Charlie Schmidt is a contemporary of his friend, the late John Fahey, and his own personal universe 
collided with the icon of the acoustic steel string in a very interesting and bemusing manner. Long in the 
making, Schmidt's debut Xanthe Terra  is a stunner; melancholic musings and gorgeous melodies are 
offered like midnight prayers through ringing and singing wood and steel, Fahey and Peter Lang 
referenced but in a voice resoundingly awash in Schmidt's  own dialect. Look for both to be released 
June 7, 2005 on Strange Attractors.

05/18/05:

*May  is Mayhem Month at the venerable KFJC out of Los Altos Hills, CA, and thus the station is 
featuring in-depth features on a variety of subjects all month. Strange Attractors was the subject 
of a "Mayhem" special Wed, May 11! Four hours of music and interviews, including exclusive talks with 
Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones, Ryan Pritts of PAIK, and SAAH head honcho Chris Scofield. 
Giveaways of SAAH goodies will be had for listeners.*

01/02/05:               

*Glenn Jones is the subject of January 2005's "Invisible Jukebox", The Wire's monthly series of audible challenges! 
Tested by David Keenan (Rebel Powers, Taurpis Tula, Telstar Ponies)*

The kind folks at Junkmedia have a Strange Attractors label profile up on their site (May 26, 2004).

12/01/04:

*The Wire Tapper 12: The December 2004 issue of The Wire includes The Wire Tapper 12 
2xCD compilation, free with purchase; Cul de Sac / Damo Suzuki are represented with the tune "Berlin 6", 
culled from Abhayamudra 2xCD! Other artists include The Fall, Damon & Naomi, Henry Grimes Trio,
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney, David Grubbs & Nikos Velotis, Pita, Aesop Rock, Bark Psychosis 
and many more!*

09/08/04:

SUBARACHNOID SPACE 
SubArachnoid Space is putting on the finishing touches to the packaging for The Red Veil, their 
forthcoming ninth album.  This is the first recording with the latest lineup, which sees the entry 
of Chris Cones (guitar) and Diego Gonzales (bass) - the same lineup that has been 
playing live for the past year and a half, so those of you who caught them on their recent US 
tour with Acid Mothers Temple already know what the score is.  Musically, The Red Veil launches 
from the same paths Also Rising was heading down, but follows it much further into the darkest 
corridors of the subconscious, exploring dour moods and texture via a heavy, mind-erupting 
sound.  SAS have incorporated rhythms and structures into their new material that certainly take 
it into stoner/gloom metal realms, but the guitars are still pure SubArachnoid Space - that is, 
ever-pointed towards that third eye in the sky, unfurling heady and layered tendrils of sound. 
This is far-reaching instrumental avant rock, encompassing sounds from a vast array of sources 
past and present, the entire package embossed in hair-raising volume. Pummeling, brooding, 
but always intoxicating, The Red Veil is astounding stuff, a very welcome new direction 
augmenting their trademark psychotropic sound.  Look for the new album to hit February 15, 
2005.


HARRIS NEWMAN

Montreal's six-string slingin' star Harris Newman is finishing up his follow up to last year's 
well-received Non-Sequiturs.  Newman takes his Takoma-esque fingerstyle and pushes it 
further, experimenting with the raw sounds of the naked steel string while incorporating a wider 
palette of instrumentation to augment his particular brand of guitar soli.  The result is a rather 
diverse array of sounds and structures, all centered on the acoustic guitar.  Languidly gorgeous 
melodies and hefty fingerpicking workouts bump up against ghostly harmonics and sonic 
textures…folk meets post-rock, opiated cocktail/lounge meets "deltadelica" blues, Leo Kottke, 
Sandy Bull and Ry Cooder meet up with Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  Called Accidents with 
Nature and Each Other,  it is simply a jaw-dropping sophomore effort, forward-thinking solo 
acoustic music with Fahey in the rear view mirror.  Look for its release in early 2004.


VOCOKESH

Following up their darkly hallucinogenic triumph The Tenth Corner, Richard Franecki & Co. 
have been in their laboratories concocting their next platter of unabashedly alien psychedelic 
soundtracks.  Through the Smoke is the title, and to these ears Vocokesh has mixed in some 
more Prog-like elements and even a touch of psych/garage riffing with their swirling Kraut-inspired 
mayhem.  Vocokesh continue to place pressure on the boundaries of sound, incessantly exploring 
cryptic soundscapes via their often times unsettling brand of electronics-drenched psychedelic 
rock.  Watch out for the Through the Smoke meteor shower to begin sometime in early 2005.  
Wear goggles.

Vocokesh have released a CDR entitled Vibe on the Marshead upstart label.  Needless to say, it 
is another crucial journey down their unsettling, drug-saturated wormhole, testing the furthest 
limits of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel type trajectories.  Highly recommended by Strange 
Attractors!  

