January 2012
4 posts
NK27 & NK28
Buy both tapes together! Clearing & Trailing.
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NK28: Trailing "Opacities & Allures" c28
Fadeaway Tapes co-head and Sundrips member, Ryan Connolly fucks up some solo guitar onto tape in these two side-long drones, his follow-up to last year’s self-release split with Thoughts On Air. Vibrating metallic sound particles collide and ricochet into a net of dusty reverb 28 minutes long. Edition of 100 pro-dubbed tapes with color labels, risographed and photocopied artwork on various...
NK27: Clearing "No Titles" c40
The second album on No Kings of sumptuous electronic suites from Murfreesboro’s Joseph Volmer (Party Trash, Virgin Spirit, Skylines, Police Academy 6) is wrought with slow intensity. These 7 stunning tracks channel classic moments from Baraka-soundtrack-era Dead Can Dance and Philip Glass, with space-high extremes that then plunge into the bleakest depths. At times plaintive, at others...
December 2011
1 post
HIV103: Geoffrey Sexton "Night City Untertow" c37
Now in distro, direct from Geoff, artist copies of this tape from the ever-lovely Hooker Vision… Note: if you are also buying new NK tapes, please purchase Geoff’s in a separate transaction since they are going to different accounts. Thanks!
As a filmmaker and member of Tennessee weirdo collective, Horsehair Everywhere, Geoffrey Sexton has honed his ability to craft stirring...
November 2011
3 posts
NK25: Scissoring "We Hate Everything" c30 - SOLD...
Two crazy dudes, Dan “Cough Cool” Sviseny and William Cody “Pink Priest” Watson, have given up their corporeal bodies and made some kind of Voltron Mutant union that is Scissoring. Each half-mutant man taking a side of this tape, they have gathered the sound dust of civilizations and run them through the shredder a thousand times to make a paste, and they are smearing...
NK24: Coupler "America in the Coming Age of...
This member of Nashville legendary bands Lambchop and Hands Off Cuba presents his first solo effort as Coupler with America in the Coming Age of Electronics, featuring guests like our friends Hobbledeions, Sugar Sk*_*lls, and Corney Tidwell, all excellent studio musicians and artists in their own right. Playing a huge variety of unique equipment (how many tapes do you have that feature...
NK23: Ala Vjiior / Twin Polygamists split c20 -...
Frank Oullette of Hobo Cubes / Cult sends us minimalist love with a new side project Ala Vjiior on side A of this split, and leader of Copenhagen boutique BSBTA, Christian Kann, turns up the cold heat for side B as Twin Polygamists. Double minimalist electronic action! Microsound clouds drifting into deep space. Best listened to in a Cathedral. Two-layer artwork: letterpressed lino-cut designed...
October 2011
1 post
July 2011
4 posts
NK22: Ophibre "Chronic Complications" c40 - SOLD...
Ben Rossignol offers up 40 minutes of raw experiments in synthesis from his frontier workshop in Boston, playing built-from-scratch analog machines of his own design, and other mystery equipment. This dramatic document is rooted in the tradition of noise/music boundary exploration, while its upper limbs claw the modern mist. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed / imprinted tapes with letterpressed artwork. -...
NK20: Aerial Jungle "Tales of Acoustic Levitation"...
This epic follow-up to their Hooker Vision debut deftly captures the ideal essence of contemporary synth / ambient music, and further cements the Midas touch of both Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis Industries) and Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Quiet Evenings, Hooker Vision). The 50 transportive minutes of “…Acoustic Levitation” invoke a supernatural science...
NK19: Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier "Discovering...
This prolific triple-threat talent (artist / writer / musician, obviously) from Belgium has graciously allowed No Kings to handle 42 minutes of her chance operation / intuitive sound collage work, after a myriad of releases on such underground institutions as Digitalis, Stunned, and Kaugummi. “Discovering Mathematics II” is warm, spacious, and immersive, and is treated with the same...
