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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 30/10/2026

Les Rallizes Dénudés - YaneUra Oct '80 (Temporal Drift, 2024 - rec. 1980) Mizutani and co. raise the roof in this archival concert recording cut 46 years ago yesterday. #CDFriday

Gatefold digisleeve packaging of Les Rallizes Dénudés 'YaneUra Oct '80' double-compact disc (Temporal Drift, 2024 - rec. 1980).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 27/10/2026

My pick would be Etron Fou Leloublan's 'Les Sillons De La Terre' (Turbo, 1984). It's even become obscure by their own standard as it's the only album of theirs that their current label has let stay out of print. There isn't even a good picture of the cover online (this is the best one I could find).

Cover artwork for original 1984 Turbo Records vinyl edition of Etron Fou Leloublan's 'Les Sillons De La Terre'.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 25/10/2026

Continuing my #cassunday with Aint Pancakes' 'Dismember, Dismember The Fifth Of Febtober' (Philip K. Discs, 2025), a quiet but absolutely unsubtle collage that feeds pop culture ephemera into the wood-chipper!

Packaging of Aint Pancakes' 'Dismember, Dismember The Fifth Of Febtober' cassette (Philip K. Discs, 2025).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 25/10/2026

Howdy, #cassunday! Checking out Tenebrae Annex's Xenoterra (Philip K. Discs, 2025) today. Enough spooky timbres here to make trick-or-treaters give *you* candy! (Halloween is on a Saturday this year; cut me some fucking slack.)

Packaging of Tenebrae Annex's 'Xenoterra' cassette (Philip K. Discs, 2025).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 24/10/2026

What if we kissed in the fractured subconscious? Haha j/k. Unless.

The 'mind field' from Final Fantasy VII.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 23/10/2026

The Shaggs - Shaggs’ Own Thing (Rounder, 1982 - r. Light In The Attic, 2020) Does it sound like music? Yes. But don't worry, they're still weird. #CDFriday

Digipak packaging for 2020 Light In The Attic compact disc reissue of The Shaggs' 'Shaggs' Own Thing' (Rounder, 1982).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

Tenebrae Annex - Poltergeist (Philip K. Discs, 2025) A little unnerving hauntology this #cassunday, the first one I've shown up to in a while.

Packaging for Tenebrae Annex's 'Poltergeist' cassette (Philip K. Discs, 2025).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

I did the thing you're all doing. My criteria was that my perception of music was so changed by the record that I don't feel like I was the same person on the other side of hearing it. I first experienced all of these in order from top to bottom/left to right. Complete album information in alt-text.

MY9ALBUMS
The sound that made me

[From top to bottom, left to right]
•Acoustic Alchemy - Back On The Case (GRP, 1991)
•"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day (Scotti Bros./Attic, 1996)
•The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour [U.S. Sequence] (Capitol, 1967)
•Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (WWA, 1973)
•Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (Verve, 1968)
•King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (Island, 1969)
•Can - Tago Mago (United Artists, 1971)
•Big Black - Songs About Fucking (Touch And Go, 1987)
•Jandek (as The Units) - Ready For The House (Corwood, 1978)

my9albums by @nays1_
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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

Aardvark - s/t (Deram, 1970 - r. Esoteric, 2011) Organ-heavy whimsical rock, like a more blue-collar Caravan. Supposedly a follow up was cut many years later, but I’ve had no luck tracking it down. #CDFriday

Jewel case packaging for 2011 Esoteric Records compact disc reissue of Aardvark's self-titled album (Deram, 1970).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

Univers Zéro - Live At The Triton, 2009 (Sub Rosa, 2025) CD/DVD set documenting a performance by these chamber-prog pioneers at the famed French jazz-and-adjacent venue. Just playing the CD today, because, after all, it is #CDFriday.

