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1 1. VINYLS * AMBARCHI, OREN - In the Pendulum's Embrace do-LP

(Southern Lord SUNNLP78, 2008) € 15.00 * AER - Project 7" (Touch Seven TS03, 2007) [lim. 500] € 7.00 Das 2007er TOUCH-Album erschien schon wenig später in edler AER ist ein neuer Name und doch nicht wirklich ein neuer Name, denn Aufmachung auf SOUTHERN LORD, dem SUNN O)))-Label! dahinter steckt JON WOZENCROFT, der seit Jahren für die TOUCH- "OREN AMBARCHIs In The Pendulum‘s Embrace (TO:78) kommt Releases die stilvolen Fotos macht & Covers designed. Sein Beitrag für daher mit wunderschönen Jon Wozencroft-Fotos als Touch-Touch. Und die neue TOUCH SEVEN 7"-Serie besteht aus sanfter aber volumiger mit nicht weniger schönen Titeln: ‚Fever, A Warm Poison‘, ‚Inamorata‘, auraler Klang-Watte & versteckten Mikro-Klangobjekten, speziell ‚Trailing Moss In A Mystic Glow‘. Verschleppte, nachdenklich- designed für Lautsprecher und Kopfhörer. verträumte, einzelne Gitarrennoten, Cymbalsirren, Glasharmonika- "Aer is the occasional recording name for Jon Wozencroft, art director drones, Atem beraubend! Ambarchi wagt sich auf Gefühlsebenen, and editor for Touch. Project began as a film soundtrack for The wie man sie sonst nur von Loren Mazzacane Connors oder Morton Overcoming of Hazard, by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, a 3-monitor Feldman kennt. Gebannt lauscht man, bis der letzte Nachhall verklingt. installation piece presented in the crypt of St. Pancras Church in Die Töne schweben wie Löwenzahnsamen, verwehen wie Rauch- London. It uses four atmosphere recordings, shortwave radio and an kringel. Fast leichter als Luft, und doch zu schwer für ein Herz allein. organ stop -- an attempt to confuse inside and out. Mixed with Mathias Fast 18 Minuten geht das so, ein Knacken, ein Beben, ein Dahindriften, Gmachi using Digital Performer, one side is for headphone listening, the sonor, rätselhaft. Wollte man danach greifen, gar festhalten, wäre da - other for speaker playback." [label notes] nichts, das man greifen könnte. Nur ein Vermissen, ein Phantom- "...AER concocts a darkly minimal soundscape of field recordings and schmerz. Wenn er der ‚Geliebten‘ nachsinnt, pflückt Ambarchi von den hushed melody. The sounds from the street outside, footstep, voices Saiten seiner E-Gitarre noch dunklere Noten, die dahin mäandern und talking, singing, sirens, thunder (or automobile backfires, or perhaps ein Echo wie einen Schatten, wie eine schwarze Schleppe hinter sich firecrackers), interwoven with strange clicking, machine like chatter, like her ziehen. Die Töne werden etwas dichter gesetzt und überlagern sich, a spinning bicycle wheel, random clanks and clatters, room noise and auf halber Strecke kommt Streicherklang (Veren Grigorov) als other sonic detritus, while beneath it all, warm whirring melodies drift up Begleitung dazu. Es hört sich anfangs fast wie ein Akkordeon an, das from below, adding nuance and mood to what might otherwise be a Trübsal bläst. Harmonie und Resonanz breiten sich aus wie die Farben straight field recording, a rhythm way off in the distance or buried way auf Rothkobildern. Beim Track ‚Mystic Glow‘ mit seinem sonoren, fast down in the mix, is sometimes discernible, but only barely, and in fact, stehenden Dröhnen und Wummern harft der australische Melancholiker could be a trick of the ears, random sounds falling into place, creating auch noch auf einer Akustikgitarre. Und stimmt in den letzten 2 Minuten not-really-there rhythms. But it hardly matters, we hear them, and they einen Singsang an, der rückwärts zu laufen scheint. An sich ist Touch offer a sort of ghostly structure to the proceedings. Quite nice, and we kein Hort für blaue Blumen. Ambarchis Tristesse ist jedoch so can’t wait to hear more." [Aquarius Records review] mitternachtsblau, wie es blauer nicht geht." [Bad Alchemy]

"OREN AMBARCHI continues his otherworldly investigations with In * AETHENOR - Betimes Black Cloudmasses LP (VHF Records The Pendulum’s Embrace, a kind of dark twin to his landmark 2004 111, 2008) € 14.00 album Grapes From The Estate. Returning again to the hallowed halls Zweites Album dieses Projektes mit ihrem instrumentell-improvisierten of BJB Studios in Sydney, Ambarchi expands the scope and range of "Psychedelic Noir", überwiegend ruhig & dronig & minimal, his unique musical language, incorporating an even broader palette of durchbrochen von vielerlei konkreten Objekt- und Instrumenten- instruments and sensibilities. Despite the use of glass harmonica, Geräuschen, sowie ekstatisch-perkussiven Zwischenparts... hat was strings, bells, piano, percussion and guitars, it’s startling that the world verwunschenes, fabulöses, bannendes... created is still unmistakably his own, and that there is such a cohesion "Betimes Black Cloudmasses is the highly-anticipated second album of vision throughout the albums’ three lengthy pieces. With this record from Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (SUNN0))), KTL), there’s an even more tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). Like their genre- and audience- sounds as light as air mingling with wall shaking low-end. The confounding debut Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light, Betimes is converted already know the kind of trance inducing euphoria of an atmospheric, constantly changing piece that encompasses a mind- Ambarchi’s music. Newcomers will be scouting the back catalogue." boggling array of different performance and processing techniques. The [label info] deeply psychedelic and moving results present a soundstage that is continually evolving, with new elements entering and leaving the fray * AMBARCHI, OREN - Destinationless Desire 7" (Touch Seven TS every couple of seconds. 05, 2008) [lim. 500] € 7.50 Betimes includes significant contributions from free percussionists "Electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorised Nicolas Field and Alex Babel, who sprinkle the sound field with an cymbal recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs almost FMP-style rush of splattering drum sound, raising the intensity of made at home 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D the music (without resorting to bashing). The album also features a brief Hegenbart. This is the 5th in the series of Touch Sevens - 7 vinyl only but affecting vocal from Ulver mastermind Kristoffer Rygg, who made releases. 7 vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. his first live appearance in over a decade when Aethenor played the Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a Roadburn Festival in April 2008. Aethenor's third LP, featuring vocals fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a healthy and lyrics by David Tibet, will be released in Autumn 2008. popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a 'Musically, Aethenor summon the most somnolent examples of Bernard vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and Parmegiani, Organum, Nurse with Wound, Klaus Schulze, Igor indeed there is an element of the rear view mirror... the generation of Wakhevitch, Coil, Iancu Dumitrescu, and Charlemagne Palestine. Touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong Acousmatic drones ebb and flow into crackling and bubbling sonic emotional attachment to it. This series is more than that... an overtly clusters. Lulling piano motifs and lamenting chants shimmer into distant critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work lunar horizons while oscillators spin and drove serenely into which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of unchartered audial regions. Sometimes as calm as a silvery sea, so that a locked groove, the A & the B and the additional dimension of the every gentle cat's-paw and lapping wave is deafening. Sometimes as visual counterpoint. As for the aspect of audience participation, we tempestuous as a fuming lava beach, spitting and popping at the choose not to specify the RPM on the label, encouraging the listener to surface.' -Daniel O'Sullivan " [label info] experiment with playback options and personal preferences. An attempt

to make music that works at both speeds. The front cover might actually * AMBARCHI, OREN / LASSE MARHAUG - Worried Friends 7" nd be the back cover..." [label info] (Pica Disk PICA002, 2007) [2 ed. 200 copies] € 8.00 "...Using electric guitars, organ, bells, samples, percussion and "october 2007 release; a pair of “piano music” pieces, acting as the motorized cymbal (!), Ambarchi has created to dramatically different debut collaborative single from two of contemporary experimental pieces. The A side is a woozy, washed out underwater sounding music’s most prolific/consistently rewarding practitioners; oren ambarchi loopscape, peppered with record crackle (unless that’s coming from and lasse marhaug... those of you expecting something on par with the record player, either way, it sounds great!), like a slightly maurizio pollini’s reading of satie’s gnossiennes might be a little jauntier, less melancholy Oval, major key melody, all softly sunshine- y, shocked to find instead a fierce 12+ minute inside-piano scrape-fest, a dreamily hypnotic stretch of soft swirl that could go on forever. hedged with bursts of live-electronic feedback & a “hot” fidelity familiar The B side is much darker, long streaks of shimmery low end from any number of david tudor recordings... yet at the same time not beneath haunting slowed down vocals, mournful and mysterious, the too far removed from the new blockaders’ whole gesamtnichswerk; this vocals and the guitar drift and shift, all wound up in and around is anti-music at its finest... not something for strict followers of oren’s each other, throughout, bits of electronic glitchery, smears of muted friendly/subdued sine-guitar throb, nor lasse’s harsh wall of electronic buzz, snippets of conversation and dialogue, but all that stuff seems sound; but definitely one for those whose preferences fall in the noisier to be woven into an undulating backdrop for Ambarchi’s ghostlike end of the electro-acoustic composition/improv spectrum... " disembodied blues. [Mimaroglu] As always, packaged in super striking thick matte sleeve with

2 gorgeous photos and layout from Touch head honcho Jon Wozencroft." mit "Another World" eine Fünf-Track-EP vor. Die teilweise surreal [Aquarius Records review] anmutenden Songs thematisieren die Zerstörung der Welt und ihre mögliche Errettung, das Cover von "Another World" zeigt die * AMBARCHI, OREN - A final Kiss on poisoned Cheeks LP japanische (Butoh-)Tanz-Legende Kazuo Ohno, fotografiert von Pierre- (Table of the Elements Am95, 2008) € 16.50 Olivier Deschamps." [Indigo] OREN AMBARCHI's Beitrag für die neue "guitar series" auf TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS: vielschichtige Poly-Drones, bestehend nicht nur aus * AOSUKE - Monotone Spirits LP (Meudiademorte MDDM11 / Gitarren-Tönen sondern auch aus elektronischen Kontakt- und Audiolith Records AL019, 2006) € 12.00 Störgeräuschen & sich windenden Feedbacks; ein sehr komplexes "Die beiden Hamburger Ulf Schütte und Tobert Knopp (Turbostaat, Ex- Stück, lebendig und elektronisch ausstrahlend in 1000 verschiedene Endmonster) mit ihrem anderen Projekt. So ungefähr klingt ein Blick mit Richtungen. Wunderbar auch, wie es dann allmählich mit glockenhellen einer 100fach vergrößernden Hörlupe ins Reich der Insekten. Altes Klängen versetzt ausklingt.. AMBARCHI in Höchstform. Himmelblaues elektronisches Equipment, geloopte Akustikgitarren, dazu im Vinyl. Hintergrund kreuchelnde unruhestiftende Effekte. Psychedelischer "There is a vivid breadth to the guitar deconstructions of Australian Ambient in der Tradition von Krautrockern wie Neu oder Faust oder Oren Ambarchi. Sometimes his work takes a delicate lilt; it can also dive Epigonen wie Black Dice. 4 Tracks." [Flight 13] into dark and deep pools of sound when he joins cowl-core ensembles "aosuke's new album "monotone spirits", which has been released as Sunn O))) (with Stephen O'Malley) and Burial Chamber Trio (with Greg collaborative work of the labels audiolith and meudiamorte, is highly Anderson). Whether with those bands, solo, or in collaboration with recommended to all lovers of classic ambient sounds as all four tracks luminaries ranging from Mike Patton and John Zorn to Christian which are paving their way through a total running time of about 36 Fennesz, he consistently reroutes his instrument into zones of arch, minutes feature floating, totally beat-less structures of organic ambience alien abstraction. A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks offers a dizzying influenced of what my be called a slightly post-postrock'ish attitude if the gaze straight into a chasm of extreme frequencies -- paint-peelingly simple use of processed guitar sounds can be regarded as rock- high and bowel-churningly low -- all set atop a sub-strata of menace, reference. if not, it's just ambient at its best." [label info] angst, and contemplative beauty." Pressed on light-blue marbled, etched vinyl. B-side etching artwork by Savage Pencil." [label info] * A SILVER MT. ZION - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons do-LP "...Still essentially a dronescape, A Final Kiss is rife with sonic (Constellation Records CST 051-2, 2008) € 18.50 activity, so much so that in lesser hands it would be more of a mess, Die derzeitige Vorzeigeband des Montrealer Labels (da es GODSPEED a sort of pretty-ish noise record, but Ambarchi, takes all manner of nicht mehr zu geben scheint) klingt auf "13 BLUES" noch weitaus buzz and glitch, of scrape and hum, and weaves it into a strangely wütender, aggressiver, rockiger & lauter als man es gewohnt war. lyrical arrangement. The core of the piece is a thick, undulating low Geblieben ist das verzweifelte Pathos und die ausschweifende bis end drone, a muted Niblockian shimmer, that seems not to change so mitreissende Psychedelik, die immer wieder zu wunderschönen much as shift, reflecting different colors and sounds depending on the Instrumental-Passagen führt, denn noch immer sind diverse Streicher angle. Over this nearly constant thrum, exist a veritable universe of im Kollektiv dabei. strange sounds, streaks of feedback, cricket like electronic chitter, "Nachdem sich die komplette Band hinter Silver Mount Zion über die moaning throbbing swells of guitar rumble, brief blurs of warm soft letzten drei Jahre etwas rar gemacht hat, kommen sie nun umso focus fuzz, layers of crumbling distortion, all of the various eindringlicher um die Ecke. Doch der Reihe nach; denn unsichbar elements constantly shifting and blossoming, collapsing and then waren sie beileibe nicht. Als Silver Mountain Reveries oder The Silver blooming again, creating a super organic flow, another instance of Maountain Elegies Play War Radio suchten sie diverse Clubs in leaving the instruments on the stage, guitars against amps. amps wecshelnden Bestzungen heim, zuweilen unterstützt durch Hangedup, cranked, although here it seems the instruments have come to life, and oder als abgespeckte "Kammer"-Version. Und dann natürlich nicht we are glimpsing their secret lives, as the communicate musically, zuletzt als Backing Band des famosen Vic Chesnutt auf seiner kürzlich telling some sort of story, exchanging mysterious messages, which absolvierten Tour. Das alles jedoch konnte nicht den Hunger der Fans while indecipherable to human ears, still manage to sound magical. nach einem neuen Album des Montrealer Künstlerkollektivs stillen. Und Guitardrone freaks will, well, freak! Subtly heavy, darkly hier ist es nun: das neue Album. Nie zuvor waren SMZ eindringlicher, drone-y, slightly noisy, rich and dense and textural. Really gorgeous. nie zorniger und nie mächtiger. Die Basis dieses Albums ist mehr als je And totally recommended. zuvor: DAS Riff! Vom Blues, den es im Titel trägt bis hin zu zornigem Pressed on swirled turquoise vinyl. One sided, the other side Noise und wieder zurück zu ausufernden Klangkaskaden - zwei with a super bad ass etching, housed in a thick vinyl sleeve, and of Gitarren, zwei Violinen, Cello, Kontrabass und Drums können nicht course, as always LIMITED!" [Aquarius Records review] irren! "13 Blues..." ist Donnerhall und Sturmwarnung zugleich - es ist laut und doch fein arrangiert. Kurz: es ist absolut zwingend!" [thee * ANTLERS MULM - Of Withered Sparks LP (LOKI Foundation unknown reviewer] LOKI47, 2007) [lim. 222 copies] € 15.00 "The music of the full band (two guitars, two violins, cello, contrebasse "Our hopes, our flesh, our tears... are draped like dead birds in the and drums) has grown louder, looser, full of spittle and tears. On 13 skies"... Different from most other LOKI-artists, ANTLERS MULM Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever. appears to be much more song-oriented, doing a kind of dark electronic Anchored by new drummer Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup), the band works pop-music, but very refined, minimal, deeply melancholic & quiet. its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and Reminds us a bit on TWICE A MAN or TOR LUNDVALL at times, but ferocity. Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on- with a much darker singing.. the-floor punk dirge of "1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound" or "The third album of ANTLERS MULM opts for deep resonating tones exploding in sheets of free noise and melody on "Black Waters that are harmonious and hypnotic with a greater emphasis on Blowed", the band has never rocked harder and has never sounded percussion, and the massive foray into song based structures. Dark more determined, desperate and driven. A stuttered blues riff is the Beats and phantasmagorial Melodies are melting into an intense foundation for the album's title track, making its appearance after a atmosphere guided by the outstanding voice of the father of shadows blisteringly minimalist intro. "Engine Broke Blues" features a gorgeous Hans Johm. Throbbing samples enriches this compositions to a set of chords that build inexorably from multiple guitar, string and organ homogenic masterpiece. These 10 songs are catching the mood of the lines." [press release] warm feeling of being at home and creating a landscape of a coruscant kingdom that lies deep within the lyrical and musical expression. These * AUTECHRE - Quaristice do-LP (Warp Records 333LP, 2008) tracks building melancholy on the most song based LOKI release ever - € 16.50 take a deep breath and get lost in this aural world of ANTLERS MULM. "....Ein weiteres ist, wie konsequent und unbeeindruckt Autechre seit Limited digipack and vinyl version (222 copies) released in January mehr als 15 Jahren ihren Weg gehen. Ihren Wurzeln treu bleibend und 2008." [label info] dennoch extrem wandelbar ist die Musik der beiden Briten. "Quaristice" führt mit seinen insgesamt 20 Tracks die experimentellen Klang- * ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - Another World 12" (Rough spielereien, die seit ihrem Album "Confield" 2001 im Vordergrund Trade, 2008) € 12.50 stehen, nun fort. Allerdings ist die ganz noisige Note wieder aus den "Dramatische Texte, surrealschöne Töne: EP des New Yorker Tracks von Autechre verschwunden. Songwriters. Er brauchte nur zwei Alben, um zum Kultstar zu werden: Zarte Melodiefragmente gehören wie bei "Altibzz" gleich zu Beginn und Antony Hegarty, kurz Antony. Dabei hat sich der New Yorker dem den beiden letzten Tracks "Notwo" und "Outh9X" zwar durchaus zum anspruchsvollen Kunstlied verschrieben, singt neoromantische Balladen guten Ton auf "Quaristice". Dazwischen lassen Autechre ihre zu leisen Pianoklängen, traurige Epen, in denen sein leicht nasaler Prozessoren aber gerne mal von der Leine und jagen ihre Sounds die Tenor dominiert. Zu seinen musikalischen Freuden, mit denen er schon Gehörgänge der Zuhörer hoch und runter. Zunächst einmal Duette sang, gehören Lou Reed, Leonhard Cohen und Björk ebenso schmeicheln Autechre ihrem Publikum mit den oldschooligen wie Boy George, Hercules and Love Affair und Rufus Wainwright. Um Breakbeats von "The Plc". Die einbrechenden Soundfetzen leiten die Wartezeit bis zum dritten Album zu verkürzen legt uns Herr Hegarty

3 bestens über zum verstörenden "lo", das nur dank seiner schrägen Edel Vinyl-Edition der amerikanischen Wiederauflage des quasi ersten Vocals mühsam in Struktur gehalten wird. MARTYIN BATES Tapes DISSONANCE von 1981, zu der wir Computermusik bedeutet bei Autechre, die Limitierung herkömmlicher bemerkten: "Völlig verschieden von dem späteren Songwriting, stehen Instrumente in der Komposition hinter sich lassen zu können. Eine diese Sounds noch voll in der Spätsiebziger Post-Punk und Industrial- Maxime, der sie auf "Quaristice" einmal mehr treu bleiben. Ein bisschen Tradition, mit rauhem low-fi Noise und Instrumental-Sounds (v.a. mehr Commitment zum Dancefloor zeigt das Duo normalerweise bei Gitarre & Synths), Gesangexperimenten, etc.. aber auch schon ruhigere seinen seltenen Live-Shows. In diesen Tagen sich Autechre wieder folkige Elemente die an den späteren MARTYN BATES erinnern, mit unterwegs. Die beste Gelegenheit sich einmal im Club die Sounds von seiner typischen Delay-Orgel und gezupfter Gitarre, sind vorhanden... " Sean Booth und Bob Brown durch den Körper fahren zu lassen." "The more definitive American version was released as a cassette ASR [Daniel Straub / LAUT.DE] 009 in the US in 1981 and dropped the Migraine Inducers moniker and "Autechre, one of Warp's best known artists, return with Quaristice, a the "Antagonistic Music" title extension. It was now referred to as vast, sprawling masterpiece that will galvanize their dedicated and Martyn Bates' "Dissonance" and released in an edition of 100 cassette sizable fanbase. With Design Republic back at the helm of art direction, copies and became known as "Dissonance Americas"." [discogs info] Quaristice will be an album that impresses sonically but also visually. "Edition of 150 copies on 220 gram vinyl. Freed from layers of sand, the This warmer analog masterpiece recalls some of Autechre's most ancient seal is cracked and the stone portal pried away. A hoary classical material. Quaristice is an enveloping blanket of Autechre's blizzard of slowly settling dust and mold is finally sliced by the first skewed sound science." [label info] tantalizing glint of a mythological cache. At long last a lost experimental classic from the earliest days of the UK DIY movement is delivered from * AUTOPSIA - Silently the Wolves are watching 7" (Illuminating legendary obscurity. "Violent anti-music: I think this is a brilliant Technologies IT008, 2007) [lim. 500] € 7.00 tape...hauntingly beautiful and totally refreshing sound." So wrote Geoff The Czech Industrial-pioneers are back with this 7" combining (neo)- Rushton (aka Jhon Balance) in a 1980 issue his Stabmental magazine classic sounds with at times rhythmic & weird electronics, quite about Martyn Bates' "Dissonance" cassette. Originally released as a idiosyncratic. The covers shows a Jesus on the cross with a wolf-head. micro-edition in the UK in 1979, the more definitive American version Some sources say this 7" is inspired by PASOLINIs film "Porcile", and was released as a cassette in the US shortly afterwards. "Dissonance" the "wolf man" case of FREUD. Numb. ed. 500. presaged Martyns solo career and his work as part of Eyeless In Gaza in a most unusual way. Rather than directly suggesting what was to * BÄCK, SVEN-ERIK - Electronic Music LP (Fylkingen Records come, the cassette, instead, suggested a composing and sound FYLP 1021, 1978) € 15.00 AESTHETIC that exists to this day. That first cassette-only cri-de-coeur Original-Kopien dieses Klassikers der schwedischen elektronischen & would have you believe that Martyn would be the next Nurse With experimentellen Musik! Wound. Instead, rather like a more extreme Vice Versa or Human "Sven-Erik Bäck was in his versitality unique among Swedish League, with Bates literally finding his voice, the later music (solo and composers. Since his debut in the 1940´s, he was regarded as a radical with Eyeless In Gaza) evolved into a textural, fractured, DIY chamber avantgardist and since Bäck was also a performer, the musical result pop INFORMED by the avant-garde, occasionally straying back into became most interesting. Since his first electronic work - In Principio outright experimentalism (Pale Hands I Loved So Well, eg.). That (1970) Bäck produced many electronic as well as instrumental and Eyeless In Gaza (and lets not forget Peter Becker) and post 70s Martyn vocal compositions. He also combined music with other media such as Bates manifested from "Dissonance" makes this bizarre and essential dance and visual art." [label info] release even more of a precious find. If Martyn had not recorded another note, this would still stand as an extremely important early, * BARBED - Through the Barricades 10" (Auf Abwegen incredibly forward thinking moment of sonic exploration. Dynamic, travel_document # 6, 2008) [lim. 500] € 9.00 visceral and jagged but musical and deliberately constructed, "Barbed are Alex Burrow and Alex McKechnie. They formed in London "Dissonance" captures, maybe even defines the zeitgeist of the DIY in 1988, and spent the next six years working on their album". Thanks attitude that was rising in the heady days of the late 70s and early 80s. to the amazing patience and encouragement of These Records (or An undeniable antecedent and a true revolution." [label info] Recommended Records as they were known then) the album finally appeared in 1994. Where it got reviews, it got great reviews, but * BEEQUEEN - Sanddancing Demos 10" (Important Records otherwise it fell on deaf ears. Shortly afterwards, the term IMPREC177, 2008) [lim. 300] € 13.50 'plunderphonics' came into being and Barbed were taken in by this new Schwester-Release zur aktuellen CD, auf der 10' sind Demoversionen gang. Happy to be accepted somewhere (even though they had no & frühe Mixe enthalten, sowie ein unveröffentlichter Track! interest at all in the genre) Barbed tagged along and collaborated in "The Sandancing Demos 10-inch, as its title suggests, contains the arduously long concerts with Negativland, People Like Us and the Tape original ideas that birthed BEEQUEEN’s wonderful new album Beatles, resulting in a few live recordings and some subhuman contact. Sandancing. Includes original versions, rough mixes and home demos, Meanwhile, they continued producing low quantities of high quality plus an unreleased track. Limited edition of 300 copies packaged in material, and generally wasting time on dead ends. Around 1998 heavy duty screen printed jackets by MONOROID." [label info] disaster struck and Barbed joined the band Add N to X (it was supposed to be just one concert but they ended up staying a year). No * BELONG - Same Places (slow version) LP (Table of the recordings survive from this period. Another, more successful diversion Elements Cu96, 2008) € 16.50 came in the form of a collaboration with Joram ten Brink. They spent Auch die Experimental Gitarren-Droner von BELONG sind in der neuen more than a year doing the soundtrack for his arthouse classic 'The "Table of the Elements"-Vinylserie vertreten! Man muss sofort an eine Man Who Couldn't Feel', which divided audiences at the Berlin Film rein instrumentale und weniger Song-basierende Version von MY Festival in 1997. In the ten years between the album and now, they've BLOODY VALENTINE denken wenn man sie hier hört, aber der leaked their material out to various compilations, live records & remixes, Rausch- und Dissoziationsfaktor ist noch grösser, die Klänge and in 2000 a single appeared on elevatorbath records. So here we are verschwinden teilweise regelrecht hinter einer Nebelwand, lösen sich in in 2007. That upbeat 2nd record is finally out on LOaF, plus a collection verbilbte Fragmente auf wie ein altes Foto. Die Atmosphäre die entsteht of eccentric short pieces on this pleasing ten inch on aufabwegen." ist unvergleichlich! Klares Vinyl, Etching, JIM PLOTKIN hat gemastert. (label info) this is #6 in a series of travel documents issued by the "With Same Places (Slow Version), Belong evinces a slow-motion ministry of detours of the kingdom of elgaland-vargaland [krev], edition transformation -- plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt of 500 copies." [label info] into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but * BASS COMMUNION - II do-LP (Tonefloat TF42, 2007) [lim. underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of 500] € 32.50 obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Edle Edition des zweiten B.S.-Albums von 1999 mit Bonusmaterial, im Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering Gatefold-Cover & auf weissem Vinyl, lim. 500. euphoria, inexorably intertwined." Pressed on etched sea-foam green "a release both steven wilson and tonefloat were looking forward to was vinyl, etching artwork by Savage Pencil, London 2008." [label info] a vinyl edition of bass communion's second album from 1999, if only for "... A warm, washed out, dreamy, delicate, gauzy blurred woozy drift of the superb carl glover artwork. it is with pleasure that we now announce pixilated sound. Jeck, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, all those guys have a lavish double vinyl edition of bass communion ii, which collects the six nothing on Belong. If anything, Belong take those sorts of sound and tracks from the original 1999 cd release plus wide open killingfeld part 2 transform them into something more organic, more amorphous. "Same and wide open killingfeld part 3, exclusive to this release. by tradition, Places" sounds almost like actual people playing actual guitars, instead the album comes with a superb gatefold picture sleeve. the edition of of something assembled on a computer. Layered and dense, the 500 copies only comes on white vinyl." [label info] melodies obscured by thick swells of fuzzy whir, the fact that this is the "slow version" does explain how gorgeously glacial it sounds, and how * BATES, MARTYN - American Dissonance LP (Beta-lactam Ring many of the tones do sound like someone with their finger on the vinyl Records mt197lp, 2008) [lim. 150] € 20.00 slowing the record player down to a crawl, but all that does is let the

4 lowend sprawl, the melodies become even more abstract, pulled apart, pure and magic live action, divided in four long tracks taken from the and slowed down to the point where their constituent parts almost original live recordings. BLACK MAGIC DISCO's logo comes from the separate and drift away, almost. Instead, it’s an underwater whirl, pencil of Roberto Opalio; the gatefold jacket CD artwork, curated by everything shimmery and indistinct, the sound as you sink deeper and MCIAA contains some band photos taken during the live performances deeper into the abyss, but instead of getting darker, the sounds begin to included in the record." [label info] glow from within, bathing you in their unearthly light. So totally "... This is a music that grows out of the faith each performer puts in gorgeous. Pressed on thick clear vinyl. One sided, the other side with whatever they may come up with ? by the simple act of listening & a super bad ass etching by Savage Pencil, housed in a thick vinyl reacting to one another in the most profound and dedicated way. Again, sleeve, and of course, as always LIMITED! " [Aquarius Records review] one of its greatest achievements lies in the fact that it is able to sustain a body of sound that is as intense as it is delicate; something which, in * BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & LAND USE - TSE-K LP (Small Voices my opinion, is truly unique. SVV011, 2007) [lim. 340 copies] € 14.50 Accordingly, this is not just a testimony to the talents of the Nach der schönen "Psychoneurose" schon die zweite Zusammenarbeit aforementioned musicians, but also one of the most passionate love von LAND USE mit BIANCHI. Zwei lange dark-drone Stücke, sanft letters MUSIC has received in quite some time. How can THIS not be walllende sub-marine akustische Massen in denen sich alles verliert: essential? 10/10" [Francois Hubert / Foxy Digitalis] Stimmen, Sirentöne, Klackern, tauchen am Rande der Wahrnehmung auf um in endlosen Weiten wieder zu verschwinden... * James BLACKSHAW - The Cloud of Unknowing LP (Tompkins "Maurizio Bianchi is back on vinyl! A new special limited edition from Square TSQ1974, 2007) € 13.00 Small Voices and the father of Italian industrial music, together with Wunderbar gezupfte Gitarren-Ambience des Londoners JAMES Land Use from Holland in this new chapter of his legendary career. An BLACKSHAW, sublim und hypnotisch, mit Begleitung von Viola, oppressive meditative obscure early-industrial symphony based on two Glockenspiel, Cymbals. Sein bereits sechstes Album. monolithic pieces of thick throbbing stuff. A long deep trip into the "When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string guitar, darker meanderings of the human mind... good luck!" [label notes] something spiritual takes place. Performing and recording since 2003, his name is frequently mentioned as one of the foremost modern solo * BIRDS BUILDS NESTS UNDERGROUND - Night Night LP (Love acoustic guitarists. Now at the age of 25, Blackshaw, an untrained Nest LN0001, 2007) [lim. 333 copies] € 13.50 musician born and still residing in the suburban environs of Greater This duo with the obscure name is a kind of turntable-ism project from London, draws as much inspiration from early religious music, South- Prague, fans of PHILIPP JECK or ERIK M. should check this out! Asian folk music and composers such as Arvo Part, Simeon Ten Holt, "Prague-based turntablist duo BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine as he does from John Fahey, (Petr Ferenc and Michal Brunclík) creates music based on putting the Robbie Basho and the early Takoma Records roster, constantly sounds from crackling vinyl records into new situations. Prepared and breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited manipulated LPs are sources of fragments and soundscapes; their medium. In his part improvised and part written songs, Blackshaw future use is influenced only by aesthetic point of view. Birds Build makes expert use of Eastern and Western scales, chord changes Nests Underground are not a post-modern project searching for pop- reminiscent of European classical music and incredibly intricate cultural references and quotes, thein aim is to write beautiful, somehow fingerpicking patterns to make a sound that is both challengingly mysteriously familiar songs. They call they approach MUSIC UNDER minimalist, yet warm and approachable to anybody who might hear it, MUSIC – exploring the detail through the microscope of repetition and with a rare sensitivity that conveys immense beauty, hope and speed change. sadness." [label info] BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND played their first concert in 2003, since then they have played in numerous festivals of industrial, * BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS - Uncle Billy 7" (DANHUSER Org. noise, contemporary music and urban electronics (Stimul, Alternativa, KIA DAN 001, 2007) [lim. 356 copies] € 10.00 Prague industrial festival, Art’s Birthday, Noise NoD etc…). They have "This, possibly sperm influenced, off-milky white seven inch is the latest contributed to various compilations, written music for two films by between album output from Massimo and Pierce of the Black Sun American director Joseph Cahill and for a theatre performance Silence Productions collective. Sex Magik seems to play a lesser part in these – No Technology. Since 2007 the duo has collaborated with a film- two pieces, being noticeably shorter than their recent material on their maker Martin Ježek whose manipulation with 8mm film footage ön two last few long-players. projectors is close to BBNU’s analogue aesthetic and searching for the Eschewing the melancholy of the double disc The Impossibility of charm of found elements. Silence release they have moved into an electronic semi-operatic BBNU’s debut album Night Night was recorded in 2005 and is released mode. Massimo’s voice is the main, and most enjoyable, ingredient as a 12-inch vinyl in numbered edition of 333 on the band’s own label here, steadied now into a sonorous, deep vocal. His warm cavernous Love Nest. Two of the four compositions are soundtracks for Joseph wails at the climax of “Uncle Billy” merging with the very European Cahill’s silent films. Hospital section was created in collaboration with sounding violin’s reaching string fingers to provide what must be a Prague-based noise project Seismic Wave Factory." [press release}] raging spectacle when performed live. The underwater pounding thump is overwhelmed by his vocal, the siren strings exacerbating the * BLACK MAGIC DISCO - same do-LP (A Silent Place ASP27, expressed loss. Apparently this Burroughs tribute track is the first fruit of 2007) € 19.50 a collaboration with Bahntier (who sound like post-industrialists from the "double LP couloured vinyls (vinyl 1solid RED / vinyl 2 solid WHITE); little I’ve heard) and I look forward to hearng more. Both tracks here comes in a luxury gatefold cover, including a huge 70x100 cm. poster have Massimo filling the songs with a human heart, mollifying the (by Roberto Opalio drawing); BLACK MAGIC DISCO ARE: sharpened edges of the music. TOM GREENWOOD / psych-blues guitar, turntables. The addition of Roberto Budelo’s violin is an excellent counterpoint to ROBERTO OPALIO / electrogalactic guitar, space toys, astral toy- the mutating precision of Pierce’s electronics. This more organic work keyboard, piano toy, percussions. following and filling the sound of the speeding clicking beats of “His MAURIZIO OPALIO / electric alien guitar, cosmic rays effects, mini- Secret Secretions”. It’s worth also noting that this is probably the best xylophone, percussions. bassline that the pair has created yet, a simple forward-moving piece RAMONA PONZINI / Japanese vocals & hypnotic chimes. that’s fixed to the beats. They’ve come a long way from the ghost boys. Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood Their musical equivocation and ongoing evolution means that it’s (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An difficult to predict where this duo will come from next." [Scott McKeating, Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Brainwashed] Praxinoscope). The project was born out of an idea from Tom Greenwood, founder leader of the avant-folk-blues ensemble Jackie-O * BODIN, LARS-GUNNAR - Clouds LP (Fylkingen Records FYLP Motherfucker, who invited Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka the Italian 1020, 1977) € 15.00 improv duo My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), and their close collaborator Letzte Original-Kopien dieses Klassikers der schwedischen Ramona Ponzini (also involved with the two brothers in the projects elektronischen Musik! "CLOUDS" wurde erst kürzlich auf CD named Painting Petals On Planet Ghost and Praxinoscope, as well as wiederveröffentlicht; eine Art multimediales Drama aus Musik, Gesang, in the new collaboration with Z'ev) to perform with him for two months of Tanz-Performance, Dia- und Filmprojektion. Eine komprimierte Fassung touring throughout all Europe in May/ June 2005. As one can imagine, (ca. 45 Minuten) wurde als LP veröffentlicht, mit auffallend schönen the result was killer. The music which came out of the live performances Synth-Drones & vokalpoetischen Elementen & Gesängen, mit absolut was totally explosive, combining Ramona's Japanese vocals & hypnotic visionärer Qualität. chimes with Greenwood's psych-blues guitar attitude & wild turntablism, "Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of over MCIAA's alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys & those who during the first half of the 60's tried to integrate elements of percussions, creating a still unheard mixture of sounds unifying archaic different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, & post-modern, western & eastern, sky & earth. This debut CD actions, projections etc. represents a unique chance to experience almost 80 minutes of that In 'Clouds' (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama

