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L&S 020: ENABLERS - BLOWN REALMS AND STALLED EXPLOSIONS 12" LP

10 new tracks from this unique band, the sound has evolved since the last full LP release 'Tundra', still with the intense dynamic guitar play between Joe Goldring and Kevin Thomson and the weaving in of Pete Simonelli's words, but now featuring Doug Scharin (Codeine, Rex, Him, June of 44 . . ) on drums! This is a confident record still with the distinct elements of musicianship and imagination that made the previous releases so engaging but one that is moving forward into new sounds, new realms. Not to be missed - go listen!!!

This is a split release between Lancashire & Somerset and the rather great label Exile On Mainstream (Germany) ltd to 500 hand numbered copies, in a card fold sleeve with metallic ink, with colour insert, on 180g pure virgin vinyl, pressed at PALLAS - audiophile pressing plant in Germany. Best quality you can get these days in Europe - so grab it while you can!

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L&S 019: PETE SIMONELLI - ONE BRITTLE NERVE - BOOK & CD

Pete Simonelli is the underground literary veteran and vocalist/frontman for the band Enablers, this his second book published by Lancashire and Somerset features 12 new poems set over 20 pages, which sees petes writing going from strength to strength , including two to be featured on the new Enablers album out later this year! a sneak preview perhaps? 20 pages bound in a heavy weight yellow card sleeve including an audio CD of readings of all the poems, recorded at petes home in Brooklyn, New York. Hand numbered and ltd to 200 copies world wide.

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L&S 018: PETE SIMONELLI / MCWATT / BLACK OCTAGON - SPLIT / ETCHED 12"

This one sided 12" with etching on the B side is a journey between Pete Simonelli / McWatt / Black Octagon, although recorded in 3 different parts of the world a similar brooding narrative runs throughout this recording. Pete Simonelli is the underground literary veteran and vocalist/frontman for the band Enablers here he reads 2 poems 'An Egg & Pole To Pole' from his new book that are interwoven into the brooding instrumental dark blues of Black Octagon to the unfolding chamber folk of double bass and accordion that is McWatt. Hand numbered ltd to 400 copies world wide in a beautiful silk screened sleeve hand bound with and sealed with ribbon attached via metal rivet.

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L&S 017: NATHAN BELL - COLORS 12" LP

' Hailing from Baltimore, USA. Nathan Bell has recorded with more than a dozen bands in the last decade. Most known for playing bass in the legendary Lungfish from 1996 to 2003, he has also worked with P.W. Long, Mighty Flashlight, and Television Hill, an earlier version of Arbouretum and the mighty Human Bell. He plays cyclic banjo music - sometimes delayed - sometimes bowed creating medative hymns for the soul. 8 tracks that flow like an abstract sound poem with nathan's hypnotic banjo mantras wound around percussion, bass, trumpet viola and cello. Recorded and played on by Peter Townsend (Bonnie"Prince"Billy, Superwolf, King Kong, Human Bell) in Baltimore, Louisville and Nashville" . Ltd to 400 copies world wide in a beautiful silk screened and bound sleeve.

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L&S 016: SPITTING COBRA - 'ANGEL TITS' EP - MULTI COLOURED VINYL 12" LP

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L&S 015: ENABLERS - 'OUTPUT NEGATIVE SPACE' 12" + 'TOUCHED BY A JANITOR' CASSETTE TAPE ONLY RELEASE

Enablers 2nd long player at last as it was always meant to be heard on 12" vinyl! If you don't own this release you need to and if you own it on CD well this sounds better, it fits in rather nicely between End Note and Tundra. " Output Negative Space continues, dramatically, from the cliff-hanger end of their debut. It sees Simonelli deliver lines with a greater vehemence, with an anger amplified; there is menace even in his softest whisper. The band, too – so often referred to as the world’s best power trio on posters and flyers – seem tighter, tauter, about ready to snap into combustive climax. But it’s the control that maintains the drama, what keeps the listener coming back; both albums are sequenced with intelligence, so that a pace rises and falls but the threat never subsides wholly." It also comes with a previously unreleased cassette tape album of 'Touched By A Janitor' Loves Ambulance 5 track affair, this was the band that contained Kevin Thomson and Joe Goldring previous to enablers - this record is only available via this release . . Ltd to 300 hand numbered copies with matt foil blocked debossed front and back cover / 8 page lyric book and envelope sealed cassette tape album

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L&S 014: KOGUMAZA - TRANSPARENT COLOURED 7"

2 lengthy, truely great tracks of hypnotic - fuzzed out joy! Rowan Maeve: which i would describe as day break, the start of a new cycle or quite possibly birth! and Phantom Itch: which really has to be sunset . . . this is on yellow transparent vinyl set inside a rather special foil blocked sleeve ltd to 300 hand numbered copies! . . . In the bands own words: Hypnotic, fuzzed-out song cycles marrying garage-rock sounds to an ambient aesthetic, ending up sounding somewhere between Moondog and Lungfish. They've played shows with Earth, Zomes and Growing among others.Between them they've played in bands as varied as Wolves Of Greece, Savoy Grand, Lords, Bob Tilton, Felix, Glenn Branca, Damo Suzuki, Not In This Town and more but KGMZ manages to sound like none of them

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L&S 013: PETE SIMONELLI - A LONELY WAR - BOOK & CD (2ND EDITION)

the 2nd edition of the book from Enablers co-founder and vocalist Pete Simonelli. A Hard backed, hand bound book, beautifully illustrated throughout complete with an audio CD of petes readings. 200 copies - each hand numbered

