CUNIGLIUS RECORDS

The Velcro Lewis Group's "White Magick Summer" on Cuniglius Records!

2010-08-12T22:08:00.000-07:00

Hey, Cuniglius Records is thrilled to announce the release of Chicago psycho-blues band THE VELRO LEWIS GROUP's new album "WHITE MAGICK SUMMER!"

Download the album from:

ITUNES:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fall-to-pieces/id385582062?i=385582234&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

EMUSIC:

http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Velcro-Lewis-Group-White-Magick-Summer-MP3-Download/12055926.html

AMAZON:

http://www.amazon.com/White-Magick-Summer/dp/B003YAX9RE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1281062239&sr=8-5

also, you can order yourself a vinyl copy at:

http://www.spiralstaircaserecords.com

you should maybe read this blog, instead. I update it a lot more.

2009-10-31T22:28:00.001-07:00

http://patrickhambrecht.blogspot.com/

http://flamingfirenews.blogspot.com/

wrote about GIL DAO's Full Fathom Five for VICE

2009-05-19T11:51:00.000-07:00

Just wrote about GIL DAO's new FULL FATHOM FIVE song for Vice. GIL DAO is the mystical recording project for Professor Jason Gildow in Nebraska, and it's great -- kind of horrifying too, very mystical and ominious. You can hear the song on the Vice page, or over here at the Cuniglius Records myspace page.

Here are links to all Cungilius music on itunes!

2009-02-19T10:45:00.001-08:00

Here are links to purchase new Cuniglius Records albums on itunes. If you notice anything buggy, please let me know.

Patrick Hambrecht's 3,000,000 Rejected Operas:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=303909113&s=143441

The Centimeters' Facts of Destiny:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=276196011&s=143441

Lydsod's Ancient Age:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300072062&s=143441

The Black Strap Molasses Family's The Elixir That'll Fix 'Er (Featuring Dame Darcy, Pandora Hastings and Jack Martin):

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286527980&s=143441

AAAA Locksmiths & Bail Bonds' Ladies in the Star Formation:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=304191179&s=143441

Ambergris's Extremitrees:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300072063&s=143441

Ambegris's Paid in Foam:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300119478&s=143441

Jared Whitham's Jared Whitham Goes to Wal-Mart

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300072355&s=143441

Joe McGinty's SPACE NUTZ! debut album:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300072354&s=143441

Dame Darcy's My Eyes Have Seen the Glory:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286401238&s=143441

Dame Darcy & Dennis Driscoll's EP:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=271169316&s=143441

Jared Whitham Goes to Wal-Mart -- on sale now!

2009-02-08T21:05:00.000-08:00

Half Robyn Hitchcock, half Uncle Floyd: all uniquely blue-collar American autobio psychedelia. Jared Whitham’s songs about his home in Florida, Show-Biz Pizza, public libraries and Bill Cosby are all taken from his own life, and are each delightfully twisted. See if "North Port" isn't your new favorite song. Please note: the only "explicit song" is "Working Sixteen" -- everything else is very broadcast-friendly for the children at home.

You can listen to and purchase Jared Whitham Goes to Wal-Mart here.

Joe McGinty's SPACE NUTZ from the Planet Blorp

2009-02-08T20:52:00.000-08:00

Uncovered by astro-anthropologists Joe McGinty and Bob Kathman, these recordings reveal the first evidence of life on the planet Blorp. Possibly the happiest music you've ever heard, “Space Nutz!” also reveals that Blorpians love the Ramones, David Cassidy and Deep Purple.

You can listen to the findings from McGinty and Kathman's groundbreaking cosmology here.

SPACE NUTZ Myspace page here.

Patrick Essay on FF in Vice Mag, Join our band, KFJC Special this Sat!

2009-01-27T10:44:00.000-08:00

Howdy,

Three quick things:
1. MY ESSAY ON FF IN VICE MAGAZINE

I wrote an article for VICE about the joys and pain of being in Flaming Fire, why I ended the band and then started it over again, and how you can feel the joy and pain with us. VICE called the article: "LONGEST BASSIST WANTED AD IN HISTORY, OR HOW TO START AND THEN DISSOLVE AND THEN RESTART MANY, MANY BANDS AGAIN" Which is entirely accurate -- we really do need a bassist, plus lots of other folks, including you. (Very geeky references to Elric, G-Force, and Strikeforce: Morituri also included.) Please leave a comment so all the 17-year-old kids reading this article will think someone actually listens to our music.

