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Necromondo make grim, nasty and droning electronics that often border on noise and are lined with very bleak and atmospheric 80's horror synth type tones making this a prime soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse in your head.
The Japanese noisemusician Marqido should ring familiar to the readers of this webzine as I reviewed his project 10, which he runs with South-Korean Itta.
Somehow I wasn't expecting much from this album. Strange since Mike Browning's resume features absolute faves like Nocturnus and Morbid Angel and other good stuff in the form of Acheron and Incubus. An album of synthesizer music by this drummer somehow seemed to announce sci-fi cheese.
Audio deviate and sonic nightmare maker Andy Ortmann returns with his first new solo release in a while and it finds him doing a first a Musique Concrete/ Noise release in 7.1 surround sound and DVD audio only.
1000 fragments is Ryoji Ikeda's first solo album original released on his own label in 1995, here it’s giving a well deserved reissue on raster noton. Many albums are called classic or important but 1000 fragments rightly deservers this label, it’s a highly varied forward thinking and undated sounding electronic album, which is really a must have item for any respecting fan of electronica's wide and varied sonic church.
This strange food obsessed collaboration falls somewhere between improvision, cryptic/ disgusting and funny field recording collages and live-wire/ droning electronics, with the odd more musically moment.
Sin Nanna and his project Striborg have always been one of the more acquired taste with in black metal with his experimental boarding on amateurish in places playing, strange sonic twist ‘n’ turns, ultra lo-fi recordings and of course his hugely prolific nature- around 2 to 3 albums a year seemingly. Autumnal Melancholy is a less acquired taste, a more polished and accessible Striborg album but with out losing much of inventive and experimental twists on Black metal which makes this wholly his own dark and strange world.
This is a new project from Sharron Kraus who along with Tara Burke (Fursaxa) gave birth to the wonderful dark’n’dense folk charms of Tau Emerald's debut album from a few months back. Here she’s joined by a new female collaborator Gillian Chadwick for a more approachable if still darkly atmospheric and pagan licked collection of folk songs with rock and psychodelic touches.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, despite his many eccentricities, is a charismatic, sometimes compelling personality. It's fair to say that his (his/her?) musical career is just a piece of the puzzle for an individual who approaches life as a kind of performance art. But as far as the music goes, P-Orridge is best remembered for his participation in Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, whose music most readers of this website will no doubt be familiar. As far as his solo work, and later Psychic TV are concerned, it seems as if the messages that go along with the music are more important to P-Orridge than the music itself. In other words, the music is just there as a vehicle for conveying his thoughts on society.
Let your friends in is a chaotic and ragged mix of looped punk rock grooves, noise, buried and mess -up vocals, percussions layers, stretched and speed up dialogue and general audio tom-foolery and mayhem, think a slightly stoned & hazy american take on Shit and Shine.
The sleep sessions is the solo project of Dawid A. Kowalski from Kielce in Poland, this is the projects second full length release of brutal and active noise interspead with traces of field recordings.
With DFX The Skull Defekts return with two long atmospheric, subdued violent and bleakly focused tracks of noisy and grimy electronics meets downturned rock- proving once more that they may be a prolific project, but they always give quality and consistence with each & every release.
awakeinwhitechapel is this two piece's debut album that takes in their own distinctive and macabre take on folk which they’ve christened splatter folk. Utilizing a striped down and unusual but always haunting and often tuneful instrumental mix of banjo, flute, musically saw, along with both members rich, beautiful and descriptive male and female singing
Maariv is an enjoyable collection of electro acoustic pieces by San Diego-based musician Preston Swirnoff, he utilizes;piano, tone generators, organs, guitar, tape machines to create the pieces.
Live from Melbourne offers up an equal three way split between these three sonic entities and captures nicely the lush, soothing and detailed 12k sound that mixers organic instruments with electronics in a very distinct and rewarding manner.
This is a reissue of a collaboration from 1996 that shows both parties on fine form collaborating well together to give an album of tuneful and hypnotic neo folk/ dark pop with creative touches of easy listening, jazz and sound elements.
This double disk set takes in rare, early works and compilation material from this Portuguese project who mix up there own distinctive brew of neo folk, world music, with prog and metallic edges, theatricals and field recordings- all played with a wide and exotic mix of Portuguese folk instruments as well as your standard guitar, bass and synths, etc.
The Hub are one the first laptop ensembles with works dating back to 1986, this fascinating, consistent and varied three disk set brings together some of their first works right up to works from 2006. Along with a highly readable and informative 24 page booklet, live videos and more in-depth history on one of this disks, this really is a perfect emersion in their rich, strange, sometimes discordant, sometimes beautiful sonic world.
Float is the solo debut album from 21 year old oregan based Pianist and muilt-instrumelist Peter Broderick & though he's already recorded works with the likes of M Ward, Horse Feathers and Norfolk- this is his first solo ride and what a ride it is.
Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic is a work which was begun in 1969, and is continually evolving. The concept of the piece is the exploration of sound as a never ending phenomena, aside from Bryars' general, and quite obsessive interest in the actual event. Marconi, the inventor of the the wireless is tied to the Titanic disaster because the vessel contained one of the first wireless transmitters used for purposes of alerting surrounding vessels. Marconi theorised that sound, though it dissipates to levels beyond human hearing, reverberates forever. His ideal invention is thought to be a device which could pick up sound waves generated from centuries past.
Fecalove’s Erection was one of my favourite of last years noise releasers with its mix of jarring field recordings and inventive noise matter, Animal is a much more nasty, vicious and degrading affair. Where Erection was sleazy and sexlised, it was still fun, Animal is like dropping into the mind of a sexual deviate and swimming around for an hour or so- you climb out feeling dirty, disturbed and a little worn down- but still been impressed by his sonic flare and creativity.
The White Mice make barbaric, abused and terminal screwed-up rock music. The three piece throw at the unwary listener a mix bass, drums, oscillator ,overloaded vocals and the odd splattered dialogue samples- each track coming across like a massive and messy haemorrhage of noise rock.
Mind the Gap mangers to mix electronica elements and beats with traditional English folk in a successful and rewarding manner with out sounding too new age like and keeping a keen atmosphere.
Nowhere is an selection of tracks from a three year collaboration between Lothar Ohlmeier who plays bass Clarinet & Isambard Khroustaliov who handles electronics- sitting somewhere between improvisation, experimental electronics and avant jazz noodling.