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SAN AGUSTIN Amokhali (Family Vineyard) $9 1999 recordings by post-rock improv trio from Atlanta. While drums break apart the rhythm into jazz-like non-grooves, two guitars hover and intertwine in interesting low-key ways that recall everything from Loren Mazzacane to early-70s Dead tapes. Shimmer shiver plunk 'n etc.

ERIK SATIE; ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano) Trois Gymnopedies (Virgin Classics; England) $7

SCREW BONKERS (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $9 Unlike most bands, Japanese garage-glamsters Rouge took a step back to their pre-Dolls Stones roots in '77 instead of taking the punk route. Along with the name-change to Screw Bonkers, they added a Hammond organ to their basic line-up of vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. The playing here is perhaps a shade better than the inspired semi-comptent stumble of Rouge's Live 1976 CD, but it's still pretty primitive by most standards of that particular day. It's hard to tell the "originals" from their covers of "Brown Sugar," "It's All Over Now," and "Johnny Be [sic] Goode."

SEASONAL CONCEPTS Seasonalize (SunShip Records) $8

ZAHAVA SEEWALD Psamim: Ashkenaz Songs (Sub Rosa) $9

MURAT SES Automaton (Kalan; Turkey) $20 Solo CD by member of legendary Turkish group Mogollar.

SHIFTS Pangaea (Elsie and Jack Recordings) $10 Elsie and Jack: "Shifts, another pseudonym for Frans de Waard, a co-founder of Beequeen, also renowned for his ongoing experiments for recycling music with Kapotte Muziek. de Waard likes to treat his various guises with a broad stroke of monochrome paint...each name is something else, something different. Shifts as an idea has existed on paper for a number of years--only recently fully materializing in the form of two 7"s released on de Waard’s Korm Plastics label. d e W a a r d = m i n i m a l i s m  and Shifts embraces the traditional concept of minimalism implementing multi-layered drone guitars and overtones that create an overwhelming atmosphere. Pangæa is indeed a concept album, inspired by the process of the earth's plates drifting apart into the four separate continents becoming the world we know today. The plate tectonics that cause the drifting is echoed in the music...blocks of sound are repeated in several layers to create an unworldly soundscape. There are four distinct sections to be noted here--although indexed as one track. There is a guitar sound to be spotted in the first and in the last section, the large middle section is just guitar generated overtones. Shifts, an altogether successfully realized observation from the ever prolific Frans de Waard." Released 1997.

MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO Circular Temple (Quinton Records) $20 This is the original 1992 CD release. With Matthew Shipp (piano), William Parker (bass), and Whit Dickey (drums).

SILT FISH Zabaranda (Public Eyesore) CDR $7 Hailing from Sheffield, England, Silt Fish is the duo of Andy K. and Mr. Quale, with assistance from Quayle's brother Jez. They specialize in eerie folk-like music built around composed songs--not improv--but informed by lo-fi recording techniques, dark psych overtones, and a way-outsider vibe. The lyrics are dense, odd, and filled with paganesque stories of worms, walking sticks that sprout from the ground, granny's dressing gown, and "The House With the Dreadful Nibbling in Its Roots."

SISTER PAUL The Edge of the World (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $18 Captain Trip catalog description: "They are a great speed glam punk trio. Twin vocal wail over a thunderous speed groove! A total of 12 tracks including punkish cover of Bay City Rollers and Bob Dylan songs are recorded." OUT OF PRINT FROM THE LABEL. NEW, SEALED COPY

SISTER PAUL Howl! Howl! (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $18 Captain Trip catalog description: "The 3rd album of Sister Paul! A total of ten tracks including cover versions of Kiss and Velvet Underground songs. The Damned meets T Rex!? " OUT OF PRINT FROM THE LABEL. NEW, SEALED COPY

SLICK PIG Bottled Distortion (no label) $15 Self-released disc of noisy punk-metal by a teenage one-man band known as Slick Pig. Released 2001.

SLINGSHOT EPISODE Fault Lines Sleep for Now (What Else? Records) $8

LaDONNA SMITH & DAVEY WILLIAMS Transmutating (Shaking Ray Records) $11 Released 1993.

SONGS: OHIA (Secretly Canadian Records) $9 Bloomington, Indiana, 1997.

SPACEHOG Resident Alien (Sire Records) $7

SPACEMEN 3 For All The Fucked-Up Children of This World We Give You Spacemen 3 (Sympathy for the Record Industry) $20 The first Spacemen 3 recording session from 1984. Out of print.

SPACE STREAKINGS Hatsu-Koi (Nux/Charnel House) $18 Noise-speed-punk band from Japan. Co-produced by K. K. Null.

SPACE STREAKINGS 7-Toku (Skin Graft Records) $14 1996 disc by noise-speed-punk band from Japan. "The recording and balance engineer was Steve Albini."

SPEED Live at Loft '85 (Captain Trip Records) $10 Captain Trip catalog: "Speed was a legendary band formed by Kengo and Shinichi Aoki (ex.-Murahachibu) in 1976. This CD includes unreleased live recording from 1985. Cover art: Shinobu Ishimaru."

THE SQUARES Answer (Squares) $8 1990 release from indie rockers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

STRAIGHT OUTTA MONGOLIA S.O.M. (Fencing Flatworm Recordings; England) CDR $20 Odd, appealing outsider-pop with a heavy dose of mutant basement hiphop exotica. Outta-kilter kinda-songs constructed with what sounds like casio keyboard, synth, real piano (?), beatbox, turntable, maye some live percussion, and "sampling" of some sort. Out of print from now-defunct label.

STRAIGHT OUTTA MONGOLIA The Redundancy of Saying Sorry (Fencing Flatworm Recordings; England) CDR $20  S.O.M. returns with another little batch of his irresistible techno-mutant-pop. Plop. Op. "Baby Drove a Spaceship 2004" and "Looks Can Be Fatal," etc. With assistance from Random Number, Fluxorgy, and James Cutts. Yeah, this baby can drive my car off the cliff into some other watery dream. Waaaaa! Twinkle. Released 2004. Fencing Flatworm has sadly folded, so get these while you can! NEW, UNPLAYED COPY

STRANGULATED BEATOFFS Greatest Hits (Behemoth Records) $11 The Strangulated Beatoffs included Stan Seitrich and Fritz Noble from Drunks With Guns. This disc compiles their singles from 1987-1993, originally released by Forced Exposure, Glitterhouse, Firefighter, and Skin Graft. Plus a few previously unreleased tracks. Includes a cover of the Troggs' "The Raver." Released 1995.