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Here’s a recent two-track release from UK-based sound-maker & academic Emile Bojesen. The two tracks are themed around the experimental and nihilistic poetic prose-centred novel 2002’s Bone Snare Bite by Michael Mc Aloran. With the sound moving between building electro scaping, and choppily textured yet moody noise-ambient crossbreeds.
Part mad doctor shlock, part softcore, and part lumbering sci-fi horror picture The Curious Dr. Humpp is a true late 60’s exploitation curio. The film shifts from the unsettling & wonky, onto the camp and kooky, through to the sleazed and surreally sensual. Here as part of 101 Films UK reissue of the AGFA cult film library is a region B blu ray release of the film- featuring a commentary track from Basket Case's Frank Henenlotte, and a few other extras.
After two demos, one in 2020 and one in 2021, Archaic Moon Mysticism is the official debut album from this Indonesian ultra-raw black metal project. It’s an eight-track vinyl LP, which largely focuses on extremely cold and glamouring BM, with a decidedly battering and desolate attack.
Rivers Of Filth is a three-track wall noise collab- bringing together Poland’s Sado Rituals, and Croatian’s Placenta Lyposuction. Each of the tracks slides in around the twenty-minute mark, and each is a grimly searing and sludgy oppressive ride into dense HNW form.
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Here we have a C30 textured noise split. On the first side, we have an example seared Industrial droned-out HNW from USA’s [untitled]. And on the reverse side, extremely pared back-yet engrossing static texturing study from Sweden’s Rien.
Manja Ristic is a violinist, composer, improvisational musician, multimedia artist, sound researcher and who in 2004, founded of the Association of Multimedia Artists ‘Auropolis’. Born in Beograd, Serbia, in 1979, Ristic currently moves between her home city and Korčula (Croatia).
Longtime collaborators and friends, Minamo (aka Keiichi Sugimoto & Tetsuro Yasunaga) and Asuna , teamed up for a blissed-out ride through slowly building tracks featuring a combination of electro and acoustic instrumentation.
Appearing in the late 1980’s Hell High is somewhat of a genre-blending pot. It mixes elements of flashback thriller, jaded brat pack teen drama, with rape-revenge nastiness and slasher tropes- all topped with flakes of parody, and a few grinds of oddly placed humour. Here from Arrow Video-both in the UK & stateside- is a new Blu-Ray release of the film. With the release taking in a new 2k scan of the film, a new commentary track, and a good selection of new and archive extras.
From the early 1980s, The Appointment is a British supernatural horror film that is knee-deep in uneasiness. It has a simple main plot regarding family man Edward Woodward preparing and then travelling to a business meeting, but it's heavy in premonition, dread, and at times almost suffocating sense of unease- making it more of a tonal/mood-fed horror film, than a formal narrative focused chiller. Here from BFI’s Flipside series is a Blu-ray release of this lesser seen brit horror picture- with a new scan of the film, and a good selection of extras.
Bekor Qilish is a one-man progressive black metal project that defies the stereotypes of bedroom black metal with high quality production, impressive musicianship and diverse, ambitious songwriting. Released on experimental black and death metal-focused Italian label I, Voidhange Throes of Death from the Dreamed Nihilism is the project's debut album.
Here we have a sonically varied & wonderful presented double CD release focusing on southeast Asia gong culture. Over the two discs, we find thirty-six tracks, with a good selection of different set-ups, with varying mood and intent to the tracks.
Pulse Music collects together the mid to late 70’s electro minimalism work from California composer and music editor John McGuire. It’s a four-track CD release- presented in a mini card gatefold, that features a stuck-on glossy inlay booklet- talking in writing about the pieces, McGuire himself and a few pictures/ paper score recreations.
Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue is Jess Franco’s 1969 adaption of the Marquis De Sade’s 1791 novel of the same name. The film stars Romina Power (Go-Go Tales, Mezzanotte d’amore and Murder by Music) as Justine, alongside Franco favourite Maria Rohm (The Bloody Judge, Eugenie and Venus in Furs) as her sister, Juliette.
Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty is a new five-track album from japanoise legend Merzbow. It’s a release that managers to blend highly rewarding & densely seared noise craft, with compelling layer detail, and feel of both angered rage & felt emotion- making it one of the more consistent and wholly rewarding releases to appear from the king of noise in some years.
NYC experimental musician Eric Copeland brings an interesting, eclectic, electronic groove record with Spiral Stairs. An engaging mix of off-kilter pop and electronica, this LP will get heads nodding, even if they're being scratched at the same time. A sonic departure from Copeland's other project, Black Dice, the seven songs on display here will certainly bring a smile to the listener's face.
From last year Girl with a Straight Razor is an arty, nearly dialogue-less neo-giallo. The just over-hour film features just a few actors- be they in person, or on the phone, with jarring and intense moments razor blade kills, mixed in with the largely lulling if grimly arty/fetish tipped drift- with the whole thing scored with an original giallo mocking soundtrack. Here from Rising Sun Media is a Blu-Ray release of the film- featuring two cuts of the film, director's commentary and a few other extras.
Strange Ways is a recent two-track release from ultra prolific San Diego walled noise project Koobaatoo Asparagus. One track is raw ‘n’ thickly crusty, and the other hollowed out and brutally baying.
Convergence of Happiness, a World at Peace is a walled noise split with a fiery and violent protest theme. And the two walls here- one from Tennessee Churner, and the other from Cincinnati’s Whore’s Breath, are both suitably searing ‘n’ battering examples of the HNW form.
Pablo Diserens is a Berlin based-field recordist, musician and visual artist. Her work is focused on non-human realities, attentive listening and possible forms of interspecies coexistence.
Trans Body Music is a two-track textured noise affair. And as its title suggests the tracks were created by the use of the artist's body, and in particular her thighs and breasts. Each track runs at spot on the ten-minute mark, with a blend of rubbing, buzzing, and lightly whistling to forking noise matter.
Io is a newcomer to the world of walled noise. It’s from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and seemingly released three or so releases thus far- with Bloody being one of them. This digital release on Poland’s Gates of Hypnos severs a single thirty-minute wall, which has a decidedly dense and drilling take on the wall form.
Wishbone Ash have been kicking around for over 50 years, they are pioneers of the twin lead guitar and have been an influence on a host of hard rock and metal bands that have followed in their wake, the likes of Thin Lizzy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and Opeth are just a few of the big names to have espoused their talents over those five decades. So, it’s great to hear that the band fronted by their only original member, guitarist-vocalist Andy Powell, are still out there touring and making new music, which brings us to this, their latest release. A double live CD recorded on two separate occasions, the first disc recorded at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California in April, 2018, and the second recorded at Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan 11 months later in March 2019.
I recall sitting in my best friend’s bedroom reading Daniel Clowes’s Eightball, when Engine Kid’s mind-altering rendition of John Coltrane’s “Olé” came on. Needless to say, I’ve been genuflecting at the unholy altar of Greg Anderson ever since. The first full-length release, Forest Nocturne, by Anderson’s solo project, The Lord, is well within the infernal spectrum of his previous work, especially Sunn O))), which makes the fine differences all the more present.
Almost exactly seven years since their last release (2015's Ageing Accelerator), Defect Designer is back with a fast, techy death EP from Transcending Obscurity, Neanderthal. Mixing in some grindcore influences to this release, the Norwegian quartet adds another dimension to their sound, and its quick, propulsive nature fits perfectly in EP format. Short, sweet, and blasting right to the point, Neanderthal is a wonderful showcase of Defect Designer's musical talents and songwriting ability.