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And the devil makes three sees Merzbow’s noise textures, boils and scalds mixed perfect and in satisfyingly perverse manner with Porn’s sleazed mix of avant rock meets punk doom chug ‘n’ Splatters.
The Garden is the highly ambitious double 2nd album from Australian six piece prog band Unitopia- that comes off like a mixture of more melodic early Genesis, hints of Yes, American 80’s pop prog, epic yet camp Broadway musical and some world music flavour.
Live At Klub 07 is a Pumped-up, wonderfully played & perfectly recorded live show recorded in Prague last year by Gallon Drunk and showcases wonderfully their distinctive brand of punk meets jazz, psychobilly, garage rock & surf.
Feldaufnahmen I is a jarring, strange, often surreal and disturbing/sinister collection of field recordings collected by the members of post industrial/ experimental collective Column one over a one year period.
Business Lady make wonderful shambolic, caustic, twisting 'n' turning lo-fi punk/ noise rock meets jerky new wave edgers; That’s high with bad attitude, quirky left turns and often psychotic meets comic lyrics.
For already 28 years Birdsongs Of the Mesozoic has been making music and up until now I haven't heard any of it. The group started as a sideproject from the equally unknown-by-me Mission Of Burma. When that band split up the Birdsongs became a full-time band for everybody involved.
After Live and On Air With Guests the Mats/Morgan Band returns with yet another live album. It suits them fine, as their music is typically the kind to catch the excitement of the moment.
This two disk set brings together a selection of two decades worth of work by new Zealand based Clinton Williams and his often barren, lo-fi and melancholy licked take on Electroinca.
This is the third volume of collaborative albums entitled Electronics from the genre bending, often noisy German chamber orchestra Zeitkratzer. This time around there joined by Avant guitarist and noise maker Keiji Haino for a mainly rather subdued(for Zeitkratzer's work) and eerier yet dense and complex journey into dread.
Akumu finds KK Null once more dragging the listening into a heady, shifting and highly effective audio movie for the mind with his distinctive mix of electronica, ambience, noise matter, field recordings & heady cinematics.
People go on and on about how prolific Aidan Baker is, and, of course that's correct. With over forty releases with which he has been associated since 2000, it's undeniable. As with any artist who puts forth a seemingly endless stream of material, it's easy to take for granted the overall quality of his work. And while it's hard to maintain a wide degree of variety for any artist, regardless of the volume of their catalog, Aidan Baker has proven time and again that he's got plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
Touch is a remaster of this early nineties album by this underrated New Zealand Band. It's not what you would call poorly recorded, but it's still quite grimy in that Xpressway DIY vein. It wasn't recorded in a bedroom on a four track though; it was done in a real studio, with overdubs even. The devil-may-care, casual, yet spiky and endearingly unprofessional approach shouldn't work so well under such conditions. Lest we forget the first two Velvet Underground LP's, also recorded in such environs, and very much a blueprint which these folks follow with great enthusiasm.
Asmodai rather nicely alternates between being grim, strange and skull crushingly heavy. Mixing together bone snapping doom dischargers, chugs and crawls; bleakly punked intent, with murky, arty and strange sound making/ guitar scaping, doomy and ritual air with cello and organ weaves and drones and the odd peppering of noise matter.
Peru based Sepentina Satélite make epic spacey and psychedelic rock scapes based around guitar, bass and drums. Nothing to say is thier debut full length after an ep a few years back –it’s also the first release on New label Trip In Time.
In addition to Candy Cane’s excellent Fay-ra-Doowra (see review), this four-band split disc makes a very good introduction to some of Finland’s most interesting new bands. Instead of taking the more fashionable path of big acts such as Stratovarius and Nightwish, the four bands here seem to draw from very different sources, namely Suomi’s legendary black metal scene and the school of experimental rock that took the Finnish by storm in the late 60s.
When I put the needle into the groove I wondered what happened the lp. There was an amount of static that made you wonder if this album was second hand instead of being a brandnew limited edition release of the equally brandnew Panic Arrest imprint.
In these days of 'partymix' and 'shuffle' on one hand and the emphasis on being able to customize everything to your own personal choice as we have to remember we're inviduals above all, one can wonder if there's room for a compilation.
This is a reissue of Bong- Ra’s 3rd and highly respected album from 2005 which mixers up a dark and heady electroinca storm and melds together elements of Breakcore, techno, rave, dark pop, dark ‘n’ hazed raga & the odd metallic edger’s.
This 3 inch cd finds surreal sound smiths Hoor Paar Kraat in a more horror filled droney, ritual, hypnotic and mainly field recording stripped mind set. With the 3 pieces on offer here concentrating on sinister manipulated gong, feed back and singing bowl tones.
I knew her is one long gracefully, majestic and building 40 minute track that mixers together soundtrack string soar, electronics, synthetic choir elements, ect
This is the 5th letter volume compilation from the Zelphabet label this time as the title suggests taking in artists beginning with the letter E. We have five tracks on offer here one from each of Ed Osborn, Elliott Sharpe, Emil Beaulieau & Evil Moisture.
Nahvalr is the grim and dense black metal meets noise project by the two minds behind the superbly lo-fi retro goth 80’s pop meets doom project Have a Nice Life.
Peruvian Vacation is the debut album from late 80’s distinctive uk hardcore band The Stupids who’s songs were often lined with quirky humour , skate and Americana obsessions. Peruvian Vacation is a lot more speedy, break neck and less harmonic then they’d become on later albums- but it’s never the less an enjoyable spunky, speedy and often trash lined uk Hardcore album.
Box music is an rewarding and offten haunting collection of ambient/ experimental and strange sound scapes built with the use of everyday items; with each of the five tracks using a different set of items to create these compelling, haunting and alien sound worlds.