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Swims are a duo from Sacramento, California consisting of Paul Slack on Bass and Mark Rocha on drums. This six song EP is their debut, released on French label Distile, not to be confused with American label Destijl Records.
Kasha Iz Topora is musically & audio interruption/ soundtrack for a bizarre Old Russian fairytale that details the exploits of a man with an axe, who can make porridge fly. Built from synth washers, seemly steam powered electroncia, bizarre sampled rhythmic and noise elements, sampled Russian & classical string work, folk traces and darker trip-hop beat moments.
In a wooden cabin in Canada, Pau Torres (from Barcelona, formerly in Le Diablo Marichi) constructed an intrigueing 55 minutes of music with a broad range of soundsources.
Mist on the window brings together 10 tracks recorded over a 2 year period by Japanese sound artist Ken Ikeda, using his own self-constructed instrument made with rubber bands and nails, & some slight electronic elements to create a touching, alien and beautiful collection of soundworlds.
This four disk fold out digi-pak set brings together over four hours of mainly live unreleased material by Japanese noise/ improvised/ psychedelic death trip Freak-out collective C.C.C.C (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) dating from the early 90’s
In Rainbows is getting a huge amount of press due to the fact that the band have decided to let the audience set the price to download the album, prior to its release in stores. A pricey deluxe edition box is available as well.
Group’s take on audio discomfort and 4am fear is a mix of; improvised textures, weird glicthy ambient dread, noise rumbles and strange/disorientating source recordings, dark jazz often harmonic tones, drone textures & sudden rhythmic edges. All really stir up one nightmarish hour of audio discourse that drops you in some very atmospheric, strange and fear inducing places.
This half reissue/ half new material double disk set from the mighty Circle shows two sides to this highly prolific band. Disk one original released in Vinyl format last year finds them creating two vocally layered long tracks, with as the cover suggest cowboy and Indian influence. Disk two is a live disk showing them in a more cut down, less sprawling song format jump in and out of many musical genre's beds along the way.
Carved image of emptiness is lo-fi and a offten a little shaky mix of pounding Ministry like beat craft, looped fuzzed evil sounding guitar riffs, lo-grade glitch electronics, horror soundtrack and the odd avant edge popping up here and there.
These two new releases by Nathan Michael under the Half Makeshift banner feature more droney melancholy like than on his debut Aphotic Leech, but each with a small difference.
Dubious is the second EP on Ukranian imprint Nexsound by Sara Lundén, but with different companions. This time Kyrre Björkås (Det är jag som är döden) and Andreas Mjös (or Mjøs, in Norway, Jaga Jazzist) join in to put Lundén's vocals in a different context.
The new trend in electronic music seems to be going acoustic and sometimes even start writing 'real songs'. Ferran Fages, a Catalan musician whose resume mentions, besides guitar, no-input mixer and turntables in Cremaster also took this step. On A cavall entre dos cavalls and this album it's just guitar.
Nihill’s debut album mixes together Death Spell Omega like occultic blacked riff craft with more stretched dark ambient, horrific soundtrack elements and slight doom edges, all topped off with grim theatrical and often downright chilling vocal performances.
This four disk set brings together unreleased tracks from between 1997 and 2007 by this uk guitar collective that fall some where between noise, drone, Psycho Ambience & grim cinematic. With well respected noise Surpremo Lea Cummings(Kylie Minoise, Burning Swallows, ect & kovorox sound label runner) as one of the key figures in the line-up.
Les Protorythmiques was originally intended to be presented by Luc Ferrari and erikM at the Musique Action Festival, which took place in France in May of 2005. Sadly, due to Luc Ferrari's deteriorating health, the collaboration never came about. Instead, Thomas Lehn was invited to perform the piece at the festival alongside erikM.
This is Australian guitarist/soundsmith Oren Ambarchi's sixth solo album & it finds him centering all the tracks around deep bass-like closed, airless & often sombre guitar revolution's. With melodic, emotional & warming elements appearing here & there, like flowers opening on the tracks' closed shoulders.
This Chicago two piece brew up a very demented mix of pop, new wave, electronica, jazz, weird-ness & electro rock elements. The songs are littered with over-blow often bizarre theatrical vocals & strange harmonies.
After the lacklustre to plain awful Summer Made good, I thought all was lost for múm, but with Go Go Smear Poison Ivy- they’ve recaptured the wonder, inventiveness and tuneful flair of their music, and also made their most mature, polished, compact, musically dense album of their career- all with out losing any of their fun & charm.
Gaslini soundtrack for this 1971 Giallo film goes from rich and haunted female wailed main theme, to more eerier discordant, jazzy and dark experimental waters & back to easy listening melodics and camp-ness.
Outre is a death metal nightmare with very gothic, Grand Guignol like & darkly theatrical surreal tendencies that bob like a headless corpse to the top of the audio water ever so often.
Nemezis are a polish electronica/ beat-bound project that will appeal to those who enjoy easy melodic yet inventive music, thats littered with retro references and textures. If you have enjoyed the likes of Daft Punk, Royksopp, Air, etc- you’ll find much to get your teeth into here.
Nord is the debut release by France's Year of Light. This music is all over the map, which is a good thing. Mostly though, it borders close to the Neurosis and Isis school of avant-metal. Don't expect a cardboard replica of such music though; it has plenty of individual touches which make it unique.
Amazing Daze presents something of a departure for Marcus Schmickler (a.k.a Pluramon). Schmickler's music through the years has consisted of everything from glitchy electronica to shoegazer pop, so maybe departure isn't the right word. Perhaps it's just one of many stops along the way. Drone is nothing new to Schmickler, but until now it's been presented in bits and pieces, within the context of his more song-based albums. Amazing Daze is his first headlong foray into extended drones, as each these pieces exceed twenty minutes each.
Astral Orange Sunshine brings together four spacey and swirling electronic unfolds with a Merzbow favourite the EMS Synthi as the main sound generator here, but this for the most part stays noise free- with only the last track diving into noise matter towards it’s middle.