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Horacio Pollard is a noise artist with his sophomore (I think) release on Twilight Luggage. The cover looks like it's hand drawn and xeroxed, not to mention it looks a bit sappy.
This is a slightly on the bland side album from Erdem Helvacioglu. A young Turkish musician who works in many fields of the arts from films to dance to music and his work goes from the more experimental, such as here, to the more mainstream, such as music for the World Soccer Championships.
The charmingly entitled “PUS” is a four CDR box set which brings together the highly prolific and sonically ferocious Serbian HNW project Dead Body Collection, and French brutal sonic anarchist HNW project Å. Each project firstly offers up a hour plus piece on the first two discs, then on the last two discs they deconstruct and rape each others work in another hour long piece per disc-so in total you have just over four and a half hours worth of brutal and total unrelenting walled noise on offer here.
“Rites of Passion & A Promise of Wild Ecstasy” is a C20 tapes worth of often shifting, brutal and rewarding walled noise from one of the mysterious HNW projects connected to the Californian based Absence Tapes label.
"Una Lucertola Dalla Pelle di Donna" is the first in the series of fourteen Seven inch vinyl releases celebrating the many projects of highly prolific and influential Texas noise artists Richard Ramirez.
"Je Me Retire De Moi" (meaning roughly in english I withdrawn from myself) is a fine title for this isolating and enclosing piece of Harsh wall matter from one of the most know and praised exponents of the form French one man project Vomir.
2010 saw the release of Mathias Delplanques’ Passeports, a study in the sounds of transportation. Using a combination of field recordings of various transit (harbors, planes and train stations) woven together with various organic, electronic and domestic sounds; Delplanque composes a hymn to movement.
“Als Puntje Bij Paaltje Komt” is a collection of three twenty minute tracks of often stuck noise or automated extreme industrial soundscaping from slightly deranged and offten sci-fi themed Netherlands based noise project Paddo One.
“Rural Route No.3” features bleak, strangely appealing and often jarringly edited field recordings taken from the Shetland Islands in winter 2006. Martin Clarke is a sound artists and experimental film maker from London, and this 3inch cdr is his firth release.
“Static Corps” offers up two 50 minute ‘walls’ of thick, airless, weighty and tar black HNW that’s a guaranteed to bury you deeply in punishing thick sound mass, and blackly sour the world around your listening space.
The common use of the idea of hauntology in music of recent years, while mainly serving to confuse its definition, does at least point to a general running out of fresh musical ideas (and ways to describe them), an ennui replacing optimistic expectation, a disappointed wistfulness for the new that never arrives. And, ‘Sadly, the future is no longer what it was’ serves as a highly suitable soundtrack as well as a succinct title for such a decline.
I have been hearing this band's name for quite a while now. I never took the time to check them out, but I was intrigued when I read about their monthly CD series on a message board somewhere. Apparently, they put out a CD every month for a year on Pica Disk and this is the July edition. I didn't know what their other material sounded like before my first few listens, but I did hear that they always made very different-sounding records and have had a wide variety of styles. It seems that I am reviewing the blown out, grind/punk, improv noisecore style that they so feverishly dabble in.
Nick Grey is obviously a very ambitious artist that I've never heard much about. There has been collaborations with such people as Charlemagne Palestine as well as Martyn Bates of Eyeless In Gaza, both of whom are on this disc, and Grey having a connection with Matt Shaw, otherwise known as "Texlahoma".
Well after not being impressed by the last Utech Records offering I had to review (being another tedious new age release,) this one turned out to be much better. The NYC duo of M. Bassett and J. Gräf prefer a more psychedelic industrial-drone approach.
Upon picking up this DIY hand assembled cd-r one might think it's just another tangent of boring drone piece(s) as the art does not paint an accurate image of what you are going to find here. The art slightly confuses, but the overall packaging is by the book a decent looking release.
'Mubomuso' is Japanese psychedelic band Aural Fit's latest effort containing 5 garage rock style freakouts.
The record label Smell the Stench from Australia, graces us with Dona Ferentes Mud Delicacy. Part Noise, part Ambient and a touch experimental is the general category. A curious release from a curious project is what we have.
Being a longtime fan of Nurse With Wound, I was excited to hear Stapleton had put together another collaborative work, and thought it fitting that he would have chosen a band from the post rock genre, though I was hitherto familiar with Larsen.
Hair on my food tapes brings us a split between italian harsh drone artist Torba from Germany and Australian noise/drone artist Dotåbåtå attractively packaged in a silver on black printed cardstock.
‘Jenseitsflugmaschine’ is a self released twenty minute slice of walled noise from the German based noise project Die Neue Zeit.
“What Thy Wilt” is a very short, sharp, atmospheric and wholly rewarding slice of sonic dread ‘n’ groan and HNW texturing. This 3inch business card release comes in at just under the four minute mark, but it really is quality over quantity here with Gluttoness showing more creativity & talent than some lessen HNW acts show in a full length release.
“Dead end Whoredom” sees this highly prolific(this is the projects 25th release since last year!) and brutal Serbian HNW project focus in more on female torture and serial killer themes, than the projects usual medical ‘n’ macabre based themes. It also sees female screams of torture being added to DBC’s ‘wall’ of sound to somewhat mixed results.
This collaborative album brings together two Italian noise acts for a releases that mixers together: Power Electronics, harsh electroinca, often dense mats of field recordings and a few touches of Harsh noise matter. The two parties involved here are the slightly playful power electronics one man project Corazzata Valdemone and Harsh noise/HNW project Fukte.
Execution Support Act is the truly nasty and unforgiving HNW project of London based noise head Hal Hutchinson. Like most HNW projects there’s an obsession linked to the project, and ESA obsession is various forms of capital punishment, human torture and Anti-humanist ideology.