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Challenger Deep sees the very welcome return of highly respected & skilful British wall noise artists James Killick- here under the banner of Flood. The C60/ digital download sees him offering up two thirty minute examples of building & shifting wall-noise creativity.
Swedish project Desiderii Marginis is often referred to as solely a Dark Ambient venture. However, in his work, Johan Levin – the founder of this project, has often combined a large number of styles of experimental music into his sound - such as dark ambient, industrial, drone, dark folk and even elements of noise.
Death metal cornerstones, Deceased, are back after seven long years with Ghostly White on Hells Headbangers. Forming in 1985, King Fowley and the boys have thrashed and grinded incessantly despite a sparse release schedule, and Ghostly White is proof of their unwavering dedication to the scene. With eight songs clocking in at around fifty-five minutes, Deceased stick true to their legacy of long, grim, death metal yarns.
Thisquietarmy is an experimental improvisational guitar-based drone project hailing from Montreal, Canada. It is the solo project of Eric Quach, guitarist with Canadian shoegaze heroes Destroyalldreamers. Originally released by Foreshadow Recordings in 2008 Unconquered was the project’s first full length release. This new tenth anniversary edition from Midira Records adds an extra disc of material, most of it live, however it also features the thirty-minute epic Into Dust/Out of Dust which is inspired by Californian dream pop legends Mazzy Star.
Espace is a recent collaboration between two of Paris experimental sound denizens. KTT (aka Kasper T. Toeplitz) is polish born sound artists known mostly for his creation of BassComputer- an electric bass with 5 fretted strings and 4 unfretted strings, which is interfaced into a computer. And Vomir( aka Romain Perrot) one of the most widely known creators of the HNW form. This three track CD release sees the pair blending their sounds together to create a hellishly dense-yet- unsettling sonic form that sits somewhere between searing & subtle shifting industrial-tinged drone matter, and soul crushing HNW.
Abraded is a recent two track CDR from this highly prolific French walled noise project. The disc takes in two examples of relativity active noise craft that sits somewhere between pummelling HNW, and creatively textured static noise making.
Session 05/08/18 is seemingly the first physical release from this Russian noise/HNW project. Obscure Heaven began life at some point in 2017, and have thus far amassed around 50 or so digital releases. The release appears in the form of a CDR/ digital download on British HNW/ noise label Void Singularity- it takes in two sixteen-to-twenty minute tracks, and what we have here is urgent & rapid walled noise.
C.3.3. is a project of Paul Jamrozy, original member of TEST DEPT. This record, originally self-released in a slightly different form in 2011, takes as its subject the now closed HM Prison Reading, formally Reading Gaol, which held Oscar Wilde in the late 1890s after his conviction for homosexual offences. Unsurprising for a member of TEST DEPT, politics is mingled here with historical reflection. Wilde's incarceration, and his poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol is the entry point for Jamrozy into an exploration of incarceration, capital punishment and state power.
Trumpet player, keyboardist, composer and bandleader Simon Millerd has released a lush masterpiece of an album, "Lessons and Fairytales", on Songlines, a label which has proven a haven for artfully crafted melodic modern jazz. Nearly all of my recent favorite works of jazz come from the Songlines catalogue, from Michael Blake's "In the Grand Scheme of Things" to the Bruno Heinen Sextet's reinterpretation of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Tierkreis".
Following on from the recent Blu Ray reissue of Antropophagus on Severin, here’s Absurd- the second 1980’s horror film collaboration between director Joe D'Amato, and George Eastman( aka Italian actor Luigi Monterflori). Originally released in 1981- the film is a gored-up Halloween rip-off, blending in once again elements of classic horror, with 80’s euro campiness. Here we have the double-disc reissue of the film- taking in a Blu Ray, and soundtrack CD
Zombie 4 appeared at the end of the 1980’s- offering up a more action-focused take on the Italian zombie cycle. Here from Severin is the double disc CD soundtrack & Blu Ray release of the film.