NK21: Ttotals "Live at Grady's" c20 - SOLD OUT
This psych two-piece are mining something raw and hazy from the Nashville undercurrent, skimming off and putting it down thick and black. And after several self-released vinyl EPs and a CD on Kimberly Dawn, they sent us over some appropriately fuzzy live recordings from their last tour out to California, during which they also played a blistering show at No Kings HQ. Four tracks of pure,...
May 2011
2 posts
NK18: Hobbledeions / Sugar Sk*-*lls "Secret Fugue...
Nashville drum hero Scott Martin returns as Hobbledeions, and this time brings his Forrest Bride / Hands Off Cuba bandmate and champion of the underground, Ben Marcantel as Sugar Sk*-*lls, for side B of this split. This rad, rad split. Martin sutures dynamic blast beats to electronic atmospheres, while Marcantel brings razor-sharp saw waves and haunted hip-hop gameboy jams. Terribly enjoyable....
NK17: Haunted Houses "The Heaven of the Soul & the...
The unmistakable ambiance of Ryan Lopilato’s Haunted Houses project is out in full force with this one: distended mystical folk songs, battered tremelo guitar in the back corner of a room, slow-stomp swamp drums, and that signature soulful yelp of Lopilato that is reminiscent of early Isaac Brock. This collection of songs covers some introspective philosophical concepts about the two titular...
April 2011
6 posts
NK16: Andreas Brandal "Realizing the Transparent"...
Norwegian experimental music master craftsman Andreas Brandal adds to his positively epic noise making resume with this album of 9 song-sized pieces. Clusters of electronic tones and rattled strings that are sure to send those Deja Vu pin pricks down your back. You’ve heard this before, in another place… Edition of 40 pro-dubbed tapes, letterpressed artwork! —SOLD OUT—
NK15: Wether "Walking Through Black Prisms" c20 -...
Mike “905 Tapes” Haley offers us this singular noise moment, a hovering reverie on the thought / image of the album’s title. The chirp of cybernetic insects, the evaporation of light, feeling your own footsteps. Edition of 40 pro-dubbed tapes, letterpressed artwork, silver ink on heavy black paper. -SOLD OUT-
NK14: Air Sign "In Search Of..." c52 - SOLD OUT
With the follow up to his recent Stunned release, this VxPxC member, founder of legendary LA venue/oasis Echo Curio, champion of DIY ethos, genuine artist, really nice person, Justin McInteer, continues the Air Sign project improvising a puzzle box of shifting styles, overlapping samples and beats, and spontaneous song-age, while musing on the paranormal themes of the retro TV documentary series...
NK13: Clearing "Keepsake" c38 - SOLD OUT
Murfreesboro resident and prolific mastermind Joseph Volmer (Party Trash, Skylines, etc.) somehow dredges up this album of magical tones from deep spiritual oceans and other parts unknown, and from the first note sends the listener into liminal space. Something heavy and transformative in these sounds, I can hardly believe so much depth can be contained on such a small strip of magnetic tape. A...
NK12: Stephen Molyneux "Cambodian Field...
This time last year Stephen Molyneux (Gigantic Blonde Boy, Horsehair Everywhere, Poet Named Revolver) was living in Thailand. Riding around on motorbikes, running through the jungle, playing noise shows at Bangkok art spaces, going on visa-renewing border-crossing adventures, all while the Red Shirts were stirring up more and more intense political unrest. On one of his excursions through...
February 2011
2 posts
NK10 - Geoffrey Sexton "Suburban Sun Births" c34 -...
This excellent entry into the avant garde guitar canon is this Horsehair Everywhere member’s follow up to his solo debut on Kimberly Dawn last year. Playing a “prepared” telecaster, often with a bow, Sexton lays down sheets of fuzz and static that could be field recordings from a factory, or the hum of airship engines, until he adds characteristic repetitions of buried melodies...
