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INSIDE China Forbes (of Pink Martini) • Matana Roberts • Flat Duo Jets • Inside Out in the Open (Feat. William Parker, Marion Brown, Alan Silva + more) New York Art Quartet • Steve Lacy • Look Mexico • Ethiopiques 23 • Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto • Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Sir Richard Bishop • Hooray For Earth • Spires That in the Sunset Rise • Daniel Menche

FLAT DUO JETS TWO HEADED COW

Press Quotes “Nobody plays rock ‘n’ roll with as much raw and naked passion as Chapel Hill, NC’s Dexter Romweber … the godfather of this generation’s roots-rock guitar/drum renaissance.” — Baltimore City Paper “Much has been said about rockabilly roots-rocker Dexter Romweber over the years, both positive and negative, and sorting fact from fiction is no easy undertaking. Words like ‘crazy,’ ‘possessed,’ ‘frenzied,’ and ‘demented’ get thrown around quite a bit. But so do words like ‘authentic,’ ‘visionary,’ ‘genuine,’ and ‘genius’ … What distinguished this band from other retro outfits is that the Flat Duo Jets were not really retro at all. While their music was certainly inspired by the rock-n-roll of the 1950s, one got the feeling that nothing was calculated … This was the genuine article. This music was alive and well.” — Perfect Sound Forever

Flat Duo Jets Two Headed Cow Genre: Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1023 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Dexter Romweber: guitar, vocals Crow: drums

Track Listing • Intro • Hoy Hoy • Rawhide • Everybody’s Movin • Frog Went A Courtin’ • Tidalwave • Never No More • Mr. Guitar • Rock House • Mary Ann • Torquay • Itty Bitty Everything • Golden Strings • Rockin’ Bones • My Life My Love • Mexicali Baby • Rock Boppin’ Baby

Key Markets Hometown: Chapel Hill Also: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

“That’s no greasy middle-aged man, that’s Dexter Romweber, a greasy younger cat from Chapel Hill, North Carolina whose hillbilly guitar and soulful pipes recapture the primitive off-the-cuff brilliance of early rockabilly (as in Jerry Lee Lewis, not the Stray Cats). While other fans of the old stuff simply try to replicate the past, Flat Duo Jets … somehow become the real thing, displaying nary a hint of nostalgia.” — Trouser Press

Selling Points • First album of unreleased Flat Duo Jets music in several years! • Liner notes by Neko Case, JD Wilkes, Tony Gayton, and others. • A companion piece to the acclaimed documentary released last year. • Cross-promotion of album with documentary screenings. • Dexter Romweber tours extensively and is working on an all-star album to be released in 2008. • Press and new media promotion by Press Darling PR. • Ads with various regional publications.

Overview Two Headed Cow is a companion piece to the acclaimed documentary released last year. The album contains live tracks recorded in 1986, before the Flat Duo Jet’s first full-length album was released years later. Two Headed Cow features seventeen scalding tracks as well as liner notes by Neko Case, director Tony Gayton, and others.

“Watching Dexter Romweber play guitar is like witnessing some private ritual: his soul seems to spill out with every ravaged, blistering chord and abruptly delicate arpeggio.” — New York Times

Selling Points • DVD total run time approx 60 min. Region free. • New rare interviews with iconic avant jazz luminaries Marion Brown, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, Joseph Jarman, Baikida Carroll, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, and Susie Ibarra. • Includes rare live performances by Denis Charles, Glenn Spearman, Wilber Morris, Joseph Jarman, Peter Brötzmann, John Tchicai, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Other Dimensions In Music, Baikida Carroll, Reggie Workman, and more. • Selected music from John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, New York Art Quintet, and Free Form Improvisation Ensemble. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview Inside Out in the Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz popularly known as free jazz. Free-form jazz, also known as the “avant-garde jazz,” burst on the scene in the early ’60s, led by Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. It vastly extended the boundaries in rhythm, sound, and harmonics, stressing collective improvisation with an expansive openness and deep personal emotion. The release of Inside comes hot on the heels of the major ten-part jazz series by Ken Burns, which was criticized for giving little attention to jazz after 1960, and for being critical of the genre of “free jazz.” With only a small amount of media available on this development in jazz, Inside Out in the Open is a welcome contribution, giving overdue respect to these musical artists. Director Alan Roth is a former career postal worker, a labor/political activist, and an artist. Inside is his debut feature documentary. His second documentary, now in production, will focus on the New York Art Quartet.

Various Artists Inside Out in the Open: A Documentary by Alan Roth Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ DVD: ESP 4042 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Amaray NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets New York, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “Lindha Kallerdahl has a remarkable span in her singing and it really shows on this tremendous solo album. Several songs are only vocals; sometimes she plays expressive piano and organ … very impressive.” — Göteborgs-Posten

Selling Points • New ESP-Disk’ artist! Previously only available as an import. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Lindha Kallerdahl Gold Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4041 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Lindha Kallerdahl studied jazz at renowned Swedish schools Skurup and Birka from 1993–1996. Situated in Stockholm, she was exposed to free music at a young age, and has participated in collaborations with Mats Gustavsson, David Stackenäs, Raymond Strid, Mattias Windemo, and Fredrik Ljungkvist. In Summer 2000, Kallerdahl made a spectacular project with Jim O’Rourke, Mats Gustavsson, and dancer Lotta Melin. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Jazz in Sweden Prize, which resulted in the critically acclaimed Far From Alone (Caprice Records) and new collaborations with William Parker, Barry Guy, and Palle Danielsson. She has toured with Thomas Lehn and Jaap Blonk, and has played with Ikue Mori, Lise-Lotte Norelius, and Okkuyng Lee. Her first live performance of Gold in Stockholm in 2007 included Okkuyng Lee, Anna Lindahl, and Nina de Heney.

Track Listing Aking • Body & Soul • Gold • Doj • Gold Arrow • Balga • Ori • Jean-Loui • Bless • All Of Me • Beautiful • Love • Hawaii • June • Raw • Alice • Blueeye • Midnight Express

Key Markets San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Press Quotes “The unique front-line horn arrangement of trombonist Roswell Rudd and Danish alto saxophonist John Tchicai weaves rapid intricate lines around Lewis Worell’s bass and the frenzied drums of Milford Graves. Poet Leroi Jones (now Amiri Baraka) is added to the quartet for his revolutionary/militant spoken word diatribe ‘Sweet-Black Dada Nihilismus.’” — All Music Guide

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New York Art Quartet New York Art Quartet Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1004 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Digitally remastered from the original tapes. • Manufactured in the US by the original label. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview Original recording digitally remastered from the original ESP tapes! Features Milford Graves on percussion, Leroi Jones on vocals, Roswell Rudd on trombone, John Tchicai on alto sax, and Lewis Worrell on bass.

