Leopard Meat - 2006 - Dah Dah; 2006- Karma Burns EP

Genre: Freak Folk, Indie, Wave
Label: Borrowdeer (US)

If you like Khemo Rabbit

Leopards Meat is similar to Khemo Rabbit, no surprise - it's the same person. Maybe it's more freaky folk, but you will find strange No-Wave influences as well.

Clifton Von Smeltzer was born an early 80’s child, who now lives in Texarkana, Arkansas. Texarkana effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Texas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue. One can only assume this as somewhat of a symbolic significance which correlates with Khemo Rabbit’s brain and his possible double-personality complex. Could one half of his brain be a fan of Nick Cave and the other side a fan of Anthony and The Johnsons? Who knows? Whether that is the case or not, Khemo’s music is way beyond original. Sprinkles of influences you will hear, though, Khemo walks his own road.

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Killer / Killerlady - 1997 - Kulturschutzschuhe, 1998 - Hardcorekiller, 1998 - Ladyshave

Genre: Lo-Fi, Noise, Freak Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Label: Musikzimmer (DE)

If you like Woods... ;-)

Here is a bunch of 7"+10" by the german Killer / Killerlady.

Behind the name is the singer of the german punkband EA80 - one of the most independent, true punk band, since over 25 years. You may call them the german Joy Divison, but it's more like that. Anyway - Killer is another direction and just share the stronge and unique voice of Junge with his band. The records are mostly 4-track recordings with tiny songs with lot of feedback, distortion and home recording experiments, but stop - it's not noise at all. I would say it's kind of Singer-Songwriter/Industrial Noise :).

Some american influences, some electronic and lots of tape hiss and noizzzzzzzeee...

The most outstanding track is New Life Form, which differ from the rest. A spacey trip with mickey mouse on LSD. ;-)

So if you like Woods - check this, it's quiet comparable to them in aestethics and sound!

This is rad and more than 10 years old!

Tracklisting - Hardcorekiller

1. Silence Making Noise
   
2. Crisis What Crisis
   
3. With Patti Smith
   
4. Riot
   
5. Gods Monkey
   
6. Smell & Western
   
7. Pissed Off
   
8. Universe
   
9. In The Mood
   
10. Penis Microphone
    
11. Headpump
    
12. New Life Form
    

Tracklisting - Kulturschutzschuhe

1. Kulturschutzschuhe
   
2. God - Jesus - Crack
   
3. Research S.P.K.
   
4. Noize Jeans
   
5. Fuck III
   
6. Fire the warm gun
   

Tracklisting - Ladyshave

1. Hardline Numbskulls
   
2. Vibes of Screaming fear
   
3. Bullshit Propaganda
   
4. Waste of Breath
   
5. Why do we suffer

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Kallabris - A Smile For Brandon, Tape (1990) + Considération Sur / Sous Le Café, 7" (2001)

Genre: Freak Folk, Home Recording, Ambient, Drone
Label: Jazztone (GER), Genesungswerk (GER)

Similar Artists: Cranioclast

In general, Kallabris is a german post-industrial, ambient, drone project, related to the much more obscure Cranioclast collective. Kallabris released a lot of strange, limited records and here are two, I really love.

A Smile For Brandon is a rare tape I bought in the early nineties and maybe my first contact to that nowadays called Freak Folk genre. In these times it was just a kind of obscure DIY homerecording, released in the tapescene. A bunch of tiny songs with acoustic guitar, voice and some additional noises. Nice and full of tapehiss.

The second one Considération Sur / Sous Le Café  is a conceptual 7" record about coffee, and it comes with a text about that. It's kind of a very strange Coffeehouse music (whatever this means). Sparly Piano tunes, a voice and some shimmering guitar feedbacks laying in the background. Enjoy them!