Gatefold digisleeve packaging for Univers Zéro's 'Live At The Triton, 2009' (Sub Rosa) compact disc and DVD set.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Can - Live In Arles, 1975 (Spoon, 2026) The latest in what I thought was a formally-concluded series of archival live releases, this mid-fi offering features lots of subtle weird noise that makes me worry that my speakers are about to fail, but also Can circa Landed, an LP I quite enjoy. #CDFriday

Gatefold digisleeve packaging of Can's 'Live In Arles, 1975' (Spoon, 2026).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Hey, there, #CDFriday! Listening to the sole compact disc by Survival Research Laboratories as issued by Sub Rosa in 2000, which features excerpts from four 1990s concerts by the GX Jupitter-Larsen/Mark Pauline noise collaboration. It is precisely my sort of bullshit.

Jewel case packaging for the self-titled compact disc by Survival Research Laboratories (Sub Rosa, 2000).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - The Whistle Of The Galaxy Express Can Be Heard (Max Hazard, 2026) The latest AMT tour CD, thankfully also available via mail order. Profligate shipping still beats the price of a ticket and the risk of long COVID. With bonus hurdy-gurdy! #CDFriday

Cardstock sleeve packaging for Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s 'The Whistle Of The Galaxy Express Can Be Heard' (Max Hazard, 2026).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Hard to pick *a* favourite, but here's one I love that I'm sure hasn't come up a lot - Bernard Paganotti of late-'70s Magma, Weidorje, Paga, etc.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

Howdy, #CDFriday! Playing some recentish archival Broadcast releases (I have an original Mother Is The Milky Way, so that's why the reissue from this series is absent). Starting at top left with the 2022 compilation of their Microtronics 3" CD series - information about each release in the alt-text.

Four compact disc releases by Broadcast.

Top, from left:
•Microtronics (Warp, 2022)
•Maida Vale Sessions (Warp, 2022)

Bottom, from left:
•Spell Blanket (Warp, 2024)
•Distant Call (Warp, 2024)

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

Hey, #CDFriday! Listening to both CDs by avant-jazz project Cruel Frederick as released by SST Records. Started with 1988's 'The Birth Of The Cruel' before moving over to 1991's 'We Are The Music We Play'. Some originals interspersed with extended interpretations of some already out-there standards.

Both compact discs by Cruel Frederick.

From left:
•The Birth Of The Cruel (SST, 1988)
•We Are The Music Was Play (SST, 1991)

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter The Slasher House (Domino, 2014) It's interesting to sit with a single member of Animal Collective's vision to get a sense of what they bring to the overall fold. In Avey's case, going by his supergroup's one-off, one may assume 'virtually everything'. #CDFriday

Cardstock sleeve packaging for Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks' 'Enter The Slasher House' compact disc (Domino, 2014).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 30/08/2026

Lottie Lately - Ecto-Femina (Serpents Gallery, 2026 - rec. 2016-2023) Lottie Lately is a lady named Mackenzie who used to live in town and was the sort of person I'd want to associate with if I were cool enough to associate with cool people. I think she lives in England now? Ltd. to 28. #cassunday

Packaging of Lottie Lately's 'Ecto-Femina' cassette (Serpents Gallery, 2026).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026

Ex Hex - It's Real (Merge, 2019) Didn't feel like digging out my copy of their debut and making it a little marathon, but this is the second and (to date) final Ex Hex album. Power pop at its roots but touches the outer limits of what that can mean (one song is even reminiscent of Dio!). #CDFriday

Digisleeve packaging of Ex Hex's 'It's Real' compact disc (Merge, 2019).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026

Spending #CDFriday with Ovary Lodge, the Keith Tippett free music project whose initial seeds were sown on his 1972 RCA album Blueprint. Both releases are self-titled. Starting at left with their 1973 RCA release (r. What Disc?, 1999), before moving onto their 1976 Ogun record (r. 2007).

