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"I slice Her Body, Over and Over” is a C70 that finds this ultra prolific & brutally macabre Serbian project offering up two side long battering of crude & violent slices of HNW. This tape is sure to brutalize even the most seasoned of walled noise fans.
Black Air is a project that blends together elements of textured noise, HNW and layers of atmospheric industrial noise texturing. The project has seemingly been an on/off concern since 2006 with Black Air releasing a single side locked groove 12 inch in 06, then a c20 in 07, and in 2010 they released this- the project first full length release.
“When There's No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Walk The Earth” is the welcome return of the great & consistent US based HNW project Foul. And on offer here is single near on forty minute track of morrish & static bound HNW. Foul is the main project of J. Cadle(White Torture, ...Massacre & Oasis Of Fear), and the project been dormant for well over a year.
Corpo Nostro introduces us to Dario Buccino, a composer based in Milan whose work appears to centre on the use of suspended steel sheets, occasionally accompanied by voice, or the odd instrument, and reveals the bases behind Sistema HN, his unique approach to composition applicable to any instrument. The package offers both a CD of a piece completed in 2007 “for steel sheets, voices and plasterboard walls” and a DVD that, in addition to footage from his performances, features a 47 minute, self-directed documentary, providing much-needed context into his intentions and approach.
A low droning signal emits from the loudspeakers accompanied by ceremonial drum hits as the split release from (The) Bastard Noise and Christian Renou kicks into life. Employing a dizzying array of sound sources and textures, the duo of experimentalists present an incredibly effective collection of tracks that come together to form a really solid album. Both artists are highly respected in their own rights, Bastard Noise has collaborated in the past with such influential extreme artists such as Government Alpha, Merzbow and Man is the Bastard to name but a few, whilst Christian Renou will probably best recognised through his forays into musique concrete under his ‘Brume’ alias, having himself been active in experimental music circles since 1978.
Fräkmündt are a four piece Swedish project who brew up a heady, atmospheric & slight twisted mix of : alpine Folk, Germanic drinking songs, organic/ nature lined industrial texturing, off-kilter jaunting indie guitar band folk, slight ambient black metal elements, and the odd dwells in more avant tinged atmospheric ambient waters. “Urbärglieder” is the band début full lenght and it appears on the excellent Austrian based Percht/ Ahnstern family of labels (home of Sturmpercht, Allerseelen, Jahrtal, Svarrogh, Sangre Cavallum, ect).
“Robbie Doe” is the third release by this St. Louis HNW project which themes it’s unmoving and brutal Walled noise around ghost based or supernatural occurrences. Behind the project is Jeff Landgraf whose also in the great & more active HNW project Oblive, along with a few other none noise projects.
In 2008, unhinged Japanese noise rockers Nikudorei unleashed a righteous neanderthal roar in the form of "Chain of Evil Dead", a short disk containing a single 18 minute track. From the sound of it, it's a live recording, and it both captures this group at peak intensity and covers significant sonic ground.
There are times when you can put a cd into the player, listen to the first few notes, and you just smile. That’s the reaction that happened upon hearing Tsorer. The Israeli band (the duo of Tom D. and Avner) has been around since 2006. Return to Sodom is the first full length release (not that there’s any other releases on their website) from Black Hate Productions.
Here is a very stark, strenuous album on the Boring Machines label from Italy; recorded in 2009 by two people using guitar, tapes and electronics, and a third member responsible for “acoustic concept engineering”. (I’m not entirely sure what that involves.) Its a drone album: that’s all it does. But what a drone…
This c40 split brings together two French slices of HNW- On side one we have unforgiving crusty wall-making from the infamous Vomir. And on side two we have a fairly active slice of Harsh Noise/ HNW crossbreeding from relatively new project Ekunhaashaastaack.
“Blood Sacriifice” is a brutal, creepy and unhinging mix of lo-fi noise texturing, HNW, and manipulated forest & water field recordings. Peiiste(or Peiste as there sometimes confusingly known as too) is one of the many projects of Joseph Gates(Slaughter-Fetus, Vargrwulf Black Leather Jesus, & RSP) & Vanessa (Slaughter-Fetus, Black Leather Jesus Bast).
