Volcanic Tongue

Volcanic Tongue

Volcanic Tongue is a record shop, distribution company and record label located in Glasgow, Scotland. It specialises in underground music from the UK, US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. They describe their remit as "free folk, psych, Japanese underground, noise, avant-garde, free jazz, blues, experimental, garage punk/DIY, minimal synth, drone, Industrial, sound poetry, prog, american primitive, private press, acid folk, classic 60s/70s rock, basement scum & assorted outsider modes" [Subscriber supplement from The Wire, issue 274] It was founded by David Keenan and Heather Leigh Murray in late 2004. Initially existing as a mail-order list and website, they opened their shop in February 2006.

Interviewed by Stylus in late 2005, Keenan described the rationale behind Volcanic Tongue's foundation as follows : " [T] he UK underground didn’t really have any focus or any point from which you could get underground music, nothing that really pulled all that stuff together. I wanted to combine the music I like from around the world with some of the UK underground stuff...it felt right that we became a part of that, to help disseminate it".

They are unusual amongst retail/distribution outlets for being dictated by the personal taste of the founders rather than by market forces. Keenan explained that "it’s not just a record shop; we have a really tough filter and will not stock anything that we don’t like....I don’t want to sell a copy of a record that I don’t want in my collection." [cite web | title= Interview: David Keenan | work = Article from Stylus magazine online | url= http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/david-keenan.htm|accessdate = 30 October | accessyear = 2007 ]

Recently, they have expanded their label beyond small-run art editions of their own music (Scorces/Taurpis Tula/Heather Leigh Murray) to issue albums by Thurston Moore's Dream/Aktion Unit and Zaimph.

References

External links

* [http://www.volcanictongue.com Volcanic Tongue]
* [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1870 Interview with David Keenan in Stylus Magazine]


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