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Piss Aktion is a decidedly grim 'n' murky wall noise collab- it brings together cluttering crunch and lightly fuzzing haze with a gloomy drifting spectral ambient undercurrent. The collaborators here are Italy’s L'Azionismo Viennese, and Portland Oregon-based Hana Harua.
From the late 1970s Assault! 13th hour is a mean-spirited at points downright unpleasant rape thriller-meets roughie pink film. Here from Impulse Pictures- Synapse Film's adult/ erotic focused sub-label is a DVD release of this slice of nasty sleaze.
Rurangi is a New Zealand-made/ based coming-home drama, which tattles themes of gender identity, loss, Indigenous conflict, and how love can change/develop. The film is largely rural based- bringing together huge sky moodiness, with closer up/ just over-the-shoulder cinematography. With a well-selected and believable cast, who manage to sell a range of emotions well. Here on Peccadillo Pictures, as either Watch-On-Demand or DVD release of this 2020 film.
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is a wonderfully rough ‘n’ ready film which is difficult to fully tie down into just one genre, as it brings together elements of quirky romantic drama, martial arts, revenge-focused action, and adult comedy. The 2021 film is certainly one of the more unpredictable genre films I’ve seen in some time- sure its darting tone sometimes unbalances itself, there are a few pacing issues, and you have to really expect the unexpected- but it’s most certainly an experience. Here from Uk’s Arrow Video is a Blu-Ray release of this one-off picture- feature as we’ve come to expect from the label a great selection of extras.
Blood Merde is a short, but highly unsettling & at points nausea inducing example of sound art. The C6 cassette/lathe seven-inch brings together Australia’s unnerving sound scaper Rudolf Eb.er, and Roro Perrot France’s purveyor of demented shit folk.
Dark Exotica is the latest in the ongoing Lux & Ivy compilation series, which finds respected music journalist Dave Henderson crate-digging for obscure 45s from the ’50s & ’60. And this two-disc set is a little bit of a departure for the series- as instead of collecting together a series of tracks, it brings together four exotica/ lounge / light big band jazz albums, which either have either dark/ shady connections- be it in the players, or in its theme…though there is nothing terrible sinister, or unsettling here.
Constantly moving, exploring, and eschewing genre definition, Samuel Rohrer's latest LP, Hungry Ghosts, is an experiment in free-form, percussion driven electronica. Coming on his own Arjunamusic label, this outing is nearly 100% live with no overdubs, and shows how spot on Rohrer is with his pre-thought song structures and improvisation. Generally living near the minimal end of the electronic spectrum, Hungry Ghosts gives the listener much time to drink in all that is on display and allows them to use the quieter pieces to connect the dots in their own fashion.
After many years of being a Youtube film-collecting personality, and having over two hundred and Fifty acting credits to his name, Amityville Karen is the first feature-length directing credit from Shawn C Phillips. The low-budget feature is a sort of collusion between complaint culture mocking satire, hamming it up US Soapiness, and horror with low-key gore elements. Here from the folks at SRS Cinema, who release both modern B movie fare and classic examples of SOV fare, is a region-free DVD release of the film- featuring a directors/ lead actress commentary and making of featurette.
The 8th volume in the Made to Measure series for Crammed Discs features Iranian composer, vocalist and activist Sussan Deyhim who has collaborated in the past with a host of different artists including Peter Gabriel, Ornette Coleman, Rufus Wainwright and Bobby McFerrin. This is one of several projects on which she has worked with composer and multi-instrumentalist, Richard Horowitz. Since first working together in 1981, the pair have forged a successful working relationship that has produced some wonderful work in cinema, television and beyond.
The Swimmer is a drama come slowly-putting-together-the-pieces-mystery, which finds a middle-aged executive spending a summer's day visiting various swimming pools in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood.The late 60’s film starts as a lightly sun-hazed quirky suburbian drama, before slowly but surely breaststroking its way into troubling realizations and crushing reality. It’s most certainly a distinctive and thoughtful film- which sadly didn’t find its audience at the time of release- but has since become respected for its charting of a man’s slow-but-sure unfold and being a strange/ glum satire of suburban existence. Here from Powerhouse is a new Blu-Ray release of the film- featuring a clean ‘n’ crisp 4k scan, commentary track, and a few other on-disc extras- with the set finished off with an eighty-page booklet.
