Has A Shadow

Seattle garage rock savants Dreamsalon release their debut album “Thirteen Nights” on November 12th on Captcha Records.

The provenance of the Seattle-based band Dreamsalon is absolutely staggering. The group consists of members Min Yee, Craig Chambers and Matthew Ford. Individually they have played in the critically acclaimed bands Aframes, Factums, Love Tan, Yves/Son/Ace, The Intelligence, Evening Meetings and the Unnatural Helpers. Based solely on their previously recorded outputs, their new joint effort “Thirteen Nights” should automatically be in your tote bag as you leave the record store. It is gonna be etched on your brain by the end of the first spin.

However, this record isn’t just about the bands you know and love. This supergroup lays down a highly addictive spaced-out rock vibe that is beautifully constructed, crafting a distinct voice that distinguishes Dreamsalon from the individual members’ prior productions.

“Thirteen Nights” will be available as an LP, a cassette, a digital download, and in a very special gold vinyl limited edition available exclusively through Captcha mailorder. The album was recorded at the Pool in Portland by Alex Yusimov, mixed by Matt Stegner at Adobe and mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering. The band will be embarking on a short west coast tour prior to the album’s official release.

The Dreamsalon sound was influenced by: Yura Yura Teukoku, Gun Club, The Fall, Alan Vega, and Pere Ubu. We would recommend this album if you like Thee Oh Sees, Love Tan, Spray Paint, The Intelligence, Evening Meetings, Unnatural Helpers or anything from the Captcha Records catalog.

You know damn well that this album will be great. Haste makes waste.

credits

released 12 November 2013
Matthew Ford - drums, vocals
Craig Chambers - guitar, vocals
Min Yee - bass 

Craig Chambers of Dreamsalon

Another new video for Dahga Bloom!  LP coming soon on Captcha.  

It is HOT HOT HOT out.  So sink your feet in some cool water, blaze some hash and enjoy this vid.  

Camel Heads come straight outta Sao Paulo, Brazil, bringing their mind-bent  experimental psych sounds to these shores for the first time ever with new release Anoluz.  

Influenced by "Dead Man" and North African desert blues, these long-form kraut jams will leave your brains baking on a rock in the Global South, drenched in cosmic sweat.  Like waves crashing into the 

shoreline, the ebb and flow of Anoluz will free your mind, bury your toes in pink sand, and orient your lawn chair towards the sunset.  

Fans of early Pink Floyd, Sun Araw, desert blues and krautrock rejoice: Captcha Records is pleased to dose you up with the Camel Heads’ Anoluz.

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"8/21/13: I remember a few years back Dahga Bloom played this pool hall in Cathedral City, CA just outside of Palm Springs. The venue was called Crazy 8’s and was at the time wall to wall with meth’d out gangsters and near 30 stray kids there for the show. Dahga sounded like some of those Constellation bands like Hangedup, but were way heavier. Something like you’d hear on those old Hawkwind records, dusted with a desert of that Motörhead speed. What really sticks in my mind was when Dahga were playing their set, some of those bad dudes were playing a game of pool. Suddenly I see some kind of fight happening, when this colorful bloke picked up a pool stick and smashed it on some poor bastard’s face. I could feel the wood breaking in my bones over the super loud music. People weren’t sure what was happening at the time. Perhaps we weren’t sure what drugs we all were on. The band just looked at each other and kept on playing..... The set burned on for what seemed like hours. For sure this is not some shit you’re gonna see at some hip Los Angeles festival. This is the real heavy shit. This is Dahga Bloom."

Captcha Records is pleased to be working with Dagha Bloom. Download the new single, “Space is the Place” for FREE. Or pay something if you like.

BEHOLD! The new music video for Lorelle Meets the Obsolete's "What's Holding You?".

Done up proper by Hologram Skies.  Looks good to us!

We here at Captcha Records are BEYOND STOKED to be working with Italian graffiti artist AweR! 

Not telling you for which record yet! 