07/05/04:

CUL DE SAC & DAMO SUZUKI
Boston's instrumental innovators Cul de Sac teamed up with infamous ex-CAN vocalist Damo Suzuki 
for a tour of the US and Europe in 2002 and 2003, respectively.  A pairing for the ages to be sure, 
for very few others than Cul de Sac, operate in the heady and rhythmic sphere as CAN did - a perfect
modern-day backdrop for Suzuki's free associating vocal approach.  However brilliant and almost 
obvious a pairing it is, there wasn't much forethought.  Having never met each other, Cul de Sac 
received an email from Suzuki totally out of the blue, suggesting they collaborate. How did this 
come about? Seems that a perceptive fan had slipped a copy of Cul de Sac's second album, the 
ubiquitous I Don't Want to Go to Bed, to him at a show.  It only took a few months for Suzuki to 
listen to it (!!!), but one day as he was cleaning his apartment he popped it on - and promptly 
sent the band a request that they tour the US together.  

The one caveat: no rehearsing.  

So four hours after Suzuki stepped off the plane in Boston, he and Cul de Sac played their first 
show before an enraptured crowd at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA.  Everything clicked.  
"Instant composing" is Suzuki's terminology for his philosophy of penning songs - not "jamming" 
or wanking - on the spot, on stage, letting chemistry and energy dictate the creation and direction 
of the music.  For Suzuki, nothing is planned in advance. In keeping with Suzuki's spirit, Cul de 
Sac allowed the process to flow without rehearsing any new tunes of their own, or playing anything 
from their repertoire.

The results are nothing short of astounding.

Announcing the imminent release of Abhayamudra, a 2xCD collection of what Cul de Sac and Damo Suzuki 
consider to be the best moments of the 45 dates they played together - nearly 138 minutes of stunning 
psychedelic avant mayhem, performed live and entirely on the spot. Cul de Sac refract clusters of 
electronics, lamenting violin and surf/middle eastern guitar over chugging bass and astounding 
polyrhythms, while Damo Suzuki concocts vocal somersaults over the affair, manipulating the direction 
of the tunes like it was liquid in a vessel. Truly remarkable.  Look for a release in late fall 2004.



KINSKI & KAWABATA MAKOTO
Kinski are heading out on an US tour with an extra special guest.  Kawabata Makoto, minister of 
ceremonies for Acid Mothers Temple, will be joining the band as their third guitarist for the whole tour!  
Not certain if Makoto will even be performing solo at all along the route…what is certain is that Ueh, a 
languid French band whose one and only album was released by the Acid Mothers Temple label a little 
while back, will be opening the entire way.

The dates thus far (subject to change and more on the way):

July31st Seattle - Crocodile w/ A Frames & Climax Golden Twins
Aug 3rd Minneapolis - 7th St. Entry
Aug 4th Chicago - Empty Bottle Million Tongues Festival
Aug 5th Cleveland - Grog Shoppe w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 6th Boston - Middle East w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 7th Philadelphia - Kyber Pass w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 8th New York - TBA w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 10 Detroit - Detroit Arts Space w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 11th Cincinnati/Newport, Kentucky - Southgate House w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 12th Bloomington, IN - TBA w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 13th St. Louis - Jackpot w/ Ueh (from France)
Aug 14th Denver - Larimer Lounge



3/09/04:
SUBARACHNOID SPACE

San Francisco's wizards of dark psych dreamscapes have been invited to tour the US with pals 
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.!  First date is May 22 at TT The Bear's
in Cambridge, MA. From there, the tour makes its way across the country to the Pacific Northwest 
(YEE-HAW!  Coming to Portland!  -ed), and down through California, where SubArachnoid Space 
will leave Acid Mothers in San Diego as they head back across the south.  

Full tour dates can be found here

Be there or be dreadfully square!

SubArachnoid Space is entering the studio to lay down tracks for their new album.  Early reports 
imply the new material is a bit bleak, a little unsettling, but just as heady and transportive as ever.  
More soon, but look for the new album to hit late summer 2004.

GLENN JONES
No, not the R&B singer, but rather the founding guitarist/contraption player of Cul de Sac, and he has 
finished recording what will be his debut solo album!  Entitled This is the Wind That Blows it Out - 
Solos For 6 & 12 String Guitar, Glenn Jones has created a masterful, utterly sublime record of 
gorgeous acoustic compositions.  Most folks know of his unique blend of surf, Middle Eastern, 
Americana and acid guitar innovations as a signature of the Cul de Sac sound, but few people know 
that Mr. Jones played the acoustic guitar exclusively for many years.  From the time his father bought 
him his first axe at age 14, Jones never even picked up an electric guitar until the wave of punk rock 
broke over his consciousness at the ripe age of 29!  Although seduced by electricity, Jones never 
fully escaped his roots. Jones is a scholar of sorts on the subject of the steel string tradition, having 
written notes found in the wave of Robbie Basho and John Fahey reissues on Fantasy (not to mention 
his great essay on Fahey that accompanies his final album Red Cross), and even introduced the music 
of Steffen Basho-Junghans to western ears - Strange Attractors among them!  Upon Fahey's passing 
in 2001, Jones went back to the acoustic guitar with renewed earnest, hints of which can be found all 
over Cul de Sac's 2003 masterpiece Death of the Sun and their soundtrack album, The Strangler's Wife. 
This is the Wind That Blows it Out is slated for release June/July 2004.  In the meantime, for those in 
Europe, watch out for information regarding a European tour in May with Steffen Basho-Junghans and Jack 
Rose.