Here we have a recent CD reissue of the first two albums from reggae legend & dub innovator Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. The Upsetter is from 1969, and Scratch- The Upsetter Again is from 1970. Both albums show the seeds of Perry’s later highly creative production skills, and each album is a good example of mainly mellow & playful proto-dub.
Hungarian experimental sounds are rather sparingly represented in the worldwide music scene. Necrotik Fissure is perhaps the most famous Hungarian project in the Harsh noise /Harsh Noise Wall genre. It was founded by Daniel K in 2012, but after releasing four albums and a split with French iconic HNW project Vomir, Necrotik Fissure was silent for 4 years. But, in 2016, the project resumed its activities and became one of the most productive HNW projects in recent years. It is also worth noting that Daniel K has a fairly large number of other projects, the most famous of which, in addition to the Necrotik Fissure, is Halalnihil. Also, Daniel is the founder of the fairly successful DIY label The Level Of Vulnerability, which has released an large number of albums from all of his projects, as well as many famous and talented projects working in styles of extremely experimental music.
'Communion Is A Sacred Word' is the debut release from 'Red Cliffs', a collaborative project between labelhead Jan Warnke and Thorsten Soltau, which comes as a c30 in a light blue shell, with a multi-panel translucent artwork.
Soundscapes, like landscapes, can range from sparse and minimal, to dense, heavy, and jarring. Italian sound artist Attilio Novellino understands this wide range, and applies many different approaches to his creations to produce thoughtful, evocative sonic landscapes. This is no different on his latest, A Conscious Effort from Midiria Records, and fans of well constructed atmospheres would do well picking up this limited release.
The Space Inside is a two-track album from renowned Australian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson. The release comes in the form of either a C30 cassette or digital download- and each of the fifteen-minute tracks here highlights the different sides to Tomlinson talents.
The Tree Of Life And Death originally appeared back in 2008- as a double CD collection of fairly varied ambient soundworlds from Swedish project Coph Nia- who blend & merge together dark sometimes ritual tipped ambience, post-industrial moodscapes, and neoclassical elements. Here on Old Captain is a recent reissue of the release on Old Captain- which offers up the original two discs, with a third disc of unreleased material.
Self-titled debut album of sorts from Italian progressive rock band Hollowscene. Whilst this might be their debut under this name the band have existed since 1990 under the moniker, Banaau.
Last Man in Europe is the 16th album from this British avant jazz three-piece. The CD album brings together eleven examples of searing–to-wonderfully angular jazz- that moves from forceful & jarring, onto soured & slurred, through to twitching & nervy.
Coming fairly soon after volumes three & four of Earth’s Hum Series, here ’s the fifth volume in the sequence of seemingly unending releases from this Michigan based wall noise project. This time we get a CDR release on Frances Require Rate Of Return Records- this takes in a single thirty-minute slice of searing-through- vaguely harmonic tinged wall matter.
Released in 1988 Deadbeat At Dawn is a blistering, often grimy gut-punch of a film, that brings together action & gang war genres, with often prolonged & splatter bound violence. Here from Arrow (both in the US & UK) we get an extra bulging new release of this brutal late 80’s classic.
The Soundboard Tape presents us with the first ever live recording from this Swedish walled noise project. The C36 tape takes in the same track on each side- this was taken from the soundboard recording made on May 3rd 2018, when Rien played Les Instants Chavirés- the respected noise/ experimental venue near Paris.
Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro is one rarer early 1980’s films from Jess Franco. And it finds the king of Euro exploitation giving a decidedly haphazard & often wonky stab at the jungle-based action-adventure genre, which had been made popular by the likes Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Here on MVD classics is a region free Blu Ray of the film, and I believe this is the first time it has been released in a digital form.
From 1970 Horror Of The Blood Monster is an extremely cheap & at times puzzling mix of vampire, caveman, and cheap monster genres. It’s one of the notorious mash-up projects from director/producer/screenwriter Al Adamson, which saw him attempting to blend together several different film elements in an often lopsided & unpredictable manner. Here from Cheezy Films is a region one DVD of the film.