Wampus Multimedia thanks
artists, media, and supporters for seeing it through a groundbreaking year
in 2005. After releasing seven new records and reissuing three more, the
label is retooling to reach new audiences.
Ideas? We would
love to hear from you.
In the meantime,
happy perusing... and happy holidays!
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Your Alternate Universe: Releases from Wampus
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Various
Artists / Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon
Emerging
artists interpret the literate, modern songcraft of the "poet of Gower
Avenue."
tvfordogs
/ Roller
Melodic,
crunchy, and already under your skin.
Alice Despard /
Vessel
Patti Smith
meets Neil Young -- with a little Mission of Burma to boot.
Johnny J Blair
/ Treadmarks
Imagine if
Raymond Chandler and Sam Cooke were street musicians busking with David
Bowie's beat-up 12-string guitar.
Arms
of Kismet / Cutting Room Rug
Brooding and
poppy, funny and foreboding, it's toe-tapping, tragicomic rock 'n' roll.
Casey
Abrams / Like a Mirror
Reflecting
folk, jazz, and the American songbook, it takes Paul Simon and Don McLean
back to their roots.
Cafebar
401
Brimming
with darkly sweet pop hooks, it calls to mind Coldplay, Radiohead, and Queens
of the Stone Age.
Arms
of Kismet / Eponymous
Literate
and insidiously catchy, it's postmodern pop for the savvy, ironic streetcrawler.
Various
Artists / After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed
Emerging artists tell the story of an artist unencumbered by popular expectations,
yet... popular.
Various
Artists / If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman
A
wildly entertaining ride through the repertoire of one of rock's most original
and eclectic songwriters.
tvfordogs
/ Heavy Denver
Definitive
modern rock from London-based trio.
Kowtow
Popof / Kowtow Drops the Pop Off
Powerfully
nuanced postmodern rave-ups that set the car radio ablaze. "Preternaturally
surrealist post-pop." --Eve Zibart, The Washington Post
Amateur
God / Near Life Experience
Dark
gothic-semi-vocal-ambient music in the tradition of Mylene Farmer, Art of
Noise, and Voivod.
Mitch Renault &
Arms of Kismet / Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack
Snappy
songs and snippets from the film.
Various
Artists / Glass Flesh 2: a Tribute to Robyn Hitchcock
Twenty-one
great ways to skin Robyn Hitchcock's cat.
Wampeters
/ Murder Your Darlings
It's
the end of the line... until the line starts again. "A
great narrative album. The last great mainstream release that exemplifies
this method of development of style and sound is Wilco's Summer Teeth."
--Heidi Drockelman, IndieMusic.com
Mark
Doyon / Bonneville Stories
Crisp
fiction from Arms of Kismet's Mark
Doyon that's as dark as optimism gets. "A brilliant collection
of beautifully written stories that made me cringe, grimace, and laugh,
while sometimes moving me to great pity.... There just aren't any
flaws here, and I can't possibly do this book justice in a review. No one
could, really...." --Laurie
Edwards, CultureDose.net
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1929763093/qid=1034199246/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_7/102-8551637-2399362?v=glance&n=507846
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Coming
in 2006-07
- Donnie
/ Kissing the Kaaba (2006)
- Donnie
/ Rake's Progress: Leaves and Grass, remastered (2006)
- Mark
Doyon / Slingshot to Obscurity (2006)
- Kowtow
Popof / End of Greatness (2006)
- Kowtow
Popof / Exalted Headband (2006)
- Wampeters
/ Days of Beer and Daisies: 1994-2006 (2006)
- Arms
of Kismet / Play for Affection (2007)
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