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Mexican psych duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete release a new single, ‘What’s Holding You?' (from their third album 'Chambers') on September 23. Released via Captcha (Sonic Cathedral UK/EU), it will be available on a limited-edition blue vinyl 7” and as a digital download and comes backed with ‘Medicine To Cure Medicine Sickness’, their incredible contribution to Sonic Cathedral’s long since sold-out ‘Psych For Sore Eyes’ EP. Following a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo, which included selling their own treasured personal copies of‘Psych For Sore Eyes’ for $100 each, the duo (who play live as a four-piece) will be embarking on their first ever European tour in September and October, taking in dates at the Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedeliaon September 27, the Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands on September 22 and two London shows – a co-headline show with Yeti Lane at the Shacklewell Arms (September 25) and a support slot with Psychic Ills and White Manna at Corsica Studios (September 26). The relentless arid acid rock of ‘What’s HoldingYou?’ is inspired by watching people on the Mexico City subway “try to convince themselves and others that they are not alienated”. It is taken from the band’s third album, ‘Chambers’, which is due out early in 2014 and was recorded by Cooper Crain of Chicago drone-rockers Cave and mastered by the legendary Sonic Boom. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete are Lorelle (real name Lorena Quintanilla) and The Obsolete (real name Alberto González). They are originally from Guadalajara but, after a stint in Mexico City, are now based in Ensenada, Baja California. After playing together in a few bands they began recording their psych-infused garage rock as a duo and also settled on their unusual moniker, which was half inspired by the recurring fictional film in Seinfeld called Rochelle, Rochelle and half by an episode of The Twilight Zone called The Obsolete Man. They hooked up with Captcha and released their first album ‘On Welfare’ in 2011. The follow-up, ‘Corruptible Faces’, was released earlier this year, but these new recordings mark the first time the band has recorded away from home. They put their prolificness down to music being their first language. “In the last few years we’ve had a lot of things to say,” explains Lorena, “and for the time being we feel more comfortable expressing ourselves by making music rather than talking or using any other way of communication.” Recorded by: Cooper Crain, Mikale de Graff, Alex Narinskiy Mastered by: Sonic Boom Tour dates: September 22 - Incubate Festival, Tilburg September 25 - Shacklewell Arms, London September 26 - Corsica Studios, London September 27 - Psych Fest, Liverpool September 29 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds September 30 - Soup Kitchen, Manchester October 4 - Druckluft, Oberhausen October 5 - About Blank, Berlin October 6 - Loppen, Copenhagen October 7 - Molotow Bar, Hamburg October 8 - Glocksee, Hannover October 11 - Kiff, Aarau For press information, contact Benjamin Funke on - pr.captcha@gmail.com.

We've got some really exciting releases coming up including this masterwork by Dreamsalon. You might have heard of their previous bands: Evening Meetings, A-Frames, The Lights, Factums, Love Tan, Intelligence and Yves/Son/Ace. This one is KILLER.

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LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE

Currently LMTO is finishing up their first ever tour of the ol' U.S. of A.  Thanks to everyone that has supported them along the way.  The road, she is a hard one.  They made a stop in to the legendary WFMU campus last week and recorded a brilliant set.  You can stream the entire performance and interview here.  The band spent the last few days here in Chicago at the Captcha HQ, culminating at the Burlington Bar last night.  We had a fantastic time.  Keep your ears to the ground for some exciting news coming up in the next few months.  

Much love to you Lorena, Alberto, Richie and Greg.  

LMTO @ WFMU

tight bros

psych for sore eyes

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In a celebration of Lorelle meets The Obsolete Summer Tour, we have a very small amount of their tremendous Tour EP in stock in the store. Has two tracks from their upcoming album "____________".

-six track tour ep-

If you can't make the show, you should grab one here. 

CAPTCHA RECORDS : THE FIRST FOUR YEARS

Showcasing the visual side of Captcha Records first four years. 

With artworks by:

Robert Beatty

Ben Driggs

Matthew Ford

William Keihn

Steve Krakow

Jenny Hines

Brigid Dawson

John Dwyer

Chris Kalis

Guillarme Marietta

Jesse Paul Miller

Nicole Ginelli 

Michael Heck

Micah Warren

ISIS GALLERY @ The University of Notre Dame

JUNE 3 - JULY 5

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Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

Just announced!  Well it looks like it is all going down in Liverpool, again.  Join the good times ahead this September with mind-melting psychedelia at its best.  We are thrilled by the entire lineup, but most certainly Lorelle Meets the Obsolete and White Manna.  Tickets are available now!

Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

27^th and 28^th September 2013

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AQ - Record of the Week - Lorelle Meets the Obsolete

We already loved this Mexican duo based entirely on the name, even more so when we discovered that it wasn't just a band name. Lorelle sings, plays guitar, bass and organ. The Obsolete plays drums, percussion, bass, Casiotone, organ, synth, piano guitar and also sings. Not sure if they're a proper couple, but they should be, so we're just gonna assume they are. And they do in fact make beautiful music together. A sort of psychedelic krautrock, noise pop, garage rock. In a way, they remind us of another recent fave Liminanas, but where that band channeled French pop, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete seem to be drawing their influence from something much more noisy and raw, psychedelic and dark. Sure it's jangly and poppy in places, but they lock into seriously hypnotic grooves, fans of outfits like the Moon Duo will be utterly enthralled for sure. They also have a bit of swaggery twang, reminding us at times of Crystal Stilts, and at others a little bit of Stereolab, albeit a much rougher low fidelity version.