HARRIS NEWMAN
Montreal premier purveyor of "folkadelia" has been invited to come along on the Constellation Records 
roadshow!  Heading across Europe, Harris Newman tags along with Polmo Popo, HangedUp and Elizabeth 
Anka Vajagic, and will play select shows along the route.  Just exactly where that will be is TBA, but he 
should pick up some sort of instrument and play with HangedUp as well.  A link to the traveling sideshow is 
here:  http://www.cstrecords.com/html/cstroadshow.html 

Newman has been busy working on his follow up to last year's Non-Sequiturs.  Entitled 
Accidents with Nature and Each Other, Newman is putting the finishing touches on what promises to be a 
stellar sophomore effort.  Sneak a peek: MP3's of a couple of tunes from the album can be found on his website.
 More news as it comes, but keep an eye peeled for the release of Accidents with Nature and Each Other on 
Strange Attractors in Fall 2004.

12/5/03:
KINSKI 

In their hometown of Seattle, the lysergic-punk band Kinski often play out incognito.  Under the guise 
Herzog (film buffs should figure all these German names out pretty quickly), Chris Martin, Lucy Atkinson, 
Matthew Reid-Schwartz and Barret Wilke channel their chemistry into an exploration of their cosmic side, 
performing entirely improvised sets of mind-pillowing ambient soundscapes. While they may be performing 
as Herzog, the sum of the parts is still Kinski, and although the intent is to shower the air with slow-raining 
space dust rather than their trademark heavy-paisley riffs, ambient drone is still very much an aspect of 
the overall Kinski sound. Sometimes they just chose to focus on that only. And that is what the Seattle 
alter-ego Herzog, and this project, is all about. Kinski gave a hint to what the Herzog experience was all 
about with their 20 minute contribution to the Crickets and Fireflies 3-way split (also featuring partners-
in-crime Paik and Surface of Eceyon), as well as their recent collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple on 
the latest Sub Pop split CD/LP.  These live experiments have resulted in some quite stellar recorded 
trajectories. Strange Attractors is as blissed out as the Seattle quartet to announce the pending release 
if Kinski's inner-space experiments.  Entitled Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water, the CD will be 
brimming with drones, tones and mellow glissandos - similar in spirit to the live Flying Saucer Attack 
disc out a few years ago on Corpus Hermeticum, a disc which focused on the group's hazy sound corridors.  
Slated for release May 4, 2004 - stay tuned for details.  The band is touring Europe right about now, and 
then they will be hitting the studio to record their Sub Pop follow up to Airs Above Your Station 
(scant 2xLP copies are still available from us, but not for much longer).  Appease yourself in the interim 
with their fabulous split with Acid Mothers Temple, available from Sub Pop.


SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

One of our favorite recordings by acid folk tripsters Six Organs of Admittance is The Manifestation, released 
as a clear one-sided 12" with etching on the B-side by Ba Da Bing in 2000. The side-long excursion stirs in 
acoustic glimmer and home-spun percussive incantations into some of the most singular sounds our ears have 
ever experienced.  Ben Chasny, Mr. Six Organs himself, concocted a concept around The Manifestation that 
involved the b-side's etching of the sun with the alchemic harmony of the spheres idea - and we here at Strange 
Attractors intend to bring it to life!  Announcing the reissue of The Manifestation on CD, with bonus music not 
found on the 12".  It's a little involved to describe in this here format, but it brings to mind Robert Fludd's La 
Divinia Musicana, the theories of Pythagoras, and Harry Smith with lo-fi glitch and searing raga folk.  We'll say 
nothing more until the time comes…but the cat is out of the bag!  Look for release of The Manifestation sometime 
in 2004.

CUL DE SAC

In 1992, Cul de Sac shattered the term "post-rock" before it was even coined (let alone drastically overused) 
with their out-of-nowhere debut ECIM.  A tremendous breath of fresh air, ECIM literally sounded like nothing 
else.  Who can think of anybody that was, at the time, combining psychedelic/avant rock with surf, Eastern 
raga, electronics and folk Americana into an utterly unique and idiosyncratic sound not unlike some Dream 
Team marriage of Can, Dick Dale, Pandit Pranh Nath, Pierre Henry and John Fahey?  ECIM's forward-
thinking innovation ignited the Cul de Sac buzz and set the plate for a slew of simply astounding recordings, 
through the 1990's up to the present.  Somewhere along the way, the album sold out of its pressings, further 
enhancing its infamy in underground psychedelic circles.  We are so utterly pleased beyond belief to reissue 
one of our personal favorite albums by anybody, an album that has influenced Strange Attractors greatly - Cul 
de Sac's ECIM.  Not only is ECIM coming back to life, but the album has been completely remastered and 
sounds absolutely amazing.  Plus, there are 20 minutes of previously unreleased bonus music, and new liner 
notes by scribe Byron Coley.  And possibly some archival photos and such.  Rejoice!  Look for the reissue 
of ECIM on Strange Attractors in Spring 2004.

