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Multiple Otomo brings together a treasure trove audio/visual noise and beautiful Chaos from this prolific turntablist, guitarist and what-ever-he-fancies Japanese noisemaker,improviser and sound sculptor.
Valet is Honey Owens, a member of Nudge, and a sometime member of Jackie-O-Motherfucker. Blood is Clean was originally released on the CD-R label Yarnlazer last year, and Kranky has seen fit to bring it to a wider audience. A wise move, I must say.
Crows of the world is a varied and often very effective double disk compilation of all manner of improvised, jammed out sound craft & drone matte. Going from droning banks of electronics, folky banjo pickings and twangs, shimmering organ throbs, discordant jazz unwinds with deep bassy leanings & chugging guitar hypnotics.
This is the latest audio puzzlement from The Legendary Pink Dots frontman that mixes together psychedelic electronics and beatscapes, weird pop elements, Spoken word and genral audio surrealism into audio stew very fitting of it’s dream Logkic title, as this often feels like fall or wondering lost in some else’s dreamscapes
The Great titled Black Magic Disco is a new collaboration between the Opalio brothers of My Cat Is An Alien, Tom Greenwood 0f Jackie-O Motherfucker & Ramona Ponzini of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope- this finds the Opalio brothers swaping space bound world for more surreal earthbound improv freefall, with maybe the odd trip to a creaking retro space station.
Hanna Hartman is a wonderful skilled and creative sound artist and Alianthus finds her creating a wonderful bizarre, amusing and clever collection of dada sound craft & improvised noise tracks that bubble up every now and then with musically elements and odd beauty.
Racket finds Whitehouse adding more depth of musically texture along with more rhythmic detail and grim atmospherics to their sound.
Beneath the mighty Oak offers up an epic and atmospheric mix of black metal, heavy metal, rock and neo-folk, this projects first releasers though the main man behind the project Todd Paulson is part of UVALL Us Black metal doom band and owner of the excellent God is a Myth label.
Noctilucent Valleys submerges the listener in heady and psychedelic world made up of synth drone craft, lo-grade electro beatscapes, free form folk/ improvised rock traces , with the odd touches of dreamy & hazed of male & female vocals here and there.
This really revels in screwing with your perception of it, firstly the title suggest head-ripping noise or staged and cocky rock, This is neither. Secondly with the Jazkamer name attached to it one would expect a real noisy afair, though there are noise elements here that certainly is not the predominate sound strain .
Simon Magus is dramatic and atmosphere heavy synth, piano, acoustic guitar and string driven work, touching down in Neoclassical & soundtrack genres, with odd folk traces along the way.
His/Hers is a wonderful lost and haunted take on slowly unwinding /hazy guitar craft that mixes together touches of folk, the blues, & rock into it’s sludgy dream or drug soaked atmosphere.
This Goon Moon’s second album of genre bending song craft that mixes together retro and stoner rock, psychedelic pop with electronic elements and weird edges. It manages to be chaotic, discordant and rocking, yet also haunting, melodic and full of oddness through out its playing time.
This is Sleep Research Facility aka Kevin Doherty second deep ambient album for Cold Spring and his fourth in all. The albums concept is based around the uncharted and people-less polar landscapes, caverns and mountains, which really managers to suck you deep into its deeply chilling sonic world.
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.