Two compact disc reissues of recordings by Ovary Lodge

From left:
•Ovary Lodge (RCA, 1973 - r. What Disc?, 1999)
•Ovary Lodge (Ogun, 1976 - r. 2007)

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026

broke: captured by robots woke: photobombed by jandek

Some vintage wedding where a guy gets photobombed by someone who looks like Jandek and I have it on strong authority that Jandek would have been at this wedding so it could very well be Jandek.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

Listening to Dim Stars this #CDFriday. Thurston Moore, Richard Hell, and some of the Velvet Monkeys guys; it's a raucous, rockin' time. Starting at left with their eponymous EP (Paperhouse, 1991), after which I'll move right to their eponymous LP (Caroline, 1992).

Both compact disc releases by the early '90s alternative/indie/punk supergroup Dim Stars.

From left:
•Dim Stars (Paperhouse, 1991)
•Dim Stars (Caroline, 1992)

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026

Trio Of Doom - s/t (Columbia/Legacy, 2007 - rec. 1979) Short-lived band assembled for a performance in Cuba, which led to a studio date where everything fell apart. The group was named by Jaco, reaffirming he was indeed the Elon Musk of fretless bass; still, the wrong one was murdered. #CDFriday

Jewel case packaging for Trio Of Doom's self-titled archival CD (Columbia/Legacy, 2007).

Cover text says:

John McLaughlin
Jaco Pastorius
Tony Williams

TRIO OF
DOOM

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026

This bad boy. Almost ten years on since the sole existing copy came into my possession and it's still one of the best start-to-finish records of the modern era afaic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYrN...

The front cover of Ⓚ's 'Three Pillars Of Limbic Fission' cassette (private-press, 2009[?]).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026

Sleepers - The Less An Object (Tim/Kerr, 1996 - rec. 1978-1980) Collected recordings of this briefly-extant art-punk group most famous for their ties to Crime and Tuxedomoon. Sounds kind of like the deformed twin brother of Elvis Costello that their parents kept chained up in the attic. #CDFriday

Jewel case packaging for Sleepers' 'The Less An Object' compact disc (Tim/Kerr, 1996).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026

Buckingham Nicks - s/t (Polydor, 1973 - r. Rhino, 2025) Forgot to post this last week. Sole outing by the tumultuous songwriting power couple before getting annexed by a band that inexplicably kept calling itself Fleetwood Mac despite drifting very far from their sound and personnel. #CDFriday

Digisleeve packaging of the 2025 Rhino compact disc reissue of Buckingham Nicks' self-titled album (Polydor, 1973).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 22/07/2026

what if we kissed in a higher-resolution scan of room 24 (the abyss)

A higher-resolution scan of room 24 from Christopher Manson's 'Maze'.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026

The GTO's - Permanent Damage (Bizarre/Straight, 1969 - r. Rhino, 1989) Wherein Frank Zappa arranges backing tracks for his babysitters' charmingly offbeat a cappella compositions. Highly recommended. #CDFriday

Jewel case packaging for The GTO's 'Permanent Damage' compact disc (Bizarre/Straight, 1969 - r. Rhino, 1989).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 16/07/2026

Animal Crossing glitched out super hard this morning. Anyone ever see it do this before?

Animal Crossing (GC) experiencing some sort of texture failure.

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

Belatedly sharing that I listened to the grey-market reissue of Brast Burn's 'Debon' (Voice, 1975 - r. Paradigm, 1998) this morning for #CDFriday. If you like weirdo Japanese stuff with a communal vibe, you can't go wrong with this.

Jewel case packaging for Brast Burn's 'Debon' (Voice, 1975 - r. Paradigm, 1998).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 03/07/2026

Kid Commando - Holy Kid Commando (Ache, 2003) Noise-rockers most well known for opening Arab On Radar's final tour, and sonically they were an apt choice. This album cover really wants to be the guy, if you know what I mean. #CDFriday

Digipak packaging for Kid Commando's 'Holy Kid Commando' (Ache, 2003).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 26/06/2026

Brain Police - s/t (K.B. Artists, 1968 - r. Shadoks, 2000) Late '60s lo-fi San Diego psych rarity expanded with cuts from earlier ensembles that evolved into this one. Good fun if you can find it cheap! #CDFriday

Jewel case packaging of compact disc reissue of Brain Police's self-titled album (K.B. Artists, 1968 - r. Shadoks, 2000).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Hey, #CDFriday. Listening to The Human Beast's 'Volume One' (Decca, 1970 - r. Sunbeam, 2007), a decent psych disc whose biggest faux pas was coming out a year or two too late to really feel part of the zeitgeist.