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS

2003 has been a good year for releases for Berlin's pre-eminent contemporary steel-string guitarist Steffen 
Basho-Junghans.  Rivers and Bridges (SAAH010) marked a return to SBJ's impressionist and pastoral works, 
exhuming the ghost of Takoma Records and its heroes Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Peter Lang et al with 
remarkable beauty and grace.  Tracks showed up on two stellar compilations - Wooden Guitar (Locust Records), 
and You Can Never Drive Fast Enough (Plain Recordings), collectively alongside such names as Jack Rose, Sir 
Richard Bishop, Sonic Youth, Charalambides and Leadbelly (just to name a mere cross-section of those on the 
comps).  Now the time is nigh to unfurl one of SBJ's most ambitious works to date - the epic 7 Books, a 2xCD 
slated for birth April 6, 2004.  In a linear sense, 7 Books is the final work from a set of releases that were 
spawned from revelations Steffen had with his steel string guitar and its innate possibilities- those releases 
being INSIDE, Waters in Azure (Strange Attractors), and Landscapes in Exile.  With about an hour's worth on 
each of the two discs, each composition is a book to be opened, studied and ultimately immersed in. Steffen 
Basho-Junghans can reveal a host of micro-universes, ones that he unveils solely out of his instrument, in 
real time, with no added instrumentation or effects. An utterly complex and far-reaching achievement by this 
maverick of the steel string guitar.  More information forthcoming, stay tuned… 

10/1/03:
PAIK

Strange Attractors heartily welcomes Detroit, Michigan's PAIK to the Strange Attractors family!  Nearly 
one year ago, at the fifth installation of the Terrastock festival, our ears, eyes and bodies experienced 
a thorough pummeling at the hand of Paik for the very first time.  We were left reeling in the wake of their 
gloriously dynamic, intoxicating set, enhanced by a seriously otherworldly light and film show. Paik 
summon a seriously delirious thunder, using the backdrop of Detroit's industrial playground to inspire a 
cacophony of sound and vision.  Their music can at once transport the mind into a dazzling cosmic high 
as well as ultimately lacerate it beyond recognition. Walls of guitar provide the magic carpet, but this is 
no mere shoegaze or space rock act…at low volume the guitars ring and chime, at blistering volume they 
are gritty and rugged, a worn-in sound layered with rusted haze.  Spread out like a blanket over throbbing 
bass lines and a gigantic drum sound, Paik provide a lush soundscape of multiple textures laced with 
arsenic, across arrangements that are orchestral in scope and nothing short of epic.  The band has 
released 3 albums so far (the most recent being the magnificent The Orson Fader on Clairecords), 
and share space with Surface of Eceyon and Kinski on the 3-way split CD Crickets and Fireflies, 
released late last year on The Music Fellowship.  Right now, Paik are working on an ep (release TBA), 
but Strange Attractors will be releasing their 4th full length sometime in 2004.  Stay tuned for details.  
In the meantime, check out their bio on their very own Beyonder Records website, and pick up their 
albums, if you haven't done so already.


9/8/03:

VOCOKESH
How thrilling it is for us to introduce Vocokesh to the Strange Attractors family!  If your third eye was at all 
trained on underground psych/experimental rock in the 90's, then no doubt Vocokesh streaked like a fiery 
comet across your strained retinas.  Vocokesh is a heavens-scraping, amorphous mesh of vintage electronics 
and free-form acid soaked rock, exploring some seriously alien terrain with an elusively mechanical and 
intensely lysergic sound.  Richard Franecki is the mad hatter behind Vocokesh, forming the band to continue 
exploring his vision after leaving F/i, the legendary industrial/free-psych band from Milwaukee. In 1991, 
Vocokesh released their debut "Ispepaibara" on RRRecords, and so the word was out, screaming, about the 
new project from Franecki. From that point on, a slew of head-expanding recordings were released on Drag 
City and RRRecords, including the absolute classic of 90's psych "Smile! And Point at the Mountain?" 
(Drag City, 1995). It's been about 5 years since the last Vocokesh full length (Paradise Revisited, Drag 
City, 1998), so fans like me are excited to know that new music has, all the while, been stirring restlessly 
in Franecki's lair.  A new Vocokesh album is in the can, and the improv psych/electronics trajectories 
have not dissipated one bit.  And the sound? Ash Ra Tempel, Neu! and early Popol Vuh cut in for a dance 
while Metal Machine Music softly plays in the background…er, something to that effect.  Transcendent, 
gritty, hallucinatory - that is Vocokesh. We are extremely proud to announce the immenent release of The
Tenth Corner by Vocokesh in early 2004.

SUBARACHNOID SPACE
SubArachnoid Space have been picked to perform at this year's Stoner Hands of Doom festival, happening 
August 29-31 in Portland, Oregon at Berbati's Pan.  SAS are among good company with today's best 
underground stoner/heavy/doom rock etc bands, including Sunn O))), Amber Asylum, Porn (the Men Of) 
and more.  SAS perform on "ladies night", Sunday August 31.  

For more info, head to the ShoD site

Also Rising homepage


***On August 10, 2003, the kind folks at Aural Innovations dedicated the an entire segment of their 
"Space Rock Radio" program to Strange Attractors!  Featured in the hour-long segment are tracks by 
SubArachnoid Space, Surface of Eceyon, Landing, Planetarium Music, Cul de Sac, Ampbuzz, Steffen 
Basho-Junghans, Tsurubami & Rebel Powers! Check out a stream of it here.


