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Interior designs presents the listener with four tracks mainly played via analog synthzier's constructed by Rylan herself. The pieces fall somewhere between improvised synth patterns and noise,Think a more aggravated and volatile version of the likes of Rafael Toral’s more recent work.
Organ Eye's Self titled debut servers up two long form satisfying and detailed drone based pieces from this Australia/ New Zealand four piece.
Eldur Og Is offers up an audio/musical trip through Iceland’s ragged beauty, old gods and mystery. It’s the solo Project of Sturmpercht member Hajü & it certainly weaves a very varied musical canvas going doom/post rock, dark ambience, neo folk drone to 80’s synth soundtrack music. With deep ancient vocal chanting/ singing by the Icelandic singer Steindor Andersen appearing ever so often.
What does Victorian porn; heroin, a beetle and a rather sinister looking baby have to do with each other? Well they all appearing in the Puzzling artwork for Antecrux- the first odd full length audio fruit from Vomit Orchestra.
Karakany is a wonderful chaotic and manic take on jazz that most of the time just goes full pelt with it’s mix of piano, bass, drums and voice- all seemly coming in at odd and different angles. With moments of melody and musical sanity surfacing every now and then.
Alive brings together a collection of live recordings from the great Norse Noise Artist Lasse Marhaug who is know/ respected for his solo work as well as his work with Jazkamer. The recordings here are taken from all over the world stretching back to 1998 and right to up to last year.
It's finally here, the death metal project by former Estradasphere-drummer Dave Murray and Mike Johnson who wrote the music and played guitar. The place to celebrate his love for technical death metal like Cynic and Atheist, combined with that for jazzdrummers like Morgan Ågren and Steve Gadd.
Soft Punk finds Mr Wiese delving into all facets of his sound from his solo work to his work with Sissy Spacekand beyond. Building a jolting, adrenaline filled and textural rich ride, that also dips into more atmospheric and introspective sound valleys along the way.
Crystal Rainbow Pyramid under the Stars finds AMT sounding at their most confident, professional and focused possible in their whole prolific career. Offering up three tracks of psychedelic space rock, meets folk meets jazz that are spread over just over an hours running time.
This self titled CDR (a little confusing because their latest LP is also self titled) is a lo-fi document of a collective of as many as eight members, in this case including Josephine Foster on a couple of tracks. As one would expect there's largely a folk element to this music, but for the most part it's anything but traditional.
Mobi Rock consists of music generated from two guitars, presumably of the table-top and standard variety, shitloads of effects pedals, computer enhancement, mobile phones, remote controllers and "small devices", whatever that means. WoO is aparently one man (there's no name credit anywhere), and that's cool. Whover WoO is, they deserve to be recognized for their ear for both melody and noise.
The first track of Future Rock, Can't Roll Back, is seemingly an ironic statement. The lyrics repeat the line "Can't roll forward looking over your shoulder", yet Future Rock, at least to my ears, is not an album that looks forward. The music is a melange of old school dance music of varying styles. Mostly, it has a mellow vibe, with dubby echo production and whispered vocals. It has a hazy quality, which gives it uniformity, even as the pace changes.
Aihki is the first duo recording for Jorma Tapio, of Finland and Norway's Terje Isungset. Jorma Tapio is credited with flutes, bell, voice, kantele and percussion, and he is chiefly known for his woodwind work. Terje Isungset is a long established percussionist, known for making his own instruments. Recently, he released an album consisting of music made entirely from instruments fashioned entirely from ice.
This project consists of two Swedish 17 year old sisters Miriam & Johanna E. Berhan who offer up an emotional touched & beautiful mix of folk & indie Pop caft.This ep is their first released work, though by all accounts their already well thought of getting spots on various European Festivals bills.
Catacombs is Atläs debut release and also the first releaser from new Canada label Elite tapes. It offers up two effective and grim tracks of lo-fi and murky dark ambience.
Candyflipping offers up three hypnotic and growing dronescapes to fall head first into, it seems to be either utilizing guitar or synth feedback to create the rippling like spreading contractions of sounds.
This is a reissue of Venoms second album after their comeback with the original line-up in 1997, sadly they'd lost one original member by this album stick man Abaddon, but that seemed to have made little impression as this is a very rewarding and memorable mix of Venoms old school sound. With heavy as led riffing that nods towards more melodic trash, black metal elements & all topped off with genral British metallic elements.
Library music is referenced in the press release for Cue. Library records include a wide variety of music intended for use by film, TV and commericals. For that reason, you never know what you're going to get until the needle hits the groove. Perhaps that excitement for the unknown is what inspired Andrew Pekler to assemble this album.
I was pleasant surprised by Still point, in the past I ‘ve found Amber Asylum mix of ambience, neo classical and metal interesting on paper but it never really seemed to gel properly for me. This just feels more enthral, darkly grand and inviting than their often awkward sound in the past.
Sentinelle Del Mattino is a rewarding and unique mix of flute playing, electronica/ industrial, neo-classical, cinematic and jazz. With spoken word and sampled elements, It’s for every darting into surprising genre mixes making it difficult to tie down to one place.
Alexei Borisov is an established Russian improviser and experimentalist who has worked with Leif Elggren and KK Null, among others. Anton Nikkilä, a Finnish artist, is his counterpart on this release. The music here is playful, strange, and a bit clinical in its approach. An odd combination for sure, but it is well executed.
This offers up a collection of demented and corrupted nursery Rhymes and boiling noise craft, that instead of soothing a child would scary the hell out of them .
I cum Blood in the think tank is seriously punishing and bleak industrial noise punk doom. Built around crude and swarming synth overload and face slamming beat patterns, with overloaded nasty hardcore punk growls and bleeding lungs shouts over the top.
This reissue of the soundtrack from 1968 French/Italian giallo is a real rather memorable cheesy treat- mixing together dramatic easy listening, lounge vibes, Hammond organ pumps, jazzy fills & overblow tacky female/male 60’s pop swoon.