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Rv Paintings debut album Trinity Rivers is a side project of one half of the Staving weirdios core Brian Pyle with help from his brother Jon and fellow soundscape investigator Spence, they offer up a more conventional and going towards normal musical based set of guitar drone textures than the SW.
Put your Hands in Fire is a dense stew of lo-fi electronics that dabbles in electronica, old school industrial, Grey malevolent boiling drones- with traces of noise and 70’s horror film uneasy & fear.
The mystery surrounding the identity and background of Nebris is mirrored by the dark, mysterious sounds coming from Bleak Angels. The feeling emanating from the binary surface of this cd is pleasantly slow yet discomforably vague. The man behind Nebris is surprisingly unfindable by the modern machinations of Google and such, but it appears to be someone by the name of James Hamilton.
No Canal finds Mouthus once more painting a jagged, creative and in places surprising sad & beautiful album. Sadly it's only ltd to 250 so it’s an act quick or regret later scenario as this once again shows them performing at the height of their powers.
This is a fascinating, highly rewarding, often haunted & always inventive reissue of an small pressing album from 1987 by this (unknown to me) German sound/ambient artist that manages to keep you intrigued throughout its running time.
Amidst the noise and Twigs finds Uk’s crowned princes of Dada and (their own)World music returning with an album of more vocally and harmony based tracks that often come across as some of their sanest and more approachable work, though with still a fair share of demented and puzzling stuff too.
Fragments is an 11 track album by the mysteriously named Rougge, a French musician and composer. The instrumentation is made up of acoustic piano and vocals, which Rougge refers to as chants. The piano pieces sound as if they were composed, and the vocals were, at least partly, improvised over top. It would be difficult for any, but the most dynamic artists, to pull off an entire album of music with such a limited scope. And though Fragments is pleasant enough listening, it isn't transcendent, as it was most likely intended to be.
Spare Parts electronica surreal sound world mangers to sound both alien, atmospheric, memorable and bizarrely rhythmic. The whole album is tied nice and tight with the tracks getting their point and strange vibe across, but never out staying or stretching the point- giving the album the feeling of a trip through a strange shifting technology advance house of many weird rooms.
Halluciantion Gullotine // Final Worship see-saws between heady and deranged electro noise bombardments layered with uneasy vocals bellows and murderess grunts, to striped down cold steel cell mumbled confessional over eerier old school industrial elements and twisted music box unwind .
Centrozoon is a improvised collaborative project between guitarist Markus Reuter and keyboardist Bernhard Woestheinrich with Lovefield been their sixth album of soundscapes that hovers in-between electronica, ill at easy ambience and guitar scaping.
The homecountry of this quintet may be Poland, in their music they are true worldcitizens. Their fourth album is jazzrock/fusion spiced up with balkan, klezmer, African and middle-eastern influences.
From Norway comes Sten Ove Toft, busy in several projects (like Ryfylke, Waffelpung and Röyskatt) and with Lit De parade he presents an ambient, noise suite in seven parts. The imprint may suggest something colourful (ROGGBIF is an acronym of the colours in the colourspectrum), but like its artwork light has little business in this music.
Temple of the sun sees the once Germanic black metal band embracing a powerful mix of Bulgarian folk music, beat-craft and retro synthscapes in a much more convincing and rewarding manner than their first full length for Ahnstern.
Drommer is the black ambient project of a mysterious figure who refers to himself as Smaerd. Oceans is a CD-R which I'm guessing came directly from the artist, because I could find no reference to it anywhere on the Internet. There is another official Drommer release out now which is a CD box set wrapped in funeral cloth and sealed in wax.
This is a rather wonderful and bizarre soundtrack for rather bizarrely titled & by all accounts very odd giallo film from 1972. We go from discordant Spanish guitar music, to looped classical tones and modern classical elements, to creepy and clunking piano work and all manner of avant strangeness with strewn here and there more oddly beautiful moments too.
This debut from uk collective 7 Hertz rewardingly mixes together elements Chamber, Folk, Jazz into a very pleasing audio concoction- that goes from emotional, cinematic, to fun, and making you want to dance and stomp your feet
If like me you had a misspent youth (seemly several in my case) in dodgy night clubs and parties, you’ll more than warm to the 12 shots of dense retro sounding rave and techno on display here.
Far Black Farlong's 3rd self titled album takes the listener on a heady sometimes haunted, but always magical journey over morphing landscapes and changing seasonal climates with an original mix of classical,ambient, folk drone and lighter post-rock elements
Edward Ruchalski is an American composer, based out of Syracuse, New York, who creates innovative, experimental music in various forms. Perhaps his best known works are his compositions for motorized percussion and string instruments. Over the years, he has quietly gained respect as an artist, yet he remains almost criminally unacknowledged.
Definitely not a bandname that's easy to remember, which may be different for Swedish speakers, but I have to doublecheck for typing errors and wouldn't even dare to pronounce it. The next thing is, do I dare to listen to it?
The days of a big budget being a prerequisite for recording an album are long gone. Homerecording may be cheaper, good instruments are still expensive and there's enough gear fiends drooling over the newest models or its opposite: the most vintage and authentic. Richard Leo Johnson and Gregg Bendian show on this album that good musicianship is not in the gear.
Coming in not long after the interesting if a little mixed box set of early material here Japanese noise/psychedelic terrorist C.C.C.C offer up their first new material in ten years and take you on a fiery head melting, many layered noise trip that you wont forget in a hurry.
Sliding in just at the tale end of 07 Wildildlife debut is an exuberate, heady & creative take on the rock & noise guitar genres. Going from discordant metal/meets art punk riffing, to memorable bouncing rock craft with chanted vocals, to more introspective and bleak tones, to spacey summer days unfolding jams- This has a hell of a lot to offer.
I’ve had a soft spot for Ensepulchred Mix of keyboard heavy almost guitar stripped Black Metal, Horror film synth grimness & electro noise since their excellent debut album in 06- So it’s a really treat to have another hit from them so soon.