Jewel case packaging of The Human Beast's 'Volume One' compact disc (Decca, 1970 - r. Sunbeam, 2007).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Hello, #CDFriday! The latest American Football album (Polyvinyl, 2026) spinning as I post. Like the rest of their post-reunion stuff, it's really the Owen Big Band more than it has much to musically do with the band's brief yet phenomenal initial run, but luckily for me, I enjoy Owen just fine, too.

Jewel case packaging for American Football's fourth consecutive self-titled full-length album (Polyvinyl, 2026).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 22/05/2026

Hello, #CDFriday! Today, I'm listening to Henry Now's 'Then Again' (Dark Companion, 2025), a reunion of the original line-up of Canterbury communists Henry Cow. They're making sounds, some of which are decidedly unCow-like, but the personnel doesn't lie, and it spells disaster for you at Sacrifice.

Digisleeve packaging of Henry Now's 'Then Again' (Dark Companion, 2025).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 15/05/2026

Hello, #CDFriday! Today I'm playing the 2025 Paisley Press CD reissue of Master Cylinder's one-off tour-de-force album, Elsewhere. Canterbury-adjacent fusion in the vein of the first National Health album (with some Mothersy touches), and from Fort Worth, Texas, of all places! Highly recommended.

Jewel case packaging for 2025 Paisley Press compact disc reissue of Master Cylinder's 'Elsewhere' (Inner City, 1981).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 08/05/2026

Hello, #CDFriday! Today, I'm listening to the self-titled one-off album credited to Ahvak cut by 5uu's mastermind Dave Kerman and friends while he was residing in occupied Palestine. Really groovy RIO, though ROMpler piano patches have never sounded good and the one on this recording's no exception.

Jewel case packaging for Ahvak's self-titled album (Cuneiform, 2004).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

#CDFriday continues with Tortoise's 'Touch' (International Anthem/Nonesuch, 2025). Either my speakers are blown or too far many records these days are really employing that 'mildly distorted drum' approach to production that I really don't care for.

Digipak packaging of Tortoise's 'Touch' compact disc (International Anthem/Nonesuch, 2025).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

Good morning, #CDFriday! Kicking things off with Pullman’s latest, III (Western Vinyl, 2026), available on vinyl worldwide but exclusively issued on compact disc for the Japanese market by Headz. More electronic than their near-30-year old Thrill Jockey releases, but it’s so good to hear from them.

Digisleeve packaging of Pullman’s ‘III’ compact disc (Western Vinyl/Headz, 2026).

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 30/04/2026

How do you say 'gnostic hallucinatory breakfast sandwich' in Coptic?

The Drake meme but with David Tibet of Current 93 in his place.

Top: "wakey wakey eggs and bakey"
Bottom: Arise! Arise! The clutch of the inmost hen and the hallucinatory hock of the swine cede their gnostic steam twixt their selfsame cast iron casket in pre-prandial repose. Arise! Arise! Nihil! Nihil!

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The Orchid Sh(all)ow(e'en) @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 27/03/2026

Good morning, #CDFriday! Last week, I listened through the catalogue of American indie supergroup Canyon, but this week, I'm spinning one of the roads that led there: The Farewell Bend's 'In Passing' (Slowdime, 1998), which is definitely a lot more of what you might expect from a Boys Life alumnus.

Packaging of The Farewell Bend's 'In Passing' (Slowdime, 1998) compact disc.

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