A spectral voice echoed on the wind

Dire Wolves tape (Pome Pome Tones #6) on KALX best-of 2015 list.
hells yeah! since it's sold out, you can listen/download for free right here - http://bit.ly/1M8WMny
NEW Dire Wolves tape coming soon - we know you are on tenterhooks!
Happy New Year freaks.

Oh yeah - almost forgot about this live review of the Dire Wolves show at Adobe Books...
"A dense atmosphere was created, hanging like fog in our ears until the last note died. I definitely felt like we had been taken on an epic sound journey over jagged peaks of guitar and through lush violin valleys, across boulder fields of percussion and rolling hillsides of bass, all while a spectral voice echoed on the wind."




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Recordings, radio shows, etc

Many more Pome Pome Tones radio shows are online now - check out all the playlists, listen to all the podcasts, dig it now my friends -- http://rvpods.com/ppt

The next PPT release is in the works - a split tape with Dire Wolves and Head of Wantastiquet. Stay tooooned for details. In the meantime, dig each of those bands here and here.

Perfect Wave is having a SALE for a limited time - you can get 3 tapes for $12 (Jeffrey Alexander, Itasca, Maia Ibar).  COOL !  Hurry Up!  http://www.perfectwave.org/store/
Perfect Wave also had a sweet label feature programme on WNYU - listen up -- http://wnyu.org/2015-12-02_termiteterrace

Jeffrey Alexander participated in a tribute to the late Nick Talbot, which aired on the BBC recently. For a few weeks, you can stream it here -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0386268
Catch it before its gone. The hour-long programme starts around 40 minutes in.

Here's a new video from Jeffrey's tape that was released last month on Self-Help Tapes.
Only a handful of tapes remain - hurry!

Here's a sweet review of said tape in Tiny Mix Tapes:
"Jeffrey Alexander is a true head. After following and taping live shows of the Grateful Dead during the 80s, he began making music of his own, forming The Iditarod, Black Forest/Black Sea, and the still active Dire Wolves. He’s played in and toured with a litany of other acts, including his present possition as synth player in Jackie-O-Motherfucker. He also ran Magic Eye Singles, which eventually became Secret Eye Records, and currently hosts a weekly radio show. Oh, and he makes music as a solo artist, too. On his latest offering, Water Meditations, Jeffrey explores churning swirls of shruti box drones, chord-organ moods, the noisy spices of a cracklebox and synthesizer, and some light acoustical accents from a marimba and psaltery. Each instrument equally contributes for a truly transformative performance, placing the listener’s mind in the clouds, and their soul in the streams. In a meager edition of 30, pick up a copy of Water Meditations from Self-Help Tapes before they are all gone."
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-jeffrey-alexander-water-meditations

DIRE WOLVES and JEFFREY ALEXANDER both reviewed in Psi Lab - hell yeah.
"...i feel like i should be more than just tangentially familiar with ALEXANDER's work, which i'm well on my way to rectifying - to be sure this is a potent double recommendation, two tapes, two galaxies connected by a wormhole synapse deep in ALEXANDER's far out mind"

DIRE WOLVES - THE BERNAL CODEX
pome pome tones 2015, edition of ?
"THE BERNAL CODEX is the latest from DIRE WOLVES, another major player in the free rock scene, physically manifested since 2009, somehow escaping my scouring of the four corners of the weirdo tape world til recently - as a four piece they give it all they got considering comparisons to contemporaries BURNT HILLS and DESMADRADOS SOLDADOS DE VENTURA where both outfits feature 8+ members - there's more mysticism in the WOLVES, splicing the dna of MV & EE, PHAROAH SANDERS and SONIC YOUTH, honing in on the heavy kraut psych of early 70s AMON DUUL II as advertised, in a way that neatly bridges the gap between BURNT HILLS' profound freeform primitivism and DSDV's enlightened groove-locked chaos - there's nothin about DIRE WOLVES that ain't right up my alley, they've got a tape titled THE CREATOR HAS A FASTER VAN on SLOOW for goodness sake"

