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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.
Sam Amidon debut album is a real quirky & tuneful treat for the heart and soul- mixing together folk, bluegrass, country, and pop, avant rock- all in a touching and sometimes awkward manner.
Black wing Over the sand finds Wolf Eyes at their most eerier,doom laden, primal and atmospheric. Following on from the evil and sinister air of their last full length ‘proper’ album Human Animal- but stretching that vibe way out into an emotional battering and unforgiving one long 35 minute track.
In my recent review of Deerhunter's Fluorescent Grey EP, I made note of the fact that most EP's consist of about half worthy material, half filler. This EP, which really isn't an EP (it's over 60 minutes long!) in my mind, has a quality ratio of approximately 20% listenable to 80%, well, let's be generous, not so listenable.
Omns manages to mix deeply spiritual air with psychedelics, ambience and powerful emotionally tinged rocking guitar scapes. Pulling the whole thing off in epic and soaring fashion, never becoming contrived or indulgent – this is truly music to loose ones self in
Deerhunter are being touted as a part of the crop of latest "buzz" bands. I have to admit to you, dear reader, that I tend to be put off by the hype to a degree, although, I could, in fact, be contributing to it in some ways (however minor). When a band is trumpeted as the next big thing on a wide scale, more often than not I'm underwhelmed by the music because the set-up is unrealistic. Secondly, buzz bands frequently are simply competent genre bands offerring accessible music which lacks distinction or originality. So maybe I'm part cynic, part realist, but that does not mean I won't give a band a shot. After the hype dies down, and my expectations die somewhat as well, I can offer a realistic, objective opinion of the music these bands create.
There’s something rather haunting yet calming about the sound of wind, I guess you could almost call it’s natures music or often rtyhmic breath. With Wind even Keeps dust away soundartist Tarab( aka Eamon Sprod) manipulations and layers wind sounds to such an captivating and very musical effect giving them an almost mystical quality.
Sex/death is a rather nasty and nihilistic take on noise. For most of it’s playing time it feels like your head has been forced in a furnace, your whole being engulfed by bellowing and ripping sound with little rhyme or reason, or anything approaching easy on the ears - this just cooks and cooks you until your eyes feel like they’ll pop.
Sadly this collaboration between the usually wonderful Nina Nastasia & Jim White is a rather lacklustre affair of passable to by-numbers song writing, thats a mix of often random rhythms and folk strum.
This album is by one of most respected figures in American minimalism, original released in 1982 in a small pressing & has been out of print for some time, now Important give it it’s first cd releasers. The album consists of two long earthy, spiritual and mediative drone piece produced by of course accordion and Ms Oliveros voice.
Into Sleep’s title is very apt title as you’re lowered into a subtle electronic/noise sound world that seems to exists between realities of dreamscapes and real life. Sound elements and half heard melodies dance by but nothing is ever 100 per clear- giving the whole album a hazy slightly blurred feeling, almost making you feel like you want pinch your self to see if your asleep or awake.