Here’s a recently released 3inc CDR from UK’s Norfolk Trotter. It features a single eighteen-minute rapid ‘n’ roughshod wall craft-which nicely batters, bays, and buffets at ones sonic senses.
NullMind NilGirlfriend is a two-track wall-noise release from this British project who have a decidedly surreal-to-grotesque sexual-themed tilt to their work.
Hailing from Scotland Charlie Butler is a drummer and guitarist. Besides his solo work, he is a member of Cody Noon (alternative rock) and Mothertrucker (instrumental doom/post-rock). Haunted Moon resides in the more experimental side of Butler’s output. Finding deep ambient fused with drones and more.
Dunam is an Israeli duo who creating drone and ambient music. Their debut album, titled Zerem, was released as either a cassette/ digital release by Midira Records. The pair of Dana Dektor and Aviv Stem play electric guitar and no input mixer, respectively.
Ian Miller and Graham Scala (aka Collapse Culture) have no business making a dance record – but they did it anyway, and it’s great for it. Miller and Scala move in non-electro circles primarily, which is what gives Collapse Culture its charming, sometimes brutally comic, naivete. Like outside art for electronic music, or something..
The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism is the second full-length album from Blood Chalice- a brutally satanic blacked death/ prime-evil war metal project from Finland. It’s a twelve-track affair, which aptly blends more raging-yet-precise speeding battering’s, with mid-pace pummelling and even brief runs into tarry doom. All finished off with unholy guttural barks ‘n’ gurgles, and moments of blacked atmospheric/ ritual unease.
WHIRR severs us up two just over half-hour slices of walled noise craft from the decidedly mysterious Worship. The project theme all of their releases around the naked female form, and often add in quite creative tendencies to their work.
L.A Aids Jabber is one of the more bad taste focused/ bizarre films to appear from the 1990’s Shot of Video cycle. It’s part tame slasher, part detective drama, and part social commentary thriller. Here from the guys at Visual Vengeance, the retro low-budget/ SOV label of Wild Eye Releasing, is a new Blu-ray release of this rare/lesser-seen film. Featuring a director’s commentary, and a good selection of new extras- making it a must for any fan of SOV fare.
The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue is one of the early additions to the gore bound 1970’s-to-1980’s zombie film cycle. It mixes dread-filled unease with neck ripping ‘n’ gut pulling zombie action, all set in the lush green-yet- foreboding landscape of the British countryside. Here from the guys at Synapse Films here is a recent Blu-Ray release of the film- bringing together a new bold & crisp 4k scan of the film, two commentary tracks, and a good selection of other extras.
With the first instalment of Visions of Darkness opening up the world to the fascinating and extremely engaging world of modern, dark, Iranian music, Cold Spring/Unexplained Sounds Group return with a sequel, Visions Of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music): Volume II. WIth some acts carried over from the first release, the world is once again exposed to many unknown and talented artists/bands from this generally underrepresented region. While styles may change between artists, all the tracks are delightfully dark, although still deeply inspiring. Wonderfully curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella, this second, in-depth look at dark, ambient and experimental music in Iran is a vision for sure.
Directed by Brazilian film-maker Felipe M Guerra (13 Weird Stories, Canibals e Solidáo and A Maldicáo do Sanguanel ), Deodato Holocaust delves deep into the life and career of one of horror and exploitation cinema’s most beloved and controversial figures, Ruggero Deodato, the director of the most notorious of all the video nasties, Cannibal Holocaust.
Revenge Is Sweet is a compilation focusing on studio and live recordings of Crisis - the British punk band, which featured Douglas Pearce (Death In June), and Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus) in its line-up. The CD and 7 "vinyl release appears on Steelwork Maschine Records- who in the past has reissued some of Death In June’s back catalogue.
I Can Be Your Angle Or Devil is a recent two-track album from this Portland-based wall-making project. It takes in two forty-minute walls, the first featuring an unease & low-key ritualist undercarriage, and the second a more straightforward slice of HNW- which still has a slightly eerier undercurrent.
Black, Pink And Yellow Noises is a release that brings together scattered sonic elements, samples and electronic tones- all combined to create a fully charged & wholly rewarding cut-up sound collage. This is the debut collaboration between Frenchmen Marc Baron and Jean-Philippe Gross.