JEFFREY ALEXANDER - ASTRAL TRAVELER
perfect wave 2015, edition of 75
"ASTRAL TRAVELER - the title alone reeled me in, and then the artwork - dissipating contrails, cirrus clouds and lens flare forming an ever gazing galactic eye of sorts - well that pretty much finished me off before i even hit play, then the music proceeded to obliterate my thin veil of consciousness like NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS' DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS otherworldly longform drone on side one with a huge warbly tone swirling around a faint reverberating keyboard motif, then side kicks back with a BADFOOT BROWN / ALICE COLTRANE / PHAROAH SANDERS smoked out late night cosmic drone jazz improv session laced with some cool in-and-out avant guitar stuff - how is this just one dude?"
http://psilabtapes.blogspot.com/2015/11/recommendation-79-jeffrey-alexander.html


Jeffrey Alexander - very very purple live set recorded in Philadelphia, PA


... yep

First there was a tape, then there was no tape, then there was

Jackie-O Motherfucker "Smiles" (Pome Pome Tones #5) is now SOLD OUT.
Last ever copies are available from Aquarius Records. Better hurry.

Jeffrey Alexander "Water Meditations" is a brand-new tape on the super cool Self-Help Tapes label from the North of Sweden. Only 30 copies - get it now.

A whole mess of new Pome Pome Tones radio show podcasts are now up. Dig it.

Pome Pome Tones radio

Pome Pome Tones radio show, Tuesday nights at 10pm west coast time on Radio Valencia.
Listen anywhere on www.radiovalencia.fm

Upcoming special broadcasts:

Tuesday October 27:  Annual PPT Halloween show. Spooooky musics for you.
Tuesday November 24:  Beast Nest live in the studio. Live performance, chat and records.

Beast Nest on Decoder:
http://www.secretdecoder.net/reviews/2015/04/28/beast-nest-songs-for-puppies/

Shows and shows

A whole mess of new radio shows are up on the podcast page. Good stuff!
www.rvpods.com/ppt

And here are a few live performances I have coming up:

with Dire Wolves

   Friday Nov 6, 2015   San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern

   Saturday Dec 5, 2015   San Francisco, CA - Adobe Books with Tara Jane ONeil, Samara Lubelski

Jeffrey Alexander solo

   Saturday Nov 14, 2015   Philadelphia, PA -  House Gallery 1816 with Sapropelic Pycnic

   Friday Dec 4, 2015   Oakland, CA - SANTO with Tara Jane ONeil, Samara Lubelski, FWY! 

new distribution: Dire Wolves, JOMF and Jeffrey Alexander releases now available from Eclipse mailorder and Aquarius Records in San Francisco. go on...

Tapes sold out, but you win

Dire Wolves "Bernal Codex" cassette (Pome Pome Tones #6) is SOLD OUT. To celebrate -- download it now for FREE or pay-what-ye-will, if you choose to support us anyway - your choice...it's all good

https://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/album/the-bernal-codex 

Jeffrey Alexander "Floating Lights" cassette (Pome Pome Tones #4) is also SOLD OUT. For the next seven days, you can order the companion LP "Wayfinding Beacons From Planet To Planet" for only $10 (includes USA postage!). Half price, yup. Time for some new vinyl in your life... 

https://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/album/wayfinding-beacons-from-planet-to-planet

Pome Pome Tones - radioshow and label news this week ...

8/25 at 10pm - Donna Jean Godchaux birthday radio special - listen anywhere on www.radiovalencia.fm   DEEP CUTS.   Pome Pome Tones every Tuesday night 10pm-midnight.

JOMF "Smiles" tape (Pome Pome Tones #5) is featured on the latest Tabsout podcast.
Tapes are going fast! Get your copy now - order here: http://bit.ly/1K6f1qq

Dire Wolves "Bernal Codex" tape (Pome Pome Tones #6) is featured on WFMU.
These tapes are also flying! Get yours here: http://bit.ly/1M8WMny

Jeffrey Alexander "Floating Lights" tape (Pome Pome Tones #4) is a pick at Staalplaat in Berlin. You know the drill: http://bit.ly/1IYtFkN
annnnd, another Jeffrey Alexander tape, "Astral Traveler", released on the Perfect Wave label gets the business from this new haiku-only-review site. What ?

