saki weekly newsletter 12/4!

Hey, friends! We'd like to thank Joe McAdam, Powell Brew House, and all the comics and friends who came out for Creative Control this past Friday. The last Friday of the month is ALWAYS a good time at saki! This weekend we've got two Epitonic saki Sessions - Saturday with locals Gnarwaals and Good Wives and Sunday with cross-country "It" kids, Foxygen and Chicago chanteuse, Angel Olsen! We are beyond excited for this string of shows. We hope you are too!

Before all that goes down, we're presenting a few shows at your favorite local venues this week. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) at the Empty Bottle we're sponsoring A Night Out With Moniker Records. You can check out the killer lineup below and make sure you grab a saki coupon at the door! Thursday night we're co-presenting an Orindal Records showcase at The Burlington with Advance Base, Julie Byrne and J. Fernandez! If you purchase any of their releases from saki we will put you on the guest list for the show with one free drink ticket courtesy of The Burlington!

Next weekend we've got the opening reception for this month's artist, Ethan D'Ercole (gig poster designer and member of Mannequin Men and Watchers) and our saki Christmas party, A Very Girl Group Christmas feat. Kitchen Hips and Summer Girlfriends with special guest, Phil Spector! More details on all that stuff and all of this week's new releases (including our weekly new release sale) below!







Upcoming events:

Wednesday, December 5th @ 9pm

A Night Out With Moniker Records at The Empty Bottle feat. Jealousy, Stacian, The Hecks, Lazy & a special collaborative set by ONO & John Bellows!!

Sponsored by saki & Permanent Records! Grab saki discount coupons at the door!





Thursday, December 6th @ 9pm

saki & Orindal Records present: Advance Base, Julie Byrne & J. Fernandez @ The Burlington!



Saturday, December 8th @ 4pm

In-store w/ Gnarwaals & Good Wives!



Sunday, December 9th @ 3pm

Epitonic saki Session w/ Foxygen & Angel Olsen!



Friday, December 14th @ 6pm

Opening Reception of From The Rooftops: Ethan D'Ercole (2000-2012)!



Saturday, December 15th @ 8pm

A Very Girl Group Christmas w/ Summer Girlfriends & Kitchen Hips!



New Releases @ saki 12/4:

Atoms For Peace "Default" 12" (New single from Thom Yorke's side project)

Blissed Out Fatalists "S/T" LP (re-issue)

Julie Byrne "Faster or Greener than Now" 7"

Gary Clark Jr. "Blak and Blu" LP

Container "S/T" LP

Dadamah "Violet Stains Red" 7"

Dungeonesse "Drive You Crazy" 12"

El Perro Del Mar "Pale Fire" LP

Bill Fay "S/T" LP (re-issue)

Half Church "1980-86" CD/LP

The Hood Internet "Feat" LP

How To Dress Well "Total Loss" LP (vinyl edition)

Love - Forever Changes (180gr) LP

Memory Tapes "Grace/Confusion" CD/LP

Merchandise "Children Of Desire" CD/LP

Mogwai "A Wrenched Virile Lore" CD (remix CD with mixes by Tim Hecker, etc.)

Roy Montgomery "Hey, Badfinger" LP

Naomi Punk "The Feeling" LP

Pharmacy "Stoned and Alone" LP

Sufjan Stevens "Silver and Gold" 6xLP BOX (Ltd. box feat. stickers, books, ornaments + more!)

Vessel "Order Of Noise" LP

Scott Walker "Bish Bosch" LP/CD



Weekly New Release Sale @ saki:



This week we're offering the legendary Scott Walker's latest effort, Bish Bosch, How To Dress Well's Total Loss and Captured Tracks' reissue of Naomi Punk's The Feeling!

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch CD or LP



The legendary singer & experimental musicians' latest is a tauter but more colorful experience than 'The Drift,' with greater emphasis on processed, abrasive guitars, digital keyboards and thick silences. Let's get weird!

How To Dress Well - Total Loss CD or LP

All the elements of Love Remains are still here - the noisiness, the moodiness, the layers of swarming voices - but stand alongside other complex elements: the elegant weeping arcos & pizzicatos of neo-classical music, the rude drums of trap-rap, & the sweet, special & sentimental moments of Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope are all swept up & embraced in the deep beauty of Total Loss

Naomi Punk - The Feeling CD or LP

Considering the way the music world is today, you'd expect a bunch of young Seattle dudes to get extra weird, if only because they can, but Naomi Punk take a different route, constructing brawny, anthemic rock songs that'll make every kid that hears them what to start their own band, if even half of them are this good, music will be in a pretty great place. Reissue of their original, self-released version!