Track Listing No. 6 • Rosmosis • Short • Sweet • Black Dada Nihilismus

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “One of the great soprano saxophonists of all time (ranking up there with Sidney Bechet and John Coltrane).” — Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Selling Points • Live performance, Argentina, 1966. • Digitally remastered from the original tapes. • Manufactured in the US by the original label. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview Highly driven live performance from Argentina recorded in 1966, featuring two “minisuites” of separate themes. Features Steve Lacy on soprano sax, Enrico Rava on trumpet, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis T. Moholo on drums.

Track Listing Forest • Zoo

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Steve Lacy The Forest and the Zoo Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1060 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Lively and often humorous compositions.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • Digitally remastered from the original tapes. • Manufactured in the US by the original label. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations. • Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Overview From the original liner notes: “This recording is made of an assembly of estranging electronic sound effects, trite sports commentaries, and the music of a beautifully improvising jazz trio. Bob James has, through this convulsion of out-of-context sound elements and music of a trio, tried to emphasize the strange acoustic complex of modern man in his city, in his world, in his cosmos.” Features Bob James on piano, Barre Philips on bass, and Robert Pozar on percussion.

Track Listing

Bob James Trio Explosions Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1009 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case

Peasant Boy • Untitled Mixes • Explosions • And On • Wolfman NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “Paul Bley may never have been as flashy as Cecil Taylor, but he is every bit the innovator.” — All Music Guide

Paul Bley Trio Closer Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1021 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Subtle and ambient with periods of musical explosion. Features Paul Bley on piano, Barry Altshol on percussion, and Steve Swallow on bass.

Track Listing Ida • Start • Closer • Sideways In Mexico • And Now the Queen • Figfoot • Crossroads • Violin • Cartoon

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Press Quotes “Like with clear spring days, you can’t help but be transported to a happy place with Look Mexico on repeat.” — SPIN.com

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Look Mexico The Crucial Collection Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 57 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Look Mexico

This Is Animal Music CD: LUJ 52 Price Code: I

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• Named one of Alternative Press’ 100 Bands You Need to Know in 2007. • SPIN.com Band of the Day July 19, 2007. • The band toured throughout 2007 with Chase Pagan, Georgie James, One Small Step For Landmines, and Fake Problems. Played CMJ and The Fest (FL) in late 2007. • Heavy tour schedule planned throughout 2008, with stops at SXSW and more. • Look Mexico will record a follow-up with Jay Robbins for release late in the year. • PR by Bear Trap PR. College radio and new media by Tricycle PR. • Ads with Wonka Vision, Vice, Under the Radar, Alarm, and more.

Overview This special disc includes two previously self-released EPs, as well as exclusive b-sides and remixes. A must-have for any fan of the band—both old and new!

Track Listing He Bit Me • I Can’t Today, I’m on Duty • Call Off Your Lapdog • Guys, I Need a Helicopter • Come on, We are Talking About You Here • Whose Ship is This? • Oh, the Things I’m Gonna Do for My Country • Variations on a Theme (Guys, I Need a Helicopter) • Math Is Everywhere • I Meant Pushups • Me and My Dad Built Her (Remix) • You Ever Get Punched in the Face for Talking Too Much? (Remix by History Invades) • You Come into My House, While I Sleep? (Remix by Chris Rucker) • Done and Done (Remix by The Dark Romantics)

Key Markets Hometown: Tallahassee. Also: Tampa, Orlando, Gainesville, Pensacola, Charlotte, Atlanta, New York, San Antonio, Austin, Akron

Press Quotes “ … voice can rip through you, from a whisper to a guttural scream, masked behind a wall of droning guitars and hushed melodies. Think Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine but with a little more underlying anger.” — YourStandardLife.com

Selling Points • The brainchild of Nathan Burke, formerly the bassist/vocalist for historic DC-based band Frodus. This album has been three years in the making! • Features prominent guest vocals by Dustin Kensrue of Thrice, Sean Ingram of Coalesce, and Rachel Burke of Beauty Pill. • Consists of members and former members of Frodus, Thrice, Coalesce, Beauty Pill, Roadside Monument, The Epochs, Haram, Suffering and The Hideous Thieves, Corn on Macabre, 90 Pound Wuss, Blenderhead, The Gena Rowlands Band, Brahm, Night Is Invisible, and In Praise of Folly. • PR by Bear Trap PR. College radio and new media by Tricycle PR. • Ads with Wonka Vision, Vice, Under the Radar, Alarm, and more.

Overview Nathan Burke, formerly of Frodus, maintains his unique post-hardcore ambient stylings, adding collaborations with Sean Ingram (Coalesce), Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), and Rachel Burke (Beauty Pill). Also features contributions from Teppei Teranishi (Thrice) and members of Roadside Monument, The Epochs, Haram, and more.

The Out_Circuit Pierce the Empire with a Sound Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 56 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing

The Out_Circuit

Come Out Shooting • Passchendaele • Across the Light • The Contender • The Hexagon • The Fall of Las Vegas • We • Lost Pilot • New Wine • Scarlet

CD: LUJ 13 Price Code: L

Burn Your Scripts Boys

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Washington DC, Arlington, San Francisco, Los Angles, Kansas City

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

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PRESS QUOTES “One of the rootsiest sets so far in the Ethiopiques series—a batch of tracks that have a much more ethnographic feel than you might guess from the ‘orchestra’ in the group’s name! Although Orchestra Ethiopia flourished during a great modern age of music in their homeland, they were actually dedicated to reviving traditional styles and bringing them to a much larger, younger audience—in modes that are often heavy on percussion, group vocals, and eerie, otherworldly lines on wooden flutes. Although the group recorded a number of albums under the direction of Tesfaye Lemma, the CD features mostly previously unissued recordings by the orchestra—offering up an even rarer slice of their music.” — Dusty Groove

SELLING POINTS • The newest volume of this renowned serie! • Features liner notes in English and French. 23 tracks present over 75 minutes of music.

Overview The story of Orchestra Ethiopia (1963–1975) is unusual and compelling in more ways than one. Just as modern music was reaching the peak of its excellence and popularity, Orchestra Ethiopia’s unlikely undertaking, traditional music acquired a legitimacy that the times had tended to deprive it of. Between the coup d’état (December 1960) and the revolution (1974), Ethiopia was combining both the end of an empire and the “golden age” of its music.

TRACK LISTING Tezeta • Tennesh mèkèdda • Mamitenna Kèbbèdè • Hodé • Kèto ayqèrem Motu • Datchèna koba • Mèdinanna Zèlèsègna • Shègitu • Yèhetsanu lègso • Hèlawsho • Lèqdamé atbiya • Besetchet • Lalé guma • Wolayta Krar • Dèrbabé • Aba Balano Shanka • Sènbèt • Goraw • Shèb robé • Od • Shama kèfèna • Tèraraw • Semesh Man Nèw?