    

The sound here is lush and warm, woozy and hypnotic, druggy and dreamy, tracks like "The December Riots" sound like the Dum Dum Girls slowed down to a gloriously murky crawl, slo-mo girl group bliss out, while tracks like "Art For Free", add some new wave to the group's garage pop crunch. All the songs here though at their core are jangly and catchy, Lorelle and her partner delivering them in varying states of decay, and varying states of tranced out drugginess. At their poppiest, this is the sort of thing fans of Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees and Mikal Cronin will flip over, and at their droniest and druggiest, it's a sort of lysergic dirge that should appeal equally to fans of old school drug drift mesmer a la Spacemen 3, and more modern psychedelic noise purveyors like Carlton Melton. Although really, this is just some noisy krauty fuzzy pop, and we LOVE it. A new favorite for sure! - Aquarius Records - May 9th, 2013    http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

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BAND OF THE WEEK : MOONRISES : (REVOLT OF THE APES)

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete (Soundcheck for The Cure concert in Mexico City)

THEE OH SEES - THEE HOUNDS OF FOGGY NOTION - LP +DVD

THEE FANTASTIC LP AND DVD SET BY THEE OH SEES IS BACK IN STOCK.  PRESSED ON THIS SHEER AND SEXY WAX, HOUSED IN THE DELUXE GATEFOLD SLEEVE.   IF YOU HAVEN'T GRIPPED THIS ALBUM YET, NOW IS THE TIME.   COMES WITH THE INCREDIBLE FILM BY BRIAN LEE HUGHES.  DO IT!

FIELDED RECORD RELEASE SHOW 4/29/13

Mon 4/29: Fielded at the Burlington

Former Chicagoan and Ga'an front woman Lindsay Powell has recently released her second album of solo material recorded under the name Fielded. According to Leor Galil, Powell's pursuing a sound slightly fuller than in her past minimalist works, but her "live setup remains simple and practical—she can still put you under a spell with just a laptop, some synths, and her unbelievable singing." - Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader

Weed Temple Review: The North - Glaciers

Painting by Ryan Shultz

Oh dear, oh dear, why on Earth have I been missing out on Captcha Records for so long!? One of the finest experimental/psych labels around and I haven’t checked them out even once. I feel like an asshole now. Time to make up for my ignorance, starting with a stellar new record (very soon to be released on vinyl) by the Norwegian producer Snorre Snøjøst Henriksen working under the very fitting (considering where he’s coming from and the nature of his music) moniker The North. Everything around this release is made out to make the listener feel cold, even the artwork itself, filled with white and blue colors, as well as abstract, jagged shapes made out to look like the surface of a weathered mountain glacier. But despite that, and the heavy atmosphere of music, it’s not that entirely cold.

The blurb on the label’s website brags about the album’s inspiration taken from both krautrock artists and the more modern-age technoid explorers, and I’m inclined more toward the latter group when listening to “Glaciers”. In fact, I’m really reminded abou the output of the UK’s dark techno label Modern Love, especially the work of Andy Stott or Claro Intelecto, althought with a slightly more ambiental - and sometimes, indeed! - kosmische musik edge. The first track, “Serpen’t Tail” is steeped in vast, endlessly reverbing ambience, evolving toward a lethargic, slowed-down techno beat in a glacial pace. Henriksen takes pride in fiddling with textures in moods - the track is alternatively uplifting and full of light, as if the spring sun was shining at the glacier, making it shimmer beautifully; but then the dark clouds come and cut off the sunlight, bathing the music in dark basslines and thumping, cavernous industrial techno aesthetic.

Second side’s “Night Train” begins in a more oldschool, proggy fashion. Some might think of the more synthesizer driven moments of 70’s progressive rock, others’ minds will surely wander towards the oeuvre of John Carpenter. It’s certainly less dark and more dynamic, driven with classical sequencers and rhythmic analog drones, divided into several movements, some being quieter, building up the tension before finally releasing the disco fever of Giorgio Moroder’s glowing moments of fame. It’s a time travel to the past, leaving behind the cracked, icy caves of side A in lieu of hot club nights, although with a bit of darkness and mystery still staying, expressed by reverbed, moaning vocals in the back of the relentless techno beats. It’s way faster than “Serpent’s Tail” and immensely dancefloor-friendly, as if crafted to be played at house and club parties. If the first track gave an impression of an introverted, headphone-based listening experience, the second track will blow that away and make you blast it away through your speakers at top volume.