> BUY: £10 + postage

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L&S 012: ENABLERS - 'NOW YOU CAN ANSWER MY PRAYERS' ETCHED 10"

When Johannes Buff first contacted us about recording with him for a radio program we were intrigued and a little suspicious. After all, the experience could run the gamut from a closet sized room with a microphone and a half dead laptop running Garage Band to a decent little studio with a console and a tape machine. Johannes assured us it was all on the up and up and that for a small fee we could stay overnight at the studio. A fee? This was getting interesting. What kind of studio charges a fee to sleep there? Our experiences have run on the seedier side of the tracks and we imagined a broom closet with a cot or a pile of blankets on the floor. We said yes. When we arrived in the vicinity of the studio, we were struck by the strange surroundings. Odd buildings, widely spaced; futuristic ruins with trees sprouting from upper floor concrete. It was like being in a life-sized version of an architectural model presentation. We found the address and saw only vast sheets of mirrored glass and two doors. Of course we were pounding on the wrong door and a smiling Johannes appeared as if by magic further down the way. We walked through two heavy doors and into an open space with hardwood floors, tall ceilings, soft walls, sleek lighting, a grand piano and Neumann microphones. We all silently thought, “holy shit…the fucking Eagle has landed for sure.” Johannes led us on a grand tour of Peppermint Park studios. We were blown away. First rate accommodations, insane gear, great amps, unreal console, kitchen, couches, coffee, clean towels…in short: the works. Surely, this was not an opportunity to waste. We set up and we went to work. In any studio situation a million things can happen, especially with Enablers. The pressure of knowing we had just one night, the friendly, encouraging vibes from Johannes and the inspiring studio surroundings led us to try new ideas. We came away from Peppermint Park with a brand new song worked up from a Goldring composition now titled “On Returning” and a new version of a Thomson composition, formerly performed by Touched By A Janitor. We re-titled the song “Hy”, and extended it into an improvisational piece allowing Byrnes to coax a menagerie of sounds from his kit and Pete to deliver lines from a letter found on Market Street in San Francisco. Thanks to Johannes’s vision for the Peppermint Park/Radio Grenoble studio series and Dave Hand’s Lancashire and Somerset label, Enablers are able to release these songs. Enjoy. (Words By Kevin Thomson)

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L&S 011: MONOBROW - 2 SONG CD - STILL TO BE RELEASED!

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L&S 010: EUCHRID EUCROW - KINGDOM SONGS CD - SOLD OUT

euchrid eucrow are euchrid, abi fry, and caroline weeks. they play accordion, guitar, and viola irrespectively, stripped down raw beautiful dark passages . . . super ltd 100 copies, hand stamped, sewn sleeves

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L&S 009: ENABLERS - TUNDRA 12" LP - SOLD OUT

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L&S 008: MUGSTAR / REDPANDA - 'TAMLIN' SPLIT ETCHED 10"

This record was born over boths bands love of Fairport Conventions - leige and lief album, a rough plan was hatched to record a 2 sided record with each band covering a different track from the album - both bands wanted to do the folk classic 'Tamlin' the answer was to split the track down the middle and let it flood 1 side of vinyl. inspired by Fairport Convention’s version of this traditional folk song both bands have forged their own contrasting interpretations both drawing on heavier, darker influences, with a beautiful and intricate etched B side, ltd to 300 copies

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L&S 007: LANCASHIRE AND SOMERSET - CD SAMPLER - STILL TO BE RELEASED!

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L&S 006: PETE SIMONELLI - A LONELY WAR BOOK & CD - SOLD OUT

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L&S 005: -a+M - DIALS 10"

the debut 10" album by -a+M . . . 30+ minutes of acoustic guitar battles - 2 interlocked guitars construct beautiful complex instrumental post rock battles! the sound of 2 guitars interlocked to a glorious death. 300 copies - with hand numbered insert

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L&S 004: ENABLERS / REDPANDA - SPLIT 7"

San Francisco's finest, Enablers grace the A side with 'New Moon Knockdown' a short, sharp stab of brooding guitars and visceral spoken word . . Redpanda contribute 'Julia' a quiet loud affair of controlled brooding violence. ltd to 400 copies - book bound sleeves, each unique with custom stamps and hand numbered

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L&S 003: McWATT - 'SELF TITLED' 12"

13 untitled tracks of how sea shanties should sound, recorded live in a church, beautiful haunting and cinematic yet challenging sounds, 2 pieces of flute/accordion/ double bass construct modernistic, classical journeys with edge and brooding beauty, as the Wire put it: "A pensive slice of chamber folk that unfolds with the grace & weight". Hand made sleeves with book tape bound, hand numbered to 220 copies. , very few copies left

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L&S 002: REDPANDA - 'SELF TITLED' 12"

recorded over a winter in deepest lancashire in an old house 'Braemar' 5 tracks of Lancashire funeral march music were born . . . quiet, beautiful passages to turbulent interludes of brooding 'post rock'vmixed on a brew of early aerial M and Rodan with a heavy love of Black Sabbath. Hand stitched, hand stamped sleeves, heavy weight vinyl. ltd to 275 copies, very few copies left

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L&S 001: MUGSTAR - 'MY BABY SKULL HAS NOT YET FLOWERED' 7"

An early outing or 2 tracks of heavy heavy space drone from Liverpools finest band, file under Hawkwind, Oneida, Grails, Bardo Pond and they keep getting better! - hand folded , beautifully illustrated sleeves, super heavy weight vinyl ltd to 400 copies, very few copies left.

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