Orchestra Ethiopia Ethiopiques 23 Genre: Alt World Label: Buda Records CD: BUD 860152 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Al`emay`ehu Esheté Ethiopiques 22

CD: BUD 860144 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “You can almost see the duo playing in front of a campfire, feeding the darkness of the forest with piano drops and the tender sound of fingers moving over the fretboard.” — Tokafi

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Balmorhea Rivers Arms Genre: Avant Rock/Instrumental Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 51 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Balmorhea’s music will be featured in a film directed by Kenneth Kokin (The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun), which will show at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and many more. • In 2008 Balmorhea will tour the US in support of Rivers Arms. • Radio promotion through AAM. • Full national press campaign will be handled in-house by the Western Vinyl press team. • Ads with Pitchfork and Signal To Noise.

Overview Mirroring the vast Texas skies, Balmorhea’s music is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. In April 2007, Balmorhea self-released their debut, followed by live dates in Texas and a West Coast tour. Their shows have included dates with The Drift, Bexar Bexar, One AM Radio, Caspian, and more. Balmorhea is currently planning a spring tour and working on a summer tour with their Italian friends Port-Royal.

Track Listing San Solomon • Lament • The Summer • The Winter • Greyish Tapering Ash • Baleen Morning • Barefoot Pilgrims • Context • Process • Divisadero • Limmat • Theme No. 1 • Windansea • San Solomon (reprise)

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Boston, Brooklyn, Seattle, Portland, Houston, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans, Chapel Hill, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Atlanta STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Press Quotes “A full-on neo-stoner masterpiece.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • In February 2004 Jennifer Gentle became the first Italian band to sign with Sub Pop. • The band has many well-known fans, including Oneida, Acid Mothers Temple, Sun City Girls, Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes, and many more. • Kawabata Makoto is the guitar guru/leader of Acid Mothers Temple. • Ads with The Wire, Dream, and Rock’a’rolla.

Jennifer Gentle & Kawabata Makoto The Wrong Cage Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 34 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Jennifer Gentle A New Astronomy CD: SPL 13 Price Code: Q

Overview Finally, the long-awaited re-release of The Wrong Cage, the super-freaky acid rock album that introduced Italian psych-pop mavericks Jennifer Gentle to the world and lead to their subsequent Sub Pop signing. Originally self-released in late 2002 on their own imprint Sillyboy Records, The Wrong Cage saw the young Italian quartet join forces with Kawabata Makoto (legendary Japanese guitar god and leader of Acid Mothers Temple) for a live album that captured the band at its most ferocious. The result was over 30 minutes of wonderful sonic carnage: two long, ultra-heavy guitar freakouts plus an eerily beautiful solo sarangi track played by Makoto. All in all, this is a must for fans of heavy, guitar-driven, psychedelic avant rock. Long out of print, The Wrong Cage is now available again with the addition of a lo-fi, 18-minute version of “Bring Them.”

Key Markets New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland

Track Listing Bring Them • Man from Mu • Couple in bed by a flashing green light • Bring them again

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Press Quotes “As in traditional Japanese music, much is made of the power of silence, the resonance of decaying tones, and the weight of the suspenseful interval.” — Ptolemaic Terrascope

Selling Points • PPOPG is Ramona Ponzini (Praxnoscope) and brothers Roberto & Maurizio Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien). • Features Japanese lyrics. • Sent to All Music Guide as well as US radio stations and magazines. • Ads with The Wire, Dream, and Rock’a’rolla.

Overview The second full-length album from Italy’s Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Fallen Camellias is a tribute to one of Japan’s greatest poets. Yosano Akiko’s work in the early 1900s is considered a manifesto of Japanese Romanticism. Imagine Vashti Bunyan or early Marianne Faithful singing sweet melodies in Japanese, and you have an idea of the musical and poetic universe of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost. Ramona Ponzini’s singing comes from the use of selected original poems in Japanese along with Ponzini’s own soft, enchanting wordless style. The songs are built on acoustic guitar melodies composed by Maurizio Opalio, and are made of the same pure, melancholic essentiality as legendary Nick Drake. After contributing arrangements of a most ecstatic nature, Roberto Opalio played the role of producer, searching not only for an aesthetic but for an emotional ideal of perfection. In the dead of winter, let Fallen Camellias be your warm blanket.

Key Markets New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland

Track Listing Honoo no ko • Kari • Yume no hanashi • Kyoto no mizu • Akatsuki no hoshi

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Painting Petals On Planet Ghost Fallen Camellias Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 35 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Roberto Opalio

The Last Night of the Angel of Glass 2XCD: SPL 11 Price Code: 2G

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Press Quotes “The mix of typical dark electronics and typical (for this band) bagpipe sounds remains characteristic, but the sound has become softer.” — Sideline.com

Selling Points • Highly anticipated third album! • Features Solitary Experiments and Henrik Iversen (ex-NamNamBulu). • Release parties worldwide. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media. • MySpace campaign, with 50,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Heimatærde Leben Geben Leben Nehmen

Overview Heimatærde has risen to become a favorite band for many German music fans, due in part to their genre-crossing sound. The fusion of strong EBM beats with traditional medieval sounds on their previous albums has touched a nerve and is getting a lot of play on internet radio and, of course, dance floors across the US. The band’s new album, Leben Geben Leben Nehmen (“Live Give Live Take”) includes 12 heavy dance tracks in the vein of Combichrist, Suicide Commando, and Feindflug and is highly recommended for fans of harder industrial club music

Track Listing Introductio • Heimataerde • Brueder (Vocem Meam Version) • Volle Deckung • Vater • Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland • Der Eid (Introductio II) • Arca Memoriae • Sie Zerrt An Mir • 10,000 Messerschnitte • Der Verfall • In Alle Ewigkeit

Key Markets Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami

Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 105 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Heimatærde

Kadavergehorsam CD: COP 95 Price Code: M

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press quotes “This is definitely an album that will please fans of Tactical Sekt, Suicide Commando, Grendel, and more. All ingredients—darkness, distorted vocals, harsh repetitive drum sections, and cold bleeps—make this album an efficient terror opus.” — Sideline.com

Selling Points • The Crypt Injection tops the Last FM charts for most popular electro album. • Release parties in every major metropolitan area in the US. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media. • MySpace campaign, with 50,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Dawn of Ashes The Crypt Injection Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 106 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Dawn of Ashes

In the Acts of Violence CD: COP 96 Price Code: M

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Overview Through the bloodshed, electro-horror’s face rises again! Dawn of Ashes is back (after their very successful debut In the Acts of Violence) with a new dimension of terror and hatred. The Crypt Injection is vulgar and brutal, fused with animosity and packed with razorsharp leads, ultra-aggressive beats, heavy bass lines, and acidic vocals. Get ready for 11 tracks of pure electro-evil, plus remixes from Aslan Faction, XP8, and Dioxide as well as a music video for the track “Torture Device.”

