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Volcano The Bear

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If there ever was a band that fully understood and kept the spirit of early Residents (they even share similar imagery) and Faust alive, it's Volcano The Bear. Without emulating these two legendary underground rock outfits, the Volcano clan manage to ooze with the same soft, gooey weirdness that made them so special in the first place. Just like the aforementioned bands, Volcano The Bear's sound is extremely difficult to define; it's obviously got roots in jazz, folk, rock and uh... hmm... is kitchen electronica a genre? Some might argue their music is weird for the sake of weird, but it's done with such energy and passion that it comes off very convincing (and invigorating - it's difficult not to be pulled into "Voland" and not be charmed; they put a smile on my face every time I put an album on). There is also a dark sense of humor in their work: the bizarre titles, the cryptic track listings, the cover art, the choice of sounds, rhythm. Their sound is unmistakable yet they manage to surprise you with each new track (and each new version of a song - the group regularly play different version of a song on different records). Just the name of the band is a quirky insight into their self-sufficient bubble universe; you might get hints and questions will arise, but you'll never get answers

I don't remember exactly where I first heard of Volcano The Bear. The name started to show up quite often on the mailing list messages I received from different online record stores; Steve Stapleton (aka Nurse With Wound) was a huge fan already and is partly responsible for the group getting more exposure. I spotted the name immediately (how can you not notice it!) but didn't purchase anything by them, it just wasn't a priority for me at the time. It was only a few months later, when I had a bit of extra cash after paying the bills that I decided to place a bid on the first homemade version of their album Volseptor which was up on eBay at the time. I didn't place a very high bid, I would either get it and start collecting or not and wait a while again. I got the record for under twenty bucks, loved it and the rest is history. Only problem is that I've managed to get the rarer version of their early albums, so I am now bent on finding the rest instead of getting the similarly rare Beta-Lactam Ring Records versions.

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Album Cover Vol One
Label: Volucan
Release: 1996
Format: CS
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 01

Song list:

  1. Quick (8:26)
  2. Wee (3:10)
  3. Star Studded Cast Of Liars (2:44)
  4. Beach.Each.Breach.Leech.Preach.Teach.Peach.Reach.Bleach. (1:46)
  5. Meisheishorses (3:28)
  6. Fog Slicer (0:58)
  7. Guess The Birds (2:19)
  8. Is Filled With Fruit (8:22)
  9. Flock Of Spinning Fish (3:12)
  10. Hey Judo (4:43)
  11. Tremolondo (2:14)
  12. Realistic.Tic-Tac Men (4:12)
  13. Wight Und Rong (0:40)
  14. Wight Und Rong - A Chinsese Preer To Germin Salumi (3:17)
  15. I Get A Knick Out Of Gnu (4:37)
  16. Mercury Soup (3:39)
  17. Pretty Flower (2:40)
  18. Cockroaches (4:04)
  19. Mincing The Beetle (0:37)
  20. The Following Him (5:29)
  21. Go Fetch The Water.Anthony (3:42)
  22. Lemonsqueezer (3:30)
  23. Abba Helms (2:29)
  24. Pick Up The Spanners (1:37)
  25. Bendi Bacone (2:02)
  26. Woman Rise Out Of De Sand (2:16)
  27. Away In a Mincer PT2 (2:06)
  28. Uh-Oom (2:26)
  29. Untitled (1:42)


Album Cover Vol Tu
Label: Volucan
Release: 1997
Format: CS
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 02

Song list:

  1. She Vang Moon (6:16)
  2. Woman Rise Out Of De Sand (0:41)
  3. Quick (Excerpt) (8:56)
  4. Go Fetch The Water Antony (3:56)
  5. The One Burned Ma (4:30)
  6. Velcro Symbols (6:11)
  7. Country Hit Signal (6:43)
  8. The Idea Of Wood (2:54)
  9. The Borzoy Cigarette Box (8:04)
  10. General Chin (4:42)
  11. Singular Greatness (2:56)
  12. Aflame (4:24)
  13. Coloured Carpet (1:26)


Album Cover Volfur
Label: Volucan
Release: 1998
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 04

Song list:

  1. Deli/Delicate Swan/December Woman/La Weaver (14:01)
  2. Tadpole Alphabet (12:14)
  3. Parl/Organza (16:19)


Album Cover Volve
Label: Volucan
Release: 1998
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 05

Song list:

  1. Untitled (0:06)
  2. Straushaund (9:05)
  3. Planetary Bethlehem/OOOO OO O/Amidst The Noise And The Twigs (14:51)
  4. ««<« « <«« «» »« »/Alberto's Formula/Alberto (9:42)
  5. Vast Banket (1:53)
  6. December Woman (6:44)
  7. Tadpole Alphabet/Organza (15:56)


Album Cover The Inhazer Decline (Special Edition)
Label: Volucan
Release: 1998
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 06

Song list:

