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La Nuit Electrique offers up three rewarding & very different takes on gitar/electronic based drone craft and looped Sonic tracks, each deep with its own distinctive atmospherics and hypnotic air/ flavour.
"Welcome to the laboratory. Here, we delve deep into the inner workings of the physical mind. You will observe, as we have, that our findings are not always pleasant, and indeed ofttimes plunge into the realm of disorder and chaos."
It’s not the end of the world finds Lasse Marhaug slamming you with 10 relatively short, sharp and memorable noise shocks. Like an audio rollercoaster ride that twists and turns you through all kinds of noise textures and sound elements to give you one hell of an invigorating ride.
A remix album with a collection of artists remixing a band I don't know. I guess you have bear with me while I go through these eleven reinterpretations of a song I don't know.
As I'm typing this I actually do have a headache while angry power electronics come soaring out of the speakers. The bio of this project founded by Michael Page speaks of catharsis... well, indeed.
Stealth rather fits its name with its throbbing, buzzing & eerier dub bass lines under jack-knife sleek beat patterns, swirled by ambient and dark harmonics. It brings to mind a first person shoot game stalking through a boiling jungle gun primed and ready to obliterate anything that dare moves- it’s edgy, sleek and darkly cinematic.
The burning down of the crystal palace in Victoriana London was one of the great disasters and architecture loss of the age. Here Neo-Classical Project Herr try and recapture the wonder of this astonishing glass and steel structure and it’s ultimate destruction with this new ep.
To begin with The short nights mix of seashore dread filled field recordings, slow moving drone craft, ambient uneasy & sorrowful yet tuneful electronics/vibes paints a tangible feeling of sinister rain soaked winters days on people-less piers. Or shadowy figure dragging something along the autumnal shoreline, or general seashore uneasy and melancholy.
I don't know how Utech digs up these unknown experimentalists time and again, but they seem to have an ear for undiscovered talent. The last two Utech releases I've reviewed, by Knell and the Vulture Club, were some of the most interesting guitar based works I've heard all year. This debut album by New York's Joshua Convey continues that trend.
This wonderful intense, loud & brutal disk captures the first ever USA live shows by two legendary Japanese noise acts Pain Jerk & Incapacitants at this years No Fun Festival in New York city.
Looking into the other is a heady sometimes expansive, some ominous journey into tribal & ritual ambience utilizing Bells, Synths, flute, fiddle, various percussive elements, rattles and field recordings to create these involving sonic rituals and dramatic & evocative sound worlds.
Kama is a complex sometimes violent, sometimes beautiful long form piece that brings together haunted ambient textures, drone, noise, dramatic cinmatics and manipulated sound elements into an involving and muilt-layered piece.
Zlye Kukly are a Russian project who offer up an invigorating, tuneful and often flamboyant mix of styles dropping down in; Folk, Prog rock, 70’s rock, gothic rock, weird soundtrack elements, world pop, piano and classical touches . All topped off with a mix of melodic and dramatic Russian male and female vocals -along with rich peacks female operatic vocals.
Mike Moya has been away from the band he is most known for, Godspeed You Black Emperor, for a few years now. There is enough distance and development between his work with GYBE to refer to Hrsta as a proper band, rather than simply a "side project". Certainly there have been many other projects to come out of the Constellation Records stable since and during GYBE's prominence on the scene.
Three guys and a girl from San Diego make up the band Sleeping People. Their second albums comes in a nice looking digipak with cute drawings and nice paper for the booklet.
Acid Motherly love finds the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. offering up their usual mix of churning and spaced rock riffs, guitar soloing, psychedelic electronics and slight forays into acoustic guitars & ambience. Along with a manner of singing, spoken world and sound effect layered on to their dense mix of sounds.
Mersault paints your listening space in very gloomy and oppressive audio colouring, with its mix of slow and sinister improvisation, doomy ambience, bruised jazz tones and source recordings
Long, Lointain brings together 10 quirky, melancholy and often very strange tracks that mix togeather often looped & sometimes sinister child like melodies with strange field recordings. Falling somewhere between ambient ,folk and electronica
Imagine a mix of Syd Barret's clever word play and quirky fast strum folk that sometimes just about holds together. With a geeky, sometimes dead pan American edge, some haphazard blues and rock ‘n’ roll vibes - thats more often than not shambling & tuneful-you get the rather wonderful Turner Cody.
The river that flows into the sands II presents the listener with five hypnotic, unfolding harmonic and sometimes melancholy drone based tracks, which have a very distinctive earthy, dank, rural and very English feel about them.
Cliffs under the mist offers up three near-on twenty minute tracks of slow unfolding and textural ambient sound worlds- mixing together drone textures, field recordings with haunting and eerier harmonic traces.
This ep is rather lovely, haunting and melodic collaboration between greek guitarist Savvas Ysatis and ambient/ electroinca artist Taylor Deupree.The four tracks on offer bring together organic guitar textures, electronics and forays into atmospheric electo pop.
Peace for animals sees Merzbow yet again pushing his sound every onwards and upwards- revisiting old elements with clever and inventive vigour, along with new and recent elements to make a highly rewarding album.
This second album from French Canadian art-rock collective Feu Thérèse finds them lining their rock craft with very retro 70’s/80’s sounding funky bass, electronics and french pop influences ,to offten very camp and often over the top effect, but without losing their creative and rocking moments.