6/8/03:                                                                                                                                                      

SURFACE OF ECEYON
In seemingly annual fashion, June 3 was Vessyl Day 2003!  In addition to the release of Dragyyn by Surface of 
Eceyon, fellow Vessyl collective members (and Surface of Eceyon members) Landing and (((VVRSSNN))) - AKA 
Adam Forkner of Yume Bitsu - release albums on the K Records label.  Landing offer Passages Through, a tantalizing 
morsel of mellow mellow brain candy which so happens to be the most representative recording of their amorphous 
ambient head to date.  (((VVRSSNN))) finds Adam Forkner in the company of folks like Phil Elvrum (Microphones), 
Kyle Field (Little Wings) and others with a heady dose of electronic pop and studio tryps and trykery.  Good times for 
the cerebellum...3 Lobed Recordings issued Tussyan Ruins by Surface of Eceyon back in April as part of their 
Purposeful Availment series.  Three tracks from the Dragyyn recording sessions that did not make it on the full length.  
Fantastic stuff!

TSURUBAMI
The Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective tour is in full swing, and Tsurubami are trampling across the earth along with it.  
Tsurubami are comprised of Emi Nobuko (drums) and Acid Mothers Temple cohorts Kawabata Makoto (guitar) and 
Higashi Hiroshi (bass).  Theirs is a firestorm of sound summoned from the collective depths of free improvisation, 
graciously showered upon the heads of those within their sphere.  Along with The Pardons and Kawabata Makoto solo, 
the clan are winding down their Euopean swing and heading over to the States to wind down some special, sporadic dates.  
Check the tour dates  to see if they are coming anywhere near you...UK label Riot Season has a disc coming out 
June 23; Gekkyukekkaichi is the most recent recording by Tsurubami from October 2002, and this will be released 
on Strange Attractors September 2 2003!  Stay tuned for details.

SUBARACHNOID SPACE
San Francisco's fabulous blue collar psych/drone quartet SubArachnoid Space are on tour now!  In support of their new 
full length album Also Rising, the band are heading east, many dates finding them in the Midwest for a good haul.  
They swing back to hit Seattle (first time since Terrastock 4), Eugene and Portland, Oregon (yay for us at Strange 
Attractors!).  So far the band has shared the stage on this tour with Neil Michael Hagerty, PAIK, Skye Klad and Fuzzhead.  
They look forward to dates with such varied acts as Bright, Major Stars, Lockgroove, Pengo, Arco Flute Foundation, Khante, 
Point Line Plane, Windy & Carl, Donovan's Brain, Bill Hoirst, Rollerball and even more slabs of PAIK!  Check their tour dates 
below and don't miss out on seeing one of the best live psych acts active today.

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS
A flurry of activity for Steffen Basho-Junghans culminated in a feature in May's issue of The Wire (on US newsstands now), 
but there's more in store for Berlin's steel-string slinger!  The folks over at the very cool label Locust Music are issuing a 4-way 
split CD entitled Wooden Guitar, a splendid anthology of unaccompanied, acoustic guitar workouts. SBJ is alongside the 
amazing modern guitarists Jack Rose (Pelt), Sir Richard Bishop (The Sun City Girls) and Tetuzi Akiyama (bject). Discs are 
silkscreened, hand numbered & embossed in an edition of 1,000. This is due to come out end of June.  Head over to the 
Locust website for more info...The newest Steffen Basho-Junghans recording Rivers and Bridges is $11 ppd.

REBEL POWERS
The debut recording by Rebel Powers is entitled Not One Star Will Stand the Night, and is scheduled to hit the shops 
September 2, 2003!  Comprised of Telstar Ponies and The Wire's very own David Keenan, Acid Mothers Temple members 
Kawabata Makoto and Cotton Casino, and former Acid Mothers Temple/Mainliner drummer Koizumi Hajime, Rebel Powers 
explore the barren corridors of human folly, a slow march of minimalist chiming and layering spread over two extended, 
improvised pieces.  This is a dense pool of sound that only opens up more the further in you dive. More info forthcoming.

CUL DE SAC
The band recorded a mesmerizing soundtrack to the Roger Corman produced film The Strangler's Wife - and we think we 
may have a release date!  Target October 21 on your calendar folks.  Art production is underway, and the mastering is in hand.  
Cul de Sac conjure vivid scenes from the film with their complex web of avant rock/electronics/middle eastern/folk sound.  An 
excellent follow up to this year's much acclaimed studio album Death of the Sun.  Much more on this subject to come...
Strange Attractors is looking to reissue Cul de Sac's seminal debut ECIM.  This will include bonus music and possibly some 
updated notes by the band.  2004 for this one.

