HAN-SHAN
8-SONG 12' EP (EP) - LP
UPC: 711574960118
Label: L.G. RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: December 6, 2024
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Han-shan’s music was psychopathic, with blood-curdling vocals, and messy but powerful, in the vein of Void, Siege or Septic Death. The band played to the absolute limits of their physical ability and then some, with a sound that complemented their West Coast contemporaries – bands like Heroin, Mohinder, Second Story Window, Antioch Arrow and Angel Hair.
Recorded in San Diego by Matt Anderson in late 1993 and originally released posthumously in early 1994 on the tiny Soledad record label, Hans-shan’s eight song seven inch EP came packaged in a manila envelope, each one hand-printed with a woodcut block and roller, with the art and insert referencing both the poet and Tang dynasty China.
LG Records has carefully reproduced this cover art and returned to the original multitrack tape. Tim Green has remixed the recording at Louder Studios for a significantly more powerful, and yes, LOUDER, 12” 45rpm release.
Members of Han-shan had previously been in Suckerpunch, Brain Tourniquet, End of the Line, and John Henry West; and went on to play in Behead The Prophet NLSL, Solid Gold, Drunk Horse, Astral, Tight Bro’s from Way Back When, Sex/Vid, Very Paranoia, Low Plateau and Nudity.
For fans of fast, out of control hardcore with a raw emotional edge. And saxophone.
For fans of fast, out of control hardcore with a raw emotional edge. And saxophone.
TRACK LIST:
A1 In Autumn
A2 Flesh, Light And Stars
A3 Torrent
A4 Black Teagarden
B1 Toast To The...
B2 Insomnia
B3 Loquat Tree
B4 Grain Pattern
