Oxbow

Oxbow needs no introduction on this part of the web. An all time personal favorites for me, so here's one of these big posts with all the rare stuff I've managed to grab along the way, bootlegs, videos.

1992.10.02 - Live Video At Kennel Club, San Francisco, California
This one was actually uploaded to youtube not too long ago but for some reason vanished, so I'm here to fix that.

Eugene Robinson
Les Tontons Flingueurs, Rennes, 1995

00:00 30 Miles
05:24 Burn
10:51 Curse
16:15 Daughter
20:33 Bomb
26:24 Unknown (early version of The Virgin Bride perhaps ?)

2002.05.19 - Live Video At Diksmuide, Belgium
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. Black Light Improvisation
2. Skin
3. Yoke
4. Sorry
5. Stallkicker
6. Woe
7. Sweetheart
8. The Valley
9. Glimmer (partial)

2003 - Music For Adults
Documentary

2003.10.11 - Live on Futility Fest at Nyabinghi, Youngstown, Ohio

Dan Adams, Eugene, Greg Davis, Niko Wenner
Live at The Eagle, San Francisco, 2004

1. Intro / Sweetheart
2. Bull's Eye
3. Sawmill
4. Burn
5. The Last Good Time (Youtube Video)
6. 1000
7. Babydoll
8. O'Clock
9. ...The Stick

2004.11.14 - Live Video At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. ...The Stick
2. Bullseye
3. Babydoll
4. 1000
5. Sawmill

2009.11.16 - Live Bootleg at Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France

1. 3 O'Clock
2. Sawmill
3. Babydoll
4. The Geometry of Business
5. La Luna
6. Frank's Frolic
7. She's A Find
8. Coalking
9 + 10. Cat And Mouse 
11. Over
12. Angel

2011 - The Luxury of Empire
I tend not to post new things here as you may know.. but it's more than 10 years now, think it's long enough. I know it was already circulating online for a couple of years anyway.

1. The Luxury of Empire (documentary)
2. Still Before (documentary)
3. 2009.11.08 - Live Video at La Maroquinerie, Paris, France

    1. Down A Stair Backward
    2. Yoke
    3. Sawmill
    4. Time, Gentlemen, Time
    5. Bull's Eye
    6. Sorry
    7. Shine (Glimmer)
    8. Babydoll (includ. intro with lyrics from future A Gentleman's Gentleman)
    9. Sunday
    10. Last Good Time

2012.10.22 - Live Bootleg at Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, England
Oxbow Orchestra, not to be confused with Love's Holiday Orchestra, this one is indeed, a classical orchestra, and featuring only Niko and Eugene.

00:00 Bomb (Partial Youtube Video)
06:55 Cold And Well-Lit Place
11:40 She's A Find
19:52 Unknown
25:50 Unknown
34:08 Ecce Homo
39:20 The Valley
50:23 1000 (encore, Niko and Eugene alone) (Partial Youtube Video)

I'm always on the lookout for 2012's official "In Camera" and not gonna buy a pricey second hand DVD for 3 songs on discogs. Also looking for a track called "Brujita", released on "Double of Love Volume Uno" compilation. If you have those or anything else interesting, don't spare us please.

The Garden/The River Split

Kids like The Garden (right ?), I like The Garden.. so here's The Garden.
I've had this split files lying around for years and wanted to post it, but haven't got to do it (like many other planned posts, someday). And now when I finally got it, I discovered that in the meantime it was uploaded to the band's youtube channel, so I wasn't planning to post it, but I noticed that my version has an extra song, with unknown origin, so of course it justifies this post just for the slim chance some fanatic groupie will ever stumble upon it.
The track order is also different from the known tape version, I left it as it was. I excluded The River's part of the split since it's available on their bandcamp.

1. Fruits & Vegetables
2. Quick
3. Tear
4. Bag
5. Release
6. Indina Hollering
7. Silk
8. Glass Eyes
9. Fantasies
10. Air

The Consultant's Flower Garden

Convulsif Big Band

When I made a list of 2016 releases you shouldn't miss, Convulsif made their first appearance here on the blog. 6 years later and I still love these guys. You can find most of their discography on their bandcamp page, all their recordings as a quartet.

What's not there is their first incarnation, the Big Band, and it's pretty hard to find online as well. So here I am.. I think they formed around 2009, by Loïc Grobéty. They had some kind of ever changing line-up concept at that time, which was abandoned as they fixed on the current quartet.

2011 - 1

- Guido Wyss / drum
- Sébastien Aegerter / vibraphone
- Gregor Vidic / baritone sax
- Marc Jufer / sax tenor
- Loïc Grobéty / bass
- Stéphane Loup / guitars
[not part of this recording but also around that time, - Benjamin Pluss / vocals]

My PC file says it's from 2013, but intertnet says 2011, internet wins.
I think it's a live recording of a show, one longass track.
Know that this is pretty different from the quartet, much less brutal and heavy, a lot more atmospheric jazz. But still retain some metallic ideas that would appear later on.
Goes through different segments, some slow and smooth, some free jazz crazylike.

