REAL WEIRDNESS / SPOKEN WORD etc CD

ABNER JAY - One Man Band CD (Sub SW) NEW 125:-
Did someone say "Outsider Music..."Real People"...well here's the ultimate release for these kinda´ sounds: The ultimate one-man-band wild man from the 1920-1960s Abner Jay was the most unusual music talent the world has ever seen and a true southerner. His original LPs are now sought after and very rare, making this CD reissue very welcome. There is a long line of social and musical experience which constitutes Jay´s tradition: blacks' domestic entertainment inspiring white imitations; in turn stimulating composed, sheet-music idioms for middle-class and professional performance, which then animated younger generations of black musicians. For forty two years Jay worked as a unique one man band where he played electric banjo and swamp guitar, drums, harmonica, and sang at the same time. Abner Jay was the first of the original black musicians and played the only electric six string banjo you'll ever hear. Jay was a native of Fitzgerald, Georgia and was once a traveling performer with the Silas Green Show, one of the last multifaceted road shows on record. Tastes and tolerances of what constitutes acceptable public entertainment are always changing and Jay was part of making idioms which may not in fact have received too much exposure in the daily pressure to captivate audiences by extrovert mannerisms. Singing songs on subjects ranging from LSD to "what's six inches long and has two nuts on the end" you got to hear it to believe it. A true glimpse at some real Americana compiling the best tracks from Abners original LPs. The ultimate in one man bands, outsider artists and swamp blues! NOW ITS BUCK DANCING TIME!

RODD KEITH; Exstacy to Frenzy (Tzadik US re) M-/M- 90:-
Amazing outsider recordings from the early 70s. one of a kind!!!

ATTILIO MINEO - Man In Space With Sounds! CD (Subliminal Sounds SW Re) NEW 125:-
This is the first release in our new reissue series of rare vintage electronica! We start this venture with Bubbelator Music! Visitors ride a spherical, oddly named elevator into a maze of cubes containing pictures of the hope and havoc of space and the atom. "First floor," chants the pilot, "threats and thresholds, frustrations and fulfillment's, challenges and opportunities." The Bubbleator was Washington State's official exhibit in the Coliseum housed a "World of Tomorrow" exhibit. The Bubbleator, a 150-passenger spherical clear plastic elevator moved 2.5 million people through displays that promised an easier life ahead. The operator wore a silver shiny space suit right out of a Buck Rogers comic strip and the music to "Man in Space with Sounds" was being played through the sound system. Totally outer space man, totally. "Visitors ascend to the exhibit in a globe-shaped elevator for a 21-minute tour of the future." Visitor's to the Seattle World's Fair loved the Bubbleator ride, "Attilio Mineo - Man In Space With Sounds" is the record and the electronic outer space exotica music with spoken word introductions that was played in the Bubbleator at the Seattle State World's Fair. It was recorded in 1951 and is one of the rarest and most interesting electronica records in existence.

AKE SANDIN: Forlorad I Toner (Lost In the Tones) (Subliminal Sounds SW) NEW 95:-
Subliminal Sounds has the honor to present a very special release that‚s mainly geared towards a Swedish audience, with most lyrics and all liner notes in Swedish, but might be of interest to serious collectors of “real people/incredibly strange music” Ake Sundin was a unique personality in the Swedish music business of the 1960s. A real „outsider musician‰ who artistically did what ever he wanted to without any cares for critiques or prevalent musical norms. During the last ten years he has become a cult legend among the few Swedish musical journalists and musicians who has been able to find or at least hear his incredibly rare records from the 1960s. In 1965 he started his own record company, jay Records, financed by the meager income from his work at the post office. Jay Records released loads of records between the years 1964-1970, most of them with Ake himself. He paid for costly recordings in top studios with big orchestras and even rented the finest concerts halls for his performances. Practically nobody bought his records or showed up at his concerts and every time he tried do something he only got laughed at. His magnum opus was his LP record released in 1968 which was housed in a „cooking proof‰ cloth sleeve! On the record he criticizes, in his own incomparable way, the Swedish music industry and the pop music of the day. Ake ended his days in this world as a roller skiing cloth salesman and after his death the Swedish government actually had all his belongings, including all his records, destroyed and burnt! Stefan Kéry, weird musical archeologist, has now succeeded in saving and displaying this musical treasure. His record company Subliminal Sounds has even received a grant from the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, the same government body who also sponsored the Parson Sound 2 CD, to release this retrospective CD. The whole Ake Sandin LP and his ultra rare 45s are all included on this definitive release. Due to the popularity of Swedish outsider artists like the Elvis impersonator extraordinaire Eilert Pilarm and books like Irwin Chusids book „Songs In the Key of Z‰ people are becoming more aware and interested in the „outsider music‰ phenomena. It is now time to unleash Sweden‚s most acclaimed artist in the outsider changer. Meet Ake Sandin, the Ed Wood of Swedish 60s music, on the „Lost In Tones‰ CD. Nothing will ever be the same afterwards.

FRED WEINBERG - THE WEINBERG METHOD OF ... (QDK G re) NEW 215:-
NON SYNTHETIC ELECTRONIC ROCK. This is reissue on CD of revolutionary album from the 60's. It was a revolution in sound. To be more precise the W.M.N.S.E.R. as it is known, is a way of taking the sounds of common musical instruments (twang), sounds of every day life (beep-beep), sounds of the human body (hic-cup) and altering them electronically to create a totally new concept in sound.

TOM ZACHARIAS: Belinda (Subliminal Soundsd SW re) NEW 125:-
We've just unleashed the ultimate Swedish early 70s underground psych funk erotica groove record! Yes you've heard about the Swedish sin but here's the ultimate proof. Not only were the hippies practicing free-love but they recorded some dirty music too. In the early 70s legendary outsider artist genius/madman Tom Zacharias, together with the cream of Swedish studio musicians, some beautiful Swedish hippie nymphs and a bunch of drugged out freaks, recorded two ultra rare LPs called "Belinda" and "the Daughters of Belinda". Both of these which are now mega rare collectors items that never turn up, even in Sweden. These two masterpieces, with their XXX-rated lyrics, were recorded with both Swedish and English lyrics but only the Swedish language versions were ever released. Even though adds were put out in both Screw magazine and Mayfair the English language versions were kept in the can. Until now! We present both versions on one CD complete with extended liner notes telling the previously untold story of how this came to be. Great groovy, funky acid erotica with loads of gurgling fuzz/wha-wha guitars, booming bass, wicked drum beats and over the top XXX erotic lyrics!

V/A: Only In America vol 2 (Arf Arf US re) NEW 180:-
Aficionados of Outsider Music be forewarned! After 8 years of research, Arf! Arf! finally unleashed Volume 2 which contains 29 perplexing red, white, & blue tracks (over 79 mnutes) mostly culled from the ’60s and early ’70s. Unlike novelty music, Only in America focuses on material that leaves the listener bewildered and in utter disbelief. Huh? Read all about what’s going on behind the scenes in the informative 24-page booklet with illustrations by Wayno.