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Solitary Nail is the first of 12 bi monthly full length albums that will be released through-out 2010 by the highly creative & respected noise/general experimental Norwegian based project Jazkamer.
Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack for the original Alien film will be recognizable to many horror & Sci-fi fans worldwide; but this wonderful two disc deluxe set tells the often untold story of the score(or the two scores) & the battle it caused between Goldsmith and the films director Ridley Scott- with the score ending up been one of the most tampered with in cinematic history.
I heard this album without any prior knowledge of the band or its members. It immediately intrigued me with its inexplicably ghoulish album packaging and the delicious imagery of track titles like "The Taste and Stink of Old Coins". They seemed to suggest darkness of an intelligent and unnerving creative variety - the kind that can actually get under my skin.
Nothing like a good various-artists compilation to broaden the horizons and clean out the ears. Play some of ‘em loud enough and you can clean out the ears permanently, which was at least partly on my mind when I saw that Interstellar Records’ Supernova 2 sported a Merzbow track. It has a few other good reasons to exist apart from that, though.
Nurse Unit make sleaze bound HNW & this C10 tape offers up two grimy & cum covered slices of porn-bound wall making. This Texas based project has being active on & off since 1996 and features Richard Ramirez(Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, etc) & Alison Rowe (Rinne, Wasp Honeymoon & Human Cobras).
Being is the Dayton, OH based Harsh noise project of Luke Tandy who also runs the skeleton Dust label. ‘Predator’ is a C20’s worth of pummelling, fierce yet fairly active & shifting harsh noise battering & hammering wall noise abuse.
As a one-man band from Boston, Afterlives’ ‘A Ticking Clock…’ is very much a first for Will Barrett, whose label proclaims “had never previously written music, never played in a band.” These first steps into composition are firmly placed on the ‘indie rock’ path originally paved by fellow Bay Staters Dinosaur Jr, Galaxie 500 and Pixies.
‘Untitled’ is another fierce, impenetrable & thick slice of HNW making from the French master of the genre Vomir. This CDR offers up one long form slice of crusty & crunching wall making that slides in just under the hour mark.
'Idolatriae' is a slowly shifting & textural changing, often abstract & grimly surreal take on the dark ambient genre. Eidulon are Italian based project & this is their first release which has been macabre worked on & darkly developed over a two year period between 2004 & 2006.
‘30’ celebrates thirty creative sonic years of the highly respected, influential and ahead of their time experimental Dutch collective The Ex; & their shifting sound from Anarcho-punk origins onto jazz, folk, improv & beyond.
This is a two-way HNW Split between Mexican project Tissa Mawartyassari( featuring Maria Velasquez-Soto) & Texas project Messes Noires (William Cast, Richard Ramirez and Geoff Markoff)- each act offers up a near on half an hour of fierce wall attack.
‘The Formal Female’ is the work of a man alone with his bitterness after being spurned by a woman he’s spent all his money on.
This split brings together two side long pieces of gaillo / Italian thriller influenced hypnotic & atmospheric filled noise making & static jitter from Italian project Alo Girl which is Cristiano Renzoni; runner of the Urashima label & the other half of Richard Ramirez's An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter & Texas based Last Rape which features Richard Ramirez(Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus, ect) & Sean Matzus(Black Leather Jesus, Priest In Shit, The Secret Geography).
‘Music for shipwrecks’ offers up four tracks of glowing, drifting, grand & harmonic laced ambience & drone works. This is the third work in ‘music for’ series from Scottish born mood setter Alistair Crosbie; the other two volumes in the series are 'Musicfordrowning' (Lefthand Pressings, 2006) and 'Musicforlighthouses' (Quinquaginta, 2007).
'Daydreaming' offers up one long collaborative track between highly respected Japanese noise maker Government Alpha & Swedish based industrial noise purveyors Barrikad.
Ten Arrows is a exhilarating, totally brutal & rollercoaster-off the rails attack on the senses taking in elements of: rapidly cut-up junk matter, roaring sheets of Japanese like noise , stretchers of wall matter, vein bulging vocal rants & attacks, pumped up & blown-out electronics & all manner of teeth gritting & eye popping sonic twists & turns.
This is a splendid double disc reissue of two very 70’s sounding, highly addictive, more than a little showy & camp pop albums by the fantastic Dooleys who were are a eight piece family band original from Ilford in Essex. They had seven hit singles mainly in the Uk & Irish charts (but also had a some success in other countries too) in the late 70’s.
Grave In The Sky(not to be confused with the now defunct sludge doom merchants Grave At Sea) are an Israel based three piece who brew up a often nasty sounding mixture of : industrial, doom, , soundtrack elements, some slight experimental guitar texturing & the odd noise rise.
The music on the original Kickabye EP, released in 1985 on Cabaret Voltaire’s Doublevision label, is firmly planted in the nocturnal, narcotic cabaret that Marc Almond, Nick Cave and JG Thirlwell were evolving, both individually and together performing live as the Immaculate Consumptive (who apparently used a backing tape recorded by Annie Hogan along with a few Bad Seeds).
All right. Sitting tight? Good. Now. Think of nothing. Then, think of. Al Qaeda. What do you see? Doubtlessly, it’ll be something the same as me – planes crashing into buildings, explosions, seas of flames, mutilated corpses, beheadings, grainy video, what-not. By extension, the band Al Qaeda, simply by naming itself so, has me expecting nothing but an extreme assault on all senses, Blitznoise, an assortment of explosives and guns crushed into pulp, melted, and shaped into CDs, a grainy slap in the face, chants of hatred running underneath slabs of anonymous white noise.
For the uninitiated: no, jazz is not dead. In fact, you’ll find it is very much alive – perhaps more alive than ever. For the average man, jazz is Miles Davis, John Coltrane; Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme; a genre spanning three, maybe four decades (roughly, 30s – 70s), which then seemed to have died off suddenly as all the major players succumbed to disease, drugs, funk, what-not.
This is a welcome return of Italian spaced bound Opalio brothers & their distinctive star licked/ space bound moodscapes or intergalactic improv. This the first release on the pairs new label Elliptical Noise & it’s also the first disc in a two part set.
This box of caustic joy 'n' wall making is a three c45 tape box set that features a tape an act from the following HNW projects: Infirmary, Slates & A View From Nhil- with each project offer up two long tracks of distinct wall building & noise thickness.
‘The Ughs’ finds The Residents offer up an instrumental album that has a distinctive native American Indian & world music flavour to it, though of course fed through The Residents distinctive, slightly wonky & one- off take on sound making.