Here it is:
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/01/new-york---long.html

2. JOIN FLAMING FIRE FITNESS TODAY!
If you'd like to join our fitness band (read the above Vice article for more information), you should! We'll have our first rehearsal on the first Wednesday or Thursday that it is likely to be dry and above 40 degrees in Williamsburg's McCarren Park, and announce it the week before. You can get healthy and get that adrenaline, spiritual power of rock at the same time. I realize the idea of singing or playing guitar and running sounds hard, but we've practicing for three weeks now, and it's easy. You only have to know how to play in the most rudimentary sense, and the lightweight amps we're using cost $20 at Guitar Center. If you'd like to play guitar or drums with us, let us know. If you want to run and sing, you just need running sneakers and a red tshirt or red sweatshirt. (Wear the red tshirt over something else if you're cold.)

If you didn't sign our mailing list, email me and let me know you'd like to participate, I'll send you the demos of the new running songs.

3. SAN FRANCISCO's KFJC SPECIAL ON FLAMING FIRE THIS SATURDAY AT 9 PM, EST.
This KFJC show is narrated by Neil Gravel, and will feature new FF tracks, interviews about our West Coast FF Family, live tracks from our West Coast Flaming Fire [featuring Sheila Bosco (Faun Fables), Leon Dewan (Dewanatron), Joe Armin (The Aerosols), Anna Copa Cabanna (herself), Josh (The Aerosols) and myself]. We've been playing with Sheila, Joe and Josh once a year for about 4 years, so it's great to finally document it.

It's on 6 PM PST on Jan 31 in the Bay Area, 7 PM in North Datoka MST, 8 PM CST in Texas, and 9 PM EST for you New York types.

Tune in here:
http://netcast6.kfjc.org/listen.pls
or here:
http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/index.php

Love,
Patrick

P.S.
FLAMING FIRE II
APRIL 24
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
232 3RD STREET, 3RD FLOOR
BROOKLYN, NY
ALL AGES

Which of these should be the cover for 3,000,000 Rejected Operas?

2009-01-23T15:28:00.000-08:00

If you have an opinions, please lemme know. I love opinions.

Conversation with Terrence Ross: "Jesus, Master of Nuclear Weapons"

2009-01-15T10:43:00.000-08:00

I dunno if you guys remember Terry, he was really tight with Tony Millionaire, Jonny A (of FF) and Helena Harvilicz back in the day. Definitely the mystic/weirdo of the bunch. Dated Dame Darcy for awhile. He was also really LARGE, so he and Jonny/Tony were pretty noticeable when they entered a room, the 3 big art guys. I always find conversations with him really interesting...he's been obsessed with ending nuclear weapons through mystic means for the last 8 years ago. It used to be creating a card game that could end nuclear war if played correctly, a couple years ago. I just heard from him for the first time in a couple years yesterday. Now he's writing a religious book about Jesus called "The Master of Nuclear Weapons."

January 15, 2008 Conversation with Terry Ross

TERRY ROSS:
Hi Patrick....

long time no talk to.
i am fascinated by what you are doing....what does it all mean?
but we have something in common....
i am working on a book about Jesus called "The Master of Nuclear Weapons...."

How the Hell are You? I gotta catch a Flaming Fire show soon.

PATRICK:
Patrick Hambrecht
January 13 at 4:14pm
Hey do you prefer Terrence these days! Your book sounds great, I can't wait to read it. I don't know what FF means, it's more of a necessary inclination, or a drive...we're starting some new projects I'm excited about, Flaming Fire Fitness among them...

TERRY ROSS:
Terrence Ross
January 13 at 4:21pm
Terry or Terrence is fine. I was christened Terrence....

honestly, i was looking at what you are doing, the christian note, the apocalyptic note, the scary part of it....(the comparisons to the manson family) the mysterium tremendum....(i hope that is the correct latin ....). even the visual bible.

as part of my other work i am working on an Interhuman Dreaming Language...a visual set of glyphs to send BACK to the dreamworld....there is a relationship between that and the visual bible project....

i'm learning something from it....your stuff.

Jared Whitham Made this Hand

2008-12-22T01:06:00.000-08:00

It's big! For Lauren Weinstein's Goddess of War comic release, inspired by the FF song of the same name. In early 2009, this hand will now be displayed to Swedish people in a museum for an exhibit on Lauren's comic. They're nuts about war goddesses in Northern Europe! Stay tuned for Jared Whitham's masterpiece "Jared Whitham Goes to Wal-Mart," released in January on Cuniglius Records.

