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The Impossible Flower is the solo project Glasgow based Andrew David Daly & Anthophobia his third album is an enjoyable if not that original mix of Idm, Drill ‘n’ bass and electro sound tracking.
After the rather disappointing radio play like last album The voice of Midnight, The Resident’s return in fine bizarre, surreal and distintict yet memorable song form with Bunny Boy;their 25th album in a career that’s spanned over 35 years of experimental music.
Heave to is a entrancing & highly atmospheric journey into a mixture of impov, field recordings, boarding on noise & above all a keen sonic atmosphere which as the albums title suggest focus in on very sea bound subject matter.
Zerkalo brings together US Ambient legend Robert Rich and Russian Ambient artists Faryus for a dark and organic lined trip into a strange gloomy & ritual tinged sonic universe.
Small Vessels is a quirky mix of ; hip-beats, indie rock, punk, folk, pop, turntablism and splats of other genres. Imagine a more conventional take on early Fog, or a very English take Beck at his more playful & quirky- but very much with it’s own distinct yet enjoyable flavour.
Alan Courtis is an experimental musician perhaps most widely known for his involvement in the now defunct band Reynols. Yet he has has collaborated with a litany of others including such heavyweights as Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), Eddie Prevost (AMM), Pauline Oliveros, Yoshimi and Yamamoto (Boredoms), Damo Suzuki (Can), and seemingly countless others. Both alone, with bands and collaborations, he has issued over two hundred recordings in just over a decade, a massive body of work by anyone's standards.
Beaks Plinth is the new project from the highly productive turntable-list/ musician Jared Blum(Blanketship, Vulcanus 68,ect). With this project he homes in on a sort of doomy, nightmarish and woozy take on exotica & easy listening.
This is my first exposure to the Mass, and I must say, this EP was not what I expected. The cover art, and the fact that their last album was on Crucial Blast gives you some hints that you might be in store for some thrashy metal. And that is the case, sort of. The fact is, the four tracks presented here include some old school thrash elements, but they're also somewhat hardcore punk, and most oddly, jazzy. There's some free-form sax blowin' here, which you might think would sound out of place in this context. But it works so well, you be left wondering why Slayer never tried it. The jazz element makes them original, but the fact of the matter is, pretty much every base covered here is done well.
Uw Hypotheekadvies are a Dutch threesome, whose name translates to "your mortgage advice", consisting of a drummer, bass player and a guitar player. They all have the last name Deckerman, so either two or more are related, or it's just a Ramones ploy. Their music is a weird combo of experimental improv and spiky post-rock. A few of these songs sound like they are improvs wrapped around pre-figured riffs, but most of the album sounds off-the cuff. With a few exceptions, this is noisy, trebly music, and it's plenty tough on the eardrums.
Yoshio Machida's Hypernatural series is, in his own words, "a sound collage of sound parts used as meanings and symbols, and an endeavor to express the whole theme of 'nature' through correlations between image and title, between pieces. The self-released first volume in the series had to do with "memory in Eastern Asia", while the second volume was meant to relate to "transparent existence". This third volume in the series is about "oblivian". Machida believes that oblivion has a postive aspect in nature. This is because it is a part of the natural world, which over time creates changes in the world. Having said all of that, the artist certainly must feel a deep spiritual connection to the pieces archived on Hypernatural #3. Yet without the liner notes to guide one down the path, it would be in the least very difficult for one to surmise the theme. These pieces include multiltudes of interesting sounds, and on their own are entertaining, lively, and seamlessly assembled. Yet it's not always easy to detect the naturalist aspect.
Anarchy & Alchemy is the new album from well respected Dub reggae/ electroncia producer and musician Dub Gabriel, Which features an impressive list of guest including Michael Stipe, Yo Majesty, Dr Israel , Juakall, & Jah Dan.
Funeralium are a French four piece who speclizers in rather heady, atmospheric and quite original sounding doom that mixers in elements of darkened rock, and even traces of dark blues and surf elements too.
Aughra is the solo dark electrionca/ sound tracking project of Brent Eyestone (Big China & Little Trouble, Magic bullet label owner & member of Forensics, Corn on Macabre). With sonic references points been Coil; at their more beat bound and vocal less, Ulver around Perdition city era, Darker Boards of Canada and dark ambient simmers.
Noise artist, Jason Crumer, hails from Oakland, CA and has created one of the best noise records of the year...
With their loose stringed, sludgy and noisy mix of industrial tone, zero rock, noise, slamming feedback fuzzed beats and muffled vocals the one man project of Fixture for Toxins literal straps you to a work bench and audibly attacks you again and again with this 20 minute ep.
Tacet is the type of album that avoids consideration as any type of genre exercise. Guitarist and "micronoise" technician Luca Formenti claims to be interested in the silence within music, which Tacet includes in its fair share. But it's not austere or mired in the concept. There's certainly enough sound here, so perhaps Formenti is referring to the use of silence within musical pieces. There is a great deal of stasis about much of the album, but listen carefully, because there is much more going on than you might initially realise.
Dolphin Sonar sees Merzbow returning with another animal rights protest album this time it's against the horrific and appalling annual slaughter of 2’500 dolphins in Taiji Japan. With Merzbow offering up three searing yet inventive tracks of pulsing electro and guitar noise mayhem, that flits with rhythmic elements and musically touches.
The excellent Zelphabet series returns for its forth volume in the proposed 26 volume series and once more it’s another enjoyable collection of experimental and noise matter with this time around only three tracks on offer with one each from Damion Romero, Daniel Menche & Dave Phillips.
Hot than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitar’s singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm.
With a name like Two Dead Sluts, One Good Fuck you certainly know your not in for something comfy, calming or nice and this is certainly is not any of those things. This self titled 12 inch album Literally pukes out in sleazy ‘n’ dense fashion a mixture of feedback shorts, brooding/ sinister synth discharge, pummelling noise textures and ranted ‘n’ muffled vocals into your mind.
Dead Letters Spell out dead words make very stripped and quiet ambient collage music, but here they seem to strip their sound down even further than any of their other work I’ve heard in the past. These are sonics for silent rooms or late at night which even at high volume make little impact.
The Capricorns second album River, Bear your bones is a very inventive yet approachable mix of no nonsense mettlic riffling , stoner rock, prog, 70’s rock, punk and traditional metal.
Dragonfrynd are a duo from Brooklyn consisting of Adam Kriney, also of La Otracina and Owl Xounds, on keyboards and effects and Clinton Wilkins on electric guitar. Though the band have a self described passion for "all things Kosmische", there's little evidence here of the level of quality associated with any of their Krautrock forebears. They may dig early Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, but Dragonfrynd fall well short of the mark in emulating their heroes.
Elephant9 are a Norwegian 3 piece that who pump out a groovy, atmospheric and mainly upbeat mix of 70’s organ heavy psychedelic, prog jazz/rock fusion. Through having being live favourites over the last few years in their native Norway this is the projects debut album.