  1. Bendi Bacone/Nobody's Falling (9:11)
  2. Where Are The Bounds (4:46)
  3. Bowl (4:08)
  4. Vast Banket (2:00)
  5. Hello Graham (8:04)
  6. A Chinsese Preer To Germin Salumi/I Get A Kick Out Of Gnu (The Tallest People In The World) (0:13)
  7. Purrmalter (2:34)
  8. Quarterstone (1:57)
  9. Planetary Bethlehem (2:14)
  10. Mung (10:04)
  11. Cornutopia/Giant Angles (5:30)
  12. Ruth Da Moose (7:14)
  13. Phantom Tha Will Be Done (9:49)


Album Cover Volseptor
Label: Volucan
Release: 1998
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 07

Song list:

  1. Oslo Top/Reah's Mort (5:02)
  2. 100 Years Of Longitude (3:33)
  3. Kindly (2:45)
  4. Sex Transfusion (2:21)
  5. Egg Knowledge/Botticello (19:44)


Album Cover Volwheat
Label: Volucan
Release: 1999
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 08

Song list:

  1. Untitled (0:04)
  2. Worse With Noun/Tic Being Toc (12:03)
  3. Chasm Dave (5:36)
  4. Higgly Pig (3:25)
  5. Christian Licorice Clothes (2:38)
  6. Shiver Me Timbre (3:44)
  7. Baracass (3:40)
  8. Song For Marek (5:12)
  9. Avalon Gavin's Cabin (14:13)


Album Cover The Inhazer Decline
Label: United Dairies
Release: 1999
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: UD 055CD

Song list:

  1. Planetary Bethlehem (1:36)
  2. Quarterstone (6:42)
  3. Musima (2:16)
  4. Bowl (3:59)
  5. Ruth Da Moose (6:24)
  6. Worse With Noun (5:19)
  7. Giant Angles (0:52)
  8. Vast Blanket (2:54)
  9. Mung (9:54)
  10. The Queen's Teeth (1:23)
  11. Here Are The Bounds (3:55)
  12. Planetary Bethlehem (4:51)


Album Cover Yak Folks Y'Are
Label: Pickled Egg Records
Release: 1999
Format: LP
Cat. no: EGG 7

Song list:

  1. Where Are The Bounds? (4:40)
  2. Banket Ball (0:35)
  3. Nobody's Falling (8:34)
  4. Egg Knowledge (6:15)
  5. Oslo Top (1:52)
  6. Hello Graham (8:43)


Album Cover The One Burned Ma
Label: Misra Records
Release: 2000
Format: CD
Cat. no: MSR006

Song list:

  1. The Colour Of My Find (6:12)
  2. She Sang A Song Of Norway (4:38)
  3. Ped Is Feet (2:03)
  4. Reah's Mort (1:58)
  5. Lily And The Sparrows (4:54)
  6. Salt (4:13)
  7. Expert (4:26)
  8. Meisheishorses (3:18)
  9. Arc Felt (4:23)
  10. Wood Frong Pond (3:40)
  11. Before I Was After'd (5:47)
  12. Uh-Oom (1:18)
  13. Digging For Opera (7:44)


Album Cover Five Hundred Boy Piano
Label: United Dairies
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: UD500CD

Song list:

  1. Hairy Queen (1:35)
  2. Seeker (7:40)
  3. The Tallest People In The World: I:Being II:Peanut Puppet III:Tic/Toc (14:17)
  4. Wooden Sailus (2:06)
  5. five Hundred Boy Piano (14:51)
  6. I Am The Mould (8:07)


Album Cover Volnono
Label: Volucan
Release: 2001
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 09

Song list:

  1. Gnu (3:23)
  2. Festival Of Gavin (1:00)
  3. Tic Toc (2:19)
  4. A Chasm Dave (1:56)
  5. Shiver Me Timbres/Baracass (7:35)
  6. Avalon Gavin (6:05)
  7. Volavant (1:47)
  8. Queen's Teeth (7:10)
  9. Being (4:21)
  10. Hello Graham (8:15)


Album Cover Xvol
Label: Volucan
Release: 2001
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 10

Song list:

  1. Moon Chorus (3:46)
  2. Snang Dushko (4:14)
  3. Chasm Dave (4:46)
  4. Planetary Bethlehem (2:12)
  5. Egg Knowledge (14:17)
  6. One Hundred Years Of Longitude (5:37)
  7. Colour Of My Find (8:27)


Album Cover The Mountains Among Us/Voleven
Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records
Release: 2002
Format: LP + CD-R
Cat. no: MT045/MT045A/VOLUCAN 11

Song list:

The Mountains Among Us:
  1. Sublime And Supreme, Like No Other Temptress Is The Sweet Golden Crest Of My Distant Wave (22:22 ∞)
  2. Dragon Or Emperor (20:57)
Voleven:
  1. Color Of My MInd (Live In New York, November 2002) (Volcano The Bear) (11:37)
  2. The Start Half (Songs Of Norway) (3:18)
  3. Spiders On Ice (The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden) (3:29)
  4. Think Like Hot Tree Halotosis (El Monte & Aranos) (6:37)
  5. A Gourd Question (Guignol) (9:29)
  6. Heatrae Sadia (El Monte) (4:50)
  7. Roman (Earth Trumpet) (7:05)
  8. Lucky Bacon (Volcano The Bear) (3:28)