05/12/03:

HARRIS NEWMAN
Strange Attractors is extremely proud to introduce Harris Newman as the newest addition to our ever-expanding 
roster of artists!  With a resume that boasts electric/upright bass duties in Constellation Records frayed-folksters 
Sackville, and audio mastering work through his Grey Market Mastering company (clients include such Montreal 
luminaries as Fly Pan Am, Hanged Up, A Silver Mount Zion and countless others), Harris Newman's solo music 
is a beautiful beast of a decidedly different color than the typical Montreal scene. Mr. Newman is a fingerstyle 
steel-string acoustic guitarist with a textured style and lush sound who happens to have created some of the 
most lyrical compositions for the instrument that these ears have heard in quite some time. In an era when, 
seemingly, anyone who plays instrumental music with an acoustic guitar as the centerpiece is automatically 
referenced to the late John Fahey, it is refreshing to hear someone whose approach actually comes from a 
perspective true to the American acoustic compositional tradition that Fahey and his Takoma Records imprint 
helped advance. Non-Sequiturs is the forthcoming debut release by Harris Newman, a fabulous album of 
acoustic guitar music with a disposition that is alternately effervescent and deeply mysterious. Newman's 
acoustic fingerpicking dances and swaggers, creating a sunny expanse of tunes that are augmented by stark, 
introspective passages. Much like Fahey's classic 1967 album The Yellow Princess, Newman juxtaposes 
pastoral songs against heady, experimental sound excursions.  For a few of the songs Newman is joined by 
Montreal-area percussionist  Bruce Cawdron, and the combination at times exhumes the exploratory genre-
blending spirit of Sandy Bull's first couple of albums; muted, mallet-driven percussion grooves evoke Billy 
Higgins-style jazziness as an undercurrent for the tumbling, glistening guitar lines. Non-Sequiturs is a beautiful 
album rich in texture and color, a record that should help place Newman firmly in the vanguard of today's 
underground folk scene.  Harris Newman will be playing some shows this summer in Canada, with more in the 
works this fall in the US as well as a glance towards the European continent in the Winter. Look for Non-
Sequiturs to be released on CD by Strange Attractors in October 2003.  More information forthcoming.

04/07/03:

Announcing two new recruits to the Strange Attractors roster: Rebel Powers and Tsurubami!  Both of these bands enjoy a 
common tie - the uber cosmic guitar spew of Kawabata Makoto, master of ceremonies for psychedelic freak gods Acid 
Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO.  Although Kawabata's 6-string prowess fuels the fire behind both 
Tsurubami and Rebel Powers, these are no mere Acid Mothers Temple off-shoot projects, but rather full fledged bands 
who may be coming your way soon.

REBEL POWERS
In 1998, Acid Mothers Temple went on a swing of the UK that sowed the seeds for a new cosmic unit, Rebel Powers.  
Kawabata Makoto, Cotton Casino and original AMT drummer Koizumi Hajime met up with David Keenan, guitarist for 
Glasgow's Telstar Ponies and prominent scribe for London's premier new music mag The Wire, and holed up in South 
London's Moat Studios to let the heavenly river flow.  With legendary engineer and Moat head honcho Toby Robinson behind 
the boards, who has worked with Stockhausen and has recorded the likes of Fushitsusha and Derek Bailey, the circle 
was complete to adequately document the happening.  The result is magic, but magic of an entirely different sort of 
conjuring, a sound that is a unique entry in the ongoing AMT fable.  Rebel Powers explore minimalist sound layering via 
two long, improvised tracks.  Sustained guitar notes chime while waves of concrete percussive clatter and Cotton's 
siren wails slowly build momentum. Sounds are methodically layered and gently peeled away, revealing a ringing guitar 
chord or two at its very core. Imagine the sort of dark themes and tolling guitar found on Popol Vuh's soundtrack to 
Nosferatu, oozing ever forward backed by a choir of banshees. Minimalism is certainly the order of the day, but a sort 
of minimalism that has been rendered catatonic, eerie, otherworldly.  Rebel Powers shows a different side of Kawabata 
Makoto than his motor-psycho guitar pyrotechnics, and offers a template for each member to offer their own flourishes.  
Although the Rebel Powers recording comes from deeper within the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective vaults, that need 
not mean the group is therefore relegated to the annals of the archives, nor does it mean this is just another Makoto-led 
AMT offshoot.  Rebel Powers is laying plans to play some shows and do a bit of touring. In the meantime, Strange Attractors 
is proud to release Rebel Powers' debut Not One Star Will Stand the Night, slated to see the light of day in Fall 2003.

TSURUBAMI
Tsurubami is comprised of Kawabata Makoto (guitar), Emi Nobuko (drums), and Acid Mothers Temple's Higashi Hiroshi 
(bass), formed while they were still members of Tenkyo no To, the precursor to the Acid Mothers Temple Soul 
Collective. Of the many high-flyin' Acid Mothers Temple units, Tsurubami could be the most philosophical and deeply 
spiritual. The crux of the band hinges upon the deep seeded realization that all three members are linked from a previous 
existence to become blood brothers in this life.  Via this link, the group adopts the central tenants of Inyo Gogyo as its 
central theme - the theory of the two principles of the five elements of Earth (Yin and Yang).  Upon entering Tsurubami's 
sphere for the first time, it is immediately evident that a higher form of consciousness is at play.  Composing their music 
entirely from improvisation, Tsurubami whip up a furious windstorm of sound. Resonating guitars drowned in echo-chamber 
effects burst with intense volume over restless bass pulses and multi-directional drum patterns, scattering sonic debris 
like clouds of pollen over unsuspecting heads. Not all of the Tsurubami experience is fire and brimstone however; sound 
streams ebb and flow, finding lilting pockets of relief that are almost yearning and ballad-like. Summoning the fire walking 
bliss of Fushitsusha-style psychedelic guitar meltdowns and an exploratory free jazz swing of a BYG/Actuel variety, 
Tsurubami is certainly the most liberated unit of the entire AMT family tree. All in all, Tsurubami inspire awe through a raw, 
organic display of the subconscious mind exposed. Recorded in October 2002, Strange Attractors is proud to announce the 
release of Gekkyukekkaichi, slated to come out in Fall 2003.

