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From 2008 this is a C30 cassette release of dense yet texturally shifting & dark walled noise from this Nordrhein-Westfalen German HNW project. This tape originally appeared on Richard Ramirez’s Dead Audio tapes label.
“Black Lake” is the latest slice of Bigfoot themed walled noise from this Richard Ramirez project. The release comes in the form of a C45 tape, and it features three tracks in all- one on side A & two on side B.
Obake's eponymous debut on RareNoise records is a confident statement of mid-paced stoner metal with gothic/demonic atmospheric elements and extended ambient/post rock sections.
Despite their name and whimsically long, complicated titles, this astonishing work by Starving Weirdos offers serious moods, artful song structures, and absolutely epic musicality that should appeal to anyone into adventurous sound. For the most part, the record is a harrowing, unsettling trip through carefully layered and sculptured noise experiments, jumping off from dissonant chamber music and never quite staying in one place long enough to lose momentum. Somehow throughout, Starving Weirdos maintain an intriguing and singular personality no matter what the absorbing experience entails.
Once more Staalplaat release a further session recorded for VPRO, the Dutch national radio station, in an impressive series that has featured artists as diverse as Pan Sonic & Charlemagne Palestine, Stilluppsteypa and CoH. For this session, recorded in the Autumn of 2009, Oregon’s up-and-coming multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick is joined by Rotterdam’s experimental guitarist/sound artist Machinefabriek, AKA Rutger Zuydervelt. The two had previously collaborated remotely on the album ‘Blank Grey Canvas Sky’ but had never performed together ‘in the flesh’, so this opportunity afforded the chance to explore the results of an apparently unprepared improv session face-to-face.
Have you ever been on one of those history rides?. You known the type that you find at historic places of interest such as Rome or York . You climb on board a open carriage to stand, or sit down in a leisurely rolla-coaster type car, then you go on a trip back in time via recreated smells, sounds & displays of posed dummies dressed up in costumes of the past. ….well “Wallmapu” is sort of a sonic historic ride for the Mapuche nation- a group of indigenous inhabitants that have lived for a thousands years in south-central Chile and south-western Argentina.
“Slow Dream” is an extremely apt title for this hypnotic selection of deep ambient tracks from Long Beach, California, ambient artist and ethnomusicologist Loren Nerell. The album literally feels like a slowly drifting dream scape cut into four lengthy parts or submersion- with each chapter or part having it’s own subtle identity, yet the album as a whole has an over laying feel of a strange exotic dream, that’s sliping by in slow motion.
A tidy little tape from Where Is This, on Violent Noise Atrocities. One track on each side, both just shy of fifteen minutes; and both solid slabs of active Harsh Noise Walls. The spartan inlay tells the listener that the sounds were inspired by: Dylan Moran’s stand-up, Laurie Metcalf in “Scream 2” and the play “Shopping and Fucking” by Mark Ravenhill - none of which have crossed my path.
Merzbow and Lasse Marhaug, both prophets of noise music in their respective countries of Japan and Norway, have been collaborating and doing splits now and then for a long time, first on Marhaug's own label Jazzassin then on various others. I do believe this is their first "proper" studio collaboration though, as "Mar Mer" was recorded (live?) in a studio in Tokyo in 2010, and it's released by Editions Mego.
“Only Theatre of Pain” was the first album by controversial US band Christian Death, it was also the album that gave birth to a genre of music- death rock, which merged together punk & Goth rock to create a sound that was pounding yet often horror fed & sometimes damn creepy.
The label, Land of Decay, provided no information about this tape, but the track titles certainly give a good suggestion of the sort of thing to come: "In My Shadow Widows Scream", "Arch-Crone Bone Mother", "Koschei the Deathless". So, it's going to be dark in some way or another. In fact, Cultus Sabbati provide fifty minutes of distortion and drone that falls somewhere between industrial, noise and dark ambient.
Giles Corey is a recent project by Dan Barrett of US Doom/ 80’s synth pop/ Shoe gaze indie project Have A Nice Life. This self titled debut release brings together a full length album, and a 150 page booklet- both booklet & album cover the themes of suicide, ghosts, spiritualism & the other side.
The debut by the duo "Graves and Orchestra Pits" is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, yet also one of the most eclectic, sophisticated and vastly ambitious. The inexplicably seamless, surprisingly gorgeous juxtaposition of their music is well described by their name. Through the constantly surprising surrealist narrative of these 8 tastefully arranged tracks, we have math and post rock, doom metal, avant garde noise, modern classical (in various forms), free jazz and more, whirled into a luminous pastel kaleidoscope, a delight to the mind.
