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‘in the privacy of your own home’ was presumably recorded in the privacy of Mark Ward’s residence in Dublin, Ireland in 2007, who only got ‘round to mastering it for release on cassette last year.
“The Sixth Hour” finds Canadian based Harsh Noise Wall project Gomeisa offering up C60 worth of decaying, stop starting, to thick and head crushing 'walls' that are themed around Franz Kafka's short story, "In the Penal Colony," which ‘describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carved the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours.' A Fine and grisly subject for a HNW release
“Pro-Life Message” is the first release from Louisiana based industrially caustic Harsh Noise wall project Slaughter-Fetus. It offers up a C50 tape worth thick, murky and industrial weaved HNW texturing and extreme caustic drone matter.
This comes from the deepest, most nonverbal corner of the id, wastes no time. Desperately blasts out of the speakers. Among the fiercest. You hear this noise and you know why. An animal violence. A serious 3" with the meat of many full lengths. How much hell can be raised in 18 minutes? Also it's functional. Use for catharsis for yourself. I like Moke's name.
Troubled Sleep #1 is the first extreme noise paper zine from the Portugal based Narcolepsia tape label which is run by one Manuel Pereira- whoes put together, designed and did all the interviews in this first zine. He also does all the design, layout and production for all of the tape releases too- so it’s a really one show.
Ethan Rose and Laura Gibson are both from Portland, Oregon but ‘Bridge Carols’ is their first collaboration, inspired by a desire to find new ways of working.
This untitled spilt brings together two sharp and short HWN shocks from Norway’s Hour Of the Wolf which is Andreas Brandal(Flesh Coffin, Drevne Bolesti, solo work, ect) more static wall noise project. And the highly prolific German based HNW project Ptomain.
’15-Tet Oakland’ finds Sissy Spacek moving further away from their noise grind cut-up origins, and it continues further down the noisy, yet highly controlled improv path. This album offers up tow length slices of seared yet highly rewarding improv with each track having an amazing 15 people involved in it’s twisting and edgy sonic construction.
‘Face the Sea of Darkness’ is this Swedish four piece’s debut album. And with it the band lovingly recreate the vibe, spirit and sonic character of the likes of Goblin, Fabio Frizzi and Riz Ortolani, and the late 70’s and early 1980’s soundtracks they composed for various classic Italian gore movies.
The best comparison I can make for this disc is that it's a very good Dissecting Table album, except that Dissecting Table had nothing to do with it. Instead, we have three folks -- one I'm familiar with, two I'm not -- turning in 15-20 minute knob-twisting workouts that do a remarkable job of emulating Mr. Ichiro Tsuji's nerve-battering assaults of noise and percussion. It's no ripoff, more of an "okay, here's my take on this" approach, and that's part of why I ended up pleasantly surprised.
Noma's "Mara" towers, majestically, It represents that of the beyond which has the power to call me. The drone musick of the spheres herein is heavenly pure. This record proves again that the purest of energy always takes the most simplistic shape. The structures of this album are transparent and perfect. The warm, buzzing music bubbles with youthful immediacy and energy, glows with a strange alluring light that sometimes becomes deceptively friendly.
‘Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2’ brings together two lengthy, rewarding and creative pieces of sound art and electro texturing from Frenchman Éric La Casa- who’s become one of most respected figures in modern Musique Concréte and sound art composition.
Diable Amoreux are a mysterious one man(or woman) project from Tasmania who make difficult to define and at times highly unhinged music. ‘Within The Circle’ finds the projects create this dense and spiralling twenty minute track that takes in elements of droning psychedelic guitars, lo-grade synths and organs. Overlapping and wavering orchestration, discordant piano tinkles, seemingly random field recordings, weird and sinister alien chatter, and all manner of weird sonic flotsam and jetsam they fancy throwing in a long the way. And in general the album has quite a dark gothic, yet unhinged feel to it in.
Hatchet For The Honeymoon are a Texas based male & female duo who make rewardingly detailed and textural moving HNW matter. The two piece project consists of: Ella Einsmire(E.E.E., Femme Under Plastic, S.S. Electronics, Viking Movement, Watch Me When I Kill) and Jonas Teunissen (RapeCity & Massacre In Dinosaur Valley).
Bloodcraving is the pummelling, unforgiving, spatter and gore movie influenced HNW project of Ron Cannibalo- who’s most know project is the 70’s and 80’s Italian cannibal film obsessed Cannibal Ritual, through he's is also in And You'll Live In Terror & Evelyn, as well as running the Disturbing Scenarios of Dying label too.
This $67 box set contains 2 CDs and a large, colorful, nearly 100 page book, all documenting the installation work of Mika Vainio, an artist most known for being half of the Finnish ambient electronic duo Pan Sonic. This package is by all appearances up to the usual high quality standards of the Raster Noton label, although I cannot say for sure as I have no physical copy of the set. It's important to note that, in total, there's only 2 disks of music here, some of which is reissued material, so you're mostly paying for the book when you buy this.
‘Vampyr: Light Of The Beast’ is the new slice of deeply horrifying, uneasy and dread filled death industrial, blacked ambience and general unsettling horror cinematics from Columbus Us based project Luasa Raelon which is the deformed and creepy sonic baby of one David Reed.
Tethrippon are two chaps from Northern Hellas in Greece that have chosen to name themselves after the four-horse chariot race from the ancient Olympic Games. Their romantic aim combines a “respect to their history, their tradition and the heroic achievements of their predecessors…” with “the ancient Hellenic philosophy, poetry and culture”.
‘Apocalypse Sun’ is the second album from highly respected, often complex and darkly precise psychedelic Us black metal project Nightbringer. And what an epic, twisting and turning yet controlled epic black maelstrom of an album this is- think a more US take on Deathspell Omega, but with very much it’s own black and prime evil identity, and you’ll be near to the blacked power, detail and scope of ‘Apocalypse Sun’.
Oh, this. This. This is a roaring, screeching, droning, clanking, yammering, blabbering, yacking, rattling, thundering, droning, whooping, booming, hollering, blatting, honking thing of beauty. All two halves of it.
‘Missing Boys’ is an HNW project that often concentrates on static patterned noise making and reduced Harsh Noise Walls. The project brings together Richard Ramirez (of Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus ,An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, Vice Wears Black Hose and many other projects) and Geoff Markoff (wasp Honeymoon, S.S. Electronics and Viking Movement). This self titled tape offers up a c90’s worth of shifting static textures, thinned wall making and some thicker nasty moments.
This double A sided c90 tape offers up a fierce, thick and churning slice of HNW matter from Dutch based project Svartvit (aka Kevin Jansen whose also in the more unmoving HNW project UN).
‘Wee Tam and the Big Huge’ was the fourth album by the highly influential and respected psychedelic folk, world music tinged and mixed musically genre project The Incredible String Band. The album originally appeared in November 1968 some seven months after the bands third album ‘The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter’ which is seen as their most important work and a prime example of 60’s hippy culture. And while ‘Wee Tam and the Big Huge’ may not be quite as revolutionary or mould-breaking as ‘The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter’ there’s a good and creative selection of songs on offer here.
‘Throat’ is a unrelenting 78 minute slice of HNW matter that’s truly nasty, macabrely fierce and often balance throwing attack on the sensers from Serbian based Dead Body Collection(aka Dr Alex who’s also in the excellent Harsh Noise & HNW two piece C. T. D .)