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A collaboration between Mike Patton and The Dillinger Escape Plan could never work out wrong. For the uninitiated, The band plays a progressive mathematical mix of metal and hardcore.
Having only barely survived yesterday's Nile gig, I can only conclude that these guys just keep getting better and better.
Did you ever have that problem that if you put your nice cold drink on your wooden table it leaves one of those rather unattractive marks in the shape of a ring?
This weekend I saw fellow Trondheim citizens The Third And The Mortal perform with their soundengineer on keyboards and sequencers and now the first full-length CD by Gåte is in my CD-player (tusen takk, Stein). It’s called Jygri and it’s as good as the previous EP promised.
There are some albums that I don’t mind if it takes me a long time to absorb and form an opinion on. It was like that with Agalloch’s debut, Pale Folklore, and it is like that with their new one, The Mantle.
The Filmworks series showed the many aspects of John Zorn’s work over the last 10 years. He obviously was commissioned to do quite a few this year given the fact that he releases three volumes for this year alone within a month.
Discovered on a February night, Dälek brought some happiness in what had been a very bad 24 hours for me. Opening for Tomahawk, they caught me off-guard with a very heavy set and then revealed themselves as being very nice, down-to-earth blokes, deserving everybody’s attention.
You might be in for a surprise... But in fact that is what Autechre always does; taking the listener further and deeper into the artificial electronic world of the ever-innovating Mancunians. The new EP Gantz Graf is no exception and is an unnatural evolvement of the Confield-sound.
This is the second album of the Dargaard side-project Dominion III and of course it features Dargaard's Tharen and Elisabeth again.
Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s latest or with intimate affairs such as Frankie Sparo’s live EP, a certain intangible quality has always been present.
One of Japan best kept secret, it’s high time that everyone stop and take notice of Tha Blue Herb. Hailing from Sapporo, far from trendy Tokyo, those blokes have developed a very original and extremely enjoyable vision of what hiphop should be.
A lot of Japanese bands have acquired mythical status in Europe and in the US. Boris are one of those. Flood is their third studio full length, and a very different proposal to their usual doomy music.
This disc has been out for a while now, and the reactions are much divided. Some are disappointed not being as groundbreaking as Endtroducing (1996), others give much praise for the instrumental hip-hop presented on The Private Press.
Following the successful Tomorrow Never Comes album (reviewed here), Japanese Xinlisupreme has put together another stunning release, this time in shape of a seven-track EP named Murder License.
Vardøgr is an old Norse word, meaning a forewarning, almost an omen. When you hear the door opening some time before it does, when you know someone is going to call you before they do.
I want to meet that girl. Anybody who can coax an album like that out of the silent air of a studio must be interesting enough to hook up with (the fact that I think she’s cute looking and has a sexy voice really has nothing to do with it).
With the surfacing of Asian underground and Bill Laswell’s long-time interest in Indian music, he first made an ambient CD called City Of Light and shortly after that the drum ‘n’ bass album Lo. Def Pressure. On that last one he used tabla rhythms (‘tala’) as a matrix for drum ‘n’ bass patterns.
A new chapter in the Buckethead saga. He got stranded in the Bermuda Triangle with his buddie Extrakd (El Stew, Gonervill, Bulletproof Scratch Hamsters and others). As one might expect the music has an eerie atmosphere that has been present on many of the more recent releases.
Another release from Bip-Hop, but don't run away right away. We all get tired of a certain music style after an overdose, but Andrew Duke's Sprung is actually quite refreshing and not sleep-inducing.
Today I officially come out of my reviewing vacation and present you with Brave’s latest piece (“opus” is such an overused word in the reviewing world), Searching for the Sun.
Born in Teheran, pre-revolutionary Iran, Sussan Deyhim still got the chance to become an open-minded artist that looks to innovate the music from her homecountry.
Asa-Chang (Asakura Koichi), self-taught Tabla and Bongo artist, ex-leader of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra has spent the last few years doing studio work for some of the cheesiest bands on earth: the J-pop artists. However, don’t expect anything corny on this album.
After I was blown away by the 7" single Une Vie on FatCat Records I decided to check out the full length album L'Enfer Tiède, released earlier this year on Lithium Records, too.
Spaceheads are apparently real musical veterans, the Low Pressure album being their 7th already. Yet this is my first encounter with the English duo, and that's regrettable, because their music is good. Very good.