Edda Dell'Orso is an Italian singer who lent her wordless, powerful & often sensual or dramatic vocals to soundtracks of Italian films in the 60’s & 70’s. She worked with many Italian soundtrack composers such as Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, Luis Bacalov and Roberto Pregadio- but she is most known & celebrated for her work with Ennio Morricone, and in particular her work on Morricone’s Spaghetti western soundtracks such as: A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West. “Voice” is a twenty one track compilation that brings together a selection of Edda Dell'Orso soundtrack work.
Monty Adkins is a British composer, performer, and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield. And since the late 1990’s he has released a body of sonic work that deals with slow shifting organic instrumental textures and concrete sounds capes. This new release finds him slowly manipulating clarinet playing & electronics into a mainly mournful & emotional ambient sonic stew.
Originally released in 1970 “Electronic Meditation” was the first sonic statement from Tangerine Dream- the album offered up a heady ‘n’ sometimes haphazard mix of instrumental kraut-rock, basic/ primal free jazz improv & creative early 70’s found sound manipulation. This new reissue finds the album been totally remastered, and adds in a 16 page booklet that features original arwork, reviews, pictures & an article on the bands origins, their early line-up, and of course the recording of this début album.
Dirt on Earth seems to have emerged out of Michael Begg’s most creative period yet: along with being one of the key players on Fovea Hex’ debut album, This is Where We Used to Sing, last year also saw the release of Human Greed’s most ambitious and elaborate album, Fortress Longing, filled with guest musicians and narrators to help paint a weighty concept concerning the liberation of a museum’s mummified remains to the desert. And no less than five months later there was a further download-only release, Live Dark Arts at the Classic, that saw Begg return to solo symphonies of electronics, choice selections of which appear on this new release.
Pared down from a single three-hour session, these five jams offer varying snapshots of the capabilities of Belgium’s Sylvester Anfang II (named in the tradition of Amon Duul II), who have dialed back their earlier fascinations with the occult to focus on—what is for them, at least—straightforward, intricate playing. While numerous Kraut-influenced bands have recorded heavier psychedelia or more progressive jamming, very few have generated such complex, productive results out of spontaneity. These pieces are so full-bodied that they almost have to be rehearsals for a more substantial effort long in the works, but that’s not how the story goes, and the crackling, live atmosphere demonstrates otherwise.
Here’s a garish digipak cd, decorated with colour saturated images of several people - including iconic leaders Osama Bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi. It contains ten tracks, and five remixes. The front cover announces loud and clear that the band is a “supergroup”, listing: Arto Lindsay, Seb El Zin, Marc Ribot, Mike Ladd and Sensational. I’m not au fait with all of those names, but there’s enough there to excite me; however, a “supergroup” is always a precarious venture: just as likely to fail spectacularly as succeed. Sometimes, all elements combine to create something greater; sometimes they negate each other or just get in each other’s way. Its unclear what the precise problem was with Anarchist Republic Of Bzzz, but it certainly makes painful listening.
Once again I have to admit my ignorance, because I didn't know of this harsh noise project called Potier. The man behind it is Michael Toepfer from Canada, helped on this self-released tape by Zach Adam's mastering and artwork by the infamous Jliat's.
This four track CDR collects together a selection of early Nascitari tracks, before the project shifted to it’s present ‘funeral HNW’ or ‘suicidal HNW’ form…so this is mostly a none ‘walled affair’. The tracks fall somewhere between psycho ambient noisy broods & electro-acoustic torture sessions with the occasional distant suicidal mad-man rants, through to galloping ‘wall’ roastings.
“Järven” brings together a selection of six ten minute tracks that mix together walled noise with static based sound texturing. Vorg is a one man HNW project from city of Jonkoping in Smaland area of Sweden.
“Horion” is the sixth release in Sweet Solitude’s 'Shades Of Grey' series- each title in this series finds a HNW artist theme their release around a famous murder case or murders. This release finds Belgium based one man HNW/ Harsh Noise project Goghal sonically tattling the case of 1970’s Belgian murder & criminal Freddy Horion.
The cryptic named “_IXOYE_” is the 17th release in the Infinity series- an identical artwork based collection of releases put out by Uk based Sweet Solitude label. Each volume sees a different worldwide HNW act attempting ambient and experimental forms of walled noise. This release finds polish HNW project Vilgoc offering up a unchanging yet moorish slice of Ambient walled noise.