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“Phase I” finds this London based & horror obsessed HNW project offering up a C40 that presents the listener with two side long tracks of atmospheric, active, imaginative and blood curdling brutal slices of Walled noise matter.
It’s not been a good 18 months for David Tibet. Less than a year after Baastorm Sing Omega, an album which chronicled the turbulent months during the breakup of his marriage to Andria Degens we have here an even more stripped down and melancholic collection of songs dedicated to the memory of Sebastian Horsley and Peter Christopherson.
This is the second album, following on from the 2008 debut 'Approach', by the self-styled audio-visual artist Kostas K, otherwise known as Subheim.
Italian duo Ovo are back again with their eighth release Cor Cordium (that’s Latin for Heart of Hearts). The project comprised of Stefania Perdetti (from Allun) and Bruno Dorella (of Wolfango, Bachi Da Pietra and Bar La Muerte label) graces us with 10 songs that bounce from Punk, Noise, Metal, Ambient and Drone.
You can’t help but feel sorry for New York’s Lee Bartow - on the evidence of this ‘offical’ debut under his new moniker of Theologian that he’s dedicated to “the heartbreakers and the broken-hearted”, he’s plainly got it bad. Although similarly themed to much of his extensive catalogue of sample-based power electronics released under the cheery name of Navicon Torture Technologies, this time the sound sources are all his own and, as such, have the power to invert Tennyson’s much quoted pearl of wisdom: “'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
This C60 tape offers up two side long tracks of raging static grain battering and seared walled noise texturing that’s abused/corrupted by noise chains and malefaction bound tape recorders . Ela Vuk is a female noise artist from Sarajevo whose most know for been part of harsh junk noise duo Idlness Distribution with N. Smrznik and helping run the Zvukovina label.
“Dauerlärm” means continuous noise in german which is a highly apt title for this c110 release, as the tape finds this always creative and rewarding USA based Harsh noise act trying out his hand at often quite active HNW and brutal static texturing.
There are two kinds of "good" HNW: the first is a sound so singular and uniform that it induces trance-like states, and the second is one that has multiple layers of sound hidden underneath each other, emerging in subtle ways. Discretion's "Sewer Meditations" c32 falls into both of these categories.
Mike Johnston, Mike Gilmore, Mike Khoury and Kirk Lucas have joined forces for "Impermanence", a work of hazy oneiric jazz that extends far beyond the bounds of jazz. Sluggish and incandescent, there is a patience to this recording, and a natural acoustic beauty. Vibraphone, gamelan percussion, string bass and viola sing out over a backdrop of velvet black.
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.