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NEW INTERVIEWS WITH Anne Guthrie / Lutnahimat / Nathalie Bles / Nick Hoffman / The Truth About Frank / Tim Olive / Vicki Bennett / The Warm Digits / Andrea Pensado / Brandon Nickell / Mike Vernusky / Jesse Stiles / Wozzeck / Vialka / Architeuthis Walks On Land
144 pages, perfect bound, colour covers, B/W interiors.
NB: all but ten of the record reviews this issue have already been published on this blog; the texts are being recycled in this print publication. To compensate for this in some degree, the interviews (54 pages of 144 pages) are all new content. Plus drawings, photos, new cover scans, index…
Index to artists in this issue
(etre), 106@c, 112
A Band, The, 37
Abrahams, Chris, 110
Absolute Value Of Noise, 107
Achenar, 39
Aeroplane Trio, 12
Åkerlund, Lars, 107
Ali, Rashied, 14
Allen, Cory, 136
Allen, Marshall, 14
Ankersmitt, Thomas, 136
Anomali, 31
Antimatter, 37
Architeuthis Walks On Land, 143
Arev Konn, 136
Asano, Koji, 9
Beautiful Friend, 6
Belfi, Andrea, 141
Bellancourt, Max, 26
Belorukov, Ilia, 101
Bernhard Gál, 130
Bernier, Nicolas, 97
Bigg City Oorgastraw. 47
Billiam Wutler Yea, 108
Bionulor, 136
Bird Names, 5
Bohman, Adam, 46
Bosetti, Alessandro, 98
Bösmann, Karl, 133
Brasil And The Gallowbrothers Band, 141
Buckner, Thomas, 101
Bumšteinas, Arturas, 98
Burke, Dan, 140
Butcher, John, 100
Cardew, Cornelius, 97
Carney, Paul, 134
Castelló, Angélica, 142
Casu, Elia, 104
Chamæleo Vulgaris, 138
Chatham, Rhys, 138
Cheezface, 34
Chrysakis, Thanos, 111
Cindytalk, 134
Colin L. Orchestra, The, 3
Column One, 46
Cooper, Jerome, 15
Cough Cool, 7
D’Incise, 110
Davidson, Marcus, 105
Deison, 137
DeLaurenti, Christopher, 94
Demian Johnston, 8
Demonologists, 34
Denzler, Bertrand, 101
Diatribes, 103
DM&P, 102
Doodshoofd, 34
Duch, Michael Francis, 101
Eco D’Alberi, 15
Electric Orange, 41
Elektronavn Sacred Songbook, 19
EMB, 23
Emmer, Huib, 132
Én / Q. / Ahad, 143
Evans, Peter, 140
Failing Lights, 35
Fat Worm of Error, 49
Fell, Mark, 132
Fil, Edyta, 101
Filthy Turd, 32, 36
Fire In The Head, 37
Fongaard, Bjørn, 21
Frasconi, Miguel, 101
Frawley, Joe, 105
Friedl, Reinhold, 94
Friedlander, Erik, 100
Galloway, Vance, 142
Gardiner, Michael, 93
Gerard, Pierre, 110
Ghost Of 29 Megacycles, The, 137
Gord Grdina Trio, 13
Grimes, Henry, 14
Gröhn, Costa, 111
Gudnadóttir, Hildur, 17
Guionnet, Jean-Luc, 100
Gunnarsson, Guðmundur Steinn, 96
Gus Coma, 45
Gustafsson, Mats, 13
Guthrie, Anne, 139
Hamilton Yarns, 24
HATI, 7
Hatterud, Bjørn, 95
Hausswolff, CM Von, 96
Hearts Of Palm, 4
Heldén, Johannes, 17
Helhesten, 25
Herbert, Zbigniew, 48
Hills, 41
Hoffman, Nick, 9, 112
Holloway, Ian, 113
Huijbregts, Nico, 13
If, Bwana, 46
Inien, 102
Jackie Crab, 32
Jamka, 130
Jasper TX, 135
Jazzfakers, The, 7
Jazzfinger, 25
Jerman, Jeph, 113
Johnson, Tom, 112
Joinedbywire, 23
Julius, Rolf, 95
Jüppala Kääpiö, 17
K11, 22
KaiBorg, 106
Kawaguchi, Takahiro, 9
Kawasaki, Utah, 9
Kayaka, 10
Kemialliset Ystävät, 17
Keränen, 32
Kimura, Mari, 142
Kinetix, 134
Kobi, 19
Korber Prins, 130
Korperschwache, 40
Kowalczyk, Kamil, 112
Kristus Kut, 48
Labasheeda, 40
Laitinen, Juho, 101
Landry, Dickie, 92
Lapin, Alexey, 101
Larkin, Corey, 107
Le Berge, Anne, 93, 143
Lemur, 101
Liberez, 39
Lickets, The, 133
Loizillon, Guillaume, 105
Lontano: Homage to Giacinto Scelsi, 97
