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Here's the recent Blu Ray, DVD & CD soundtrack reissue of this sleazy & gore slasher-meets-Giallo movie from the 1980's. This new edition appears on the always quality bond & extra heavy Arrow Video.
When it comes to IDM, Arovane has been one of the artists to take notice off from his beginning in the late 1990s. Albums like “Atol Scrap”, “Tides” and “Lilies” gained the Berlin based electronic musician a great reputation for his subtle blend of warm melodies and refined beat programming, a distinct sound that is highly accessible and experimental at the same time. After touring the world excessively Arovane decided to go on a nine year long hibernation from where he reappeared in 2013 – since then, he has been more productive than ever and already released a dozen solo and collaborative albums.
Well, this CD comes with the barest of details… It’s a professional affair, with a pro-pressed CD, and a letterpress printed card wallet. The wallet has really the minimum of information (performers, date and place of recording, track titles, and credits), and a minimal image of a road exit sign (presumably), with the bottom half of the sign missing - a very formal and mysterious package. Which really reflects the collaboration within rather well. The album has four tracks - 63, 64, 65, and 66 - with three of the pieces between 13 and 21 minutes in length, and one shorter track at 6:14. All four are harshly stereo-split, with Olive in one channel, and Owen in the other.
Canadian Death 'n Rollers Zombie Assault see their debut album released through Eclectic Productions. Combining classic Death 'n Roll with the tried and true genre fodder of 70's/80's horror films, Zombie Assault's Video Nasty is the boxed macaroni & cheese of the metal world; nothing wildly unique, but still comforting and familiar.
Split albums are a popular way for band to release material that tends to be shorter than a full-length album, however this project is a little different in that respect. This release comes packaged as a double CD with enough material for a full-length album from each artist, however in this instance the album is divided up into four section Earth, Air, Water and Fire, with each artist taking on two of the elements. 100 Schoen take on Earth and Fire whilst Ab Intra tackle Fire and Water. The album is a double disc release from Polish label Zoharum.
The Ghost of Hope is the first studio album of new material from this infamous avant-pop/sonic-art collective since 2013. It finds the project offering up an often multi-layered, sonically-shifting, and genre-darting concept album based around American train wrecks of 19th Century.
Latvias’ leading industrial group offer a collection of their finest recordings from 1992-1997. Spanning five years and eighteen tracks this limited edition of 250 copies works through dark ambient to neo-classical and darkwave, and a beautiful walk through this projects history it is too.
Sub Rosa imprint presents Desert Tracks by long-running experimentalist Michel Redolfi. To my chagrin, I wasn’t that familiar with Redolfi’s work prior to exploring this release and afterwards I was ready to compare his work to several contemporary soundscapers. However, that would be foolish considering the album at hand was recorded way back in 1987. As the story goes, back in 87’ Redolfi traveled through the California desert trail. He explored the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, and Palm Canyon to capture “hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones.” Available as CD and LP, Desert Tracks is the sonic representation of his travels.
This pro-CD from Dragon’s Eye is presented in (what I now assume is) the house style: a sombre, formal card wallet. The text on the back cover reveals the starting point of this release, ‘All sounds generated by physical & electronic manipulation of a red flexi disc of the first Dragon’s Eye release: George Winston’s ‘Medley: Bread Baker’s Stomp’.’ Thus the mind is straight away pushed towards certain ideas about what the CD will contain, and in line with this - and the quote - the front cover is a collage of fragments of said flexi. On a more practical level, the album has 11 tracks, interspersing short pieces less than a minute long, with longer pieces up to ten minutes in length.
The K. are an artful hardcore punk 3 piece from Belgium that takes after vital late 80's / early 90's groups like The Jesus Lizard, NoMeansNo and Melvins, who managed to be brutally aggressive yet structurally unpredictable, experimental in approach, reflecting an irreverent intelligence. "Burning Pattern Etiquette", released in 2015, is their 2nd album, following "My Flesh Reveals Millions of Souls" in 2012.