Track Listing A Blade in the Dark • Torture Device • Portrait of Homicide • Inhuman Salvation • Psycho Therapy • Still Born Defect • The Crypt Injection • Slasher • Where Angels Die • Blood Shattered Cross • Vengeance (When There Is Nobody To Trust) • Portrait of Homicide (Grendel Mix)

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami STREET DATE FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Press Quotes “If you are a fan of indie pop, you simply have to have this record in your collection.” — All Music Guide

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Bella No One Will Know Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records LP: MRI 108 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Vinyl Sleeve/White Vinyl NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE 2.12.08

• Pressed on white vinyl! • Features guest appearances from Roddy Bottum, Will Schwartz (Imperial Teen), and Jason Martin (Starflyer 59). Produced by Dave Carswell of JC/DC Studios (Tegan & Sara, New Pornographers). • When CD version was released in September 2007, Bella was a featured artist on MySpace. Pirate Promotions serviced US college and non-commercial radio. • Plans to play SXSW 2008.

Overview Bella’s coyly titled Mint debut extends the blissful summer season with dreamy girl-boygirl vocals, synthy hooks, and punchy rhythms. Since forming in 2003, Bella has toured extensively in Canada and up & down the US West Coast. In this time, Bella’s multitalented members have become known for their electrifying live shows, switching up their instruments and treating onlookers to spontaneous dance parties. In more recent news, the band’s early 2007 pre-album version of “Camelot” was featured by Seattle designer Lizzie Parker on her website, and was a key tune for her Spring 2008 collection, launched during Seattle Fashion Week in October 2007!

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Track Listing

Bella

Give It a Night • Stay Here • No One Will Know • Don’t Sleep Alone • Ocean or a Lakeshore • Settle Down • For the Last Time • Go • Unless You’re Golden • Camelot • We Said Goodbye • Didn’t Mean To Break Our Love

No One Will Know CD: MRI 108 Price Code: Q

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Key Markets San Francisco, New York, Portland, Seattle

Press Quotes “Heartbreakingly bittersweet … sumptuous and subtle.” — Mojo [HHHH] “A gorgeous raga-folk mid-point between the Incredible String Band and George Harrison.” — The Times [HHHH]

Selling Points • The band’s first album in five years! • Stephen Duffy is well known for his work with Robbie Williams and Barenaked Ladies.

Overview Mercury-nominated album by a legendary singer-songwriter who has recently co-written Robbie Williams’ new album and has contributed tracks to most of the Barenaked Ladies’ albums. This album represents the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by Stephen Duffy with his brother Nick, and their ranks have increased on this album, which features multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Danny Thompson, folk-jazz luminary and co-founder of Pentangle.

Track Listing Another Time • Driving Somewhere • A Dream of a Girl • Desert Shore • Dark Squadrons • Until I Kissed You • Aldermaston • Pruning the Vine • Happy Go Lucky • Parliament Hill Fields • No Direction • The Kite & The Sky

STREET DATES FEBRUARY 12 & 26, 2008

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Runout Groove Genre: Rock/Folk Label: Fulfill CD: FCD 103 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

FULFILL

STREET DATE 2.26.08

CHINA FORBES

’78

Press Quotes

“Forbes has a fine, velvety voice.” — Stephen Brookes, Washington Post “China Forbes has a clear and precise instrument, the perfect voice to convey cosmopolitan air.” — Nate Chinen, New York Times

Selling Points • Front cover sticker: Long anticipated solo album from the voice of Pink Martini. “China Forbes is captivating.” — The New Yorker • Encompassing elements of folk, rock, and country, tied neatly together by China Forbes’ unaffected voice, ’78 is a surprising, diverse dose of pop perfection poised to reach an entirely new audience. • Full media and radio campaigns to be executed surrounding release. • Produced by Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers, Pete Droge, Dandy Warhols). • Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go’s) co-wrote “When This Is Over.” • Features Eric Matthews (Empyrean Records/Sub Pop) and Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper).

Overview For ten years, China Forbes has toured the world as lead singer of the celebrated “little orchestra” Pink Martini. Invited to join the band by Harvard classmate Thomas M. Lauderdale, Forbes set aside a blossoming career as a singer-songwriter to front the ensemble full-time. Praised as “an unpretentious pitch-perfect chanteuse” by John Pareles of the New York Times, Forbes has grown into an accomplished performer and built a devoted, diverse fan base around the globe. On her long-awaited solo album, Forbes dusts off her guitar and returns to her roots, displaying strikingly personal songs in a style all her own. Filled with intimate stories of love, loneliness, friendship, and alienation, Forbes recorded the album in her hometown with producer/drummer Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers, Dandy Warhols). The stolen sessions allowed Forbes to work discreetly when not on the road with Pink Martini, resulting in a true expression of relaxed creativity. While ’78 is a noted departure from the sounds of Pink Martini, fans will recognize the autobiographical “Hey Eugene,” appearing here as it was originally written. Backed by Gregg Williams and Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), with cameos by Eric Matthews and Phil Baker (Pink Martini), Forbes plays a variety of instruments—including guitar, piano, bass, harmonium, and Wurlitzer— making this record clearly and uniquely hers.

“China Forbes is captivating.” — The New Yorker ALSO AVAILABLE

Pink Martini

CD: HNZ 3 Price Code: S

CD: HNZ 2 Price Code: S

Hey Eugene!

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Pink Martini Sympathique

CD: HNZ 1 Price Code: R

Hang On Little Tomato

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China Forbes ’78

THE VOICE OF MARTINI!