Album Cover The Mountains Among Us
Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records
Release: 2002
Format: CD
Cat. no: MT200

Song list:

  1. Sublime And Supreme, Like No Other Temptress Is The Sweet Golden Crest Of My Distant Wave (22:11)
  2. Dragon Or Emperor (20:13)


Album Cover Voldozer
Label: Volucan
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 12

Song list:

  1. Improve (8:42)
  2. My Favourite Tongues (4:10)
  3. Baltic (7:43)
  4. Egg And Two Books (2:29)
  5. On Giant Swallows The Tallest People In The World (6:06)
  6. The Tallest People In The World/Memphisto (16:13)


Album Cover The Idea Of Wood
Label: Textile Records
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: TCD3

Song list:

  1. She Whistles, I Cough Like A Tiger (6:22)
  2. Charming Cabbage Clock (1:59)
  3. Golden Hot Bite (6:14)
  4. Chimney Fear (0:41)
  5. Snake Your Crow (5:34)
  6. Woman Who Weighs Out The Wood (6:03)
  7. Dawn And My Hips Are Fuel (4:23)
  8. Cuthbertus Magnus (1:57)
  9. Curly Robot (10:05)
  10. The Mountains Among Us (1:57)


Album Cover Catonapotato
Label: Digitalis Recordings/Broken Face Recordings
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: DIGI014

Song list:

  1. Gabriel (5:26)
  2. A Universal History Of Infamy (9:22)
  3. Lovely Shepherd (1:51)
  4. Puppy Grill (4:35)
  5. My Favorite Tongues (4:01)
  6. Ong Pate (5:40)
  7. Sharp As The Queens Teeth (4:32)
  8. The God's Are Massive (9:07)


Album Cover Classic Erasmus Fusion (Deluxe Edition)
Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records
Release: 2006
Format: 3LP + 7"
Cat. no: MT092B/MT092C

Song list:

LP 1:
  1. Classic Erasmus Fusion (4:56)
  2. Did You Ever Feel Like Jesus? (2:47)
  3. The Merry Potter (5:06)
  4. Ong Pâté (5:37)
  5. Russian Milk (4:43)
  6. Baroque Sensation (2:53)
  7. Sharp As The Queen's Teeth (4:33)
  8. Hey Judo (4:52)
  9. Baltic Minor (1:05)
  10. Lifetime (5:12)
  11. Classic Autumn Fusion (3:54)
LP 2:
  1. Hall The New Memphisto (10:57)
  2. The Last Song Of Norway (5:46)
  3. Shadowfishing (1:04)
  4. My Favourite Tongues (2:50)
  5. Erasmus, The Queen's Teeth (12:14)
  6. See Me Now (9:56)
7":
  1. Cinnamon And Ginger (3:17)
  2. Quarter To Four Feet (2:10)
Live Oval:
  1. Side One (13:13)
  2. Side Two (14:47)


Album Cover Volfurten
Label: Volucan
Release: 2006
Format: LP
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 14

Song list:

  1. Speg It Darn (3:07)
  2. Eggstretch (17:55)
  3. The Woman Who Waited For The Woman Who Weighs Out The Wool (3:36)
  4. Chariots Of Fur (6:55)
  5. Beef Cattle Lovely Couple (1:40)
  6. Benoit's Solution (3:43)
  7. Dominant Larks Rise (2:51)


Album Cover Volquince
Label: Volucan
Release: 2008
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: VOLUCAN 15

Song list:

  1. Milk Military Crispin (9:21)
  2. Onion Mission (3:29)
  3. Classic Sylvester Fusion (4:53)
  4. Viestarts (2:50)
  5. Spongecake Cathedral (6:19)
  6. Broccoli Von Hamburg (1:45)
  7. Springs Hinges (9:12)
  8. Gustaviana (3:47)
  9. Russian Milk (3:25)


Album Cover Amidst The Noise And Twigs
Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: MT204a

Song list:

  1. The Sting Of Haste (1:58)
  2. Before We Came To This Religion (6:02)
  3. Larslovesnicks Farm (2:21)
  4. Burnt Seer (3:11)
  5. Cassettes Of Berlin (4:08)
  6. Splendid Goose (5:25)
  7. She Vang Moon (5:05)
  8. One Hundred Years Of Infamy (8:27)
  9. The Three Twins (10:06)


Album Cover That People Don't Know They Are Monsters
Label: Quasi Pop Records
Release: 2009
Format: 7"
Cat. no: REC02

Song list:

  1. That People Don't Know They Are Monsters (4:07)
  2. Bow heavier My Lord (4:51)