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From the infamous & notoriously unforgiving French wall noise project here’s a C90 release- serving up two sides of crude, blunt, and terminal battering HNW. The release appears on Ukraine ShchYL-Records- having a fairly scene reasonably edition of 31 copies.
From the early 1970s, Beyond Atlantis is an adventure-fantasy romp about a part aquatic tribe, and greedy criminals that are trying to steal their undersea treasure chest of pearls. The films one of the many pictures made by Filipino exploitation director Eddie Romero- and while it’s somewhat light & campy, as a bit of Sunday afternoon fun it’s passable enough. Here from VCI Entertainment/ MVD Visual is a duel Blu Ray & DVD release- which features a great new scan of the film, and a commentary track from two Filipino exploitation experts.
Compactor is a noisy project from New York musician, DJ, artist Derek Rush a.ka. The Worker who has been releasing conceptual noise blasts since 2012 containing Industrial based Noise, Techno, and other related sonics crushed into something else, using mostly exclusively obsolete equipment.
Boring Machines presents lI Vento Disperderà la Schiuma by Italian composer and electronic musician, Fabio Orsi. Available on vinyl and digital formats, this is Orsi's third release on the Boring Machines imprint. Back in 2011, the label released their first album with Orsi; Wo Ist Behle. The release was created shortly after a move from southern Italy to Berlin. On Il Vento, Orsi creates a perfect companion album, composed in transition from Berlin back to his homeland.
Elettronica Al Nylon Fottutamente Violenta is a two-way split/collaboration between two of the projects that focus in on the more fetish themed side of HNW- with the C40 bringing together three worthy examples of the (sub) sub-genre.
Absolute Absorbtion is a two-way wall noise split- bringing together Serbia’s Dosis Letalis, and Illinois Lost Graves. The release appeared in February of this year- in an edition of 23 copies- sadly these sold out fairly fast, so ones only option now is a digital download from Ominous Recordings site.
DWII is the second self-released C60 from Spanish walled noise & bleak drone maker Damien De Coene. The release features two side-long examples of very quiet, terminal stark, and truly desolate drone matter.
Former Gallhammer vocalist, Vivian Slaughter, not only relocated to Norway, but also relocated her sound. Recording under the name Viviankrist, Vivian expands her repertoire into the realm of electronic music. Attacking this from multiple angles, Morgenrøde showcases Viv's talents as well as opening her music up to a new group of listeners.
Loke Rahbek's "bubblegum industrial" project Croatian Amor reflects perfectly the long, circuitous journey the musician has made along with Christian Stadgaard and their Posh Isolation label. Eschewing the dank noise and black metal tropes of their early releases, the label has increasingly been taking on a more metropolitan sensibility, with collaborations between Kyo and African American vocalist Jeuru and Varg's recent embrace of Trap and alt-Hip-Hop stylings. ISA also features appearances from Frederikke Hoffmeier and Yves Tumor, both of whom have had records out on Belin's PAN label, which appears to be something of a model for what Rahbek and Stadgaad are aiming at.
Chairete Daimones (Be Greeted, Demons) is the first album (of largely) new material from Austrian project Allerseelen in four years. The CD offers up hefty selection of new music that focuses in on the projects highly distinctive brand of Folk & Industrial music, which often filters in other musical genres- such as bleak new wave/ post-punk, traditional Germanic folk, world music influences, avant-garde pop, jazz, neo-classical, and beyond.
The wonderfully titled A Dandy In Aspic is a decidedly schizophrenic example of late 1960’s spy thriller- which constantly bounces between James Bound camp-ness and stark/ bleak John le Carré like grim-ness. From Powerhouse films here’s a recent Blu Ray reissue of the film- offering up an effective new scan of the picture, and a nice selection of informative extras.
From the height of the popularity of the Giallo genre- here’s The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, a pacey & fairly eventful take on the genre. The film features a plot that sees vitally everyone been a suspect, some brutal razor blade & acid bound killings, campy & often sleazed characters, and a Stelvio Cipriani score, that’s effective if a little predictable. Here from Arrow Video is Blu Ray reissue of the film- featuring a new commentary track, and a good enough selection of extras.
