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Ghosts (Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium) is the second full length from British Dark electroncia Duo Formication,and it really sees them kicking into high gear to create some of their most psyche and head effecting tracks so far.
The Stupids were an often tuneful and humour lined British hardcore band who gave birth to a slew original, quirky, skateboard and junk Americana obsessed albums in the late 80’s. The wonderful funny,speedy memorable but highly un-pc Retard picnic from 1986 was to my mind their greatest hour & here it is reissued for the first time on cd groaning with extra tracks.
Original Darkness ten songs are acrawl with a tangible feeling paranoia; 4am sweat drenched panic and claustrophobia. All to make a very human, pained and what’s life all about album that seems to hypnotise the listening into bleak state
Falkenstein make offten sombre and ancient tinged yet memorable Germanic folk, this is the southern German collectives first album and it’s wonderfully focused and rewarding bringing to mind the more sombre side Sturmpercht.
Further Materials is a follow up to 2002's Other Materials. Both are collections of non-album tracks which originally saw the light of day on compilations with like minded artists. Richard Chartier is a sound artist, installation curator, and sometime lecturer who needs no introduction to anyone mildly interested in electronic music. He is one of the originators of the "microsound" or "lower case" form of digital music, which is, as it sounds, minimal music, usually played at minimal volume. What's intriguing about Chartier's music is that if you listen carefully, and with the volume pegged to ten, there's incredible depth to his music.
tiMOTHy is the artist behind Crow Tongue, a solo project which takes a slightly different path from acid-folk/psych ensemble Stone Breath, with whom he takes part. Crow Tongue does include some acidic touches to be sure, and some folky elements as well, but it follows a dronier, doomy path. Ghost:Eye:Seeker is one strange album, and I mean that in the positive sense of the word. The first couple of listens may leave you scratching your head though. It's hard to say whether tiMOTHy is totally serious or whether there's a deadpan, dour sense of humor beneath it all. You could compare some of this music to the droney side of the Current 93 catalog, especially since the subject matter is said to be linked to Christianity. You'd have to be either psychic or observant on some level beyond ordinary to be able to pick up on the religious aspect, as the lyrics are obscure, to say the least.
'Shamisen metal'… liek wtf? As one would type out loud on the internet. The Japanese instrument with the weird, huge plectrum seems as distant from metal as noodles to French fries. But it's a small world after all and these guys, in one form or another connected to Estradasphere prove it.
Secrets Beyond Time & Space is the debut solo release from guitarist and instrumental mood maker James Woodhead who is best know as been one half of the Pagan, psychedelic and folk project The Elemental Chrysalis, which he does with Chet W. Scott(Ruhr Hunter, Blood of the Black Owl & Glass Throat Records owner).
Anakrid make dense, darkly psychedelic and often intense and surreal electro soundscapes and dark electroinca. You can hear traces of more beat bound Coil or Cyclobe at their more filmatic, doom horror organ soundtracking, ambient industrial tone and slight noise tendencies and even slight traces of more demented Resident like cinematic and surrealism stirred into the dense mix.
After last years superb post black metal masterwork Mourner Temporary Antennae see’s one man project Caïna pushing the envelope further to breed an album that is still just linked to blacked metal but drifts effortless into post rock, 80’s shoegazing and gloomy pop , folk and all manner of sonic genre. All to build an album that is shiver inducingly great managing to be epic and personal, noisy and harmonic.
Astro is Hiroshi Hansegawa’s (C.C.C.C, solo work, ect) noisy, spacey and psychedelic drone project. And with The echo from the Purple dawn he offers up three planet sized shifting drone nirvanas to get lost in.
Saisons mixers together nature bound field recordings, improv guitar elements, electronics and clever sound editing to conjuring up strange, alien and organic sonic worlds, which for the most part remain quirky, atmospheric, none threatening but often psychedelic.
Canadian based Blood ceremony make wonderful flare shaking and devil worshiping 70’s occutic rock with odd touches of folk/ rock-ism and prog. This is the bands debut album and it’s a very satisfying dark, atmospheric and enjoyable brew.
To Sail, to sail sees Frith using solely acoustic guitar to creating a varied collection of innovative, atmospheric and harmonic tracks. The 16 tracks here touch down in the blues, folk, classical, gypsy and world music phrasing as well as improvising and rhythmic touches.
Praxis sits in a strange place between surreal and often slurred electroinca, slow moving musique concrete, bent ‘n’ bizarre ambient soundscaping and touches of improv
This sixty minute tape brings together two out of print collaborations and one new exclusive track from this caustic and often wall like or speaker bowing noise force joining of The Rita & Werewolf Jerusalem.
Having been very much taken by the debut album of this jazz, noise improv collective and putting it in my best of 07 list I was very excited when this came tumbling through my letter box
This is a reissue of an album original released back in 1998 which highlights some of David Tibet's most beautiful & enchanting lyrics, which truly puts him on par with the great English poets and writers of the past. You can really see this been Studied and quoted in years to come.
The Klangmutationen project hails from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Schwarzha is a bleak, grimly atmospheric and often ugly four track album that utilizes heavy and suffocating improv guitar scapes, avant and pained dense sax honks and more grim, soured and cinematic guitar scapes.
Having been very much taken by Pumice's last album Pebbles with its barely holding together mix of punky avant guitars, haphazard folk and outside Pop. I was eager to hear Quo and I‘ll have to say I’m hooked once more to this.
Both Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Richard Pinhas (Heldon founder) have worked together with many musicians. These couplings don't always work out to be more than the sum of both, sadly it even can work out less interesting than the solo-efforts of either.
Dirge of the Dying year is a highly compelling and shifting collection of dream like and subtle surreal ambient sound crafting tracks- that literally gives one the feeling of walking or drifting through strange dream world between dimensions.
Ice Cream is an unforgiving and caustic collection of piercing and droning power electronics outpourings lined veined bulging and amped up vocal rants.
Peste Noire take on black metal is distinctive, haphazard, bizarre and often very shambolicly memorable. Their Blacked metal craft is tinged with hints of NWOBM/ punk, lo-grade prog and littered with strange edges and weird/ sometimes creepy field recordings.