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Richard Chartier - Further Materials

Further Materials is a follow up to 2002's Other Materials. Both are collections of non-album tracks which originally saw the light of day on compilations with like minded artists. Richard Chartier is a sound artist, installation curator, and sometime lecturer who needs no introduction to anyone mildly interested in electronic music. He is one of the originators of the "microsound" or "lower case" form of digital music, which is, as it sounds, minimal music, usually played at minimal volume. What's intriguing about Chartier's music is that if you listen carefully, and with the volume pegged to ten, there's incredible depth to his music.


Crow Tongue - Ghost:Eye:Seeker
tiMOTHy is the artist behind Crow Tongue, a solo project which takes a slightly different path from acid-folk/psych ensemble Stone Breath, with whom he takes part. Crow Tongue does include some acidic touches to be sure, and some folky elements as well, but it follows a dronier, doomy path. Ghost:Eye:Seeker is one strange album, and I mean that in the positive sense of the word. The first couple of listens may leave you scratching your head though. It's hard to say whether tiMOTHy is totally serious or whether there's a deadpan, dour sense of humor beneath it all. You could compare some of this music to the droney side of the Current 93 catalog, especially since the subject matter is said to be linked to Christianity. You'd have to be either psychic or observant on some level beyond ordinary to be able to pick up on the religious aspect, as the lyrics are obscure, to say the least.
God Of Shamisen - Dragon String Attack
'Shamisen metal'… liek wtf? As one would type out loud on the internet. The Japanese instrument with the weird, huge plectrum seems as distant from metal as noodles to French fries. But it's a small world after all and these guys, in one form or another connected to Estradasphere prove it.
At The Head of The Woods - Secrets Beyond Time & Space
Secrets Beyond Time & Space is the debut solo release from guitarist and instrumental mood maker James Woodhead who is best know as been one half of  the Pagan, psychedelic and folk project The Elemental Chrysalis, which he does with Chet W. Scott(Ruhr Hunter, Blood of the Black Owl & Glass Throat Records owner).
Anakrid - Banishment Rituals of The Disenlightened
Anakrid make dense, darkly psychedelic and often intense and surreal electro soundscapes and dark electroinca. You can hear traces of more beat bound Coil or Cyclobe at their more filmatic, doom horror organ  soundtracking, ambient industrial tone and slight noise tendencies  and even slight traces of more demented Resident like cinematic and surrealism stirred into the dense mix.
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
After last years superb post black metal masterwork Mourner Temporary Antennae see’s one man project Caïna pushing the envelope further to breed an album that is still just linked to blacked metal but drifts effortless into post rock, 80’s shoegazing and gloomy pop , folk and all manner of sonic genre. All to build an album that is shiver inducingly great managing to be epic and personal, noisy and harmonic.

       
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