New radio shows up! Dig this classic 1976 short!

Playlists/podcasts at www.rvpods.com/ppt
More Pome Pome Tones for you! Stream, download, whatever...

C'était un rendez-vous by Claude Lelouch. Single camera, one take. Paris, early morning.

new Pome Pome Tones reviews

JOMF "Smiles" cassette reviewed in Awkward Movements ...
"New session work here from Jackie O-Motherfucker, and it's motherfucking great. With their consistently inconsistent output of some thirty-odd releases since their inception in 1995, the group's experimental and freeform nature seems to extend past their music in to group membership, with some forty-odd ex-players that have Jackie O'Motherfucker some place on their music resume.
It's easy to expect great and new things from Jackie-O Motherfucker each time a release drops, and Smiles doesn't disappoint. Each side is a twenty-plus mintue track that gradually builds from sparse jazz to a proper psych-jam, that sounds much more than the sum of it's part, aided greatly by multiple multi-instrumentalists in the lineup." 
full review here: http://www.awkwardmovements.com/2015/07/jackie-o-motherfucker-smiles-cassette.html
Also featured on their London UK radio show (NTS radio) --
http://www.awkwardmovements.com/2015/07/awkward-movements-on-nts-25715.html

French site Pinkushion lists new JOMF in their top 12 of 2015 ...
"Le groupe avec le nom le plus classe du monde revient enfin à la raison après des années d’égarement. Avec Smiles, le groupe post rock californien signe son retour vers des contrées familières jazz et expérimentales, se fait plaisir et nous fait plaisir par la même occasion. De quoi retrouver le sourire à coup sur."
http://www.pinkushion.com/La-selection-estivale-2015

All three new Pome Pome Tones tapes (Jeffrey Alexander, Dire Wolves and JOMF) reviewed this week by Raised By Wolves. The reviews are all quite insane.  

Back on the radio this Tuesday - August 4th - 10pm to midnight PST. Tune in anywhere on www.radiovalencia.fm 
Plenty of new-to-me LPs to share. Listen up, freaks.

New radioshows! New tapes! New shows! Dig this amazing CAN video!

Playlists/podcasts at www.rvpods.com/ppt
More Pome Pome Tones for you! Stream, download, whatever...

New Pome Pome Tones releases from Jackie-O Motherfucker, Dire Wolves and Jeffrey Alexander available NOW from Revolver Distrubution / Midheaven Mailorder (San Francisco CA) ... Clear Spot Distribution / Shiny Beast Mailorder (The Netherlands) ... Juno Records (United Kingdom) ... Analog Underground (Providence RI) ... Staalplaat (Berlin Germany) ...
or get them direct from the source, sealed with my very own saliva -- listen/buy/order HERE !!

Or pick them up in person at one of the two release shows!
Jeffrey Alexander - live at Ratio, Toronto Canada - July 25, 2015
Dire Wolves + Jackie-O Motherfucker - live at Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco CA - July 28, 2015

CAN live in Soest, Netherlands 1970 (84 minutes!)
Sit on the floor and bob your head like these crazy kids.

new tapes ! tape release show July 28 !

CLICK ON EACH PIC BELOW TO LISTEN/BUY !

Three new Pome Pome Tones releases in the works!

Coming soon... three cassette releases

PPT-4  Jeffrey Alexander "Floating Lights" (includes bonus track)
PPT-5  Jackie-O Motherfucker "Smile" (new studio recordings from Italy)
PPT-6  Dire Wolves - "The Bernal Codex" (new studio recordings from San Francisco)

Also ... new Pome Pome Tones radio show podcasts will be uploaded this weekend.

Boom.

Another review of the new Pome Pome Tones LP on Critical Masses

Jeffrey Alexander – Wayfinding Beacons from Planet to Planet 

(Pome Pome Tones, 2015) 

As the first contact pop reverberates outward from “Approach Lights One,” before a single note is struck, it’s clear that Wayfinding Beacons from Planet to Planet is going to be exploratory in nature. That initial ping – well, it’s hardly a ping sound, but I’m thinking of it as some sort of sonar projection – flickers out into the expanse with discovery on its mind. What’s out there? Why do we need to know? Oh sonar, illuminate me!

