[Moshe]

 

MVD Audio have announced the upcoming releases of Destroy All Monsters (Live in Tokyo), Monster Island's "Dream Tiger" and Plastic Crimewave Sound's "No Wonderland." All three releases hit stores January 22, 2008.

Destroy All Monsters (Live in Tokyo) contains live recordings of DAM performances in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track 72 minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics of "You Can't Kill Kill" and "Evil Works" plus many newer exotic oddities like "Indecipherable" and "Show No Shame". Included are cover versions of the Seed's "900 Million People Daily All Making Love" and the most bizarre cover yet of Jon Anderson's Yes classic, "Clear Day". Stretching out into spacey sonic territory, DAM attacks live in Japan at their crusty best with original founding members Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren supported by Art Byington and Dave Muller.

Dream Tiger is a 13 song CD album by the Detroit group Monster Island. This is their first album since the 1996 LP recording "From the Michigan Floor" on Ecstatic Peace! Performing members on this album include;Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), Warn Defever (His Name is Alive), Erika Hoffman (x-Godzuki) and Matt Smith (Outrageous Cherry, THTX,Volebeats). Dream Tiger features a mixture of ethnic folk instruments: (Oud, Sitar, Tanpura, Harmonium, Shakuhachi, Djembe, Gamelon Gendèr, and African percussion) mixed with traditional (Guitars, Bass, Violin, Cello, Flute, Drums) and novelty sounds: (Chinese organ, Water harp, Mini-moog, samples, Toy piano, gongs).

Plastic Crimewave Sound - "No Wonderland" - This is the first time on CD for Plastic Crimewave Sound's 2LP opus, originally released on Eclipse Records and now long out of print in its vinyl form. This is the record you always wanted PCWS to make; stretching out their influences and delving deep into the paranoid times of today, tomorrow and yesterday. You will hear mammoth psych jams, acid punk, soundscapes, heavyosity and calming drones. Featuring cameo appearances by Michael Yonkers, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster, Fur Saxa, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Chris Connelly, and more. Absolutely stunning psych for fans of Hawkwind, Can, Pink Fairies, Acid Mothers Temple and brain damage in general.

[Bicorn Halfelven]

Plastic Crimewave is great.