5 involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and the cocking of a gun; but it doesn't seem like Burial is taking aim at his film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened audience. Rather, it's metaphor for the cold, inhumane existence in the version of Clouds, especially created for this medium." [label info] grimy parts of London, where violence is just another thing to shrug at and move beyond. All of these sounds are clearly present in Burial's * BURIAL - Untrue do-LP (Hyperdub HDBLP2, 2007) € 16.00 debut album, but the "euphoric" part of Untrue's intention is found in Vinyl-Version, Erstpressung mit falscher Track-Reihenfolge auf Burial's use of voice. Taking a cappella tunes sung by his friends Backcover! ".... Mit Untrue liegt nun ein weiteres Meisterwerk des (sometimes, left as a voice mail on his cellphone), Burial has crafted an jungen Südlondoners vor, der es vorzieht, anonym zu bleiben, statt sich eerie cast of disembodied vocals, twisted into cybernetic R&B croons, einem Medienhype um seine Person oder gar einem Personenkult all clipped and compressed in the same manner as his pistol-whipped auszusetzen. Burial klang nicht zuletzt wegen dem Coverbild snare cracks. It's as if the human voice alone can transcend the dire futuristisch düster, erinnerte an Bladerunner, an eine durch ewige circumstances of our earthly confines, even when the songs reflected Regenwolken verdunkelte Stadt, in der es keinen Unterschied zwischen broken dreams and a dwindling hope. Burial seeks out the fleeting Tag und Nacht mehr gibt. Cover von CDs oder Platten prägen den moments of beauty and raw emotion, codifying it through his Klangeindruck immer mit, vor allem wenn es sich um eine sehr eigene impeccable craft on this very impressive and soon to be iconic oder neue Musik handelt. Untrue arbeitet stärker mit Vokal-Samples recording. If you're not hearing it from us, you'll hear from somebody und schafft den Hyper-Soul, den ein paar Jahre zuvor Jamie Lidell um else: Burial's Untrue is the best record of 2007." [Aquarius Records] Haaresbreite verpasst hat, weil er klassizistisch geworden ist und plötzlich wie Al Green und andere Soul-Grössen klang. Hier definiert * BURIAL CHAMBER TRIO - same LP (Southern Lord SUNN 80, einer den Soul auf einer neuen elektronischen Ebene. Die Vocals 2007) € 15.00 bestehen aus Samples, deren Pitch (Geschwindigkeit und Tonhöhe) Der akustische Fahrstuhl zur Hölle, umgesetzt von diesem neuen Trio verändert ist. Die Stimmen sind deshalb geschlechtlich nicht mit dunklen Gitarrenwänden und gutturalem wie krächzendem zurechenbar und wirken vergeistigt wie Selbstgespräche, wie Mantras, I Gegröhle, eine Mischung von SUNN O))) und KHANATE könnte nicht envied you girl, I envied you girl, I envied you girl, I can take my eyes off fieser klingen, und aus diesem Umfeld kommt die Band auch ! you, I can take my eyes off you, I can take my eyes off you (Near Dark) "A brand new collaborative project featuring Australian experimental oder nach dem Intro das erste Stück Archangel: Holding you, good at guitarist OREN AMBARCHI, legendary Hungarian vocalist ATILLA being alone, good at being alone, good at being alone. Die Vocals sind CSIHAR (MAYHEM), and Southern Lord himself GREG ANDERSON zudem in weite Echoräume gestellt, was den Eindruck von Gebeten (SUNN O))), GOATSNAKE). An unholy alliance of massive subsonics unterstützt. Die Beats sind fast immer etwas holprig, allerdings deutlich and rigor mortis-inducing doom destruction." [label info] weniger als auf dem Erstling. Ein drittes Element dieser Musik (neben "Two sidelong tracks, vocals, guitars, bass, and electronics, Vocals und Beats) sind die verwendeten Aufnahmen von with Anderson trading in his axe for a bass guitar, Side A begins Umweltgeräuschen, die den Stücken ein abstraktes Setting geben. with swirling clouds of FX, electronics, weird processed vocals, Im Ganzen ist dieses Album eine Sammlung von einsamen Gebeten before Ambarchi's guitars roll in, sounding not at all unlike eines Engels, der seine Klagen und Hoffnungen an andere einsame SUNNO))), huge and buzzing, left to drone and rumble and pulse, a Engel richtet, ohne zu wissen, ob diese ihn erhören. Ich glaube, er ahnt blackened mysterious slow motion riff, dripping and crumbling over die Unmöglichkeit dieses Versuchs, was sich in einem noch the black abyss. Speaking of black, this wouldn't have sounded at all vehementeren Rückzug aus der Kampfzone niederschlägt. Er gibt nicht out of place on Black One, strangled vocals, the churning riffage, auf, sondern versucht es mit noch grösserer Innigkeit. Im The Wire the black ambience, near the end of the side, everything erupts into Interview bestätigt Burial, dass seine Tracks das Verlangen nach einem a furious melee of processed guitarnoise, swooping electronics, Schutzengel zum Ausdruck bringen, der über einem wacht, wenn man damaged voices, everything hissing and whirring and rumbling and spät in der Nacht keinen Ort mehr hat, wo man hingehen kann, ausser shrieking before fading out completely. zu McDonalds, und wo man auch keinen Anruf mehr entgegennimmt The B side is much more tranquil, almost no vocals, even more (siehe die Coverillustration). Eines der Alben dieses Jahres!" [Christian SUNNO)))-like, the same basic ingredients as the first side, but more Schorno] spread out and blissed out, the guitar a slow motion wall of sound, "After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub, cutting a huge swath through a sea of buzz and drone, an endlessly Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The hypnotic ur-drone, that ends up sounding more spacey and psychedelic new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral but still plenty heavy... female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. Vinyl only. Amazing black gloss on are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their black matter artwork by Seldon Hunt. " [Aquarius Records review] content becomes irrelevant and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void. * BURIAL CHAMBER TRIO - Wvrm pic-10" (Southern Lord UNTRUE continues with the first album’s crackle drenched yearning SUNN 87, 2007) € 15.00 and bustling syncopations haunted by the ghosts of rave, but also ONLY VINYL IS REAL! Erst einmal fällt die beeindruckende Cover- reveals some new Burial treats with a more glowing, upbeat energy. Artwork von SELDON HUNT auf, zusätzlich zum SPLATTER-igen UNTRUE kicks off with the skittering 2step syncopations and vocal picture-vinyl gibt es noch gold & schwarz bedruckte klare Inlays, sehr science of ‘Archangel’, ‘Near Dark’ and ‘Ghost Hardware’, before passend zum dem unglaublichen tief-morastigen Sumpf-Bass-Drones descending into a space of radiant divas and ambience. While Burial’s die hier erzeugt werden, man meint die hohe Lautstärke mit denen hier first album was humid, suffocating and unrelentingly sad, UNTRUE is die Verstärker in Schwingung versetzt wurden immer noch zu spüren, less sunless. Many of the tracks are so sweet, they become toxic, alles steht kurz vor dem ZERBERSTEN, und irgendwo da drin in diesen underscored by the almost geological rumbles of growling basslines. tiefen Feedbacks ist eine menschlichähnliche Gestalt die ächzt & Whereas the mood of Burial’s first album was overpoweringly stöhnt, ein sterbendes Monster... DIE BESTIE IST LOS! melancholy, its now better described as a downcast euphoria typified by Selten einen so tiefgrunzend-abartigen Sound vernommen... the epic, muted optimism of the album’s last track ‘Raver’. Forget In der Tat, auf 33 klingts noch besser als auf 45, und es dröhnt central heating. The radioactivity of this album is all that you’ll need to länger.... so LIEBLICH! keep you warm this winter." [label description] "The Burial Chamber Trio is: Oren Ambarchi (Guitar, Analog "Record of the year, 2007. As far as some of us are concerned, Electronics), Greg Anderson (BASS/subsonics) & Attila Csihar (Vokills, there's no question. Burial's first album was an eponymous release on invokations). Live recordings from the groups performance in Kode 9's Hyperdub imprint and really came out of nowhere. Here was Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wurm. this amalgamation of British dance tropes (e.g. dubstep, 2-step 10"Picture disc // with original art and packaging design by Seldon Hunt. garage, darkcore drum & bass, etc.) into a magnificent exercise in Two transparencies with gold ink/printing on them." [label info] mood engineering. Even though an urban malaise echoes through the "....For this outing, Ambarchi and Anderson are credited with sub bass whollop bass-bin rattle of most dubstep, that first Burial record death throb, while Attila is responsible for undead voices. And that's mined a melancholy whose dramatic power has never been heard in pretty much what it sounds like, sub bass throbs with haunting undead dubstep, and rarely matched even by such downbeat experts as vocals woven into the heaving roiling mass. There seem to be some Massive Attack, Boards of Canada, Slowdive, or even Joy Division. guitars in there too, maybe some electronics, but it's hard to tell, it's all So with his second album Untrue, the aesthetic framework for smeared into a single swirling blackened mass. When we first listened Burial remains intact; yet the anonymous figure behind Burial has to it, we played it at 33 (which we're assuming now is NOT the right admitted that he was seeking a "downcast euphoria." You know what, speed, so hard to tell sometimes), and we thought, wow, this is even he fucking nailed it. All of the sounds retain the first album's urban slower and sludgier than ever, but once we figured out it was meant to dourness reverberating through each electron and washed drone. The be 45, the sound reverted back, closer to the sound of SUNNO))) or the hovering basslines which once stalked the darkest of jungle's rhythms older records of their forbears Earth. Slow motion riffage, glacial and are ghostly presences flickering around Burial's atypical drum thick, massive and blown out and super distorted, muffled and murky, a programming, which by his own admission is done by hand without the sluggish sprawl of caustic crumbling guitars, the vocals barely audible, aid of a sequencer. The clipped, 2-step breakbeats always appear as a haunting raspy growl way down in the mix, often just sounding like

6 another buzzing bassline, hum and fuzz, dense and intense, all melted lend themselves readily to an electroacoustic composition incorporating down into a viscous black crawl. Occasionally, the random bits of riffage human utterance. Whether the composition is heard as a sacred work and low end rumble coalesce into truly gorgeous harmonies, lovely and or not depends very much on the ear of the listener. I chose to follow chordal, like some blackened church organ, but for the most part, this is the thought process of Chion where the 'intention was not to deliver a the sound of guitar tones allowed to ring out forever and beat against message or a manifesto whether pro- or anti-religious. Rather, the piece each other, the air filled with oscillating overtones and strange tonal is a personal testimony, in which I invite the listener to project himself, if colorations, all beneath a patina of thick black buzz. he should like to dwell in this music of his experience and sensibility.' Amazing cover art as well, a gross out gutted worm picture disc, with [Paul Dibley] a transparent skull and bugs insert on one side, and another sick silkscreened artwork overlay on the thick plastic sleeve, all courtesy of * CHOPIN, HENRI - La Plaine des Respirs LP (Tochnit Aleph Mr. Seldon Hunt. TA073, 2007) [lim. 491 copies] € 14.50 Recorded live, in January of this year, in Holland. And of course, you Recht neue Aufnahmen des französischen Sound-Poesie Helden, kurz had to know this part was coming: LIMITED TO 3000 COPIES!! And if nach der Veröffentlichung dieser LP verstarb HENRI CHOPIN... it's anything like the other Burial Chamber record, it will sell out FAST." Organik, Stimme, Lunge, Bruitismus PUR! [Aquarius Records] "Latest works by legendary french sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004. * CARTER, TOM & VANESSA ARM - What is here for ? LP (A Mastered and cut june 2006 by Rashad Becker / D&M. Edition of 491 Silent Place ASP05, 2007) [ed. 515 copies] € 14.00 Copies in glossy printed outer- and innersleeve, with text by Henri Die CHARALAMBIDES-Hälfte in Zusammenarbeit mit VANESSA ARM - Chopin (original french, plus english & german translations), and > zwei lange flächige Improvisationen bestehend aus analog- photography by Florence Gonot-Yterce. elektronischen Vibrato-Tönen & Carters "Lap Steel" Gitarren-Drone- 1. Prologue LES SOUFFLES (11’08) Arbeit, genaustes Zuhören belohnt mit feinsten konkreten Details. 2. LA PLAINE DES RESPIRS VIVACE COMME IL SE DOIT (28’40) "Limited Edition of 515 copies. First 110 copies released as coloured 3. Finale LES RÉPRESSIONS CASSÈES (20’02) (brown) vinyl. Including a small insert. Contains two long and deep duo "Henri Chopin (1922, Paris, France) is an avant-garde poet and cuts of univibe-era lap steel/ electronic tone generator improvisation, musician. Henri Chopin is a little-known but key figure of the French one side recorded live and stamped w/ the indelible mark (ie, the #15 avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century. Known primarily bus rumbling by) of Bullbabe Studios, Austin TX (the odor of sweat, as a concrete and sound poet, he created a large body of pioneering lone star, and barbeque is palpable). The sounds: monolithic serenity recordings using early tape recorders, studio technologies and the infused with a deep breath from the void, as peaceful and violent as a sounds of the manipulated human voice. His emphasis on sound is a mountain range. A shame that this configuration is so underrepresented reminder that language stems as much from oral traditions as from in the discography, as the mesh of T&V's playing is so instantly classic literature, of the relationship of balance between order and seismic... Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, chaos. which he co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in Chopin is significant above all for his diverse spread of creative 1991. Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and achievement, as well as for his position as a focal point of contact for collaborations. His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal the international arts. As poet, painter, graphic artist and designer, Brattleboro FreeFolk festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and typographer, independent publisher, film-maker, broadcaster and arts musical excursions (on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston promoter, Chopin's work is a barometer of the shifts in European media Moore, Dredd Foole, the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower between the 1950s and the 1970s. His publication and design of the Recordings, and Double Leopards, among others. Vanessa Arn classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between became a member of Boston/California/Texas group Primordial 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, Undermind soon after Tom's brief tenure in the group. The potential for images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international mountainous difference tones between the lap steel and the triwave contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and tone generator (a custom built synthesizer) was immediately apparent Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, to all parties, and Tom suggested a collaboration (which was greatly William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of assisted by the fact that Tom and Vanessa were at the time next door survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel neighbors). A sole performance and a handful of recordings ensued and Janco to a fresh audience." [label release notes] the results are here for your perusal." [label info] * CINDYTALK - Camouflage Heart LP (Wheesht Scratch 702, * CASTRO, NICK & THE YOUNG ELDERS - A Day without Disaster 2007) € 15.00 10" (A Silent Place ASP25, 2007) [lim. 100] € 19.50 "Camouflage Heart", das Debütalbum von CINDYTALK, erschien 1984 Romantischer Folk mit Harmonium & wunderbar gezupften und verband Post-Punk mit frühem Industrial, elektronischer Musik und Akustikgitarrren & elfenhaftem Gesang - dies ist die limitierte Auflage dem düsteren Gesang von Gordon Sharp, einem Musiker aus auf goldenem Vinyl, mit Goldpräge-Cover und goldfarbenen grossem Edinburgh, der unter anderem auch mit THIS MORTAL COIL Inlay / Poster. zusammenarbeitete. David Clancy, John Byrne, und BIRTHDAY "A Day Without Disaster is the newest chapter in the musical PARTY Mitglied Mick Harvey sind auch auf dem Album dabei. adventures of Nick Castro & The Young Elders. The group has spent "Cindytalk don't deal in conventional forms. This is demanding music, the last year recording and touring the world while honing their skills yet infinitely reachable and rewarding. (...) Cindytalk, really, sound both in the studio and on stage. This EP, on Italian label A Silent Place, unlike anyone else I can imagine, offering real invention and ignoring is a glimpse into the ever-evolving minds of NC & The Young Elders, old, oft-trodden paths." [Robin Gibson, SOUNDS] which are dwelling somewhere between the romantic male/female Re-issue of this outstanding & rather unique sounding album, available duets of Richard & Linda Thompson and the exotic worldly as LP and CD ! arrangements of the Incredible String Band. With their focused sensitive touch, unusual acoustic textures, gentle wordplay and ensemble * CINDYTALK - In this World do-LP (Wheesht Scratch 703, interaction The Young Elders are traversing the folk world and leaving 2007) € 20.00 large shoes to fill. Their latest efforts meet paths with psychedelic Nach "Camouflage Heart" von 1984 verschwanden CINDYTALK für vier sirens, Turkish rain calls, celtic ghost stories and realizations of the Jahre in der Versenkung, die sie allerdings damit verbrachten, das natural world. They've created a sound where the harmonium and saz epische Nachfolgewerk "In This World" zu schreiben und aufzunehmen. coexist with blaring electric guitars and close vocal harmonies. The "In This World" erschien als zwei separate Vinyl LPs, die beide "In This Young Elders are currently comprised of members Wendy Watson, World" betitelt, aber mit verschiedenem Cover Artwork ausgestattet Ryan Kirkpatrick, Christof Certik (member of Winter Flowers) and guest waren. Die Neuauflage erscheint als Doppel-Vinyl oder einfache CD. Jeb Lipson. Though often lumped in with the "freak-folk" genre Nick ""In This World" is a noble venture. It's every inaccessible racket you Castro has been transcending such labels since most of these new could imagine but creeps gently in on the delectable title instrumental folkies were still playing indie rock." [label info] before kicking you in the navel with a hybrid broth of Motorslug, Swans, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, and generally alienating cacophonies." [Chris * CHION, MICHEL - Requiem LP (Sub Rosa SRV251, 2007) € 13.00 Roberts (Melody Maker)] Vinyl-Wiederveröffentlichung einer der besten Arbeiten des französischen Komponisten: REQUIEM ist eine intensiv-dramatische * CIRCULAR & INADE - Deep Space Illumination LP (Skogholt nr. Tour de Force mit viel vokalem Material (meist auf griechisch oder 2 , 2008) [lim. 333] € 16.00 lateinisch), aufgenommen im März 1973 in den GRM-Studios in Paris. Cosmic deep drones & dark ambience at its best from these two Schöne Edition im Klappcover. german outfits, CIRCULAR use more spacey synth drones for their " Reissue of this mythic '70's release. The sacred connotations of a sound-explorations, whereas INADE build an as usually own dimension requiem were obviously an important basis for the choice of the text. of their own. Great power and strong emotions are suggested by the Latin text and

7 "Release in the SKOGHOLT special vinyl series is a fine document from remixte Version des Songs "The Beautiful Dancing Dust" ist, veredelt the live performances of Circular and Inade which took place in duch ANTHONY's (& The JOHNSONS) Stimme. Die EP is als auf 1000 December 2007. Four tracks by each project in superb quality. All Stück limitierte Vinyl-Edition erhältlich sowie auf DualDisc, deren DVD- material was directly recorded from the mixing desk and is mastered by Seite zwei Videos des Künstlers CAM ARCHER enthält. // Secretlab. Limited edition of 333 copies." [label info] Four tracks featuring two different remixes by JG Thirlwell of the track "Black Ships Ate the Sky" and the Matmos remixes of "The Beautiful * CLUSTER - Cluster '71 (Water) LP (4Men with Beards 4M140, Dancing Dust" and "Black Ships Ate The Sky." [press release] 2007) € 17.50 "Nachdem Conrad Schnitzler (KRAFTWERK, TANGERINE DREAM) * DATASHOCK - Untitled LP (Qbico 74, 2008) € 17.00 1971 die Band verlassen hatte, die ursprünglich KLUSTER hieß, Schöne LP dieses mehrköpfigen Drone-Kollektivs -> Aufnahmen aus machten Dieter Moebius und Hans-Joachim Roedelius als CLUSTER Darmstadt & Bratislava 2007 wo sie sonore Breitwand-Drones mit weiter und veröffentlichten dieses Album. Am äußeren Rand dessen, perkussiven Elementen & archaisch wirkenden Gesängen verbinden. was als ,German Space Rock" bekannt werden sollte, steht ,Cluster' Eine Mischung aus elektronischen & akustischen Soundquellen tönt 71" als Manifest der ,kosmischen" Musik. // Dieter Moebius and Hans- durch dichte Ur-Suppen-artige akustische Nebelwände, das ganze Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster released this, their first album after erzeugt eine wunderbar rituell-trancig-ekstatische Atmosphäre.. Conrad Schnitzler (Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream) left the group originally Auf dem renommierten italienischen QBICO-Label, braunes Vinyl! known as Kluster, in 1971. On the outer edge of German space rock, "German neo-hippie-spook-folk collective with no fixed line-up, a policy, Cluster '71 stands as a testament to minimalist 'cosmische' music. The which suits their without-portfolio sound down to the ground. three untitled tracks are exploratory, ever-changing pieces which focus Datashock strays away from the instrumental template towards a more on guitar distortion and synthesizer wails. This album deserves the shamanic (and shambolic) conjuring of ancestral voices from an many accolades it's been given, and holds up as an early landmark in array of junk electronics, effects pedals and DIY tape manipulation rigs. the history of beatless ambience." [label notes] With the label heads of Meudiademorte & Tape Tektoniks and Marcel Comes in gatefold-cover ! Türkowsky." [website self description]

* CLUSTER & ENO - same CD (4Men with Beards 4M141, 2007) * DATASHOCK & SHIVERS - Vol. IV 12" (Textile Records TVS11, € 17.50 2008) [lim. 300] € 12.50 " "Cluster & Eno" wurde 1977 als Pionier des Ambient aufgenommen "There is no constant line-up, as the group is joined by new members und vereinte gleich mehrere Legenden der progressiven Elektromusik: every now and then. Their music is defined almost entirely by BRIAN ENO, der zu der Zeit mit DAVID BOWIE, ROBERT FRIPP und psychedelic multidimensional live-improvisations stemming from 70ies ROXY MUSIC arbeitete; Dieter Moebius und Hans-Joachim Roedelius Kraut-rock influenced by contemporary electronic music and psychotic alias CLUSTER und Conny Plank, der mit allen von NEU! über ASH RA dronescapes. As a result we find complex layers of sultry muffled TEMPEL bis zu DEVO aufgenommen hatte. ,Cluster & Eno" vereint die vibrations met by heavy waves of electronic sound experiments and Musiker, deren Einfluss noch heute bei solchen Acts wie APHEX TWIN, strangely disfigured images. Here and there reality-distorting bits of BOARDS OF CANADA oder MOUSE ON MARS zu spüren ist. // whispers and cut-up voices are woven into the texture of these alien Originally recorded and released in 1977, this pioneering ambient patterns of sound. Every step here is like nervously stumbling through album brought together several legends of progressive electronic the swampy ground of a jungle. Here every look is like a secret glimpse music: Brian Eno, solo artist and collaborator with David Bowie, Robert at a hidden ghost-train world." [label info] Fripp, and Roxy Music; Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster, both of whom made dozens of ground-breaking recordings * DEADVERSE MASSIVE - Son of Concrete pic-LP (Public Guilt throughout the '70s; and Conny Plank, who recorded everyone from PG010, 2007) € 15.00 Neu! to Ash Ra Tempel to Devo. This album was the first of several Starke 4-track long-play EP einer Art Supergroup des US- celebrated collaborations between these artists, whose influence looms amerikanischen Experimental-Dub & Hip-Hop Undergrounds, mit over such current bands as Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, and erstaunlichem Ergebnis zwischen melancholischer slow-Dub Ambience Mouse On Mars." [label info] und frei flottierenden Experimenten, viel vokales Material & halluzinogene Atmo...und auch ruhig-harmonische parts tauchen auf. * CLUSTER -Sowieso LP (4 Men with Beards 4M162, 2008) € 17.50 Leute von DÄLEK, DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS, ODDATEE sind "Moebius und Roedelius, a.k.a. CLUSTER veröffentlichten dieses beteiligt. Erschien auf dem wahrhaft grenzüberschreitendem Label Album erstmals im Jahre 1976. Während manche Tracks erste PUBLIC GUILT aus Baltimore, MD. Elektronic-Percussion aufweisen, bleiben andere völlig ohne Rhythmus, "The Deadverse Massive 12" picture disc brings together three intense in beiden Fällen ist die Platte aber überaus melodisch. Elektronische forces in music-- avant hip-hop unit, Dälek, ambient guitarist, Destructo Musik der Frühzeit, quirlige Seifenblasen-Sounds, kombiniert mit Piano Swarmbots and hip-hop madman, Oddateee. Spontaneity, open- und Gitarrenfetzen machen dieses Album zu einem echten Prachtstück. mindedness to the recording process and a collective cohesiveness // Moebius and Roedelius aka Cluster, released this, their fourth album sprung forth an album that none of them would have every created in 1976. Electronic rhythms combine with bubbling synths, piano and alone and none of them would have imagined before the moment of guitar to create sonic landscapes of pure bliss. Some of the greatest creation. Easily, the strangest record any of these artists have ever ambient electronic music ever, Cluster were on the cutting edge of touched. Artwork from the amazing Paul Romano rounds out the German space-rock, and pioneers whose influence can still be felt release." [label info] today." [label info] "When hip-hop gets weird, it gets "Deadverse Massive". Mescaline dreams from the deep unconscious rise through psych-ambient guitar * CONTROLLED BLEEDING - Songs from a Sewer of Dreams drones to meet street socially-conscious poetry and spoken-word in a 4 x LP-Box (Vinyl On Demand VOD47, 2007) [lim. 600] € 58.00 no less than stellar collision... 8/10 "[Foxy Digitalis] Wow, die einstmals härteste Industrial-Band der Welt aus New York "A stunning mashup of heavy beatscapes, surrealist avant hip hop, and nun auch mit einer LP.Box auf VOD! Haufenweise rares Material, meist spacey drones from beyond the wall of sleep... a surreal and drifting aus der Frühphase der Band, es gibt wohl wenige Projekte die sich collage of beats and psychedelic drones, powerful rhymes and voice stilistisch so häufig um 180 Grad gedreht haben in ihrer Geschichte! transmissions, as informed by classic krautrock and cassette "A box featuring unreleased music from CB's very early days to today. experiments as it is by actual hip hop." [Crucial Blast] One side from a long lost Knees and Bones session, one side of pre- industrial music, live at CBGBs supporting Suicide 1979, one side a 25- * DIETER MÜH - Aakal / Nostrum / Earblind 7" (Harbinger Sound minute live piece of ancient, very good material from 1977 (sounds like 031, 2008) [lim. 400] € 7.00 John Cage/Penderecki), one side of free jazz live improvisation with Still one of the best british acts of roaring post-industrial tunes, DIETER Borbetomagus, one side new total noise, etc. This is one of those very MÜH excite the listeners with rough & machine-like alien ambient noise very extreme (if not most extreme) VOD releases and VOD rates it on this new 7". Comes with postercover & colour-vinyl. 'PG18.'" [label info] * DREAMCATCHER - Prom Night 12" (Angle Records A.R. 12.01, * CURRENT 93 - Black Sheeps heat the Dancefloor 12" (remixes) 2008) [lim. 300] € 12.00 (Durtro Jnana EP12, 2008) € 9.50 Wiederveröffentlichung zweier vergriffener Tapes dieses Montrealer Diese Remixe schliessen den BLACK SHEEP-Zirkel ab. Blaues Vinyl, Industrial-Projekts, ein rauhes & low-fi analoges Elektronik-Gebilde mit unglaubliches Cover ! "...die EP enthält jeweils zwei Remixe von J.G. verstörend fragmentarischer und zermürbender Ausrichtung und 60er Thirlwell (aka FOETUS) und MATMOS. Track 1 und 2 sind zwei Jahre Sci-Fi Touch! verschiedene Versionen von Thirlwell, sich dem Song "Black Ships Ate "Formed in Montreal in 2004, DREAMCATCHER, composed of The Sky" auf Industrial- und Dance-Pfaden zu nähern. Track 3 basiert Katherine Kline and Blake Hargreaves, is one of the grandest and auf einem House-Beat und ist eine Interpratation des gleichen Songs loudest outfits in Montreal's explosive underground music scene. von MATMOS während Track 4 eine ebenfalls von MATMOS ge- DREAMCATCHER's hot-wiring, saturated and hypnotic sound layers,

