Mona:
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from March 15, 2024
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Mona brings you synthpop, disco, darkwave, electronic, new romantic, queer anthems, dance classics, post punk, soul, goth, shoegaze, industrial, britpop, retro r&b, breaks, and more...
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Moon-Driven Sea
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Bound By Naked Skies | Sacred Bones | $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP! |
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| Cocteau Twins |
Hitherto
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Heralds of the Circuit-Born
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| Echo & The Bunnymen |
The Cutter
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Sweatin to the Spookies Vol. 3 |
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| The Replacements |
Androgynous
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| Nico |
I'll Keep It With Mine
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Chelsea Girl |
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| Miss Grit |
Follow the Cyborg
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Follow the Cyborg |
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| Goldfrapp |
Number 1
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Supernature |
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| Primal Scream |
Some Velvet Morning
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Some Velvet Morning |
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| Manhead |
Birth, School, Work, Death
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| Miss Grit |
Syncing
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Follow the Cyborg | $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP! |
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| Cat Power |
Wild is the Wind
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Love Is the Message
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| Martin Rev |
Dreams
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The Sum of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85) |
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| Martin Rev |
Yearning
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Love Is the Message
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| M83 |
Kool Nuit
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Fantasy | Mute | A pledge of $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP |
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| Sheila |
Spacer
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| Dwight Twilley Band |
Looking For The Magic
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| M83 |
Us and the Rest
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Fantasy | Mute | $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP |
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| Chromatics |
Shadow
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Love Is the Message
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| Fever Ray |
Kandy
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Radical Romantics | Mute | A pledge of $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP |
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| The Nuns |
Anita
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Sweatin to the Spookies Vol. 3 |
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| Fever Ray |
Even It Out
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Radical Romantics | A pledge of $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP | 2:21:44 (Pop-up) | ||||||
| Depeche Mode |
Everything Counts (Live)
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101 Box Set | A pledge of $100 or more gets you in the running for this 5 disc box set! |
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Love is the Message
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| Slowdive |
kisses
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everything is alive | Dead Oceans |
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everything is alive | Dead Oceans | A pledge of $25 or more gets you in the running for this LP | 2:42:42 (Pop-up) | |||||
| A.R. Kane |
A Love From Outer Space
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Love is the Message
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Bio: Spaghetti Eastern Music ...Can acid jazz and funk-fired guitar instrumentals co-exist with ambient sound collages a la Fripp & Eno and intimate DADGAD-tuned vocal ballads straight out of the Nick Drake/John Martyn playbook? They can and do in Spaghetti Eastern Music, the critically-acclaimed solo project of Saugerties & NYC-based guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Sal Cataldi.
Cataldiβs much-varied sound is the product of an insatiable musical soul and a record collection rivaling the Smithsonianβs. His debut album, βSketches of Spam,β the 16-track, 69-minute, genre-surfing release from (Bad Egg Records, 30003), was an hour-plus journey through contrasting moods, with instrumentals inspired by 70βs Miles, Krautrock, Ennio Morricone, Bhangra, Fripp & Eno and ECMβs icy guitar great Terje Rypdal giving way to bare-bones acoustic vocal tunes β ones oft anchored on unusual tunings, with narratives that chart the course of difficult loves, in styles that range from Brit Folk to Bossa Nova. In 2020, Cataldi followed this with a trio of acclaimed atmospheric singles that have been heard around the globe, βHer Lemon Peel Raincoat β Because Itβs Raining,β βPeace Withinβ and βAnd This is Their New Hoax,β a COVID-19 musical editorial featuring samples of President Trumpβs most noted denials to Cataldiβs soundpainting guitars and synths. His February 2021 release, βBlues for A Lost Cosmonaut,β is a well-reviewed nine-minute plus maxi single again in the ambient mode while October 2021βs, βSolo Guitar Score for 2x2x4,β is a bold solo electric guitar score to a dance piece recorded live at the Avant-Garde Arama Festival in Woodstock, inspired by his work with the guitar orchestra of Rhys Chatham and his love of Fripp and βWhite Light, White Heatβ-era Velvet Underground. In June 2022, Cataldi released a new single in the acoustic singer-songwriter mode, βI Believe In Love,β one which received great press featuring βNY Sliceβ song of the day on WFMU. In January 2023, he followed with a duo of instrumental singles, βA Scanner Darklyβ and βA Fresh Kill,β which also received significant airplay and press. In October 2023, he released the acoustic ballad, βSweet Home Anywhereβ and a funky instrumental βJungle Blue.β In December 2023, he released βhealth,β a solo guitar score for a film by director/American Ballet Theater dance, Hanna Bass.
