JOSEPHINE FOSTER
"So Much Fire to Roast Human Flesh"
a benefit album curated by Josephine Foster

The title is a line from a poem by the great Apollinaire, who died from wounds he sustained while serving in World War I.

"All profits from sales of this compilation will be distributed to specific counter-military recruitment and pacifist organizations and programs. We hope to assist them in their efforts promoting peace and non-militarism in the United States.

"All of the musicians represented here are US citizens. Our voices join with many others across this land that freely question and openly oppose war." --Josephine Foster

Track listing:

THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS - "Dragonfly" (live)
FEATHERS - "Dust"
MICHAEL HURLEY - "A Little Bit of Love for You"
MEG BAIRD - "Western Red Lily (Nunavut Diamond Dream)"
ANDREW BAR - "Don't Trust That Man"
GOATGIRL - "President Combed His Hair"
DEVENDRA BANHART - "I Know Some Souls" (demo)
KATH BLOOM - "Baby Let It Come Down On Me"
CHARLIE NOTHING - "Fuck You and Your Stupid Wars"
DIANE CLUCK - "A Phoenix and Doves"
JOHN ALLINGHAM & ANN TILEY - "Big War"
JOSEPHINE FOSTER - "Would You Pave the Road?"
ANGELS OF LIGHT - "Destroyer"
RACHEL MASON - "The War Clerk's Lament"
PAJO - "War Is Dead"
MVEE - "Powderfinger"
KATHLEEN BAIRD - "Prayer for Silence"
LAY ALL OVER IT - "A Place"

Preview songs from the album at the "So Much Fire to Roast Human Flesh" mySpace page.

Cover artwork by Fred Tomaselli

Available now. $12US/14Can/17World postpaid.

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Also available from better record stores on August 29, 2006.

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Arthur has released The Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival CD, spotlighting work by artists performing at the festival.

Track listing:

"HiLo" – Wharton Tiers Ensemble
"Know Blues" – Excepter
"Sock It" – Dragons 1976
"Between Our Pages" – Avia Gardner
"L'homme avec coeur avec elle" – Feu Thérèse
"Untitled/Improvization" – Tetuzi Akiyama
"Hollow Stems, A Hunter's Will" – Creeping Nobodies
"Cinc" – Cinc (Ken Vandermark, Paul Lytton and Philip Wachsmann)
"Syvania" – Diane Cluck
"'Round About" – Triple Burner
"Ba-Boum-Ka-Ka-Tchik" – Diebold
"Stand Up For Power" – Thames
"Bethlehem Embargo Crystal" – Aids Wolf
"Electronic Voice Phenomenon" – Awsome
"Goin' Home" – Trio X
"Ayaratni" – Jeruselem In My Heart

To commemorate the second annual Plastic Crimewave-curated, Galactic Zoo Dossier/Arthur-presented Million Tongues festival at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, occurring this year on two stages from November 3-6, Arthur's Bastet imprint will be releasing 2 Million Tongues, spotlighting work by artists performing at the festival.

Track listing:

Available since November 1, 2005.