8 as well as strings and splatters of sonic mess and power- "Enkidu is the mythical Japanese psychedelic noise project of legendary electronics/old-school/new school aesthetics, have earned them a performers Chie Mukai (Taj Mahal Travelers, Che-SHIZU, East Bionic devoted following in Montreal and beyond throughout the years. Symphonia, Dadnur), Eric Cordier & Seichi Yamamoto (the Boredoms, After a handful of limited releases, like 'HOLYSMOKES’ (a live Omoide Hatoba, Rashinban, Ontoko). Over four bruised side-long cuts, performance on CKUT 90.3 McGill) on ALIEN8 RECORDINGS, the Live in Kyoto faithfully captures the intensity of one particularly group finally gave birth to their first proper album, NIMBUS CD/LP in eviscerating evening of ritualized self expression at Kyoto's Tanq space 2005 (OHNONO/FLUORESCENT FRIENDS), to great acclaim. in 2004. This is liminal ecstatic drone, clatter & relentless sound bursts The present collaboration between DREAMCATCHER and with a rough-around-the-edges vibe that maintains a loose kinetic debt .ANGLE.REC., a project that was initially envisioned some time ago, to everything from La Monte Young & the Theater of Eternal Music to breathes a second life into a pair of past productions initially released Keiji Haino, AMM & Fushitsusha. Hand-numbered edition of 525, 2 X by two of today's most influential art-house labels, releases that until 180 gram vinyl housed in a black silkscreened bottom-folded heavy now, only a handful of enthusiasts had the opportunity to hear. jacket. Chie Mukai (kokyu, electronics, voice, percussion & dance) Originally produced on cassette in very limited editions on the Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar & electronics & percussions) Eric Cordier AMERICAN TAPES label (run by WOLF EYES’ John Olson) and (hurdy-gurdy & electronics)." [label info] NAUTICAL ALMANAC’s HERESEE label respectively, "PROM NIGHT" and "EYES OF LEATHERFACE" are archived here on clear vinyl, side * ERUPTION - Live Action 1972, Wuppertal do-LP (Qbico 76, by side, original label artwork provided, for an enlarged audience and 2008) € 26.50 for posterity. These two outstanding DREAMCATCHER sessions Eine weitere kuriose Ausgrabung mit live-Aufnahmen des legendären include material from their first recorded jam ever, and rank among the Experimental-Projekts um CONRAD SCHNITZLER, der zur jener Zeit favourites of the duo. They represent the furthest expanse and total auch Mitglied bei KLUSTER war. Enthalten ist hier ein komplettes richness of DREAMCATCHER world-changing vision. And furthermore Konzert in guter Soundqualität aus Wuppertal von 1972, welches sich this is without a doubt one of the sickest, most twisted and noisiest auf 3 LP-Seiten erstreckt; die geräuschhaften Improvisationen mit z.T. releases from the .ANGLE.REC. camp so far, and with it, the sonic stark verfremdeten & effektieren Instrumenten (Gitarre, Flöte, territories covered by the label strech again. It also is the label’s first 12’’ Perkussion), Stimme & Elektronik erreichen mitunter Industrial- release! This monstrous, tension filled and chunky plate of sound with Intensität, bewegen sich zwischen sehr ruhigen & schwelenden Flächen lots of unexpected eruptions and aural collisions is limited to 300 und dynamischeren Attacken... Das Herz des experimentellen Krauts & copies. prä-Industrials, es liegt hier vergraben! Wie immer auf QBICO Blake's first record "The Waxathon" came out in 2003; he also co-runs besonders farbenfroh & kunstvoll verpackt in einem Postercover, ein the FLUORESCENT FRIENDS label and plays in the psych-core bands Vinyl schwarz, das andere Orange. COUSINS OF REGGAE and THAMES. Katherine does solo work as "(music on three sides) with folder cover in heavy outer plastic sleeve, CELINE BEYOND and is a member of DEATH DRIVE and WONDER black vinyl & orange vinyl (180gr), cover by qbico. YEARS. Thanks to John Olson for his great contribution to the center music by: Conrad Schnitzler / Klaus Freudigmann / Wolfgang Seidel label artwork." [label info] and friends. 3 side long tracks, the complete concert. Here we go, after releasing a 1970 rec. of Eruption (as qbico #32), i'm * ELEH - Homage to the Square Wave LP (Taiga Records TAIGA so honoured to make available for the 1st time ever, the complete 1972 4, 2008) [lim. 500] € 18.00 live action recorded in Wuppertal by this Conrad Schnitzler's loose Schon die vierte LP dieses radikalen Drone / Minimal Music Purismus- collective. space is the stage." [label info] Projekts, ihre Stücke bestehen stets aus rein analogen Sinuston- Schwingungen in verschiedenen Modifikationen und erinnern stark an * ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO - 1980-1989: First Decade 3 x LP- die Pionierzeit der 60er / 70er Jahre. Cover-Artwork und Musik ergeben Box / 7" / T-Shirt (Vinyl-On-Demand VOD46T, 2007) € 67.50 eine ansprechende Einheit. Krass! Schon die zweite E.G.-Box auf V.O.D. ! Wieder frühes MC- und "Following three sold out releases on Important Records, Eleh present rares LP-Compilation Material. Dies ist die special version mit bonus 7" their fourth vinyl-only full-length, Homage to the Square Wave. und T-Shirt! Second part of anthology: the double-tape "Dies Anos", Featuring two sidelong tracks each clocking-in at over 20 minutes, plus material from various compilations and the live-recording Madrid Homage is dedicated to the highly influential artist Josef Albers. Eleh 1987 which appeared on the "Bruitiste" box (RRR) in 1988 !! Extra return with their battery of vintage modular analog gear to produce a edition. with bonus 7" AND T-Shirt. numbered ed. 600. recording of pure tone, pure sound, pure volume and pure analog. Side "Two LPs of the box with Diez Años double cassette (a collection of A features 'Black,' a slowly enveloping mass of intensely throbbing low unreleased tracks from the '80s with some tracks from compilations). end, activating the flight response. Time passes rapidly in a The third vinyl includes: 'Avance Rapido' (from La Zona Compilation LP hallucinatory forest filled with suffocating bulbs of bass. 'Blue & White' 1988), 'Fungus Cerebri' (from Sinn und Form Tape 1982 ), 'Raskin' on the b-side provides the decompression of rocking on a calm ocean. (from 80s Tracks CD) 'Primera Tundra' (from '80s Tracks CD) 'Trans Soft peaks of warm tone rise and fall over the surface of concentrated Unmma' (from '80s Tracks CD) and the superb live performance from saline. Volume reveals detail. Homage was mastered by James Plotkin, 1987 from the special Bruitiste box set. The 7" contains 3 superb tracks cut direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl in a hand-numbered including 'Moscú Está Helado.'" [label info] edition of 500. The LP comes housed in a custom letterpressed jacket that was designed by John Brien of Important Records and printed by * ETANT DONNES - Tapes 1977-1983 6 x LP-Box / DVD (Vinyl- Studio on Fire in Minneapolis. The jackets were printed flat, die-cut, On-Demand VOD53, 2008) € 95.00 folded and glued resulting in a letterpressed jacket with a printed spine. Und wieder hat sich das Label aus Friedrichshafen selbst übertroffen: Eleh was formed to pay tribute to the pioneers of audio minimalism Die frühen sechs Tapes des französischen Brüder-Duos (erschienen such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros auf dem DIE FORM-Label BAIN TOTAL), in einer mit Kunstleder and Charlemagne Palestine. The tidal rumblings of Eleh will appeal to beschichteten Box. Dazu eine DVD mit live-Material! fans of Sunn O))), Om, Oren Ambarchi, etc. This is drone with density.'" Die Frühphase von ETANT DONNES war geprägt durch [label info] Tapeexperimente und Klang-Collagen, z.T. sehr harsch & intensiv, schon damals basierend auf Feldaufnahmen und found sounds. Eine * ELEKTRONAVN / EXQUISITE RUSSIAN BRIDES - Cosmic Depth Art hochdynamische "industrielle" musique concrete, bruitistisch, 7" (A Beard of Snails Records BSBTAVINYL2, 2008) € 5.00 kathartisch, collagig. Great little 7" from Denmark, ELEKTRONAVN create choral poly- "The box provides all of Etant Donnes' avant-garde tapes released drones, very organic & emotional clouds of waving sound with between 1977 and 1983 on the famous French BainTotal-Label harmonies going on underneath (created with Voice, Zurna, Bansuri Recordings including: La Vue, L'opposition, L'etoile Au Front, Ceux Flute). EXQUISITE RUSSIAN BRIDES work with Cello, Guitar, loops, Qu'on Aime - Ce Que Je Hais, Cinq Portes Soudees, Les Cents Jours Bells & Xylophone and their track sounds a bit more ghostly, but also Clairs. The release also contains a DVD with live performances of Etant massively droney... Very much recommended if you like organic / Donnes over the last three decades. The music of this Etant Donnés' transcendental drone muzak ! Comes in lino-cut printed white cover. first period (1977-1983) boxset describes a rite of passage from mortality to divinity, a powerful but hidden passion craving beauty and * ENKIDU - Live in Kyoto do-LP (Locust Music LOCUST91, burning love that can be conquered only by another form of secret pain, 2007) € 22.00 that of losing yourself in the cosmos and becoming part of the muddy Mitschnitt eines Konzertes dieses Projekts mit der TAJ MAHAL streams of distant stars. Their soundworks are constructed through the TRAVELLERS-Legende CHIE MUKAI vom 12. Mai 2004, die in Kyoto manipulation of natural sounds, using the variation of velocity and mit SEIICHI YAMAMOTO (Gitarre, Electronics, Percussion) und ERIC intensity of the recordings, the cutting and splicing of tape. Etant CORDIER (Hurdy-Gurdy, Electronics) zusammentraf. Zu hören gibt Donnes' compositions are passionate and brutally communicative, their lebendige Drone-Improvisationen mit surrealem & expressivem Flair; music and words are minimalist just like the writings and chants of the das ganze kommt im Siebdruck-Cover, limitiert auf 525 Exemplare. religious mystics Sufi, trying to recover the virginity of the words and sounds, they map new territories and establish their own personal rules.

9 These first tracks contains all the brutal collages of found sounds per side, that are equally harmonic as powerful. fear falls burning's investigating nuances of sounds that at times verges upon silence, the approach to playing the guitar chords changed, the production is inspired and enraptured meeting with earth's natural forces, an homage different and the inclusion of guest musician dave vanderplas on subtle to the shadow of night, to the vineyard and the golden door. In these cymbal percussion marks this new tonefloat release as the first gentle first six LPs Etant Donnés create their own brand of total audio step in fear falls burning's further exploration of the drone. when expression using belches and punches, their attention is concentrated mystery prevades the well, the promise sets fire (tf38) is out now and on the symphonic cacophonie organisation of disorganized found can be ordered from our store." [label info] sounds, using magical rhythms only directed by cosmic rules. A perfect "'When Mystery Prevades Well, The Promise Sets Fire' is a beautiful way of organizing natural sounds that obeys fundamental principles that gate-fold sleeve LP with two pieces, one per side. Glacier like music in everyone wishes to convey, a music able to tear down walls and build a which it seems that the effects have a bigger role than the guitar. It's universal comprehension, a cosmic law of beauty, a magical and quite hard to recognize the guitar in this music, with moves in a minimal alchemical act of poetry." [label info] way. More Eno)) than Sunno)) I'd say, although there is a creepy undercurrent in Fear Falls Burning's music. This record sees Dirk * FAUST / NURSE WITH WOUND - Disconnected do-LP (Dirter moving away from the signature sound from before: the endless Promotions DPROMLP61, 2008) € 26.50 crescendo wall of sound building up, suddenly collapsing and stays Limitierte Vinyl-Version (1000 x) der verrückten Collaboration, mit more on the ambient side of things. Maybe a bit more Vidna Obmana Bonus-Material auf Seiten 3 & 4 ( 3 Stücke von FAUST, ein langes von than Fear Falls Burning - but I'm sure that would not be his intention. NWW), auf gelbem und orangem Vinyl! Very nice!" [FdW / Vital Weekly] Der eh schon eigenwillige "Krautrock"-Sound von FAUST wird hier von STEVE STAPLETON wunderbar durch die Mangel genommen, * FEAR FALLS BURNING - Frenzy of the Absolute do-LP krasse cut-ups und irrsinnige Arrangements sind hier Programm. (Conspiracy Records CORE061, 2008) [lim. 500] € 19.50 STAPLETONs Sinn für abseitigen Humor scheint immer wieder durch, Viny-Version des 2008er Albums für das Projekt von DIRK SERRIES und natürlich gibt es auch Momente grosser TONKUNST. (ex VIDNA OBMANA). Als neues Element taucht in den minimal "Disconnected" ist ein Hybrid aus dem dilettantisch-avantgardistischen strukturierten gitarrigen Drone- & Oberton-Eskapaden nun Perkussion Krautrock von Faust, den markant holzige Basslinien Pérons, dessen auf, eine willkommene Weiterentwicklung! seltsamen Spracheinlagen und dem markanten Schlagzeugeholze, "This highly-anticipated new studio album is the initiation of a change in dem metallisch-industriellen Geklapper und Gelärme und den method and playing for FEAR FALLS BURNING. On this album he repetitiven Perkussioneinlagen Diermaiers, und den bizarren Geräusch- blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers und Tonkollagen, bzw., dem monotonalen Tonwabern- und dröhnen such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of von Nurse With Wound. Stapleton war schon immer stark vom Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious experimentellen Krautrock beeinflusst (siehe dazu auch die Nurse-With- landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of Wound-Liste), so dass man sagen kann, dass die akustischen blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... Jagdgründe beider Projekte im Grunde dieselben sind. Over the past 2 years FEAR FALLS BURNING has manifested himself Gesang gibt es auf "Disconnected" kaum zu hören. Die dadaistisch- as a wilful and unique statement admits the ever expanding drone absurden Liedchen, die Faust unter Pérons Führung sonst immer im music genre with numerous limited and exclusive releases on both vinyl Programm haben (siehe z.B. "faust ... in autumn"), sind nur im ersten and compact disc and a highlight in collaborating with the epic 'once we Track "lass mich" zu hören. Die vier Nummern bilden im Grunde eine all walk through solid objects' 5lp set. durchgehende, komplexe Soundmasse, seltsame Gemenge an Klang The new cd/2lp 'frenzy of the absolute' is the summon of fear falls und Geräusch, mal schwebend, düster, elektronisch und klangvoll, mal burning's visionary in teaming up with kindred spirits and talented hektisch, perkussiv, in kantigem, monoton dahinrumpelndem musicians from the experimental and metal scene. Krautrockgewand. Darin eingebettet sind oft weitere, Digipak CD, Limited 180 gr vinyl, 150 copies on Clear with White vinyl, Mikroklangereignisse, Sprachfetzen, elektronisches Gezirpe, Zischen, 350 on Black in Gatefold dbl LP cover. The vinyl version has one extra Fiepen, Schleifen und Dröhnen, diverses Geklapper und Gerumpel und track 'The Passage Of Wrath' and one extra hidden track." [label info] allerlei weitere, unerfindliche Töne und Sounds. Reichlich wirr und "...At first we were worried that adding drums would just turn FFB’s schräg ist das Ganze dabei, entfaltet aber eine sehr eigene, durchaus ethereal doomic drift into something much more generic and run of the einheitliche Atmosphäre, wirkt trotz all des Durcheinanders nicht mill, but just the opposite is true. Serries and his guests subtly transform zerhackstückt oder ziellos. the sound of FFB into something wholly different, the opening track "Disconnected" bietet somit ein sehr eindrucksvolles Klangpuzzle, says it all. That sprawling simple, spread out drumming, continues on mitunter aber auch mächtige, glaziale Tongebirge, die sich entweder throughout the first three quarters of the track, pounding away, not aus einem Dschungel an wirren Soundkonstrukten, oder aus pummeling, but pounding, almost delicately if that were even possible, tiefgründigen, dunklen Klangseen erheben. Beeindruckend! while Serries introduces soft shimmery delicate melodies, that drift Reicht? Ne ... reicht noch lang nicht! Mehr davon!" [Babyblaue Seiten] dreamily in the background, the whole thing underpinned by a thick, "Two legendary entities from the experimental hinterlands unite for this gradually building Niblock like static guitar drone. But that little lullaby challenging collaborative outing. Krautrock icons Faust team up with like melody, keeps the track from becoming pure dirge. There’s way too ferocious British electronics experts Nurse With Wound resulting in a much space. It’s almost like a seriously metalicized and doomed up line-up featuring Zappi Diermaier, Steven Stapleton, Jean-Herve Peron, slowcore band. This is Low covering Sunn 0))), a dreamy droney Colin Potter and Amaury Cambuzat. Although the initial psychedelic soporific downtuned dreamlike creep..." [Aquarius Records] benevolence of 'Lass Mich' is redolent of the Faust crew, it's not long before the far-flung concrète machinations of NWW take a stranglehold * FENNESZ - Live in Japan LP (Autofact Records FACT09 / Touch on the album's sonic make-up. The album's title track is an unsettling Tone 23, 2007) € 15.00 drone piece, loaded with tension and a jarringly discordant Wiederveröffentlichung der "Japan-only" CD von 2003 (Headz). conglomeration of organic and synthetic tones. After eight and a half 1000 Stück auf schwerem Vinyl, neue Artwork von Jon Wozencroft. minutes or so have expired you'll think you're listening to some sort of Enthält einen "one-tracker" mit wunderbaren Akustik-Gitarren Parts, die unholy, monastic chanting, but soon the comparatively soothing sounds ausufernd verfremdet werden - vom harmonischen Standpunkt aus of hand-played percussion establishes a welcoming rhythm, and the gesehen die vielleicht schönste FENNESZ bisher ! disjointed electroacoustic weirdness of 'Tu M'entends?' fires up. Finally, "The Autofact release of Live In Japan by Christian Fennesz marks the closing piece 'It Will Take Time' evokes the disorientating wave systems album's debut on vinyl. Originally released in 2003 as a Japan-only CD of 'Disconnected' before gradually slipping into a kind of elongated gong (Headz/Touch), Live In Japan is perhaps the definitive live document of resonance at the end. Compelling stuff from two remarkable groups. electronic-acoustic improvisation for our time. Hailed by many to be the Highly recommended." [unknown reviewer] "greatest laptop live show in music history" and counted among the albums of the year by The Wire in 2003, one would perhaps have to go * FEAR FALLS BURNING - When Mystery prevades the Well, the back as far as Kraftwerk to find a live electronic performance as Promise sets Fire LP (Tonefloat TF38, 2007) [lim. 500] € 21.50 engaging, organic and inventive as Live In Japan. The LP consists of Stilwechsel für das beliebte Guitar-Drone Projekt: WHEN MYSTERY one sublimely beautiful and haunting 43-minute long track, recorded live PREVADES.. droned weniger dunkel und verzerrt, eher oberton- at the Shibuya Nest, Tokyo in February of 2003. The performance takes tänzelnd, verschwimmend, mysteriös.... us from the bright codeine pop of Endless Summer to the grand & "... with its highlight being the full-length studio album 'frenzy of the stately melancholy of Venice, with familiar bits of coda and electronic absolute' for the belgian conspiracy records, scheduled for release in soul hooks catching us as we stream through the lush, nearly 2008, this exclusive vinyl for tonefloat is the initiation of a change in symphonic drones and soundscapes which Fennesz has expertly method and playing for fear falls burning. not only has he turned around composed to guide us through his musical legacy. This is that rare his studio in order to accommodate the new performances but the piece of music which affects both the ardent champion and the novice subtle incorporation of new elements will bring out an extra dimension alike, moving and original, with not a single note wasted and nothing out in the vintage fear falls burning drone. this lp features two pieces, one of place. Guitar music? Laptop music? Post-modern electronic soul

10 music? Fennesz music. Mastered directly to metal at Abbey Road The flipside is more guitar oriented, a steel string acoustic, Studios, London. Limited edition of 1,000 copies pressed on the melodies branching out in simple softly strummed strands, a heavyweight black vinyl and housed in a deluxe spot printed sleeve. skeletal framework for swirls of soft hiss and chunks of fragmented Featuring exclusive new artwork designed by Jon Wozencroft." [press melody drifting by like leaves on a forest stream. The sound is like release] some simple folk music, broadcast via a staticky short wave radio, but beneath the guitar, and the dreamy hiss, are lush, stately swells * FENNESZ / JECK / MATTHEWS - Amoroso 7" (Touch Seven TS melodic and cinematic, that infuse the track with a dark, but sweetly 01, 2007) [lim. 500] € 7.50 sorrowful elegiac quality. Gorgeous." [Aquarius Records] Der Organist für das "SPIRE LIVE"-Projekt, CHARLES MATTHEWS, eröffnet eine neue 7"-Reihe von TOUCH, eines seiner Stücke * 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO - Between Checks and Artilley. (aufgenommen live am 20.01.2007 in York) wird von CHRISTIAN Between Work and Image 10" (Angle Records A.R.10.03, 2007) FENNESZ und PHILIP JECK auf ihre unnachahmliche Art & Weise € 10.00 bearbeitet... kommt im schönen matten Vollfarb-Cover, lim. 500. Exzellente 2-track 10" dieses US-Trios, die sich hier weniger "Charles Matthews plays the Grand Organ in York Minster, during Spire "industriell-elektronisch" als eher minimal Gitarren-dronig mit Hang zum Live on 20th January 2007. This release is a homage to Arvo Pärt... Monumentalen zeigen.... anschwellende Gitarren-Anschläge, tiefe Arvo Pärt is often identified with the school of minimalism and more Drones, Rausch-Effekte, allmächtige Crescendi, erhabene Weiten specifically, that of “mystic minimalism” or “sacred minimalism”. He is & wuchtige Pulses auf Seite auf Seite B.. considered a pioneer of this style, along with contemporaries Henryk "A trio from San Francisco composed of Daniel Blomquist, Mark Wilson Górecki and John Tavener. and Michael Addison Mersereau, 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO, with Charles Matthews: “I felt you were pure music, not human flesh, music previous releases in CD or CDR format on the FORCE OF NATURE through time, music played from the Universe, without boundaries.” and CRUNCH POD labels, brings us their first production in vinyl Born in 1966, Charles Matthews studied at the Royal College of Music, format. It is comprised of 2 exclusive tracks, on 10’’ vinyl, released on London, and was an organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. His the Montreal based label .ANGLE.REC., still fond of the vinyl disc. 2 teachers have included Beryl Tichbon, Gwilym Isaac, David Pettit, tracks which suggest an even more brilliant and exploded future for this Patricia Carroll, Nicholas Danby, Charles Spinks and Dr Richard exploratory vehicle born on the ashes of the famous IMPERIAL Marlow. Charles pursues a varied career as pianist, organist, composer FLORAL ASSAULT UNIT project. The trio’s most recent CD, ‘’Under A and teacher, performing and broadcasting for radio and television within Morphine Sky’’, offered a well-balanced perspective between the UK and internationally. He has won numerous awards, perhaps improvisation and composition, a sound alchemy that is realized without most notably the first prize in the 1999 Franz Liszt Memorial any pretension under a purple and…of course… morphined sky. Power- Competition in Budapest. His recordings have been issued by Olympia, Electronics in symbiosis with Dark-ambient in symbiosis with Guitar- Priory, Guild and Touch; he is the organist for the Touch project, Spire, Noise in symbiosis with various layered and shifting acoustic and which also includes Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck. electronic elements …The result and the overall feel were stunning. Christian Fennesz: Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create This 10incher is the log ical follow-up to the madness. 2 face(t)s, 2 shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex slices of life. A side, ‘’KRONOS’’, proposes us a guitar-based canvas musicality. “Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its with multiples effects and spacious microworlds, with an accelerating physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language.” - (City insanity and intensity, an 8-9 minute segment which flies like the wind. It Newspaper, USA). His lush and luminant compositions are anything but can also be considered as an extrapolation on the last minutes of ‘’THE sterile computer experiments. They resemble sensitive, telescopic RETURNING’’, found on B Side; ‘’THE RETURNING’’ begins with an recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, epic lo-fi martial/neoclassical/doom segment but rather soon, haunting an inherent naturalism permeating each piece. He lives and works in post-rock/shoegaze guitar-based structures come to occupy the main Vienna and Paris. stage, and the power electronics segment also turns up very quickly Philip Jeck: Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. following that, the whole being accomplished with a constant mastery He started working with record players and electronics in the early 80’s and concern for texture. It is chaotic, foggy buy damned melodic and and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre moving …and it does not stop gaining in intensity. Towards the final companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work segment, we have samples and then a melodic guitar-based motif with "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's '60's a healthy dose of echo, which reverberates while consuming itself, till record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also the end … 15DBZ has crazy surprises in store for us. Discover why, over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using now. Many ambiences and textures on this 10’’ remind us of the from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom reasons why we got interested, in the first place, in various ‘’nocturnal’’ at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. Philip Jeck works with old and/or ‘’subterranean’’ musical universes. The beauty of it all is that records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to here, everything is presented in condensed fashion. 2 tracks which fly his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, too fast despite their relative length. Another welcome add to the creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added .ANGLE.REC. vinyl series." [label info] part of a record. Philip Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick." [label info] * FLOWER-CORSANO DUO - The undisputed Dimension 7" (NO- "...Fennesz turns the sound of the organ into a minimal whir, FI Recordings NO-FI NEU003, 2007) € 8.00 gentle washes of grit and whispery buzz, long tones subtly pulsing, Ecstatic Power-Drone & Free-Noise vom Edinburgher Perkussionisten deep rich chords, soft swells, gently effected and transformed into CHRIS CORSANO im Verbund mit MICK FLOWER haunting alien drones. Those drones infused with melancholic melodies (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, etc.), straigt & rumpelnd-wuchtig and deep metallic reverberations. Truly mystical and minimal. auf der A, wild improvisiert auf der Flipside.. what a furious duo ! Jeck however is much less reverent. Choosing much like he did "The unholy alliance of Mick Flower and percussive everyman Chris on the original Spire recording to try something more aggressive, Corsano: Corsano has been widely hailed as the next chapter in the more dark, more noisy, and much less soothing, his side is an almost story of out-there drumming - he's played with everyone worth industrial soundscape or crunch and buzz, the organ’s notes mentioning at the massive freenoisefolkpsych crossroads. Similarly, transformed into bell like tones, chopped up into jagged melodies, Mick's renowned for his work with Vibracathedral Orchestra and almost like someone is flipping stations, the melody lurching Sunburned Hand Of The Man, amongst many others. Together they suddenly from note to note, jarring and uneasy, but at the same time construct a devilishly beautiful psychedelic maelstrom, Chris like a hauntingly compelling. The tones are dense and distorted, lots of polyrhythmic octopus on the kit, Mick conjuring sublime lysergic ragas smeared feedback, thick clouds of pixilated grit and deep droning from the shaahi baaja." [label info] walls of whir, a super intense and extraordinarily noisy approach "... It's lodged somewhere inbetween Jimi Hendrix and Thurston Moore, from Jeck, something we’re definitely interested in hearing much more with a stop-off in outer Mongolia for posterity and has inhaled so much of in the future. Opium that it no longer knows the difference between old and new, As always, comes houses in an immediately recognizable Touch sound and silence. This is heady, involving music, breathtakingly style sleeve, with gorgeous Jon Wozencroft photos and design." visceral and daring you to bust your speakers with. I challenge you to [Aquarius Records review] find a more jaw-dropping 7" experience this year! Huge recommendation." [Boomkat] * FENNESZ - Transition 7" (Touch Seven TS 04, 2008) € 7.50 Nr. 4 in der neuen TOUCH-7" Serie, highly collectable already! * FOVEA HEX + ANDREW LILES - Every Evening / Gone 7" (Die "...The A side finds the guitar completely transformed into muted Stadt DS106, 2008) [lim. 500] € 12.50 smears, the overall sound a shifting sea of corrosive crumbling "... Ihr bittersüßes Timbre, die fast mit Händen zu greifende distortion, but rendered in breathless whispers and washed out hues. Melancholie, sind einzigartig. Die Musik dazu, nur dröhnendes The metallic thrum is spread out into soft shimmers, a murk that Harmonium und eine Handvoll schwarzer Pianoperlen, ist wie ein would almost sound industrial if it wasn’t so pretty. Rabenflügel, ein samtiger Saum, wie der Schatten, den diese

11 Melancholie nicht abschütteln kann. In ‚Gone‘ verschwinden ein Baum, "Gerechtigkeits Liga is the band/project which evolves around Till ein Bild an der Wand, die geliebte Katze, sogar der alte Teppich unter Brüggemann. In the early 80's GL travelled to London to meet up with den Füßen und auch der Boden selbst. Eine Elegie des Verlustes, der Dominik Guerin of Twin Vision/SPK. Dominik introduced them to diebischen und mörderischen Zeit. Von Geisterpiano und Graeme Revell and Brian Williams of Lustmord, who were running Side gespenstischen Stimmen umschallt, rezitiert Fabrizio Palumbo die Effects Records and both of them decided to release an album by GL. Strophen, Simonds und Laura Sheeran singen den Refrain: Well Two more GL tracks were also released on the seminal compilation well well Nobody can tell Why why o‘ why Nobody knows. Das ist schon Vhutemas Archetypi, which also featured groups like Laibach, Lustmord sehr tongue-incheek (wie Hitchcock das genannt hätte), purer Edward & SPK.The band is known for their mystical, almost martial and epic Gorey." [Bad Alchemy] sounds, which can easily upset the listener's emotions. Nothing for "... The record features two collaborative pieces by ANDREW LILES & weak nerves...VOD and Till Brüggemann compiled a perfect FOVEA HEX, with Fabrizio Palumbo as special guest. Featuring supplement to the LP Hypnotischer Existenzialismus. The double LP Andrew Liles, Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, Fabrizio Palumbo and set is covering the very early musical period of the band. It includes Michael Begg, these two strange songs will find the way swiftly to your outtakes, tape-contributions, a live performance from LA, as well as a very core, quite by themselves, to simultaneously delight and only Berlin Atonal-performance. Attached you will also find a DVD with faintly unsettle you. Needless to say that everyone who enjoyed the disturbing footage of early video clips, a short film as well as some other 'neither speak nor remain silent' trilogy by Fovea Hex will also love this. rare live video clips from New York City. The release will come in a silk- It comes packaged in an attractive gatefold cover with printed inner screened Army-Boot-Bag." [label info] sleeve designed by Andrew Liles in an edition of 500 copies of which only 250 copies will be available for wholesale." [label info] * GODFLESH - Love and Hate in Dub LP (Kreation Records KR- 014, 2008) € 14.50 * GEERKEN, HARTMUT - Amanita do-LP (Qbico 75, 2008) € 26.50 "The mighty GODFLESH sound remixed in a dark/ambient dubwise LET'S DO THE DRONE-THING ! Eine höchst kuriose Platte auf QBICO style by JUSTIN BROADRICK. One of the only Godflesh albums not yet von dem Tausendsassa HARTMUT GEERKEN, der die Buchreihe available on vinyl, so here ya go! One of the first ever dub/metal "Frühe Texte der Moderne" mitherausgegeben hat und über die wohl fusions. A historic release indeed. Pre JESU." [label info] umfangreichste SUN RA-Sammlung verfügen soll. Er war / ist zudem als Hörspiel-Produzent tätig, als Poetik-Professor, Filmemacher, etc. - * G*PARK - Reuters LP (Tochnit Aleph 079, 2008) € 13.50 die unglaubliche Biographie von ihm siehe www.hartmutgeerken.de! Das gloriose Comeback des Schweizer Ausnahmeprojekts - Auf AMANITA hört man ihn unter Einfluss von heiligen Pilzen in musique concrete einer speziellen Art, Objekt & und Feldaufnahmen Ekstase geraten z.B. auf der sogenannten "Sun Harp", das sind wild- werden stets sehr "nah" und direkt eingesetzt, aber auf besondere, bruitistische Instrumental-Geräusch- und Stimmen- Improvisationen, unnachahmliche Art zu Geräusch-Kompositionen verwebt. vollkommen atonal und crazed out! Am ehesten vielleicht noch zu vergleichen mit der Tonkunst einer "Pratically impossible to make it brief here, HGeerken: author, HANNA HARTMANN, oder TOY BIZARRE. composer, musician, film-maker, performer, actor, mycologist, archivist, "Latest work by swiss artist Marc Zeier presents 9 musique concrete stager of exhibitions, publisher of numerous authors from the circle of compositions based on ice, wind, plankton, a whip, a bow, a suitcase, literary expressionism and dada, lumberjack, bumble-bee-keeper. and other recordings made in the last few years, reminiscent of his 90's during his six-year stay in Egypt in the 60's he is co-founder (together albums 'Seismogramm' on Schimpfluch and 'Yack G*park' and 'Geopod' with Salah Ragab and Edu Vizvari) of the Cairo Jazz Band as well as on Zabriskie Point." [label info] founder and head of the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble. played in various music groups: Embryo, trio with John Tchicai and Don Moye (extensive * GROWING - Disconfirm / Horizon Drift 7" (Social Registry / The tour of Africa) and also with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. he worked Social Club No. 8, 2007) € 7.00 with Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Okay Termiz, Peter Kowald, Takehisa "Marking their recent addition to THE SOCIAL REGISTRY'S roster, Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, ect... today Geerken Olympia-via- Brooklyn's GROWING present their first contribution to the possesses one of the most comprehensive Sun Ra archives (waitawhile label with this installment in our ongoing 7" series. Consisting of sun ra archives). his book omniverse sun ra (1994) ,which contains a members Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, Growing's already legendary first all-embracing discography of the musician, has meanwhile grown status among ambient and noise-rock circles has solidified their to be a priceless cult book. together with James Wolf from the library of reputation. The two songs found on this 7" represent the best of the congress in Washington DC, he's editor of the recently published band, spotlighting their uncanny ability to extract alien and ethereal collected poems and philosophical works of Sun Ra (the immeasurable sounds from the now-traditional format of the electric guitar." [label info] equation 2005). better to read his bio to know more. This is Geerken 1st ever solo release (a major event indeed !) and it * GROWING - Lateral 12" (Social Registry TSR064, 2008) € 12.00 was recorded under the influence of magic mushrooms (dried amanita Vinyl-Version der neusten EP dieses New Yorker Ambient/Drone-Duos, muscaria). one of the instruments played here is Sun Ra's Sun harp (a deren Analog & Guitar-Sounds mal wieder höchst schwingend & Bulgarian bandura), which Sun Ra gave him in 1971 in Egypt, were vibrato-schwanger klingen... full fuzzy guitars, extreme Vibrato- Hartmut invited the Arkestra to play... they got no money to fly back to Melodien, analogue blurbs überall, leiernde Sounds wanken the States, so Hartmut kindly borrow them some bread for the trip umher...eine sehr eigene Version von psychedelischem Drone-Sound... back... in exchange Sun Ra gave him his Sun harp (which you'd hear " Brooklyn-based ambient-drone duo Growing never fails to please on several Saturn LP and which was one of the few instruments that the devoted. It could also easily be said that the duo has failed to Sun Ra played besides keyboards) saying i'll buy it back from you one truly diverge from their original starting point. Although, part of the day... which evidently never happened. the other string instrument charm of this sort of music is indulging in a process of creation that played here is a Swarmandal, which was given to him in 1976 in New celebrates the difference and repetition within a given theme or Delhi by the renowed Dhrupad singers: the Dagar brothers. probably concept; expanding or investigating a specific idea over a length of the wildest qbico ever, alien sounds!" [label info] time. Thus, if you like Growing, you'll love this EP. All of the usual landmarks are here: a Nadja on opium meets some sort of Windy & * GERECHTIGKEITSLIGA - Per Ignem Ad Lucem do-LP (Vinyl- Carl and Labradford hybrid, heavy filter manipulations, masked, On-Demand VOD52, 2008) € 25.50 aquatic tremolo and chorus leads, and full-on auto-pan attacks that Rare Outtakes, Compilation-Material und unveröffentlichte Stücke (u.a. completely embrace stereo dynamics. We've read that -- specifically vom BERLIN ATONAL-Festival 1985), zudem ein Mitschnitt von einem within the ambient-drone scene -- Growing has been particularly Konzert aus L.A. 1985 und eine DVD mit Video-Clips von der aus reluctant to utilize computers, preferring to employ pedals and more Bremen stammenden Industrial-Band, die v.a. Mitte der Achtziger sehr organic looping techniques. Still, a quick listen to this release unearths aktiv war. Ihr Sound war sehr perkussiv (mitunter regelrecht tribal), oft enough digital-sounding distortion to make the listener wonder whether mit Ethno-Samples versehen und von neo-klassischer, martialischer or not these two dronesters have finally caved in or not. Fans of long, Stimmung, basierend auf dunklen Synth-Mustern und beschwörenden drawn-out melodic landscapes or psychedelic explorations won't want Vocals. Anklänge an LAIBACH, TEST DEPARTMENT, SPK, to miss out on this one. Definitely recommended." [Aquarius Rec] BOURBONESE QUALK, HULA, MUSLIMGAUZE, 23 SKIDOO, ein recht "typischer" 80er Jahre Industrial Sound, aber mit sehr eigener * GUAPO - Black Oni LP (Hlava-Temple, 2007) € 20.50 Stilprägung. Das ganze kommt als doppel-LP im Gatefold-Cover in Edle Vinyl-Version des 2005er Albums, weisses Vinyl, Gatefold-Cover, einer bedruckten Tasche! Ein sehr lohnenswerter Release für an und das ganze in schwarzem Plastik kunstvoll verpackt ! "historischen" Industrial und Experimental-Sound Interessierte... Dunkler, experimenteller, sehr ausgefeilter, droniger Prog-Rock aus ein äusserst interessantes Interview mit Till Brüggemann über die London. Nummerierte Auflage 500 Stück. Frühphase des Industrials in Deutschland findet sich übrigens unter: "Here at last, Guapo´s "Black Oni" on handnumbered limited edition http://icrn.blogspot.com/2007/06/gerechtigkeits-liga-interview-with.html. 180g white vinyl. Originally released on CD by Mike Patton´s Ipecac Records in 2005, this record is the second in a recondite trilogy which

