Vinyl Releases:: prices include domestic postage Group B "Live at Vics" 7" ThiRD Word no.2, 300 pressed, 2 color silkscreened cover Performing live at Big Vs AKA Vics Flying V Lounge in St Paul Minnesotas Midway neighborhood some ten years ago to 20 or so willing and nearly blacked out participants,this stellar performance was recorded LIVE on a stereo cassette recorder and pressed to vinyl for evermore. Singer-Violinist Naomi Joy reads the crowd like a magazine article, anticipating their thoughts and jeers,using it as fodder in unusual public mimicry. $5 Impractical Cockpit "Poverty is Violence AKA Adopt A MindField" 12" ThiRD Word no.3, 600 pressed, 5 color silkscreened cover and extensive booklet Recorded to half-inch 8 track in Minneapolis wintertime after a long tour with band fluency-solvency at an all-time high, even though a serious bicycle-carwreck and subsequent surgery made drummer Don Godwin dust off his drum machines and stow away the Ludwigs. This is one of IPCPs more structured albums to date despite Maximum Rock and Roll Magazine saying "its like Confusion is Sex era Sonic Youth only without the songs." Sounds like they skimmed it. $12 FLAKMASK "Combover and Over Again" 7" ThiRD Word no.7, 300 pressed, 2 color silkscreened cover Once described as "Einsturzende Neubauten auditions for Riverdance"or to quote DB, "Soundtrack gravy for a morning swamped in long conversations with refridgerators and short walks with a deprivation champion." $5 FLAKMASK "These Landscaping Enhancements" 12" ThiRD Word no.9, 300 pressed, 2 color silkscreened cover Recorded all analog in Post Katrina New Orleans, focusing on transition and degradation of the land through ill-planned inhuman development sprawlscape from a decidedly obtuse angle. Sounds are made by a gaggle of instruments, including drum machines, keytronix, vocal cords, and flat and prepared guitar to name a few. $12 IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT "Best of Thanks tape volume 2 or Audio Thistory" 12" ThiRD Word no.11, 600 pressed, 2 color screenprinted covers Impractical Cockpit has played more than 200 shows to date, and in and attempt to stay in communication with show goers, IPCP through out the years have asked folks to sign their mailing list. Occasionally the list would be reviewed and a cassette tape of live material, studio outtakes, pertinent found sounds or unreleased material would be sent by mail to each person who signed the list. This new Lp "Best of Thanks Tape Volume 2, or Audio Thistory," includes favored excerpts from the VOLUME 2 cassette, made up of studio outtakes, a live radio performance, and incidental jams as well as a segment of postapocalyptic field recordings of the desolate streetscapes of New Orleans just 3 weeks following Hurricane Katrina with most of the city deserted. $12 Bone Rattle "WHICH TOYZ." 12" ThiRD Word no. 13, 600 pressed, Full Color Cover Tie yourself on a feedbag of slightly decayed dog bones and crushed plastic kids toys you found in a cheeze whiz dumpster, throw your inhabitations out the window and dance your ass off to these highly damaged, anthemic, home made synth and drum songs.This is analog plunger punk at its best!!!! FEATURING: members of CHILD BRIDE, DREAM HOUSE, BLUE SHIFT and RIDDLIN. $12 Uke of Spaces Corners "Flowers in the Night" 12" ThiRD Word no.14 The UKES bring us all another butter country moon fried farm folk bammer to sing or bang a gong along to. Once again this release features a full band of self taught weirdo clinger and clangers carefully caressing tones out of anything from an effected mandolin to a marble in the bottom if a well tuned 5 gallon bucket. Players include Andy Neubauer, Dan B, Amy Moon O-s, Kristen Myers, Caleb Gamble, and Ben Grubb. Cover art by Janel Beckman and printed by Leif Goldburg. Insert art by Amy Moon and Kristen Myers. $12 IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT "FACILIDAD?" 12" ThiRD Word no. 16, 500 pressed, Full Color Jacket. Facilidad? is Impractical Cockpit's 7th full length LP since their inception more than 10 years ago in the cold and blustery Minneapolis winter of 1998. After several "relocation efforts," the band settled for 6 years in the vibrant port of New Orleans just after the turn of the new millennium, honing in on their signature approach to Noise infused songwriting. Always brewing up their own slog of psychedelic punk the Cockpits have managed to stay true to their all-analog asthetic no matter how difficult this can be on shoe string budgets. After their crew was totally displaced by the horrific events of Hurricane Katrina, the band re-formed in New Orleans in the Spring of 2006 to spend a month writing a new album, unavoidably inspired by the desolate depressed post Katrina