“The Tales Of The Dream Planet” finds Acid Mother Temples head guitarist & main honcho Kawabata Makoto offering up two lengthy and extremely mellow and drifting slices of ambient guitar scaping that’s prefect for meditative or extremely stoned states.
The lengthily entitled “Nur die Berge erinnern sich der Winde die hier ihren Anfang fanden vor so langer Zeit” is a compilation of synth only tracks by this distinctive and often darkly quirky one man ambient black metal/ dark synth project from Rivne Ukraine.
Seven Thrones is the first solo album from André Foisy, whose primary role as Locrian’s guitarist is presented this time unadorned by Terence Hannum’s keys, showcasing tones rich in natural textures, from sonorous shining metal to a dark, brooding wood more common of cellos. Although the title probably alludes to a sequence of seven 15th Century texts named after the seven brightest stars that form the Big Dipper, the sounds very much describe more earthly dimensions as they seem to reflect occurrences from the natural world.
One man Harsh Noise outfit Will van Gorder, previously from Other Peoples Children (I think that's his name - it seems to be different on various websites!) releases this short and 'sweet' limited edition cassette.
Asva’s new album ‘Presences in Absences' is the bands follow up to 2008’s amazing album ‘What You Don’t Know is Frontier’. The first thing you notice from the off is the distinct lack of the overpowering abrasiveness and full on drone attacks of the latter album and replaced by a more subtle heaviosity and overwhelming melancholy, which is both reflective yet achingly bleak in a strangley uplifting way.
Hototogisu is a male/female duo known for creating psychedelic dronescapes with the guitar and other instruments. This double album original appeared on the DeStijl label back in 2004- it was originally spread out over 3 LPs in hand glued packaging, it now appears in an unlimited double CD form on Important Records. "Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens of the 21st Century", is upwards of 2 hours spent in a sleepy-eyed soup of sustain. The runny pink and blue watercolor on the cover suits it perfectly.
Beat Circus come from Boston and are fronted by their only consistent member Brian Carpenter who is also the sole songwriter and arranger of the songs on this album.
2010 brought us a new release from Canadas’ Funerary Call. Dormant for the past few years, Funerary Call (the project of H .MacFarlane, also of Sistrenatus) has been creating sinister black ambient music since 1994. A cryptic cd cover starts our excursion into the abyss.
As befitting a project of this name, “Messenger” is a very soundtrack-y album; though as far as I can tell, not an actual soundtrack. Its a melodic mix of strings, vocals, woodwind, percussion and electronic touches; all delivered in the “pretty classical music, informed by modern production” style.
This latest DVD from Störung has been released to commemorate the official opening of the Experimental Music Sound Archive housed in Spain’s Puertas De Castilla, a cultural centre based in Murcia. The Archive is made up of the large collection of CDs, records and tapes that resident sound artist Francisco López’ amassed over the course of his professional career. But instead of filling the DVD with excerpts from this encouraging Archive, López has curated a new group exhibition of sound artists from all around the world thematically linked by a brief both tight and restrictive yet loose and freeform. The artists could do anything they wanted as long as it resulted in 13 “micro-compositions” each lasting precisely two minutes each which would then be broadcast, one micro-composition a day, on radio. This strictly small duration is an unusual limit for sound artists who more often prefer the benefits of canvasses stretched larger than a regular pop song to fully explore and impose their intent, and placing their short pieces on radio would suggest an unpredictable and uncontrollable situation from which their sounds would spring forth. So, this DVD release brings the full, exhausting three hour exhibition out of the camouflage of radio to present an opportunity for immersion in digestible quantities.
“Sword and Sandals” is another very distinctive & creative mixture of: HNW, Harsh noise and harmonic/ atmospheric electro texturing from this great Peplum or Sword-and-Sandal movies influenced project that comes from São Paulo, Brazil.
“Double Standard” is 6th & mid-way point in the series of twelve monthly 3 inch CDR releases that are going to released through-out 2011 by Irelands Bored Bear Recordings. Each release in the series celebrates, pays tribute and chronicles one of the many projects of highly influential & respected Texas noise artist's Richard Ramirez.