12 began with "Five Suns" and will be concluded by the release of "Elixirs" into scraping and humming machinations. The artwork comes from two on Neurot Recordings in February 2008: With this, their sixth album, corroded photographs, one of which was created especially for this LP. Guapo have conjured a harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic Haynes has worked with this process for almost 15 years and, here, the piece of work. Heady and hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous resulting images are as beautiful and mysterious as the audio is and visceral, sonic and serene, the odyssey that is Black Oni nuanced and evocative." [label info] encompasses many paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking "...and for Jim Haynes the follow up to his excellent CD 'Telegraphy By up where they left off from their previous Cuneiform Records release The Sea' (see Vital Weekly 548). Haynes is foremost known as a writer, Five Suns (2002), the band continue to expand on their palette of but he has also played with Loren Chasse as Coelacanth, with Keith dexterous chamber-rock anomalies, modal transcendence, and Evans, Steve Stapleton and Matt Waldron, and especially with the work apocalyptic death marches, and like it's predecessor, Black Oni is one of Waldron (sometimes better known as irr. app (ext.)) there are strong singular piece of music, making it the second record in a trilogy of large- ties. Two new pieces here on this LP, in a similar vein as the CD: field scale symphonic forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde recordings are treated around, looped, changed, altered, modified. On jazz, kraut-rock, minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to one side (it's a bit hard to decipher which side is what here) this is a bit Indonesia, Guapo take their que from a disparate array of influences more harsher than usually, while on the other side it seems we are including Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, hearing ventilation systems, layered, to create a vast, rich pattern in Charlemagne Palestine, Univers Zero, This Heat, Olivier Messiaen and sound. Drone like this side, while the other is more 'chopped' up, more Popol Vuh. The a! ssembly of Dave Smith's explosive drum assaults, a collage style, but not in a same free form, as everything flows nicely Matt Thompson's brazen and prowling bass throb, and Daniel into eachother. Music that ties him into the work of Matt Waldron or say O'Sullivan's ethereal keyboard reveries telepathically collide in an Nurse With Wound in a drone mood and certainly highly influenced by augury of rich and cinematic musical ceremony. Black Oni is Guapo's The Hafler Trio. However with this record, the somewhat louder most monumentally unreserved offering to date." [label info] approach course taken here, makes that Haynes finds more a voice of ".... Like Japan's Ruins, the Guapo trio take a lot of inspiration from '70s his own. A small step perhaps, but an essential one." [FdW / Vital prog, in particular the "zeuhl" stylings of the amazing French band Weekly] Magma. But where the Ruins generally concentrate the Magma sound into a hectic hyper-blast, Guapo tend to stretch things out, spreading * HECKER - Hecker, Höller, Tracks do-LP (Semishigure SEMI their prog-frenzy across (in this case) a forty-three minute, five part epic 010, 2007) [lim. 500] € 16.00 composition, not unlike the five part, forty-six minute title suite of Five Ein psycho-akustisches Experiment von FLORIAN HECKER und dem Suns... that's their specialty it seems. Crazed drumming and complex SoundArt & Installationskünstler CARSTEN HÖLLER; flackernde Loops bass lines coexist with spaced-out keyboards (including '70s prog mit speziellen Frequenz- & Phasenbearbeitungen. Der Raum wird zum stalwart the Mellotron), making Black Oni a combination of energetic Instrument. prog mayhem and droning electronic darkness. For fans of Yeti, "....Once Florian mentioned to Carsten his fascination for psycho Tarantula Hawk, Circle and even The Necks... and of course anyone acoustics, he soon found a CD of Diana Deutsch's famous Musical already into Guapo will love this new one. Recommended! " [Aquarius Illusions in his mail box, followed by an invitation to conceive a sound Records review] piece to accompany Carsten’s Light Wall, then planned as a contribution to 2003's Nuit Blanche to be held at Gare de Lyon, Paris. * HANSON, STEN - Text-Sound Compositions LP (Fylkingen Florian wanted to second the persuasive notion of the flickering Alpha Records FYLP 1022, 1978) € 15.00 Wave inducing Light Wall, with a sound piece at least as hypnotic as a We got original / new copies of this classic "Text-Sound Composition"- Dreamachine and as abrasive as a quality Acid House bassline. Not or "Poesie Sonore"- record with five recordings made 1970-1973 ("The interested in Musical Illusions per se, he aimed to break the psycho Trilogy of Vocal Energy" as the main piece), where HANSON uses acoustics down to the level of sound particles, not having to deal with mainly female voice-material & weird electronic sounds to create highly scale, octave or tritone illusions in the style of Diana Deutsch. The original and obscure stuff. The compositions are seen as an art-form or result was a 4-minute long, intensively pulsating piece, a flickering area of expressions between poetry and music, working with the tape- rhythm with a constant Precedence Effect and a phase inversion at a recorder instead of the typewriter. Important for those compositions are frequency of 7,12 Hz to add even more spatial disorientation. the three parameters "Use of non-semantic oral language information" The Precedence Effect fascinated him as a beautiful example of spatio- (which also means that linguistic micro-particles & pre-linguistic sounds sonic confusion, exposing the very heart of many psycho acoustic are used), "Time manipulation", and "Polyphony" (multilayering of applications, where only some spare but carefully chosen modifications sounds). The vocal material here is processed heavily and full of of slight temporal ortonal shifts, time delays, loudness and pitch emotional content, very unusual blocks or patterns of sounds are build, differences are responsible for intense and unusual sonic phenomena. a beautiful LP which still doesn't sound old or outdated today. As a classic example of French bureaucracy the planned combination of the Light Wall and the Precedence Effect sound piece never * HARMONIA - Musik von Harmonia LP (Lilith Records LR119, happened. 9 months later Carsten contacted him, having found an even 2006) € 16.50 better occasion to present the work; his solo show at the Museum of Wiederveröffentlichung der ersten HARMONIA LP von 1974, mit neuen Contemporary Art, Marseille. Liner-Notes von ASMUS TIETCHENS! He made a series of tracks, all using a super abundance of Acid Phase "Once called 'the world's most important rock group' by Brian Eno, Inversion, intensively klickering hypnotic pulsars, crescendos of legendary minimalist avant-garde band Harmonia was formed in the Precedence Effects, and eventually titled them Höller Tracks. The early '70s by Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and shifting pulsars opened in two microtonally different versions in two Dieter Moebius of Cluster. Although this supergroup produced only two identically empty rooms in the museum. The piece which actually was studio albums -- 1974's Musik von Harmonia and 1975's De luxe -- they on display at the museum can be found in its two different versions on a were very influential and perfectly embodied the Krautrock ideal. While DVD with the published book, and in again another slightly different leaning slightly towards Cluster's ambient sound, they were also entirely version on his album Recordings for Rephlex. This was the driest, most their own entity -- a jet engine running clean and precise but also sober take out of all the Höller Tracks. spouting asphyxiating aural exhaust." [label info] The 9 pieces featured on this album don't lack any of the spatial disorientation and temporal confusion, however they consist of the more * Jim HAYNES - Eraldus / Eravaldus pic-LP (Elevator Bath intense, eccentric versions, some from the first productions, some from eeaoa026, 2008) € 17.50 more recent ones. Note: These pieces should be played at maximum Das Pendant zur RICK REED Picture-LP (ebenfalls auf Elevator Bath) volume via loudspeakers. The early reflections from your room are stellt diese Arbeit des emsigen COELACANTH-Mitglieds, HELEN essential. Headphone listening is NOT recommended." [label info] SCARSDALE-Labelbetreibers, WIRE-Rezensenten & AQUARIUS RECORDS-Mitarbeiters dar. Ein feines Beispiel seiner Kunst, * HEMATIC SUNSETS & OKKO BEKKER - Weihnachten im Aroma kratzende, knirschende, granulare Objektklänge zu erzeugen, sehr Club 2007 7" (Klang der Festung KdF5, 2007) € 6.50 subtil und fein, die gut zu seinen "korrodierenden", verrostenden Bildern Das Unfassbare erhält Kontinuität, wenn OKKO BEKKER & ASMUS passen... die betörenden Drones wirken irgendwie "steinig" und TIETCHENS neue Versionen OH TANNENBAUM und LEISE RIESELT "metallig", ohne dass man genau sagen könnte, was für DER SCHNEE anstimmen.. Originalklangquellen eingesetzt wurden... "Some years ago, Asmus Tietchens promised us to bring every year "Beautiful picture disc LP featuring two full-color reproductions of visual one new release as Hematic Sunsets, his project for 'real' music. works by Jim Haynes and two new side-long solo compositions. The Following his christmas record for Meeuw Muzak of, I think, two years ideal companion pieces to Jim Haynes' masterful album, Telegraphy by ago, there is now another christmas record on his own Klang Der the Sea, Eraldus and Eravaldus are both shadowy concoctions built Festung. 'Oh Tannebaum' as an instrumental version on the a-side from agitated objects and amplified spaces (a lighthouse, some high- while Okko Bekker sings it on the flip, plus a most curious live piece tension wires driven by wind, a very large pile of sand, etc.). These are recorded on the market. A frivolous Tietchens record, which he permits subtly manipulated field recordings, rusted to perfection and fine-tuned

13 himself to do once every year. This record will play nicely along the * ILLUSION OF SAFETY - Sedation & Quell 10" (Crippled Meeuw 7"s on Boxing Day." [Fdw / Vital Weekly] Intellect Prod. CIP 021, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 Endlich neues Material von DAN BURKE aka ILLUSION OF SAFETY, * HIVE MIND / HOTOTOGISU - split 7" (Not Not Fun Records zwei schwelend-spannungsgeladenen ambient Industrial Stücke, die NNF071, 2007) [lim. 500] € 6.50 ganz leise & bedächtig beginnen und sich unheimlich fortbewegen, Zweimal Noise-Muzak pur! Die HOTOTOGISU-Seite "Full Prince während zunehmend knirschende Kurzwellen- oder Digital-Sounds & Charles" (live in Copenhagen, 12.2005) kracht low-fi und hochfrequent Effekte ins Hörfeld geraten... ein sehr sehr dichtes Klanggewebe, und kontrastiert so aufs beste mit dem analog rauschig-dronig kommt auf hellgelb / goldenem, klaren Vinyl. wallenden Studio-Stück "Collapsed Shroud" von HIVE MIND, bei dem "the first 10" by IOS, one of a handful of American icons of experimental flirrende Effekte regelrecht abheben... music. Dan Burke is entering his 25th year of developing challenging, "Legendary Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett engaging audio, having performed nearly 200 times in the United (Double Leopards/GHQ) duo unleash a brain-scouring blast of white States, Canada, and Europe and releasing material on labels light/heat. Hive Mind head Greh Holger creeps out a negative graveyard worldwide. Side one is a pleasantly dense, yet not cluttered by any of tonal droning. Limited edition release with very few copies available-- means, assemblage of diverse elements including an old typewriter, act fast!" [label notes] turntable pops/crackles, and what ~appears~ to be shortwave radio interference topped by subtle frequency and oscillation tweaks. * HIVE - Cast through shallow Earth LP (No Fun Productions Side two offers a beautiful counterbalance: after an initial punch NFP-19, 2007) [lim. 400] € 15.00 announcing the track, we waver through numerous delicate swimming "Synth music for the exploration of desolated lands, slow and detailed tones that are eventually subdued by a listing rhythmic faction suffused side long movements of pure tonal sound. After millions of years when with other surprises... Those familiar with Dan's work will not be everything has withered away and nothing survives what will remain in disappointed, and for folks who may not be familiar with it, if you enjoy this earth? Minerals, boiling lava, smoke, and corrosion in a shallow artists such as Joe Colley or the Hafler Trio, or enjoy musique concrete earth.Limited to 400 copies." [label info] this will be of interest to you." [label info] "... These days Illusion Of Safety celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary * HRSTA - Ghosts will come and kiss your Eyes LP and it's mainly Dan Burke solo. Still on the road, still on top of things, (Constellation Records CST048-1, 2007) € 15.50 but music is no longer his main thing, diversing with other activities in Noch ein Projekt aus dem GODSPEED- & SET FIRE TO FLAMES - life and away from the endless pressure of having to deliver music. So Umfeld (gegründet von Mike Moya), HRSTA klingen als habe man hier the releases have become sparse, but are still great. Two pieces on this die melancholisch-sehnsuchtsvolle Seite von GODSPEED kondensiert 10" 'Sedation' and 'Quell'. Both pieces are concentrated works of und verdichtet, mit Frauengesang & sehr melodisch emotional. This densely knitted web of sounds. Apparently Burke uses an old music breaks our heart! typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, shortwave and oscillations. The two "...Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes ist erneut ein herrliches Album pieces could be brothers in arms. Slow development, taking time to take geworden, ein Zeuge von Musik, die aus einer anderen Welt zu shape. Dense but not blurred. This is the Illusion Of Safety side of kommen scheint.... Ein flächiger, sehnsüchtiger, melancholischer ambient - not comforting quiet, but discomforting beautiful. 'Sedation' is Psychedelic Folk Sound, der wie dazu geschaffen ist einem das Herz a humming low end piece with tension lurking underneath. Two great direkt aus der Brust zu reißen. Geradezu blind scheint er sich mit seiner pieces of someone who should have his name writing large in the neuen Partnerin zu verstehen, die mit ihrer Orgel, Mundorgel und annals of music history (but of course won't, since there is no such thing Harmonica grandios harmonisch seinen Sound ergänzt. Die as justification)." [FdW / Vital Weekly] resultierenden Kompositionen strotzen nur so vor Schönheit. Sei es der "...This milestone has not softened the psychologically dark currents of herrliche Opener mit seiner verträumten Melodie von ihr, ergänzt durch one of America's finest producers of post-industrial abstraction and eine unter die Haut gehende, sehnsüchtige E-Bow Gitarre Moyas. Dann silence-plus-noise sound construction. Sedation & Quell is the first diese leisen, melancholischen Nummern, sein sanfter, urtypischer of many releases slated for 2008, being a vinyl-only release pressed Gitarrensound, untermalt von ihrer Orgel und Harmonica, hinfort on translucent gold vinyl. getragen von seinem einzigartigem Gesang. Wundervolle Songs wie Sedation bristles with low end frequencies capable of The Orchard, die sich wie Watte um den Kopf wickeln. Da gibt es delivering catatonic states. Vinyl crackling and warm swathes of dieses Tomorrow Winter Comes, ein schwer melancholischer Ambient radio hiss billow out of the deep deep deep dronings, and huge Drone, gefolgt vom ebenso grandiosem Haunted Pluckley - oceanic swells of growling frequencies offer a lethargic rhythm to Akustikgitarre und eine warme E-Gitarre ergänzen sich mit seinem this dark ambient opus. On Quell, a brusque crunch of electronic Stimmchen zu einem wunderschönen Lullaby, dazu eine Harmonica. malfunction is followed by a steady hypnosis of rumbling drones which Auch die dynamischen Höhepunkte werden nicht vermisst. Hechicero in turn are engulfed by a wash of hiss and white noise. While it's Del Bosque ist wieder so ein Blick in die Vergangenheit Moyas, ein not the aggressiveness of Prurient or Merzbow that Illusion Of Safety lockerer Schlagzeugbeat, eine tolle Gitarre, die sich immer mehr is going for, there is a malevolent strain to this production, as if emporschwingt, unterbrochen von tollen Gesangsparts, ehe es zum Machinefabriek were to gingerly steer towards power electronics ever unvermeintlichem Ausbruch kommt - es geht eben auch laut. Und es so slightly. Very well done!" [Aquarius Records review] fällt mal wieder auf was für unheimlich harmonische stimmende Arrangements diese beiden da fabrizieren.....Ein kleines Meisterwerk * IRM - Indications of Nigredo 12" (Segerhuva SEGER 23, 2008) famoser, sehnsüchtiger Musikkunst eines großen Künstlers, der hier [lim. 500] € 13.00 einen wirklich formidablen Partner gefunden hat. Musik kann so schön "... IRM hat sich für Indications of Nigredo (Seger 23, 12“) mit dem sein." [Haiko Nahm / Tinnitus Music Webzine] Bassisten Mikael Oretoft verstärkt, der Jarls Knurschelektronik mit "The third full-length album from Montreal's HRSTA. Founded by MIKE dunklen Twangs durchsetzt. Vor dieser sich langsam aufbauenden Wall MOYA of GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR and featuring of Sound wirken Bladhs Einwürfe seltsam dünn und wie kastriert. Der BROOKE CROUSER of JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER. Ghosts Will grusig harsche Noise kommt als gnadenloses Mahlwerk ins Rollen, die Come and Kiss Our Eyes is a collection of gently foreboding psych-folk Stimme klingt immer gequälter und panischer. Wieder gefasst, stellt gems, anchored by Moya's unique guitar sound and otherworldly, sich Bladh einem zweiten Härtetest und verliest die Versuchs- cracked vocals, and prominent use of Hammond and pump organ. anordnung. Dann überdröhnt und umflattert ihn ‚Indicator 2‘, ein Sturm Includes a killer version of the Bee Gees' "Holiday" [label info] aus Noise und Eis, unter dessen Pfeilhagel er sich als Hl. Sebastian windet. Beatkaskaden und zeitlupiges Bassgedröhn geben der * HUM - The Spectral Ship 10" (Substantia Innominata SUB- Inszenierung einen rituellen Anstrich. Bladh schreit wie am Spieß 08, 2008) [lim. 500] € 12.00 Parolen, um anschließend seine Wunden zu lecken. Ist der wirkliche Eine Huldigung an den "Klang an sich", der nicht erzeugt wird, sondern Name des jungen Mannes Narziss? Oder Marsyas?" [Bad Alchemy] seit Anbeginn da ist. HUMs Beitrag für unsere 10" Reihe über das "On the theme of alchemy and the topics of shame vs. bodily self Nicht-Erkennbare. infliction, IRM makes way for a new start after the inspired “Virgin Mind” "Two great new pieces by this russian artist from the Moscow-area, double-disc set from 2005. These are new recordings with the new most sensible & emotional drone-ambience, a graceful dance of member Mikael Oretoft joining on bass. Two long tracks - the first being acoustic reflections & resonances. "Spectral Ship" and "Tidal Fire" an intense up-building, deep pulsating number with both spoken and appear like universal mantras, revealing the basic HUM of the universe. rough vocals, volcanic exaggerated bass noise and doom-laden These works seem to represent perfectly the concept of the atmosphere. The second more of an aftermath with its downspiralling, SUBSTANTIA-series: Sound that exists but which is not originating from almost dreamy character of echoing tones, ripping clangs and chilling the impact of two subjects in contact. Sound that is simply "there", with audio-schmerz. In total over 23 minutes of music in a glossy colour no beginning or ending. Edition of 500 copies on silver-coloured vinyl, sleeve with gross artwork and a small insert. Edition of 500 copies." with a full colour sleeve design by DANIEL CROKAERT / MYSTERY [label info] SEA." [press release] "... What fascinates with IRM's approach to power electronics is the intelligent construction of the works. Apparently it is not the question of

14 shocking the listener with the sounds of collapsing electronics. More Hegre, best known for their ‘Metal Machine Music’ death metal concept likely the trio invites you into dark territories of electronic sound, - album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more territories that in the first moments seems harmless, but soon after turns noise-oriented work. For this release, they also recruit fellow Norwegian out to be a true noise monster. A noise monster, where the emotional and multi-tasking guitar-mangling prodigy Anders Hana (Noxagt, impact remains and thus makes the storm of crushing electronics even MoHa!) - as if they needed any help to kick out the jams on this more overwhelming as they attack the listener. A true masterpiece of jawdroppingly raucous live recording. In contrast, the flip side is apocalyptic art."[NM / Vital Weekly] significantly more serene from Mark Durgan (who you may also know as Putrefier and who is rumoured to have been part of the mystery line- * IRR.APP.(EXT.) / PANICSVILLE - split LP (Nihilist Records up of The New Blockaders at Thurston Moore’s All Tomorrows Parties). NIHIL 54, 2008) [lim. 500] € 19.50 Subsonic rumbles and birdsong dominate the surface of this track, but Rare Split-LP des kalifornischen Kult-Projekts mit dem Chicagoer the devil’s in the detail – poke your attention through the thin surface ice PANICSVILLE, auf farbigem Vinyl, soon to be rare !! and you’ll easily fall through to hidden depths." [label notes] "Irr. App. (Ext.) crafts some of the most bizarre and beautiful sound pieces around. Based in California, Matt Waldron is also one half of the * JESU - Lifeline 12" (Hydrahead HHH-127, 2007) € 16.00 current Nurse With Wound live shows. Panicsville, headed by Andy Manche nennen es "Shoegazer-Metal"! Schwebend- & seelig Ortmann, delves in the deeper regions of the subconscious forging machende 4-track EP mit Gastauftritt von JARBOE. Die Vinyl-Version sonic scenarios to undreamt nightmares. Limited to 500 copies on 140 mit unglaublich schönem Hochglanz-Cover & Innencover, auf gold- gram marbled vinyl. Packaged in pro-pressed jackets with artwork by schwarzem Vinyl, und das auch noch in verschiedenen Designs. Waldron & Ortmann." [label info] ".... Jesu is all about texture, and Broadrick does some amazing "For those of you who have had the opportunity to witness the thing with his guitar and laptop, whipping up orchestral chordal live reincarnation of Nurse With Wound over the past couple of years, swells, lush soundscapes, wrapping billowy spaced out FX and warm there are two bald men making funny noises usually on either side of sun dappled reverb around everything, making every note sound like Steven Stapleton. One is Andrew Liles, who had run the table in terms big glorious snow flakes of sound." [Aquarius Rec.] of a release schedule in 2007 releasing 14 full albums of eccentric drones and abstracted collages, some of which were pretty darn good, * JOSEFSON, MATHIAS - Suihkulähde LP (Isoramara Records but could maybe have used some editing. The other bald man is M.S. I0010, 2007) [lim. 300] € 14.00 Waldron, whose slowly trickled releases are impeccable constructions Erster Solo-Release von JOSEFSON aka MOLJEBKA PVLSE, auf of modern day Surrealism through audio sorcery, clearly not in any seinem eigenen Label in schöner "letter-press"-Hülle. Ganz need of an editor whatsoever. Outside of NWW, he's been toiling away verschieden vom typischen M.P. Drone- und Geräuschsound wurde in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California under the unwieldy moniker hier auf Seite A ein "ready-made" verewigt, der konkrete Klang einer irr. app. (ext.). mechanisch dröhnenden, röhrend-gurgelnden Maschine, ohne weitere This split release with Chicago's Panicsville has been in the works Overdubs! Alltagsgeräusche in voller Aufmerksamkeit, auch das kann for many years now, finally seeing the light of day in early 2008. The irr. ein Erlebnis sein. "ALTE WEGE DIE WIR WANDERN WERDE NEUE app. (ext.) half of the equation slowly spirals from one assemblage of SEIN". Auf Seite B dasselbe nach leichter Bearbeitung... Ein obskurer discombobulated field recordings, agitated ether, and curious "Klangkunst"-Release, der zunächst verwirrt, dann begeistert! atmospherics into another set of equally malformed sounds, much like a "Side A of this album is a ready-made, a found sound. Except for black-acid kaleidoscope. Yes, it makes perfect sense that Stapleton adjusting the volume, the recorded source material is not processed would want Waldron to assist in Nurse performances, as he clearly has with effects in any way. Side B is a processed version of the same talent at taking weird noise making to a sublime level of abstraction. track." [label info] With a name like Panicsville, the expectations were of an obstinant noise project; but instead, this splatter of mechanoid gestures pocking * KALLABRIS - Hund vor die Tür LP (Entr'acte E49 / Jazztone sea-sick drones is a worthy companion to irr. app. (ext.)'s sidereal JZ119, 2008) [lim. 200] € 15.50 brilliance. So good in fact, that we may seek out further recordings. So KALLABRIS has developed quite a unique style & approach towards good in fact, that you too should pick this thing up. Limited to 500 sounds, and this new LP is no exception! HUND VOR DIE TÜR is a copies." [Aquarius Records review] composition using strange voice-material, synth- & guitar-loops... “The significance of dogs is something which struck me a long time ago. * JARBOE - Seeress / The Sweat Meat Love and Holy Cult 7" If one compares Mark Twain’s A Dog’s Tale with Willard Van Orman (Paradigms Recordings 008, 2007) [lim. 600] € 6.00 Quine’s Two Dogmas of Empiricism, for example, one finds that Twain’s "Paradigms is very proud to issue an exclusive, vinyl only release by the account of the narrator’s mother (who is a collie) is much more knowing legendary Swans vocalist Jarboe. Two brand new recordings for than Quine’s account of the meaning of a tail. Paradigms on a very limited 7" vinyl format. Beautifully packaged with Experience tells us that it might be best to acknowledge that certain full colour, heavy board sleeve and limited to 600 copies (of which only tails don’t have a meaning at all. This is especially true if one thinks of 500 will be available for sale through us). The A-side is a beautiful piano certain dogs and their resemblance to applied mathematics. One does and vocal piece by Jarboe, with accompanying guitar from collabroator not have to consult Crelle’s Journal to understand that their tails — Nic Le Ban. The B-side introduces her new free-collective, The Sweet whether pure or slightly grubby — can’t possibly move them. It’s always Meat Love And Holy Cult. The result being a 10-piece mantric improv the dog that moves the tail — never the other way round.” freak-out. Fantastic. We're sure Jarboe needs no introduction to most Kallabris is the project of Michael Anacker. Active since 1986, Kallabris’ after her heritage with Swans and her acclaimed solo works, the work has been described as ‘electro-acoustic chamber music’ — a staggering collaborations with Neurosis and last year's highly praised description which should be taken literally. Anacker’s main interest is a "The Men Album". [label info] reflection on the electro-mechanical conditions of sound recording presented in everyday recording devices such as cheap home * JAZKAMER / SANDBLEISTIFT - split 10" (Licht-Ung, 2007) computers, dictaphones and answering machines. Thus, he is not [lim. 290] € 12.50 interested in the limits of musical styles but in the limitations of sound The fourth volume in the LICHT-UNG 10" series presents JAZKAMER, (re)production." [label info] the project (written in different ways) by LASSE MARHAUG & JOHN "Through the many years of their existence, Kallabris is one of my HEGRE, who have a nice repetitive power-noise track on Side A of this favorite groups, but as I was listening to this new LP 'Hund Vor Die Tür' split which develops in many direction and carrys you away like an ('dog standing for the door'), I am never to sure what it is that I like acoustic storm. The second side is by MILAN SANDBLEISTIFT aka about them. Perhaps the whole mythical surrounding of the group. Is it LICHT-UNG, a furios whining & feedbackin' noise-track full of roaring & a group? One man? We don't know. Let alone what they do. However droning details, we love it! Very recommended 10" for "advanced" text seems to be important with their releases, even when it's not easy noise-listeners! to figure about what they are about. Apparently the piece started in April "....Hier klingt ihr Nor Noise nach einem Ventilator, der von einem Metal 2005 with a live concert in Dortmund and has expanded over time into Music Machine-Motor getrieben flatternd rotiert und mit wüstem this record. And it's in a way about dogs (pity, as I am not a lover of Brausen und Gesirr staubgepeitscht an der Verankerung zerrt. Das anything canine), although 'a piece of music is not a tale', the cover knurschige Pulsieren kommt ins Schleudern, das überlastete Material informs us. Perhaps so, but this record has tale like qualities. There is a schrillt diskant auf. LICHTUNG kontert mit kongenialem Jaulen, eher vocoder voice that recites some lines every now and then - making this lustvoll als panisch." [Bad Alchemy] record one piece rather than a collection of pieces) - and on side one this is embedded in a warm bath of computerized drones and the on the * JAZKAMER / MARK DURGAN - split 7" (NO-FI Recordings b-side with plucked acoustic guitar and even a hot steamy rhythm. The NEU006, 2008) [lim. 500] € 8.50 b-side is my favorite, since it moves through all these nice textures, "Another instalment in NO-FI’s vinyl catalogue, this 7” sees the head-on while on the first side it's all rather single-minded. But once again, this is collision of two major acts in the European noise circuit. Norway’s a great record of a mythical band with great sound, hovering the Jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John

15 experiment and the pop notion of folktronics. Kallabris remains a Collector's item! A beautiful pigment print by C. KUBISCH (out of 5 favorite." [FdW / Vital Weekly] different ones for this ed. - size 12 x 12", signed, numbered, dated), plus one 12" (31 min) by BORIS HEGENBART & SASCHA DEMAND, * KARL BÖSMANN - Eskalation LP (You don't have to call it on which they create 20 minimalistic tracks with guitar & computer, music 03, 2007) [lim. 500] € 20.50 short sketches consisting of drones, little feedbacks & metallic Ein Schmuckstück auf Stefan Bremer's neuem Label, dieses Album von overtunes... lim. 250, comes in gatefold-cover. KARL BÖSMANN, das ist das Projekt des Bildhauers MARKUS THORN. ESKALATION berauscht mit spannungsreichem Industrial- * LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - Early Recordings 5 x LP-Box (Vinyl Drone unter Einsatz von ausschliesslich akustischen Soundquellen & On Demand VOD48, 2007) [lim. 600] € 67.50 Stimme & field recordings. Abgründig, ausserweltlich & erhaben! Die frühen LPD - Tapes zum ersten Mal auf Vinyl - V.O.D. machts "...die 5 Stücke vertiefen zwei ... Ansätze. Einmal die Stimme als möglich! Alle LPs in extra-Cover, massiv ! Dröhnquelle: ‚Voice 23’ orientiert sich an Tuvanischem Throatgesang, "This 5LP box features the very early '80s tape recordings by The verstärkt den Effekt jedoch zum verzerrten Röhren eines Dämons aus Legendary Pink Dots ('80-'82) including Kleine Krieg, Chemical der Interzone, einer Halluzination des Verfolgungswahns, die sich mit Playschool 2 - edition 2 which is Chemical Playschool Vol.1 and 2 plus ihrem säurehaltigen Gesang ins Diesseits zu fräsen droht. Und outtakes and Live in Cologne 1983." [label info] daneben das bebende Vibrato von ‚RRRRR’, das einen mit einer Reibeisenzunge voller Raspeln und Widerhäkchen in Ultrazeitlupe * Jason LESCALLEET'S DUE PROCESS - Combine XXI / Combine ablutscht, sowie, besonders eindrücklich, der pulsierende, nur ganz XXII 10" [lim. 300] (We Break More, 2008) € 17.00 allmählich, aber unaufhaltsam Raum greifende Schwel- und Ein Low-Noise-Maelstrom voller Rauschen & tiefen Feedbacks & Schwellklang des 20-minütigen Titelstückes, die den sonoren Wummern mit einigen konkreten Elementen, die sich herausschälen. Niblock’schen Brumm-Minimalismus und das eigene ‚For 200 Violins’ Nicht wirklich harsch, eher dumpf krachig und vielschichtig. JASON variieren. ‚Ricochet’ wäre die perfekte Single-Auskopplung, als kurze LESCALLEET im Zusammenwirken mit DUE PROCESS. Quintessenz der Eskalation- Ästhetik, dem kehligen Röhren und "Combine xxi, Combine xxii' is the second vinyl album documenting the vibrierenden Brummen, mit schnarrenden Riffs einer akustischen ongoing collaboration between tape loop composer destroyer Jason Gitarre durchsetzt, quasi als Querschläger von ‚finnischem’ Freak-Folk. Lescalleet and ron lessard, aka noise legend emil beaulieau and head Neben Geige, E-Bass und gestrichenem Bass kommen eine of the pioneering rrrecords label. while due process has been lessard's Klangschale und Akkordeons zum Einsatz, nur bis zur Unkenntlichkeit longtime umbrella for collaborations (which previously have featured eingedickt. ‚Medan Market-Place’ simuliert mit den Sägezahn- like-minded outsiders tom dimuzio and john wiggins), this current frequenzen zuckender Vokalisation das Stimmengewirr auf einem iteration of due process is an altogether different beast. using severely Marktplatz in Nordsumatra, klingt aber bei verbundenen Augen auch ein manipulated recordings of the duo's ear-splitting live concerts, wenig wie eine schnatternde Vogelkolonie auf einem Tape mit Lescalleet creates a dense sound world, abstract and visceral. Bandlaufstörungen. Und abschließend hört man, per Telefon, die Consisting of two sidelong pieces, by turns both brutal and beautiful, sarkastische Katastrophenstandsmeldung eines MS-kranken Freundes this latest record is a testament to Lescalleet's ability to recast rough (‚Sgt. Collapse’). Durch dieses „Es ist wie es ist und es ist fürchterlich“ sounds in his blurry, tape-distorted image. lavishly printed on wird jede Ausschweifung der Phantasie gleichzeitig geerdet und heavyweight lennox paper and lovingly letter-pressed by smudge ink in legitimiert. Was Vorsicht Musik (BA 52) versprach, wird auf eine Weise Boston, this 10' record is limited to 300 copies." [label notes] eingelöst, die auch hohen Ansprüchen genügen dürfte." [Bad Alchemy]