2013 - 2

- Martin Perret / drums
- Matthieu Amstutz / drums
- Christian Müller / clarinet + electronics
- Loïc Grobéty / bass + electronics + K7
- Gregor Vidic / baritone saxophone
- Marc Jufer / saxophone tenor + soprano
- Stéphane Loup / guitar + electronics

Double CD.
The first is almost the same length as on the first album, and starts with the same segment, but continues different, so I guess it's another live recording from the same era, same vibes and atmosphere. The second one is mostly pure drone noise for you abstract lovers.

Casual Approach - Acid Rock Noise Cowboys... Just Playing The Blues

Pittsburgh quintet of some local scenesters, the better known among them is Joseph Roemer of Macronympha. Formed around 2008 and this is their sole release, long album full of lo-fi psychedelic noise blues jams, yeah pretty much like the album title suggests.

1. Dead Man's Lament
2. Funky Monkey Dance
3. Sludge - Live At Howlers
4. Surf's Up Dudes... Live @ Rock Room (Sharks In The Water!)
5. Sinister Highway
6. The Spanish Cafe
7. Her Beauty's Like Glass - Live @ Belvederes
8. Billy's Bonghit Odyssey
9. Crooked Creek Blues
10. Swamp Whiskey Roundup - Live @ Nick's Underground Cafe Show
11. Space Ace
12. It Takes A Village (Excerpt) - Live @ Jason's Party
13. Showdown In The Hot Surrealistic Sun
14. "You Talkin' To Me?"
15. Dragon Rider
16. Half An Inch
17. Sayonara, Good Friends

Taste the acid

And The Birds Flew South

While on the quest of creating room on my pc, I often find myself contemplating, do I even need to bother post these kind of stuff ? Clearly no man in the world is looking for this, except perhaps for the creator who's looking for the files for the sake of nostalgia.. and why not ? it takes my five minutes.

Two tracks, by a fellow named Tyler, whos playing the guitar creating what seems to be template for unfinished songs in the post black metal area field. I think it was recorded on 2011. So Tyler, if you were looking for this, enjoy.

1. Isolated With Oaks
2. Realization


Flew they flew indeed..

Airs

Just like the last one, this post is in the ongoing serie of me making space on my hard disk. Airs started up in San Francisco by Chris Broyles, soon to be joined by Aaron Kelley. Initially the idea was leaning towards the than freshly hyped Black/Shoegaze thing, but not only they abandoned the Black Metal early on, they kept jumping between genres in that area [post rock/post punk/noise pop/emo, you name it]. Unlike a lot of other bands from that time that were trying to imititate Alcest/Deafheaven, Airs were actually influenced by some other stuff as well, and you can hear it.
At first I was planning just to upload a few releases I had and couldn't find online at all, but than changed my mind to just post it all, and even went on to look for some stuff I didn't have. So there it is, A LOT of lo-fi, raw, immature stuff here. Most of it is solely for Airs fans, but some might be enjoyable for all, one can sure find some gems here and there.

Chris Broyles

2010.01.15 - Happy Songs For The Terminally Ill

1. Counting The Moments to Oblivion
2. I Wish Everyone Would Die Post-Haste
3. A Feeling of Pain
4. There's No Place Like Hell

2010.03.01 - Kill Yourself On Valentines Day

1. Kill Yourself On Valentines Day (Nobody Cares)
2. A Beautiful End To This Timeless Dream

2010.04.11 - Untitled

1. Untitled
2. Untitled (Remixed & Remastered)

2010.07.15 - Joyless

1. Joyless
2. Never Too Late to Hurry Up
3. Ende der Ewigkeit kommt in der Nacht
4. Ravish
5. Joyless (2009 Demo ver.)

2010.12.21 - Rainclouds Over The Remains of Hope

1. Overcast - Das Ende Der Zeit-
2. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope
3. Cast Into The Sea
4. Innocence
5. Everyone Has Died Post Haste
6. Joyless
7. Never Without
8. We're Still Drifting
9. Passing
10. Clear Skies - Und Zeit Beginnt Von Neuem-

2011.03.07 - Airs / Lunarie

1. Home
2. White Pantomime
3. Indigo
4. Lucid

2011.07.14 - Live on Pirate Cat Radio Cafe, San Francisco, CA, USA [Debut live, acoustic]

1. Interview
2. A Left Turn At Happiness
3. Gloomlights (Intro)
4. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope
5. Scott Pilgrim Vs. You
6. We're Still Drifting
7. Caves
8. Coffee And The Music Industry (Dead Ringer Cover)
9. Little Fury Things (Dinosaur Jr. Cover)
10. Variations On The Theme From Top Gun (Have A Nice Life Cover)
11. Speak (N.T.T. Fucks Cover)
12. Passing

2011.09.23 - Soundtrack for a Cancer Cell as It Is Born in the Center of Your Brain

