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With 68 releases since his beginning in 2002 Moloch (one man band of Ukraines’ Pr. Sergiy) is productive to say the least! Within those releases finds music in the Dark Ambient/raw Black Metal vein. On his two-song EP “Ein Dusterer Winter Kommt”, that’s German for “a dismal winter is coming”, we find that afore mentioned influence, plus a healthy dose of depressive Black Metal a la Xasthur and Forgotten Tomb.
“Elle est morte, elle est pourrie” (roughly translated to She Died, and she is rotten) is the latest slice of ghoulish yet hypnotic HNW from this mysterious French act. On offer here is a single hour long track of totally unrelenting & brutal Harsh walled noise that has a very dark and macabre feel to it.
‘Torrential' is the third release in the Infinity series which sees worldwide HNW acts attempting ambient and experimental forms of walled noise. This release features a single fifty five minute track that shows this Puerto Rico project offering up a track of rewarding shifting ambient static texturing & HNW matter.
“The Woody Nightshade” finds English folk singer Sharron Kraus taking a much darker and sonically less varied path then her last album 2008’s “The Fox's Wedding”. As she states in the albums linear notes she wanted this to be listened to as a whole album, and through-out there’s a very downbeat and morbid air prevalent.
“Burning The Temple Of God” is the second in the series of five reissues by the dark, violent and satanic singed Swedish collective who mixe together pitch black ritual tinged industrial sonics, dark ambience, power noise, and black metal to create a thick, nastily atmospheric to pounding brew of black sounds that the group call black industrial.
“Immersion: Four” finds ambient legend Steve Roach offering up a single seventy three minute track of soothing yet slightly mysterious, revolving and meditative ambient drift and ebb.
Wanke follows up his acclaimed (last solo) album Caves, from 2008, with this similarly minimalistic work.
Matthew 28:17 is the eighth instalment in the ambitious 'Jazkamer 2010' project that succeeded in its aim of releasing 12 new albums, one for each month of last year. Recorded just a couple of months earlier than it was released it sees Jazkamer pared down to its essential duo of Norway's John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug.
Ghédalia Tazartès is a French experimental artists who since the mid 1970’s has created his own very individual and distinct blend sonics that brings together: voice textures and harmonies, tape loops, off –kilter synth and accordion dwells, dismantled muzak, found sounds, and all manner of creative editing and sound use. "Ante-Mortem" contains some of the most noisy material of his career, but it also features some of his most humorous and playful too.
“Exotic Dreamers” dusts off and reissues two rare and long out of print slices of exotica. We have here Ethel Azama's "Exotic Dreams” from 1958 which original appeared on Liberty Records, and Tak Shindo's "Mganga" also from 1958 which originally appeared on Edison International Records.
Despite Muslimgauze' ubiquitous heavy-handed political titles, I've always thought Bryn Jones' music was among the most solitary, mysterious and abstract of outsider art, sending few interpretable signals beyond an undeniable groove and an intense, wordless mysticism. It's a physical, unrelentingly repetitive music with intense performative energy that easily reaches the most ancient parts of the brain, those responsible for rhythmic movement, motor skills and coordination.
Don't be fooled by the album title, there's no funk break beats or old crackling jazz tunes on here. The "turntable," in this case, was a device used to display various images while sounds emerged from five separate sources within a confined space, and this album is a recording of what that room sounded like.
Karkastix is a one-man Italian noise project who makes an intense and ear ringing mixture of sustained noise pitch investigations and electro fired Harsh walled noise. “Sacro Perditio” is the second release from the project, and it offers up a 3ich cdr release that features three untitled tracks.
Ecoute La Merde is a Harsh noise/HNW project from the east of France, and “Oralist” is a 3inch cdr that offers up a single near on fifteen minute slice of active and brutal Harsh walled noise.
Kyle Bobby Dunn is a Brooklyn based Canadian born musician and composer. Ways of Meaning is his soon to be latest release (as of May 2011). All the six songs here have been recorded using guitar and organ. What we find is an intensely personal and somewhat somber slice of minimalist drone.
'Untitled I - VII' is the second in the Infinity series. This series investigates the more ambient, minimal or experimental sides of the growing Harsh noise wall genre. Each release in the series features identical and minimal black on white artwork, which features a large black monolith on the front and a linked infinity motif on the back.
“Battlefield Recordings” is the 4th full length release from this battle and warfare obsessed Serbian HNW project who makes thick and unbreakable walled noise.
“A Quite Place to Kill” finds this highly prolific and extreme Serbian HNW act in fine and brutally battering form. On offer here is a single seventy six minute track of totally unrelenting and punishing walled noise that sure to pummel and brutalized even the most harden HNW fans.
This is the fourth album by the Russian band Moon Far Away, who formed in 1995. They could be variously described as inhabiting and combining elements of the sub-genres Neo-folk, Darkwave and Gothic Folk, to name but a few.
Sweden's David Wenngren is usually to be found under the name of Library Tapes releasing several albums of classical piano vignettes wrapped in field recordings since 2005, but as Murralin Lane the sound sources are not so obvious except for the haunting vocals of Ylva Wiklund.
Giallo movies and HNW have always made great bedfellows; Giallo movies with there almost uniformed killers in their black gloves, long coats and shadowy hats carrying out brutal and sadistic murders, and HNW with it’s often uniformed and repetitive brutal sound and it’s sleazy, dark and murderous undertones. This four way vinyl split nicely celebrates the union between the brutal movie form and brutal sonic form that is giallo influenced HNW.
“Tour Set” brings together four CDRs worth of intense, thick yet creative walled noise from this Iowa based HNW project. The collection offers up ‘walls’ of varying length and texture, and all in all it makes for a great few hours worth of battering ‘n’ brutally listening.
Stahlwerk 9's "Retromekanik" is a historic study of war in dronoise, one of the more convincing of its kind. Grainy and cheaply distorted but always deep, repetitive and layered with tone and texture. Long samples of military officers discussing the tactics and logistics of specific maneuvers blend naturally into the submarine metal grey of the enveloping thickness of electronic distortion ("Dien Bien Phu"). It's a CD but it sounds like a cassette. Warm, sonorous resonances hidden within the noise make a potentially stark and ugly aesthetic into a pleasant listening experience.
‘In Public’ is the third EP from Nymphomania, one of two solo alter egos for Washington State’s Josh Landry who also records as Glasscutter and as a duo under the name Disco Hospital. And just right for a disco, ‘In Public’ is presented more like a DJ mix than a collection of distinct pieces, with almost every track smoothly segueing into the next like a series of excerpts from longer pieces cross-fading into each other to keep everyone dancing.