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The wonderfully named Mothguts are a four piece from New Jersey & Brooklyn who make a face slamming & horn honking mix of proton King Crimson like mettlics, galloping grind-cored & punchy hard core rock, searing jazz attacks & the odd dip into more atmospheric & sleazed jazz/ rock work-outs.
As much as they may try to distinguish themselves, the obscure Jute Gyte clearly belongs to the recent wave of lo-fi "progressive" noise, a genre that blends various extreme electronic subgenres that perhaps all share a certain spirit.
I have this thing against bothering with lousy copies of the original when the original is still alive, kicking and demanding very much to be heard on his/her/its own terms. Case in point: David Tibet and Current 93, who with Nature Unveiled and Dogs Blood Rising gave me creeps and unease of a kind that few others (save maybe his buddy Steve Stapleton) have been able to match.
'Brick By Brick' is an impressively presented, distinctive looking & sonically quality bound collection of Harsh Noise Wall material. The set offers up seven HNW artists who get a 3inch disc or twenty minutes worthy of space each.
'Blunt Force Trauma' finds the often noise bound & prolific Andreas Brandal( Flesh coffin, Hour Of The Wolf, Drevne Bolesti) in a slightly less noise & more horror fed harmonic state of sonic mind. Though there’s still a fair share of noise bound elements thrown towards you with-in here too; it just more atmospheric & harmonic bound in it’s intent then much of his work I’ve heard thus far.
Pär Boström has mainly released music under the Kammarheit moniker but has chosen Cities Last Broadcast as the name for this, his latest project focussing on desolation as its theme.
Oh! digital noise artists! How often have you been the subject of ridicule, of loathing, of hate, of threatening mails and dog doo on your doorstep? Laptop musicians, do you not bear this burden? And do you deserve it? Well.
Yurikamome is the third volume in Merzbow’s truly epic 13 volume release the Japanese Bird series & it finds him offering up three tracks of live drum lead noise attacks, jams & caustic yet often groove lined work-outs.
‘Southwest Passage’ follows the trend of recent Stirborg albums in offering shorter, often more straight forward metallic, rock & blackly punked songs, with a distinctive wonky gothic edge. But don’t panic Sin Nanna hasn’t gone all grim ‘n’ roll on us or for that matter all fist shaking 80’s retro metallic either- this is still squarely a Stirborg album with all the bleak, wonky & blacked wonder we’ve come to expect from Sin Nanna.
‘What We Were’ is the first highly off-kilter, unhinged & noisy avant- grade black metal release by Philadelphia based project Lonesummer, which sees the project throwing all manner of surprising stuff at you along with often clamouring drums & blacked grunts.
'Curettage' offers up two ten minute sides of pummelling & hammering, yet at times almost harmonically laced Harsh Wall Noise from Italian project Alo Girl(aka Cristiano Renzoni- runner of the excellent Urashima label & the other half of Richard Ramirez’s An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter).
Order of Nine Angels is a one man project from Georgia USA who stir-up an clamouring, heady & dread filled mixture of: ritual noise, jittering static, dread-filling electro simmers & general noisy lined occult tinged atmospherics.
'Vulturistic' finds the ever versatile talents of Churner conjuring up one long track of atmospheric noise craft that’s best described as Sci-Fi noise drone matter meets power electronics elements.
'Braun Buch Zwei' was originally issued as part of the long out of print 20th Anniversary Stone Circle Edition of the classic Death In June album 'Brown Book'. The disc features a fully re-mastered version of seven songs from the original ‘Brown Book’ album along with seven more remixed, re-recorded and rare versions of the remaining songs.
‘Eleven Notes in Black’ is a compilation of Houston based HNW, static crunching & general noise artists compiled by the scene’s most world wide know & respected name Richard Ramirez(Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, Black Leather Jesus, ect).
'Conference of The Aquarians' is a rewarding collection of Sax & drum/ precussion based tracks which dips down in pumping yet tight improv, smoky jazz tone, ambient tone drifts & hammering prog beats meet jazz attacks & all manner of interesting & often cinematic/ mixed genre places.
‘Songs That Went Tin’ is a collection of unreleased tracks of sole’s distinctive often political, world cynical & apocalyptic rap craft from between the years 1998 & 2004.
After the 80’s hip-hop Mix-tape spirit of ‘The FREEhoudini deluxe’ Themselves return with their first true album since 02 ‘The No Music’ & I’ll have to admit that I have rather mixed feelings about the album as a whole.
'Four Films' finds the highly respected & versatile Trevor Dunn(Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, many Zorn related/ based projects & loads of other projects) offer up a varied & highly consistent collection of film music which literal goes all over the music map with great flare, atmosphere & creativity.
Italian Harsh Noise Wall project TFT have quite a different & unique take on making walls of noise. Instead of dwelling on the more analogue, murky & often deep tones of most of the genre they instead homing on more piercing, clean, precise & digital take on wall noise making.
'Eretz Hakodesh' is an album that darts & flirts between Marimba led & Hammond soaked circus music, theatrical & buoyant eastern Jazz wonderings, porn funked pop lined with Theremin ,Surf guitar crawls, and playful to exotic ambient tinged eastern jazz/world/ ambience. It’s certainly a playful, cheeky & buoyant ride through-out with the odd moments of staring longing over deserts sands epic-ness & atmosphere.
This is a compilation of Sam McKinlay’s (The Rita, Vice wears Black Hose, etc) more horror film sampled manipulated & straight noise based project BT.HN. Which started out live back in 2006 & is still releasing the odd item today. This 75 minute disc brings together 6 rare & out of print tracks; and it’s wholly consistent, fiery & rewarding horror drenched collection of tracks.
Hommage Au Duc De Reschwig (Homage To the Duke De Reschwig) is another unforgiving, thick and constant wall of noise from Vomir. This time around he offers up a 36 minute long caustic expanse of HNW making.
'XII Caesars' finds H.E.R.R creating their most dramatic, grand, theatrical & often approachable work so far. With the Dutch/ English five piece building a rich & varied concept album about the greedy, cruel & debauchery heavy life a dozen Roman emperors.