That sense of discovery is perfectly logical given Jeffrey Alexander’s recent exploits. Alexander, who has performed in The Iditarod, Dire Wolves, Black Forest/Black Sea, and JOMF (pronounced “jawmf” – just kidding, it’s an abbreviation for Jackie O Motherfucker), continues the psychedelic/drone/sound collage experimentation he’s perfected with those groups, and thrusts it to the far reaches of the known universe. His compositions inspire awe at the star stuff flitting through my mind right now (if I had a telescope to pair with my imagination, I’d be peering through it for the full effect), the patterns and transmissions penetrating constellations and nebulae in their attempt to communicate with what’s out there. Wayfinding Beacons is as science-y an album as you’ll come across, interested mainly in getting at the stuff we don’t know about. Yet.

 

http://criticalmassesmedia.com/2015/06/crate-digging-jeffrey-alexander-wayfinding-beacons-from-planet-to-planet/

Nina Simone in Antibes, France 1969

A bunch of new Jeffrey Alexander reviews !

Critical Masses
http://criticalmassesmedia.com/2015/04/on-shuffle-jeffrey-alexander-approach-lights-three-video/

Ad Hoc
http://adhoc.fm/post/jeffrey-alexander-flutter/

Tome To The Weather Machine
http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/videodrones/2015/04/videodrone-jeffrey-alexander-approach-lights-three

Louder Than War
http://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-brand-new-video-by-legendary-ambient-composer-jeffrey-alexander/

From Here Till Now
http://www.fromheretillnow.com/blog/2015/4/25/jeffrey-alexander

yesssss!

Space is the place

April Tour: Arttu Partinen, Jeffrey Alexander, Antti Tolvi

Facebook event here - invite your friends - https://www.facebook.com/events/463616913788248/

Apr 21, 2015 Los Angeles, CA - Human Resources
Apr 22, 2015 Los Angeles, CA - Handbag Factory
Apr 25, 2015 Sacramento, CA - Puma House
Apr 26, 2015 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
Apr 27, 2015 Santa Cruz, CA - Digital Arts Research Center Light Lab UCSC
Apr 28, 2015 Berkeley, CA - KALX in-studio (4pm)
Apr 28, 2015 Oakland, CA - Life Changing Ministry (9pm)

An expansive experimental tour of psychedelic trance to jump cut tape music. A RARE chance to see two of Finland’s most acclaimed sonic adventurers – neither have ever performed in California before!

ARTTU PARTINEN
member of Avarus, Amon Dude, Heteroskeleton.
“If heaven exists, Andy Kaufman and Hunter S. are cheering on Arttu Partinen.” — Cleveland Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImEbOmofOEg

JEFFREY ALEXANDER
Member of Jackie O Motherfucker, Dire Wolves, Black Forest/Black Sea.
“A gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape.” – Pitchfork
http://tinyurl.com/pjloypj
http://www.jeffreyalexanderlovesyou.com/

ANTTI TOLVI
member of Lau Nau, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Kemialliset Ystävät
“It’s as if Tolvi set out to mimic a flock of birds and ended up with a sped up, home-cooked version of pipe music from the Solomon Islands cut with a personalized, disorienting minimalism…Sound emerge from all angles and criss-cross in a kind of low-boil ecstasy.” (The Wire)
https://soundcloud.com/anttitolvi/urkupilvi-b
http://www.anttitolvi.com/

New Jeffrey Alexander full-length - FREE/pay-what-thou-wilt - go ahead download it - no really

1976 Lambro Park festival Milan footage (51min)

The final Lambro Park music festival. Considered the height of the Italian underground music scene -- attended by more than 400,000 people. Music featured: Don Cherry - "Jam session", Albert King - "Parana", Area - "gerontocracy", Eugene Kelly - "Rebel Music", Eugene Kelly - "I love the radio", Area - "Chaos - The International", "Jam session end".

New radio shows, yep

I'm back on the radio TONIGHT – 10pm PST y’all. www.radiovalencia.fm
Also, a bunch of recent podcasts are now up at www.rvpods.com/ppt
As always, get all the goods, all the time at www.pptones.com