A song for guitar struck up in a strange tavern,
The elder-bushes there, a November day long past,
Familiar steps on the twilit stair, the sight of beams turned brown,
An open window where a sweet hope lingered—
All this, O God, is so unutterable that one falls shattered to ones knees.
O, how dark is the night. A crimson flame
Died in my mouth. In the silence
The line stringed music of the fearful soul dies away.
Stay, when drunk with wine, your head sinks to the gutter.
-G. Trakl
"THE FIRST STONE" by Linda Spjut to be released January 2012.
RUSTLE VV compilation coming soon.
OCTOBER 24, 2011
LINDA SPJUT release forthcoming. We're all in love with it, listen: "How Do You Do"
The long howl thrills me through! Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch! Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,—as wild, untutored things are forced to feed—Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences! - HM
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Several new release to come. Bernard Herman, Roosevelt, PERFVGIVM, T.E. Cottingham, Annonymous Wax Cylinder Home Recordings Compilation, etc.
I Looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one. - HM
JUNE 16, 2011
RVV 006 005 004 & 003 now available at Wall of Sound, Seattle, WA.
MAY 3, 2011
Night! the lute as daylight But dim
A cloister strangely near a hill
Rang the evening chimes of prayor
The shadows of the miniature lamps
Shaped strange unseen, frightful creatures
Of horrid ghosts, vailed in pale caps
The Solitude teeming in its hush
Let the unseen noises of insects clear
Buzz in their melancholy wiery hum
Dreams are short, But their Beauties are
Rare, night is long, causes thought
Its Freedom, of Fantasie to acquire
The grey demon clouds covered Heaven
Which hid the moon, but stars retreating fought
S Greenberg c.1915
APRIL, 13 2011
RVV TP005 PERFVGIVM - "THAT FADING WELL" & RVV TP006 BERNARD HERMAN - "MONGREL SCRIBBLER" now available at Printed Matter, NYC
MARCH 11, 2011
RVV TP 003 004 005 & 006 all available now at 3 Reckess Records locations in Chicago.
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
PERFVGIVM to perform at Smith's Tavern, Brooklyn, NY Thurs. February 17th.
RVV TP001 ROOSEVELT self-titled demo SOLD OUT
RVV TP005 PERFVGIVM - "THAT FADING WELL" & RVV TP006 BERNARD HERMAN - "MONGREL SCRIBBLER" now available at Hospital Productions, NYC & Academy Records Annex, Brooklyn, NY
JANUARY 7, 2011
Production begun on RVV TP005 and RV TP006.
New ROOSEVELT tape to be out by Spring 2011
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