Lou Grassi Po Band, The, 14
Loubatiére, Rodolphe, 140
Lucier, Alvin, 93
Lumsdaine, David, 95
LUNURUMH, 22
Lutnahimat, 135
Lygo, Adam, 23
Maaaa, 31
Machida, Yoshio, 10
Machinefabriek, 113
Machinist, 113
Mackle Jackle, 32
Margolis, Al, 140
Marhaug, Lasse, 36
Maroney, Denman, 101
Matthews, Wade, 111
Melmac, 135
Mense, Lucia, 139
Merzbow, 30, 31, 32
Mink Stole, 8
MoHa!, 16
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa, 107
Morrow, Charlie, 92
MRI, 132
Murayama, Seijiro, 100
Murphy, Anthony, 23
Myself, 39
Nelson, Zac, 5
Nerfbau, 35
Neurobot, 143
New Blockaders, The, 31
Nickell, Brandon, 131
noisepoetnobody, 142
Non-Ferric Memories, 24
Nordwall, Joachim, 135
Noteherder & McCloud, 25
Nowitz, Alex, 94
Null, KK, 34
Old Time Relijun, 48
Olekranon, 8
Olive, Tim, 141
Orcutt, Bill, 3
Orning, Tanja, 97
Other Vultures, 39
Oval Language, The, 108
Pain Jerk, 49
Paranoid Critical Foundation, The, 3
Parran, JD, 14
PAS, 6, 7
Pascal Battus, 108
Pensado, Andrea, 138
Petrolio, 101
Phantom Heron Seas, 26
Phonotopy, 103
Physical Demon, 33
Pilesar, 7
Pinhas, Richard, 38
Pitchshifters, The, 10
Pitz, 15
Poino, 25
Pope, Odean, 12
Premier Roeles, 101
Preston, Martin, 23
Priest, Gail, 134
Pylône, 134
Quintana Jacobsma, 133
R/S, 132
Rant, 139
RedSK, 32
Riek, Lasse Marc, 110
Robair, Gino, 100
Robinson, Jason, 102
Rock’n’Roll Jackie, 49
Safe, 33
Saldanha, Jonathan Uliel, 44
Sanderson, Richard, 101
Schick, Ignaz, 141, 142
Schnitzler, Conrad, 95
Selvafiorita, Fabio, 106
Shoemaker, Matt, 136
Simonis, Lukas, 143
Sissy Spacek, 33
Sixteen Fingers, 33
Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers, The, 49
Spicer, Daniel, 25
Spruit, 133
st.ride, 131
Stampfel, Peter, 141
Static Tics, The, 47
Subtle Lip Can, 13
Sula Bassana, 41
Swamp Harbour, 133
Szczesny, Dawid, 142
Tazartès, Ghédalia, 45
Technical Drawings, 138
Tele.S.Therion, 22
Tenhornedbeast, 35
Tetragrammaton, 9
Theriault, Doug, 113
Tilly-Tô, Thomas, 111
Tiptons Saxophone Quartet, The, 13
Torturing Nurse, 30
Tracker, 41
Trawler Bycatch, 4
Tricoli, Valerio, 106
Trophies, 98
Truth About Frank, The, 24
Tuusanuuskat, 19
Ural Umbo, 36
USAISAMONSTER, 5
Vear, Craig, 111
Vernusky, Mike, 107
Vialka, 40
Vibravoid, 40
Vigroux, Franck, 140, 142
Vladimir Bozar ‘n’ Ze
Sheraf Orkestär, 46
Vomir, 31
Voudouris, Dimitri, 96
Vrakets Position, 16
Warm Digits, 23
Wastell, Mark, 36
Watson, Chris, 105
Wind Swept Planes, 7
Wooley, Nate, 140
Worm All-Stars, The, 141
Wozzeck, 47
XXXII Concorso Internazionale Di Musica Elettroacustica E Rumore, 108
Yukinori, Kikuchi, 141
Z’EV, 32, 34
Zanzibar Snails, 6
Zarzutzki, Aaron, 112
Zeitkratzker, 32
Zero Centigrade, 104
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Sozialistische Musiker Initiative: a quaint historical futuristic recording
Max
E Keller, Martin Schwarzenlander, Sozialistische Musiker Initiative,
Creel Pone, CDR CP059 (2006) Attractively presented with a reproduction
of what I presume is the original LP cover with the
Konstruktivist-inspired image of a red fist striking down a terrified
man (I’ll pretend that fellow is Rupert Murdoch – now that makes me feel
better!), this blast…
Read more »Astromancy: outsider avant-rock / pop with hiphop and funk rhythms and film-noir ambience
Fastest,
Astromancy, Galaxy Records, CD (2012) Misfit one-man band Fastest