Genre: Pop PINK Label: Heinz Records CD: HNZ 4 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak Trifold File Under: China Forbes Cross-File Under: Pink Martini NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists China Forbes: vocals, guitar, piano, bass, harmonium, Wurlitzer, keyboards Gregg Williams: drums, percussion, programming Eric Earley: guitar, bass, banjo, lap steel, drums, Moog, Wurlitzer, piano, Eric Matthews: flugelhorn, valve trombone Phil Baker: bass

Track Listing • When This Is Over • Lovely Day • Everybody Needs Somebody • One Less Word • Gone • ’78 • Time On My Hands • You Were/I Was • I’m Still Talking To You • Can’t Be Wrong • Hey Eugene • Easter Sunday

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego, Washington DC

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

MATANA ROBERTS

THE CHICAGO PROJECT

Press Quotes “Alto saxophonist and clarinetist Matana Roberts—add this name to the frustratingly short list of excellent female reed players.” — All About Jazz “Roberts is a fluid, elegant player who rejects the star soloist approach of many a saxophonist.” — BBC Jazz

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Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Genre: Jazz Label: Central Control Intl. CD: CCI 6 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: CCI 6 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Vinyl Sleeve

• The first album by Matana Roberts with her Chicago quartet. • Features Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Josh Abrams (Town and Country, Prefuse 73), and Frank Rosaly (Ken Vandermark’s Crisis Ensemble). Fred Anderson appears as a guest player on the “Birdhouse” tracks. • Engineered by John McEntire (Tortoise) and produced by Vijay Iyer. • Full print and internet media campaign in the US by Allegro Media. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Central Control International is pleased to present The Chicago Project by Matana Roberts! Matana (pronounced Mah-tah-Na) is a dynamic saxophonist, composer, and improviser who exposes the mystical roots and spiritual traditions of African American creative expression in her music. A Chicago native, she was fortunate enough to be surrounded by elder musicians who showed her by distinct example the importance of listening to one’s personal creative voice while at the same time using the profound and layered traditions of jazz and improvised music to act as her creative guide, not her creative definer. Their mentorship has inspired her true artistic individuality.

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Featured Artists Matana Roberts: saxophone Jeff Parker: guitar Josh Abrams: bass Frank Rosaly: drums Fred Anderson: saxophone

Track Listing • Exchange • Thrills • Birdhouse 1 • Nomra • Love Call • Birdhouse 2 • South By West • For Razi • Birdhouse 3

Key Markets Hometown: New York, Chicago Also: Boston, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle

The Chicago Project is Roberts’ homage to her hometown, featuring compositions and conceptual material composed by her and interpreted by close friends and supporters: bassist Josh Abrams (Town and Country, Prefuse 73), guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Chicago Underground Trio), and drummer Frank Rosaly (Ken Vandermark’s Crisis Ensemble). The album was produced and engineered respectively by pianist Vijay Iyer and Tortoise’s John McEntire, and features a very special guest saxophonist in the form of Fred Anderson, one of the founding members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). An expert improviser, Roberts’ playing can be heard on recordings as disparate as Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Yanqui UXO, Sabir Mateen’s Shapes Textures and Sounds Ensemble, Daniel Givens’ Day Clear and First Dark, and more—as well as works with Savath and Savalas (a.k.a. Guillermo Scott Herren/Prefuse 73). She has also played alongside such musical and artistic luminaries as Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake, Marty Erhlich, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Grimes, Butch Morris, Reg E. Gaines, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Robert Barry, Joe Maneri, Miya Masaoka, Beans, Steve Lacy, Liberty Ellman, Hill Greene, Vernon Reid, Jayne Cortez, Bill T. Jones, and Savion Glover, among many others. Matana Roberts currently lives and works in New York and is a member of the AACM.

“Ms. Roberts isn’t just mildly curious to expand her medium: she seems driven to do it.” — New York Times 12

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

PREss quotes “Bishop’s playing is astonishing; he makes more clatter and bliss with an acoustic guitar than the [Sun City Girls] did on the originals, plugged in … Bishop’s solo stuff, though, has focused more on craft than on innovation, assimilating styles he’s already gone over in his past, showing his ability to wander through a guitar with confidence and direction even when he’s improvising … doesn’t sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before, it sounds like good things you’ve already heard plenty of times played with an impressive amount of skill.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Official DVD release of Sir Richard Bishop’s cracked film God Damn Religion with a bonus audio CD of the quasi soundtrack Elektronika Demonika, originally issued by Locust as a vinyl-only escapade in 2006. • Deluxe packaging. • Rarely screened film completely remastered by Scott Colbourn. • Film screenings planned. Press through film/music & lifestyle magazines.

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“Far be it from Seattle to take for granted that a true guitar master lives here. Yes, an acoustic virtuoso who is conversant with ragas, flamenco, Appalachian folk, Gypsy swing, and the mystical improvisational techniques of Robbie Basho, Sandy Bull, and the immortal John Fahey. This is a man who, like those great players before him, has trained his instrument to be multilingual, to switch tongues at his command, to do what he tells it to do. His name is Richard Bishop.” — Seattle Weekly

Sir Richard Bishop God Damn Religion Genre: Experimental Label: Locust Music CD+DVD: LST 107 Price Code: 2F (SRP $19.99) Double Slimline NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Official DVD release of Sir Richard Bishop’s cracked film God Damn Religion with a bonus audio CD of the quasi soundtrack Elektronika Demonika, originally issued by Locust as a vinyl-only escapade in 2006. For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mention the pocketbooks) of the ignorant masses. Well, Sir Richard Bishop has decided he would like a piece of the action. This film is a diabolical experiment in hypnotic mind control—a phantasmagoric presentation of demonic and divine imagery, meticulously assembled and designed to put the viewer into an altered state of darkened awareness. Includes original music from Elektronika Demonika, as well as unreleased material.

Featured Artists Sir Richard Bishop: director, producer, soundtrack

Track Listing not available at press time

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Portland

If you ever wanted to go to hell and back, this film will get you halfway there. Some viewers may find the imagery used in this film to be disturbing, but that’s the idea. Contains some strong sexual content (as all true religion should). Not for the weak-minded, faint of heart, or those suffering from occasional seizures. ALSO AVAILABLE

Sir Richard Bishop

CD: LST 61 Price Code: M

CD: LST 90 Price Code: M

Improvika

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While My Guitar Violently Bleeds

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Various Artists Wooden Guitar CD: LST 33 Price Code: M

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

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“An outlandishly good CD and one of the best local debuts in recent memory … Picture Squarepusher and Enya collaborating on songs for In Utero.” — Boston Phoenix “Hooray For Earth plays an exciting blend of raw rock & roll with keyboard and laptop elements that work together and make you say, ‘Fuck this is good.’ And then you like them forever.” — Weekly Dig “Styles collide in a fuzzy mash-up. Like the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Heroux touches on grunge in the ambitious process of achieving pop grandeur.” — Improper Bostonian

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Hooray for Earth Cellphone Genre: Rock Label: Dopamine Records CD: DOP 1018 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Chris Principe: bass Noel Heroux: lead vox, guitar, programming Seth Kasper: drums Gary Benacquista: guitar, synth

Track Listing • Cellphone • Ellie Mae • Warm Out • Izod • Friend • Videostore

• In just one year, Hooray For Earth has christened itself at SXSW, completed a three-week East Coast tour, played with underground legends Mission Of Burma, and rocked crowds of more than 6,000. • Features guest vocals from Jessica Zambri (Zambri) and guest noise blankets from Kidwolfman. • Upcoming feature in SPIN magazine. • HFE graced the 2006 Year End Lists of Boston Phoenix (Boston’s Ten Best), Boston Metro (Best Boston Picks For 2006), and the 2006 Noise Poll (Best Song, Best Drummer, Best Keyboardist). The band came in second in the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Local Album poll, placing ahead of Mission of Burma, Bon Savants, Piebald, and Campaign for Real Time. • US tour planned for Spring 2008. • Press service to 150+ publications will be handled externally. • College radio campaign by Planetary Group.