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS
Rivers and Bridges, the third release by Berlin's finest string-slinger Steffen Basho-Junghans, is out now and the recipient 
of some glowing praise by The Wire, All Music Guide, Brainwashed.com, Action Man Magazine, Indieville and Junkmedia. A 
pastoral return to his Takoma roots, his steel string brilliance dances rings around your ears.  $11 ppd direct from our site...
Plenty of activity abounds these days for Steffen Basho-Junghans.  A fantastic new compilation on Plain Recordings features 
SBJ alongside some serious underground heavy-hitters.  Entitled You Can Never Go To Fast, this CD/2xLP tribute to the 
1970's underground film Two Lane Blacktop includes all exclusive tracks by Sonic Youth, Sandy Bull, Wilco, Cat Power, 
Calexico, Giant Sand, Roy Montgomery, Alan Licht/Will Oldham, Charalambides, Leadbelly (!) and plenty more.  SBJ's contribution 
is "Lazy Waters", available only via this comp.  Astounding!!!  For more information, head to the Plain Recordings website...
At long last, the promised second issue of the fantastic bound book/'zine Yeti is finally out, and SBJ is featured prominently.  
An interview with him is included, and two exclusive SBJ tracks bookend the compilation, which also includes incredible 
contributions from Six Organs of Admittance, Iron & Wine, Califone, Pell Mell, Bill Horist, Keith Fullerton Whitman and many 
more.  Woo!  For more info go to www.nobrow.org…Borderline is a radio program on central Germany's Free Radio Kassel, 
rebroadcast via ResonanceFM and much lauded by the folks at The Wire, among others.  SBJ was the subject of a "Borderline 
Extra", an entire hour devoted to the man and the music.  The show is archived, and if you speak German, then double bonus for you! 
Check it: http://www.borderline-extra.de/…The Wire has a "Bites" feature on SBJ coming out in their May issue, written 
by the wonderful David Keenan.  Watch newsstands in May, or stay up to date at The Wire website.

SURFACE OF ECEYON
Vessyl day 2003 is coming up!  June 3 will see the release of Surface of Eceyon's second disc, Dragyyn on Strange Attractors, 
as well as new releases by Landing and (((Version))) (Adam Forkner of Surface of Eceyon and Yume Bitsu), both on K Records.  
For those uninitiated to the Surface Of Eceyon experience, the band is comprised of ¾ of Landing, Adam of Yume Bitsu/
(((Version))), and the post-kraut percussion inventions of Phil Jenkins. Read about Dragyyn here... Surface of Eceyon is 
spreading their heady love all around.  Three Lobed Recordings is issuing right about now an ep by the band as part of their 
Purposeful Availment subscription ep series.  The tunes were recorded during the many sessions that lead to the creation of 
Draggyn, but just didn't make the cut.  That means it is crucial to get it and get it ASAP.  For more info, head to the 
Three Lobed Recordings website…The mysterious "label that could not be named" (really, they don't have a name) responsible 
for the "authorized bootleg" live LP by Acid Mothers Temple Born to be Wild in the USA 2000 are donning their pirate's cap 
once again, this time with Surface of Eceyon as their Shanghi'd subjects.  In the works is an "authorized bootleg" LP of SOE 
live, to be titled Revenge of Dragyyn.  Word has it this will be out late summer/fall, so keep an eye out, and if we get any 
more info on the unnamed label's shenanigans, we'll let you know!

CUL DE SAC
Death of the Sun is out now and is spinning magic in the heads of many enlightened folks worldwide.  The Wire, Junkmedia, 
Dusted, All Music Guide, Fakejazz, Indieville etc have all sung its praises, and the discerning folk at the great Aquarius Records 
in SF even picked it shortly after its release as a highlight!  It's been a humbling experience working with the band and issuing 
this record, as I feel it to be the best and most challenging work in Cul de Sac's 13 year career.  Head to the Death of the Sun 
homepage ...Reprising last year's glorious meeting, Cul de Sac have collaborated with legendary ex-Can vocalist Damo Suzuki 
again.  Right now they are wrapping up a tour of Europe, Cul de Sac's first ever jaunt to the continent!  Remaining tour dates 
are listed on the shows/tours page.

KINSKI
Airs Above Your Station is the latest epic offering by Seattle's hands-down best quartet, an album rich in density and detail, 
alternately riff-a-delic and pillowed in subtle drone waves that curl up in that soft spot in your head, refusing to detach.  They 
are on Sub Pop, but we issued a gatefold 2xLP.  This is a strictly limited pressing of 1000, and they are going very very fast…but 
hey, if you haven't picked up this amazing album on the superior vinyl format, there's still time before they are gone gone gone 
and only to found ripping you off on Ebay!  Get it here while the getting's still good...The band has embarked on a full US tour 
through the month of April, so check the tour dates below to see when they are coming near you.