returns with his seventh original full-length album to deliver yet
another sermon to the world. The music is a strange mixture of
deliberately awkward and lumpen funk rhythms played on old cheap
electronic keyboards from thirty years ago, synthesised percussion from
the same period with…
Read more »In Six Parts: cool and impenetrable exterior gives way to warmth and appetite for exploration
Tim
Feeney and Vic Rawlings, In Six Parts, Sedimental, SEDCD050 (2007) A
continuous improvisation of electronically-enhanced cello and open
circuits by Vic Rawlings chopped into six parts, aided by Tim Feeney on
percussion and mixers, this recording demands a fair amount of tolerance
on the listener’s part for unusual and often very tense, high-pitched
sounds,…
Read more »Sillage: a-hunting we will go in improvising duo’s tour of unknown territories
Brendan
Murray and Seth Nehil, Sillage, Sedimental, SEDCD029 (2007) Buried deep
in my collection and only rediscovered while I was spring-cleaning,
“Sillage” is a document of live recordings made by these two improvising
American musicians using a mixture of found objects, discarded tapes,
old reel-2-reel tape recorders and other recycled materials and
instruments at hand.…
Read more »Zond: free-form noise rock / punk that defies easy pigeon-holing categorisation
Zond, self-titled, R.I.P. Society Records, CD RIP012
(2010) Not quite a noise band nor a rock band, not quite free-form
improv but not peddling definite songs either, yet noisy and rocking out
and sounding structured and unstructured at the same time throughout,
this is the Melbourne-based psych-rock-noise outfit Zond. At least Zond
consists of four…
Read more »German Oak: claustrophobic bunker music is a trip into deep black inner space and time
German
Oak, self-titled, Flash Back, FBCD1001 Originally released in 1972 and
only selling eleven copies at the time (according to the Aquarius
Records website) due to its meditation on Nazi German rule and World War
II, this self-titled album by a German five-piece band has a very cold,
strange and dark echoing sound: all the…
Read more »Flak Planet: an intense journey of avant-garde jazz / industrial / post-metal force and energy
Combat
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without George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic company that does
all the pyrotechnical special effects but Martin Archer’s intense
avant-garde jazz / post-metal / industrial band supplies enough sonic
ordnance for the imagination to take off on a virtual journey into long
tours of…
Read more »Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone Pt. 1: a series of black metal / noise / improv soundscape nightmares
Aderlating, Spear
of Gold & Seraphim Bone Pt. 1, Consouling Sounds, CD SOUL0013
(2010) Aye, it be a series of soundscape nightmare dramas mixing black
metal, noise, drone and improv in no particular order or combination but
for all that, it’s strangely enjoyable and there’s actually an element
of tranquillity and peace within the roaring maelstroms.…
Read more »The Killer: not quite the killer techno dub experience it should be
Shed,
The Killer, 50 Weapons, 50WCD08 (2012) Well you wish this could have
been the soundtrack to that John Woo film of the same name that starred
Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat in which he and another guy as mafia