landscape. Mountains of molding garbage lined the streets as cats claw and ivy tore through watermarked walls of recently abandoned buildings. The National Guard paced through the streets in armored vehicles, and constant gunshots rang through the thick stillness of decay and toppled over trees. After putting together a live set there, which was to later become this album known as Facilidad?, the Cockpits embarked on a 2 month tour, with a 2 week recording session scheduled right in the middle. Traveling in a home made vegetable oil powered motor home as a 5 piece band, with 2 dogs, and a battery of instruments, they played the album all the way through every night of the tour. The set varied wildly from night to night. The result is this multi-track recording, a culmination of all of their previous efforts summed up in an opus. Balkan informed brass arrangements get smacked to tape alongside the thick improvisational gumbo of triaged hand crafted paper reed horns and drum machines. Plywood gets smashed to shit and an abandoned warehouse stairwell provides an echochamber for choral arrangements complete with barking dog. On the albums closer "Guru's Plume," a homemade electric violin gets heavy usage, played in the Northern Louisiana Michot family tuning of EBEB. Shrill reverb drenched vocals are softened by intense but loosely slung rubber band looped keyboards while talismans are shaken is a steel tea cup. Now somewhat disbanded, each member of Impractical Cockpit seems to be digging themselves deeper into whatever sonic obsession they see fit for these crucial times. But that's not to say that this is the last time we're likely to hear from Impractical Cockpit. Produced and engineered by IPCP, Jeremy Harris and Ryan Fontaine. Recorded to 8 track 1/2 inch tape. Mastered by Peerless Mastering. $12 C Section 8 "Urban Music" 12" ThiRD Word no.17, 500 pressed, multi-color screenprint cover I wish it could have been a double, but its finally thirty five minutes of wax after years and years of cassection-8 for you subwolfers out there. Alas, the aerobics class needs a chalkboard accompaniment and someone better check the instructors erratic heart beat, ie Drew. Using clock tracks, basics and a storkrugfull of gadgets, analog synthtronica is his labor of love. Amazing covers screened by the instructor himself-URBAN MUSIC has to be heard to be believed. Featuring Drew Ryan of FLAK MASK, and Uke Of Spaces Corners. $12 Ancestral Diet "V.I.T.R.I.O.L." 12" ThiRD Word no.18, screenprinted on recycled jackets Caethua and Debbie Diaper have been teaming up off air well before Thursday and tend to use those nights of their radio show INSIDE OUTSIDER SOUNDS to wind down after the week has just flown by. Put to tape and assembled in the last months of their sorely missed studio, WALKING ON ICE. Layers of loops and vocal sound forms, A.D. illustrate for the listeners a spelunking holiday that goes on a little too long, just a little bit further, the mouth is just around that corner. A small light illuminates a small cavern just fine. What did you see? Featuring Andy Neubauer of Impractical Cockpit, Doggerella Decided Upon, Flak Mask, Curtain Call, Uke of Spaces etc, and Caethua of Sports, Uke of Spaces Corners and SAX WAND fame. $12 Curtain Call "Before You Seal This" Cassette C-40 ThiRD Word no.19, Looks like DOGGERELLA finally wandered into an alpine grove without a compass or even water to drink or a hat and gloves or anything like that, with maybe no hope to see the light of day again, except as maybe a ten year retroactive compilation box set called 'TO SUMMERIZE.' This present cassette however was crafted in Belfast, Maine, entirely by an artist who has been accused of being the offspring of alien life forms somewhere down the line. While supplies last. Featuring Andy Neubauer of Impractical Cockpit, FLAK MASK etc. $4 Uke of Phillips(Spaces Corners) "Peppermint Birdhouse Tea Shanty Shack" 12" Mississippi Recs/Domino Sound Reissue, 500 pressed, 2 color screenprint on Maine-made paper pasted onto recycled jackets This reissue of the GUTTER COUNTY classic, PEPPERMINT BIRD HOUSE TEA SHANTY SHACK is almost exactly the same as the original pressing that was made in 2004. The only thing that is missing in the reissue is the FREE ORDER OF TOAST coupon that was included in the original pressing on TURNED WORD RECORDS, redeemable at the one and only SEWARD CAFEin MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. This time around, DOMINO SOUND and MISSISSIPPI RECORDS teamed up to make sure the project saw completion in a timely fashion and didn't fade further into obscurity. No fancy re-mastering was done here. All MONO all analog all the way. With a roaming cast of characters, this album was recorded almost entirely in