"Escalating drone sounds like a mixture of Cluster/Kluster and KTL or * LILES, ANDREW - Ourda do-LP (Dirter Promotions DPROM 68, Sunn O))) with vocal parts in the style of Tazartes or tibetan monks. 2008) [lim. 600] € 25.00 The 20 minutes long title track sounds like a swelling version "Es hat drei Jahre gedauert, bis das neueste Werk 'Ouarda (The Subtle of Nurse With Wound's "Soliloqui for Lilith". Soundclips at: Art Of Phyllorhodomancy)' von ANDREW LILES endlich in den Läden www.karlboesmann.com. Comes in deluxe silver foil cover, with silver landete, wobei der Entstehungsprozess fast genauso lang dauerte. foil insert and label stickers. Printed inner sleeve and additional inserts Aufgenommen in Studios in Paris, London und Sizilien ist ,Ouarda." ein are also included." [label info] Reisetagebuch, das sich schlicht und einfach weigert, für längere Zeit " Never heard the name Karl Bosmann before, but he seems to be an einem einzigen Ort zu verharren. Die Musik, die LILES hier sonically aligned with the doomdreamdeathdrone crowd. And that's versammelt, ist genau so unterschiedlich, wie die musikalischen Gäste, precisely what this is, although a bit more varied than usual, this one's die sich auf ,Ouarda." versammeln. Mit dabei: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, definitely for the SUNNO)))-set, a huge old chunk of low end drone. Rose McDowall, Karl Blake, Edward Ka-Spel und Daniel Padden von Multiple variations on the glacial near static crawl, some glimmering and VOLCANO THE BEAR, die alle einzigartige und absolut effervescent, others grinding and thick, crumbling and abrasive, at least atemberaubende Beiträge liefern. Düster, eingängig, unerklärlich und one seems to be all processed vocals, looped and smeared into some außergewöhnlich ist ,Ouarda..' ein Manifest des Produktionstalents von weird Steve Reich-ian drone and coupled with a wash of minimal low ANDREW LILES, der ohne Zweifel ein einmaliger Soundzauberer ist.// end shimmer, and one is all detuned guitar strum and disembodied Limited edition (600 copies) double LP pressed on colored vinyl. UK- buzz. Easy to hear some Wolf Eyes and definitely some Vulture Club. based Andrew Liles' (Current 93, Nurse With Wound) latest offering has All of side 2 is a single slow burning sidelong epic, very Fear Falls taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Burning sounding, beginning as a whispery shimmer, building to a Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of massive clamorous Sunroof! style din. And let's not forget the Phyllorhodomancy) is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one packaging. Holy shit, it would be worth it even if the record sucked. place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the Embossed metallic silver on matte black jacket, inside a metallic silver array of guests involved: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, Rose McDowall, on black insert, a metallic silver on black sleeve, even the record labels Karl Blake, The Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel and Volcano are reflective silver, super striking and SO worth the extra scratch." The Bear's Daniel Padden all bestow unique and stunning contributions [Aquarius Records review] that soar along with Liles' unique brand of minimal surrealism. Obscure,

accessible, incomprehensible and exceptional, Ouarda (The Subtle Art * KTL - 3 LP (OR rather16, 2007) € 16.00 Of Phyllorhodomancy) is testament to the breathtaking production "KTL are Stephen O'Malley [Sunn O))), Khanate] & Peter Rehberg [Pita, talents of Andrew Liles -- arguably the most vital and original eMego, mimeo]. The third part of accompaniments created for the soundsmith of recent years." [press release / Cargo translation] theatre piece 'Kindertotenlieder' by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which was premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. Limited Edition * MACHINEFABRIEK / BLACK TO COMM - Stofstuk / Stickstoff 7" Vinyl only. One-sided heavyweight vinyl + etching by Savage Pencil (Dekorder, 2007) [lim. 100] € 8.00 [SAVX]. Packaged in a tip-on style outer sleeve, heavyweight inner " ....So consider this a best case scenario, two AQ faves, both masters sleeve and sticker. Two tracks : 'Loud Game' and 'Sunday'. Perhaps the of abstract drone and beautiful ambience, each given a side to do what broadest bulletin from the duo of Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg they do, and it sounds like the two ‘groups’ worked off each others featuring 2 contrasting tracks. The layered dementia bliss of 'Loud sounds. That’s how great these two tracks sound together. Game' counterbalances the fried dub of 'Sunday'. Produced by Stephen Machinefabriek goes way minimal, a super abstract, nearly static O'Malley & Peter Rehberg on location at Vienne Wintergarden, tone poem, each note stretched out into long barely pulsing streaks, Grenoble & Manoir Kéroual, Guilers, July 2006 & February 2007. Cut by rich luxuriant tones allowed to ring out and slowly subside, crystalline Rashad at D&M, Berlin, July 2007. Photos & Doll: Gisèle Vienne. Bird: and gorgeously minimal, the lows deep and fluid, the highs soft and Jean-Luc Verna. Text: Dennis Cooper. Narration: Jonathan Capdeville. shimmery, a subtle sound that dissipates softly, as if it was designed to Design: SOMA." [label info] be a constant fade out from the very first note.

Black To Comm unfurl clouds of reverberating tones, thick billows of * KUBISCH, CHRISTINA / 9KHZ HEGENBART / DEMAND -Ohne metallic shimmer, deftly (and VERY subtly) crafted into muted melodies, Titel (Lichtbilder I-V/2001) 12" & ART (EN/OF DELUXE II, 2005) sounding like a louder, more dense reinterpretation of the [lim. 250] € 59.50

16 Machinefabriek track. Chimes and bells, smeared into blurs of warm boundaries further than ever. "I feel closest to the dubstep trend," says melodic drone, distant percussive twinkles, all wrapped up in BTC’s Dangers. "I feel like dub has always been part of my sound." gorgeous dreamlike sprawl. On Autoimmune, guest vocalist Daddy Sandy makes an appearance on Pressed on beautiful swirled grey vinyl, and packed with an "I Hold the Mic!" and the techno-tinged "Spanish Vocoder" touches on original full color, hand painted collaged insert/cover, every one is Dangers' early techno roots. "Every record is different," he explains, different. LIMITED TO ONLY 100 COPIES!!!!" [Aquarius Records "and in this record I focused on what I like to do versus what other review] people like me to do: beats, bass and distortion." Meat Beat Manifesto's musical inventions have generated a long string * MARTIN, AARON & MACHINEFABRIEK - Cello Recycling 10" of influential, futuristic classics, including tracks such as "God OD," (Type Records TYPE029V, 2007) [lim. 500] € 10.00 "Psyche-Out," "Helter Skelter," "Radio Babylon," "Edge of No Control," MACHINEFABRIEK hat Cello-Klänge von AARON MARTIN recycled, and "It's The Music." The single "Prime Audio Soup" (from the album dabei entstand diese prächtig raumfüllend klingende 10" mit Actual Sounds and Voices) was featured in the sci-fi fantasy subliminalen harmonischen Drones, field recordings (Wasser), blockbuster The Matrix and on its platinum-selling soundtrack." [label mechanischen & loopigen Sounds vom Cello... Anklänge an TROUM info] (v.a. A-Seite), TIM HECKER, etc. "10" vinyl version. The Netherlands' Rutger Zuydervelt Machinefabriek) * MENCHE, DANIEL - Body Melt LP (Important Records IMPREC and American multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin present their first-ever 175, 2008) [lim. 500] € 15.50 collaboration. Zuydervelt is somewhat prolific; his steady flow of super- Schwester-Release zur GLASS FOREST-CD, wieder werden limited edition 3" CD-Rs seem to slip out relentlessly month after month, Hammond-Orgel und indianische Drums eingesetzt, was aber nicht and Martin has one full-length album to his name so far. Between them, unbedingt weiter auffällt, denn auf BODY MELT regieren Meditation, the duo has come up with a project that is far more than the sum of its Repetition, Kontemplation und Pulsation in einem Ausmass, dass parts. The Cello Recycling project was originally commissioned for use Originalsounds kaum noch auszumachen sind. Mit das ruhigste was wir in an art gallery; Zuydervelt took cello improvisations from Aaron Martin von MENCHE können, transcendental drones at its best ! and built them into the slow-burning post-ambient monster that is "Cello "Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only on LP. This is the companion Recycling." The second track takes Martin's original piece, morphed by release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important Rutger, and then once again distorted, where the original piece is simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique drowned in a bath of murky water, submerging it in all different artwork by Emily Recorded in the Summer of 2007. Body Melt is a directions it has never before drifted. The two pieces together are molting and simmering display of furious Hammond Organs & Native perfectly complimentary, showing two sides of a tarnished coin -- one American Drums. Daniel Menche manages to merge together the giving us pent-up emotion, fizzing and shuffling awkwardly until it powerfully fuzzed out organ drones along with hypnotically crushing and explodes majestically, the other giving us a peaceful reflection as seen frenzied drums in a manor that is distinctly the graceful music style of through the eyes of a serial killer who has just completed his final gift to Daniel Menche. Call it trance music for carnivores or ambient music for the world. An inventive and incredibly beautiful look at the cello as an cannibals. Body Melt sits perfectly throned on this limited vinyl LP instrument and noise-making tool; this is an absolute must for fans of release." [label info] post-classical music, the droning beauty of Stars of the Lid or even the moody post-rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Moody, kinetic and * MERZBOW / BAND OF PAIN - Reptile / Insect pic-LP (Dirter hugely enjoyable stuff, this needs to be played loud and absorbed Promotions DPROMLP60, 2008) € 17.50 totally." [label info] Fein gestaltete Split Picture-LP die sich wieder auf die Tierwelt bezieht - "...The first track, "Cello Recycling", finds Zuydervelt taking the various MERZBOWs Seite heisst "Reptile Side" und klingt hier eher "linear", mit cello pieces and stretching them out, layering them, smearing them, einigen überraschenden "flachen" fast Sinuston-artigen Feedback- & blurring them, creating a warm, thick, humid slow burning landscape of Distortion-Parts die weniger krachig sind; das orchestrale dark ambient droning sound. It begins as a minimal crawl, but as the track Projekt von Dirter Labelbetreiber STEVE PITTIS setzt auf der "Insect progresses, the sound takes on an epic quality, with submerged Side" auf rückwärtige dark drones und verfremdete Piano-Klänge, das melodies coming to the surface, strange bits of rhythms and melodic erinnert an BASS COMMUNION und ANDREW LILES.. fragments, creating a glacial wall of cinematic ambience, dark minor key "I don't know whether Merzbow's been following David Attenborough's swells, that undulate and pulse, always building and building, into a Life In Cold Blood series for the BBC, but he's certainly set to capture thick wash of metallic overtones, and crumbling distorted low end the hearts of the programme's noise-loving demographic. This split eventually becoming so buzzy and intense, it begins to sound like a picture disc features the Merzbow piece 'The Celebration Of The much more mellow minimal SUNNO))), before quickly slipping back into Lizard', as signposted by the underside of some undisclosed reptile leg more tranquil Stars Of The Lid like territory. printed across the playing surface. It almost goes without saying, but The second track, "Cello Drowning", takes the already manipulated there's no more reliable a source of noise music, even after all these piece, the epic Godspeed-filtered-through-doomdrone-low-end of "Cello years and all those album releases. Masami Akita is till at the apex of Recycling", and literally drowns it in more sound, layers of noise and noise music. The side begins with some Hecker-like cleanliness and texture, thick swaths of FX, the sound of (appropriately) running water precision only to slowly complicate itself with a polyphony of creamy or rain, the rumbling low end reverberating and shimmering, but instead distortion tones and a thickening of the bandwidth. The tone shifts of making it louder and heavier, more noisy and brutal, it actually gets slightly to incorporate a more physical, industrial edge at times, but the even more subdued, more washed out and indistinct, A very Tim searing purity of the synthetic sounds used throughout should be Hecker-ish blurry smear of sound. Soft focus, gentle, tranquil and considered exemplary to all electronic racket merchants. On the other dreamy, until at the very end, the original sounds of the cello can just be side, Band Of Pain run with an insect theme. Fear not though: the barely glimpsed through the druggy sonic haze, unfurling into a slowly image on the playing side isn't really clear enough to give you buggy fading, sweetly melancholy coda. As always, absolutely lovely." nightmares. Instead, you can focus on the Lustmord-style swathes of [Aquarius Records] quiet, dark ambience that swell and drift across the side. Excellent work from both parties." [Boomkat] * MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - Autoimmune do-LP (Planet Mu ZIQ222, 2008) € 16.00 * M.G.R. (MUSTARD GAS AND ROSES) - Wavering on the Cresting "Wohl kein Wunder, dass Meat Beat Manifesto gerade jetzt wieder aus Heft LP (Conspiracy Records CORE 056, 2008) [lim.500] € 13.00 der Versenkung auftauchen. Waren sie mit ihrer Mischung aus Dub- Nach "Impromptu" und "Nova Lux" das dritte Album mit den einsamen Effekten, harten elektronischen Beats und verzerrten Bässen doch und melancholischen Gitarren-tunes von MIKE GALLAGHER aka schon vor fast zwanzig Jahren so etwas wie die Vorreiter heutigen M.G.R. Die traurig-impressionistische, emotionale Tiefe der so Dubsteps. Entsprechend nah an diesem Genre klingt denn auch das minimalen und "klaren" Instrumentierung stellt eine Klasse für sich dar neue Album, ohne jedoch anbiedernd zu wirken, schließlich ist es Meat und kann einen ganz gefangen nehmen... Beat Manifestos genuiner Stil – und der klingt eben nicht wie Klischee- "With MGR guitarist Mike Gallagher -of renowned dirge architects ISIS- Dubstep, sondern eine ganze Ecke electroider, ausgefuchster, unveils a compendium of sparse ruminations culled from years of irrsinniger. Gleich der erste Track lässt einen mit seinem wohlig underground musical experience. Gallagher has developed a style rollenden Bass in Erinnerungen schwelgen. Danach geht es durch alle characterized by dense, sustained textures coupled with a penchant for Tiefen, die dieses Instrument auszuloten imstande ist. Auch the subtle melodicism associated with the post-Sabbath riff. MGR's Electronica-artiges Soundgezwirbel und Geschnippsel wird nicht effectiveness stems from how fluidly Gallagher is able to gradually add ausgelassen – womit dieses hervorragende Comeback-Album bei dem texture upon texture, building up the intensity of the tracks until they Label Planet Mu genau richtig aufgehoben ist." [Groove.de] reach a tragic momentum. Imagine Isis with much of the bombast "Autoimmune is the new full-length from seminal electronic band Meat stripped away, leaving only dark, moody and melancholic Beat Manifesto. Led by sound sculptor and producer extraordinaire soundscapes… MGR (the acronym for Mustard Gas and Roses, which Jack Dangers, the band continues to evolve, with their their tenth Gallagher has borrowed from a line of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse album, a masterpiece of dubstep and electronica, pushing musical

17 Five), is an emotionally charged amalgamation of sounds that, much to * MOUTHUS & YELLOW SWANS - Live on Conan Island LP (NO-FI its credit, refuses to fit neatly into any particular category." [label info] Recordings NO-FI NEU 010, 2008) [lim. 500] € 17.00 Live-Collaboration Dokument dieser beiden US Guitar-Drone / * MICO NONET - Maloja Pass 7" (Micro Nonet Records MN1002, Electronic / Free Form Noise-Duos, die zu viert ein furioses Klangfeuer 2007) € 7.00 entfachen, low-fi feedbackend rauschend ekstatisch, verzerrter als Rare 7" auf clear vinyl von dem "neo-classic" ambient Ensemble, mit verzerrt.. irgendwo im Noise-Brei sind sowas wie Vocals, Percussion, Auskopplungen aus dem aktuellen Album "The Marmelade Ballon". Als und langsame elektronische Pulses auszumachen. "taster" oder für die 7"-Vinyl-Sammerherzen.. "An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the "two tracks pressed on clear vinyl from Mico Nonet's The Marmalade primordial mulch & all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual Balloon. Blends an ambient minimalist layer of vintage analog intertwining guitarattack impacts & fragments into the dense concrete synthesizers with cello, viola, oboe and french horn, played by percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. 45 skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy rpm, sounds good at 33 rpm too" [ear-rational] proportions." [unknown reviewer] "The ultimate East coast/West coast soundclash as Oregon’s Yellow * MLEHST - Notes of obscure origin LP (Nihilist Records nihil43, Swans and Brooklyn’s Mouthus present a smouldering document from 2006) [lim. 200] € 15.00 their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour. Exzellentes Material von 1996, 2 lange Stücke mit der MLEHST- The sound of Mouthus’s splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely typischen unheimlichen Collagen-Drone-Musik; meist langsam altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans’ raucous axe- treibende reduzierte elektronische Geräusche aller Art (oft feedbacks & mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil backward-sounds) & field recordings, die viel Raum lassen für tanker of sound that can’t avoid enveloping the listener. Stimmungen und Phantasie, wobei eine gewisse "harshness" immer ‘Live On Conan Island’ is a range of monstrous caverns of free electro wieder präsent ist! Akustische Nadelstiche aus dem Unbewussten! skronk, alt-percussion and wailing guitars from live collaboration "Nihilist is extremely proud to present "Notes of Obscure Origin" by between two of Load's hottest noisemongers. Gigantic!" [label info] MLEHST. From a history shrouded in mystery, and a back catalog of recordings treading dark and strange territories, Mlehst delivers their * MUELLER, JON - Strung LP (Table of the Elements Pu94, finest work here with "Notes of Obscure Origin". Recorded in 1996, and 2008) € 16.50 now 10 years later this ominously eerie album has been unleashed from JON MUELLER auf Abwegen: Für seinen Beitrag in der Guitar-Series some dark pit! For those of you unfamiliar with the work of MLEHST, von TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS muss der Perkussionist auch an die (similiar to early Whitehouse & Nurse With Wound) this is most certainly Gitarre - und begeistert mit einem kraftvollen, loopig-hypnotischen a definitive example of their greatness. This LP will be a limited edition Track... klares Vinyl ! of 200 copies on 140 gram black vinyl with cover artwork by Andy "Peripatetic composer, performer, improviser, and designer Jon Mueller Ortmann." [label info] is a busy guy, and both the rock and experimental music scenes are the richer for it. As a drummer, he propels the ecstatic whorl of Collections * MLEHST - The Error of dispensationalist Thought LP (Belief of Colonies of Bees and the occasional guitar army of Rhys Chatham; Recordings AHEODT1, 2008) [lim. 100] € 15.00 alternately his solo project, Metals, is the most harrowingly intense New recordings with very abstract & piercing drone-electronics, creating percussive barrage you'll ever encounter. He also finds time to a quite unsettling atmosphere. Very pure & direct minimal & high- collaborate with artists ranging from Wilco's Glenn Kotche to Swans' pitched, with little breaks & cut-up all over the place. Two side-long Jarboe. Whether it's minimalist bombast, free-improv interplay, or tracks with very strong material again, very "advanced" and definitely electro-acoustic finesse, Mueller's got it covered. But what can he do not an easy listening experience! with a guitar? In Strung, Mueller doesn't play the guitar; he scrambles its molecules. Laying down a photon-blast of sound, he initiates a * MLEHST/ MUTANT APE - Pilgrimage / Intolerable 7" (Belief relentless, rapid-pulse attack signal that summons wave upon wave of Recordings TA185 / BR7001, 2008) [lim. 200] € 7.00 white noise. Think inexorable alien invasion -- The Day The Earth Stood Strong split 7" of daring experimental music: MLEHST uses high- Still, with Lou Reed as Klaatu and Metal Machine Music as the pitched feedbackin' & sinus / synth-tones & builds up great internal message. Earth doesn't stand a chance." Pressed on clear vinyl with waves & patterns... whereas MUTANT APE creates great dark droning great Savage Pencil etching on the b-side." [label info] noise, eerie and slowly climaxing, massive & rough wallowing... "Already noted before: Table Of The Elements love Jon Mueller, and Please note that due to a printing error the labels are on the wrong way who doesn't? Here he leaves the drum kit for what it is and plays guitar, round ! as an addition to the labels Guitar Series Vol. 3, an one-sided LP (the other side has an etching, which is a bit hard to see in transparent vinyl) * MLEHST / HEOGHANAIN - The good news 7" (The good news of Mueller playing the guitar as if it was a mechanical beast. Perhaps TGN11, 2008) [lim. 200] € 7.00 with rotating blades? A ventilator? Mueller cuts out, in a rhythmical Another MLEHST split 7", this time with HEOGHANAIN, though we're manner, sounds and thus one strum arises, repeated, until the full guitar not sure if its a side-project of MLEHST or not... both sides present orchestra falls in, with full blown drones. A very consistent idea that is somehow distorted digital / glitch / sinus-tones, which seems to overlap worked out well, and makes this sound like a great album, coming from & interfere... quite strange and idiosyncratic, but it also reveals some a great tradition: from Lou Reed to Glenn Branca to Earth. At the same beauty, the soundworld of MLEHST. time it also sounds like a Mueller record, with amplified hums. Perhaps a bit too short, as this seems over before it has properly started, it * MOLJEBKA PVLSE - lode lvx 7" (Drone Records DR-91, 2008) seems. The built-up takes some time because it keeps shifting back [lim. 300] € 7.00 and forth, adding a strange movement to the piece. This is a great " Hinter MOLJEBKA PVLSE steckt Mathias Josefson in Stockholm. record, showing a new side for Mueller I think." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Lodelvx (DR-91, 7“ EP, schwarzes Vinyl) mischt dröhnende mit klackernden und dongenden Klängen zu ‚atmenden‘ Schwingungen. * MURCOF - Cosmos 3 x 12" (Leaflabel BAY59F, 2007) € 22.00 Mein Traumauge sieht bei ‚lode‘ die sonore Welle als sich in Zeitlupe Das dritte Album des Mexikaners mit Bezug zu Himmelskörpern & windenden Körper und die perkussiven Tupfen als Zeichnungen im Astronomie; das ist dramatischer, cinematoskopischer Breitwand- Schuppenkleid einer Riesenschlange. ‚lvx‘ summt sich einfach nur Ambient in Perfektion, weniger rythmisch als zuvor, beeindruckend selbst, eine Noir-Schönheit, die sich auf schwarzem Samt räkelt." [Bad "auskomponiert" und mit Einsatz vieler original-Instrumente. Rein Alchemy] instrumental, dunkel, mit neo-klassischen Elementen. "For some years now Stockholm based artist MATHIAS JOSEFSON Erinnert uns an XABEC, JOHANN JOHANNSSON, COIL... has delighted the drone scene with his highly minimal excursions into Diese limitierte Vinyl-Version teilt sich auf 45er 12"es auf! drone territory. From harsh noise to soft & gentle ambience the aim is to "Unermessliche Weite: drittes Album des mexikanischen Elektronikers: reach a basic level of sound conscience. In doing so the "human mind" Hinter dem Alias Murcof verbirgt sich Fernando Corona. Im and the "sound mind" interact to build a symbiotic entity. MOLJEBKA Spannungsfeld zwischen Elektronik, Klassik und experimenteller PVLSE is Josefson’s sound art project where he often collaborates with Minimal Music folgt der Mexikaner seit 2001 seiner Vision, digitale KARIN JACOBSON. The two pieces "lode" and "lvx" are great Präzision mit akustischer Wärme zu vereinen. Sein drittes Album examples of breathing drone structures which seem to be derived from markiert dabei eine Abkehr von seinen vorherigen Arbeiten. Denn real string or wind instruments. Harmonic & mysterious, dense & "Cosmos" entstand fast ausschließlich aus Aufnahmen klassischer aspiring.... this is indeed music like a lode of illuminations... Instrumente, deren Klang er mit elektronischer Hilfe zu völlig neuen Filed under: BREATHING DRONES Ausdrucksformen erweiterte. Inspiriert von einem langen Blick hoch zu more info: www.moljebka.com den Sternen reflektiert "Cosmos" die Nichtigkeit der menschlichen Welt BLACK VINYL, BLACK SILKSCREENED BLACK COVER" [label info] im Vergleich zur Größe des Universums. Die unermessliche Weite von Tracks wie "Cosmos I" und "Cosmos II" erinnert dabei sowohl an die Arbeiten deutscher Elektronikpioniere wie an die des ungarischen

18 Komponisten György Ligeti. Aber auch das durchdringende Grollen von into crushing riffs... " [label info] Gruppen wie SunnO))) und Coil ist hier spürbar. Seit dem letzten Album "Remembranza" (2005) arbeitete Corona zusammen mit u. a. * NADJA - Radiance of Shadows do-LP (Conspiracy Records Francesco Tristano, Erik Truffaz und Talvin Singh, mit dem er 2006 auf CORE064, 2008) [lim. 750] € 19.50 dem Montreux Jazz Festival auftrat." [press release / Indigo] Vinyl Re-issue der ALIEN8 CD in nobler Ausstattung: Prägecover, "Fernando Corona’s long-awaited third album as Murcof marks a Vollfarb-Innenhüllen von SELDON HUNT, und eine "etched" D-Seite! dramatic departure from previous works. Truly monumental in scale, "Wenn man Aidan Bakers Hinweisen folgt, in welchem Kontext er seine Cosmos is composed almost entirely of recordings of classical Stichworte ‚fire‘ und ‚radiance‘ verstanden wissen möchte - Shelley instruments, a process which Corona describes as “expanding the Jacksons Half Life, Lydia Millers Oh Pure & Radiant Heart und possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics.” It’s a move American Prometheus von Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin - dann stößt man away from the micro-programmed sound he helped to pioneer, and his auf J. Robert Oppenheimer, drei weitere wiedergängerische ‚Väter der seamless integration of these apparently opposed forms is almost Atombombe‘ und eine postatomare Zukunft, die von Siamesischen unprecedented. These new recordings were inspired by a very simple Zwillingen als Strahlungsmutanten bevölkert wird. Musikalisch motion, the act of tilting the head towards the skies, or as Corona puts tritt Bakers Duo mit Leah Buckareff drei Soundlawinen los, mit it: “Cosmos basically comes from that state of wonder and mystery and Gitarrendonner und Basswolkenbruch, die wie von einem joy and humbling that you get when you let your mind wander freely on Vulkanschlund ausgekotzt auf einen nieder krachen. Für den a starry night, away from the contamination of city lights. From the obligatorischen Vergleich mit Swans fehlt das rhythmische Element, realization that there's an infinite universe outside the man-made world Nadjas Welt ist eine Dunkelwolke aus dark ambienten Drones, and how silly this latter one seems in comparison.” brachialen Riffs und Drummachinegehämmer, die eher in der Originally intended as an EP, the early Cosmos tracks were so Tradition von Earth und Godflesh bis SunnO))) stehen, wobei die mesmerizing that those around Corona encouraged him to make it a elementaren und archaischen Assoziationen einen Dreh ins full-length. His past approach involved mixing disembodied orchestral Dystopische erfahren. Zermalmende Kräfte werfen sich über Land, passages amidst microbeats, letting a song shift and mutate in a ihnen mythische Namen zu geben wie Vishnu oder Godzilla, sie minimal environment. With Cosmos, he has progressed towards a more Blitz zu nennen oder Schatten, ist müßig. Baker nimmt die ultimative sophisticated compositional mode. The immensity of tracks like the Transformation als Folie für die Vision einer endlosen Kette monolithic twins ‘Cosmos I’ and ‘Cosmos II’ draw to mind the work of präultimativer Verwandlungen - each time a cell splits off we become a the German electronic pioneers of the ‘70s or the Hungarian composer new flesh - a new self into infinity. Also sprach der Kalenderblatt- György Ligeti as much as the visceral, low-end rumblings of SunnO))) Guru. Der Sound spricht eine andere Sprache. Zu seiner Suggestivität or Coil. Murcof’s compositions have always been as much about the gehört auch, dass er vom Übergang von ‚i have tasted the fire inside absence of sound as what you actually hear, and these techniques are your mouth‘ zum Titelstück ausdünnt auf eine Keyboardlinie, further refined here. “This album took me one and a half years to finish,” Drummachine- Leerlauf und stagnierende Rhythmusgitarre the quietly-spoken Corona says. “I like to leave the tracks there to stand - bis mit VOLLER WUCHT wieder Vishnu zu tanzen beginnt, innehält --- the test of time before I put them out, and I generally don't like rushed (Baker murmelt seine ‚Radiance Of Shadows‘-Poesie) --- ERNEUT jobs.” Corona’s care and precision is very evident on Cosmos, a AUFSTAMPFT --- UND NUN UNBÄNDIG PLATT TRAMPELT, WAS brilliant, powerful recording that charts his musical destinations IMMER DA SEIN MAG, lustvoll grollend wie Cthulhu selbst." [Bad completely off the map." [press release] Alchemy]

* NADJA - Guilted by the Sun 12" (Roadburn Records rbr004, * NADJA - Truth becomes Death do-LP (Conspiracy Records 2007) € 13.00 CORE065, 2008) [lim. 750] € 19.50 4-track EP mit ihrem süchtigmachenden Avant-Drone-Metal, manche Der dritte Re-Release in der CONSPIRACY-Trilogie, TRUTH nennen das inzwischen auch DOOM GAZER oder AMBIENT DOOM, BECOMES DEATH war 2005 das erste "fabrikgepresste" NADJA- tief-bassig & dronig, mal näher zum Songformat (dann sogar mit Album und erschien auch auf ALIEN8 in Kanada. geflüsterten / verzerrten Vocals), mal näher zu experimentellen "Nach einigen CDRs nun die erste “echte” CD des Projekts von LEAH Soundscapes hin, wobei sich zwischen diesen Polen eine BUCKAREFF und AIDAN BAKER. Drei lange Stücke mit unnachahmliche Spannung und Ausserweltlichkeit breit macht.... majestätischen Klängen zwischen ultra-slo-mo metal und drone- dies die Version als limitiertes 12" Vinyl (schwarz). ambience, zäh und dickflüssige Riffs & Soundeffekte, durch den Einsatz "....A brand new 28 minute ep, from one of the originators of this von verzerrter drum-machine & vocals bekommt das ganze eine new bred of blissful brutality, Canadian duo, Nadja, featuring AQ abgründige, emotionale Struktur. Wer auf tiefe Sumpfgitarren und favorite, the crazy prolific Aidan Baker. While this ep starts off dunkle noise-ambience steht, muss hier einfach zugreifen!" [Drone Rec. tranquil and drifty, it doesn't take long for things to get down to info 2005] business, with a sudden onslaught of super corrosive downtuned "Finally a full-fledged metal release on Alien8 Recordings. Alright, sludge guitar and simple doomic plod. Now Nadja have always been perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration but the music of Nadja comes heavy, but it's always been sort of shimmery and blown out, heavy in a pretty damn close. Nadja is an ambient doom metal monster fronted by drifting soft focus sort of way, but the opening track here sounds almost multi-talented Toronto musician and writer Aidan Baker. The music of black metal, still with a sort of slow core pop heart, but wrapped in Nadja will certainly be name-checked with current rulers of the genre blackened buzz and super damaged crumbling distortion, seriously Sunn O))) and with good reason. Having said this, Nadja is different intense and ominous. Pretty amazing actually. The song fades out into than the bulk of bands operating in the outsider metal movement these a glimmering pool of distant buzz laced with dreamlike melodies, only days as they employ a much heavier use of ambient aesthetics and to be clobbered by the second track, the most straight up riffy song influences that help forge their sound." [press release ALIEN 8] Nadja has ever recorded wethinks, some wierd sort of slow motion "All 3 releases have similar special packaging, including embossed, die- stoner doom metal, but being Nadja, still wrapped in fuzzy sparkles cut outersleeves and full colour innersleeves. Artwork for each release and warm whir. All four tracks, minus brief interludes of whispery contains a series of pictures by SELDON HUNT, and all D-Sides have tranquility, are massive lumbering distorted dreamdoom beasts, that an etched picture on them." [Conspiracy blog] could definitely hold their own in a room full of hellboun heavies and devastating doomlords. While somehow managing to also sound * NEPTUNE - Gong Lake LP (Table of the Elements / Radium pretty the whole damn time..." [Aquarius Records] TOE-LP-811, 2008) € 16.00 Kraftvoller und mit experimentellen Überflügen ausgestattete Noise- * NADJA - Touched do-LP (Conspiracy Records CORE063, Rock einer Combo die an THE EX, alte SONIC YOUTH oder COP 2008) [lim. 750] € 19.50 SHOOT COP erinnern, nur ist alles noch irgendwie verdrehter und "Originally released by Alien8 Recordings in 2007, this is the first verrückter, ohne dass sie jemals den Drive verlieren oder ins totale Double LP release in a small series of 3, the two following releases Chaos abdriften.. being the NADJA ‘Radiance Of Shadows’ 2xLP and NADJA ‘Truth "Behold: Neptune, the most harrowingly original band on this planet -- Becomes Death’ 2xLP. All 3 will be released as a limited edition of 750 or the next. Its three members are, in turn, musicians, sculptors, copies, 250 on coloured (Silver vinyl for Touched) and 500 on black. scientists, blacksmiths, electricians, and industrial machinists; All 3 releases have similar special 'deluxe' packaging, including relentlessly inventive, possibly sane. Together, they construct all of their embossment, die-cut sleeves and heavy full colour innersleeves with instruments, forging guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas pictures by SELDON HUNT. As if this isn't enough, all LP's will have an tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings, and miscellany from the ETCH on side D. trash. Electronics, and even cords, are homemade as well. The With "Touched", NADJA have hit the perfect meld of punishing combined effect is a bizarre, post-apocalyptic mélange of steel, iron, doom/sludge six-string fuzz, endless militant drum machine bludgeon, wire, rust, rivet, knob and cable; it's lunacy, arc-welded for maximum and chest-swelling shoegaze/post-rock/ambient-influenced catharsis. destruction. Concerts are seizures of motion. Wearing 40-pound guitars NADJA's brand of doomy ambient metal incorporates beautiful melody assembled entirely from scrap metal, the members don't play their instruments -- they battle them, like mechanized Golems. But make no

