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Jackie-O Motherfucker are a noisy and dense improv collective who wildly force together tangents of noise rock, jazz, space rock, noise, folk- indie and what every else captures there sonic eye along the way.
This is a reissue of an classic slice of electroinca/ambience from 1986 which shows Roach in a more racing, upbeat and atmospheric form than his more expansive breathing ambience. It also comes with an excellent extra 70 minute disk of unreleased early material too.
How Shadows Chase The Balance is the third slice of distinctive, macabre and sombre folk from Southampton based Mathew Sweet’s Boduf songs project, which through still shows him focusing squarely in on the darkness adds in more layered instrumental textures and a tuneful almost pop edge to many of the songs.
The Corpse Vanishes/ eager meat sees uk based noise abuser and wonderfully named Filthy Turd boiling up one long and caustic 46 minute track of ear singeing drone and brain drilling tone volition.
Insects awake is a deranged and manic collusion of female screamed ‘n’ ranted hard core punk, sped up and lo-fi jazz runs, abused and amped up easy listening and general chaos- but it’s all made with out a guitar in sight with the three piece just using a mix of flute, saxophone, xylophone, clarinet, piano, trombone, bells/ gongs and effects.
The Haunted House is an intense, harrowing and at times grimly beautiful black metal album. Mainly sticking to mid-pace to slowed Burzum riff pace but mixing in mournful eastern elements along with poignant, bleak and pained ambience and smeared/ haunted semi- industrial cinematics. But it’s all lining with an real emotional and original resonance that’s difficult to put into words.
TV loves you back is the long awaited second full-length from Oakland based 3 piece who offer up a very distinctive musically mix of hip-hop, 80’s pop & post punk synth throb with vocalist Passage raping over the top with often consumer poking and surreal lyric craft.
Dalglish is a new moniker for Chris Douglas, who since 1992 worked under the name Basilar and later on as O.S.T.. That last has been abandoned to work under other names, like Dalglish
This is the second of two releasers from Scottish noise maker Kylie Minoise(aka Lea Cummings) which shows him offering a varied, consistent and inventive collection of tracks which puts him in the same draw as great noise makers like Merzbow, Lasse Marhaug & John Wiese.
Foreboding Silence is the second new album this year from highly prolific Tasmania one man experimental black metal project Striborg. And once again it shows him bending his blacked craft in inventive, atmospheric and grim ways, but it also follows the trend of this years other album Autumnal Melancholy with a more approachable and less bizarre sound than some of his early works
This is the first of two new releasers from Scottish noise maker Kylie Minoise(aka Lea Cummings) which shows him offering a varied, consistent and inventive collection of tracks that put him in the same draw as great noise makers like Merzbow, Lasse Marhaug & John Wiese.
This is a sort of deluxe directors-cut reissue of Taylor Deupree's now out of print electro-organic ambient master piece Northern from 2006. Through nothing major has been done to the tracks, it’s a great to have this back in print once more.
The Snowbringer Cult brings together two-eighty minute discs of material from Natural Snow Buildings and their two solo projects, TwinSisterMoon and Isengrind. Most people have never heard Natural Snow Buildings because they've released everything up to this point themselves, in miniscule editions, with beautiful handmade packages. The artwork on this release is by Solange Gularte, and it's every bit as stunning as the music contained within.
The greatly titled Big China & Little Trouble are not a quirky John Carpenter soundtrack cover band(as their name could suggest) but instead are best described as a more polished & musically take on Wolf eyes sound at it’s more cinematic less noisy end of the spectrum.
Spires that in the Sunset Rise are a female four piece from Chicago who make a heady, darkly/ haunted psychedelic and sometimes deranged otherworldly mix of folk, avant rock riffs, world music and classical elements.
Some very great things have come out of self released CDR’s but Isaiah 66.6 is certainly not one of them, actually I think this is the worst self release I’ve ever come across both in its presentation and sonically.
Andrew Duke is a sound artist/designer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Aside from his work as a recording artist, he has worked in television, film and theater, creating sound design and scores. He is also a teacher of composition on the computer. The aforementioned information might scare off listeners who are more reticent of an academic, or dry, approach to music. Fortunately, Duke's music isn't at all stuffy or over-wrought. From the Deep End is, perhaps depressingly so, still available from afe records, though it's limited to 100 copies. Considering the quality of the music presented here, it should have disappeared instantly, because it's one of the most involving, genre bending electronica releases this reviewer has heard in some time. I say this with the caveat that, due to my regrettable lethargy as a writer, I am just getting around to reviewing this, despite the fact that it came out last year.
Don’t be fooled by Kuss Mich Meine Liebe(Kiss me my love) classy & romantic title and the packagings chocolate box appearance S&S have’nt gone all soft and mushy on us. This is their most noisy, fuck-up and sleazy take on their locked groove, churning and hypnotic riff worship thus far.
Vestigial are a project from Italy who offer up a mix of dark ambience, slowed industrial rhythms and bleak cinematic expanse. Translucent Communion is their first full length after a cdr, split Vinyl release and some compilation tracks.
After the excellent solo guitar album, this the second release on Steve Howe’s(Yes, Asia, ect) new label Howe sound show’s him presenting a collection of groovy, laid–back yet virtuoso played tracks for his trio of Guitar, Hammond and drums.
This ltd tour Split brings together Italian Noise Pervert Fecalove with fellow Italian electro Acoustic and noise maker Cris Ex. And much like the recent Hoor Paar Kraat split this is a rewarding and searing ride.
Pause for the Jet is the second solo album from Daniel Padden One part of Da-da pop and weird world music collective Volcano The Bear. And through you can hear the odd traces of The bears Sonics here and there through out Pause for the Jet, Padden often conjures up his own distinct magic. And Just like the Bears it’s nicely varied really leaving you unsaw were next he’ll touch down sonically.
Procer Veneficus Ghost Voices was one of my highlights of 2006 with it’s re-birth of black metal in ghostly and ambient tinged form, Saltwater and GlassMoon finds the project striped of guitar and vocals going completly ambient- yet still feeling somehow linked to black metal’s melancholy, hopeless and decayed grandeur side.
After been rather taken (and fried) by the relatively recent reissue of Live in Allentown Borbetomagus searing live album from 86. I was most egger to hear some more of their noise/jazz/ improv sound mix & This is their debut album from 1980 reissued in 95 and through it’s not as wall like and noisy in its sound as Allentown it’s still very rewarding in its own often searing and atmospheric way.