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CUL DE SAC
Cul de Sac is on the move. The band is planning a reprise of their fantastic collaboration with legendary ex-CAN vocalist
Damo Suzuki, a meeting and melding of the minds which torched up clubs and electrified radio airwaves across the eastern
half of the United States and Canada last year. Would you believe Mr. Suzuki and Cul de Sac met just one day before they
embarked on tour, without a single rehearsal? If you caught any of these shows…to think it was all of-the-moment seriously
jars all logic from the brain. But the magic and telepathy that occurred was entirely spontaneous. Some things were just
meant to be…Beginning March 21, Cul de Sac head for Europe, joining up with Damo Suzuki for the band's first-ever overseas
tour. Details are listed in the tour section...Death of the Sunis the band's first studio recording since 1999's epochal
Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall album on Thirsty Ear (last year's sublime live radio performance Immortality Lessons
notwithstanding), and the first release with the new lineup. Is it ever a scorcher, a total jaw-dropper. Death of the Sun
is out now! Head to the official DOTS page for more information.

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS
Steffen Basho-Junghans is the subject of a lengthy feature in the latest issue of Sound Collector (#8), the great bound 'zine
targeting all sorts of laudable audibles. Written by Bill Meyer (who composed the liner notes for the Rivers and Bridges), the
article really taps into the source of a truly innovative musician, not to mention a remarkably fascinating individual. An exclusive
track is featured on the accompanying SC compilation, "PS", an outtake from the INSIDE sessions. Hunt it down - Sound
Collector is an oasis of aesthetic integrity in a largely empty hole we like to call the "music industry". Rivers and Bridges is
out now, $11ppd! Head to the official Rivers and Bridges page for more information.

SUBARACHNOID SPACE
San Francisco's levitating instrumentalists SubArachnoid Space announce the release of their fantastic eight album, Also Rising,
coming out on Strange Attractors April 8! Long revered for their improvised flights of modern acid rock experimentation, Also Rising
finds the band honing their craft into a finely sharpened prism, a record aimed for your gut as well as your head. Also Rising is the
new revelatory oracle, the band's most powerful, focused and simply finest recording to date. Watch for details as to when the album
will be available for mail order...surprisingly, there are still copies floating about of their split LP with BARDO POND, on Camera
Obscura. Tigris/Euphrates is the name, and oh man, is this ever the shit! Fucking essential! This is a limited pressing of 500 on
silky smooth Czech vinyl. Head to the Camera Obscura page for full info, and purchase there or at Eclipse-Records Mailorder (ideal
for US domestic customers) …SubArachnoid Space are hell-bent to embark upon a US tour in support for Also Rising, so watch your
back, they're coming for you…more details on that in the not-so-distant future, but in the meantime, dig their impeccable website,
chock full of photos, bio/discography/show info, exclusive news and chat page.

SURFACE OF ECEYON
Surface of Eceyon have completed recording and mixing their new album, entitled Dragyyn! Get ready for some serious trajectory
into inner space…this is a sprawling masterpiece of sonic nuance, extended trips of improvised minimalist psychedelia for the modern
age. We are looking towards June 4 as a release date, so hang in there…Oh yeah, and they put the "y" in "Eceon", where before it was
conspicuously absent. It's not a typo. Not very Drystonnian of them to leave out the all-important letter "y", but when you occupy the outer reaches of Dryystan and are engulfed in the grips of the Golden Vessyl of Sound, sometimes these things can be forgotten. No worries, same great fucking band! In other news, Surface of Eceyon are guest stars on two new comps. Firstly, they offer up "Amber Light" on the compilation CD included in the latest issue of Masstransfer. This is an exclusive track, so hunt/kill to get your grubby hands on the mind expansion. More info can be found at the Masstransfer website…Crickets and Fireflies, the second edition in hopefully an ongoing series of 3-way split CDs on The Music Fellowship, finds the band holding hands with KINSKI and PAIK.
"Concert of Stars" is the 30-minute roof-raiser, marking some of the earliest sounds Surface of Eceyon ever uttered. Essential
stuff! Get it now, get it now, need I say get it now? Go to the Music Fellowship and treat yourself.

LANDING
Fade In/Fade Out has been garnering the praise it deserves. If you haven't hopped on their special gilded cloud then you best get
a' hopping, because this is Landing at their most transcendent. $9 ppd gets you a ride for life, so head to the Fade In/Fade Out
page...Landing can also be found on the latest Masstransfer #5 compilation, offering the exclusive track "Distant Lands". Listen while
you read the interview with the band featured in the very same issue! Don't forget to get your copy of New Found Land, the first 3-way split on the Music Fellowship, co-starring the great Yellow6 and Rothko...K Records has invited the band to release their next full-length, and they have accepted. Entitled Passages Through, the release should see light of day in May. Needless to say, this release will be similar in vein to Seasons (Ba Da Bing, 2001), shimmering away with lofty pop goodness. Just heard a sneak preview today and it is indeed fabulous, a great representation of all Landing has to offer. Super sweet!