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An up and coming noisician meets a veteran guitarist from the japanese noise rock scene. They record stuff together and release a CD. You buy it. You got yourself a puzzling but excellent album.
Through Isis, Old Man Gloom and Lotus Eaters, Aaron Turner has been the provider of extremely powerful music for the last couple of years. August 2003 sees him releasing the second full-length of his “ambient” project, House of Low Culture.
Funny how thing go… I’ve been living full-time in a city called Liège (Belgium) my entire life until very recently and yet it took a distributor based in Bruges and a label from Brussels for me to discover on of the city’s most interesting “sons”…
Ominous music out of your speakers… Sabers probably won’t physically threaten you, but you’re never going to be sure how you’re gonna get out of this situation safely, at least for your mind...
Short but good. I think it’s a perfect way to introduce this latest release from Cédric Stevens, a Belgian artist who has been active in the electronic music world for 10 years already.
Avant-rock, art-rock ? Whatever… 4th studio album for the austrian band, and what an excellent collection of songs !
A pop-artist with aspirations for way more than just pop, that can be a tough situation. I think former Japan vocalist David Sylvian has been in this situation for the last 15 years.
Rock music from 'the land of eagles'. Tuva, an unlikely place for a rockband: a country in the centre of Asia, surrounded by mountains and temperatures ranging from –50° C in winter to 45° C in summer. The country is spectacularly beautiful with its wild nature, vast forests, the desolate steppe and icy cold rivers flowing into the ‘Ulug Khem’ (main river).
“This is the music to a story yet ‘untold’ – told by the music.” Instrumental music that tells a story. Some people might think that it is impossible to pull that off without lyrics. Former Estradasphere-drummer thinks different, his first release The Deserts Of Träun, part 3 of a trilogy, tells a story by using any kind of music to ‘describe’ various happenings.
There is a heatwave going on and I'm listening to a Merzbow remix album: Frog Remixed And Revisited. Hah! Not really your ideal summer music, but it has it's advantages. The noise will expell the heat from my little room. My speakers puff and yell, and because of the air movement it's like I'm having my own airco system installed.
I had never heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before this album. When surfing the net finding some background info on the Icelandic musician I found that I probably saw him perform live with Apparat Organ Quartet. The music on his first solo-album music can’t be compared to that loud and energetic combo though.
The Italian Ephel Duath started out as a duo, Davide Tiso and Giuliano Mogicato, playing melodic black-metal. After the release of debut Phormula Giuliano left and Davide signed Ephel Duath to the Earache sublabel Elitist Records. The restored enthusiasm starts the search for a new line-up, as he wants Ephel Duath to become a proper band.
I've always been a huge fan of Devin Townsend. City from Strapping Young Lad is the album I play when I'm really pissed. Infinity is his masterpiece follewed by the always excellent Ocean Machine: Biomech and Terria.
Kaizers Orchestra is another popular Norwegian band starting to do business in the rest of Europe. They are a six-strong band, and formed in Bergen nearly five years ago. Kaizers Orchestra play bluesy rock, with a major Eastern European flavour.
This is starting to look like an ongoing serie of reviews that have written “Nature” all over them. And once more, this is top-notch material...
After I bought this album I was informed that apparently We've Come For You All is "the album to buy for people who disliked the new Metallica album". Which is good on the one side, as I for sure despise their latest effort. But it also is disappointing because Anthrax, despite being a thrash contemporary to Metallica, once stood for so much more then "just an alternative to Metallica".
These days Mtv and other media try to push a host of female singer songwriters on us. Each one is supposed to be even more revolutionary than the previous one. Every time we however are confronted with music that goes in the one ear and right out the other.
Mixing raw and primitive sludge with Captain Beefheart’s tricks sounds like a cool idea. But from the idea to the great CD, there is a long way to... So how far did Samus go?
The Dropkick Murphys are truly something special in the entire punk/hardcore scene. If you are already familiar with them I don't need to tell you that. But if you're not familiar with them or even have a dislike of punk music I would still like to ask you to stick with me for a few more lines.
It’s the kind of album that makes you want to say: this is the best guitar album I’ve heard in 2003. Too bad there is no guitar... Gonna hit you hard and leave you awe-struck all the same anyway...
I thought I could never get around reviewing this album. A bit as if it was beyond my reach... But a couple of hours ago, I really don’t know why, I felt I had to do it. It was just something that had to be done. For this album shouldn’t be left to the sole appreciation of Keiji Haino or Kan Mikami’s fans. It deserves to be exposed to a much wider crowd.
So Austria is not only about Tosca, Pita, Fennesz and Abigor ? Wow, shocking... Granted, Fetish 69 has not much in common with those acts. Doesn’t prevent them from being interesting...
My interest in improv music is quite new. I do not intend to pose as an expert of the genre. However, I am not going to pass the review of this album on to the hands of better connoisseurs: this album is too good for me to refuse the chance I have to share my thoughts on it...
Here is what happens when musicians genuinely have fun recording an album but decide to stay away from the pseudo-intelligent little jokes for an inner-circle elite. Kind Kind is a CD full of humour and great music. Thanks whoever, we won’t have to hear an awful-sounding voice saying things meant to make you laugh...