Despite its name, “Glaciers” is a hot record - at least side B. While side A does exactly what it promises on the cover, freezing the listener and sending shivers through their body with its lethargic tempo and ghostly atmosphere, side B quickly melts all the ice and snow away and raises the temperature bar dangerously quickly. One of the most surprising, and interesting records I’ve heard recently. Highly recommended.  WEED TEMPLE

PREVIEW THE "ENTHRALLING" NEW SONG "GABRIELLE"

From the Desk of AQ_San Francisco

Moonrises are the latest in a long line of psychedelic revivalists, many of whom we revere here at aQ, whether it's White Hills, or Carlton Melton, The Heads or Wooden Shjips, but these guys (and gal) have a leg up on lots of their psychedelic brethren in that they're led by none other than Plastic Crimewave, who oughta have a PhD in psychedelia at this point, and here, he puts that knowledge to work, crafting a gorgeous, intense, druggy and heavy modern psych rock that manages to channel jammed out space rock, with witchy occultic seventies acid folk, organ heavy prog and tranced out krautrock into some seriously heavy musical mayhem. 

The opening one-two punch of the first two tracks definitely sets the stage, buzzing synths, dramatic female vocals, minimal drumming, soft swirls of guitar shimmer, woozy organ melodies, the vibe very witchy and demonic, keyboardist Libby Ramer's vocals a force of nature, slipping from whispery croon, to deep ominous drone to banshee like wail, the first track starting off all minimal and moody, but gradually building to a fierce psych rock blow out, the organ and guitar all tangled up in thick gouts of wah wah whirl, the drums wild and chaotic, the whole thing droned out and trancey, a fierce opener for sure, but it only get more fierce from there. 

The second track, "Lorelei's Grasp" begins as a rumbling drone, which is soon joined by more of the creepy organ, some crumbling guitar noise, bursts of drum splatter, a free form space noise drift, that coalesces into some dense dark progginess, the organ letting loose a super intense minor key melody, the drums following with along, Ramer's vocals going crazy, a maniacal trill, a woman possessed, the whole thing so tense and intense, and unlike any of the so called space/psych rock we've been hearing. This could totally be some lost rare psych artifact, not just the sound, but the spirit, and the energy, the song settles down, and drones out, but soon, erupts into a final squall that sounds almost triumphant. Wow. 

And so it goes, Moonrises effortlessly channeling the lost psychedelic seventies, the sonic spirits revealed through distorted organ buzz, and wild tangles psych guitar, deep chant like vocals, and skittering motorik rhythms, druggy clouds of hazy soft noise shimmer, but it's not all straight retro revival. The band are capable of seriously fucking shit up, check out "Eyelid Chamber", which sounds less like old psych folk, and more like some modern freakout avant noise rock, dizzying drumming, wrapped in thick organ drones, and peppered with swirling shards of jagged guitar crunch, before finally coalescing into a song proper, but even then it sounds like something more more modern, dirgey and grungey and heavy. Elsewhere they get into some tripped out rhythmic experimentalism, droney and woozy and looped, other descriptions we've seen mention This Heat and the Dead C, and yeah, there's a little of that going on, but to our ears, it's simply an extension of their tranced out psych, which already contains elements of both. Incredible stuff! Fans of all the current crop of psych/space revivalists, this is for YOU. And fans of the old stuff, who only dig the REAL thing, this could be the band that flips your lid and changes your mind. 

- Beautifully written words buy the fine folks of Aquarius Records.  http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

Camel Heads come straight outta Sao Paulo, Brazil, bringing their mind-bent 

experimental psych sounds to these shores for the first time ever with new release Anoluz.  Influenced by Dead Man and North African desert blues, these long-form kraut jams will leave your brains baking on a rock in the Global South, drenched in cosmic sweat.  Like waves crashing into the shoreline, the ebb and flow of Anoluz will free your mind, bury your toes in pink sand, and orient your lawn chair towards the sunset.  Fans of early Pink Floyd, Sun Araw, desert blues and krautrock rejoice: Captcha Records is pleased to dose you up with the Camel Heads’ Anoluz.