a 8' by 10' shack in New Orleans on to a street scored 1/4" two track tape machine. Using all original folk song forms as their guide, the Ukes utilized home made plate reverb, drum machines, French horn, acoustic guitar through Leslie rotating speaker, effected keyboards and violin among other musical objects melded with broken falsetto and hand held field recordings in an attempt to communicate with the world at large. Mixing was done at Mark Bingham's Piety Studios and the mastering was done by Custom Mastering, in Nashville. Featuring members of Flak Mask, IPCP, CS8, etc. $12 Krewe of Eris 12" Domino Sound Records no. 26, 2 color screenprinted image on 1 color offset printed jacket They meet in the street and time seems to stop late at night at Dauphine and Press streets they are about to proceed shaking through neighborhoods to the FRENCH QUARTER where they will battle police and gather on the tops of unsuspecting cars lit up with lights of many colors and wearing outrageous coordinated costumes handing out the included written manifestoes which can hopefully speak for themselves. This field recorded album takes you along with the KREWE OF ERIS in all their naughty splendor-cascading brass melodies and street wise rhythm section who may roam some but know when its time to roost. $12 CD Releases:: Uke of Phillips(Spaces Corners) "Peppermint Birdhouse Tea Shanty Shack" ThiRD Word no.4, 1000 pressed The LP version of this seminal guttercountry classic has long been out of print, but the cd, with 3 extra songs is still available. Gloriously illustrated by Amy Moon. $12 Uke of Spaces Corners "So Far on the Way" ThiRD Word no.8, 2000 pressed This is Uke's third official release to date. "Accompanied by Amy Moon O.S. and a host of other NEO-HICKS, Ukes create wildly interesting tableau recalling early Michael Hurley a bit in terms of pure backwoods falsetto/stumble madness." BYRON COLEY $12 Uke of Spaces Corners "Flowers in the Night" ThiRD Word no.14 The UKES bring us all another butter country moon fried farm folk bammer to sing or bang a gong along to. Once again this release features a full band of self taught weirdo clinger and clangers carefully caressing tones out of anything from an effected mandolin to a marble in the bottom if a well tuned 5 gallon bucket. Players include Andy Neubauer, Dan B, Amy Moon O-s, Kristen Myers, Caleb Gamble, and Ben Grubb. Cover art by Janel Beckman and printed by Leif Goldburg. Insert art by Amy Moon and Kristen Myers. $12 Uke of Spaces Corners County "ALBUMEN/OVUM" ThiRD Word no.15, 500 pressed, Digipack covers with fullcolor sticker. Paying tribute to the mighty egg, UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY take the opportunity to stretch way out on this release, with a collection of late winter early spring burners to welcome in the coming season of fertility and new beginnings. Neo-Sea shanties and dreaming yelping dogs make way for freight train field recordings and song poems, allowing a lush backdrop of defined yet spacious riffs to enter into the sonic field by means of electric, acoustic and prepared guitars, analog drum machines, stand up bass, trombone, effected keyboards, bells and fingersnaps. This is the cd version of previously released and now out of print cassette on Goaty Tapes. The cd reissue features a print of a beautiful watercolor rendition of the original cassette cover art by Amy Moon. $12 Uke Of Spaces Corners "Maine Sketches Thermal Stresses Vol. II" CDR turned word restock "The recording presents field recordings of silly, skilled Manson family types writing songs about their daily existence with a diverse sense of melody and odd percussive charms. The lo-fi production value adds a spooky resonance to the campfire songs. Uke's sweet vision of the surrounding universe flows through the album. The band's abstract instrumentals trap repetitive, crooked guitar lines within industrial voids and the tin-can production increases the bleakness. Uke exhibits a knack for dressing up slanted, no wave guitar lines to sound like they jumped out of the Anthology of American Folk Music. Another prize trd." S. Kobak. $8 Out Of Print Releases Uke "So Far On The Way" LP Shep & ME "Cloudy Chowder" LP CORNDAWG "IM Not Ready To Be A Daddy" LP We have 10 years of out of print unnumbered cassettes and cdr releases which we hope to one day add to the OUT OF PRINT SECTION, or put back into print   COMMING SOOON:: DBH cassette Questions? Comments? email trd_wd@yahoo.com If you prefer to mailorder instead of PayPal, please make checks or money orders out to Dan Beckman or Andy Neubauer (international shipping, include $13). Send orders, letters, and/or music to this address: TRD W/d Records P.O. 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