hit-man and maverick police officer respectively engage 300 gangsters in
a church and demolish them all including…
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Kiss
the Anus of a Black Cat, Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, Zeal,
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album up on TSP but finally I did it. A very stark and darkly melancholy
recording this is too, brimming with feeling too deep to fully…Nazoranai: a gripping and terrifying debut from Dark Overlord Keiji Haino’s new trio
Nazoranai,
self-titled, Editions Mego / Ideologic Organ, CD SOMA009 (2012) No
sooner had I heard of Keiji Haino’s revival of Fushitsusha and his
Fushitsusha-for-foreigners band featuring Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi
with their album “Imikuzushi” than news loomed ominously on the far
distant horizon that the Dark Overlord had yet another Fushitsusha-like
project called Nazoranai boasting…
Read more »Phase Two: acoustic guitar meets noise-glitch electronics on tiny release
Anonymeye,
Phase Two, Australia, Sound & Fury, 3″ CD-R, S&F011(2007)
Sitting in its tiny blank green sleeve among shelf-loads of more brash
CD recordings at the city record shop, this modest release could have
missed my eye as I perused the dull collection. Red Eye Records just
hasn’t been the same since Oren Ambarchi left…
Read more »Doom in Bloom: more bloom, less doom needed here
The
Botanist, Doom in Bloom, Israel, 2xCD Total Rust Music, TRUST025 (2012)
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eco-black metal dulcimer-playing horde The Botanist opts for a rather
different musical direction on “Doom in Bloom” which as the title
suggests is a doomy affair. Those first two albums were…
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The
Botanist, The Suicide Tree / A Rose from the Dead, US, Tumult Records,
2xCD TM244 (2012) Imagine that in the 19th century, inventor Charles
Babbage and programmer Ada Lovelace had managed to build their
difference engine and get it operating and ushering in the Victorian
computer age which, among other grand alternative technologies that
would…
Read more »Vantaa: Vladislav Delay at his warmest and most beautifully lush
Vladislav
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beautifully warm and lusciously textured dubby dance album, his first
for the Raster-Noton label. Frankly I don’t understand why R-N couldn’t
give this album the packaging it deserves: anything by Vladislav Delay,
let alone anything by VD man…
Read more »Behind the Throne: black metal / noise tornado is coming at us
Sutekh
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Sutekh Hexen’s first full-length album appear on our radar screens than
we were regaled again with news that a second album was also on the
horizon. “Behind the Throne” is short (only 30 minutes long) and there
are just two unnamed parts…
Read more »… On Sea-Faring Isolation: warm oceanic sound cocoon to float away in
Dolphins
Into The Future, … On Sea-Faring Isolation, Fonal Records, CD FR-84
(2012, Fourth Edition) Originally released on Not Not Fun Records back
in 2009, this reissue includes a bonus track lasting nearly 15 tracks
and comes with new artwork layouts by Fonal Records man Sami Sanpakkila.
