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Though the projects name is Five Elements Music VarunaGhat deep often dark and quite tense/active ambient expanses mainly focus on one of the five elements: water. The 46 minute long release is split into 3 untitled and aquatic based tracks.
Cisfinitum is a project of Russian musician and composer Evgueny Voronovsky that’s been in existence since 1999- he creates a sound best described as a mix ambience, industrial and electro acoustic soundscapes. Tactio was recorded live in an ancient roman cathedral and offers up seven numbered pieces that utilize Baroque violin, bell sounds, electronics and the acoustic of the cathdreal it’s self to create a sometimes beautiful but often ominous & dense soundworld.
An aerial view is one long hour ambient piece for Theremin and synth with the remit of describe the ice age in sonic terms but instead of resulting to clichéd deep wind weathered drones you might expect Oophoi takes us on a journey of rich sparking harmonic tones, as if we’re sail high above vast expanse of ice that just stretcher on and on.
The idea of electronic pieces on multiple speakers is excellent in the case of liveperformances and installations, but to translate these things to the homesituation often is slightly troublesome.
Sprint Mill is a triple collaboration between three sound/ drone uk based artists Colin Potter, Phil Mouldycliff and Chris Atkins. With all the sounds here been derived from in and around an old mill in the lake district which is now used by artist Edward Acland as workshop.
Molech offers up two long tracks of dense, droning, ritualistic and sinister sound soups built around a fearful mix of organ textures muffled creepy occultic voices, ominous field recordings, slight percussive dread and blacked guitar pitchers.
The New Humans are an art/noise collective & this an hour long album offers up two noisy & sawing improvised tracks featuring at there centres the always busy C,Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core and any number of growing projects) on Violin and modern artists/ string abuser Mika Tajima who handles Guitar, bass , chairs(!) and glass. The pair are joined on each track with different collaborators.
New Orthodox Line is a collaboration between two very prolific Russian noise and dark ambient practitioners, Bardoseneticcube and Noises of Russia. The concept of this 47 and a half minute piece seems to revolve around the role of religion, or perhaps the influence of religion on modernised society, particularly in the post-communist Russian Federation. This supposition is quite possibly either a gross over-simplification of their intent or well wide of the the mark altogether. Whether accurate of not, that's what I got from it.
Surfing the seas of Azeri piracy I came across this oddity. A mixture of traditional muğam with almost as traditional (neo) prog. The result, as one can figure, is far from traditional.
After the huge Success of The Melvin’s last album(a) Senile Animal which was praised in places high and low gaining loads of new fans, myself been one of them. I was eager and excited to hear what they had to offer this time around.
Solitude finds Striborg’s particular and distinctive brand of black metal at it’s most dreamy, ghostly and doomy. Fitting perfectly the albums title this is deep, dark and chillily ominous, really solitude it’s self distilled into bizarre and nightmarish audio cocoon that you can fold your self into far away from the world around you.
Riharc Smiles make an often very joyful and tuneful mix of Neo Folk, progressive medieval folk and pop with a really bounce to almost every song here- making this an album that will appeal way beyond normal folk crowd.
The excellent Radio Rivendell compilation returns for a second volume of fantasy and role playing based music, giving the listener a mix of all manner of dramatic and filmtic music going from: bold bombastic to emotion swooned strings, to Celtic tinged harp and violin mixers, to war hungry brass ‘n’ horns and fighting percussion, to chugging guitar/ string power, to operatic lined grace. With of course all manner of sound effects and fantasy type sounds to enhanced the tracks.
Test Pattern shows the Raster Noton label at their more cool, calculated and concept based end of their catalogue. As Ryoji Ikeda builds sometimes dense, sometimes stripped down tracks of cold clinical and often noisy electronics derived from converting different kinds of data (text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcodes & then into a sonic form.
This is an enjoyable,varied and often tension filled and quite experimental soundtrack for this 1971 Giallo film which is thought of as one of directors Toino Ricci best films.
Basically, in a past life, the music of Tangtype is a form of acoustic folk. The music on their debut is heavily distorted in a laptop, so 'acoustic' and 'folk' are reduced to sourcematerial for electronic tapestries.
He is a lost soul as ever there was finds buzzing and gloomy guitar scapes of near static unfold and grimy ambient tone uncurling them selves in a slow, bitter and suffocating manner. This is music of slow internal decline and despair- been best described as noisy, barren and suicidal guitar dwell ‘n’ drone.
Alopecia finds why? building-on and filling out the quirky dark pop guitar music of their last album Elephant Eyelash with a few nods and journeys back to their hip-hop past too. All to give an album that while’s not as instant or as playful as Elephant Eyelash really does grow on you over time.
Inhalant is one man noise project from Texas who with Audio Terror conjues up one long & rewarding 30 minute track of shifting textural noise, violent ambience and vocal bays/ screams.
The Earth Grows In Each Of Us has a feeling of rural decline and death, of past life’s effects found in abounded buildings taken over by nature and time. Feeling like a more shifting and active version of William Basinski work- with loops of stuck and decaying strings and piano melancholy, & tired ambient unfolds that are weaved with ominous bell tones, muffled voices, aged textures and distant field recordings
The French record finds Sissy Spacek returning to more noisy terrority after the often improvised and more subdued California Ax box set, but like the box set this often walks new and adventurous ground twisting their sound into new divine sonic mayhem.
Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is a very apt title for what is The Acid mother Temples most dark, nasty and doom soddened release to date. Packed with crawling doomed metallic juggernaut like riffs and hypnotic metallic psychedelics- this is the blackest and heaviest trip they’ve every made. Seriously this is some heavy shit, man ;-)
Cover records are dedidedly hit ‘n’ miss & mostly wholly inconsistent affairs that often offer up one or two jewels, but Thing of the past bucks this trend to give a rewarding, warming and highly re-playable album which as the title suggests is hazed and nestled in a comfy and harmonic analogue age past.
When I first got this new release on Circle’s label Ektro I was sure it was a loving parody or elaborate joke on the part of the band with all their past and playful attempts at tacky but fun over the 80’s heavy metal imagery. Surely there cant have been a band this OTT metal- with a name like Thor & dressing in loin cloths and Spandex , singing deeply clichéd metal songs about sex, violence and metal with titles like Thunder On the Tundra and Rock The City?!