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Suzuki Junzo's "Ode to a Blue Ghost" is an album of effects-laden guitar texture that originally came out in 2009 in a 3 track edition. The new Utech re-issue also contains a 4th piece.
Our Love Will Destroy the World specializes in long form pieces of dense old school industrial noise. New Zealander Campbell Kneale, who has been exploring sound for over a decade through his primary project, Birchville Cat Motel, uses the basic approaches of such artists as NON, Throbbing Gristle, and Zoviet France to build massive constructions of interlocking sounds, almost as if a bunch of clockwork machines were wound up simultaneously to create their own rhythms. And while there are moments in the 2-hour, 2-disc epic extravaganza Thousands Raised to the Sixth that do call to mind a wall of Buddha Machines weaving repetitious but rapidly shifting webs of cacophony, there are enough artful, intentional surprises in the din to be testament to the hand of a creator who knows his way around an experimental mix.
The name of Cleveland-based musician David Cintron will probably ring a bell with the more guitar-oriented portion of this venerable magazine’s readership as the member of avant-rock outfits Terminal Lovers and Scarcity of Tanks, as well as a whole slew of other projects. He recently took some time off from his day job to give vent to his more ambient-based aspirations, the result of which, released under his own name on Lighten Up Sounds, a small private imprint specialising in experimental art and sound, is clearly aimed at those who like their music dreamy and minimalistic.
“Darkness Freedom” is the quirky, drum machine lined, locked rock riff tipped, and bobbing synth edged first solo album of Steel Mammoth’s lead singer.
The secret of repetition is to get the ingredients right – playing the same thing over and over again will only have an effect if the blend and dosage are expertly prescribed. The secret of repetition is subtle variation, like the difference between hand-crafted and machine-built objects, the former possess individual, unique characteristics impossible for the latter’s production line to mimic. The secret of repetition is understanding the power of release and how it becomes more potent the longer you deny it. The secret of repetition is knowing when to stop.
This cdr on Gold Soundz is very spartanly presented indeed, but its effective enough: simple black on white lettering and abstract imagery. “Ghost In The Machine” consists of six tracks: the first being an original piece by Sindre Bjerga, commissioned for the "Ung Horisont" arts event, Stavanger, Norway, June 15th-17th, 2011; and the remaining five being remixes of this track.
Despite the admittedly misleading nature of the title, what we’ve got here is not an album catering to aspiring fans of second-wave black metal who have a tendency to take things at face value but the newest opus by American goth-folkers extraordinaire The Deadfly Ensemble. After two albums on German music label Trisol, 2006’s An Entire Wardrobe of Doubt and Uncertainty and 2007’s A Seed Catalog for Extinct Annuals, Lucas Lanthier and his bunch of artsy acolytes are now back on home turf with US premier ethereal / gothic label Projekt.
“Atem” is the next of the classic & early Tangerine Dream album’s to get the classy reissue treatment from Esoteric Reactive/Cherry Red. “Atem” is the bands 4th album, and it was originally released in 1973- it saw the band creating slightly more cinematic & structured tracks after the huge sprawling ‘n’ lengthy dark space dirges ‘n’ drifts of their previous release “Zeit”.
Originally released in 1973 “Freedom Is Frightening” was the 15th album from highly talented & musical genre versatile Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer Stomu Yamash’ta. The album finds Yamash’ta (and pals) conjuring up an album that mixes togeather jazz, rock, prog tendencies & a smattering of world influences. This 2008 reissue is the albums first ever cd release, and it comes with a remastered sound & a new 12 page inlay booklet.
Sami Albert Hynninen's Opium Warlords project is back with its second LP, We Meditate Under the Pussy In the Sky. Now, whether this is a shot at religion or a reference to an unshot sequel to Poltergash is beyond me. Either way, the title, along with the press release descriptions of "avant-garde," "surrealism," and "outsider music," offer little confidence in this release. These terms are generally used when an album is needlessly chaotic, poorly constructed, and "prepared." So, are my fears confirmed?
“Blackstar” is a C20 release from this highly prolific Serbian HNW project. The tape offers up two rather progressive slices of walled noise, which are somewhat of a departure from this project normal bass bound brutal take on HNW.
