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“Fallen To Dust” finds this creative and respected canadian based HNW project offer up a single forty minute track of slowly morphing, progressing, darkly hued, storm and earth quake ripped ‘wall making’.
The band Clair Cassis is a three piece from Oregon; this is their debut LP (Limited to 500 vinyl copies)from Starlight Temple Society. While Clair Cassis is a new entity, 2 of the members (guitarist/vocalist Josh and bassist Angela) are from the now defunct Velvet Cacoon.
New Zealand’s Last Visible Dog has, over the years, seen fit to (re)release music by New Zealand experimental projects that otherwise would never have managed to reach an audience beyond New Zealand, so playing a vital role in the promotion of a brand of experimentalism decidedly unique. Just a couple months ago I reviewed Armpit’s Tron, which was, while unique, decent but not brilliant; The Terminals’ Little Things, however, is a different matter altogether.
I actually have a knack for knowing what origin most pieces of music come from. I can spot characteristics that come from places as exotic as India or Japan, or even not-so-exotic like Russia or Italy. And it also extends to cities as well...
Following the Dark path they had set for themselves a long time ago, Michael J.V.Hensley and Steven Hall who are better known together as Yen Pox, offer a new album in which they are moving onward inside the hostile realms of dark and black ambient.Yen Pox is, of course, no stranger to these disturbing sounds, and their statement is bold and brutal. 'Universal Emptiness' is dense and intense with two tracks, "Above" and "Below" which continue and complete each other while retaining a sense of dynamics and an emotional burden.
“Permanent Cavity” is the first proper cd & unlimited release from Swedish noise ‘n’ brood project Altar Of Flies- who’ve put out over thirty plus releases since they began in 2007.
"Spreading Center", among the more recent albums in an impressively large catalogue, is my first experience with this band Heavy Winged. This, like their other albums, is completely improvised noise rock - dark, noisy, psychedelic jamming with a more serious purpose than to trip you out or take you to space. It comes with two 26 minute tracks, which I'll discuss individually.
Terminal Erection is the more 'walled' harsh noise project of long term(well since 2003, which is long term for noise) Italian noise maker and pervert Nicola Vinciguerra(whose also in the creative yet perverse Power electronics project Fecalove & often more surreal/ horror filled noise collective of Splinter vs. Stalin). “Putrefaction” is the projects fourth release.
Live at Lava / PK365 casts a faltering light into the shadows occupied by Sweden’s Thomas Ekelund to reveal two contrasting sides of his Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words project.
Visions are Frederic Arbour from Canada and this release is the follow up his 2005 album Lapse. It’s put out by Canadian label Cyclic Law.
"I can see your breath" offers up a single thirty two minute track of deep, nasty & brooding HNW from this relativity new Iowa based project. The cdr comes in an oversized white folder with a very fitting dark and murky drawing of a male mouth breathing on a possible dead naked female torso.
“Self-Portrait” is the fourth album of twelve full length albums that are being released through-out 2010 by the highly creative & respected noise/general experimental project Jazkamer. This release sees the project focusing in more on grating drone matter and spaced out noisy improv with more active old school industrial percussive crash and extreme jazz tendencies.
Marcus Obst is a German sound artists, field recording manipulator and often playful sonic arranger who’s been active since 1997. “day in dwarfs capital” is his forth solo release, through he’s released twenty three releases under his most know project Dronæment- he’s also involved in the following projects Oscillator, D.Rhythm:O & Marcus Murkes.
This is a Black Metal band from San Francisco (of all places.) This rather short CD is their only release as far as I know, with all the usual BM packaging and some writing I can't really make out.
“Swamp Curse” is a C40’s worth of nasty, sometimes sludgy, but always horror ‘n’ bile soaked extreme noise matter and sickly caustic electro drone matter from London based Corpse Candle (aka Robert Meldrum who’s also in excellent HNW project Uneathered).
"Feast” was the first release from German HNW project Die Reitenden Leichen (which means The Riding Corpses in English). This C20 tape was released in 2008 & was ltd to 25 copies.
I feel mildly ashamed for putting this album so far down on my list of Things To Do. Most everything Tony Wakeford touches turns to gold—sometimes platinum—and Not All of Me merges an ambitious concept with some heartfelt and deeply absorbing music. It’s not the sort of thing I’m going to be playing while I’m paying the month’s bills, but that’s only because it’s powerful enough that it demands complete attention.
"Behavioural Decline" is the third release and first widely distributed album by noise / power electronics artist Lee Howard, who released his first double CDr "The Power of September" in 2007.
Peter Wright's discography is rather long, but it may give a hint to the fact that this artist has been around long enough to justify this number of released albums, working on his music for over 15 years and just shooting them every week or so, regardless of the quality of the material. With this release he proves the opposite, it being a thoughtful, emotional and very rewarding album.
“Crust” finds Croatian HNW project Placenta Lyposuction offering up three suffocating, at times semi industrial, but always brutal examples of intense ‘wall making’.
“My Life’s A Gunshot- Retrospective 1989- 2009 Vol 1” is the first of two double vinyl sets that celebrates the work of highly respected Berlin based Swiss noise & extreme sonic collage artists Joke Lanz and his Sudden Infant. This first volume collects together work from between the years 1989 & 1999.
Chuch are a three piece from Wales, although I don't really know who play's what. I'm assuming this is a rock band (or it's set up like one) that plays mostly very odd-sounding experimental material. What is recognizable is the guitar work and the electronics, but although there seems to be percussion it's processed in a way that sounds alien. This is their second album.
Like the oft-quoted epigram, Norwegian home recording artist Fredrik Ness Sevendal sets about his musical journeys without concern for the destination - it’s the getting there that matters. His sound, presented here by Miasmah reissuing his debut CDr of 2005, is based around the most minimal of melodies played on acoustic or electric guitars whose spare notes are steadily and earnestly repeated to build celestial, cyclical incantations supplemented by subtle electronics.
There’s nothing quite as endearing as a simple concept executed to near-perfection. What we have here are five vaguely neoclassical pieces for piano, played with great sensitivity and skill, and combined with production and experimental sounds in such a way that the underlying feel of the music is enhanced and not obscured. That’s a tough assignment to pull off, but Dimo Dimov, the man behind Miel Noir, has done it.