19 mistake, this is not simply art with sharp edges and serious customs record is housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve, with a printed inner card issues. Neptune rocks. Hard. Recalling the slapdash angularity of The and full-color labels. Players include: Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, Fall, the rhythmic ack-ack blasts of This Heat, and the sheer proto- Freida Abtan, Suzi Firenza, Taundewei L. Hodge and Jay Jay." [label clangor of Einstürzende Neubauten, they count as one of the best info] experimental rock bands of any era. Their dynamic, expertly wrought "... The two non-album pieces are both of a high quality. “Bei Mir Bist songs and skilled improvisations don't start; they explode. Gong Lake is Du Schön” takes the slow, jazzy romance song and turns it on its head. the band's first unlimited CD release, and with it the world will discover The pulsing noise (out of time with the vocals) and the shimmering what fans of their live shows have known for years: Neptune is Lilith-esque drones make for quite an unsettling experience. “The otherworldly." [label info] Bottom Feeder” is more like old school Nurse than any of the other pieces here. It is a chaotic mess of sound, switching between destroyed * NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS - Lest we forget 4 x LP-Box & 7" rhythms and aural abstractions that make Nurse With Wound the (Vinyl-On-Demand VOD56, 2008) € 62.00 constantly rewarding beast that it is. "Lest We Forget is a collection compiled from the earliest recordings by The old time rock’n roll and surf influences along with the sheer Nocturnal Emissions, a group founded by Nigel Ayers, his brother strangeness of Stapleton’s arrangements bring to mind David Lynch’s Daniel Ayers and Caroline K in 1980. It is comprised of material appropriation and warping of '50s and '60s American pop music in his previously only available on cassettes as well as tracks recorded under movies to make the surreal situations seem more familiar than they their earlier name, The Pump. The Nocturnal Emissions were active in should be (such as the prostitutes dancing to “The Locomotion” in what has been known as 'cassette culture' and explored the medium of Inland Empire or the jitterbug scene at the start of Mullholland Dr.). underground cassette exchange in parallel with their better known vinyl Maybe because Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti have done this sort of releases and live performances. They used the available technology of thing so well for so long that Nurse With Wound’s move in this direction the day in a spirit which seems to have anticipated modern social does not sound so fresh. I know Stapleton has tried something similar networking through the Internet. This series of documents offers a rare before with Sylvie and Babs but to my mind, this is a Lynchian approach glimpse at audio sketchbooks; raw, unfinished works-in-progress and to those rock’n roll and lounge standards. The Bacteria Magnet and live performances by the group. It covers a wide range of musical style Huffin’ Rag Blues are a great experiment but I wonder if this is a by a group who were committed to radical experimentation in both form temporary digression by Stapleton or whether he will be working with and content. The box set also contains some previously unreleased similar sources for a long time (and if so, does this style have the tracks from the early '80s which sound surprisingly contemporary and longevity to warrant another album)?" [Brainwashed] fresh. The group has undergone several mutations since these early recordings and continued into 21st century as a solo project by Nigel * NURSE WITH WOUND - The musty Odour of Pierced Rectums Ayers. Caroline K left the group in 1984 and produced one solo album LP (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt056b, 2008) [lim. 600] € 17.00 before adopting a more private life. She remained a good friend and Vinyl-Version einer raren CDR die 2003 in 300er Auflage auf Beta- lived in England, Sri Lanka, and finally in Italy. She married Danny Lactam erschien. Braunes Vinyl und wunderbar dickes Kunstcover. Ayers in 2001. While the edit of this collection was being assembled, Musikalisch liegt der Fokus auf der Dekonstruktion von vokalem und she took ill with leukemia and died during hospital treatment a few days Objekt-Klang Material, in teils spannenden, teils absonderlichen later. Caroline's distinctively moody electronics, vocals and bass guitar surrealistischen & dadaistischen Arrangementsentstehen viele kleine feature strongly on these albums. We offer this box set as a tribute to Klangfigurationen.. her life and work." Includes Dyskinesia, The Fight Goes On/Duty "A dirty brown vinyl and a book bound LP sleeve. In the terpsichorean Experiment, Deathday/Outtakes, Whisky/Recordings By The Pump, tradition of traumatizing and titillating treacalese collector geeks the plus booklet. world over, Beta-lactam presents a limited LP release by Nurse With Wound. This is a full fledged, full length, full bodied album of previously * NOISE DREAMS MACHINA - IN/OUT 7" (Drone Records DR-90, unreleased material, and just when you thought it couldn't get any 2008) [lim. 300] € 7.00 weirder... It would seem that the musty odour exuded by pierced Für OSCAR MARTIN aka NOISEDREAMSMACHINA eröffnen sich rectums is exhilarating; even scintillating. With rounds of disembodied durch digitales Soundprocessing von Umwelt- und Objektaufnahmen voices, arias of crackle and rumble, jets of ascendant and descendant neue Wege, die peripheren Zonen von Klang zu erkunden. Seine sound, bursts of silent, nurse wounding flak worthy of The Great Cage, kraftvoll geräuschhafte 7" für Drone Records verbindet Elektro-Akustik well, if my thermometer reads correctly, "Rectums" is not unlike und Power-Drone in beeindruckender Weise. "Gyllensköld" in its sonic attacks and rectal decays. I find it especially "NOISE DREAMS MACHINA is the project of Spanish artist OSCAR enlightening with Ann-Margaret singing in the background on the MARTIN. Now living & studying in Berlin & Barcelona, he is currently television, but you will realise hours of listening pleasure even without exploring the possibilities of homemade software with free tools for the random Ann-Margaret caveat. Honestly though, Volks, if'n I heard sound deconstrucion and realtime performance. IN & OUT is his first this record and did not know who it was, I would buy it on the spot vinyl release and uses a wide range of environmental recordings which because it just happens to be AWESOME, dude. All I'm saying is that are processed digitally in more "electro-acoustic" ways. This leads to a thy ear drum is worth piercing with the "Musty Odour Of Pierced balance between "Drone" and "Electro-Acoustic" where the acoustic Rectums," possibly whilst driving around in a Pierce-Arrow reading potential of conventional reality is enlarged via digital processing. In his Pears Anthony with, of course, a butt plug firmly and resolutely own words: "It brings attention to the peripheral zones of the sound installed." [label info] phenomenon". Through intense mutation & deconstruction of acoustic "... All 13 tracks are untitled, and sometimes it is hard to tell where one materials a new or previously hidden meaning can be revealed for the ends and the next begins, a distinction made even more difficult on blind spot of our perception. Filed under: ADVANCED ELECTRO- vinyl. Voices play a big role on this album, often muted or wildly echoing ACOUSTIC DRONES. more info: often at the expense of intelligibility, almost as if they were www.noisedreamsmachina.blogspot.com. MILK-COLOURED VINYL, announcements in a foreign country in which the traveler doesn’t know WHITE COVER WITH BLACK SILK-SCREENED PRINT" [press the language. When they are clear, they’re saying ordinary things like, release] "Right, yeah, check, we're all ready/We're all ready/Right, here we go," but they are more often at the edge of comprehension, like something * NURSE WITH WOUND - The Bacteria Magnet 12" (United Dirter uttered in a dream but forgotten upon waking. Feedback frequently DPROMEP66, 2008; 2nd edition!) € 13.50 erupts yet quickly fades, with mechanical objects frequently cycling from Quasi die Begleit-Platte zum Album HUFFIN RAG BLUES, mit 2 ear to ear to keep the listener from gaining any solid ground. Whimsical Exklusiv-Remixen davon und 2 neuen Tracks! Kommt im fantastischen textures like silly laughter or the repeated clearing of a throat keeps "glossy" Vollfarbcover, inzwischen schon Zweitauflage in weissem things playful without sacrificing the menace generated by the other Vinyl, aber OHNE das schöne Innencover. elements. The first side ends with loops and an increasingly loud drone "NURSE WITH WOUND stehen niemals richtig still. "The Bacteria that threatens to grow unbearable before it becomes fuzzy low-end Magnet" wurde im Bear Den Studio im südenglischen Brighton oscillations. The second side starts with sliding metallic echoes and a geschrieben, aufgenommen und bekam direkt im Anschluss die Remix damp alarm that swells in volume over time before a quieter bass tone Behandlung. Die Songs "Cruisin' For A Bruisin" und "Thrill Of grows in its place. Clanging metal dominates from there, joined by Romance.?" erscheinen in abgewandelter Version auf der ebenfalls rattling jars, chains dragged over pots for strange harmonic effect, more aktuellen NURSE WITH WOUND CD "Huffin' Rag Blues", während "Bei scraping metal, and even some brief liquid splashes. Even though many Mir Bist Du Schön" und "The Bottom Feeder" hier auf "The Bacteria of these textures appear seemingly at random, in the background is a Magnet" exklusiv erscheinen. "The Bacteria Magnet" ist nur auf Vinyl zu deep bass presence that returns intermittently to suggest some sort of haben, kommt in einem glänzenden Sleeve und vollfarbigen Labels. meaning even if it doesn’t point to anything specific. Added to this is the The Bacteria Magnet was written, recorded and remixed at the Bear non sequitur of someone of chewing an apple, which again lightens the Den, Brighton, UK. "Cruisin' For A Bruisin" and "Thrill Of Romance...?" tone. The album ends with a heavily processed voice that never appear in an alternative guise on the CD Huffin Rag Blues. "Bei Mir Bist manages to communicate its message despite whatever importance it Du Schoen" and "The Bottom Feeder" are exclusive to this record. This may serve. While mutated voices and metallic sounds have showed up

20 on previous Nurse albums, they have never sounded quite like this or mentally), opening endless spaces with low humming & reverberating before. Always amusing even as it confounds, Pierced Rectums has a meditation-drones! Edition of 500 copies pressed on luminous green distinct vibe all its own." [Matthew Amundson / Brainwashed] vinyl, full-colour artwork by 1000SCHOEN aka ex-MAEROR TRI- member HELGE SIEHL !" [label info] * OM - Pilgrimage LP (Southern Lord SUNN86, 2007) € 14.00 "Three songs featuring OM’s (AL CISNEROS and CHRIS HAKIUS of * PADDEN, DANIEL - Pause for the Jet LP (Dekorder 026, 2008) the legendary SLEEP) unique use of riff, cadence and chant comprise € 12.00 the duo’s new album Pilgrimage. Lyrical themes address the processes "DANIEL PADDEN kannte ich bisher als einen der Volcano-The-Bear- of mind, psychic reality, astral and casual planes of being, and the Bären. Nach Glasgow umgezogen, ging er auf Solopfade, erst als The nature of the soul. Engineered by STEVE ALBINI and produced by the One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden und mit Pause for the Jet (Dekorder band, the motifs that were initiated on their previous two album are 026) zum zweiten Mal unter dem bloßen Familiennamen. Seine continued here unabated." [label info] Vorlieben für schräge Sounds aus fernen Ländern, für seltsamen Kraut- "The mighty return of the transcendental RIFF! The third Om und wagemutigen Artrock sind darauf collagiert zu Songs und record! By now the methods and purpose of their ultra heavy music of Instrumentals mit surrealen Haupt- und Nebenwirkungen. ‚Crow Crow the spheres is clear. The music on this album, much like the first Growth‘ mischt das Timbre von Charles Hayward mit Saitengezupfe two, is stripped to its essence. Bass and drums churning out super und Ethnopercussion zu einem wehmütigen Folksong. ‚Sponge hypnotic heaviness and repetitive chant-like vocals creating a Shipwreck‘ lässt 33 Sekunden lang den Geist von Harry Partch cyclical whorl of trance-rock divinity. erscheinen, ‚The Ghostly Whole‘ nur den Geist einer alten With a lot of new releases from bands we love, change in sound Kirchturmuhr, während Ratten pizzikato Kontrabass knabbern. Die and development of style is important, Om seem to operate with Residents und Nurse With Wound haben ähnliche Seancen abgehalten, different principles than the average rock and roll outfit. The ähnlich von Recording Angels behütete Träume geträumt. ‚Three consistency of their sound lends itself to the eternal nature of the Farewells‘ mischt Posaune, Bassklarinette und Cello und loopt dazu music, as if all three of their records are really just movements in einen elegischen Gesangsfetzen, bevor mit ‚The Liar Inbetween‘ wieder some expansive, cosmic symphony. Within Om's canon, change is felt ein fast straighter Song erklingt, auch wenn die Begleitung erst nur like the passing of time without the aid of a clock or calendar, seltsam verzupft und verschrappelt daher kommt und sich dann doch existing in the infinite void. And what an ass kicking void it is!.... " elektrisch verdichtet. Auf ‚The Shadow Of Lunch‘ tutet eine [Aquarius Records] asthmatische Harmonika, die Kopfstimme dazu wackelt auf hölzernen Stelzen. Auf rostig schnarrenden Twangs schwimmt ‚Narwhal‘ dahin, * ONDE - One LP (Ondemusic 001, 2007) [lim. 400] € 18.50 um auf morbiden Trommelschlägen zu stranden. Katzenjämmerliche Vielversprechendes Debut dieses neuen Projektes mit ex NOISE- Salonmusik quietscht in allen Scharnieren, bevor Padden nach ‚Arc MAKER'S FIFES-Mitstreitern - minimal, dronig, instrumentell, kraftvoll, Fankle‘ mit seiner stotternder Percussion und ‚Bustle‘ mit seinem improvisiert! Bassklarinettengebrummel a capella ‚English Again‘ anstimmt. "Van Luijk is also present in Onde, a new trio of himself, Marc Seltsam, aber seltsam schön." [Bad Alchemy] Wroblewski and former Noise Makers Fifes member Greg Jacobs. The "Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, first record is called 'One', how appropriate, and is dedicated to Geert with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's Feytons, the main man of Noise Makers Fifes who took his own life last United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his year. On the back of the cover we see an image of them: one guy on an move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as upright bass, one of the drums and one playing a saxophone. A jazz an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret band? Four pieces on this record and it's certainly not really jazz. On Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into side one we find the pieces 'Four' and 'One' and 'Three and 'Two' on the a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his other. There is a strong difference between both sides. Side One is a birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label wild, psychedelic noise affair, in which it seems that all three players being the first seminal result. have an endless variety of sound effects at their disposal, whereas on Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure side two there is also improvised music, but without the wealth of sound musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The effects but with the inclusion of electronic tape manipulations. Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Instruments can be recognized as such and there is much more detail Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called to be heard. I thought this was a great record, both sides of the big world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with black coin. The noise brings them to the common day rock noise improv his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut drone of say Sunn 0))), whereas the other side is more traditional Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With electro-acoustic improvisation. Here the adventure that could have been Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a the Luijk/Vanderstraeten LP is present and makes a most promising totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding debut." [FdW / Vital Weekly] overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly "With a press release that simply declares this as "sinister transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by psych, semi-acoustic noise" and a photograph on the back of the LP some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of with the band posturing with instruments in a crumpled shack out in an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already the forest, this record was pretty much made for Aquarius. Onde is a an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year"."[label info] project that has come out of Noise Maker's Fifes, a theatrically Neo- Please note: This album is also available as CD, but not listed again in Dada ensemble in the same orbit as Nurse With Wound and HNAS. the CD-section of this catalogue. The best known member of these groups is Timo Von Luijk, who had recorded briefly in Mirror with Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann and * PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE - Voice Studies LP (Alga Marghen more recently has continued on with Heemann as In Camera. Onde plana-P 19VocSon072, 2008) [lim. 385] € 20.00 delivers with the sinister psych and semi-acoustic noise with four long Sehr frühe Experimente (von Anfang der 60er!) mit Stimme & primitiven form slabs of drone murk with one side being more of the dark, gloomy Tape-Loops ("Surrealistic Studies"), zwei "Voice & Piano-Studies" von drone strategy, the other belonging to a monstrous heaviosity for 1971, ebenfalls mit verfremdeten Gesang, und weitere Experimente mit sheer noise. The mellower shadowy half recalls Taj Mahal Travellers mehreren Gesangstimmen von Mitte der Sechziger (ein "Kopfstimmen- meandering through electronics and instrumental flutter with bits of Duo mit sich selbst") inspiriert von jüdischem Sakral-Gesang). Obskur & the impressionist atmospheres of Mirror and In Camera coming schön, der ganz frühe PALESTINE. Dunkelgrünes Vinyl. through. On the flip, Onde crash head forward into the acoustic noise "The VocSon series presents on limited editions LP records the most compaction of bowed metals, screeched steel strings, and growling advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to amplifiers somewhere between Birchville Cat Motel, Organum, and the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new Sunroof! It's pretty awesome." [Aquarius Records] LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled 'Voice Studies'. This LP record includes the very early 'Surrealistic Studies', recorded in * OÖPHOI - Potala 10" (Substantia Innominata SUB-07, 2008) Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s using a Webcor reel to reel tape [lim. 500] € 12.00 recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone of Die Nr. 7 in unserer 10"-Vinyl Reihe ist auch gleichzeitig das allererste the recorder and immediately pulling the microphone out creating an Vinyl für Gianluigi Gasparetti aka OÖPHOI, der auf seinem eigenen interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, Label UMBRA schon unzählige CDRs herausgegeben hat und in der changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation "meditativen" Ambient-Szene längt kein Unbekannter mehr ist. POTALA techniques were used. 'Voice + Piano Study I & II' are short and ist heiligen Plätzen in Tibet gewidmet, mit seinen tief summenden & beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated hallenden Drone-Mandalas öffnet OÖPHOI unendlich weite Räume der voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts, on September 29th, 1971. 'Voice Imagination... Study' was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this Study "First ever vinyl by the italian deep ambient master! Two long Charlemagne sing in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. contemplative tracks into the center of holy places (may it be physically Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a Synagogue in the falsetto

21 voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant dazzling shronk, reminiscent of early SY, the soaring drone of John falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte like electronic sound wave oscilators played against eachother. Finally Young. So duck and cover, as Lee fires an impeccably aimed fusillade the fantastic 6 minutes 'Beauty Chord + Voice' with Charlemagne across the screaming fields of sonic love. Pressed on sea-foam green playing piano and singing." [label info] marbled, etched vinyl. Etched artwork on the b-side by Savage Pencil." [label info] * PENJAGA INSAF / VESTIGIAL - Of Earth and of Fire 12" ".... Noisy crashing chords, chaotic and off kilter, over a super high (Power and Steel PAS 22, 2008) € 10.00 pitched sonar like beep, weirdly hypnotic until it explodes into a Zwei neuere Projekte aus dem Ethno / Ritual / Ambient-Bereich in der full on psychedelic skreekout. The second track begins with an amazing LOKI / POWER & STEEL - split 12"-Reihe! Ein Muss für Freunde des tripped out, warbly warped guitar groove, which gives way to a weird rituellen dark ambients !! high end drone doused in fucked up effects, so woozy it almost makes "With the second part of the split MLP series two upcoming projects you dizzy just listening, and reminds us a bit of a fucked up set of known from previously limited CD-R release are now introduced to a bagpipes. wider audience. The German Penjaga Insaf delivers enigmatic, The final track begins with an echo-y almost-industrial space-y ritualistic soundscapes built from layers of percussive, deeply surfy riff, that shifts suddenly in pitch, creating mysterious melodies, meditative patterns, interwoven with original field recordings made by super haunting and hypnotic, but this track too soon gives way to a the artist during extensive travels through Indonesia. Italy's massive amp blowing, speaker melting chunk of freaked out Vestigial presents an immense stream of pitch black ambience infused Japanese style noise-psych. Whew. with dark tectonic upheavals and voice fragments that boil Pressed on opaque swirled turquoise vinyl. One sided, the other forth from a seething flood of magma before sinking back into the side with a super bad ass etching by Savage Pencil, housed in a thick molten stew. The ancient sounds of the Earth as scorched vinyl sleeve, and of course, as always LIMITED! " [Aquarius Records by devastating waves of brooding Fire." [label info] review]

* Duane PITRE / PILOTRAM ENSEMBLE - Organized Pitches * Rick REED - Dreamz / Blue Polz pic-LP (Elevator Bath occuring in Time LP [Trome Records, 2007] € 14.50 eeeaoa027, 2008) [lim. 260] € 17.50 Klassischer Instrumental- & "Tone Generator"-Drone, minimal und zart, Rauschig-repetitive Analog- & Mechano-drones, füllig & dicht auf Seite wenig abgründig oder dark ambientig, hat eher etwas "chamber-music"- 1, ruhiger & ätherischer auf Seite 2, kreiert mit Analog-Synth, artiges, mit vielen tonal gleichschwingenden Mitspielern auf Klarinette, Sinustone-Generator und Kurzwellen-Radio. Das sind quasi die Saxophon und Violine, die Stücke sind durchkomponiert. Soundtracks für 2 von RICK REEDS abstrakten Gemälden, die auf Vinyl-Version eines Albums, welches IMPORTANT RECORDS als CD dieser picture-disc abgebildet sind. Schöne Arbeit des Texaners mit herausgebracht hat. starkem 70er Jahre Drone & Minimalismus-Touch. "Organized Pitches Occurring in Time consists of two 25 minute pieces "Beautiful picture disc LP featuring two full-color reproductions of visual of music, both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score works by Rick Reed and two new side-long solo compositions. by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of Reed's fascinating, highly evolved world is represented well by these works by La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music and their tonality two new pieces, each of which offers up the kind of droning intensity touching on the floating works of Terry Riley, 'The Ensemble Chord in and unsettling beauty that this veteran noisemaker has come to be Eb with a Minor 7th and a Pump Organ Base' & 'The Ensemble Chord known for. Reed's work is very obviously that of an experienced in C with a Major 7th and a Guitar Base' are aural tapestries based on a craftsman - one whose sound is a reverent nod to early electronic music minimal tonal palette with their instrumentation consisting of guitars, alto underscored by an enduring sensibility for atmosphere and ethereality. saxophones, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tone generator, and pump Dreamz began life as the soundtrack for a live visual display by organ. The Ensemble Drones composition varies from the traditional filmmaker Ken Jacobs, which was performed live by Jacobs and Reed sort as it is rule-based with the score consisting of a set tonic, set pitch at the 2007 New York Film Festival. The record’s flipside, Blue Polz, classes, playing methods, technique restrictions, and spontaneous was also inspired by the work of a filmmaker (originally conceived as a conduction. The score is a structure for the performing ensemble to kind of alternate soundtrack to a piece by Fred Worden). All of the improvise on - order spawning chaos producing order that is different on music was created using an EMS Synthi A, plus 2 sine wave generators each occasion of a performance or recording. Ensemble Drones is and a shortwave radio. The artwork comes from two original paintings. discipline and freedom, both within each other, the first major focus of Reed has been active in the visual arts for more than 20 years; his work the work. Variance is the second major focus of the composition; with is utterly abstract, beautifully enigmatic. These images are the perfect instrumentation, ensemble performers, tonic, pitch classes, and the accompaniment to Reed’s otherworldly audio counterparts. physical space varying from performance to performance, the results In addition to his solo work, Rick Reed has participated in a number of can never be the same. productive collaborations over the years with Keith Rowe, Jgrzinich (in One way to view Ensemble Drones is like a compositional "body", as in Frequency Curtain), the Abrasion Ensemble, and SIRSIT. He currently the composition taking human form. The score is the skeletal structure resides in Austin. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition that gives the "body" its general shape and feel. The pump organ, for of 260 copies." [label info] instance, could serve as the circulatory system, the bass clarinet as the "From the improvisation world of Texas comes Rick Reed, who has muscles, cello and saxophones as the internal organs, the electrically been around for quite some time, playing with Keith Rowe (it's this Rick generated tones as the nervous system, guitars as the flesh, viola as from that AMM title), the Abrasion Ensemble and Sirsit, of whom I never the skin, violin as strands of hair, and the listener—the listener acts as heard. He has had various solo releases on Elevator Bath before. the eyes. Not in the sense of vision, though—each listener will "view" These two pieces here were part of something bigger: one as a 'live the same compositional body differently, and, in return, the body will visual display by filmmaker Ken Jacobs', and the other one could be an view itself differently with each new set of eyes. This helps to analogize alternative soundtrack to a piece by one Fred Worden. Reed uses a the last major focus of the Ensemble Drones score/composition, which EMS Synthi A, two sine wave generators and a shortwave radio. The is perception." [label notes] first side, if I detected that alright, is a very minimal piece of soft flowing, "crystalline aural beauty...splendidly conceived and executed high pitched tones. Like far away insects chirping whilst the dawn sets material...richness of overtones and s-l-o-w-l-y shifting in. Over the course of the side dawn gets dark and insects quiet out. modulations...gorgeously entrancing...the strength of the recording The other side start out in the middle of the dark night but it stays night: (Organized Pitches Occurring in Time), catapults Pitre just a split hair dark humming organ like drones, which are filtered out over the course below the upper echelon of contemporary minimalism" of the piece, until some chorus like sounds drop. Of these four sides, [Touching Extremes] this is the most single minded, and for me the least interesting, even when it's not bad either. Two fine to great records, lovely picture disc * RANALDO, LEE - Countless Centries fled into the Distance LP and highly limited. Yummy." [FdW / Vital Weekly] (Table of the Elements Bek97, 2008) € 16.50 Niemand kann aus seiner Gitarrre so irre Sirenenhafte Sounds * ROCCHETTI, CLAUDIO - These are the days LP (Small Voices herausholen wie LEE RANALDO! Sein Beitrag zur neuen TABLE OF SVV009, 2007) [ed. of 300] € 14.00 THE ELEMENTS Vinyl-Serie (immer mit etching auf einer Seite und auf CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI (von 3/4HADBEENELIMINATED) benutzt auf farbigem Vinyl) besteht aus 4 variantenreichen Stücken mit lauten dieser LP sein MC- & Vinyl-Archiv als eine Art Gedächtnisspeicher in Distortion- & Feedback-Drones, wie ein Konzentrat der frühen SONIC Verbindung zur Welt; die hier gespeicherten Informationen sind auf YOUTH. Türkises Vinyl. vielfältige Weise verbunden mit den Vorbesitzern & ihrer Aura. Auf "...Like So Many Storms. "Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo was part of the "These are the days" werden Teile davon collagenhaft neu original Table of the Elements 'Guitar Series' in 1993; now he returns zusammengesetzt und ganz neue Geschichten "erzählt", es wirkt wie with Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms. kurze Schnappschüsse des Unterbewussten ins Verborgene der It's an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable Alltagsgeräusche, kaum fassbar und doch nicht chaotisch, mit viel charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some