Spaghetti Eastern Music has received consistent critical raves, for live performances and the selective release of early mixes of works now fully realized on this debut disc. The New York Times says βthe funk-tinged original instrumentals and acoustic vocal tunes have a beat unmistakably his ownβ while Time Out New York writes: "Cataldi's largely instrumental, Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and hauntingly moody atmosphere." Newsday adds: βMad scientist-guitarist-keyboardist Cataldi brings da funk and throws it in a mixer with electronica, bebop and blues.β Called βtruly excellentβ by The Village Voice, βa wild ride, a fun name for some very good musicβ by Radio Woodstock, βbeautiful and uniqueβ by WFUVβs Mixed Bag, βtriumphantly funkifiedβ by UPI, βa stimulating soloistβ by The New York Press and βa jazz virtuoso without the need to prove itβ by Aquarian Weekly. Almanac Weeklyβs John Burdick proclaims: βa unique voice, a surprising blend of exploratory fusion, electronica and indie song craft, from the Ennio Morricone overtones anticipated by his handle to currents of Krautrock, techno, modal folk and various world music stylesβ while Chronogram Magazine labels Spaghetti Eastern βcool, inspired, sophisticated, melodic and transcendent, a wave of sonic warmth and light.β East Coast Rocker/Rolling Stone writer John Swenson, the man who penned the liner notes to Frank Zappaβs βShut Up n Play Yer Guitar,β may have put it best, βheβs the hippie guitarist playing to another dimension.β Hudson Valley One recently called Cataldiβs music: βPart Sergio Leone fever dream, part Ravi Shankar raga, a whirling dervish of musical creation,β while Psychedelic Baby Magazine labeled it βthe perfect sonic tonic for these troubled times.β
The authority on all things Beatles, The Beatles Examiner recently praised the albumβs βsharp soaring guitar jamsβ and called the distinctive cover of βTicket to Ride,β βincredible, a wonderfully moody re-imaginingβ of the Lennon classic. Huffington Post dubs it βthe perfect soundtrack for New York City life,β while WFMUβs Irene Trudel calls it βcharmingly melodic and off-center,β while popular Zappa fan sites Idiot Bastard and United Mutations gave raves to his reinvention of βSleep Dirt,β a Zappa acoustic instrumental rarity, which appears on the CD as βNap Dust.β Cataldiβs music has enjoyed airplay on radio including WFUVβs βMixed Bag,β SiriusXM, WKCR-FM, Radio Woodstock, WFMU, Oaklandβs KALX, NYC-area college station including WCWP, WDFU, WVRK and WHPC and many more. The CDβs title is a lighthearted tribute to Miles Davisβ atmospheric classic, βSketches of Spain,β one ripe for this digital overload and lunchmeat age!
Salβs other current project, Hari Karaoke Trio of Doom, is a duo co-lead with Kansas City-based drummer D. Hitchcock, which includes guest appearances by legends like Eno/Brand X bassist Percy Jones. HKToD has released two critically acclaimed discs, βEscape Velocityβ (1999) and βGeolagoβ (2002). Collector, Cataldiβs former βheavy metal bebop quartet,β released another genre-leaping criticβs fave, the all-instrumental βAlmost Liveβ in (1999). Both of these bands have performed frequently in New York and beyond, at progressive clubs like the Knitting Factory. Cataldi recently teamed up with Alaskan playwright and poet Mark Muro as the Vapor Vespers for a critically-acclaimed new album of sonics and storytelling called βOne Act Sonixβ released in January 2020. He is also half of the edge-pushing improvisatory/ambient electric guitar duo, Guitars A Go Go, with Hudson, NY-based guitarist Rick Warren, which released their debut disc, βTravel Advisoryβ in May 2020."
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Yay, the DP box set, thank you!!
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