We don't sell this...

But totally wish we could. You probably want one.

You can order it from lulu, or direct from the author's website.

Unfortunately there's no way for us to get 'em wholesale to review and sell on our site. But we still wanted to let you know about something that both Andee and Allan here bought as soon as they saw it... In fact, we'd been thinking about doing a book like this ourselves, but author and artist Mark Riddick did a much better job of it than we ever could have!

And while we're at it, this is another, much less-specialized book of band logos that's pretty cool too.

New Arrivals list #311

Hope you've seen it already, but here's the link to our latest list, #311.

Records Of The Week this week are x 4, as follows:
Astral Social Club "Octuplex" (VHF) cd $13.98
Drone merchant Neil Campbell bringing his brand of bliss to the dancefloor, sort of, with electronic bleepage and warped grooves figuring in to his usual wall of warm fuzz... so good!
Jerusalem "s/t" (Vintage / Rockdrome) cd $12.98
A killer reissue (at last!) of the early '70s proto-doom by an obscure British band called Jerusalem, mixing garagey psych with raw manic metal, something for all lovers ye olde heavy (from Pentagram to Witchcraft).
LSD-march "Under Milk Wood" (Important) cd $14.98
From Japan, we have the latest from psych freaks LSD-march, full of moody melodic mellowness, distorted guitar, and confusional weirdness too.
v/a "Fly Girls! B-boys Beware - Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers" (Soul Jazz) 2cd $25.00
A double cd (or two separate double vinyl volumes, $27.00 each) compiling a ton of party-starting, old school female rap classics!

Our new business venture...

http://www.aquariuscasinoresort.com/

Hey, in this economy, you gotta find a way to make a buck. This could be quite lucrative.

And just think of the bands we'll have play in the resort's 3,300 seat Outdoor Ampitheatre!

Circle documentary screening 2/9/09

Hey local folks, especially those of you into the Finnish freakiness! We're inviting you to attend a special, FREE pre-release screening of a NEW CIRCLE DVD!!

On Monday February 9th 2009, please join us at the Knockout on Mission Street for an exclusive West Coast pre-release party and screening of an arty new sort-of-documentary film entitled Saturnus Reality (60 min, Finnish dialogue, English subtitles), directed by Esko Lönnberg, featuring live performances (musical and otherwise) by our favorite Finnish prog-psych-spacerock band of weirdos, Circle! With popcorn, krautrock, and cheap beers!

Aquarius is co-sponsoring this screening with the No Quarter label (who will be releasing the film on dvd on March 10th), in conjunction with Klaus To The Edge on WestAddRadio 93.7FM SF and PROJEKTOR Party.

More info on the movie, from Circle's website:

Saturnus Reality (2007) is the Finnegan’s Wake of Finnish rock documentaries, and a fabulous cul-de-sac in a stream of consciousness. The film’s subject is Circle, the prolific Finnish experimentalists hailing from Pori, but it is a self-ironic vicious circle of a film that focuses on the curious world of the band and its musicians, shot on a home video camera. Jussi Lehtisalo, Mika Rättö, Janne Westerlund, Tomi Leppänen and Tuomas Laurila appear in the film as if they were acting out themselves.

The film is nominally centred on the recording sessions of Miljard, one of the latest albums by this extremely productive band, whose output includes 28 albums in 16 years. Starting out as a traditional rock documentary, the film soon runs loose on various sidetracks: to the depths of a forest, onto a frozen lake, into the darkness of night. The band’s primeval music becomes the soundtrack for magic rites performed in nature. The musicians meet the mysterious Oracle of the Reed Sea, a strange meteorite has landed in a snowy landscape, and so forth. What matters in Circle’s fantastic world is totality of vision, while details are treated somewhat generously. The new genre the band has coined, NWOFHM (The New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal), may just as well mean fragile atonal piano improvisation or catatonic one-note walls of sound. Inspired by the ritualistic films of Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger, the film moves to the beat of double and triple exposures, the atmosphere balancing in the timeless opening between childish horseplay and reckless pathos. Enthusiastic live commentary can be heard beside the camera by the director/cinematographer, Pori’s multi-talented craftsman of the psychedelic, Esko Lönnberg. His earlier works include the splendid concert film with Doktor Kettu (also from Pori), shot through a distorting lens.

- Mika Taanila

The screening will start at 11pm and AQ's Allan, AC and Black Fjord will DJ kraut, prog and heavy psych before and after.

At The Knockout - 3223 Mission Street at Valencia. 10pm - 2am, screening starts at 11pm. FREE!

What'll they think of next?

You've probably already checked out the link to this Van Halen Asteroids game. It seems to be making the rounds of the internets. Pretty amusing, a least for a little while...

On a related subject, today we happened to be wondering, how is it possible that we've had a copy of the cd reissue of the Spanish-language version of David Lee Roth's "Eat 'Em And Smile" aka "Sonrisa Salvaje" in our store for nearly a year now and no one has purchased it yet??

Look it up on our website to hear sound samples of the hit "Rosa Yanqui" and DLR's cover of "La Calle del Tabaco"... then go ahead, "add to cart".

Top tens time

Just a reminder, we're still accepting customer top 10 (or 12, or 20...) lists of your favorite releases of 2008, which we'll compile and post on our website in February. The deadline for submitting 'em is next Friday, 1/6/09. Please email your lists to store@aquariusrecords.org if you haven't already. And don't forget to include your name! We'll pick two entries at random to receive $25 aQuarius gift certificates.

The best-of-2008 picks by the aQ staff can be found here, on our list #308 (though we'll probably post 'em to a separate page eventually).

Did you know...

That Sepultura's newest record, "A-Lex", is a concept album based on A Clockwork Orange?
Should we order some?