“Natural DisasSter” is a CDR & DVDR set from this Fairfax USA based HNW project, which mostly themes it’s work around BBW(Big Beautiful Women), plumpers or the large lady.
“Orgasmo Nero” is the 8th in series of twelve monthly three inch CDR releases, which are been put out through-out 2012 by Ireland's Bored Bear Recordings. Each release in this new series offers up a debut release from one of twelve new projects that are been put together by highly influential & respected Texas noise artist Richard Ramirez.
“Katharine” is a single sided C20 tape that offers up one shot of ANW from this Uk project- which is one of the main projects of James Killick( Love Katy,Pooh, Blank Depths,etc).
“The Obscenities On All Fours” is the 6th in series of twelve monthly three inch CDR releases, which are been put out through-out 2012 by Ireland's Bored Bear Recordings. Each release in this new series offers up a debut release from one of twelve new projects that are been put together by highly influential & respected Texas noise artist Richard Ramirez.
St. Louis, Missouri, is a city that peaked 75 years ago and has been slowly dying ever since. Part of this is because the city is independent from the county and for the most part can’t get the funding it needs to rebuild and become a place where young families would actually choose to live. There is very little public transportation and therefore it requires cars to get around, and very little of the culture and nightlife don’t depend on this. In the summers, it is one of the most humid and stifling places in the United States, while in the winter it is subject to typical Midwestern weather, which means sub-zero wind chills and, for a few weeks at least, lots of snow.
Aprox. creates noisy and discontinuous experimental breakcore from the same drug addled realm that gave us such depraved genius as Venetian Snares and Terminal11. His ironically titled "Bad Music EP" is a 3" CD of mostly non-repetitive beats and glitches in a hyperactive and complex abstract narrative, real music for the 'ADD kid', meaning there is actually quite a bit of music on this 23 minute 3" CD.
Canada has always been a fertile ground for bizarre and extreme metal, and the recently formed Rage Nucléaire, to put it very simply, play an extremely chaotic mixture of early Emperor and grindcore. This definition doesn't really give justice to Rage Nucleaire's sound, but it's as close as I can get in a few words.
“For the space of a hundred seconds there was silence, such as might have existed before the birth of sound.” So begins the excerpted passage from Algernon Blackwood’s “ A Haunted Island” printed on the B-side of Alex Durlak’s single-sided 12” EP for Komino Records. But just the guitar that Durlak processes beyond all recognition—I’m sorry, but “granular technique!” is becoming the new “classically trained!”—I can’t find the connection between the text and the music cut into the opposite side.
"El Pájaro que Escucha” sits somewhere between natural ambience recording, drone work & enchanting field recording snapshot. David Vélez is a Columbia based sound artist, who specializes in untreated field recordings.
I don’t consider myself a record collector as such; sure, there are a couple of bands or projects that I’d like to have complete discographies of, but its really the sounds themselves I covet. Nevertheless, I have had recurring dreams in the past about going into a junk shop and finding boxes and boxes of abandoned joy.
“Soundcheck” is another CD reissue of an out of print Circle album by Brazil based Essence Music. This release was originally released back in 2009 as a ltd vinyl pressing on Full Contact Records, and this live album features two exclusive tracks, and two previously released tracks.
When they put out their first album in 2000, Austria’s Kreuzweg Ost made a bit of a splash in the then nascent martial-industrial scene and quite a few eyebrows were raised by people who were not really sure whether Michael Gregor (Summoning, Amestigon, ex-Die Verbannten Kinder Evas) and Martin Schirenc (Pungent Stench, Hollenthon) were actually taking the piss or not. That the duo came from the metal world and exhibited a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the genre certainly did not help raise their credibility with the uniform-sporting crowd (this, remember, was before it became evident that both scenes shared the same demographics and Albin Julius was a closet Brigitte Bardot fan) but interesting it certainly was. England’s Cold Spring records, however, did have no such qualms when they signed the band up for their second release in 2005 and chances are they still don’t nowadays upon unleashing their third outing in twelve years, the pompously-titled “Gott mit Uns”.
ROM is the project of East Coast stretching duo Roberto Carlos Lange and Matt Crum. Foot Signal took three years to make and was recorded in multiple locations and cities. ROM supposedly mostly used broken instruments to make this album, but it doesn't sound like it. It doesn't sound like it took three years to create, either.