This album is the kind of pleasurable New…
Read more »Drought: mighty black metal / post-rock fusion packed tightly into mini-album EP format
Deathspell
Omega, Drought, Season of Mist CD SOM810 (2012) Another mighty missive
from Deathspell Omega in the form of an EP and it’s a surprise in that
the band is expanding its sonic range into something more atmospheric,
doomy and emotional. Opening track “… I had a salowe vision” (sic) is a
brief yet astonishing…
Read more »Novaya Zemlya: less an urgent warning than a cold and sometimes scary polar ambient soundtrack
Thomas
Köner, Novaya Zemlya, Touch CD TO:85 (2012) It’s of great contemporary
significance that Thomas Köner has named this album “Novaya Zemlya”,
after the archipelago of two islands off the coast of sub-polar European
Russia north of the Ural Mountains (of which the islands are an
extension) which delineate the border between Europe and Asia.…
Read more »Ruins of Morning: a serene and mellow painting of a fresh beginning
Nadja,
Ruins of Morning, Broken Spine Productions (2010) Well, this is a
surprise for me: I had given up on Nadja for sticking to their usual
noisy ambient drone doom texture soundscapes but for once the duo give
us something a little like introspective country or folk post-rock. The
first half of “Ruins of Morning” reminds me of current Dylan…
Current listening
Posthuman: fresh and blistering fusion of industrial metal dubstep and groove
JK
Flesh, Posthuman, 3by3, CD 3by3009 (2012) First solo album released by
Justin K Broadrick under the JK Flesh monicker which he originally held
as a member of Techno Animal over 15 years ago and it’s an apt one
indeed as “Posthuman” is a blistering mix of industrial metal dubstep
and groove with that distinctive…
Read more »Sevenstars: Fennesz in an 18-minute nutshell
Fennesz,
Sevenstars, Touch, CD EP Tone44 (2011) Not much of an album here, being
only 18 minutes long, but at least it’s a solo Fennesz release (with
help from Steven Hess on drums) and not a release where the guitarist
has to share space with or play second fiddle to people who I regard as…
Read more »Theme: a singular recording of outsider music
Fastest,
Theme, self-released CD-R (2009) Now and again it’s my pleasure to chat
about some real outsider music from people who leave albums and EPs at
record shops like Aquarius Records as if these were abandoned waifs in
search of a good home. Such a foundling is Fastest’s “Theme” album and
very individual and eccentric…
Read more »The Ancient Method: blackened funeral doom metal in a tiny package
Monument
of Urns, The Ancient Method, Hand Hewn Timbre, 3″ CD-R (2005)
Mysterious and reclusive act Monument of Urns was in the habit of
releasing his music in the form of 3-inch CD-Rs of about 20 minutes in
length and this first album “The Ancient Method” set the template for
other Monument of Urns releases to follow.…
Read more »The Colonial Script (III): blackened doom drone metal meets dark ambient industrial / electronic dance music
Necro
Deathmort, The Colonial Script (III), Distraction Records, CD DIST25
(2012) Opening track “Imperial” is a real shock to the system: it starts
off very quietly and suddenly erupts into a monster fusion of dark
ambient industrial / doom drone electronica / dubstep with grinding
mechanical beats reminiscent of Godflesh’s glory days back in the early…
Read more »Deteriorated Broadcast: another dimension where strange drones and textures glide by in dark liquid ambience
Vertonen, Deteriorated
Broadcast, CIP, CDR16 (2011) A short series of muffled voices, as
though from an expectant audience gathering to watch a performance or to
participate in a seance perhaps, opens this CD-R; then all of a sudden
there’s a snap and we are abruptly plunged into another dimension of
existence, one that exists in parallel…
Read more »The Iron Soul of Nothing: beautifully hypnotic ambient drone music mystery
SunnO)))
meets Nurse With Wound, The Iron Soul of Nothing, Ideologic Organ, CD
soma005 (2011) My copy of “The Iron Soul of Nothing” comes as a bonus
with SunnO)))’s reissued first album “00 Void” on the Southern Lord
label; I wasn’t able to get it separately here in Australia. Nurse With
Wound’s remix of that…
Read more »This is Dubstep: double compilation set of dubstep is music for a new Dark Age Britain
Various
Artists, This is Dubstep (Expanded Edition), GetDarker, GD001CD (2010)
Ain’t my usual line of music reviewing business here but on seeing that
there’s another compilation of dubstep music by the GetDarker folks
being released in 2012 and I’ve actually had this double set for over a
year now, I thought I’d better say something…
Read more »Jerusalem: powerful stoner doom metal initiates listeners in a ritual aiming at a higher, richer plane of existence
Sleep, Jerusalem, UK, Rise Above Records, CDRISE 19
(1998) It’s taken me a lo-o-ong time to listen to any of Sleep’s old
recordings. I’m glad I started with “Jerusalem” as this is a good long
track combining slacker doom metal with an odd religious vibe courtesy
of the strange, doped-out lyrics that mix biblical and…
Read more »Sjukdom: consistent depressive urban black metal pop from Lifelover but have they hit a dead end?
