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Cancer in a young women & its emotional impact is a rather unlikely theme for a HNW release, but that’s exactly the theme behind this split between Serbian based Dead Body Collection & Uk based Small Hours.
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“II” as it suggests is the second release from this drone ‘n’ often primal based HNW project that brings together Texas noise couple Richard Ramirez & Sean E. Matzus. This is also the 15th release in the Infinity series- an open ended and 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 is yet another “Untitled” release from the French black bag wearing king of crusty ‘n’ crude walled noise, but this disc is somewhat of departure from Vomir's normally thick ‘n’ tight take on wall making. The CDR features a single just over eighteen minute track that moves towards a looser, textured & tonally separated take on HNW, you can clearly hear nod towards ANW territory….but this track is still a little taut ‘n’ fixed to really go fully under that bracket.
The most basic of xerox artwork adorns the sleeve of this release; but, to be fair, you wouldn’t want to see anything else wrapped around the cdr. It has some pictures of ladies receiving stretchings of the flesh and penetrations of an extreme nature, as well as some text exhorting that stretching.
Lea Cummings is a very eclectic noise musician based in Glasgow, best known for his noise work as Kylie Minoise. "Escape From Gravity" CDr, is released on his own Kovorox Sound label, it features a single one-hour long track; an elongated, mild synth drone with few delicate variations and additions.
Oren Ambarchi’s ‘Audience of One’ is the first proper solo album the Australian experimental multi-instrumentalist has recorded for Touch since 2007’s ‘In the Pendulum’s Embrace’.
“Groove Immersion” finds USA ambient legend Steve Roach feeding locked tribal electronic beat ‘n’ groove structures into his drifting & ebbing mysterious/ harmonic ambient synth soup to create an intriguing if not always successful groove/ deep ambient cross breed.
“Dash” is the last of the four Sissy Spacek CD releases that were put out by Gilgongo Records in November last year, and it may be the most manic, brain boiling & rewarding of the four.
“The Ripper at the Heavens Gates of Dark” finds ATM lacing their distinctive tripped out to rocking psychedelic space rock sound with traces of hard rocking like Led Zeppelin riffing, brooding Doors like organ ‘n’ guitar grooves, and deeply tripped out early Pink Floyd like 60’s Lsd tipped jam-outs
“RIP” is a rapid ‘n’ searing slice of noisy improv concrète from grindcore, caustic improv & jump cut USA noise terrorist Sissy Spacek. For this recording the project is made up of John Wiese, Jesse Jackson & Corydon Ronnau. With guest appearances from members of the Yellow Swans, Peter Kolovos(Open City) & Paul Costuros( Death Sentence: Panda!).
"Cold Nose" is a lush, serene ambeint work by Italian classic guitarist Franco Falsini, originally released in 1975, but never well known. It was his only album, and now, in 2012, it finally gets re-released. It is a single 3 part piece infused with many electronic elements, "ambient", from when the term "ambient" often meant a dense, challenging music, epic in scope, that went many unexpected places, as in the case of artists like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Jean Michel Jarre.
According to the Tzadik website, Aram Bajakian’s Kef is a string trio that takes its inspiration from the Armenian dance music that also gives it its name (Kef). The bass, violin and guitars ensemble are led by Aram Bajakian, who plays acoustic and electric versions of the latter of the three. This debut album has twelve tracks of intricate, often concise playing; which often blur composition and improvisation.
'The Dragon Lineage of Satan' is the debut album for Moribound Cult from Pennsylvanian black metallers, Pact. Describing themselves as 'Occultist Black Metal', taking influence from such practises as the Golden Dawn and Chaos Magick, amongst others, akin to the mighty Absu with their self-defined 'Mythological Occult Metal'. Unlike Absu however, Instead of progressive/thrash infused black metal, Pact go straight for the jugular and don’t relent for the entirety of the album, creating an absolute maelstrom of venomous, black metal fury.
"Haunted" CDr (also released on tape by the same excellent Portuguese label Cerebro Do Morto) is a creepy and disquieting mix of dark ambient, rumbling low frequencies, delicate and distant synth loops, and metal junk manipulation.
After three years of silence, Finnish black metal band Azaghal are back with their ninth release Nemesis. The band began back in 1995; they play raw, uncompromising black metal yet with their own sound. Guitarist Narqath seems to be the only member left from their inception currently; fellow members of the band include Chernobog, JL Nokturnal and Niflungr.
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“IV” offers up a weathered & primal slab of walled noise meets brutal drone with touches of ANW. The [untitled] of course brings together Richard Ramirez & Sean E. Matzus.
This brutal ‘n’ hopeless walled noise release offers up a two disc set- a full length CDR that features a new slab of battering & barren HNW from French project Ruine (aka Julien Skrobek also of Ghost, Figures Of Solitude ,and The Sandman Wears A Mask). And a 3inc CDR, which features a collaboration between Ruine with two Italian walled noise projects Nascitari and Molestia Auricularum.
“John 3:19” is a CDR that presents the listener with three untitled 14 minute plus slices of brutal & searing walled noise. This is this Italian based projects first full length release after some compilation appearances & download only releases over the last year or so.
“HNW Is Not Dead” offers up a single slice of dense popping ‘n’ skipping static & hypnotic walled noise. The release comes in the form of a CDR, and it’s the first release from this Canadian project in a few years.
“In The Glare of Burning Churches” is another slice of bizarre, grim & often off-kilter atmospheric mix of: raw/low-fi blacked metal, morbid synth work, cluttering & overloaded drum machine work, and genreal creative yet grim blacked metal from this prolific polish one man project
‘Untitled [2009]’ follows the same strategy as Francisco López’ 2008 two disc set: they both compile recent short pieces the Spanish sound artist created mainly for compilations on small experimental labels, presented across two disks that customarily eschew track titles for sequential numbers. It once again showcases Lopez’ brand of purist musique concrète - electroacoustic environments most often formed from manipulated field recordings - but also highlights the odd impurity and curious inconsistency.
Obscure experimental artist Posset released several CDrs in the last few years, including "A Diamond of Radiant Colour", what seems to be an unedited field recording of such terrible fidelity, it's really more of a lo-fi noise experiment. This is as lo-fi as lo-fi gets, and not the cozy, crackling analog kind of lo-fi. This sounds like a recording made with a 10 year old built-in laptop mic, or an equally old cellphone. Most tracks here are in mono. The mic has a very harsh resonant peak which results in an excess of grating treble. There is no sound that could even be called 'low mid', let alone 'bass'.
“Surabhi” is the second in the trilogy of Merzcow albums that are been released by UK based noise label Hypnagogia. This new release sees Merzbow deepening the spacey, and dense noise ambience of “Kamadhenu” - the first Merzcow, for three lengthy tracks of swirling, noisy & psychedelic noise composition.
Cold Spring Records showcases two of their relatively new signings on this strictly limited, vinyl only 12” release.