Here we have a double CD release of early 1970’s work from the quirky & creative pioneering US electronic duo Beaver & Krause. The disc set, on Cherry Red sub-label Righteous, brings together the projects three albums on Warner Bros- 1970’s In A Wild Sanctuary, 1971’s Gandarava, and 1972’s All Good Men- which see the pair moving from a fairly Moog heavy ecological concept album. Onto imaginary film scoring with a Hindu mythological leanings. Through to an album that moves between dramatic musical hall tunes, upbeat easy listening, 70's singer-song writer fare, and beyond.
Sult is the latest release from the highly talented Maja S.K. Ratkje- Norwegian composer, singer, genre blender & noise maker. The nine-track album sees her taking Norse folk music as a starting point- to create a work that moves from low-key & awkward harmonic grandeur, powerful & stirring vocalisations, and moody-to-playful subtle noise making.
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra is a large Norweigen jazz ensemble with recordings dating back to 2005. While the band has many ongoing members, the line up and instrumentation change for each album. For their latest album Happy Endings, they perform complex and illogical music by double bassist and composer Ole Morten Vagan. This is the first time the group has collaborated with him.
The Waste of Space Orchestra sees the melding of two heavyweights of the Finnish metal scene, psychedelic black metallers, Oranssi Pazuzu, and doom metal legends Dark Buddha Rising. Both bands hail from the Tampere region of Finland and so would seem to fit perfectly together as bandmates.
Stekkerdoos is an experimental sound art project from Dutch conceptual artist Jessie Hoefnagel, which she describes as “Dreamy noise with a touch of darkness"- utilizing Field recordings, cassette tape sampling, live vocals, drones, and beats. Her visual art is line based drawings that mainly include female figures. She began this sound project in 2017 and has released a few short run (sold out) cassettes that were available at live shows. Stekkerdoos appears to be primarily a live performance project with video projection accompaniment featuring his artwork, so listening to these tracks I am sure I do not getting the full impact of what the artist conceived- but it’s still very nice.
From the early 1980s Next Of Kin is an Australian thriller/ low key horror film that rather nicely pre-dates the recent spate of Post Horror films, with it ’s often subtle and subdued use of the genres tropes. Here from Severin is a recent Blu Ray issue of the film- that featuring a new 2k scan, and a good batch of extras.
Here’s the second doubled headed- Mondo release from Severin Films. This time we two of the more overtly leering & sleazy example of the genre. Mondo Fredo & Mondo Bizzaro, both are early American takes of the genre- and both where put together by the notorious producer/director/distributor team of Lee Frost and Bob Cresse. The release comes in either multi-region Blu ray, or DVD format- with each offering up a commentary track for each film, and a few other extras.
This rather lengthily titled release is the first physical release from Unsignified Death- a new HNW project from Thailand. The release comes in the form of a CDR/ digital download, and features a thirty-minute slab of dense, very layer active & industrial-tinged walled noise.
Multi-faceted, German artist, Hans Castrup, returns for a third time to Karlrecords. Following up 2016's Lizenzfreie Restwärme, Hans' latest, Heterogeneous Cell Information marks his first time on vinyl. Returning to the tried and true method of multi-layer compositions, this analog and digital creation skirts the line between dark ambiance, industrial, and musique concrete. This amalgamated style makes sense given Hans' varied artistic mediums, and the end result is an intriguing blend of sonic abandon.
Pale Misery are a young band from Louisiana, USA. They began their journey as a duet of musicians, but later this duet became a trio. Pale Misery defines its style as Blackened Crust. Whatever that means- but more about that later. The band are shortly going to be releasing their debut mini-album Black Candles And Gutter Scum, which they’ll release as a self-released digital album. Anyone can pre-order this from the band's bandcamp page, and get the opportunity to download the song “The Only Cure”, which will also be presented on the debut mini-album.
Zakopano Blago (Buried Treasure in English) finds respected Serbian wall noise project Dosis Letalis severing up an hours worth of highly detailed & layered static noise texturing- which as its title suggest offers up worthy sonic surprises for those willing to put in the time & the effort with the piece.
This Croatia based project is one of those walled-noise ventures that resurfaces ever so often to put out a one or two releases- with Stages Of Death we really get a bumper crop of new ‘walls’- as this release appears in the form of either a two C90 tape box set, or digital download available from Stockholm’s Ominous Recordings band camp page.