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‘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.
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.