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Salt started off life as an audio backing to Sculptor Banks Voilette work or collection entitled Bleed- here the full 74 minute piece is issued for the first time packaged in a nice slightly oversized cd sized arty like fold out sleeve.
This two CD-R release represents a unique and interesting concept revolving around Mike Cooper's time spent in Bangkok. The Chao Phraya River, the longest in Thailand, runs through the city. Like Venice, Bangkok was built virtually on the water, and was made up of a series of canals. These canals have since been filled in and paved over with roads, but the Chao Phyraya is still a very active means of transportation through the city, facilitated by river ferries. The ferries, whose role are very much akin to buses, have stops at 36 floating metal platforms. The platforms are designed with rollers which enable them to float freely up and down with the tides, and the rise of the river during monsoon season.
The bizarrely named To get her Together is the one man project of one Jeff Sanger from Portland USA- who makes authentic and shambolic 60’s psychedelic pop/rock with a great feel of Pink floyd's Syd Barrett period, The Electric Prunes and Donovan. John sees Lilly is the projects third album.
With Drumized DJ Scotch Egg takes you on another manic ride into a mixture of gabba, happy day glow electronica, happy hardcore, game boy tones and bizarre samples. Taking in 16 tracks in 26 minutes this is manic, speedy and total off-the-hook ride.
Treny is polish artists Jacaszek (aka Micha³ Jacaszek) third album of electronica meets classical dark and heady soundscaping. With Jacaszek subtle using electronic textures and beat works against lush and rich real classical instrumentation and beautifully soothing yet darkly hued female vocals.
XV Parówek is a polish sound, noise and experimental artists who’s been creating work since 1994, so far amassing over 40 releasers. And the most impressive thing about Waiting for the match to end is that you can't tie into just one genre there are elements of; noise, burnt out electroinca, broken and smashed avant rock elements and field recordings.
Drone drug is one of the most unforgiving, barren and pained things The Skull Defekts have birthed yet. As the title suggest this is all about drones -but the drones used here have no nice calming or melodic qualites these are painful, pressing, neo hurting and general electro jarring and intense.
This split release between Sweden's Moljebka Pvlse and Israel's Seventeen Migs of spring seems to revolve around the concept that electricity is an enveloping part of our environment, in all but the most remote regions of our planet. The artists choose one unifying factor to make their point, which is field recordings, but overall the two use divergent means of expression.
Chilean project Un Festín Sagital offer here up their manic, cimatic and seriously mushed up third (but first readily available) album Epitafio a la Permanencia. And through out the albums life the band takes you on a bizarre muilt genre Rolla costa ride that conjures up the scope, invention and pure creative genius of the likes of Mr Bungle, Devil Doll.
Island of the dead is a long form ambient piece lasting near on 50 minutes and as its title suggests takes you on a dammed sonic trip to an island of the dead or possible even purgatory it’s self.
You, the night …and the music is an reissue of Gallon Drunk's debut album from 1992 and it's a great devilish, sleazy and often messy mix of psychobilly, garage rock, surf, noir sounscapes, down ‘n’ dirty jazz tone and smoking shit kicking cinematic. With James Johnston lead singing raging and staggering over the tracks vibrate and sleaze sonic crash like a beat-up and gone punk Elvis impersonator meets early Nick Cave with a hint of Mark E Smith rant.
This bizarrely entitled album is another fevered and improvised trip into musical and sound from the minds of the @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela)- it’s a dense mix of rhythmic elements, field recording, modern classical and avant jazz textures, electronic elements, noise and of course improv- having been quite taken by their De-Tour collaboration from last year with Vitor Joaquim I had high hopes for this.
Music for Phantoms is the new project from My cat is an Alien brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, which mixers together melodic and haunted acoustic guitar elements with primitive wooden instruments / percussive tones and the odd feedback glide- all to make a strange, edgy and beautiful one long track cd with an accompanying film on DVD-R disk.
The second full length by German drone artist Feu Follet, is about as icy as his debut, The Icycle Lectures, Vol. 1.
Small Doses is a label which released this small dose indeed. A cute 3" cdr by the American electronic musician Nicholas Szczepanik (I'm starting to be able to type his last name without having to check on it).
Sic Alps are a band who really know how to mix it up. It's hard to know what direction these guys are going to take from one recording to the the next. This handy compilation CD collects a bunch of currently expensive vinyl and cassette collectables in one package. Though a little less scarce than the singles this is drawn from, A long Way Around to a Shortcut is itself limited to 1000 copies.
Don’t be fooled or put off by the title this has nothing to do with what you’d usually associate with dance music there’s no beats, dramatic sonic movements or any real melody or structure here. The two long tracks here are built around piercing and persistent feedback drones and mimlistic noise texturing and electronic tones.
Sub Templum is the second album from crushing UK doom project Moss and it sees them moving away from the dammed seething lovecaft pit doom of their 2005 debut album Cthonic Rites, to a more polished slow ocultic descent into hell it’s self.
This is a 1987 collaboration between post industrial/ electroincia/ experimental artist 6comm and self proclaimed ‘Norse Occultist’ Freya Aswynn, who’s also appeared on several Current 93 albums. The album consists of nine tracks of spoken/ dramatically acted out Norse gods based texts over 6comm's shifting post industrial, cinematic, often horn heavy and brooding soundscapes.
Steve Von Till's reputation precedes him, as a member of Neurosis, a band who, on his watch, have experimented just about as much as possible within the bounds of punk and metal. A Grave is a Grim Horse is a continuation of Von Till's journey through gothic America, as well as folk, all filtered through a grimy whiskey glass. What strikes me immediately is that Von Till's voice sounds remarkably like Mark Lanegan, though I have yet to see it stated by anyone else. The music's pace and rustic melancholy could also be mistaken for Lanegan's style, especially his Sub Pop albums. You certainly can't fault Von Till for these similarities, perhaps it's just coincidental that the two have similar musical preferences.
Keith Kenniff is most know for his harmonic electroncia project Helios with this his third album under the Goldmund name he strips the electronics complete out to produce 15 piano only tracks of great harmonic and atmospheric depth which hint at the likes at of Erik Satie, Ludovico Einaudi, etc -but with Kenniff's own distinct twist on piano music.
After the excellent acoustic based new album The Rule Of Thirds, Black Angel–live sees Death In June presenting a great snappy, no nonsense and highly enjoyable live acoustic set recording in Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne, Australia in May, 2000- this was one of the first stripped acoustic show- released here for the first time.
Dyonisus- Dyonisos harness the surreal sound scapeing of Hoor-paar-Kraat and the seething noise power of Feaclove to create something quite unique and rewarding in its own right away from either parties already impressive work.
High Mountain Tempel make swirling, psychedelic, spacey, dread filled and dark ritual chocked soundscapes with a mix of guitar, theremin, vocal effects, effects peddles and ltd percussive matter. A screaming comes across the sky is the projects first release.