intoxicating distance. Nicely packaged with hand-printed sleeves. $12

Comets on Fire / Burning Star Core - CDR (Yik Yak 007) Limited edition 20+minute CDR featuring another extended improv jam from the session that spawned the Comets on Fire/Burning Star Core LP. Most copies went to the bands but I have a small number of them available for sale here. Out of Print

Badgerlore - Stories For Owls LP (Yik Yak 008) The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers Badgerlore-- represented on this release by beard-core ambassadors Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire), Tom Carter (Charalambides), Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), and Rob Fisk (7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof)-- Stories For Owls features six beautifully lush, organic pieces that rise and fall with the group's broke-down, burned-up improv and the interplay of piano, vocals, and dual guitars. The music is organized around the conceptual theme of birds constructing nests, and each track explores this idea differently. Stories For Owls also showcases the talents of two newcomers; Tom Carter, whose playing seems beamed in from some entirely off-kilter universe; and Pete Swanson, who by grabbing and processing live sound, both in real time and through tape-delay, gives the already rickety skeletons of these songs an even greater fragility and tenderness. Beautiful and devastating. Limited Edition. Out of Print

No Doctors - "T-Bone Parts 1 & 2" 7" (Yik Yak 009) "Another well-smoked slab of glorious "what the fuck?" by visionary caterwaulers of chaos and ex-Chicago blues cruisers, No Doctors. Equal parts backwards boogie and straight skullfucking confusion, "T-Bone Pt. 1" stomps one through hard and thick, slinging broken barn-boned riffs that collide head on with sputtering cross-eyed measures of brilliance and back again. "T-Bone Pt. 2" ensues after a quick flip to side B as you and your square-minded notions are slapped straight in the face with a wet hose spewing talkin' box (!) snarl and ultimately delivers your blown mind on a broken piece of hobo-stew stained porcelain." - Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire) $5 (domestic shipping included)

NVH/Chasny - Plays the Book of Revelations (Yik Yak 010) Vinyl debut of the long anticipated LP by Noel Von Harmonson (Comets on Fire, NVH) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets On Fire). Guitar and electronics are deposited in a sacrificial heap at the gates of hell, sickly intertwined and indistinguishable. Bathed in the blood of apocalyptic alchemy, this caterwauling creature rears two heads and screams one wrathful scream. Recorded to two-track tape in San Francisco over the winter of 2005 and mastered by Hans Gruesel at the Krankenkabinet; features deluxe, hand screened black-on-black multipanel packaging. Limited to 666 copies. Out Of Print

Tori Kudo Neti Pot (Yik Yak 011) Primarily known as the chief songwriter/guitarist for Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tori Kudo rounds out his living as a ceramicist. Here he has created a limited edition of 25 Neti pots, each one unique and hand stamped with a catalog number and Tori's name. $30 (domestic shipping included)

Common Eider, King Eider - How to Build a Cabin CD (Yik Yak 012) With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) has created an exquisite album that sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn. Packaged in a hand-sewn book of drawings by Fisk entitled "How to Build a Cabin." $10

Robert Martin - Long Goodbye LP (Yik Yak 013) I first heard Robert Martin's Long Goodbye while surrounded by friends. Even over the din of voices rallying to quantify, qualify, contain, bag and tag what we were all hearing, I was sure I'd never heard anything quite like it. Long Goodbye opens with some broken acoustic noodling that sounds like a Derek Bailey slow motion replay, over which a double-tracked cry of voices transmits mournfully, meticulously, and with an unnerving sense of purpose. From there it gets stranger and more beautiful, as Martin sings with unique abandon - is there such a thing as sad joy? - often wordlessly, frequently incoherently. The tunefulness of Martin's achingly beautiful voice sits in sharp contrast to the crudely played guitar, and sets Martin apart from his lamentably more 'in the know' contemporaries. There are few touchstones for the magic contained herein - Bobb Trimble at his most wounded, Tony Caro and John's All On The First Day LP, the earliest blues recordings of Guitar Roberts - but Martin's intensely private music is all his own. And now, ours to share. -James Jackson Toth $12

Shipping rates within U.S.: 1-2 LP/CD   $3.00 plus $.50 for each additional LP/CD 1-2 CD        $2.00 plus $.50 for each additional CD All items will be sent USPS media mail. Please contact me via email for International rates. Checks (payable to Tim Daly), Paypal payments can be made here: Yik Yak P.O. Box 460511 San Francisco, CA 94146-0511