Murderlust is serial killer drama from the mid 80’s that focuses in more on rounded character study, than gore or torture. Here we have a recent DVD reissue of the film- which sees the first ever fully uncut release of the film. Plus a rather bizarre & lo-grade Sci-fi film from the same writer & director team.
Here from Russian wall noise project Train Cemetery we have a C60- bringing together a selection of four brutally moody & texturally interesting ‘walls’. Each of the four tracks have running-times between eleven & nineteen minutes, and each is worthy in both their textural reward & wall enchantment.
Torture Treatment is a Mexican based noise project that blends together a few different noise sub-genres to create a fairly original & distinctive sound. This self titled C22 tape appeared on Stockholm based Ominous Recordings, & is seemingly the projects first release.
From late 2016 Vestiges is the most recent full length release from US ambient legend Robert Rich. And on the whole it finds him returning to the darker & more melancholic waters of his early work- to create a release that is both haunting yet sonically detailed in it’s unfold.
Big Business are an avant garde metal band from Seattle, Washington. The band are a two piece made up of bassist, Jared Warren and drummer, Coady Willis, both of whom also play as members of the Melvins. Command Your Weather, released on Joyful Noise/Gold Metal Records, is the band’s fifth full length outing and features regular collaborator Scott Martin on guitars.
Kurai Keshiki was born in mid 2013 as a side-project by Emanuele Lago of Black Mountains Chronicles, dealing with a type of industrial-ambient more focused on field recordings and experimental sounds. “Tokubetsu No Tokoro” is the latest release from this project.
The fruitful partnership between the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) and Peter Rehberg's Editions Mego has for a number of years been reviving some of the French institution's classic works on lavishly produced LPs, complete with suitably retro sleeve art and Rashad Becker on the knobs at Dubplates & Mastering. This is the second instalment drawing from the much loved corpus of electro-acoustic and tape works of French/Italian composer Luc Ferrari, following on from the collection of 'Presque Rein' compositions issued in 2012. This single LP offers up a real treat, not just in the fact of being the first appearance on vinyl of Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps, but in being paired with Hétérozygote - one of Ferrari's earliest long form compositions utilising what we now tend to call field recordings - it offers the listener a clear-sighted experience of the development of Ferrari's technique and compositional approach.
Subvoice is a relatively recent two CD release from sound artists & contemporary classical composer Yannis Kyriakides. As the releases title suggests all the tracks here focuses in on the connection between voice, language & music.
Der Blutharsch have been making records for over 20 years, releasing their self-titled debut album on Arthurs Round Table records in 1996. The band is the brainchild of Austrian musician Albin Julius.
Science Crazed has to one of the most bizarre, puzzling, and unintentional avant-garde films of the straight-to–video era. Here we have the first ever multi-region DVD release of the film, which is full with extras that try to pick apart both the films appeal & some of it’s meaning.
Klaus Kinski is one of the more recognizable, prolific, genre varied, yet unpredictable actors(both personally & on screen) to appear with-in cinema between the 1940’s & 1980’s. In all he appeared in around one hundred & thirty movies, and this five hundred page plus book reviews each & every film he ever took part in- giving each a thorough, thoughtful, yet never academic critique.
This CDR from Torga Amun comes wrapped in a glossy, A5 card inlay, decorated with collages that juxtapose photographs of old working practices with more rigid imagery that explores texture and pattern. There’s also a similarly adorned small insert inside. The inlay has the barest of text, but there are three tracks, ranging from around 15 minutes to around 19 minutes. All of these are harsh noise walls, and all are quite static and straight-ahead.
La Transhumance Du Vide( English translation The Transhumance of the Void) is a C40/ digital releases that offers up two enjoyable & moody slices of sound-craft. These blend together elements of controlled noise texturing, more formal ambience, bleak-yet-subdued vocal chanting, and skilful composition- to create a most worthy & distinctive release.
Doriana Bridge is collaboration between two of the most respected & influential figures from with-in the HNW/ textured noise based genre. US legend & wall sound originator Richard Ramirez, and Paris based Julien Skrobek- who has touched down on pretty much every flavour of static bound/ wall-crafting in his many projects.