Tracklisting - A Smile For Brandon

1. Movement III
   
2. Nous Nous Faisons, Bichette?
   
3. Flutes Of Jericho
   
4. The Night Mood
   
5. Nine To Six
   
6. Movement IV
   
7. Something More
   
8. Season Of Fire
   
9. Mme. Edwarda
   
10. Movement V
    
11. Kill Me!
    
12. Autumn
    
13. So What?
    
14. Raindrops
    
15. Salty Water
    
16. My Garden
    
17. Party It Up!
    
18. Too Deep To Be Named
    
19. The 3rd Way
    

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Tracklisting - Considération Sur / Sous Le Café

1. Considération Sur Le Café 
   
2. Considération Sous Le Café 

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Pumice - Yeahnahvienna (2006) + Pebbles (2007)

Genre: Lo-Fi, Freak-Folk
Label: Soft Abuse (US)

Similar Artists:Wavves, Mudboy, Neutral Milk Hotel

New Zealand Lo-Fi Trash. Northland is real rumbling bliss! Some droney harmionias, distorted pop tunes and acoustic folk.

...the eccentric, flummoxing and oft-gloomy one-man band helmed by Stefan Geoffrey Neville, a resident of the cultural hamlet of Auckland, New Zealand.  Though Pumice’s skewed take on experimental folk and pop songwriting is firmly rooted in the outsider vibes of downunder stalwarts like Pip Proud and Alastair Galbraith...

Yeahnahvienna was conceived and recorded during an artist residency in Vienna in 2004. Neville's precariously arranged arsenal of cassettes, chord organ, vocals, drums and guitar has yielded a fragile and fractured masterwork. A stark and melancholic affair, calling to mind Alastair Galbraith, Sun City Girls and Supreme Dicks. Through Neville's layers of hiss and murk lie beautifully stirring & shambolic downer hymns.

Tracklisting - Yeahnahvienna (2006)

1. Abominable 
   
2. King Korny Remains 
   
3. Worsted 
   
4. Wild Dogs 
   
5. Brawl 
   
6. Worsted 
   
7. Tears Tasting Fair 
   
8. Darkpark 
   
9. Worsted 
   
10. Worsted 
    

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Tracklisting - Pebbles (2007)

1. Eyebath 
   
2. Bold/old 
   
3. Brownbrownbrown 
   
4. Stopover 
   
5. Greenock 
   
6. Northland 
   
7. Spike/spear 
   
8. Both Beasts 
   
9. The Only Doosh Worth Giving 
   
10. Onion Union 
    
11. Pipi 
    

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Ribbon Effect - Slip (2000)

A wonderful record for sunday mornings. Some noisy soundscapes, lovely tunes,  improvisations, organs, delayed guitars, happy drumboxing - all the stuff to make you feel good. Best soundtrack to start your day ;-).

Label: Roomtone Records
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock

Tracklisting:

1. Slip 1
   
2. Slip 2
3. Slip 3
   
4. Slip 4
   
5. Slip 5
   

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Some more Info:

Slippery ambient soundscapes, gurgles, and and rhythmic guitar vibrations abound.

Ribbon Effect was formed in 1998 by Bill Talsma, Jacob Ross, and Danielle Malkoff, who met while working at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio. The band produced their first self-titled recording combining the practice of studio manipulation with live performance in June, 1998. 1999 saw this four song EP followed by Danielle contributing the vocals to "Seafrance Cezanne" on Tarwater's Silur album, and the recording of more Ribbon Effect material. Later the same year, the band collaborated with visual artist Joel Ross on Slip, a multimedia show held in Chicago. Slip's presentation combined the trio's live performance with six video monitors projecting moving images that centered on an unidentified urban landscape.

This year, the instrumental tracks originally composed for the series of live performances were enhanced and recorded in the studio for SLIP, Ribbon Effect's debut full-length CD. The band's music is haunting and cinematic, alternately evoking stasis and motion. An interplay of chiming guitars, dub-inflected bass, lingering keyboard melodies and electronics gives way to desolate tones and barren soundscapes, which in turn evolve into pronounced rhythmic patterns. At times, SLIP recalls the exploratory studio excursions of Fridge, Pluramon, Pan American, Augustus Pablo, This Heat, and Rome. At times it does not. Enjoy!