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Wite Nite format: CDR released: November 15, 2008 catalog #: ASR-26 run: 200  mp3 sample: 10:57 PM |
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The Tenants of Balthazar's Castle: The Moon format: CDR released: October 15, 2008 catalog #: ASR-22 run: 200  mp3 samples: Life on Earth The Moon Moves on VIRB |
($10 international) |
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Paper Cranes & the DOOM Machine: Live in Provo DVD format: DVD-R released: October 2008 catalog #: ASV-1 run: 50  sample: on Vimeo |
($10 international) |
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Michael Biggs / Matthew Munn: BATS format: CDR released: new edition Aug 2008, first was Aug 2007 catalog #: ASR-15 run: 100  mp3 samples: Caves Voodoo BATS on VIRB |
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Stag Hare: Black Medicine Music format: CD released: July 2008 catalog #: ASR-23 run: 350 (so far)  reviews: "Great loops. Tribal beats. Calming voice echoes. Hippy guitar. Harmonica. Tranquil chimes. Flutes and tambourines! Everything seems to be used!" - Foxy Digitalis "Chirping birds, folk guitar, non-Western percussion and droning static harmonies" - SLUG Magazine Vital Weekly Forest Gospel mp3 sample: Holy Quinn Stag Hare's myspace page. |
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WYLD WYZRDZ: We Are Everyone. format: CDR released: July 2008 catalog #: ASR-25 run: 100  reviews: "quite a psychedelic journey of the endless strum" - Vital Weekly "slow burners that inhabit a wonderful space in-between the divine and the alien" - Forest Gospel Anti-Gravity Bunny mp3 sample: I Am Ocean thr myspace page. |
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Sly Aye: Sly Aye's Congregation EP format: CDR released: July 2008 catalog #: ASR-24 run: 50  mp3 sample: Higher Ground Aye's myspace page |
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Wo0: Come Blue format: CDR released: June 2008 catalog #: ASR-21 run: 200 (100 US, 100 Europe)  reviews: "minimalistic and soothing soundscapes" - SLUG Magazine "Things meander nicely about, in weightless space." - Vital Weekly mp3 samples: High Blue Sky Over Oslo Wo0's virb page. Also be sure to check out his group, Belgrade Noise Society. |
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Hew Mun: Scintillated Garble format: CDR released: Jan 2008 catalog #: ASR-17 run: 100  reviews: "Hew Mun has created an intense classic that will become a treasure to those who embrace it" - Forest Gospel "These primitive, multi-instrumental song-scapes will cinch right around your heart" - SLUG Magazine mp3 sample: Spring Time is a Come in Here Now Hew Mun's virb page. |
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Stag Hare: Ahspen format: CDR released: A. Star version Jan 2008, original was Feb 2007 catalog #: ASR-18 run: 100 SOLD OUT, NEW PRESSING COMING SOON  Reissue from American West Freedom Society Press. reviews: Forest Gospel SLUG Magazine samples: Stag Hare's virb page. |
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The Tenants of Balthazar's Castle: 3 Dreams (selling for American West Freedom Society Press) format: CDR released: June 2008 run: 30  review: "a terrific balance of organics and mechanics" - SLUG Magazine mp3 sample: Room Dream TOBC on virb |
($10 international) |
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Paper Cranes & the Iron Eagles: Paper Cranes & the Iron Eagles (selling for Magic Goat Music) format: CDR released: July 2008 (physical) Jan 2008 (digital) run: 30 [This album is available for free download as part of Magic Goat Music's "Digital Magic" series. So this very limited physical release is for serious collectors, or those of you who shun the inferior compressed quality of mp3s.]  review: "blistering instrumental psych rock freak-outs" - Forest Gospel samples: Paper Cranes on Myspace or just download the whole damn thing right now |
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The Tenants of Balthazar's Castle: Terror in Twelve Parts format: CDR released: December 2006 catalog #: ASR-11 run: somewhere around 50  review: "Terror In Twelve Parts truly is terrifying, and the noise is overpowering. It is beautiful terror, the kind that consumes you and makes you pay attention." - SLUG Magazine samples: TOBC on virb |
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Paper Cranes: Escape to Wicked Mountain format: CD released: May 2006 catalog #: ASR-8 run: 1000  reviews: SLUG Magazine Salt Lake City Weekly: Pure electro-rock lunacy preoccupied with dinosaurs (first half) and yet-to-evolve species (second half) shouldn’t logically produce tunes as catchy as “Stegosaurus,” but logic has no place in the noise-tar pit. Let’s get extinct. (Bill Frost) mp3 sample: Wiccandy Paper Cranes on Myspace |
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Aye Aye: Saint Delay and the Golden God format: CDR released: Jan 2008 catalog #: ASR-20 run: 100  Review: Forest Gospel Review: SLUG Magazine Review: Salt Lake City Weekly mp3 samples: Sarah Sourgrape Blues Aye Aye's virb page ALMOST SOLD OUT! ORDER NOW! |
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Navigator: Throwing Tongues format: CDR released: December 2007 catalog #: ASR-19 run: 100  [It has now been re-issued on Magic Goat Music in a different case. If you're a collector, get them both, but between you and me, the A. Star version is better.] Review: Foxy Digitalis Review: Forest Gospel Review: Salt Lake City Weekly Review: SLUG Magazine (Feb2008 issue not online, sorry) mp3 samples: Lights & Perfection Song Navigator's virb page ALMOST SOLD OUT |
($10 international) |
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