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This is quite an usually, unexpected but ultimately highly enjoyble split. On the first side of this c44 tape we have Oklahoma based Persistence In Mourning who boil up a mixture of: tribal led noise electronics, Doomed wondering psychedelic rock scapes & all manner of interesting stuff. Then on the flip side we have Koufar who make Middle Eastern atmospheric tinged Power electronics.
Foul is the new blackly boiling & near unchanging HWN project of West Virginia based J. Cadle, who in the past went under the name of White Torture & is still in ...Massacre(with Sam Stoxen of Baculum & runner of Phage Tapes) & Oasis Of Fear(with Richard Ramirez).
The strangely entitled ‘S6r8r’ finds Swiss sound artists Gilles Aubry building slow-mo industrial mood scapes & rewarding textural work-outs purely with the use of manipulated field recordings taken from inside Stralau 68 (a former venue for experimental music that's now empty)which is situated in Berlin.
The sound of Slowcream’s ‘And’ is all about the morphing & shifting of dramatic & sometimes darkly lush classical string tones & cinematic textures with a very slight underlay of electroinca elements.
'Migdal Bavel' is the second full length album from Maurice De Jong’s (of Gnaw Their Tongues)often rapid & avant grade black metal project De Magia Veterum. And it certainly shows that De Jong still has the knack of writing complex, twisting & damned music after the rather lacklustre & 'tread the same water' of the last few Gnaw Their Tongues releases.
Yes, Sir(Filth Play) is a sleazy, perverse & often fast moving meeting of extreme noise, Fierce, old school & grimy industrial touches & all out wall noise attacks. All to make a very searing, crusty & depraved sonic attack on the senses.
Valediction is somewhat of a comeback album from this uk based original early 1980’s noise, noise rock & power electronics project- as this is their first full length album since the 1997 album Boeing .
Language often fails ‘music’ and none more so than those releases labelled post-industrial noise, power electronics or HNW. The perceived varieties of sound involved can seem relatively narrow, as can the often outlined historical context (from dada through musique concrète to industrial) all of which constricts attempts at elucidation in words.
I try to avoid forming any sort of prejudice as the Voice of Eye CD slides out of the envelope that came in minutes earlier, but it’s hard, so hard.
Noma's "Domesticism" is a deeply experimental record. Yes, one of those that few will ever be able to stomach or listen to in its entirety, something to keep in mind when reading the rest of this review.
This Swedish based HNW act have two things that are decidedly un-extreme & unexpected about them; firstly the projects name skönhet means beauty in English. And secondly the project is obsessed with the much loved English & Hollywood actress from the 1950’s & 60’s Audrey Hepburn, with this release featuring samples from her films as well as pictures of the actress herself. Harsh noise & Hollywood beauty odd bedfellows indeed, but some how it works.
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).