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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.
Birth Defect’s five tracks wraps it’s listener in greyed, singeing and suffocating barbwire curls of noise drones and sour feed-back trails. With each track pulling you futher and further down into a grim, festering and boiling sick drone hole.
Aidan Baker is one busy individual. In just the last year, he's released a prodigious number of recordings, both on his own, as well as collaborations. Nadja, up until now, have operated as a duo, but for this release, they've added Jakob Thiesen (so I have read, though he's not credited on the sleeve) on drums. Leah Buckareff handles bass and vocals, and Baker takes on guitars, vocals, strings, woodwinds and drum programming. The new wrinkle for Desire in Uneasiness is clearly the "real drums".
Lawrence English is known as an ambient sound artist as well as the proprietor of the Room40 label. Kiri No Oto translates roughly from Japanese to English as "sound of fog", which is absolutely an appropriate title for this release. It starts off with Organs Lost at Sea, a brilliant, relatively intense drone piece. The organ tones sound stacked atop each other, in the Phill Niblock vein, and they're either distorted in post-production, or just mixed so far into the red that a blurry effect is attained. The next track, Soft Fuse is a mellow ambient piece, which includes little micro-tonal elements if listened to closely. White Spray starts off, again, in an ambient vein, but at about a minute and a half in, it becomes a dense and noisy, shifting soundscape. It's an abstract piece which generates tension, pulling you forward, much like an undertow into the next track. Waves Sheer Light is the sound below the waves. These sounds come at you from every direction, with hidden melodies and speaker-phasing ambience undulating in seemingly limitless combinations. And so it goes.
The Language of the Dards summons up a wonderful sonic world that’s both stoned and intense, Mystical and deranged. With the three lengthy tracks been built around a mix of strummed acoustic guitar, mantra like vocalising and semi harmonic rants, Nepalese Oboe and field recordings.
Fade away But not ending is made of two half an hour long tracks of seething, psychedelic and shifting noisescapes that utilizes electronics, guitar, sampled and mashed music elements. Often bringing to mind CCCC work at their more focused and varied.
Chinoiseries is a quirky and very oriental/Asian tinged instrumental hip-hop album that’s built around samples from 30 records brought by Onra on a trip to Vietnam. It’s an interesting and risky concept to use such a limited sample focus, but for the most part this remains enjoyable and rewarding.
The fact that the imprint is called Rump Recordings leads to suspect that Rumpistol is the band of the label owner Jens Berents Christiansen, and indeed such is the case. The project started in 2003 and Dynamo is the third album.
Whether this can be traced back to self-professed misanthropy in the genre or just a sign of the times, Underjordiska is yet one many one-man black metal 'bands'.
Peter Garland is American post minimalist composer with a fascination for American Indian and Mexican musical/rhythmic elements, & he's been making poignant, rhythmic, ritual, alien and dramatic sounding music since the early 70’s. Three Strange Angels is highly consistent, varied and rewarding collection that brings together work from the 70’s through to the early 90’s.
Cites & Girls is a entertaining and creative collaboration between Canadian spoken word artist Myra Davies and German electronic artist Gudrun Gut who is also the head of the female focused experimental label Monika Enterprise.
Thou make a brand of gut rumbling doom/sludge with a distinctive American tinged flavour to it, adding in elements of bastardized country rock, grunge, dramatic/ atmospheric American rock and blues. Peasant is this five pieces second album.
Songs For The Broken Hearted sits wonderful between shimmering slow-core with smudged /haunted vocals and ambient guitar /synth scapes. With the album as a whole working as a wonderful sonic distillation of emotional sadness and break down in the autumnal seasons.
Antony Milton is a musician from New Zealand known for creating sometimes noisy experimental music, and for his excellent PseudoArcana label. The End of This Short Road was released a couple of years ago, and it deserves a fresh look. Most interesting is the fact that most of the album was recorded in 2000, and was kept in storage for several years. Milton didn't believe the music represented enough of a challenge to the listener, as he had become enamoured with more avant garde, free music. Regardless of Milton's thoughts on the matter, it seems he simply let the dust gather on a more than worthy collection of tunes and experiments. It is a bit derivative of the late eighties/early nineties Xpressway label scene. But with plenty of distance between that era and now, it merely makes for a refreshing reminder of how great some of that music was.