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Han-Shan: 8-song 12" Ep - 12-INCH SINGLE

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Management number 205802088 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $82.00 Model Number 205802088
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Title: 8-song 12" Ep
Artist: Han-Shan
Label: L.G. Records
Product Type: 12-INCH SINGLE
UPC: 711574960118
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2025-02-14
Number of Discs: 1

Not much has been written written about the conceptual hardcore band inspired by and named after a 9th century antisocial loner monk-poet of China's Tang dynasty. Han-Shan [the band] existed from 1991 to '93 in California. Their lyrics covered themes of solitude, mystery, poverty, and discord, directly inspired by the verses of the titular poet. 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.

Tracks:
1.1 1. in Autumn
1.2 2. Flesh, Light, and Stars
1.3 3. Torrent
1.4 4. Black Teagarden
1.5 5. Toast to the
1.6 6. Insomnia
1.7 7. Loquat Tree
1.8 8. Grain Pattern

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