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Pierre Jodlowski - Séries for Piano and Soundtrack

Séries for Piano and Soundtrack is a six-track album where complex-to-moodily felt piano playing meets electronics- be they textured, atmospheric, dramatic, or just generally creative. Each of the pieces offers its own tone/ vibe for a wonderful varied, at-points eventful ride of an album.


José María Sánchez-Verdú - Khôra

Khôra is a nine-track album which sits at the more abstract, loose, and texturally focused end of the modern classical/ modern composition genre. It utilises a mix of strung-out to waveringly drone-focused saxophone playing, and microtonal accordion playing.


Celer - Cursory Asperses

Celer, ambient project of Will Long, has had dozens of releases throughout the years, exploring a dream-like realm of faint glimmering resonances, slowly unfolding air textures and semi-melodic drones, generally resulting in a peaceful but somewhat melancholy state of embryonic stasis.  I have enjoyed many of his recordings in the past.


Burial Ground/ Nights of Terror - Burial Ground/ Nights of Terror ( UHD/Blu Ray)

Andrea Bianchi’s cheapo 1981 Zombie Flesheaters rip-off has no right to be called a classic. It's badly made, the acting is abysmal, and the dialogue is woeful, however, it has become one of the most beloved of all zombie movies. It’s a seriously creepy affair reminiscent of the Spanish Blind Dead movies, that utilizes a fantastic score from Berto Pisano (Death Smiled on a Murderer, Patrick Still Lives and Giallo A Venezia ) and Elsio Mancuso (Malabimba, La Collegiale, and Moglie Nuda e Siciliano) and a host of zombies that are pretty much decaying before your eyes. On top of that, it’s bonkers (in a good way), there are so many warped ideas floating around in this movie that you simply can’t ever find it dull. More on that later!.


Uncodified - Erased People

Brooding, ominous, and grim, Uncodified's latest, Erased People, sees Corrado Altieri's project continuing its death industrial march forward bringing doom and gloom to the masses. WIth over ten years under his belt, he brings his craft to Dunkelheit to further spread his dark vision. Erased People is the latest volume in an already swelling catalogue of Italian industrial, and its textures and atmospheres will instantly grab any fan, new or old.


The Residents - Secret Show (Live In San Francisco)

Here’s a double disc CD & DVD set taking in The Resident’s Secret Show, which took place at the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on the 14th of January of 2023. It was part of the celebrations for the project's 50th anniversary- with the twenty-one-track set featuring songs from throughout their career- with a host of guests, and some very distinctive/one-off takes on tracks. All making for an original, at points surprising, and of course wonderfully odd look back on the project’s half-a-century career.


Dagr - Dagr (ltd-theatrical/ VOD)

Dagr is a British found-footage film that slips from YouTube /pretentious film-maker satire to glitching ‘n’ phantom darting folk horror. With the often uncomfortable comedy and creepy chills largely kept separate.


Ignaz Schick & Oliver Steidle - ILOG3

As its title suggests ILOG3 is the third collaborative album between these two German improvisers. And it’s another overloading, yet often highly creative journey into where percussive electro improv, turntabling, darting electro-acoustics, and manic genre blending meet.


Math - Utterblight

Math is a twenty-three-minute example of densely droning & rushing walled noise from this UK project. With the whole thing having a nice searing yet oppressive quality about it.


OdNu + Ümlaut - Abandoned Spaces
Abandoned Spaces is a collaborative effort between solo musicians Michel Mazza & Jeff Düngfelder (aka OdNu + Ümlaut), both artists having relocated from their previous NYC climes to the nether reaches of what that everywhere and nowhere moniker, "upstate." The results are spread over eight long tracks – nothing shorter than seven minutes – which do a lot of meandering with sparse instrumentation. And despite the length of each cut, there is surprisingly little development that occurs, each composition moving more circularly than linearly, creating the feeling that we are stuck in a limited sonic equation that is not headed for conclusion or resolution.  

Cold Meat - Cold Meat(VOD)

In his feature film debut, Sébastien Drouin brings us this new two-hander thriller Cold Meat. After saving a waitress (Nina Bergman) from her abusive partner, David Peterson (Allen Leech) finds himself desperate to survive in the frozen tundra of the Colorado Rockies. Violence, betrayal and brutality appear to be the only options, but how willing is David to take them?


Horrors of the Black Museum - Horrors of the Black Museum(Blu Ray )

Released in 1959, Horrors of the Black Museum was the final directorial feature by Yorkshireman Arthur Crabtree (Fiend Without a Face, Caravan and Lilli Marlene) and the first in a trilogy of films known as the Sadian trilogy. The other two titles that feature in this sadistic triumvirate are Sidney Hayer’s 1960 classic Circus of Horror and the same year’s Peeping Tom, directed by the legendary Michael Powell


The Blue Jean Monster - The Blue Jean Monster (Blu Ray)

The Blue Jean Monster is a wonderfully wacky, at points bad taste humour-lined Hong Kong-produced send-up of US buddy cop films of the 1990s. The Category III film blends action, horror, and fantasy elements- for a crazed romp of a film, that seemingly gets more demented & deranged as it unfolds. Here from 88 Films is a region-free release of the film- taking in a ltd slip, and a few extras.


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