Overview Hailing from Boston, Hooray For Earth is a band that plays giant dinosaur rock with huge-ass guitars and synths … sort of like Nirvana, Squarepusher, and Enya breaking things at a video arcade in hell. Cellphone is the group’s highly anticipated debut EP for Dopamine Records. HFE has already landed itself on many critics’ year-end Top 10 lists, including those of the Boston Phoenix and The Noise, and boasts regular airplay on both commercial and college radio.

Key Markets Hometown: Boston Also: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Washington DC, Providence, Philadelphia

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Caspian

CD: DOP 1017 Price Code: O

CD: DOP 1016 Price Code: G

The Four Trees

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You are the Conductor

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Press Quotes “Spires emit such inspired gusts of collective fire that they resemble a witches’ coven almost as much as a band, their shadow-draped music seeming to issue forth organically from the soil like a sulfurous hot spring … [they] invoke the unbounded, ageless music one might expect to hear emanating from the deepest forest, as mysterious black-cloaked figures dance around the fire ring.” — Pitchfork “[Spires] navigate an empathic terrain that veers between acid-damaged Comus-inspired witchery and more mild-mannered areas that resemble Bridget St. John suffering from ergotism, or The Raincoats as a coven.” — Dream “Imagine if the Sun City Girls were played by real girls.” — Jack Rose

Selling Points • Front cover sticker: Fourth full-length of bewitching juju from the preeminent ladies of psychedelic mysticism, recorded with members of Espers. “Intoxicating and intense!” — The Wire. • Both the CD and LP feature original art by UK artist Trevor Simmons, and both formats are hand-silk-screened by Neil Burke (Men’s Recovery Project, Born Against). • Fuck “freak folk”—this is true primordial power! • Insane live performances consistently slay and terrify audiences. • Recorded at Hexam Head (Espers, Marissa Nadler, Will Oldham). • Continued European/US touring, booked via Front Porch Productions, including many festival appearances. • Full press/radio service with SEB.

Overview Spires That in the Sunset Rise is an all-female otherworldly band from Chicago whose musical palette includes the spike fiddle, cello, bul bul tarang, various drums and bells, ecstatic yelps and cackles, and all manner of plectra. Their eclectic outsider sound has drawn repeated comparisons to Comus, Current 93, The Ex, and The Raincoats. They have toured Europe and the US many times, performing alongside such artists as Josephine Foster, Espers, MV/EE, Kawabata Makoto, Incredible String Band, Fursaxa, Black Forest/Black Sea, Bert Jansch, Larkin Grimm, No Neck Blues Band, Jandek, Avarus, Neptune, Charalambides, and many more.

Spires That in the Sunset Rise Curse the Traced Bird Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: Secret Eye CD: EYE 38 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: EYE 38 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Vinyl Sleeve NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Kathleen Baird: vocals, guitar Georgia Vallas: vocals, mbira, bul bul tarang Taralie Peterson: vocals, cello, guitar

Track Listing • Black Earth • Java Pop • Party Favors • Equus Haar • Underscore • Red Fall • Pouring Mind

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Spires That in the Sunset Rise Spires That in the Sunset Rise This Is Fire

CD: EYE 28 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Four Winds the Walker CD: EYE 17 Price Code: M

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Kathleen Baird

Traveling Bell

CD: EYE 23 Price Code: M

CD: EYE 15 Price Code: M

Lullaby For Strangers

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Hometown: Chicago, Madison. Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin

Scatter Ways

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Press Quotes “Guitar, cello, electronics, and various small rackety sounds collect themselves into a haze of infinite possibilities. At certain points there’s a sparseness to their approach recalling Charalambides’ quiet explosions; at others there’s a weird and wooly organic depth closer to some of the contemporary giants of the Finnish underground. Either way, it’s a stunner.” — Byron Coley, Harp

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Black Forest/Black Sea Portmanteau Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: Secret Eye LP: EYE 37 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Vinyl Sleeve NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Black Forest/Black Sea Forcefields and Constellations CD: BLE 76 Price Code: M

• 10” vinyl-only release limited to 500 copies worldwide. • Silkscreened metallic silver covers by Mike Taylor (Lungfish, Avarus, Dan Higgs). • 21 minutes of music—all exclusive material. • Press service with SEB.

Overview Black Forest/Black Sea plays free-form music that draws from folk traditions. Since 2003, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik, and Portland to Portland, performing more than 200 concerts in 18 different countries. For this new 10”, the duo is joined by guests Margot Goldberg and Joe Grimm (a.k.a. The Wind Up Bird). This quartet version of BF/BS is the very same lineup that performed at Terrastock 6.

Track Listing Gemittarius • Aquemini

Key Markets Hometown: Providence. Also: New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle

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Selling Points • Digipak with 16-panel insert. • Press, college/high school/specialty radio, and e-media publicity through Yarrr! PR. • 300+ copies will be sent out with a focus on the Great Lakes and East Coast. • Promotion to mp3 blogs and digital outlets through IODA Promonet Pro. • Ads with Nuvo Newsweekly and The Onion.

Overview Everthus the Deadbeats follow up their critically acclaimed EP with their first fulllength album. John Kill & The Microscopic Lullaby features lush, ornate orchestration coupled with impertinent lyrics and a robust emphasis on the album’s concept. After the release of their debut EP, Addicts Stuck In Traffic, Everthus the Deadbeats spent the last year heavily touring and promoting the release, and have built an impressive fan base. The band plans to build upon this base with constant touring throughout 2008 and a strong focus on tour, radio, and retail promotion.

Track Listing not available at press time

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis. Also: Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Evansville, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Nashville, Louisville, Lexington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver

Everthus the Deadbeats John Kill & The Microscopic Lullaby Genre: Alt Rock Label: Standard Recording Co. CD: STD 1041 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Everthus the Deadbeats Addicts Stuck In Traffic CD: STD 1032 Price Code: N

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Press Quotes “If Sufjan Stevens were to abandon the high concepts and embrace his pop sensibility, the result might not be too far from Josh Ottum’s debut.” — Uncut

Selling Points • National tour planned for 2008. • Recent month-long residency at Tangiers in Los Angeles. • Publicity by The Musebox.