22 Raum für Pausen und Rauschen, Knirschen, Crackles... eine hasn't already made a similar work, he has certainly already planted a besondere Scheibe, die mit mehrmaligem Hören an Schönheit gewinnt! similar flag in the territory this piece occupies." [Steve Roden] "These are the days" is a collection of short pieces all around of memory concept... a sort of back-up of experiences on Claudio's * RODEN, STEVE - Lines and Spaces do-LP (New Plastic Music preferred media (tapes and vinyls). Tapes and vinyls are here used in a npse 001, 2008) [lim. 125] € 31.00 double way: in their common way, the Universal recognized one. As Sehr ruhige / minimale Piano & Drone-Installationsmusik mit speziellem sound reproducers, as technological element of our day-life with their Konzept, nummerierte Auflage. own personal story linked to all the people who owned them... they are "Lines and Spaces is a portable version of a recent installation. two one full of memory, they are part of our World. But if you change the rules sided LPs that are intended to be played alone as well as together. I and use the machines in an unusual way, the story change and also the began with two recordings, one of the line notes on a piano (EGBDF) result. Driving them over the limits we can discover unexpected and one of the space notes on a piano (FACE). I then cut up the borders... "...I'm attracted by places where the human presence is recordings and created two piano compositions - one with the line notes denied or cancelled, but where you can still hear their vibes. and one with the space notes. I also added some quiet ebow drones. Abandoned flats, tube stations in disuse, spaces in which Nature grows The piece was originally created as an installation with two turntables at between asfalt and cement, resuming what men has stolen..." CR. the lora reynolds gallery in Austin Texas, where gallery visitors would Limited to 300 copies." [label info] activate the work by playing one or both records, together or apart...' 2006. Limited to 125 copies." [label info] * RODEN, STEVE - One Stone and Arcs and Ears 7" (Disques Ades/ New Plastic Music npib10, 2007) [lim. 300] € 15.50 * R.O.T. - Ceci n'est plus avioth LP (Morc Tapes Morc47, 2008) Neben der LINES AND SPACES do-LP noch ein teures, aber äusserst [lim. 175 copies] € 12.00 delikates Vinyl-Sammlerstück des kalifornischen Klang- und Eine one-sided LP dieser merkwürdigen belgischen Combo, Konzeptkünstlers: Die 7" wurde zu einer Ausstellung in Portland, OR, die sowohl ihr Instrumentarium als auch ihren Proberaum auf vielfältige herausgegeben, basierend auf dem Film "Der Prozess der Jeanne Weise für geräuschhaft-dronige (& absolut disharmonische) d'Arc" von ROBERT BRESSON (1962), bei dem RODEN sämtliche Improvisationen nutzen zu scheinen, ein knarziger Analog-Drone & Sprachpassagen der Hauptcharaktere herausschnitt... so entsteht ein Obertöne halten diese low-fi Geräuschmusik zusammen... neuer Kontext, eine neue "Geschichte", aus dem 'Unsichtbaren' "Since the start of this free-music collective in 1998, R.O.T. rogressively heraus... fragmentierte Musik- & Geräuschpassagen & das took the shape of a mainly acoustic big band introducing a lot of Vinylknistern der Originalplatte schaffen atmosphärische Dichte.. different analog sound sources (guitars, organs, wind instruments, 'The 7' was originally made for the exhibition 'invisible other' at the new percussion, objects, modified electronics, etc...). This new record is american art union in Portland Oregon. In the original installation the 7 perhaps R.O.T. at its most minimal. 'Ceci n'est plus avioth' is their first sat on a turntable that could be activated by viewers. here are some vinyl release since their well acclaimed LP on (k-raa-k)3 in 2006, which notes that accompanied the work... I began with the soundtrack LP of brought them to the attention of The Wire and Thurston Moore. The Robert Bresson's film 'Proces de Jeanne d'Arc', and edited out all of the one-sided LP comes in a jacket silkscreened by Jelle Crama and is talking of the main characters. In many cases my edits were not limited to 175 copies, so order fast!" [label info] perfectly clean so whispered beginnings or endings of words can still be heard. i wanted the trajectory to lose its sense of narrative - to shake all * ROZENHALL, DANIEL - Eyeland LP (Firework Edition Records of the specificity out of something. I wanted to turn it into a path of FER1042, 2003) € 15.00 ambivalence, fragmentation, pauses, and abstraction. Here is no music Zweites Album für den schwedischen Komponisten DANIEL on the original soundtrack, only talking and incidental sounds. on side ROZENHALL auf FIREWORK! Advanced Electro-Acoustic, to discover! one of the LP, a single musical instrument is heard for a few seconds (a "Beginning with a classic static-noise musique concrète piece, “Eyeland horn playing a kind of fanfare in the middle of side one). Through Part” hooks up seamlessly with layer after layer of EMS overtones sampling, i extended the horn sounds, and used them to create a tonal blowing like a harsh wind. The backdrop recedes to a carillon of bells field for the existing edited sounds from the original soundtrack to rest ringing and occultish voices singing. The web of sounds crawl up tight upon. The title of side one (one stone.) was made from taking some of and good, getting ever denser, while growling and springing vocal-like the letters in Robert Bresson's name and using them to generate new audio turns and whirls in turmoil, shredded and spat around the words (Robert has the letters to make words such as 'robe', 'bore', perimeter of what feels like the enclosure the size of a cement mixer.” 'robot', 'tree', etc. ). One stone also refers to the rock thrown through [Sonoloco] Jeanne's window in the film. The title of side two (and Arcs and Ears.) was made from taking some of the letters in the film title 'Proces de * SATORI - Kanashibari LP (Dogma Chase DOGMA 005, 2008) Jeanne d'Arc' and using them to generate new words. and Arcs and [lim. 300[ € 20.00 Ears. Also refers to the circular motion of the spinning record and the Tiefsumpfiger und grottiger drone & doom ambient, wuchtig & mit im activity of listening... These titles, as well as the images-design on this Mix pulsierenden Pulses, mal ekstatisch-überwältigend, mal fast von record cover, came from a kind of visual sampling of the original cover fast kriechender Langsamkeit, Vocals sind hier irgendwo vorhanden of the Bresson LP. Simlar to the sound, the images were mainly created aber klingen eher nach fremdartiger atmender Organik.... by editing and subtraction, rather than addition. I had been thinking Anklänge an INADE und HALO MANASH, Japan-Import, nummerierte about this kind of erasure, absence, and invisibility for a long time; Auflage von 300 Stück in einem wunderschönen Cover ! wondering if a new story without the presence of the main characters, "First ever vinyl release from UK act SATORI, formed by new member could be born of the pauses found within an existing story. I wanted to Neil Chaney known as legendary & obscure project PESSARY and wait for the idea to be less fresh for me; so that instead of being Justin Mitchell (owner of Cold Spring Records). "Kanashibari" is the enamored of the conceptual part of the project; i could use it to fuel Japanese term for sleep paralysis (literally "bound or fastened in something that could grow into it's final form more organically. My metal"). The album explores this phenomena, manipulating Fortean relationship to conceptual art and the kind of purity of production that sounds, dark & cold electronics and foggy ambience like a hallucination. comes from making objects in the service of an idea is awkward, and Dynamic but tense atmosphere let us leave in a deep spiral. sometimes in conflict with the unknown potentials the concepts might Hand-numbered limited edition 300 copies, coming in a full-colour inner otherwise be able to generate... I'm interested in the creation of works sleeve with original silk-screened and spot varnishing die-cut sleeve." that do not have to refer to the ideas that generated them for their [label info] meanings. I am interested in a place where things fit together uncomfortably. For me, purity doesn't necessarily come from a minimal * SCORN - Stealth do-LP (Ad Noiseam adn88 / Jarring Effects aesthetic, nor from an idea simply realized. it comes from a kind of fx0607, 2007) € 15.00 honesty that allows things that might not fit together perfectly to remain Nach langer Zeit etwas neues von SCORN, dem Projekt von MICK connected, even if the connective tissue is thin, frayed, and somewhat HARRIS, der hier weiter an seiner Version von Industrial-Dub arbeitet, invisible. I like very much how the crackling sounds of the original vinyl der sich so langsam, zäh und schwer durch den Äther walzt dass einem sometimes sound like the crackling of a very small fire. I hope the das Atmen schwer fällt... besonders im Bass-Bereich scheinen sich auf activity of the audience physically activating the piece will suggest one STEALTH dabei ungeahnte Tiefen aufzutun, körperliche zu spürende stand and listen for the duration of the work. since i used a somewhat Vibrationen verbinden sich mit psychischer Schockstarre ... worn LP to generate the piece, I am also interested in the idea that BAD CHILL MUSIC ! repeated listenings and handlings will generate more noise, more "15 years since his début and 5 since his last studio album: Mick Harris history, and perhaps more sound images within the work; so that the breaks the silence and delivers with "Stealth" one of his most massive whole thing might change over the duration of the show. perhaps just as works so far. Staying faithful to his trademark sound, this corner-stone the actors in the film became less visible in my own work, my own of a musician, constantly redefining the boundaries of electronic music, composition will become less visible as the piece is changed by the delivers here 8 salvoes of monumental bass, sparse dry beats and handling of others through their physical experience with this small deep drones. Let it be heard: Scorn is back. record. and Arcs and Ears. Is humbly dedicated to Pavel Buchler. If he

23 Few musician can boast such a prolific and influential catalog as Mick death & ambient Industrial und abenteuerlichen eher am Song-format Harris. Not only has his main project, Scorn, been re-defining and orientierten Stücken mit Vocals & Gitarreinsatz und gar dubbigen expanding the scope of electronic music and dub, but Harris's Einflüssen.... ein mächtiger Bastard, hervorragend produziert! discography, featuring literally hundreds of releases, spawns from his Das Vinyl hat z.T. andere Tracks als die CD-Version! début as the original drummer of Napalm Death to a founding member "More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic of Painkiller (with Bill Laswell and John Zorn) as well as such seminal science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts of sonic projects as the ambient Lull, the drum'n'bass of Quoit or his pleasure - voices and drones clans across plans and peaks, fishing for participation to Extreme Noise Terror. To cut a long story short, universal tremors and sensorial catastrophes. iconic translations of lost (electronic) music wouldn't be the same if this Birmingham-based symbols flow like pathogenic lava into temporal sequence and weather musician wasn't there. forecasts become performances for alien audiences.\ Fifteen years after Scorn's début, and five whole years after his latest The 20th anniversary album from post-industrial noise alchemists studio album, it is a transformed Mick Harris (noticeably by his come- SIGILLUM S, \ 23/20\ , features (together with the original line up of back to his drum set) that deliver "Stealth", Scorn's 13th full length Eraldo Bernocchi, P.NG5361.Bandera and Luca Di Giorgio) sound studio album. And while music has evolved a lot since 1992's "Vae contributions from long time collaborators and friends, such as Bill Solis", Scorn has stayed true to his trademark sound. Downtempo, Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Professor Shebab, SH Fernando / illbient, dubstep have come and gone, but Scorn remains the epitome of WordSound, Martino Nicoletti, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, ZU, Xabier minimal, dry beats, wall-of-sound unequalled basses and deep, Iriondo, Ephel Duath, Karyn Crisis and various members of the same mesmerizing drones. band , Mark Solotroff, Thomas Fehlmann, Gudrun Gut, Andrea Not only a massive, bodily experience, Scorn's monumental tracks Marutti, Claudio Agostoni and many others.\ (which have proved over the years to provide for unforgettable live sets) 23/20\ is available as two radically different and complementary impress by their focus and efficiency. Keeping only the bare minimum of formats, a digipack CD and a limited edition gatefold double vinyl, with what defines dub, Scorn drives these few elements (sparse beats, different track lists and sequences for each format - nine tracks are on echoes, and most of all, bass) to their extreme. A godfather of the both formats, while others (seven per format) can only be found either current come-back of slow, heavy basses in club music, Scorn's method on CD or vinyl (sixteen tracks per format, twenty three in total)." [label still stand out with its towering, dark and minimal approach. "Stealth" is press release] no exception. Spacious in its execution, oppressive, humongous in its outcome; let it be heard: Scorn is back." [label notes] * SIR RICHARD BISHOP - Plays the Sun City Girls 7" (NO-FI Archive Series NARC001, 2006) € 8.00 * SEVERED HEADS - Adenoids 5 x LP-Box (Vinyl-On-Demand "First release in NO-FI's Archive Series recorded live at Morden Tower, VOD49T, 2008) € 84.50 July 2005, and featuring SCG classics from Torch Of The Mystics: Die Australier gehörten in den 80ern zu einer Gruppe von Bands 'Space Prophet Dogon', 'Esoterica Of Abyssynnia" and a touch of 'The (ähnlich wie z.B. HULA), die experimentelle und Industrial-Elemente mit Vinegar Strokes'. Live recording by Andrew Hodson." [label notes] tanzbarer Elektronik & Popmusik verbanden... und so eine Art "more radical rethinks than acoustic tributes. As one third of Sun City Industrial-Pop erschufen, wie es ihn später nicht mehr gab! Girls, its Bishop’s obvious right to explore his own material, but these Hier in der VOD-Box ist rares und ganz frühes Material von Tape- beautifully energetic takes seem utterly revitalised by anyone’s Releases verewigt ! standards." [Scott McKeating, brainwashed.com] "Contains earliest tracks from '77-'81 plus tracks from the Terse releases Ear Bitten & Clean, the long lost side 3 tape, Blubberknife, * SKULL DEFEKTS - Storm Skull Dub 7" (Meudiamorte MDDM32, Cheesecake and various other tracks from '83-'85. To describe this 2007) [lim. 200] € 8.50 treasure it is best to state what Tom Ellard had to say: 'And here we Somehow "rough atmospherics" from this swedish group, analog have it - the ultimate produce of the new millennium. A box of vinyl humming waves, subtle feedbacks & air recordings, comes in clear discs with music from as much as thirty years ago. Could something sleeve with screenprinting, marbled vinyl, last copies. express any less faith in the future? My guess is that we seek to capture some "purity" that has since been encrusted with quibbles. It's a * SMALLEY, DENIS / BETARIZ FERREYRA / PHILIPPE MENARD - hopeless fetish that leads in an ever contracting spiral -- music is born Fylkingen Electronic Music Competition 1975: Prizewinners LP continuously and defies attempts to capture it in decorative tombs. (Fylkingen Records FYLP1012, 1976) € 15.00 Nevertheless. We have here a very decorative tomb. Music made from Original-Kopien dieser alten FYLKINGEN-Platte! Prämierte Arbeiten 1977 onwards by people who would be identified for a time as "Severed aus dem Bereich "elektronische Neue Musik" von DENIS SMALLEY Heads." Much is by Richard Fielding who left in 1982. Some by Andrew (Neuseeland, mit Klarinetten & Trombaphon-Begleitung), BETARIZ Wright, gone in 1980. Some by Bradbury, left in 1985, Deering also. In FERREYRA (Kanada; tolles Stück dieser Komponistin mit each case, the music has been taken from the best copy, cleaned only dröhnminimalistischen Elementen und Tango (!)-Einspielungen) und as much as needed and organized to fit onto long-playing vinyl. It is PHILIPPE MENARD (Argentinien). Ausführliche Liner-Notes auf der ancient, funny, half-arsed, crinkly, clever and juvenile. It was compiled Rückseite des Covers. by a prick. All proceeds will be spent by Fielding on horse races. Buy "Tapes realized at the GRM studio, Paris and GMEB studio, Bourges, two because they will wear out.'" [label info] France. Smalley recorded at Fylkingen, December 16, 1976. Recording engineer Sten Hanson. Cover design by Carsten Regild." [credits] * SHRINE - Distorted Legends, Pt. 1 7" (Drone Records DR-89, 2008) [lim. 300] € 7.00 * SPK - Dokument III0 1979-1983 6 x LP-Box (Vinyl-On-Demand Ein neuer Drone-Senkrechtstarter ist für uns SHRINE aus Bulgarien. VOD50, 2008) [lim. 800] € 110.00 Der Drone-Beitrag kombiniert rauhe verzerrte Synths mit versteckten VINYL-ON-DEMAND hat sich selbst nochmal getoppt mit dieser SPK- Melodien und allerlei Effekt-Geräuschen, Vergleiche mit z.B. BAD HOLZBOX, die der wohl wichtigsten Industrial-Band neben TG ein SECTOR sind möglich... die Verzerrung der alltäglichen "Realität" (mit beeindruckendes Denkmal setzt!Schwarz lackiert und mit Hilfe von Kunst & Musik) als ein Weg das dahinterliegende Metallverschluss, enthält sie 6 LPs mit Material von frühen live-Tapes & "Wahrhaftige" zu erkennen? bisher Unveröffentlichtes, ein 36 Seiten 12 x 12" inch Booklet, und ein "Behind SHRINE we find a fresh experimental drone project from T-Shirt! War sofort nach Erscheinen beim Label ausverkauft! Bulgaria (currently residing in England) combining the melancholia of "SPK, Industrial legends. This over the top, already out of distorted synths with odd micro noises & effects. The fusion of rough print box set is a doozy. Compiling recordings that document the and thunderous drones with hidden melodies evokes a strong emotional band’s first 5 years, the box includes 6 lps, all housed in printed impact, like the feeling of being stuck in a confusing dream. SHRINE's numbered sleeves, collecting several long gone tape only releases as philosophy shows a way to realize that what we call “reality” is to be well as a handful of live performance. Also included is a shirt, with mistrusted based upon our usual perceptions. The distortion of this the same image as the box, size XL, a 36 page booklet, all housed in reality opens up a chance to better understand its true essence and a gorgeous hinged wooden box." [Aquarius Rec.] confront the things that lie behind the surface. Filed under: DREAM &

DISTORTION DRONES. more info: www.shrine.me.uk. BLACK VINYL. * SRMEIXNER / BAND OF PAIN - Texture. Montage. Sequence / OVERSIZED FULL-COLOUR GATEFOLD SLEEVE." [press release] Tripping in Q 7" (Black Rose Rec. BRV 04-1006) € 6.50

Filigrane Split-Single des ex-CONTRASTATE (der summende Drones * SIGILLUM S - 23/20 do-LP (Verba Corrige Production & subliminale Harmonien mit einer Reihe von feinen Natur field VCPV009, 2007) [lim. 500] € 28.00 recordings verbindet), und BAND OF PAIN (ruhige Synths werden Seit über 20 Jahren gibt es das italienische Industrial- & Elektronik-Trio behutsam bearbeitet) auf weissem Vinyl. SIGILLUM S, um die es in den letzten Jahren sehr ruhig wurde. Diese "A split single release on white vinyl, limited to 250, with black and white do-LP ist eine Kollektion mit vielen Remixen und Kollaborationen in artwork printed on 120 gram tracing paper from these two well known fantastischer Aufmachung und deckt eine unglaubliche Bandbreite ab and respected projects. This is a cinematic and inspiring musical zwischen pumpenden "old school" rhythmic Industrial Sounds, dunklem

24 journey which combines beautiful ambience interspersed with haunting Groovy, brilliant and transcendent. One time pressing of 1,000 copies." atmospheres with each artist creating a distinctive, yet complimentary, [label info] electro-acoustic soundscape." [label info] "This little beast I played at least ten times before even starting to think * SUTCLIFFE JUGEND / PRURIENT - End of Autumn do-LP about the review. Was it that great? Well, no, not because of that, but (Troublemanunlimited TMU 194, 2008) € 15.00 rather the format of a 7" with 'difficult' music is hard to capture. Both "Sutcliffe Jugend were among the earliest pioneers of SRMeixner and Band Of Pain are known for a long time inside the world Industrial/Noise/Power Electronic noise music, started in the early 80s. of experimental music. On side A we fin Meixner, former member of SJ consists of Kevin Tomkins & Paul Taylor. Prurient is noise musician Contrastate, with a piece that involves sea washes and processed Dominick Fernow, who primarily uses just a microphone and an amp. bird/insect/frog sounds, along with sparse music (piano? guitar?), This live 2006 collaboration between the two features lyrics from death heavily layered. Quite an intimate piece of music. poems by Japanese monks. Side 1, 2 & 4 are harsh, distorted, Steve Pittis, also known as Band Of Pain, on the other side, has a feedbacking, electronic noise tracks. Severe metal blades scraping at likewise intimate piece of music. Sparse, drone like sounds and the back of your brain, causing bloody eyes. White noise on the TV. tape/vinyl-manipulation interjecting the music. Quite a musique concrete Side 3 is way different from the rest. It plays more on the dark, spooky, like piece, one that we haven't seen him doing before. More peaceful horror filled torturous nightmares. The ones where you’re bleeding from than before. For both of these pieces goes, that they are too short to the head and trying to run in the fog filled woods, with a dagger stabbed give a solid opinion about, and both cry for more. Great, but way too in your thigh. Low deep grumbling electronic pulses, fucking killer! Play short." [FdW / Vital Weekly] this when feeling anxious & murderous. Tracks range from 12-15 minutes long." [Cinder] * STAPLERFAHRER - Treetops LP (Heilskabaal Records HK006, 2007) € 12.00 * TAMING POWER - Three Pieces 10" (Early Morning Records First LP of this dutch project - experimental compositions using drones, EMR10"-015, 2005) [lim. 111 copies] € 12.00 field recordings & electronic elements in a very idiosyncratic way. To Drei Stücke des norwegischen Drone-Geheimtips, die ohne Titel oder discover ! Erklärungen einfach für sich stehen. Nur ein Bezug zu majestätischen "... ‘Treetops’, the first track, quietly seeps into the consciousness, Natur-Landschaften ist auf den zwei aufgeklebten Cover-Fotos shimmering and subtle atonality wafting gently in like the almost auszumachen. Purer Drone also. Die statisch und doch "innerlich" imperceptible gateway between dimensions, as the listener passes from wirbelnden Drone-Wellen erinnern an alte JLIAT oder NIBLOCK, dazu the world of light and free-flowing air and into the unfamiliar werden dunkel rauschende "fields" gemischt... strangeness of the realm of living wood and claustrophobic closeness. three pieces of this norwegian drone-artist, very nice contemplative Slowly over time the fifteen minute track metamorphoses, the atonality "pure drone"-spheres in the way of old JLIAT or PHILL NIBLOCK, and menace becoming more marked and sinister, creating a sense of mixed with field recordings. Handmade sleeves with photo-cover. edginess and unease; one can readily imagine a thickly treed wood Still to discover ! atop a silent hill somewhere, a place where dusk has permanent residence, even in the height of summer, a place where the sun fights it * TAMING POWER - Six Pieces 10" (Early Morning Records way forcefully through the canopy only to fall palely onto the threadbare EMR10"-016, 2006) [lim. 110 copies] € 12.00 carpet of undergrowth. This is the domain of creatures and denizens of "Still being a man on his own, somewhere in Norway, away from the folklore and myth, a kingdom perhaps where those beings shunned by usual noise crowd is Askild Haugland. Since some years he works as science have their last and most secure abode. At the last, strange blips Taming Power, and has released a whole bunch of vinyl, of which 10" is like Morse code pierce the veil between the worlds, the last message of his favorite. His tools include anything but a computer. Strictly using the unwary and trapped traveller before leaving this world forever... cassette recorders and reel to reel tapes, he crafts with the use of ‘Lullaby (for my Dad)’ starts off with a pulse beckoning us into restful singing bowls, voice, metallophone, dingsha and harmonica, a kind of sleep, eventually being overlaid by a quiet screeching and howling, drone music. Before his music sounded some crude, perhaps due to his maybe reminiscent of the night-‘mare’ of fable, visiting us in order to more lo-fi techniques, but on this new record I must say the music disturb our nightly wanderings and imaginings. This is like standing in sounds much better. There is a clear diversification of sounds within pitch black darkness, strangely disquieting and disembodied noises each piece, a finer tuned mix of the music, but it's still clearly drone placelessly marching inexorably around us, the noises becoming ever music. Much along the lines of the old Maeror Tri, with a slight touch of more disjointed, sinister, oppressive and insistent. Eventually we are mystickal influences (but luckily well covered), this is perhaps the finest called back to wakefulness by the blissful sound of coruscating bells, moment of Taming Power I have encountered. Only 110 copies were luring us away from the dark regions and into light, the soothing light of made, so act fast to grab this beauty." [FdW / Vital Weekly] day that dispels all ghosts and ghoulies and denizens of night. Finally we have ‘Lover’s Breath’, a series of disjointed field recordings, * TAMING POWER - Twelve Pieces 10" (Early Morning Records of the mournful cries of seagulls, water bubbling and flowing, a kettle EMR10"-017, 2007) [lim. 525 copies] € 10.00 coming to the boil, atmospheric noises recorded in an echoey hallway Der wohl auflagenstärkste Release bisher von dem norwegischen somewhere, a shimmering bell from a timepiece perhaps and waves Geheimtip TAMING POWER - und wieder eine 10" ! Der Nachfolger lapping upon a shore – perhaps all redolent of leavings and meetings, von THREE PIECES und SIX PIECES beginnt mit kleinen of sorrowful farewells between lovers, of separations over long Minimalismen jeweils für eine Solostimme, in Form von Gitarre, Casio- distances, where the only connections are the psychic feelings between Synth & Zither... Auf Seite B aber finden sich weitaus komplexere & two hearts and late night whispered phone-calls. dronigere Stücke, wo Instrumentalflächen-Sounds übereinander This is cerebral music, no doubt about that, but I have to admit that on geschichtet werden - das erinnert dann mehr an die schönen "three this occasion I failed to connect with this – perhaps part of the blame for pieces" und "six pieces"- 10"es... that lies simply in the fact that being disconnected from the film it was Die Coverartwork (handgeschriebene Labels & Credits, etc.), die Musik created to accompany I failed to completely empathise and ‘get into it’; - all das strahlt einen sehr persönlichen DO IT YOURSELF - Geist aus, in some sense then I felt as if I was missing half the package and abseits von jeglichen Trends kreiert hier jemand sein eigenen kleinen consequently not receiving the complete picture. Of its kind I would say Kosmos. that it’s a good example, well recorded and expertly constructed, and "Until now releases by Taming Power, and there has been quite a few, well packaged. I think, however, despite my lack of empathy while were highly limited editions of around 150 copies, but this new one is reviewing this on this particular occasion I deem that it would bear a few released in an edition of 525 copies: the pressing plant don't do any more listens in order for me to explore its subtleties and textures more less anymore. A pity since Taming Power has to 'sell out' before deeply. Also, I think it would be nice to listen to whilst watching the making anything new, so this might be one of the last before some time. visual component – maybe then it would make even more sense." Taming Power, the musical project of Askild Haugland from Oslo, [Simon Marshall-Jones, Heathen Harvest] Norway, is a man who loves drones, but as you can tell by the title these don't have to be long. Twelve pieces on a 10". The seven pieces * STARS OF THE LID - Avec Laudenum LP (Kranky Records on side one are short, sketch like pieces, played on the guitar, zither krank059, 2008) € 13.00 and keyboards. Haugland feeds the sound through a little bit of reverb, Nachpressung des Albums von 1999 - eine höchst spacige, fortunate not enough to drown the sound, but to make the whole thing a transzendentale & meditative Aufnahme von Gitarren-Drones die kaum bit 'rounder'. The pieces are simple melodies, effective and work best nach Gitarren klingen... einfach wunderschön! when played on the guitar. The keyboard pieces are bit less in quality I "BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! The Avec Laudenum originally released thought. The five pieces here are more complex, layered sounds, more on the Belgian Sub Rosa label in 2000 (and again by Kranky in 2002) sound effects, and effectively more drone related in the way people from cosmic sound explorers ADAM WILTZIE and BRIAN McBRIDE. associate this with drones. Layered sounds, with the usual analogue Recorded via mail between the home ports of Chicago and Austin, the means of Taming Power (who works with tape recorders rather than record is a hypnotic foray into the realm of drones, drifts and dreams. computers), these pieces are more along the lines of his recent works. Complex, drone based, this is some damn fine music going on. It would

25 be a pity not see any new thing from him in a while, but maybe he should consider doing CDs? So I recommend any serious lover of * TRANSITIONAL - Nothing Real Nothing Absent CD (Soultheft drone music to get a copy (or two) and keep Early Morning Records Records STRV-005, 2007) € 12.00 alive." [FdW, Vital Weekly] Erinnert sich noch jemand an die begnadeten HEAD OF DAVID? Das lief damals unter "britischem Noise-Rock", war aber weitaus * 3/4HADBEENELIMINATED - The Religious Experience LP abgründiger und experimenteller als viele andere Bands mit derselben (Soleilmoon SOL147, 2007) [lim. 225] € 25.00 Stilrichtung aus dieser Zeit, von der Innovationskraft & rabenschwarzen Schwester-Release zur "Theology"-CD Box, kommt im wunderbaren Radikalität ehesten vielleicht noch mit der New Yorker Band LIVE Zuckerrohrtextil-Cover, mit parfürmierten Siebdruck Innenhüllen ! SKULL vergleichbar. DAVE COCHRANE gehörte zur Urbesetzung von "... The LP is more singleminded, evolving around rhythmic drone loops HEAD OF DAVID, war später bei GOD, SWEET TOOTH und JESU, and vocals. The start is almost in Goem-like tradition, but with vocals. und brilliert nun in diesem neuen Duo TRANSITIONAL, das irgendwo From then on, things stay more easy, with less complex moves, and zwischen JESU-Rock und elektronischen Power-Trance & Drone more in the rhythm area, although of course you could never move your angesiedelt ist, mitreissend wie hier rohe Kraft in betörende Bahnen feet to this. It sounds like this is less edited and, perhaps, perhaps, gelenkt wird....trancige Beats, Weite, rauhe Sounds wie Wellen & captures their live sound. Both releases are different from eachother, Wind... but complement eachother quite well. Great releases." " [FdW / Vital "Transitional is the new project of musician producer Kevin Laska Weekly] (Novatron) and long time Justin K Broadrick and Kevin Martin "Soleilmoon Recordings is proud to announce the simultaneous release collaborator Dave Cochrane (Jesu, Grey Machine,). The debut 'Nothing of 3/4HadBeenEliminated’s new CD and LP, titled “Theology” and “The real Nothing Absent' offers a rich variety in their approach to sound Religious Experience”, respectively. 3/4HadBeenEliminated was combining crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic founded in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a trio, with Stefano Pilia, Claudio ambience, mangling bass lines and distorted epic layers of textured Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. An eponymous album was released in guitar. Injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing Laska 2003 by Bowindo. In 2004 the group welcomed Tony Arrabito and and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale which pull became a quartet. The next year Hapna put out their second album “A you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off Year of the Aural Gauge Operation”, and in 2006 the band self-released with some more soul dismantling sonic dysfunction. a 7 inch single “DimethylAtonalCalcine”. The group straddles the line This is a band which can deliver both sonic tranquility and extremely between live improvisation and studio experimentation, blending and heavy slabs of dense music and just about everything in between; shaping raw sounds into living pieces, then gently dissecting the Heavy electronic machinery, juggernaut bass lines and hypnotic guitars delicately structured songs into disruptive sonic excursions more go from passive relaxation to an unstoppable machine within a single evocative of moving shadows and swirling leaves than recognizable surge. Kevin Laska's woven creations of bleak electronic/organic tunes. Stasis and stability are nowhere to be found here. Instead, an mesmerizing mayhem and bliss has found a new level. Now joined by ever-changing dialogue between structure and chaos shifts from one legendary bassist Dave Cochrane who played with the likes of Kevin performer to the next, never resting long before launching again into Martin in God, Ice and The Bug and Justin Broadrick in Jesu and Head shuddering flight. Accoustic instruments and vocals form a familiar of David. Born September 2006 Laska's found himself in another quality reference point, but studio treatments take the music into psychedelic up with Cochrane, following his last collaboration with a.o. Russel Smith and cinematic realms. In their words, “Improvisation is a way to and Anthony Difranco (Ramleh, ex Skullflower) as Novatron. experiment without thinking. When our improvisations ‘work’, the music Transitional; a solid, textured and dynamic sonic journey through a just happens on its own. It reveals itself as if guided by its own logic, its world that is both self deprecating and enlightening, but either way own desire. In fact we don’t even feel like we are actually playing the leaves you wanting more." [label info] music. It’s more like a stream that moves and changes autonomously. With composition (editing, overdubs, etc. etc.) we then remodel this * VAN HOEK, KASPER - Minerva LP (KVH001, 2006) [lim. 300 stream, trying to make it more complex, ‘forever lasting, forever silk-screen cover] € 12.00 changing’, in the sense that every hearing will reveal a new perspective Raw experiments and rather un-elegant energetic noise-snaphots, of the music. As a live band, we improvise 100%, and it's really risky, synth-loop-lowfi bruitism, mechanic industrial structures... it seems all is but when it ‘happens’, it’s the greatest satisfaction.” “The Religious based here on sounds made with help of old record-players and tape- Experience” is a riotously colored vinyl LP, presented in a deluxe hand- decks. If you like rough & direct into the face low-fi noise, this is the made sugarcane fiber cover, with a delicately perfumed inner sleeve right record for you! and silkscreened insert, and is limited to 225 copies. The companion CD “Theology” contains the source recordings used for * VAN LUIJK, TIMO & KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN - Costa del Luna the LP, and is limited to 450 copies. The two albums – and their music – LP (La Scie Doree SCIE507, 2007) [lim. 400] € 18.50 should be considered as mirror opposites. Where theology is a Schon das zweite Album von TIMO VAN LUIJK (AF URSIN, ASRA, IN completely artificial system of belief, a religious experience is the CAMERA) im Verbund mit KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN, psychedelisch- immediate experience of the thing itself. Likewise, the music on droney-improvisiert, für Freunde des Genres ein Schmuckstück! “Theology” is complex and elaborate, while “The Religious Experience” "Second album. Lunar psychedelic improvisations." Features Timo van is much simpler, going directly to the heart of the material comprising Luijk (zither, flute, keys, tape) and Kirs Vanderstraeten (percussion)." “Theology”. Thus, the two works are independent, yet relate to each [label info] other as mother and daughter." [press release] * VON EULER DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH - Oh Du Fröhliche / Oh * TIETCHENS, ASMUS - Teils Teils LP (Swill Radio 027, 2008) Tannenbaum Dub 7" (Meeuw Muzak MM034, 2007) € 6.00 [lim. 500] € 16.50 "Die neue Musik lebt von diesen genialen Dilettanten, exzentrischen Eine LP mit (scheinbar) NEUEM Material, so subtil wie leise, loopiges Einzelgängern und besessenen Außenseitern. Die Klangkunst ist elektro-magnetisches Knirschen & Sirren, seltsame Zwischentöne... vier absichtslose Antimusik. Sie klingt so wunderbar unfertig und sperrig. Stücke insgesamt von delikatester "anorganischer" Ambience, wie sie Geräuschimprovisationen treffen auf schiefen Gesang, schrilles Pfeifen nur TIETCHENS hinbekommen kann.. und wiederkehrende Melodieschnipsel. Schade nur, dass die "...Although it seems, we are not entirely certain here, Asmus' music Klangkunst heute ein solches Schattendasein fristet. Die Kunst braucht works in a sort of digital environment these days, which makes it more diese Experimentierfreude." [ART-Das Kunstmagazin] delicate than before, this LP is crisp and clear. Still derived from his 'Menge' series, resulting in a whole bunch of CDs and some off shoot to * WATSON, CHRIS - Oceanus Pacificus 7" (Touch Seven TS02, vinyl (called 'Teilmenge'), here are three more examples, plus a piece 2007) € 6.50 that is called 'Ein Weiteres Leben Geht Zu Ende', which refers to a title TOUCH fördert die 7"-Kultur mit einer wunderbar gestalteten Reihe - on 'Notturno' if I'm not mistaken. 'Teilmenge 20' is on the entire first das Material dieser Kleinode gibt es nur auf Vinyl und nicht als digitalen side, and has a crackle rhythm throughout, and underneath there are Download zu kaufen! Nr. 2 in der Serie kommt von CHRIS WATSON, various blocks of sound which are moved around, softly. It's like objects der wieder unglaublich plastische Feldaufnahmen unter Wasser being pushed around through the room and it makes a pretty unsettling gemacht hat, und zwar vom Humbold-Strom in der Nähe der atmosphere. Quite mathematical in a way, but it has great warmth. On Galapagos-Inseln (eine Seite 3 Meter tief, die andere 10 Meter)! the other side there are three tracks of which are two more pieces of " Brand new two track 7" from sound recordist extraordinaire 'Teilmenge', which have the same high pitched sound as we know from Chris Watson. Having done time in both the Hafler Trio and Cabaret the other pieces, the ring modulator working over time. In the middle Voltaire, Watson deals now almost exclusively in unadulterated field there is the 'Ein Weiteres Leben Geht Zu Ende' which could be a recordings, mostly of nature and wildlife. Past full lengths have heavily treated piano piece (if it is at all linked to 'Notturno'), slow and been huge hits around here, and this single is just as compelling. peaceful. Excellent pressing this record, great minimal cover, fine Demonstrating that, it takes much more than a tape recorder and a music. What more do you want? Something special. And be sure to turn microphone to capture magical field recordings. It takes an amazing up the volume for this LP!" [FdW / Vital Weekly] ear, and a bit of technical savvy, one listen to these two tracks,