Check out these new & upcoming featured releases from saki/CTD!   Acid Baby Jesus & Hellshovel Present    Voyager 8 Label:  Slovenly  Format:  10"  Catalog Number:  slv702123/10  Release Date:  November 20, 2012  In December 2010, members of Acid Baby Jesus & Hellshovel collided in Athens, Greece, dug deep into their bottomless well of weirdness & crept forth w/ a ghostly experiment called Voyager 8. This exercise in extraterrestrial psychedelia has manifested in a 4-track 10" EP dripping w/ delirious, synthesizer driven cosmos-rock. Massive, meteor crumbling riffs copulate w/ tribal Martian beats & vox swirls. 2-track highlight the collaboration, the other 2 present new material from both groups    Ayers, Kevin    Joy of a Toy Label:  4 Men WIth Beards  Format:  LP  Catalog Number:  4m229lp  Release Date:  November 27, 2012  Debut solo album from bassist & principal songwriter of SOFT MACHINE, originally released in 1969 by Harvest. With Ayers playing an impressive list of instruments & bandmate ROBERT WYATT on drums for most of the songs, many of the tracks recall early Soft Machine, & feature Ayers prog-pop songwriting sensibilities in full force. NO CANADA/NO EXPORT    Byrne, Julie    Faster Or Greener Than Now Label:  Orindal  Format:  7"  Catalog Number:  ord04  Release Date:  December 04, 2012  Accompanying herself on a finger picked acoustic guitar, this Chicago singer/songwriter sings songs about memory, hope, & coping w/ loss. There is a restraint & measure in her singing & playing, & both ache w/ the same fragile beauty. Vintage echo & spring effects lend a haunting atmosphere to these raw & intimate recordings. Recorded by Owen Ashworth (Advance Base). Ltd to 300. Color vinyl. Incld download    Fahey, John    Voice of the Turtle Label:  4 Men WIth Beards  Format:  LP  Catalog Number:  4m219lp  Release Date:  December 04, 2012  Originally released in 1968 on his own Takoma label, Fahey credits some of the compositions & performances to the fictional guitarist Blind Joe Death, & some of the songs are actually rumored to not be Fahey at all but in fact obscure blues 78s. Whatever the case may be, it's one of Fahey's most adventurous & beautiful LPs. 180gm. NO CANADA/NO EXPORT    Michna    Moving Mountains EP Label:  Ghostly International  Format:  10"  Catalog Number:  gi161/10  Release Date:  December 11, 2012  12/11 STREET DATE. LIMITED EDITION OF 300 QTY ONLY VINYL 10" RELEASE. 4 tracks here provide a neat summation of Michna's versatility, covering more musical ground in 20 minutes than most artists do in an entire album, seeming sleek & futuristic, NYC DJ, house & dub influenced, atmospheric; sounding for all the world like it would indeed to a fine job of soundtracking a ride through a city in some distant unknowable future. NO EXPORT OUTSIDE OF NA    Mogwai    A Wrenched Virile Lore Label:  Sub Pop  Format:  CD  Catalog Number:  spp1033cd  Release Date:  December 04, 2012  Features remixes from TIM HECKER, ZOMBI, UMBERTO, XANDER HARRIS & more. A companion to "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will". NO EXPORT    Slaves    Ocean On Ocean Label:  Helen Scarsdale Agency  Format:  2LP  Catalog Number:  hms023lp  Release Date:  November 27, 2012  2LP w/ download. Hovering above the weighted disposition of Doom & below the consolation of Shoegaze, the duo transmit a burdened grace that unfolds like a radiant mammal writhing in black water. Have drawn favorable comparisons to the likes of Grouper, Slowdive, Earth, & Barn Owl    To What A Strange Place Vol. 2    V/A - I Wish I Never Came Label:  Mississippi/Canary  Format:  LP  Catalog Number:  mrp019lp  Release Date:  October 02, 2012  Music of the Ottoman - American Diaspora. A compilation of 78s recorded between 1916-1930. Recent immigrant music from masters of Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Egyptian & Syrian music. Classic austere performances by deep musicians Achilleas Poulos, Nishan Kelijikan, Kosroff Malool, Maria Symyrnea, Marika Papagika & many others. One-time only pressing. Co-release w/ Canary records    To What A Strange Place Vol. 3    V/A - Notes From Home Label:  Mississippi/Canary  Format:  LP  Catalog Number:  mrp020lp  Release Date:  October 02, 2012  Music of the Ottoman - American Diaspora. A compilation of 78s recorded between 1905-1930. A small, but stylistically broad, cross-section of nostalgic recordings from Greece, Turkey, Syria & Egypt. The beautiful music that recent immigrants listened to to remind them of their homelands. One-time only pressing. Co-release w/ Canary records    Tropical Popsicle    Ghost Beacons Label:  Volar Records  Format:  7"  Catalog Number:  volar023  Release Date:  November 27, 2012  Surfer rhythms & bubbling melodies under a summer bummer atmoshpere    Ultraista    Smalltalk Remixes Label:  Ghostly International  Format:  12"  Catalog Number:  gi166lp  Release Date:  December 11, 2012  12/11 STREET DATE. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 QTY VINYL ONLY RELEASE. New studio project including NIGEL GODRICH, (producer for Radiohead, Beck, Air, & Pavement), JOEY WARONKER & LAURA BETTINSON features 2 remixes of "Smalltalk" - by Four Tet and Matthew Dear. NO EXPORT OUTSIDE OF NA    Unwound    Live Leaves Label:  Unwound  Format:  2LP  Catalog Number:  unwnd001lp  Release Date:  December 11, 2012  **EXCLUSIVE!! 12/11 STREET DATE. 2xLP VINYL ONLY RELEASE comes with digital download coupon. The mighty UNWOUND return after an 11 year hiatus with a collection of live recordings from their final tour for their swan song album proper "Leaves Turn Inside You". Think of this as a gift from Unwound to you. A sonic love letter. A promise. Here's to you.

If you are interested in our exclusives please check out our list of exclusively distributed labels. Good stuff, cheap and available a week before other online retailers!
Thanks for your interest, direct any questions, comments, accolades, or complaints to info@sakistore.net!