Lifelover, Sjukdom, Prophecy Productions, CD PRO 113
(2011) “Sjukdom” sees Lifelover maintaining its consistency as suppliers
of depressive metal with a melodic pop bent. The metal part tends more
towards thrash and death metal lite on tracks like “Svart Galla”, “Led
by Misfortune”, “Totus Anctus” and “Karma” among others but apart from
this and some…
Read more »Extinction: powerful and bleak black metal fusion work of humanity’s destruction
Nekrasov, Extinction, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR86
(2010) Australian BM artist Nekrasov creates a powerful and bleak work
of humanity’s downfall in “Extinction”, mixing black metal, noise,
industrial and ambient influences in unequal parts. While there are four
tracks on the album that are just black metal, the actual amount of
time devoted to that…
Read more »Dextronaut: showcase of distinctive and deranged black metal pop songs
Velvet Cacoon, Dextronaut, Khrysanthoney Records, CD
(2010) The version of Velvet Cacoon’s first album under review is the
one released by Khrysanthoney in 2010 which features the original 9
tracks plus an extra song “When the Purest Flesh is Alive in a Heart
Full of Hate”. Apart from the cold and spooky ambient intro
“Bloodletting”…
Read more »Drowning Witches: restrained noise recording of oppression, foreboding and fear
Blue
Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita, Drowning Witches, Debacle Records,
CD DBL043 (2010) With a name like Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, you might be
forgiven for expecting some doomy rock’n'roll action from BSBC but
regular TSP insiders know these guys dish out a creepy blackened doom
noise racket; as for The Rita, you might…
Read more »A Collection of Depravation: hilarious splatter from sicko Swedish surgeons
General Surgery, A Collection of Depravation, Relapse
Records, CD (2012) For those who don’t yet know, General Surgery is a
Swedish band that traffics in the gore grind metal pioneered about
twenty years ago by the UK band Carcass. “A Collection of Depravation”
(sic) gathers up various split recordings, B-sides, demos and unreleased
session jams that…
Read more »R.I.P: travelogue of scenes of abstract electronic dub dance in a pleasant and cheery Hell
Actress, R.I.P, Honest Jon’s Records, HJRCD60 (2012)
I’ve become very fond of this UK act, headed by one Darren Cunningham,
responsible for all the little worlds of jewelled electronic beauty.
Each track is a portal to an incredible universe of psychedelic sound
gem tones, little science fiction melodies and unusual sinuous
rhythms. The best track on this…
Read more »Out of the Coma: Comus returns from long hiatus with new smoky jazz edge
Comus, Out of the Coma, Coptic Cat, NIFE 014CD (2012)
Out of the coma? – more like out of the deep freeze for this English
dark folk band whose last recording came out in the mid-1970s! And while
some people might prefer that the new Comus sound exactly like the old
Comus, one must allow…
Read more »Before Fire I was Against Other People: joys of dark electronica, industrial, drum’n'bass, dub rolled into one
Submerged,
Before Fire I was Against Other People, Ohm Resistance (2011) A
wonderful trancey recording that brings back memories of isolationist
acts like Techno Animal and its Sidewinder offshoot, Scorn and Porter
Ricks from the mid-1990s, “Before Fire I was Against Other People” is a
gritty, hard-hitting and robust update on that ole-time dub electronica…
Read more »The Second Coming: stoner doom metal meets retro-1970s rock with energy to spare
Church
of Misery, The Second Coming, Rise Above Records / Metal Blade Records
Inc, CD 3984-15077-2 (2012) This album is a reissue by Rise Above
Records in 2012 with a different, more creepy cover for a North American
audience. Easy to see why RAR’s Lee Dorrian likes this happily named
Japanese bunch who play melodic stoner doom metal…
Read more »The Path of Liberation from Birth to Death: an epic and majestic soundtrack of buzzing, noisy black metal fusion
Njiqahdda,
The Path of Liberation from Birth to Death, US, Pagan Flames Records,
CD (2011) Where to begin? Here be a complex album of long songs that
combine buzzing black metal, prog-rock, post-rock, ambient, acoustic
folk and even technical death metal, or so it seems. Njiqahdda has
crafted an epic that might well suit a post-modern Western feature film…
Read more Dust in our Mouths: a bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape
Wraiths, Dust in our Mouths, Aurora Borealis, CD
abx045 (2010) A bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape
that lasts nearly an hour, “Dust in our Mouths” is part of a trilogy by
the Scottish duo Wraiths, earlier recordings having been “Oriflamme”
(Aurora Borealis) and “The Grey Emperor” (At War With False Noise).
