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Deerhunters mix of psychedelia, ambient, lo–fi indie and new wave edges returns for its second album. The band have gathered a large amount praise in places low and high, but for myself I find it all passable enough, but really for most of it’s playing time it just seems to drift by with out much excitement.
Japanese psychedelic dada prog weirdo’s offer up their sixth release You take me to the world, which gives us tow tracks of odd jabbering dialogue, spacey shrills, building atmospheric & some rocked-out moments.
Drykkjuvĩsur óhljódanna is the second collaboration between Swedish sound artist BJNilsen and Icelandic sound sculpture collective Stilluppsteypa. It offers up six tracks of grim and macabre scarped clean copse, industrial electronics mixed with psycho ambient traces, to an very unsettling effect.
The thing about this and other Aural Hypnox releases (and I guess all forms of dense ambient) is you’ve got to relisten over and over again to sink deeper into the atmosphere, to understand what is trying to be created here. For that a patient, imaginative and free mind is needed.
Night Science 3 is the third issue in noise fanzine from Austrsilia based Cipher productions, coming with a cd of tracks from each of the six artist interviewed with in. Weigh in at a hefty perfect bond 100 pages, looking more like a booklet that a mag, this surely is one of the most impressive fanzine I ‘ve seen in many a year.
Environmental Meditations is collaboration between long time Italian Noise/ ambient artist Maurizio Bianchi & Israeli electronic experimental artist Maor Appelbaum, to make an album that is a halfway house between ambience and noise. Feeling very much like the title suggests literal meditations on the environment, due to the type and texture of sounds used to conjurer up the feeling of composed natural forces such as wind, water or fire, etc.
A strange phenomenon happened with Palace Of Mirrors, the fourth album by Estradasphere. While being the 'coming-off-age' album of the band and objectively speaking the most accomplished album to date I didn't get into it immediately while in theory this should've been the case.
Leave me in the Black No-thing finds the brothers Opalio in a much colder, lightless and bleak mood than there normal intergalactic trips into sound. This feels like a trip inside a black void deep in spaces changing seas, or a trip into inner space, trawling and drifting though the darken shore of ones self.
6 Comm managed to conjuring up an intriguing a dense cross of coil like dark electronics, ethnic percussion dense rhythmic matter, melodic touches,clever sound source manipulation and splattering of avant-garde twists and turns. With occultic & pagan based wordy vocals that fall somewhere between Jonh Balance, Scott Walker and Marc Almond,
Over the last year or so I've heard lots of positive things said about the Starving Weirdos work, but always seemed too late to get hold of their until now ltd cdr releasers. Father Guru represents their first un-ltd non CDR album, and what an album it is. Their wholly unequal take on improvised/ ambient/ drone music is cut up into three very different slices of sound cake.
Pm+ ushers the listener into the shadowy and slow moving almost monochrome world of blunt and coarse electronics, doom laden jazz and instrumental music. It’s an unforgiving urbane soundscape were pleasant tunes try to float to the surface, but get pulled under by the grey and crude sound elements.
It’s Time is a ever shifting noise and drone scape of sound. The textures and depth of sound are impressive even with in one track, let along album wide. we go from very tensed curls and singers of noise craft, to more streached noise ambient drone stactures, even moving towards more divined melodic material on a few tracks.
This new ep from the always pushing the envelope Animal collective may on first few plays not sound that different from the last full length Feels and instrumental wise this maybe be true to a certain extent, but sound wise it’s not. They seem to streached and pulled out and almost looped their sound, like odd erratic paintings by children, been unravelled down long corridors.
Drone is a wide and varied church of sound, it’s variation wonderfully highlighted by this double disk compilation of ltd Vinyl only tracks from Drone Records. We go from metallic guitar and organic string drones, bell like banks of sound, slight percussive drones, to deep and vast synth and electronic derived sound drones. Each disk lasting 70 minutes a piece, so there’s much to get your self lost in.
Super roots 3 is the next in the series of reissues of The Boredoms experimental ep’s from 1994 to 1999 on the Very Friendly label. This like the others in the series was a experiment in different sound, that didn’t really fit in with things they were doing at the time.
Adrian Klumpes is the keyboardist in Australian avant-garde jazz group Triosk. Here on his debut solo CD his narrows his sound pallet to one instrument, the piano. But don’t be fooled this isn’t an album of classical jazz standards. Klumpes twists and manipulates the sound of the piano into a vast panorama of sound.
Despite being described as an EP, Yule clocks in at over forty seven minutes in length and is Tor Lundvalls second release of 2006 after the acclaimed Empty City.
Harraam, Circle of flame is a twisted/deranged noise & Atmospheric outpouring, using guitar sound, and layer upon layer of grim wall paper like souced recordings & sonic Debris. The album starts off in fine overload fashion, but takes a turn for the more sinister and macabre as the album progesses.
Blank Field brings together the works of various sound and noise artist including Merzbow, Daniel Menche, Oren Ambarchi etc. The tracks are taken from live recordings made during the Francisco Lŏpez curated Festive of the same name, which are then cleverly and almost seamless edited together by Lŏpez giving it a feel of one big environment or piece. Though each piece is clearly different from each other, they seem like chapters of a book, each telling it’s own related tale, so the title of Blank Field seems wondefully apt.
This is improviser and sound artist David Papapostolou first cd releaser, offering up 3 tracks of improvised music utilizing acoustic guitar, Cello and Soprano Sax. All of the tracks seems heavy with world weary hazy, like watching figures move off across a iced white landscape.
This ltd release is a collaboration between one half of My Cat is an Alien Robert Opalio and Ramona Ponzini of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost. It Finds the pair investigating more earth bound and richly mediative structures than My Cat Is an Alien.
Black metal has often had spiritual yearnings, an affliction with dark natural and grim black gods, that’s present in nearly every black metal project you can think of to lesser or larger extent. With Om Negură Bunget have brought these spiritual tendency to new epic levels, making an album that still at is heart is black metal ,but sprouts its black roots off into many other genres.
Mothboy adds all manner of atmospheric cinematics, experimental edges and varied vocals to his jacked up and dance heavy electroinca. Making what seems on first playing to be quite pop based ,a lot darker and experimental monster the deeper you get into it. And that’s the thing that makes this different and interesting is it concentrate on both your feet and your mind.
Précis mixes folk rock with electroincia and pop elements to varying effect- some tracks seem to click and run just fine, others seem to muddled and strained. Sadly the problem is Benoĭt Piouland often doesn’t know where to stop with adding of sounds, leavening a few tracks sounding frankly messy and overbearing.