Matt Valentine

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Mountains of Yaffa 01:06 Tools
Continuing The Good Life 02:28 Tools
Hit The Trails 02:28 Tools
PK Dick 05:15 Tools
Stay 06:12 Tools
Ease My Eyes 07:17 Tools
Ave B 04:36 Tools
Sweet Little Indian Girl 08:57 Tools
Mountains of Yaffa 00:00 Tools
Unity 00:00 Tools
Near Yr Zone 00:00 Tools
Light Speed > 00:00 Tools
Minor Rager > Calliphygian Niekro > Minor Rager > 00:00 Tools
Virtual 00:00 Tools
Cocola's Ebonic Journey 00:00 Tools
Freeware 00:00 Tools
Bonny Bonny Doon 03:11 Tools
Riverboat Au Go Go 00:00 Tools
Spirit 01:36 Tools
Lunette 01:36 Tools
Free Again 00:00 Tools
The Beater 07:50 Tools
Moonshine Raga 07:50 Tools
Psychic 78 Sound 00:00 Tools
Lung Gong 00:00 Tools
> Nature 05:31 Tools
Oh Papa, Cocola's On The Jug Again 02:45 Tools
I'm Going Down the River 00:00 Tools
Ceremony Without 00:00 Tools
Feel... the Music 17:24 Tools
Meditations On Out Of Nowhere 17:24 Tools
Cocola Moves Through the Bizarre 10:53 Tools
Cosmic Debris > 10:53 Tools
Parasol Meets the Bag Plague 02:35 Tools
The Obscene Mudra 04:31 Tools
Lunette #2 02:15 Tools
Cork 04:40 Tools
Movin' (For the Cosmic Range) 04:40 Tools
Joaquin Antique Riverboat Blues 03:42 Tools
Ring of Yod 14:48 Tools
Moon Lotus 02:01 Tools
Cocola Displacement 00:46 Tools
The Saltimbanques of the Moon 00:00 Tools
Blossom 02:00 Tools
Be Kind > 02:00 Tools
Crystal Mava 02:00 Tools
Analog Love > 02:00 Tools
Starcadian 02:00 Tools
Before It's Gone 00:00 Tools
Shine A Light 00:00 Tools
Cocola Nebula 02:00 Tools
Jeremiah Red 02:09 Tools
Rockbottomless 02:09 Tools
Black Sun 00:00 Tools
Cocola 02:09 Tools
C. C. Melotone 02:09 Tools
The Evil Genius of a Silvertone Guitarist 00:00 Tools
Cocola You are the High Sky 00:00 Tools
Now 00:00 Tools
Freight Train > East Virginia Galaxy 00:00 Tools
The Celebrated Medicine Show Raga 00:00 Tools
Shine a Ton 00:00 Tools
River Run 05:55 Tools
Wastrel 01:37 Tools
C.C. Crinoline 02:02 Tools
Merge 01:37 Tools
Mine All Troubled Blues 02:02 Tools
On the Banks of the Bash Bish Falls 00:00 Tools
Sic 'em Cocola On Me 02:02 Tools
McNeill's Bottle Blues 02:02 Tools
Candyman 02:02 Tools
The Sool of Drool 14:47 Tools
Death Don't Have No Mercy 01:37 Tools
One Step From The Earth 01:37 Tools
Cocola in the Snow 01:37 Tools
Slang Yr Life > 05:55 Tools
Moon Marimba 01:37 Tools
Blasted in the Haze 04:45 Tools
Travelling with Others 01:37 Tools
Dark Was The Night 01:37 Tools
Nirguna D 05:55 Tools
Stroboskopkola 05:55 Tools
Cold Was The Ground 05:55 Tools
Hockey & Divertissments 05:55 Tools
Lone Star Cocola 00:00 Tools
Evening Dawn Elder 04:45 Tools
Dawn Jog 05:55 Tools
Hard Time Killing Flo' 01:09 Tools
Beamish, Cocola, & Collard Greens 01:09 Tools
A Raga For P.G. Six 07:32 Tools
C.C. Crinoline IV 02:02 Tools
Soldering on the Moon 00:00 Tools
Autumn Dawn Elder Meets the Monochord 01:09 Tools
I've Been Drinking Cocola Out of a Hollow Log 01:09 Tools
Pre Jazz Comes to Claverack 02:02 Tools
Moon Milk for Beginners 01:09 Tools
Space Koto 01:09 Tools
Mtns of Yaffa 01:03 Tools
Joaquin Antique Riverboat Hizzos 05:55 Tools
Cocola's Island 00:45 Tools
Cocola's Moonshine Moan 05:55 Tools
MV's A-Frame Stomp 05:55 Tools
StroboSkop Kola 05:55 Tools
Cocola Bottled Blues 05:55 Tools
Cocola & the Rain People 05:55 Tools
Jeremiah Red > Now 00:45 Tools
Who Killed C.C. Speed? 05:55 Tools
Shine a Ton > Black Sun 05:55 Tools
C.C. Melotone > In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town 05:55 Tools
Maximum Arousal For Elizabeth Cotten 05:55 Tools
Canned Heat Blues 05:55 Tools
A Raga for PG Six 05:55 Tools
Side 1 20:05 Tools
Anji Variations 03:39 Tools
matt valentine - mountains of yaffa 20:05 Tools
Neptune Boogie 20:05 Tools
Zuma Little King 20:05 Tools
Space Chanteys Side A 20:05 Tools
We Can't Build You 04:26 Tools
Feel...The Music 07:11 Tools
Moonspeak 07:11 Tools
P.K. Dick Or When Nolan Ryan Stepped Up Everyone Gave Him A Hand But When Rudy Rucker Came Down You Couldn't Even Stand 03:39 Tools
Maximum Arousal for Elizabeth Cotton 03:39 Tools
Black Peter 03:32 Tools
Big Bang Saloon 03:25 Tools
Elk Horn Cocola 03:39 Tools
Death Is Hanging Over Me > Hangin' 19:33 Tools
Rainy Day Cocola #1 03:39 Tools
Future Raga 03:39 Tools
Cocola's Breakdown 03:39 Tools