According…
Read more »I will Never Have the Right: minimalist power electronics album masks anger and frustration at world
Iron
Fist of the Sun, I will Never Have the Right, Finland, Freak Animal
Records, CD (2011) Iron Fist of the Sun (IFOTS) is the solo project of
musician Lee Howard who hails from Birmingham, UK, and as far as I can
find out, “I will Never Have the Right” is IFOTS’s second proper album
release.…
Read more »Hypnos: for once, the hype fails to live up to the music – wonderfully delirious and immersive
Mario Diaz de Leon, Hypnos, Shinkoyo, CD SHIN040
(2012) Third solo album for this musician / composer and apparently a
major departure from previous work which was a mix of electro-acoustic
instrumentation and power electronics, “Hypnos” is a wonderfully
delirious and immersive work done entirely with electric guitars and
synthesisers. This could very well end…
Read more »Hitoyogiri: almost easy-listening Japanese noisy psych-guitar rock with a blues touch
Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD
IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic
blues that I usually expect from the PSF Records guy, Miminokoto’s
“Hitoyogiri” maintains Japanese psych-guitar rock’s strangle-hold on my
fragile psyche. Generally the music on this CD is melancholy and
wistful, or at the very least has a dark, inward…
Read more »Elektra Bidasoa: little sense of power of nature versus machinery in experimental soundscapes
Francisco López and Xabier Erkizia, Elektra Bidasoa,
Ferns Recordings, CD ferns_stem_02 (2011) Environmental field recording
expert Francisco López teams up with Xabier Erkizia to go a-sailing down
the Bidasoa river in the Basque country to capture the sounds of
hydroelectric power plants and then independently convert these
recordings into two sets of abstract experimental musique concrète…
Read more »Hands That Pluck: not quite the sterling send-off it could have been
Caïna, Hands That Pluck, Profound Lore Records, 2xCD
PFL-082 (2011) This double CD set is Caïna’s swansong release and what a
way to go with nine originals and nine reworked songs. Andrew
Curtis-Bignell hired some big names including Imperial from Krieg,
Rennie Resmini and Chris Ross to help out on vocals and lyrics, and the
result can…
Read more »Ecailles de Lune: very pretty black metal / shoegazer pop
Alcest, Ecailles de Lune, Germany Prophecy
Productions CD PRO 106 (2010) Bands like Alcest sure do like to mock the
arbitrary boundaries separating black metal and softer, melody-based
forms of what was once was called indie shoegazer pop. One can combine
harsh music like BM, noise or industrial with melodic and sonically
smooth song-based structures…
Read more »Under the Eye: slurpy and eccentric black metal that’s open to other music genres
Ride for Revenge, Under the Eye, KVLT Records, CD
KVLT004 (2011) Finnish act Ride for Revenge traffic in a
filthy-sounding, slurpy, encrusted form of black metal that happens to
assimilate whatever bits and pieces of other music genres that take
RfR’s fancy and Under the Eye demonstrates this cosmopolitan side very
well: the opening track alone…
Read more »Artistry of Exhaustion III: a smooth but still quite dark ambient work
Carbonscape, Artistry of Exhaustion III,
www.carbonscape.bandcomp.com (2012) Another online ambient offering from
Tad Piecka who masterminds the black metal project Petrychor, this
follows on from “Artistry of Exhaustion II”, also available online.
Whereas that project drew on the sounds of nature, this offering takes
on orchestral music, space music and ambient music from the 1990s,…
Read more »Biokinetics: icy electronic dance music still as fresh and beguiling as ever
Porter Ricks, Biokinetics, Type Recordings, CD TYPE
100 (reissued 2012) Originally released by the Chain Reaction label in
1996, this reissued album by the Porter Ricks duo (Thomas Köner and Andy
Mellwig) still sounds as beguiling and mysterious as it must have done
sixteen years ago. Somewhere in my heart a small flame still burns…
Read more »Current listening
Dust in our Mouths: a bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape
Wraiths, Dust in our Mouths, Aurora Borealis, CD
abx045 (2010) A bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape
that lasts nearly an hour, “Dust in our Mouths” is part of a trilogy by
the Scottish duo Wraiths, earlier recordings having been “Oriflamme”
(Aurora Borealis) and “The Grey Emperor” (At War With False Noise).
