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Jesu new ep Silver is a great mix of heaviness and lite memorable melodies. On paper one wonder how this can work as both seem the opposition, but trust me it works. The tunes will get stuck limpet like inside your mind, but it still has the crushing blows of the led like riffling.
So do you fancy dieing, odd question I know when we don’t know each other, but do you? .The reason I asked is if you do, The Golding Institute maybe able to help you out, with their self help/ hypnotic suggestion cd The Final relaxation. So does it work, you may ask? Bizarre item it is.
Sacred Eternal Ellipse is a low fi, avant punky take on doom, with some nice creepy guitar harmonics mixed in. The tracks for the most part fairly shortly by doom standards, clocking in at four to eighty minutes mainly, making a very approachable proposition for relative quick hits of murky and surprising tuneful grim song craft.
This is a welcome reissue of Popol Vuh’s soundtrack for the Werner Herzog Film Cobra Verde. It’s a breath taking mix of panoramic snthy dronescapes, chanted African voices, strummed folk guitar lushness. Simply some of the most beautiful music your likely to hear. All of it dwelling in aching feelings of loss, and disappointment.
Tooth and Claw starts off as a chaotic muddle of sound with bird sounds, noise, off kilter guitars, and odd vocals. As the album goes on it grows into a beautiful swan, though still a little shaky on the swimming tranquily, but never the less enchanting.
Lucifer Songs is a mix of industrialized doom, dark ambient with prog touches, and liberal splashes of samples here and there. The album comes both in its audio form and visual form in the shape of a DVD with visual dark psychedelics interpretation of the tracks.
Un’ Ombra Nell’Ombra ( Ring of Darkness) is the soundtrack from Italian 1979 demonic horror movie. It has more than a whiff of the mighty Goblin to it, and it’s not surprising as it features Claudio Simonetti from Goblin on keyboards. This is the first time it’s been been released in it’s full form, with extra tracks, and what an atmospheric synthesizer prog rock treat it is.
In the maybe world is Lisa Germano’s first release on Michael Gira’s Young God label, though she has released several albums through Capitol and 4AD.Young God records seems the perfect home for her material, that mixers honest, heart felt lyrics that move through heart break and dream worlds. But often she has a steel hand in a silken glove, tendency to her songs, slipping out some bitter truths with her soothing tone. The musical side is a wonderful mixed of laid back smudged piano melodies, lightly hazed guitar and touches of Melancholy childhood, run down carnival sadness.
The label and the background of the members of this band may be misleading, except the current band of keyboardplayer Kevin Moore, which is Chroma Key. The band of guitarist Jim Matheos has a dedicated following but is also the victim of pigeonholing and therefore I’m not going to mention it just because this band deserves a fair chance with people who aren’t necessarily interested in Matheos’ own band or Moore’s former band. Not to mention drummer Mike Portnoy, who is often taken off the job in favour of the drumcomputer.
This really is the true relizalation of Punk noise , forget Digital hardcore, that’s a gentle walk in park compaired with this. Sissy Spacek literally rip your head off and shit down your neck, with fiery discontent. 78 track in 22 minutes, of mass digital over load, rhythmic burns, sounds they may once have been vocals, ripping burn holes in your head, there’s so many ideas and so much nastiness in these 22 minutes, it’s difficult to comprehend.
Anoice are a original and beautiful mix of post rock, instrumental music and ambience. The songs are constructed with what’s best for the atmosphere, it doesn’t feel the need to build up and explode like a lot of post rock, and it doggedly avoids most of the clichés associated with the genre leaving an album full of lush melodies and cinematic wonder.
One Second Bridge’s debut is a mix of shoe gazing indie with mumbled vocals, electronics tending towards a glicthy air, and time locked pretty melodic flows woven by guitar and piano. Making an evocative and airy album, full with memorable, lulling tunes.
Troniks have always been know for high quality noise and sound releasers, here they have resurrected a two disk album by Aube (Akifumi Nakajima ) from the late 90’s, disk one users ice as it’s source material. Disk tow space, as it’s source material, it makes for a hypnotic and varied journey, into a more ambient and rthymic take on noise.
The Dying Submariner enchantingly submerges the listener in underwater landscapes, that drifting with dead bodies, and lost ships. But also of mystical cities of coral and pearl in the deeperist cannons of the sea, never before seen by human eyes.
Hounded by fury paints sour and sickly sinister atmospheres. The tracks creak and bend, yellowed like old newspapers reporting unexplained deaths. This is music to feel uncomforble to, which hovers heavy with the audio sent of death, and ill feeling.
Black magic pond is another searing audio axe in the head, from John Wiese. Hitting you like a tone of bricks from the out set, with it’s whirl wind mix of cut up sound, electronic stenches and singe and neck snapping overloading rhythmic blurs. But as always with a Wiese release you get a top quilty production and an ear for clever and breathing taking noise construction.
The Accidental is Aaron Moore’s first solo album, usually a member of UK dada odd jazz/ folk, what ever you fancy- band Volcano the bear. Here Moore mines more contemplative ambient textures, issue out haunting and droning tones from pianos, vibraphone, cymbal, ect. It all makes for an enchanting, if slightly melancholy journey into sound.
Murder nature is a twisted, often catchy mix of Prog metal, nu metal, edgy piano elements and touches of horror soundtrack elements, the mighty Goblin are brought to mind in a few places.
Mfi-Gbsp is like dropping back through time, to the late 60’s or early 70’s and walking through a desert and coming across a small fire , huddled around the fire are a group of hippies, bashing out this earth rthymic music, the air is high with all sorts of debuses substances and as you get nearer the fire you get sucked deeper into the music.
With this album English jazz outfit Polar Bear rightly earned themselves a Mercury music prize nomination. The award eventually went to Antony and the Johnson’s but it could have easily gone to this superbly English modern jazz record.
Cthonic Rites is a perfecttitle for Moss’s first album, as it takes in two tracks lasting 66.06 minutes, and it's a deeply grim death crawl mix of slow doom and black metal, that call up all that is bellow. From the outset your sucked deep into its black encrusted body, as distorted two ton heavy riffs, slop out of your speakers and demonic growls are admitted, conjuring up great heavy black rain clouds of sound in your listening area.
Otto Von Schirach music has always been about dada, sinister cartoon, digital overload of sound. It makes one feel as if they're stuck inside a audio pinball machine, been bounced back and forth at a blistering speed. In the past I’ve found his stuff too overloading, sure it was clever. But to listening to, it was'nt much fun. But with Maxipad Detention, he seems to have slowed the hectic pace enough, to discern tunes and interesting bits of sound, and as a result this is an enjoyable, if still a bit exhilarating experiences.
Stuart. A Staples, is the lead singer of the Tindersticks. With his second solo album, he offers up enjoyable collection of soulful and country licked adult pop songs , all tinged with his unmistakable sugary brown voice. He has one of those Classic voices, very distinctive and charming in its tone.
Regardless of all globalisation, to find an Australian artist set foot on European ground, figuratively speaking, is a relatively rare occasion. A 20 year old Australian guy has been working on his concept of how the woods would sing for three years and the result is in my CD-player right now.