Overview Like labelmate and current buzz boy Luke Temple, Josh Ottum has spent much of his life honing his mind-blowing songwriting craft in a tiny bedroom. Bolstered by semi-hollowbody guitars, old keyboards, dry drums, and a hundred multi-tracked voices, Ottum’s exquisite pop songs shine like polished furniture through a window on a crisp fall morning. A veteran team of players joins him, including Sufjan Stevens multi-instrumentalists James McAlister and Casey Foubert. A horde of five drummers builds a powerful rhythm section, and a complete horn section adds raw, stirring soul. Listeners will recognize the influence of The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, and Phoenix, but don’t think for a second that this is a record of cheap rip-offs and retro throwbacks.

Josh Ottum Like the Season Genre: Pop/Rock Label: Mill Pond CD: MLL 9 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing It’s Alright • The Easy Way Out • Who Left The Lights On • Freedom Is As Thick As a Heart • Pipe Dreams • If This Mirror Could Only Talk • Break My Bones • Like Ourselves • Having You Around • My Book • Follow Me • Heaven the Great Cocoon • Do You Really Wanna Know?

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Brooklyn, Portland, Austin, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco

Press Quotes “If you’re a fan of almost anything Sarah Records put out, especially bands like Blueboy and Brighter, then you’ll probably love this.” — Skatterbrain

Selling Points • New Swedish buzz band with a hot retro/dance sound. • Radio promotion by Vitriol Promotion. • Full in-house mailing and follow up. New media promotion handled in-house. • Ads with Magnet, Pitchfork, and various blogs.

The Bridal Shop From Seas Genre: Alt Rock/Indie Pop Label: Magic Marker CD: MMK 45 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The Bridal Shop is a new young band emerging from the fertile land of Sweden, and From Seas is the result of a year spent painstakingly crafting perfect pop songs. Inspired by New Order and shoegaze bands like Field Mice and The Radio Dept, From Seas features prerecorded drum beats and delicate female vocals that date the band, whose true loves are bands from the 1980s. These seven songs are solid all the way through, and are sure to break hearts!

Track Listing Toomas Floor • From Seas • Early Longing • Lend Me Your Heart • Spectrum of Clarity • Beyond Our Grasp • Whale in Da Pain

Key Markets New York, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Press Quotes “The Beequeen sound is generally a lush, subtly melodic drone with subdued electronic crackle, a nice in-between point between de Waard’s abstractions and Kinkelaar’s low-key pop sense.” — Brainwashed

Selling Points • Beequeen consists of former Staalplaat associate Frans de Waard (a.k.a. Kapotte Muziek, Goem, Shifts and Freiband) and Freek Kinkelaar (a.k.a. Brunnen and The Beautiful Glass Bottom Boat). • Numerous Beequeen records have become highly collectible artifacts over the years. • Press and radio mailing by Important Records. Ads with Brainwashed and The Wire.

Beequeen Sandancing Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 177 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Cardboard Jacket NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Beequeen

The Bodyshop CD: IPT 44 Price Code: P

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Overview After a couple of years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song-based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). These are well-rounded pop songs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element (without leaping into the dark alley of pointless experiment). Orchestral in “The Illogical Song,” collage-esque in “The Edie Three Step,” or a rhythm machine in “The Honeythief,” Beequeen does it all with great care and ease. This album features the help of Barry Gray, former (and first) guitarist of The Legendary Pink Dots, and would not have been the album it is without the invaluable production skills of Erik Drost.

Track Listing A While a Way • Breathe • Melt • The Edie Three Step • The Honey thief • Tomorrow • The Maypole Song • Sandancing • There, It Has Been Said • The Illogical Song

Key Markets Boston, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles

Press Quotes “As glacial as a cloud swallowing the noonday sun.” — Ptolemaic Terrascope

Selling Points • This double disc set is priced like a single disc, contains lush live recordings that were source material for the remix disc. Includes remixes from Astral Social Club, Robert Horton, Gregg Kowalsky, and Keith Berry. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. Ads with Brainwashed and The Wire.

Overview Basilica is Rameses III’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed releases Honey Rose (Important Records), Matanuska (Music Fellowship), and Night of the Ankou (Type). It is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky, and Astral Social Club. Minimalist sound sculptor Keith Berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of “Basilica” and gave the album an early focus while also providing inspiration for the glacial artwork. Gregg Kowalsky played the “Rose Blood” remix as part of his own performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San Francisco. Subtle textures were pushed way into the red when noise veteran Neil Campbell sandblasted the original tracks into the howling mirror of Astral Social Club, and Robert Horton was kind enough to allow Rameses III to remix his remix, leading to the gentle trumpet curlicues and electronic birdsong entwining the original drone of “After the Red Rose.”

Genre: Instrumental Label: Important Records 2XCD: IPT 178 Price Code: 2E (SRP $15.98) Cardboard Jacket TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing

Rameses III

DISC ONE: After the Red Rose • Basilica • Rose Blood • Tigers in the Snake Pit DISC TWO: Origins 1 • Origins 2 • Origins 3 • Origins 4 • Origins 5

CDEP: IPT 126 Price Code: J

Key Markets San Francisco, New York, Boston 18

Rameses III Basilica

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Honey Rose EP

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Press quotes “Menche’s music is built around drones that stand tall and stretch deep and wide.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Daniel Menche’s final CD release. • Menche is a highly accomplished and recognized sound sculptor who has appeared on labels such as Soleilmoon, Substractif, Relapse, Touch, Ant-Zen, and many more. • Has performed alongside Autechre, Sunn O))) , Thrones, Merzbow, Richard Divine, and more. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with Brainwashed and The Wire.

Overview Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche’s vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last CD he will release. From now on he’ll be releasing his music on LP only, or on DVD to accompany films he has worked on. Recorded in Winter 2005, Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not as extreme as Menche’s previous work, a more subtle presence can be heard here. Subsonic bass drums crawl underneath massive sheets of glass-like sound, layering infinitely into a thick, dense forest of delicate noise. For fans of both Daniel Menche’s ambient work and his louder violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of these two polarities.

Track List

Daniel Menche Glass Forest Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 176 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Daniel Menche Sirocco

Glass Forest One • Glass Forest Two • Glass Forest Three

CD: IPT 46 Price Code: O

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Austin

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Selling Points • LP-only release limited to 500 copies. • Daniel Menche is a highly accomplished and recognized sound sculptor who has appeared on labels such as Soleilmoon, Substractif, Relapse, Touch, Ant-Zen, and many more. • Has performed alongside Autechre, Sunn O))) , Thrones, Merzbow, Richard Divine, and more. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with Brainwashed and The Wire.

Daniel Menche Body Melt Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 175 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Vinyl Sleeve NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Body Melt is limited to 500 copies on LP only. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released simultaneously on Important. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by Emily. Recorded in Summer 2007, Body Melt is a molten, simmering display of furious Hammond organs and Native American drums. Daniel Menche manages to merge together powerfully fuzzed-out organ drones and hypnotically crushing, frenzied drums in a graceful style that is entirely his own—call it trance music for carnivores, or ambient music for cannibals.