According…
Read more »I will Never Have the Right: minimalist power electronics album masks anger and frustration at world
Iron
Fist of the Sun, I will Never Have the Right, Finland, Freak Animal
Records, CD (2011) Iron Fist of the Sun (IFOTS) is the solo project of
musician Lee Howard who hails from Birmingham, UK, and as far as I can
find out, “I will Never Have the Right” is IFOTS’s second proper album
release.…
Read more »Hypnos: for once, the hype fails to live up to the music – wonderfully delirious and immersive
Mario Diaz de Leon, Hypnos, Shinkoyo, CD SHIN040
(2012) Third solo album for this musician / composer and apparently a
major departure from previous work which was a mix of electro-acoustic
instrumentation and power electronics, “Hypnos” is a wonderfully
delirious and immersive work done entirely with electric guitars and
synthesisers. This could very well end…
Read more »Hitoyogiri: almost easy-listening Japanese noisy psych-guitar rock with a blues touch
Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD
IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic
blues that I usually expect from the PSF Records guy, Miminokoto’s
“Hitoyogiri” maintains Japanese psych-guitar rock’s strangle-hold on my
fragile psyche. Generally the music on this CD is melancholy and
wistful, or at the very least has a dark, inward…
Read more »Elektra Bidasoa: little sense of power of nature versus machinery in experimental soundscapes
Francisco López and Xabier Erkizia, Elektra Bidasoa,
Ferns Recordings, CD ferns_stem_02 (2011) Environmental field recording
expert Francisco López teams up with Xabier Erkizia to go a-sailing down
the Bidasoa river in the Basque country to capture the sounds of
hydroelectric power plants and then independently convert these
recordings into two sets of abstract experimental musique concrète…
Read more »Hands That Pluck: not quite the sterling send-off it could have been
Caïna, Hands That Pluck, Profound Lore Records, 2xCD
PFL-082 (2011) This double CD set is Caïna’s swansong release and what a
way to go with nine originals and nine reworked songs. Andrew
Curtis-Bignell hired some big names including Imperial from Krieg,
Rennie Resmini and Chris Ross to help out on vocals and lyrics, and the
result can…
Read more »Ecailles de Lune: very pretty black metal / shoegazer pop
Alcest, Ecailles de Lune, Germany Prophecy
Productions CD PRO 106 (2010) Bands like Alcest sure do like to mock the
arbitrary boundaries separating black metal and softer, melody-based
forms of what was once was called indie shoegazer pop. One can combine
harsh music like BM, noise or industrial with melodic and sonically
smooth song-based structures…
Read more »Under the Eye: slurpy and eccentric black metal that’s open to other music genres
Ride for Revenge, Under the Eye, KVLT Records, CD
KVLT004 (2011) Finnish act Ride for Revenge traffic in a
filthy-sounding, slurpy, encrusted form of black metal that happens to
assimilate whatever bits and pieces of other music genres that take
RfR’s fancy and Under the Eye demonstrates this cosmopolitan side very
well: the opening track alone…
Read more »Artistry of Exhaustion III: a smooth but still quite dark ambient work
Carbonscape, Artistry of Exhaustion III,
www.carbonscape.bandcomp.com (2012) Another online ambient offering from
Tad Piecka who masterminds the black metal project Petrychor, this
follows on from “Artistry of Exhaustion II”, also available online.
Whereas that project drew on the sounds of nature, this offering takes
on orchestral music, space music and ambient music from the 1990s,…
Read more »Biokinetics: icy electronic dance music still as fresh and beguiling as ever
Porter Ricks, Biokinetics, Type Recordings, CD TYPE
100 (reissued 2012) Originally released by the Chain Reaction label in
1996, this reissued album by the Porter Ricks duo (Thomas Köner and Andy
Mellwig) still sounds as beguiling and mysterious as it must have done
sixteen years ago. Somewhere in my heart a small flame still burns…
Read more »
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