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The first part of a promised series finds Steve Roach bringing life to a long form ambient world, that’s built around subtle tones, drones and magic sound shifts. All done with a masters easy and elegance, over the 70 + minutes Roach sucks the listener in deeper and deeper, almost to the point where nothing else exists.
Varcharz is Mouse on Mars' first release for Mike Patton's Ipecac label. Following their most pop oriented effort, Radical Connector, this album is more jagged and hard edged than anything they've ever done.
Modified toy orchestras do just as their name suggests they make quirky electrioncia, all via the use of modified electronic toys. Making an album that is memorable, odd and fun.
Collection brings together a 7inch split between Wiese and wolf eyes, along with the tow very ltd American tapes cdr from 2003/04. All digitally re-mastered by Wiese in colour inlay from the original artwork. More than just a fan curiosity, this stands as some of both parties best work as collaborators and solo entities.
Ichinomiya’s innoxious artwork hardly gives away the ring noisy endurance testing that lays within. From the covers hazy picture and the album other artwork, you’d be forgiven for thinking this could be an ambient sound world, but there’s really little ambient about the slow moving and piecing atmosphere on offer here.
This is the first time ever release for this Franco Micalizzi soundtrack from an obscure Italian erotic drama from 1974. Not surprisingly it nods towards Morricone’s and other film composers work of the time, but offers up its own collection of memorable and atmospheric musically themes.
Far voyage from a placid island is a mix of sinister and pentrating drones and often darkly surreal horse play. Making you unsure whether you should be distrubed/ creeped out or chuckling long and darkly to ones self, While this unfolds it's sonic treasure
Milenasong paint a quirky mix of folk, country, indie, lo-fi electroncia with avant shades on to a warm and often cluttered canvas of an album. Making this a rewarding, atmospheric, playful and haunting first full-length from this one woman German project.
Flipped out bride brings together two feedback drenched, noisy and offten cold guitar sculptures from Sonic youths guitarist. I’ll have admit I’ve never been a huge fan Of sonic youths work, but I have quite enjoyed their forays into other project like Text of light.
Bracken's debut album finds Anticon further mining a mix of downbeat indie and Electronica, Really severing all ties with their Hip-Hop heritage, though I guess you could say that some of the beat work still has glancing hip-hop traits. Weather or not you’ll enjoy this, comes down to how far you’re willing to follow the label further off the path.
Belgian musician Dirk Serries takes an approach for this project Fear Falls Burning that is different from his other electronic/ambient project vidnaObmana because guitar is the tool for creating drones and slowly evolving ambience.
Kairos is a wonderfully varied and rewarding musically ambient and visual treat. Offering up a DVD of Roach's rich soundworlds joined by mystically and psychedelic visuals. All beautifully edited together to make a captivating and flowing visual trip, plus a second audio-cd of the 70+ minute soundtrack.
77 sound objects is just as it’s title suggest, the first 22 minute track manipulates and sculptures with 77 sound objects, to make a dense & often explosive sound world that’s some where between; electro acoustic, Musique concrète, noise and ambience. Then tracks 2 through to 77 users the unedited pure sound files, with the gaps in-between the tracks as part of the composition.
Exit in Grey are a mysterious duo from near Moscow, who meld together droning layers of guitar sound, field recordings and sound emanating from analog devices. Nameless droplet seems to paint a world where natural has taken control, a place between realities. Like slipping into the zone world of Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker or walking in the silence of a long dead city, trees towering above buildings.
Seeping within the flesh takes us into a horrific and suffocating audio environment, built around a mix of noise, sour ambience and audio fear. The more you play it the more disturbing it seems to get, your mind uncovering more disturbing audio debris, like grey limbs falling from overhead cardboards, or lifeless and eyeless heads bobbing to the top of stagnant water.
Death Unit brings together the considerable noise talents of Carlos Giffoni on electronics, Chris Corsano & Trevor Tremaine(Hair Police) on double drum attack and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus) on guitar. All brewed up together to make a fine take-no-prisoners, violent improvised psychedelic noise rock trip to hell.
This is a welcome reissue of one of the more accessible Nurse with wound Albums from 1999, which featured Current 93’s David Tibet vocal skills on a few tracks, And more rocked out, folk and rhythmic elements. It also tags on a rewarding second disk of different mixes etc, which continues the rewarding toe dippings into more electroinca beat work shown on last years Rat tape ones.
Since the release of the excellent double disk set Headless last year, it makes sense to reissue 6 comm. first album from 1987 Content with Blood, which has been out of print for sometime & illustrations Patrick Leagas first steps into muilt-genre thoughtful darkness.
Curveland is full of inviting lulling tones, micro rhythmic pulses and the odd more up beat lush pop moments, the tracks are often soothed by light airy and sensual Japanese/English female vocals. All weaved together to make the audio equivalent of slowly falling on to a warm feather mattress. Pure audio comfort, which you just want to seek deeply into.
Opus Paracelsum is Silence & strength second full length album which conjures up a mix of dark electronica, ambient ocultic drifts, and all manner of oddly layered, strange & eerier samples.
Tommorrow no one will be safe brings a track a piece from Norwegian noise collective Jazzkammer & Usa Electronic artist/ tape manipulator Howard Seltzer & then a one joint track. All of the tracks were recorded on the pairs tour in 2004, and offer up a creative and varied take on improvised music, noise and bizarre soundscapes.
Super Roots 5 is the next in the series reissue of the sporadicly released experimental ep’s from between 1993 & 1999. This original appeared in 1995 and like volume three consists of one long track, but instead of staying in one place, this wonder all over the place in it’s building might.
This rather nice Ltd hand painted envelope Packaging offers up a 3” cd a piece from two US Psychedelic synth noise projects; Andy Quitters Suburbia Melting and Daryl Groetsch’s Pulse Emitter. Each 3" cd offers up a track each.
Legenda guides the intrepid listener through nine psychedelic and bizarre sound worlds, Built manly around quirky and spacey analogue synthzizer and electronics. With support from acoustic and electric guitars, drums, & jazzy elements like Fender Rhodes and saxophone.