December 1, 2015:
In collaboration with Wiener Records, REPTIEL's Hobbitozz ... A Land That Never Was, is now available on cassette...
October 31, 2015:
Cubby Control Records excitedly announces the release of the new REPTIEL album Hobbitozz ... A Land That Never Was, a psychedelic prog rock fairy tale that takes place in a fantasy world somewhere between Middle Earth and the Land of Oz...
May 22, 2015:
Out today on Cubby Control Records: Last Snowman by Gnom i Snegovik...
The second release by the Russian experimentalists on CCR, Last Snowman is a departure even for Gnom i Snegovik, since all tracks (except the last) were recorded in a multitrack program rather than live with a couple of microphones at a concert or rehearsal - the usual method of recording employed by Gnom i Snegovik. Moreover, all participants were recorded independently, under the simple rhythmic/harmonic sketches sent to them via email by Gnom i Snegovik frontman Danila Grethenevsky. And, accordingly, the musicians had not even heard what others had recorded. The final product is a collage of the recorded tracks. The author and performer of texts on the album is Belarusian free-jazz saxophonist Frederick Samotny, also known under the alias Oos Sadam.
May 2, 2015:
Cubby Control Records' first video on YouTube! REPTIEL's Violent Sagas of the Ancients...
Mar. 18, 2015:
Mar. 1, 2015: Cubby Control Records is excited to announce the release of REPTIEL's Audio Vérité Series: FP 3...
...AND the Audio Vérité Series FPs 1-3 cassette tape, which brings together the first three releases in REPTIEL's Audio Vérité Series onto one single cassette tape, 30 minutes each side. The cassette tape includes an extra track not available anywhere else...
REPTIEL's Audio Vérité Series is a vehicle for the band's spontaneously produced music recorded initially at their rehearsal space. Most of the songs come from impromptu performances of improvised music never played before and perhaps never to be played again. Others are segments of jams or other sounds made at rehearsal, looped and/or run through effects, or not. Some of these rehearsal recordings also may have overdubs added to them. The end result is Finished Product, or FP.
Feb. 17, 2015: You can now check out a sampling of songs from REPTIEL's new album Hobbitozz ... A Land That Never Was streaming on Bandcamp.
AND, REPTIEL will be making some rare live appearances, at which they will be performing songs from this new album...
Sat. Feb. 28, 7pm
live on KFJC radio, 89.7 FM
http://kfjc.org/promotions/index.php
Wed. Mar. 4, 9pm
at the Elbo Room
with Society of Rockets and Cassowary
647 Valencia St., SF
http://www.elbo.com/Calendar.php
Wed. Mar. 18, 8:30pm
A semi-acoustical performance of songs from Hobbitozz ... A Land that Never Was and (The Planet of) Progkp
at Viracocha
with Benjamin Cohen and Mama Mia d’Bruzzi
998 Valencia Street, SF
http://viracochasf.com/#!//
Jan. 22, 2015: SAN FRANCISCO — Cubby Control Records proprietor Brian Weaver claims he dreamed the combination to the safe that holds the master tapes to Thee Druggles' never-released Psych Garage Rock album Space God Pills. As the legend goes, Weaver threw the master tapes into a safe at Cubby Control (headquarters for all things Cubby). Then years later (not long after starting Cubby Control Records), wanting to release the album, he attempted to open the safe but could not remember the combination. After numerous attempts, Weaver gave up, hoping he would eventually remember the combo. Four years after that, the combination came to him in a dream (a really strange dream, Weaver claims, that involved traveling to a planet called Progkp). Weaver now reports the safe has been opened, the master tapes have been retrieved, and he’s been working with recording engineer Jai Young Kim (JYK) of Feast or Famine Records to prepare the album for release. JYK was the original producer/recording engineer of the Space God Pills album and gave the master tapes to Weaver for safekeeping. Ironically, the combination to the safe was simply 6-6-6.
Jan. 11, 2015: Cubby Control Records has a lot planned for 2015...
REPTIEL has finished recording and mixing their psych fantasy rock epic Hobbitozz: A Land that Never Was, and they will be playing some shows in March to promote it, as well as a live performance on KFJC in February. Additionally, they will be releasing another installment in their Audio Vérité Series: FP 3. More details to come on all of that.
Russian experimentalists Gnom i Snegovik have two albums they're letting CCR release in 2015: Mystirios Anruf and another as of yet untitled album. They are sure to mesmerize, alienate, confound, and entice, just as they did with their first album on CCR, Myzel.
Also, CCR proprietor Brian Weaver claims he dreamed the combination to the safe that holds the master tapes to Thee Druggles' never-released album Space God Pills. As the legend goes, Weaver threw the master tapes into a safe at Cubby Control, and years later, not long after starting Cubby Control Records, wanting to release the album, he attempted to open the safe but could not remember the combination. After numerous attempts, he gave up, hoping he would eventually remember the combo. Four years later, it came to him in a dream, and he reports the safe has been opened, the master tapes have been retrieved, and he is working with recording engineer Jai Young Kim (JYK) of Feast or Famine Records to prepare the album for release. JYK was the original producer/recording engineer of the album.
There will be another Cubby Preachers release in 2015, though Cubby Preachers compilationalist Brian Weaver is unsure yet if it will coincide with the release of a Missalette, as did CPV.
Lastly, Cubby Control Records is excited to announce the addition of two new artists to their roster: Aero Dualities and Richard Foushee. Both artists have written and recorded material, but have to yet to release any material. But look out for some aural previews from these artists in 2015.
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