NK09 - Derek Rogers "Informal Meditation" c60 -...
Austin audio landscape artist D. Rogers brings us this hour long presentation of two spectacularly crafted live recordings. Some of the best live drone I’ve heard (apparently some of it recorded on an iPhone if you can believe that), these sound like meticulous multi-tracks to me, if it weren’t for the crowd ambiance I would balk. Effervescent textures, and beautiful heartbreaking...
January 2011
2 posts
NK08 - Rambutan "Outside" c42 - SOLD OUT
Tape Drift head honcho, Century Plants / Burnt Hills member, hardest working man in the drone business, my friend and penpal, Eric Hardiman has completed this brilliant work for No Kings, let us rejoice. Title track on side A, recorded live last February, begins with slow, warped guitar tones and blooms into a symphony of treble over it’s 20 minute run time. Side B is two tracks...
NK07 - Malibu Wands "C H D W" c80 - SOLD OUT
Mr. William Cody Watson has once again graced our label with a release, this time what is really a double album jammed onto one giant cassette. An exercise in form. Four tracks “Cult, Hive, Drug, Worship” each 20 minutes long. This project asks you to dive straight in with no hesitation and get lost, drown in this, go on this long journey and come back transformed if you come back...
October 2010
2 posts
NK06 - Gremlynz "Arkansas Vampire Eater" c30 -...
If you need another reason to buy an album besides it having the best title ever, this is one of William Cody Watson’s (Pink Priest, Virgin Spirit, Wild Safari, ETC) side projects, and it is a devilish, haunting drone-dirge. Clouds of smoke blown from Satan’s mouth moving through southern subterranean caves, a 32 minute zoom-out. These are pro-dubbed foggy tapes, imprinted with the...
NK04 - Hobbledeions "Capisce" c45 - SOLD OUT
Very pleased to present Nashville-staple Scott Martin’s first available solo release as Hobbledeions, beater of drums, collagist of sound. When he’s not playing with Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba, Leslie Keffer, Cortney Tidwell, or Damo Suzuki, Scott sets up his 4-piece kit and looping station and obliterates the room. Guaranteed dance-offs. Maximizing dynamism, while utilizing the...
August 2010
3 posts
NK02: Horsehair Everywhere "Vol. 1" c68 [reissue]...
This improvised 68-minute debut album from Murfreesboro-based society of midnight noise-partiers, Horsehair Everywhere, was released in 2007 in small CDr edition. 11 young artists got together on 3 occasions in the darkness, stacked junk equipment all around tiny Tennessee apartments and spewed deep folk jazz for hours on end. Violin bows destroyed, beer supply exhausted. Prepare for...
NK03: K-Lub "Way Down Low Down" c20 - SOLD OUT
Inhumanly frenetic, brimming with psychotic vigor, this burst of sonic art and debut solo release from drummer savant and country song writer Caleb Steelman (Looks like a Snake!, Poet Named Revolver, Horsehair Everywhere) scrapes the dirt off the basement floor, goes from Chrome garage freak outs to Miles Davis tribal jazz invocations, and squeezes every drop of use out of it’s 20 minute...
NK01: Sparkling Wide Pressure "Some Triggers" c45...
Frank Baugh’s formative debut album from ‘07 is a delicate and beautiful net of textures and moments to sink into, a quilt of meandering melodies, loops and quiet songs buried down in the grass. It’s is an important beginning to SWP’s amazingly prolific discography (22 releases on all your favorite labels, including his own Kimberly Dawn) and it shows him already tapping...
June 2010
1 post
Resurrection
No Kings Record Co. started around 2006 as simply a name to put on some CDRs we burnt ourselves and handed out. Now in 2010 No Kings Record Cadre is starting anew with some current music from our core group of Middle TN natives, and a few reissues of material which we didn’t properly distribute the first time around. Items from Horsehair Everywhere and Sparkling Wide Pressure circa 05-06 are...