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To blacken the pages are a Dublin based hypnotic guitar drone/ doom and dramatic instrumental project of one Paul McAree,which managers stand out from the pile of seemingly similar projects with it's ability to paint effective, varied and compeling sonic mood spaces to get lost in.
Nalle are Glasgow based avant folk trio of Hanna Tuulikki, Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy. This thier second album primal focus is on Hanna Tuulikki distinctive and often bizarre vocals- think a more deranged folky Bjork, or a sinister earthy theatrical whine. To which a strange and dense mix of folk, world music, drone matter, lo-fi electonics & all manner of sonic strangeness is added. All to make a very distinctive brew which through enjoyable can be a little trying a times
Lead Belly or Huddie Ledbetter as he was born is one of the most important and influential figures in American folk and blues history, along with been the first recognised and respected African American singer/ song writer by a wider audience with his first recorded work dating back to 1933. This compilation brings together all of his important and beloved songs.
For those who wondered what the usually highly prolific noise extraordinaire John Wiese has been up to since his excellent Soft Punk from April 07, this monster 4 disk set from his Sissy Specek project shows he’s been very busy and very creative as usual- taking the project off in new and intriguing tangents and experiments.
Just over two years after the release of Black ships ate the sky, Current 93 have reformed their line up and present here four new tracks with a pared down four piece of David Tibets vocals, Keyboards of Baby Dee, Whistling from Rob Sands and the mix and extra audio from Andrew Liles.
Jeffrey K., formerly the farfisa organist for urDog, reportedly spent most of the summer of 2006 in the Arizona desert, where most of this album was recorded. Armed with a four track recorder, a modified Indian Harmonium, his dog, and a Volkswagen van, Jeffrey was apparently inspired by the desolation of his surroundings. He was also inspired by Nico, whose journal he nicked the title for this album. Nico does seem to be an appropriate influence music created in dusty isolation. Not to mention the fact that some of her music includes the harmonium as well.
Live offers up three untitled Starving weirdos tracks/ jams reordered in three different locations across the states- it’s part of Arroyo Subscription Services Series and well worth track down if you’re a fan of the SW.
Einleitungszeit make dense & overloaded, but always atmospheric and nightmarish mix of; death industrial, noise, power electronics with grim cinematic undertones. This is this Slovakia five piece 24th releases in their 14 year career
This is a split between Japanese noise/ sound artist Timisoara and USA noise artist TADM or Two Assistant Deputy Ministers (as he's also know by)who put out an enjoyable full length on Harsh Noise a few years back.This set offers up a mix between woozy almost grim ambient tones and all out head-ripping noise
Eternal noise finds Giffoni creating a more drone based, often surprisingly harmonic and atmospheric album than his normal more noisy and brutal electronic melting and synth overloading focus- though this still has its fiery and overloading moments
The Dreamers finds Zorn in much more populist, approachable and playful mood than much of his recent work, with this possible been the most charming, tuneful and un- motiveless album of his career- it’s just about making entertaining, melodic and beautiful composed and played music.
The Stumps come from a long lineage of Velvet Underground admirers, out of New Zealand. It's hard to see anything close to the Velvets in their sound, whether it be Cale-era insanity or the formalist rock and pop of the Doug Yule era, so perhaps the influence is just a jumping off point. The Stumps will also most likely be compared to Acid Mother's Temple and Les Rallizes Dénudés as well, because there's a ragged psychedelia to these tunes, and that might be a little closer to the mark. The Black Wood is a an all instrumental affair, and its array of sounds belie the fact that the band is a fairly traditional lineup of guitar, bass and drums. It wouldn't be at all surprising if these untitled tracks were totally improvised, and that the album might have been culled from hours of tapes, with the best parts edited cleverly together. It's a good cross between traditional rock instrumentation and barbed, bad trip inducement.
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.