Jul 21, 2010

The Crown Center

Our new album is out. Hand made screen printed just for u:

Topaz Rags

The Crown Center

NNF198—7" ($5)

West Coast ghost squad Topaz Rags stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, “The Crown Center” is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip (“You Go On”) slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamer’s dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345.

Jul 19, 2010

The Sketchbook Project

Submissions Wanted

The Sketchbook Project is calling for submissions for an upcoming US tour 2011. They provide you with a theme and a moleskin..all you have to do is fill it up and send it off.

May 28, 2010

heart and soul

No Introduction Needed

The Winter Brothers

Members of the Allman Brothers: Duane Allman(r.i.p.), Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Jaimo, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks.

And the Beat Goes On

Or So it Goes

May 11, 2010

neato begeato

Society of the Spiritually Concious

Photo Credit: Yoshi-Sodeoka

The Society of the Spiritually Conscious (SSC):

- abstracted mandalas with western symbols
- bloated devotees
- handmade typography with art nouveau influences
- outdoor ceremonial circle with endless silk mat for self discovery which pours out into the waters of the ocean.
- giant sphere osculating with great speed creating a vortex in the center
- charismatic leader who has you sacrifice your most prized possession to the center of the universe.
- no fears, no hunger. i think we've been drugged.

photo credit: Narima

Im covered with white salt dust from spending the day farming salt on a tractor. My face is covered with a fine layer of white powder. My hair is undone and wild. My right eye glazed over from damage from the glaring sun on the white surface.