Colleen Kane finds Flaming Fire in a New Orleans Haunted House

2008-12-22T00:28:00.000-08:00

There's an amazing speakeasy in New Orleans called "The Pearl Lounge" run by the unofficial mayor of the city, MC "Jay" Trachiotomy on Sunday nights. It's hard to sum up how cool Jay is, but his house is as amazing and labyrinthingly complex and awesome as he is, and that's where the bar is. It's scary and really inviting at the same time, and everywhere you look there's some something incredible -- an eight foot mechanical ostrich, two box pianos from the 1700s, a working WWI air raid siren, etc. Acres of this stuff. And a really delicious taco truck. Anyway, our pal Colleen Kane bumped into Flaming Fire when we were playing with MC Permafrost Subzero at the venue and crashing there for a couple days, and does a pretty great job of describing why the Pearl Lounge is the greatest place on earth.

You can read about her journey here.

Flaming Fire in Austin, by Alex Reshenov

2008-12-22T00:13:00.000-08:00

Alex Reshenov was around through Flaming Fire's 3 crazy dates in Austin around Halloween, featuring the amazing Anna Copa Cabanna, a rare appearance by Wendi, Stirling and Patrick. You can read all about it here:

http://snakeproofboots.tumblr.com/page/5

Here are the first two painted album covers for Patrick's album

2008-12-21T01:11:00.000-08:00

#2 CD FRONT COVER:

#2 CD INSIDE COVER:

#1 CD FRONT COVER :

#1 CD INSIDE COVER:

Order a hand-drawn copy of Patrick Hambrecht's new solo album by Dec. 19, and receive it by Dec. 24!

2008-12-15T22:40:00.000-08:00

Patrick Hambrecht has been working on a solo album for about 8 years. You can hear some tracks from it on myspace.com/patrickhambrecht. It's by far the most deeply personal (some would say "weirdest") project he's ever released. The music sounds very different from Flaming Fire, or anything else. Each track is completely sonically unique. It's self-recorded, with gabillions of over-dubs and tracks on most songs. In contrast to many "bedroom tape" or demo albums, many of these songs represent months of recording time apiece. There are 21 tracks: 15 with lyrics, and 6 instrumentals. One reason Patrick hadn't released it before, is because it displays a sensitivity and very odd bedroom-recording aesthetic that can be most easily compared to other screwed-up self-recorded nutcases, and is at times painfully revealing. But he feels like a fraud for sitting on about half the songs he's written. So these are the ones he chose out of a library of about 80 songs.

(Many of the songs were offered to Flaming Fire, and rejected as unplayable by human beings, due to it's often changing speeds, tempos, altered sounds and sound effects.) 3,000,000 Rejected Operas is emotional, surreal, and not like anything else you've heard.

The actual release will come out in mid-January, maybe. However, if you order before Friday, Dec. 19, you'll get a copy with a hand-drawn/hand-painted cover for $20 ($30 outside of North or South America) before Dec. 24. Individually numbered. Because he needs the cash. We'll also wrap it for the holidays and tag it. Perfect for friends, family and clients.

If Patrick loses his nerve, this will be the only time "3,000,000 Rejected Operas" will ever be sold, so click on the "buy now" button and order your copy today!

Flaming Fire joins with Ex Gratia Recordings for 2008 compilation and new album in 2009!

2008-12-04T01:33:00.000-08:00

Flaming Fire's "Gun Through A Razor" has been included in the awesome new compilation "Specialisation is for Insects" from punk label, Ex Gratia Recordings, and is planning to release a full length vinyl album with the Ex Gratia folks next year in winter 2009/spring 2010, followed by our first visit to the U.K. (Guess we better get passports.) The compilation features other stellar bands Batrider, Ten City Nation, Doomed Bird of Providence, A-Line, Handsum Pete, Chenko, Rude Mechanicals, The Electric Brains, anarchistwood, and Distant Neighbor.

Ex Gratia Recordings is the brainchild of Emma and Paul Blackwood AKA Punkvert, and is styled on the philosophy of some of our favorite labels. They say: "Ex Gratia has been influenced by the predominantly punk record labels of the 70's such as Alternative Tentacles, SST, Crass Records etc. (though with a wider music policy) and sells its releases through gigs, the internet and a small selection of independent record shops across the UK. Newest project is the Specialisation is for Insects compilation going out 21st November 2008. We are a non-exclusive label. We are not part of the world of signing the souls of musicians or their work."