Track Listing Body Melt 1 • Body Melt 2

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Daniel Menche Jugularis

CD: IPT 103 Price Code: P

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Austin

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 26, 2008

press quotes “Excellently produced and pressed, this is well, exactly what the title says it is. Maybe from Oakland, could be from Guam, who knows? This is one of those rare beauties that ends up in the bag after a red wine social.” — XLR8R

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JRK & Jessica Cooke JRK & Jessica Cooke Genre: Rock/Hip-Hop Label: Wide Hive Records CD: WID 286 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case

• Follow-up to internationally recognized debut for Wide Hive Records. • JRK’s debut album charted in CMJ’s Top 10. • Radio promotion through SPECTRE Entertainment. • Press, print, and e-media support through Giant Step. • Additional in-house promotions through Wide Hive. • Ads with Wax Poetics and URB.

Overview JRK returns with his second album on Wide Hive Records, featuring eight cuts with female vocalist Jessica Cooke. JRK’s production and Jessica Cooke’s singing combine hip-hop and rock in an strikingly strong blend, landing sonically somewhere between Portishead and DJ Premier.

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Track Listing

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Alarmed • Illuminating • The Wheel • Confliction • No More Excuses • Mother • Lucid • A Letter To Myself • Filed Fragments • Dusty Grimes • In Other Words • Pass Me the Elmers • Vicious Hips

JRK JRK

CD: WID 282 Price Code: M

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco. Also: Sacramento, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York

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Selling Points • Contains several hot single-worthy songs, easily marketable in the new single-oriented environment. • Four19 consistently delivers a very strong live performance. • Features members of Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra, Spearhead, Trulio Disgracias, and Indofrumbah. • Aiming for dedicated publicist and indie radio promo company.

Overview On Four19’s Malice In Wonderland EP Vol. 1, the band delivers a stellar collection melding gritty postmodern rock riffs, kick-ass beats, and catchy lyrics. Gifted musician/songwriter James Gray, who founded Four19 with charmingly brash frontgrrl Juliana Jai, leads the SoCal-based foursome that also includes Thomas Tritt and Dollar Bill Mentlow. Consistently winning new fans with their house-rocking, critically acclaimed live shows, Four19 brings an organic rock sound whose touches of hip-hop and melodic reggae/ pop/soul connect with great appeal. You hear the Malice EP explode—killer cuts like the hip-hop-infused “Legend of the B-Boy,” undeniable hit songs like “Star,” “Malice,” and “Skinnydip”—and you know this standout band is a huge success-in-the-making. Fans of rock/pop and organic hip-hop-flavored acts like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gym Class Heroes, Outkast, Linkin Park, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Incubus, The Roots, or Black Eyed Peas will especially love Four19. A clear winner!

Track Listing Batter Up • Skinnydip • Star • Cherry Pie • Legend of the B-Boy • Malice In Wonderland • plus bonus joints

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, New York 20

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Four19 Malice In Wonderland EP Vol. 1 Genre: Rock/Funk Label: Nuttsactor 5 CDEP: NSF 8 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Get nailed... on the road China Forbes ’78

Dengue Fever Venus On Earth

The Box Social Get Going

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3/12/08 (with Angelique Kidjo) Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Live

1/8/08 Pensacola, FL – Sluggo’s 1/9/08 Miami, FL – Churchill’s 1/10/08 Tampa, FL – Pegasus Lounge 1/17/08 Nashville, TN – The End 1/18/08 Dayton, OH – Nite Owl

* dates with Pink Martini 2/28–29/08 Washington DC – Kennedy Center 3/2/08 Erie, PA – Mary D’Angelo PAC 3/3/08 Princeton, NJ – McCarter Theatre Center 3/4/08 Philadelphia, PA – Kimmel Center for the Arts 3/6/08 Brookville, NY – Tilles PAC 3/7/08 Portland, ME – Merrill Auditorium 3/9/08 New York, NY – Avery Fisher Hall 3/12/08 Buffalo, NY – SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts 3/16/08 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre 3/18/08 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre 5/5/08 Thousand Oaks, CA – Civic Arts Plaza

Health Health CD: LPU 14 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 880270202027 1/15/08 Los Angeles, CA – El Ray 1/17/08 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall 1/18/08 Oakland, CA – 21 Grand 1/19/08 Davis, CA – Delta of Venus 1/20/08 Reno, NV – The Studio on 4th 1/22/08 Olympia, WA – Voyeur 1/26/08 Eureka, CA – The Vista 1/27/08 Santa Cruz, CA – Blue Lagoon 1/28/08 San Luis Obispo, CA – Tridosha Healing Center 1/30/08 Goleta, CA – Biko Co-op Garage Performance Space 2/1/08 Los Angeles, CA – El Ray 2/2/08 Bakersfield, CA – Narduccis Café

The Pretty Things Balboa Island CD: ZMR 200708 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 880956070827 3/15/08 Austin, TX – SXSW 3/18/08 San Diego, CA – Belly Up 3/20/08 Hollywood, CA – Knitting Factory 3/23/08 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall 3/24/08 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 3/25/08 Seattle, WA – El Corazon 3/29/08 Colorado Springs, CO – Silver Moon 4/2/08 Chicago, IL – The Abbey 4/3/08 Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall 4/4/08 Detroit, MI – Magic Bag 4/5/08 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom 4/8/08 Cambridge, MA – Middle East 4/9/08 New York, NY – Blender Theater @ Gramercy 4/10/08 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw 4/11/08 Washington, DC – Black Cat

Child Bite Gold Thriller CD: JNR 18 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) UPC: 656605812021 1/10/08 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig 1/17/08 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig 1/18/08 Chicago, IL – Fuck Mountain

Vijay Iyer Blood Sutra CD: PIE 901 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 808713090123 3/8/08 Milwaukee, WI – Alverno College 3/16/08 Buffalo, NY – Albright Knox Art Gallery 4/23/08 Cleveland, OH – Tri-C Jazz Festival 4/24/08 Albuquerque, NM – Outpost Performance Space 4/26/08 Houston, TX – Da Camera

Secret Shine After Years CD: CLE 30 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 808804003025 3/19/08 Indianapolis, IN – Melody Inn 3/22/08 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews

Steve Lehman Quintet On Meaning CD: PIE 25 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 808713002522 1/11/08 New York, NY – The Jazz Gallery 1/12/08 Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Arts Alliance 3/20/08 Chicago, IL – Elastic Arts Series

1/19/08 Minneapolis, MN – The Turf Club 1/24/08 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig

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