 |  | Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila - Nuits sans Nuit | What is the music that comes after the apparent exhaustion with all forms of sonic articulation? Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila have managed to construct a soundtrack for such times, fueled by enervation rather than anything like an endgame or final statement. Nuits sans Nuit is the result, and with titles like, "Closing Time: The Party is Over", "Waste Disposal", and "Here Is Your New Anthem", the thematic lines are clearly drawn. The music is primarily electronic landscapes, sparse and droney, populated by various acoustic instruments – double bass, reeds, etc. Things move as listelessly as one would expect them to under such an umbrella and have the sensation that the performers are just about ready to give up. No pathos about, though, just really being done.
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 |  | Theme - Meditations on Space, Volume One | Theme started off in the late 90s, as a spin-off from UK noise rock collective Splintered, with a mind to do less rock-focused sound, and instead hone in on textures, drones, and abstract sounds. Meditations on Space, Volume One is the project's seventh album, and the first volume in a two-part set. It consists of one piece of music (lasting around 40 minutes) which is broken into seven parts. If I were to compare the album to anything, I’d say Michael Gira’s The Body Lover’s project. As it engagingly shifts from pared-back psycho ambience, to more detailed looping & droning material, onto denser and more dramatic work, all making for a rewardingly varied sonic trip.
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 |  | A Day At The Beach - A Day At The Beach ( Blu Ray) | A Day At The Beach is an early 70s film regarding a manipulative, devious, at times charming alcoholic, taking a young girl, who is either his niece or daughter, to a rain-washed and seen better days Danish seaside town. The film mixes glum drama, character study, and addiction melodrama, with moments of dark humour, fearful tautness, and grim quirkiness. Here from Powerhouse-both in the UK and stateside- is a Blu-ray reissue of this little-known/ seen film, which features a screenplay penned by none other than Roman Polanski, who also produced the film. And it also features a brief cameo from Peter Sellers.
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 |  | Iggor Cavalera / Shane Embury - Neon Gods / Own Your Darkness | In an epic, genre crossing event, two of extreme metal's all time legends bring their experimental solo work to Cold Spring. Iggor Cavalera and Shane Embury (best known for Sepultura and Napalm death, respectively) unleash side-long pieces for this release, mixing brooding, dark ambient, industrial, noise, and all manners of uncomfortable sound in between. While no strangers to experimental music (Iggor's Petbrick and Shane's Dark Sky Burial, for example), the two use their own names for this release, giving their work a more personal feel.
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