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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.
From late 2016 here’s a self released four disc CDR set from always impressive & creative French walled noise project Chier. The release offers up in all eight ‘walls’, and these each have running times between thirty & fifty minutes a piece.
Rutger Hauser is a 'noise rock' band, in the sense that their music is a cacophanous din. In their case, to use of the term 'experimental' to describe the band would be to ignore the high school level musicianship possessed by the band.
Upping their release schedule exponentially over the past year, Sutcliffe Jugend is back (again) with Shame from Hagshadow. Consisting of five introspective tracks. Kevin Tomkins and Paul Taylor continue to grow Sutcliffe Jugend within the industrial/power electronics framework. Closer in nature to Offal than earlier works, Shame sees SJ stick more toward musical structures than the wailing feedback of power electronics.
Polish industrialists Monopium and K have teamed up to produce this split album for Zoharum records with a decidedly krautrock flavour. I’ve not been able to find out much about K, but Monopium seem to have been around for a little while and have released several albums thus far. I think in the circumstances it’s probably best to dig into the music and see what we have here.
Lawrence English is a well renowned sound artist living in Brisbane, his releases span 12 years and are many and various. Some are issued on his own Room40 label, however he’s had the likes of Touch and 12k play host to his musical output. Moving between Ambient, drone and experimental electronica on Cruel Optimism Lawrence is aided and abetted with contributions from Mats Gustafsson, Mary Rapp and Tony Buck, Norman Westberg to name a few.
Frederick R. Friedel is one of the more note-worthy, creative & distinctive directors to come out of the 1970’s horror/ exploitation cinema. This excellent, wholly fascinating & truly extra heavy Blu Ray & CD set brings together three of his films- Axe, Kidnapped Coed, & Blood Brothers. Plus on the CD soundtracks for both Axe & Kidnapped Coed
Here’s a smartly presented CDR from Palinopsia Recordings, wrapped in a colourful, almost psychedelic, card inlay. Despite the colours, the depicted silhouetted trees predict the darkness to be found within. The album has five tracks, ranging from a short five minutes to a long 20 minutes; all stand in the territory of HNW, but it’s borders are played with and stretched.
Stand Up is the next in the series of deluxe & hardback book reissues of Jethro Tull albums on the Crysalis label. The album was the bands second album originally released in 1969, and it saw them expanding their sound from its original blues-rock setting, to add in elements of folk-rock, early metal, & jazz. Along with slight hints at their future more playful prog rock sound, though this is in very embryonic stages here, and is no way as fully formed & realized as on albums like Aqualung & Thick As A Brick.
Cold Spring Records presents a reissue of the long out of print debut album by Trepaneringsritualen.For the uninitiated, Trepaneringsritualen (or TxRxP) is the blackened ambient/death industrial (I know that’s a bit of an over-simplification) project of one Thomas Ekelund. Influenced by the occult and other esoteric themes, Ekelund has become rather prolific over the years releasing a near decade’s worth of material on labels such as: Hanson, Release the Bats, Harsh Head Rituals and Cold Spring (in more recent memory).
Following up 2014's Inked In Blood, legendary Floridian death metallers, Obituary, are back with their eleventh full length, Obituary. Changing the formula a bit from Inked, Obituary finds their sound returning closer to that of their roots, which helps the self titled album quite a bit. Adding more proof that classic death will never go out of style, Obituary's thrashy, buzzsaw approach will be a welcome not to those that were let down by Inked In Blood.
Here we have a recent reissue of two early 1980’s album from Deodato (aka Brazilian composer/ arranger Eumir Deodato). And what’s offered up here is a selection of easy-going, memorable & grooving funk-pop, light jazz- funk fusion, and 1980’s disco music. This certainly isn’t for those looking for high-brow & experimental fusion, but if you dig bright, tunefully & good-time funk/pop fare you’ll certainly find this right up your street.
Since the early 1970’s American composer & keyboard player Erik Lindgren has created a truly huge genre varied body of work. Moving though: numerous variations of different rock ‘n’ pop, Contemporary classical composition, soundtrack music, quirkily electronica, easy-listening, bizarre radio plays, avant & angular composition that blends together elements of jazz & rock, and beyond.
Anoxia is the second album recorded under the name of L.A.N.D. by composer/ sound designer Daniel Lea. Following on from 2012s debut album Night Within. The album was mixed by Ben Frost at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, and mastered in Berlin by Rashad Becker at D & M.
The second in GT Series Archive is the album entitled "Chrz¹szcz brzmi w trzcinie" (A beetle buzzes in the reed - a Polish tongue twister), originally published on a CDR on Tochnit Aleph in 2006. In a short time it was sold out and practically unavailable until now.
Here from Arrow Video is the first ever Blu Ray release of 1984 sorority slasher The Initiation. The film blends together 80’s campy atmosphere, often quite brutal killings, a likable enough cast, and in the second half of the film an effective mall setting.
Zos Kia's 1983 live recording "Transparent" is known because it is commonly considered to be the first Coil recording, despite the fact that much of the sound on the album can be attributed to one John "Zoskia" Gosling. Following this performance, Coil ceased to collaborate with Gosling, and didn't play live for many years, and there is very little about this album that bears similarity to anything in Coil's discography.
Here’s a tape from Ominous Recordings; 60 minutes of harsh noise walls, presented on a purple tape. The inlay, as you might guess from the project name, and title, is a close up of some legs, clad in stockings, and bound at the ankle. Anonymous Masturbaudioum gives us two long tracks of obliterated walls, Untitled I, and Untitled II.