Dame Darcy's Amazing Pagan Nun Credo

2008-12-02T22:41:00.000-08:00

"WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED

The truth is the blood and guts of ones soul that comes oozing out when one has been smashed alive by God like a bug...."

Last week, Dame Darcy announced in a long letter written in biblical-type verse to her mailing list readers that she's moving from NYC to Portland, because of her sacred cause as a druid, elves, pagan nuns, death by medieval worms, Tibetans, Mayans, Atlantis ... I can't really sum this letter up. But it is one of my favorite published credos from her: very sad in tone, but pretty and moving, while also fantastically strange and riveting/entertaining.

I'm gonna miss her a lot. She lived in NYC for a year, we didn't see each other as much as we wanted, we were both too busy, which seems stupid now. But I hope she can relax a little bit in Portland and have some fun while she's working on her amazing comics and films.

Anyway, you can sign up for future missives from darcy, by going here.

Internal Memo #1 - Ambergris, Space Nutz, Lydsod and Jared Whitham

2008-12-02T22:28:00.000-08:00

Jared Whitham

Lydsod

Matthew Thurber's Ambergris

Joe McGinty's Space Nutz

Hi Folks,

Matthew Thurber's Ambergris, Joe McGinty's Space Nutz, Lydsod and Jared Whitham albums are all on the way to the distributor, joining The Centimeters, Dame Darcy and Flaming Fire on Cuniglius Records. They should be up by the end of the month, and ready for big things in 2009! Will be joined by AAAA Locksmiths and Bail Bonds and more releases from Dame Darcy, very shortly...

1. Anyway, I'm pretty excited to have yall on board. You guys represent some of the best artists I've ever heard or seen, and it's a real pleasure to be able to put out your music. I also think that there's something very unique and perfect that all the bands share. Purity of intent, maybe.

2. I'm starting a blog for Cuniglius Records stuff. If you have anything to report or hype, -- an upcoming show, a review of your performance or music, please let me know, and i'll hype it in the blog. Here it is: http://cuniglius.blogspot.com/ Any suggestions? I realize it needs photos and stuff. I'm getting to it.

3. I also plan to mail out mp3 cds of all your albums to pertinent radio djs and websites in early 2009, after all the "Best of 2008 lists" are published, and people are ready for the new hit sounds of the future, which is you. If you DON'T want this to happen, lemme know.Will also mail them to you guys too.

4. Would be fun to have some sorta show with you guys. I realize many of us play together fairly often, but it'd be still be fun to have some sorta "launch show" or "listening party." We could host it here, deep in Jersey City at CR headquarters, unless somebody has a better idea...maybe at a gallery or loft or some such thing.

Love,
Bertram Grosvenor III

P.S. If Leon or Brian would get around to getting me a DEWANATRON album that I could format for the distributor, it would be really awesome to release their music as well! Gee...

Nice Description of the Centimeters From Mutant Sounds

2008-11-30T23:21:00.000-08:00

Cuniglius Records have been fans from way back of the Centimeters. Flaming Fire were lucky enough to play a show with them in 2002, at Galapagos. I'll write about awesome Centimeters shows later. But for now, here's a nice synopsis from the Mutant Sounds blog:

"Completely ignored, this fiercely idiosyncratic L.A. unit existed (still exist?) in a bubble of their own creation whose touchstones, at least to these ears, seem to come from an earlier era of the L.A. underground via outfits like 45 Grave and The Fibonaccis. It's a very curious combination of quirk and quease and one that takes a few spins to assimilate, as arch, addled cabaret pop shares space with offkey dirges about wanting "a dead one". Anyone who downloaded the Iceplants' headscratching E.P. that I posted a little while back will find a certain simpatico to their ungainly approaches to songform in the sparely fucked arrangements here as well. Guest spots from ex-Germs/45 Grave/C.E.D.S. nutter Don Bolles and L.A.F.M.S. vet Joseph Hammer should go some ways toward providing a context for this curio cabinet of experimental pop maneuvers, but this is really it's own unique beast and deserves a reckoning from anyone with a yen for the peculiar."

Read more about the Centimeters from Mutant Sounds here.

Here we go.

2008-11-30T22:48:00.001-08:00

Hi, This is the first post on the Cuniglius Records web page.