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ETHAN MILLER "Bread, Beard & Bear's Prayers" (Bastet 0005) Thirteen gnarly tunes gathered from high and low by Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire and Howlin Rain. For lovers of bloody nose street folk, dangerous shit rock, drunken cosmic slop and those wandering down the outer and under paths alone. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Liner notes by Miller. First 500 copies had handbound, silk-screened sleeves. Those are all gone. The second 500 are in standard jewel cases. We still have some left. Track listing: 1. "Truth Is Marching In" - Albert Ayler 2. "Crypto-Zoological Disaster" - Monoshock 3. "The Honey Creeper Smiles" - The Colossal Yes 4. "Piper" - Ghost 5. "Close to the Sky" - Electric Six Organs of Admittance 6. "Swamp of Love" - Michael Yonkers 7. "Cuntshine" - Shit-Spangled Banner 8. "Country Blues/Be With Us (live)" - Brother JT 9. "Look Floating" - Joshua 10. "Meditation" - 7 Year Rabbit Cycle 11. "Providence" - August Born (Six Organs of Admittance and L) 12. "Truly Cursed" - Dark Inside the Sun 13. "Death Squad" - Comets On Fire SOLD OUT! SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN  "No Magic Man"  (ARTHUR 002) "We've got the closest thing to a high fidelity release here from the confirmed kings of the under-the-counter-culture, Sunburned Hand Of The Man. No Magic Man comes courtesy of Arthur magazine's new audio imprint and it bundles a selection of some of Sunburned's most punishingly rhythmic heart-punches to date. There are pieces here that sound like Pete Cosey-era Miles cut up with Lhasa street song and stand-up stonerskits, while others make out like the logical Heavy Metal extension of Tony Williams' experiments with electricity as part of Lifetime alongside guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young. Guitarist Marc Orleans can generate kandy korn cartwheels as well as The Magic Band's Jeff Cotton and combined with Rob Thomas's bass, the two provide a steam-rolling backline that various drummers -- John Moloney, Phil Franklin -- work to bolster and undermine. Much of No Magic Man is possessed of a uniquely squelchy analog bottom end and between tracks there are some wowing cut-ups from various found sources that add a beautiful veneer of mystic shit to the already precariously dosed proceedings." -- David Keenan, The Wire (May 2005) "Finally they give us what we want... Essential to those interested in the band... Wicked funk grooves and trancey drone-outs... No Magic Man is a fitting rival for 'Jaybird,' 'Wild Animal,' and 'Headdress' as best Sunburned Hand of the Man release. Rating: 12/12" -- Jim Steed, fakejazz.com A collection of all-new, all-weather nighttime sounds from one of the greatest tellin'-it-like-it-is, Apocalypse Later! bands around right now. "No Magic Man" is specifically designed for those with chronic cases of peek-a-boo, long eye and post-election stress disorder. 12 reports from the never-ending ritual running just under an hour, this is the next page in the Book of Sunburned, and it's yours! More info about Sunburned Hand of the Man at: * the official Sunburned website * Arthur No. 7 feature Track listing for "No Magic Man": 1. every direction 2. the 1st Degree 3. Flying Colours 4. the air itself 5. NO MAGIC MAN 6. Stoneboat 7. Yer Own Eyes & the Number None 8. Nile High 9. Serpent's wish 10. The Twin Gates 11. Gather 'Round Cover artwork by Robert Thomas of Sunburned. Second edition from ARTHUR now available! Limited edition of 1000. 