"Figs, Wasps, and Monotremes" is the second Common Eider, King Eider disc by Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, Free Porcupine Society). Recorded last winter in Fairbanks, Alaska, it's full of the kind of bedroom isolation you might expect from a place where during that time of year the sun rises for only about two hours a day. Using mostly violin, guitar and his lovely falsetto, Fisk has crafted a bewitching set of soundtracks for being utterly lost. These passages ring out into the night and last until the moments just before waking. Songs on the brink of implosion, born of soft small movements that billow upwards but still cast an eye towards the occasional outbursts of bleak distortion. Comes in an 3 panel, offset printed folder with silver on white."

-Root Strata

Tracks:

01. Wasp Tunnels (Intro) (3:01)
02. Monotreme Mom (5:23)
03. Brown Trumps White (5:54)
04. The Last 4 Years Of The Bees (5:19)
05. Goodnight, Your Legs (Part 1) (3:04)
06. Cell Towers, Birds, And The 7 Twins That Try (3:02)
07. Smell Of Gulls And Grass (2:39)
08. Talking Ravens, Rotting Figs (4:15)

-Limited Edition, 1000 Copies

"After a number of CD-R's, tapes and other underground ephemera, 'Three for Malachi Ritscher' is the first proper CD by Los Angeles free thinkers Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki. Through ringing passages of guitar, pedal steel, and wordless vocals, this disc climbs to thoughtless vistas of microtones and gushing feedback that inevitably implodes into vast reverberant spaces only to begin the cycle again and again. As a point of entry, the duo's craft can be seen as the joining of their love of many disparate musical forms, from the folk music of the Middle East & Asia to the underground histories of Japan & New Zealand, all mainlined through damaged delay and distortion via their own individual visions. Comes in a heavy black on black offset printed Arigato Pak."

-Root Strata

Tracks:

01. Anger, Awaken (10:27)
02. Love, Awaken (7:55)
03. Sorrow, Awaken (21:40)

-Limited Edition, 300 Copies

"Originally released in 2006 on Important Records as a limited run LP in their ongoing Arts & Crafts Series, Root Strata is proud to present the reissue of The Anchorite, a dazzling jewel in Smiths substantial discography. Performed live to two track with the aide of tape loops and prerecorded takes, the music maintains a drifting, painterly quality that easily evokes the American west as much as the European east which Smith so lovingly mines for his Hala Strana recordings. Sepia toned and tinged with a luminous distortion, The Anchorite, as the name suggests, is reserved, pulled back and solemn, some kind of hermetic prayer for the end of the world."

-Root Strata

Tracks:

01. Stars Heaped Up Like Grain (3:52)
02. Procession (3:22)
03. Paths In The Bower (3:34)
04. The Anchorite (2:41)
05. Vine (4:35)
06. Ampulla (2:50)
07. Moss Landing (3:13)
08. Anastasis (4:02)
09. Closing (3:40)
10. Ascension (5:52)

-Limited Edition, 500 Copies