1. Soundtrack for a Cancer Cell as It Is Born in the Center of Your Brain

2011.10.01 - Gloomlights

1. Harvest Moon
2. Scott Pilgrim Vs. You
3. White Rose
4. Knee-Deep In The Dead
5. Hollow
6. Heart
7. Caves
8. Feathers
9. Halfway There
10. Butterfly
11. The Watchers
12. Scene
13. Ghost
14. Gloomlights
15. Movement
16. Velvet
17. Cascades Of Grey
18. Shift (Repeat)

Gloomlights (Part III) [Bonus CD released on 2013 edition]

1. Scene (Original Ver.)
2. Ghost (Original Ver.)
3. Clouds
4. Bright
5. Despair & Consequence
6. If/May/Trust
7. Consume
8. Foggy Smiles
9. Highroad
10. I Miss You, You Know
11. Gloomlights (Original Ver.)

2011.12.01 - Everything Reminds Me of You

1. Lonesome Smiles
2. Dreaming
3. Everything Reminds Me of You

2012.01.01 - Blanket Shores

1. Blanket Shores 
2. We're Still Drifting (2012 ver.)

2012.01.01 - Gloomer

1. Woe unto Us (Have a Nice Life Cover)
2. Being a Teenager and the Awkwardness of Backseat Sex (Planning for Burial Cover)
3. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover)
4. Little Fury Things (Dinosaur Jr. Cover)
5. Oh Righteous One (Bad Braids Cover)
6. Coffee and the Music Industry (Dead Ringer Cover)
7. Speak (N.T.T. Fucks Cover)

2012.02.12 - White Rose

1. White Rose (New Mix)
2. ''2'' (White Rose Demo Ver.) [I added this one here, it was originally on 2011 version of this single, which included this and the Gloomlights version for this track]

2012.04.08 - Adrift

1. Adrift
2. I'll Never Meet You

2012.10 - Collected Vol. I: Acoustic Demos 2011-2012

1. 1980
2. Softly/Oh Pain Oh Agony
3. Blanket Shores
4. Ending

2012.10.15 - Under Radiant Gloomlights

1.1. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (Rehearsal)
1.2. Blue (Rehearsal)
1.3. Joyless (Rehearsal)
1.4. Never Too Late To Hurry Up (Rehearsal)
1.5. Caves (Rehearsal)
1.6. We're Still Drifting (Rehearsal)
1.7. Morgan & Frankie (Rehearsal)
1.8. What You Were (Rehearsal)
1.9. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (Acoustic Forest Rehearsal 8/8/12)

2.1. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (Brentwood 8/10/12)
2.2. Morgan & Frankie (Brentwood 8/10/12)
2.3. What You Were (Brentwood 8/10/12)
2.4. Joyless (Antioch 8/11/12)
2.5. Caves (Antioch 8/11/12)
2.6. Introduction (Fresno 8/16/12)
2.7. We're Still Drifting (Fresno 8/16/12)
2.8. Morgan & Frankie (Fresno 8/16/12)
2.9. What You Were (Fresno 8/16/12)
2.10. Caves (Las Vegas 8/17/12)
2.11. Morgan & Frankie (Las Vegas 8/17/12)

3.1. Gloomlights Intro (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.2. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.3. Blue (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.4. Lonesome Smiles (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.5. Joyless (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.6. What You Were (Los Angeles 8/18/12)
3.7. Introduction (San Francisco 8/19/12)
3.8. Rainclouds Over The Remains Of Hope (San Francisco 8/19/12)
3.9. We're Still Drifting (San Francisco 8/19/12)
3.10. Morgan & Frankie (San Francisco 8/19/12)
3.11. What You Were (San Francisco 8/19/12)

2012.11.26 - Morgan & Frankie EP
[third track is exclusive for this release, second one is from last release, first one is from next release]

1. Morgan & Frankie
2. We're Still Drifting (Live - Fresno 8/16/12)
3. What Would You Do?

2014/15 - Final Album Demos

1. Love Daze (Demo)
2. Evergreen (Demo)
3. June Gloom (Demo)
4. Bliss (Demo)
5. Guilt Trip (Demo)
6. Night (Lost Ghosts) (Demo)
7. Enemies In Low Places (Instrumental Demo)
8. Psychic Death (Instrumental Demo)

Miscellaneous [Just some stuff I compiled]

2010 - A Song for the End of the World (Short ver.) [Probably from some compilation I can't find, by their own running label Serpent Spine Productions]
2010.06 - Ravish [Instrumental demo]
2010.08 - Sunny Sundea Smile (My Bloody Valentine Cover) [A Curious Box of Captured Unfortunate Scenes]
2013 - Pendulum [Adore bonus cd-r]

Most of the releases since Adore and on are still available in their bandcamp, so if you need it the link is here.
While trying to complete this list, I found on soulseek some guy that has a couple releases I don't, but it seemed like he's hoarding it to himself, which was quite funny, his nickname is inhalinginhalants and I bet his mother sure is proud of him. If you're eager to get releases like: Performing "Adore" or Wind-Up , then go bug him up about it.
And yeah I'm way too lazy to start adding all the artworks for these.