The Dead C Eusa Kills Shirt
Also from the dark recesses of the BaDaBing basement comes: The Dead C’s Eusa Kills shirt in black! It comes in S or M (Large is sold out).
The Dead C Tan Shirt
For the dark recesses of the BaDaBing basement emerges, The Dead C tan shirt in S, M, L.
THE DEAD C – Future Artists
In their first new album since 2003′s The Damned and last year’s two-cd greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite & Stupid, New Zealand’s The Dead C return with another uncompromising realisation of the finest rock improvisation you’ll ever hear.
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It’s been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the surreal and undefined. Long may they prosper.
THE DEAD C – Secret Earth
The Dead C oscillates between two poles. Recent albums explored drones, electronic loops and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material.
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Along the axis of The Dead C’s recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius.
The Dead C – Max Harris
Max Harris captures the first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of “Max Harris”–reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice.
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Anyone who doesn’t own one of the original 21 cassette tapes made of these recordings will be hearing them together for the first time. Yes, they’ve never been on vinyl before, so maybe one can even say this is the tracks’ first “real” release. You will be able to feel the slicing tension and drive right through your bones.
The Dead C – Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power
Relegated to expensive fodder for eBay bidders until now, Clyma Est Mort can be considered The Dead C’s “Ed Sullivan moment,” except it wasn’t performed live on network TV–it was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, NZ, in 1992 with the inestimable Tom Lax of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience.
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Since the goal was to make a “fake bootleg” album for release on the mythical Proletariat Idiots Productions label–and in honor of the 13th Floor Elevators (often overlooked as an influence)–the band dubbed in fake audience noise from a gig by the Renderers. Despite the deliberate incompetence with which this was accomplished, Clyma is often touted as a “live album.” This is only true in the sense that the band members were alive when they made it. This double-LP reissue includes Tentative Power, a collection of non-album tracks many consider among the band’s best moments.
The Dead C – DR502 / Sun Stabbed
Originally released in 1987 (and not to be confused with the releases DR503b or DR503c, which are completely different recordings), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before–a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace. It didn’t fit in with the other bands New Zealand’s venerable Flying Nun was releasing, and it immediately staked a fork in the road, dividing the “New Zealand Pop Sound” from its black sheep brother, “New Zealand Noise.”
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Today, the record still sounds as vicious and vital as when it first went to vinyl, except now perhaps there will be more people ready to appreciate the innovative approach the band took some 21 years ago. This reissue also contains a bonus record of the rare Sun Stabbed EP from the same recording period. With bonus tracks not on the original 7-inch, the recordings from the Sun Stabbed sessions are being released for the first time in their entirety.
The Dead C – Eusa Kills / Helen Said This
Eusa Kills is The Dead C’s second album from 1989, released by Flying Nun, the arbiter of the time for all that mattered in New Zealand rock. Considered by many to be their “songs” record, Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds of their time–those being created by such luminaries as Dustdevils, This Kind of Punishment, and Dadamah.
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Sneering vocals drift over improvised melodies and unstructured rock songs. One can hear the direct influence The Dead C had on Sonic Youth at the time–mining deep into the underbelly of music to yield a truly intense and unparalleled sound. This reissue also contains as a bonus record the rare Helen Said This 12-inch from the same recording period. Originally released by Siltbreeze at 33 rpm, this is the first vinyl reprint, and will display improved sound quality at 45 rpm.
The Dead C – Patience
Patience is both appropriate and inappropriate as a title for the latest release by The Dead C. Inappropriate because it’s been only two years since the last album, which in Dead C Time is but the flicker of a candle; appropriate since the key to enjoying the Dead C is willingness to sit down, listen and let the music take over your mind.
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With an unforgiving and intense four tracks, Patience will not be confused with the work of any other band.
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