1. PAYPAL USA - $12 postpaid Canada - $14 postpaid World - $17 airmail Wouldn't you like to subscribe to ARTHUR? Subscribe today and receive this CD for FREE 2. CHECK OR MONEY ORDER Payable to Arthur Publishing Corporation Order will not ship until check clears. Send your order to: Arthur Publishing Corporation 1146 North Central Avenue #441 Glendale, CA 91202   PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE "Million Tongues" (Bastet 0003) This is a compilation of underground psychedelic music by 20 artists appearing at this August's Million Tongues Festival in Chicago, as selected and sequenced by Plastic Crimewave. All are previously unreleased, unless otherwise noted. Track listing: 1. Michael (Yonkers) and the Mumbles: "Need Your Love, Oh No" 2. LSD March: "Rokoku No Hono" 3. Jutok Kaneko, Shimura Koji and Takuya Nishimura: "Longing for the Ray" 4. Nisennenmondai: (no title) 5. Inner Throne: "Synaptic Prothesis" 6. Plastic Crimewave Sound: "Caged Fire theme (live)" (from forthcoming "Live in Philadelphia" release) 7. The Civilized Age: "Remember the Times" 8. Spires That in the Sunset Rise: "Wide Awake" 9. Josephine Foster and the Supposed: "Nana (live)" 10. Matt Valentine and Erika Elder Medicine Show: "The Enchanted Cocola #2" (from private CDR) 11. Simon Finn: "Walkie Talkie" (from ltd edition EP sold only at concerts) 12. Frankie Delmane: "Magic in Your Eyes, Murder in Your Heart" 13. Espers: "Under the Waterfall" 14. Nick Castro: "Jack of all Seasons" 15. P. G. Six: "Improvisation on 'The Unteleported Man'" 16. Fur Saxa: "Red Moon Sinks Low" 17. Kawabata Makoto with Kinski: "Untitled Space" 18. Taurpis Tula: "Blood Red Lights Across the Snow" 19. M.V. Carbon: "Smear the Scatter" 20. Panicsville: "Cannibal Headphones" CREDITS Compilation, sleeve and disk artwork by Plastic Crimewave. EDITION INFORMATION Edition of 1,000 copies. Cardboard sleeve, shrink wrapped. Available exclusively from this website and at the festival site. SOLD OUT DEVENDRA BANHART "The Golden Apples of the Sun"  (Bastet 0001) "Essential." -- Mojo, September 2004   "Sparkling." -- The Wire, July 2004  "8.6 (out of 10): [Its] sprawling landscape presents a persuasive case for the depth of a scene that seemingly sprung up (like mushrooms) overnight." -- Pitchfork, July 8, 2004   This is a compilation of current underground folk music, as selected by Devendra Banhart. Features artwork and handlettering by Devendra on cover, back cover, sleeve, tray and the disk itself.   Track listing:   1. Vetiver (with Hope Sandoval) - "Angel's Share" (from the "Vetiver" LP) 2. Joanna Newsom - "Bridges and Balloons" (from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" LP) 3. Six Organs of Admittance - "Hazy SF" (previously unreleased) 4. Viking Moses - "Crosses" (from "Crosses") 5. Josephine Foster - "Little Life" (prev. unreleased home recording) 6. ESPers - "Byss & Abyss" (from "ESPers" LP) 7. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart - "Rejoicing in the Hands" (from the "Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress" LP) 8. Jana Hunter - "Farm, CA" (prev. unreleased) 9. Currituck Co. - "The Tropics of Cancer" (from "Ghost Man on First") 10. White Magic - "Don't Need" (from the Drag City EP) 11. Iron and Wine - "Fever Dream" (from "Our Endless Numbered Days" LP) 12. Diane Cluck - " Heat From Every Corner" (from "Macy's Day Bird") 13. Matt Valentine - "Mountains of Yaffa" (prev. unreleased) 14. Entrance - "You Must Turn" (prev. unreleased home recording) 15. Jack Rose - "White Mule" (from "Red Horse, White Mule" originally released thru Eclipse, now on VHF) 16. Little Wings - "Look at What the Light Did Now" (from "Light Green Leaves") 17. Scout Niblett - "Wet Road" (from "Sweet Heart Fever") 18. Troll - "Mexicana" (from "Pathless Lord") 19. CocoRosie - "Good Friday" (from "La Maison de Mon Reve") 20. Antony - "The Lake" (from "Live at Saint Olaye's With Current 93")   CREDITS Cover, sleeve, tray and backcover artwork and handlettering by Devendra Banhart.  Packaging by Thumbprint Press.   EDITION INFORMATION First edition of 1000 copies Second edition of 1,000 - SOLD OUT     SUNN O))) "The Libations of Samhain" (Bastet 0002)   TRACK LISTING 1. The Libations of Samhain (48:59) [SUNN O))) live performance in London, Hallo'ween 2003]   2. SUNN O))) vs Diggers / 4th November 2003 (16:05) [SUNN O))) interview by Savage Pencil and Sharon Gal, originally broadcast on London's Resonance FM 104.]   PERSONNEL Stephen O'Malley: C-MOS Greg Anderson: Model T Rex Ritter: ProtoHarmonics Dawn Smithson: Ampeg Attila Csihar: InVoxAtion   CREDITS Cover artwork by Savage Pencil. Recorded by Steve Pittis Mastered by Tim Barnes at Quakebasket Letterpress printing by Thumbprint Press   EDITION INFORMATION Edition of 500 copies --SOLD OUT