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Mattia Coletti, Comaneci, Muffin
Three band split 7"
2010 | NPR 20
7"
3 tracks

Release date: May 4, 2010

Track Listing:
Mattia Coletti - My Town
Comaneci - Where Were You
Muffin - Flora

NPR 20 is another split 7" vinyl release featuring an international cast. Mattia Coletti and Comaneci hail from Italy and Muffin calls Japan home. Each artist brings an acoustic guitar, a voice and then fills strong simple songs with a delicate longing for passing towns, homes, and partners. Francesca Amati sings on both of the Coletti and Comaneci songs in english, while Muffin sings in japanese.

Miss Massive Snowflake
- An American
2010 | NPR 23
digital 7"
3 tracks

Release date: March 02, 10

Track Listing:
An American
Hey Honey
Celebration

This looks like a classic 7" record with a folded picture sleeve, but instead of a piece of vinyl, you get a paper replica of a 7" with unique download code. Arty... for sure, but cheap and awesome. Some older cuts and outtakes from "Songs About Music".

Limited Edition of 50 hand drawn covers by Starbage Hands

El Ten Eleven
- These Promises are being Videotaped
2010 | NPR 22
Hand drawn LP of 50
8 tracks

Track Listing:
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool
Fat Gym Riot
Adam and Nathan Kick Ass
k10
Paranoid Android
Chino
Numb Tooth

North Pole Records is honored to release a extremely limited edition run of the El Ten Eleven "These Promises are being Videotaped" LP. 50 hand drawn LP covers by Shane de Leon / Starbage Hands. Get them while you can. Here's what the critics say

“Their third record, These Promises Are Being Videotaped, is packed full of danceable melodies that put Ratatat to shame.” Spin.com
“Once the record stops, you want more, and more, and more.” Filter
"Audience members (like myself) stare in amazement at the fury of Kristian’s fingers and feet… it makes the Polyphonic Spree seem like member-hoarding pussies." LA Alternative Press
“Your album hasn't left my CD player since last month.” Spiritualized
"Although El Ten Eleven haven't yet garnered the mainstream praise they deserve, their sophisticated sound earned them a prominent spot on the Helvetica (2007) soundtrack — and scores of new fans in the process.” Flavorpill

Miss Massive Snowflake
- Songs About Music
2009 | NPR 19
CD / LP w/ download
10 tracks

Track Listing:
Good Morning
Be Brave
I Do
An American
Two Guys
Happy Birthday
Shock and Awe
Knife Blade
Good Night
Encore

Charismatic weird rockers, Miss Massive Snowflake, craft catchy and deceptively intricate pop songs that are lyrically engaging and musically adept, a politically charged mix of glammy rock and dynamic compositions. Piloted by the irrepressible Shane de Leon, whose strong voice and humorous wit, lead protest songs that come off like party anthems. Horns wail and punch screwed groove guitar riffs, while fat bass and polyrhythmic percussion combine with both female and male vocals to make beautiful, moving, and intellectually satisfying rock music. This is Miss Massive Snowflake’s second full-length album following the 2008 electronic based, “Queen’s Headache” (NPR07). After 2 solo European and Stateside tours, where de Leon charmed audiences with multi-media theatrics armed with a laptop, projector, and acoustic guitar, he assembled a group featuring Bill Horist (Master Musicians of Bukake), Zacery Stanley (Dramady), and Jeanne Kennedy Crosby. “Songs About Music” was recorded by Gilles (Rollerball, The Pink Widower) and the sound is clean, full bodied, and sweet. The band will be touring Europe in April and domestically in summer 2010. Miss Massive Snowflake makes music that is at once playful and overtly political with most tracks clocking in under 3 minutes. de Leon has left behind the sonic obtuseness of the decade he spent working with legendary Portland experimental rockers, Rollerball, for pointed lyrics and quirky rock sing alongs. A tasty Flaming Lips/ Bowie rock concotion mixed with Minutemen/Beck song structure blasts, and Marc Ribot angularity cooked down with Funkadelic’s civil disobedience.

Bill Horist
- Covalent Lodge
2009 | NPR 17
180 gm Vinyl w/download | CD
9 tracks

Track Listing:
In the House of the Specious Phylum
The Breath-Width Isthmus
Smeared Slate Gales Warped in Oozing Windows
Glen / Ganges
Affable Hauntings (cd only)
Requim for Endless Days
In the Arms of the Specious Phylum
Sod Webworm
The Imperatives of Subsequence

Bill Horist’s newest album "Covalent Lodge" an intricately orchestrated master album featuring Horist’s haunting and deliberate finger pickings along with exquisite musicianship by Grammy recipient Matt Chamberlain on drums, Eyvind Kang (Zorn, Beck, Ribot) on viola, vocalist B.R.A.D. (ASVA,The Accused, MMOB) and jam-packed with other A-list musicians. Most of Horist’s solo albums consist of electric prepared guitar work, but Covalent Lodge is notable for it’s traditional acoustic qualities captured by engineer and producer Randall Dunn (Sunn o))), Boris, Kinski, Earth) at Aleph Studios. Dunn and Horist are both members of mystical dirge metal super group Master Musicians of Bukakke (Conspiracy Records). Horist’s deft fingers pull extended and winding guitar lines through a soundscape populated by strange choral voices, lumbering drums, long tone electronic drones, a harmonically twisting string section, and beckoning horns from outposts in some open wild desert. Performed with stellar musicianship, the songs are precise and calmly accessible. It sounds like the reverberating ghost of some multi-cultural Morricone orchestra, or Jim O’Rourke doing weird world-beat ambient numbers under hypnosis. The ethereal qualities of the songs move with subdued tension. A familiar ghost in a haunted lodge, soothing and unsettling.

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