Airguna D 03:39 Tools
Never Let Me Go 03:25 Tools
Freight Train > High Noon 03:25 Tools
C.C. Christine 03:25 Tools
Space Chanteys Side B 03:25 Tools
Side 2 22:11 Tools
aint no sunshine when shes gone 22:11 Tools
In a Newer Lunar Blues 01:26 Tools
Astral Bowery 22:11 Tools
Now I Have Everything 01:26 Tools
Environs 03:32 Tools
Turbine 03:32 Tools
unformed stars dont burn for me 03:32 Tools
The Fermentation of P.G. Six 01:26 Tools
Sic 'em Cocola On Me > Yayli Bayle 01:26 Tools
the goddamned joyousness of earth 01:26 Tools
Louis Collins > Lew Orbits 04:47 Tools
Trailer Trash 04:47 Tools
Jacked Up 04:47 Tools
the colliding suitcase head 04:47 Tools
diamond voices of sideral couples 04:47 Tools
The Enchanted Cocola #1 04:47 Tools
Demons & The Golden Stick (A Lung of Shiza) 04:47 Tools
Fort Dummer Thala (A Sluice of Kif) 04:47 Tools
Strobo Skopkola 04:47 Tools
Mine All Troubled Blues > Sandipani Sunset 04:47 Tools
Superman 19:33 Tools
Devendra Banhart & Friends - 13 - Mountains of Yaffa 04:47 Tools
Psychic 75 Sound 04:47 Tools
Cocola´s Island 04:47 Tools
emmeline 04:47 Tools
jerk off orion 04:47 Tools
the cell of hearing 04:47 Tools
chinese a powder 04:47 Tools
irrational anthem 04:47 Tools
jinx jet (for r.c.) 04:47 Tools
the conductors concede to lunar drums 04:47 Tools
The Enchanted Cocola #2 04:47 Tools
Megh Blues 04:47 Tools
On The Banks Of The Bish Bash Falls 19:33 Tools
McNeill's Bottle Blue 04:47 Tools
Oh Death 04:47 Tools
Cocola Return 04:47 Tools
Poor Boy Excursions (i. Poor Boy ii. A Long Way From Home iii. Environments) 19:33 Tools
the curious sand of unusual purity 19:33 Tools
ozone of golden eloquence 19:33 Tools
Candyman > Tone Sunfall 19:33 Tools
dust, the belle of 676 19:33 Tools
Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground > Canned Heat Float 19:33 Tools
On The Banks Of The Ohio > I Want To Dream By The Old Mill Stream 19:33 Tools
Kyrene - Original Mix 19:33 Tools
Untitled 19:33 Tools
Hats Off To Bob Malloy 19:33 Tools
Meditations on Payday 15:24 Tools
Mountains Of Yaffe 15:24 Tools
P.K. Dick 15:24 Tools
One Step From The Earth > I Love Jellyroll 15:24 Tools
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Matt Valentine was a member of Tower Recordings. An overlooked '90s New York ensemble, that also featured P.G. Six, which produced some of the most intriguing homespun urban folk recordings of the decade, and released a string of albums that covered corrosive no wave noise, abstract tape experimentation, and inspired delicate melodic folk. The springboard for the sound they shape as their own is a mixture of ESP folk, British folk, free jazz, and their own willful experimentation. Obvious points of reference could be the '60s groups Pearls Before Swine and the Fugs, who had a knack of keeping exquisite songs at the core of their outward experimentation and chaotic group jamming; linking the diverse influences and historical references -- the work of Can, Sun Ra, and Sonic Youth spring to mind -- the overall sound is far from pastiche. The group was somewhat of an institution, which can be accredited to their frequent underground live shows that kept the spirit of the "happening" alive in the '90s. Matt Valentine has slowly leaked out a constantly expanding body of work in recent years as Tower Recordings, The MV & EE Medicine Show (along with Erika Elder “EE”), and under his own name. Together MV & EE have formulated a modern, psychedelic-blues shanty by giving shelter to releases of various mediums (chapbook, CD-R, DVD-R) and artists via their own Vermont-based Child of the Microtones imprint. Creek to Creation, the most recent of his solo efforts, is quite a smoky peak within Valentine’s vinyl output. Here the folk-form gives way to openness and the absorbent natural world more than other MV recordings these ears have heard before. Across the two sides, Valentine’s gauzy blues scriptures morph into miniature rhythms at a nodding pace that gently warps the time and space immediately around you. His deep aural sheen of prism tones has become the point of cohesion for his solo and Medicine Show recordings. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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