26 recorded underwater around the Galapagos Islands, make that Drone, wo sich vielerlei elektronische und instrumentelle Quellen zu abundantly clear. rauschenden Soundformen vermählen. Two tracks, each recorded at a different depth, both dense and "The second full-length from Baltimore’s WZT HEARTS (pronounced deep, rife with all manner of unexpected sonic subtleties. The first “wet hearts”). Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones is an album of at 3 meters, is gorgeous and clear, it sounds nearly the same improvised electronic psych-rock action at times reminiscent of sound underwater as above, the sounds of the boat, and the water lapping sculptors like Fennesz, but with a nice krautrock touch throughout. A against it, sea gulls, what sound like stones knocking against one blend of the organic and synthetic, digital and analog, difficult and another, all of these sounds wrapped in that haunting undersea easy." [label info] shimmer, and captured perfectly, crystal clear and so vibrant. The flipside finds us dipping down to 10 meters and the sound * XABEC - Feuerstern 7" (Drone Records DR-92, 2008) [lim. changes dramatically, deeper and more resonant, all the sounds more 300] € 7.00 warbly and indistinct, burbling and languid, muted and softly "Feuerstern (DR-92, 7“ EP in Kartonschachtel, dunkelrotes Vinyl) bringt glimmering, all naturally smeared into a warm soft focus soundscape zuerst das erhaben dröhnende Zentralmotiv des Auftritts von XABEC of underwater drones, and muted sonic events. So lovely. And both beim Audioframes Sonic Art Festival in Herne 2006 zu Gehör. Der sides end with gorgeously hypnotic locked grooves, which were so Musiktherapeut Manuel G. Richter, der sich mit dem The Electric nice, we ended up letting both play for a long time before realizing Mandala-Quartett (Hands, 2003-05) als Zengärtner profiliert hat, lässt they were looping... meine blühende Phantasie wie Münchhausen auf einer dröhnenden Thick vinyl and a super striking Jon Wozencroft sleeve" [Aquarius Klangkugel zu den Sternen sausen, und macht dazu klackende Records] Gaumenlaute. Für die B-Seite rahmt das von MNortham in Herne eingefangene Feuerwerk zur Performance und weiterer O-Ton Xabecs * WHITEHOUSE - Birthdeath Experience LP (Very Friendly Dröhnen und Klacken ein und verortet es im Hier und Jetzt." [Bad VFSL01, 2007) € 17.50 Alchemy] "Official reissue of the 1st Whitehouse album, originally released on the "DRONE RECORDS is very proud to finally issue this long planned Come Organisation in 1980. Includes William Bennett's original LP Drone by this prolific German artist! FEUERSTERN (which translates as design. Includes the warning: "Extreme electronic music: please acquire "Firestar") captures two tracks of luminous tones & magnetic with due caution." "The place it all began: the seminal first album by resonances which create a warm and floating aural flux. With mellow Whitehouse. Even to this day, it is a remarkable piece of work created concrete material setting the counterpoint, very subtle hisses, smacking entirely with tone generators and EDP Wasps, and lyrically full of what & clicking sounds can be distinguished. These are enriched further on would be their uncompromising trademark irony. It would prove Side B with field recordings by MICHAEL NORTHAM made in instrumental in dragging avant garde electronic music a long way from September 2006 at the Audioframes Sonic Art Festival in Herne. This its initially limited boundaries." [label info] was where FEUERSTERN was also performed in a choreographed way using fireworks! Very delicate tone colours and a perfectly balanced * WHITEHOUSE - Total Sex do-LP (Very Friendly VFSL02, 2008) sound pattern allow for contemplative listening sessions... € 21.50 The 7" comes in a golden lettered & embossed grey cardboard box with Auch das zweite Album der ehemals bösesten Industrial-Band wurde golden printed grey inlay. wiederveröffentlicht, inkl. Bonus-tracks. Filed under: GLOWING DRONE-AMBIENCE more info: "Hard to believe the equally extraordinary second album from www.xabec.com. DARK RED VINYL. COMES IN CARDBOARD-BOX Whitehouse was recorded back in 1980 -- a development and WITH GOLDEN EMBOSSING." [label info] expansion of the pioneering electronic techniques which were demonstrated on the debut Birthdeath Experience; also included on this * YELDHAM, JUSTICE & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE - double vinyl set are the 2 rare songs from United Dairies' Hoisting The Birthdays LP (Anarchymoon Recordings anok22, 2008) Black Flag compilation." [label info] [lim. 600] € 14.50 Dokumentation zweier live-Gigs vom Mai 2007 (Marseille und Porto) * WILSON, STEVEN - Unreleased Electronic Music do-LP von diesem extrem freakigen Body-Performer, der sich eine (mit (Tonefloat TF22, 2005) [ed. of 500] € 29.00 Kontaktmikros abgenommene) Glasscheibe ins Gesicht presst und Für die "die-hard" Fans von BASS COMMUNION und PORCUPINE durch diese hindurch orales / vokales Lautmaterial hindurchgibt, TREE: Eine Kollektion von sehr elektronisch angehauchten Solo- während er mit den Füssen Effekte bedient. Der Sound der dabei Stücken, überraschend rhythmisch & songorientiert zum Teil, hier zeigt entsteht ist höchst abartig, am Ende zerschlägt er die Glasplatte aus STEVEN WILSON seine ganze Vielseitigkeit! einem Kopf was stets in einem kleinen Blutbad endet. Die starke Physis 500 Stück in der für TONEFLOAT typischen Luxus-Edition (Gatefold- dieser Performance wirkt natürlich am besten "live", aber auch der Cover, schweres Vinyl). Das ganze ist ein re-issue einer von WILSON Mitschnitt sorgt bestimmt für einigen Eindruck ! herausgegebenen raren CD-R. "Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player "Originally a rapidly sold out CD-R on Headphone Dust. The vinyl Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If edition includes material which was omitted on the CD. Released in a you've never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using full colour gatefold sleeve designed by Lasse Hoile." [label note] concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to * WOLF EYES - Dog Jaw LP (Heresee, 2007) € 14.00 his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it Not many bands can do a more bulky & sluggish Industrial-sound, you would never imagine what created it, something an Aussie could too easy to get lost & mind-crushed in these swampy noises, and lots of especially achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he screams & aggressive noises on Side B... transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a "An LP reissue of the limited CDR release of WOLF EYES’ Dog Jaw. crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never Recorded before AARON DILLOWAY left the band and mixed by TWIG worse for wear in the morning. Side A was captured in Marseille on the HARPER at the WE studio. One side plays at 33.3 rpm, the other at 45. eve of Justice's 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs Packaged in screen printed sleeves and pressed in an edition of 600 birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at myspace.com/justiceyeldham). copies." [label info] And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justice's Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of * WOLF EYES / SICKNESS - There is a part of me that you will Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an never know LP (Hospital Productions HOS-209, 2008) € 15.50 edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings "Hospital Productions is proud to release the first-ever collaboration (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press between these two legends, Wolf Eyes and Sickness. This is not (Australia). Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided glue-on cover art (lim haphazard but a symbiotic collaboration bridging distant roads. This full 600)." [label notes] length LP is a dark casket of scorched earth sounds, the remains of the cracks at the after shock of discovery. Reminding us of the peaks in * YELLOW SWANS - At all Ends LP (Weird Forest Records either artists' catalog, There Is A Part Of Me That You Will Never Know WEIRD 10, 2007) € 17.00 processes the deepest sounds of these four masters in a haze of lone Sehr schöne LP des Monumental-Drone Duos! Wuchtige Gitarren- atmosphere and true noise. This is not a terror shock, this is the end." Sphären-Sounds & Harmonien in Verschränkung, laut & verzerrt aber [label info] trotzdem ätherisch genug um zu bannen! "At All Ends is the is an assured record of chiming drone and heady * WZT HEARTS - Threads rope spell making your bone LP (Hoss pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the YELLOW SWANS Records 012, 2007) € 14.50 camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Bemerkenswertes Album einer Combo aus Baltimore, läuft lt. press- Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission release unter "psych-rock", ist aber vielmehr eine Art komplexer Impro- with a dark overtone, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink OxyContin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupefies in a

27 hypnotic repetition. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in quiet, dense & melancholic pieces. Comes in a handmade cardboard- vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock territory with this cover with inserts, lim. 301 copies. new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and lush record thus far. The band will be touring with MOUTHUS in * MANIFESTO RUMORARMONICO POST FUTURISTA. TRIBUTO A October 2007, bring bean bags, food stuffs and prepare for sounds to LUIGI RUSSOLO do-LP (Old Europa Cafe OELP009, 2008) € 22.00 summon spacecraft." [label info] Vier altgediente Noise-Heroen treffen sich auf dieser Compilation zu Ehren des italienischen Futuristen LUIGI RUSSOLO, dessen legendäres Manifest "Die Kunst der Geräusche" (1913) den Startschuss für den Einsatz von Maschinenlärm in moderner Komposition darstellte. Die Compilation zeigt gut, auf welche unterschiedliche Art und Weise 1.1. VINYL COMPILATIONS "Geräusch" eingesetzt werden kann, von agitierendem Power-Effekt- Lärm (MERZBOW), mechanisch-maschinellem Rausch-Noise (GX

JUPITTER-LARSEN) über seelenlos-statisches Elektro-Geknirsche & AN UNCOMMON NATURE LP (Anomalous Records, NOM 6, 2001) Gekrache (SACHER PELZ) bis hin zu mysteriösem Dröhnklang € 15.00 (RAPOON).. "Edle neue Compilation auf dem Seattler Label Anomalous Records- "Vinyl compilation devoted to “Luigi Russolo” the father of Futurist music vereint einige interessante Acts aus dem konkreten wie sphärischen and the first man theorizing that music has to be composed mainly by Minimalismus-Bereich, die auf Anomalous aktiv sind... (s.u.). Kommt mit rumors And not by harmonic sounds ! His music was played with an 4 ästhetischen Fotopostkarten zum Thema... instrument “l’Intonarumori” or “Rumorarmonio” which was invented by Great compilation presenting nearly all acts from the Seattle-based himself ! Russolo is the forefather and theorizer of the “Electronic label. From concrete to spheric minimalism. Exclusive tracks by JEPH music” concept and for sure we can say today that he was the first man JERMAN, MIRROR, AGOG, CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS, JONATHAN playing “Industrial” muzak ! For this project we found four artists which COLECLOUGH, MIKE SHANNON, MONOS, RICHARD LERMAN, are known for being since their first approaches to music as “Neo- DAVE KNOTT. Comes with 4 postcards with b/w prints of photographs Futurists” and uncompromising “Industrial”. Involved artists : by Rachael Jackson." [Drone Rec. info 2001] - GX Jupitter-Larsen from USA, also known for being the mind behind “ While unified by a common theme, the tracks are quite varied The Haters and for all his very “Futurist” performances where a click including desert contact mic recordings of rain and wind on a tree [Jeph becomes the main sound ! Jerman], processed sounds of a gate [Jonathan Coleclough], - Merzbow from Japan, the father of Japanese noise ! this is the sound erhu played on a beach [Mike Shannon], mysterious singing 'water Russolo was playing if alive today babies' [Agog], a mixture of wild celery stalks, tundra grass, a cord - Rapoon from UK, with his first project “Zoviet France” Robin Storey made from sinew, a whalebone roof support and the seals [Richard was one of the very first artists using toy instruments ! Lerman], and the straight recording of an approaching thunderstorm - Sacher Pelz from Italy, Sacher Pelz was the very first project by [Dave Knott]. This attention to detail in audio is matched by the close up Maurizio Bianchi also known as MB, he was one of the very first artist photographs of fungi, dripping sap, and trees which surrounds it.” [from theorising electronic noise ! the press-release] Each artists gives his contribution to this tribute playing long tracks on a BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES! full LP side ! White Vinyl. Discs are packed in hand-numbered folding

cover showing Luigi Russolo and his Rumorarmonio." [label info] * ARYAN ASSHOLE RECORDS COMPILATION VOLUME 2 LP (AA

Records 092177, 2008) € 16.50 * SPIRE LIVE FUNDAMENTALIS do-LP (Autofact FACT12 / Touch "This LP features the next 13 lathes since the first comp = Isis & Tone 28, 2008) € 18.50 Werewolves, Ex-Cocaine, Mirror/Dash, Pengo, Christina Kubisch, Birds Der dritte Teil in der SPIRE LIVE-Serie, lange Stücke mit "modernem" of Delay, Sick Llama, Jackie Stewart, Evil Moisture, Prurient, Rusted Orgelbezug & -einsatz von PHILIP JECK, CHARLES MATTHEWS, Shut, Carlos Giffoni, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Demons. All the messy MARCUS DAVIDSON, BJ NILSEN und FENNESZ, - Aufnahmen von atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada den zwei SPIRE - Konzerten auas Göteborg und Brüssel. Ganz due to the jacket (guess why)." [label info] wunderbar tönen wieder BJ NILSEN und FENNESZ, der eine löst die

Orgel-Töne in rostig-rauhen Resonanzen auf, der andere klingt ("rein * AUDIOSCOOP COMPILATION Vol.1 do-LP (Audioscoop / ORGANisch") höchst melancholisch und polyphon... aber auch die Intro in Situ IS 01, 2008) [lim. 444 copies] € 25.00 anderen Stücke (u.a. eine Version eines SCELSI-Stückes) sind die Ein sehr breitgefächerter Rundumschlag durch den "experimentellen & Anschaffung wert. elektronischen Untergrund" bietet diese schön aufgemachte "Spire Live - Fundamentalis is a double LP-only collection of exclusive Compilation, vereinigt sie doch Stücke von 20 internationalen Acts die live tracks recorded at various Spire events held throughout 2005 and im "Intro in Situ" in Maastricht zu Gast waren, von "schwieriger" 2006. Released in association with U.S. label, Autofact, Touch presents Geräuschmusik bis hin zu recht gefälliger rhythmischer Elektronik. Es a selection of tracks performed by the main performers of Spire: handelt sich dabei überwiegend um exklusives Studiomaterial, und Fennesz, Philip Jeck, BJNilsen, Charles Matthews and Marcus neben bekannten Acts gibt es eine Reihe von neuen Namen. Für Davidson. Improvised pieces from Fennesz, BJNilsen and Philip Jeck Einsteiger und Sammler gleichermaßen geeignet ! contrast with a performance by Charles Matthews of a scored "Since 2005, "Audioscoop" is an ongoing series of musical events, held composition by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, "In Nomine Lucis," and in the lovely soundworkplace "Intro In Situ", in Maastricht, the Marcus Davidson's self-penned "Standing Wave," which ends side two Netherlands. Kim Laugs, member of Feedback Society and who I with a locked groove. Cut to preserve and enhance the bottom end suspect to be the brainchild behind Audioscoop, invites artists to frequencies, Fundamentalis is not merely a document; the tension "explore the boundaries in sound and music". This double LP contains a between and within the individual pieces is palpable. As the Touch label selection of artists who where part of these events, between 2005 and places it, Fennesz's set "...evokes the rolling centuries in all their pain 2007. They were asked to deliver exclusive material or edits from their and beauty, leaving us at once becalmed and energized, but never live performances at Intro In Situ. Quite some pioneer explorers are to oppressed under the weight of time." Electronics breathe new life not be found here: Asmus Tietchens, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, only into the organ, but also into the setting. But a new technological Aube, Kapotte Muziek, Sudden Infant and the late MSBR (sadly, one of successor does not mean replacement. Ultimately, it's the majestic his last concerts was the one in Maastricht). They are placed, fittingly sound of the organ, so steeped in centuries of tradition that one well, together with some new kids on the block: Arnoud Rivière, Meta remembers above all else. Spire is one of the most innovative projects Orcha, incite/, Thuth, Ex.Zero and (of course) Feedback Society. I around, drawing on the full canon of organ works, from the very first should also mention the fieldrecording composition made by Rinus van annotation in the Robertsbridge Codex from the 14th century, to Max Alebeek: it deals with chocolate and is really funny (with an odd erotic MSP patches and software sampling. With two CD releases and nine twist). In conclusion: highly enjoyable record that gives a nice overview performances in cathedrals and churches throughout Europe, Spire of what has been so far, and makes you look forward to the events to remains a potent live force in harnessing the sounds of the ages. Art come." [SDT, Vital Weekly] direction and design by Jon Wozencroft." [label info]

".... Jeck's side is everything we could hope for, long lazy loops, * IN MEMORIAM OF... do-7" (Multi National Disaster Records slathered in record static, hiss, crack and pop, dreamy melodies MNDR 2018, 2008) [lim. 301] € 14.00 skipped into haunting rhythms, everything washed out and blurred, a MEMORIAM-Compilation for the brother of the label-owner, who died worn weary sonic drift, organs and voices, soaring and whirring, very on cancer in 2003 being only 33 years old; as he was a fan of the here mechanical and machinelike, but simultaneously, warm and emotional. featured artists this is a last farewell. With BARADELAN, Serene, hypnotic, mesmerizing, what else can we say about the magic BLACKHOUSE, VIDNA OBMANA and MATHIAS GRASSOW this is of Jeck's music that we haven't said before?? quite an unusual collection of electronic music, all artists doing rather Matthews' half of side two is super minimal and hushed, mostly organs, allowed to wheeze and whir, slightly dissonant, but dense and

28 layered, the tones hovering in a suspension of rumbles and shimmers, noise attack, but rather a low volume drone affair. A heavy long very dramatic and cinematic, understated and reverent, almost like sustaining wall of sound, from sources unknown, work on the brain. some strange religious musical ritual. The second half, ostensibly I was wondering if they had the cassette format in mind when they were Davidson's, although he is credited with a locked groove, is a dark recording this. I am listening to the CDR, but I can imagine that the drone-y flow, keyboards blurred into warm streaks, also slightly atonal, sound will be a bit muffled when played on a cassette and that the hiss ominous, intense, the muted rumble builds to an almost cacophonous will create an additional texture of sound. Quite a pleasing work of organ-ic frenzy, that heard at full volume must have stirred the soul for ambient industrial music." [FdW / Vital Weekly] sure. The second disc is split evenly between Nilsen and Fennesz. * URUS MARTAN / ALEX TSITSIGIAS - Rare Animals and Fruits Nilsen's side, recorded in a church in Sweden, is a dark, harrowing, MC (Someone Else's Tapes 01, 2008) € 5.00 rumbling, post industrial dronescape, the tones rough around the First release on a new tape-label from Hamburg! This tape (C-20) edges, the melodies lugubrious and caustic, building up into a serious features quite droney & atmospheric x-scapes with a raw edge, din, metallic washes of sound, thick shards of pulsing buzz, very brittle bubbling analogue-synths, pulses, harsh breaks, concrete outlets... (by and sharp, before slipping into something a little more serene, but no URUS MARTAN); more intense & advanced dronescapes with metallic / less intense, more muted metallic tones, drifting in a churning sea of machine like sounds within on Side B by label-owner ALEX hissing static and electronic grit, a barely noticeable rhythm, more of a TSITISGIAS, really powerful. A damn good tape for people who like pulse or swell, finishing off in a deep grinding low end blur, like a much challenging atmospheric sound collages! Comes in paper envelope with more minimal 20th century SUNNO))). inlay, all handmade. The Fennesz track is all organ, the root of all of these pieces, but here, the organ is unaltered, barely unadulterated, allowed to warmly wheeze, strange tangled melodies, glistening and glimmering, the tones 2.1 CASSETTE-COMPILATIONS beginning to change shape, the melodies allowed to elongate and blur slightly until they're swallowed up by a warm cloud of static and hiss * HOISTING THE BLACK FLAG MC (United Dairies UDT02 / before fading out completely. The second half of Fennesz' side is a RRRecords, 1987) € 6.50 more murky underwater reading of the first half, not as much grit and RRRversion, originally released in 1980 as LP and 1987 re-issued as gristle as we usually expect, instead, the sound is whirling and muted, MC on United Dairies; feat. NURSE WITH WOUND, WHITEHOUSE, reminding us of Oval, but with the glitching skips smoother out, leaving just warm shimmering sonic swells, sun dappled melodies, and rich MENTAL AARVARKS, TRUTH CLUB, etc. layered high end drones, drifting serenely, pastorally. The first compilation on U.D. !! Gorgeously packaged, super thick full color gatefold sleeve, super striking Wozencroft photos, pressed on thick vinyl. And as if you even need to be told, quite limited indeed." [Aquarius Records ------review] 3. CDRs * TZOTZILES. PSALMS, STORIES AND MUSIC LP (Sub Rosa SR17, 1988) € 13.00 * AARDVARK - Born CD-R (Final Muzik FMSS06, 2007) [lim. Great ethno / field recording record, back in print on vinyl ! 140] € 10.00 "Continuing Sub Rosa's exploration of the undiscovered regions of Neues (?), jedenfalls uns bisher nicht bekanntes Drone / Doom / world music, 'Tzotziles' concentrates on a community in Mexico of the Industrial-Projekt aus Italien; zu hören gibt es monumentale Gitarren- same name and works as a study of this group of people. The disc is Drones, verzerrt und harmonisch, alles handgespielt, mächtig verhallte almost like a historical aural document, something we can listen to and slow-beats, aber auch wunderbar harmonische, ruhige Parts... gefällt get a real look into a community and how it works, whether it's the day uns ausgezeichnet! Für Gitarren-Drone / Ambient Fans ein Muss ! of the dead (which is here in full) to prayers and folk music. The music "140 numbered copies. Aardvark is an Italian project of pure, itself ranges from Celtic-sounding folk to unusual tribal drumming, flute apocalyptic dark industrial ambient, an amazing listening experience if bleats and trumpet squelches - at times sounding like a lost Rune you're into Sunn O))), Troum, Final and / or CMI best industrial ambient Grammofon album! It's not going to be for everyone but if you're acts. "Born" is an outstanding album, recommended to anyone into interested in the outer reaches of world music, music that really is alien, deep, obscure electronic music." [label info] then look no further." [Boomkat] * ADRIVA - Cold Sea Week CD-R (Abgurd AB-43, 2007) [lim. 100] € 9.00 New dark drone-matter from Russia - ADRIVA represents on "Cold Sea 2. CASSETTES / K7 Week" the hyper-minimal, subtle loopy, moody variant... very soft resonance-waves and slow echo-patterns.. Sound ghosts! * DIE SEE BAND - untitled MC (SEE AG 01, 2008) € 5.50 "Project of Denis from formations of SUNCHARIOT, ENMERKAR and First MC from obscure new impro-noise group from northern Germany MATTER shows a little more experimental Drone Ambient than the one (near BREMERHAVEN), lim. 15 copies, handmade covers! he performs in his main project, SUNCHARIOT. The album is dedicated to the author's sojourn on the shores of Black * MARHAUG, LASSE & ANLA COURTIS - Jordslev Hojaldre MC Sea in winter. Slack, congealed soundwaves crystallize in the air and (Quasi-Pop QPOP MC046, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 gently descend on eyelids and shoulders, immersing one in eternal Altes, erstklassiges Collab-Material von (ex-REYNOLS) Anla Courtis slumber of Suspense. Floating spectres of drowned fishermen, call- und LASSE MARHAUG, dronig, low-fi, wellend, rauh & geräuschig.. signs of ultramundane submarines, icefloes that ram Eternity, chasm of Sechs Stücke entstanden gemeinsam 1987 & 1988, dazu gibt es scalding coldness and pitch-darkness." [label notes] jeweils eine Solo-Zugabe von beiden auf jeder Seite. Professionelle Vollfarb-Hülle, mehr davon ! * ARTHUUR EN ENNO - From Antwerp to Asbidi mCD-R (Gewalt "This is the old-fashioned a bit, but lovely a lot tape-release. am Objekt, 2007) € 8.00 It based mostly on recordings made by Lasse Marhaug and Anla Wer sich schon immer mal gefragt hat, was eigentlich aus MOHR Courtis together in 1998, but remains unreleased for now. Two geworden ist (dem Bochumer Projekt mit ganz früher Drone-EP auf additional solo pieces (last tracks on each side of the cassette) were Drone Rec (DR-02), der findet mit diesem Mikro-Release eine (Teil)- recorded in 2007 to complete the entire project. As a result, now Antwort: ARTHUUR EN ENNO ist das neue 2-Mann-Projekt mit we have plenty of taped dark fluctuations of the low drones, some Beteiligung von ANDREAZ VOGEL, enthalten sind 3 exquisite heavy processed location recordings & minimal organic noises. loopige Stücke zwischen Drone und Post-Industrial, mit einer 'Jordslev Hojaldre' released on chrome tape and each cassette gelungenen Cover-Version von TGs "Discipline" ! recorded on hi-quality cassette deck using Dolby B noise reduction system." [label notes] * ARTHUUR EN ENNO - Music for Headphoneheads mCD-R "Perhaps Quasipop assume that a cassette player is no longer part of (Gewalt am Objekt, 2007) € 8.00 the Vital HQ, but it still is, albeit unconnected to the amplifier. They send Noch besser als "From Antwerp to Asbidi" gefällt uns "Music for a CDR version of a cassette only release by Lasse Marhaug and Anla Headphoneheads", da die präsentierten Klänge noch mysteriöser & Courtis. To release it in that format is a brave thing to do, I think. They spannender wirken, rückwärtige Klangwellen & repetitive Muster did some recording together in 1998, which was shelved until now. erinnern an ZOVIET FRANCE oder HAFLER TRIO Together with two new solo pieces it comes in the old form of a cassette. The interesting thing about this is that its not the full blown * ASIA NOVA - Tripped Itch CD-R (Discorporeality Rec., 2006) € 10.00

29 Material compiled by URE THRALL 2002-2003; part three in the ein überraschendes kollaborations-release im schicken digipack mit "Turning the Black Skies Blue again" . Features PAMELA PASSMORE naturinspirations-makrozoom-coverbild, angeraut durch and VOICE OF EYE. kontrastkorrosion. + übrigens: auch am ende keine fade-out gnade..." [Hellmut Neidhardt, www.unruhr.de] * ASIA NOVA - Suite Dreams CD-R (Discorporeality Rec., 2006) "A Bout De Souffle is a 54 min Collaboration between Aidan Baker (who € 10.00 is also known as Nadja together with Leah Buckareff) and Percussionist For the whole series "Turning the black skies into blue again" you could Jakob Thiesen (who recently joined baker live on stage to play live say: this is music of the spheres.. of the very dark spheres.. music full of drums). Aidan baker is famous for his experimental guitar music. This yearning and floating energy. Music full of melancholy and despair. time things are a bit different. You wont find the typical aidan baker Music that seems to stand in a kind of eternal chaos with one part.. drone stuff here, but instead both men created an incredible journey Music spreading into endless spaces with the use of elegic synth- through the fields of krautrock, Psychedelic and drone music. The drones, female singing, guitar & flute & other instruments... Percussion of Jakob Thiesen adds a certain deepness to Bakers guitar this is part 4 (out of six) of this epic series, with material rec. 2002-2003. explorations were he also uses bass and acoustic guitar to build an mind blowing album full of surprises and wonderful melodies." [label * BAKER, AIDAN - Exoskeleton Heart CD-R (Crucial Bliss 23, info] 2007) [lim. 300] € 10.00 "Waterscape is a new label, owned by Martin Fuhs, whom we also "Following up his amazing Periodic disc that was issued through Crucial know as Seconds In Formaldehyde and it's mission is to release Bliss two years ago, acclaimed Toronto drone-guitarist Aidan Baker is ambient music made by guitars. The first release is by Aidan Baker, our back with Exoskeleton Heart, his newest entry into our ongoing Crucial highly productive guitarist, who teams up here with Jakob Thiesen, who Bliss series. And this 2-track, hour long excursion into deep feedback plays percussion, like he did on 'Desire In Uneasiness' by Nadja. bliss is stunningly beautiful. Split into two halves, "Interior" and Despite his many releases, Baker is a man to find new forms and "Anterior", Baker once again taps into his visions of the bodycage using shapes. On this release things are more experimental and improvised only his electric guitar, performed and recorded live; the result is an as opposed to being the more ambient player he is on some of his evocative feedback-heavy dronescape drifting with the gritty hum of the earlier solo releases. Baker tinkles away, sending his guitar through his amplifier, layers of shimmering, chiming feedback, crushing distorted many devices while Thiesen supplements nicely with percussive ambient dirge that borders on Sunn O)))-levels of sonic weight, and sounds, but it's more a supportive role than an active one or playing a shafts of elegiac melody breaking through the stormclouds of Baker's 'solo' himself. The ambient element is not entirely gone, as much of it cavernous rumbling like rays of sunlight. Aidan Baker is without stays on an equal dynamic level and could perhaps pass on as a sort of question the North American counterpart to the Teutonic guitar drones rough shaped mood music. Nice stuff." [FdW / Vital Weekly] of Troum, and Exoskeleton Heart delivers some of his most massive, meditative, crushing, and beautiful subterranean drift yet. Hell, the final * BARDOSENETICCUBE - Aquadoor CD-R (Rape Art Prod. 10 minutes of "Anterior" is without questions one of the most beautiful RAP#030, 2008) [lim.50] € 9.00 things we have ever presented through this label, an angelic glacial Great little release on South-Americas RAPE ART-label, intense melody that builds inexorably into a wall of blissed out fuzz a la visionary drone-monuments, 4 tracks, 57 minutes, recordings from something you'd expect from Aidan's dronesludge band Nadja. 2007. The St. Petersburg act as we love them most! Essential. The disc comes in a full-color signature Crucial Bliss foldover "Bardoseneticcube old russian act send us this amazing recording sleeve with the disc affixed to a plastic hub on the interior of the sleeve, called AQUADDOR. It has four new dark ambient pieces, sometimes and has been pressed in a limited edition of 300 copies" [label info] hypnotic and deep recommended for Lustmord fans. Previous titles from this artist were produced on Steinklang, Blade Records and * BAKER, AIDAN & JAKOB THIESEN - A Bout de Souffle CD-R others. Full color art works and limited to 50 copies." [label info] (Waterscape Records WS10, 2008) [lim. 150] € 9.50 "keine intros, keine outros, kein einfaden, dito raus. mit schöner * BASS COMMUNION & FREIBAND -Haze Shrapnel mCD-R (My brutalität mitten ins geschehen: das platten manchmal unvermittelt Own Little Label MOLL 022, 2008) € 5.50 anfangen ist so manchmal ja nicht unbedingt; bei einzelstücken sogar An exclusive BASS COMMUNION track has been released on Frans de noch mehr; eine ganze platte, bei der jedes stück sich darstellt, als Waards little mCD-R label, along with a nice remix by him aka bekäme hörer und -in immer nur einen (besonders interessanten?) FREIBAND. Floating drones with a mysterious touch, quite delicate... ausschnitt eines (unbekannten?) gesamtwerks präsentiert, ist dagegen "I have been in contact with Steven Wilson off and on for quite a while. alles andere als die regel. vielleicht habe ich das in dieser konsequenz Recentely he wrote me, we traded some CDs and he liked my little das letzte mal allen ernstes auf der "guitar" von frank zappa gehört enterprise. He had a spare track of 12 minutes and 'if I want to release (auch eine gute platte, übrigens), die mal eben lässig nur die it'. 'Sorry, and why not do a remix then', as Freiband. Next time roles will gitarrensoli zusammencuttete. hier also aidan baker mit jakob thiesen be reversed." [label info] (drumkit, percussion, processing; auch in kanada tätig, auch ambient- ping-posse) und ausschnitten (zwischen 4.33 und 10.39 min) aus * BEEQUEEN - Long Stones and Circles mCD-R (My Own Little "sporadic sessions", die, live aufgenommen, von aidan baker gemixt Label MOLL 018, 2008) € 5.50 und, ganz offensichtlich, gelayert wurden, so wie er es beispielsweise "Sehr ungewöhnliche, ältere BQ-Aufnahmen - ein 18minütiges Stück, bereits bei der "at the base of the mind is coiled a serpent" getan hatte. welches v.a. konkrete Soundquellen einsetzt, z.B. Steine, Metall, mit einem entscheidenden unterschied: das, was aidan baker und jakob Metronom...dazu obligatorische Drones, Sounds von JOHN HUDAK, thiesen hier vorlegen, verlässt die reine drone oder ambient schiene und ein Text von RICHARD LONG." [old Drone Rec. info] oder zumindest deren engere definition und geht durchaus in richtung "Re-issue of a long out of print classic Beequeen work, based around "arc", einer weiteren (gruppen)aktivität von aidan baker: #1 + #7 mit various text by land artist Richard Long." [label info] rollendem, (nicht nur fast) groovingem bass, sehr deep im untergrund "This work, although not made for radio, is very much like a radioplay. It schiebend, die percussion tief eingebettet, die darüber liegenden introduces the listener to the work of land artist Richard Long in sound gitarren oft (!) akustisch und bei ausschnitt #2 z.b. in einem laid-back and words. Many natural sounds are used, such crickets, stones, wind, bluesfeel (nicht erschrecken, vertrauen in aidan baker hat sich doch salt, branches along with instruments such as guitars, metronome. Two bisher fast immer ausgezahlt) mit archaisch marschierender voices, one male and one female recite texts by Richard Long. One is rudimentär-percussion und x-ebenen darüber und dahinter. der elektro- the '100 Tors' text and the other 'Long Stones' - adapted by Freek akustische eindruck und die verwebung einer vielzahl von ebenen, Kinkelaar.“ [from the old press release ] innerhalb derer mal nicht ausnahmslos flächen generiert werden, um diese dann gegeneinander laufen zu lassen, sondern wo eine diktatur * BORGA, ASCIANO - Peripheral Vision CD-R (Asciano Borga, der mikroereignisse herrscht (listen to #5, "the end of breathe 2", dann 2007) € 8.00 weist du was ich meine), die sich zu einem 3D kosmos ergänzen und, Supersoft guitarambience in the way of MIRROR, STARS OF THE LID, egal wie hibbelig das einzelne sein mag, im zusammenhang dann eben endlessly floating dreamscapes; a new work by this italian artist. doch einen grossen, fast meta-zusammenklang schaffen, dieser "Entirely improvised live in studio on a treated guitar, this album is very eindruck bleibt auf voller lauflänge erhalten und lässt zumindest quiet and introspective, there is no rhythm at all, no structure, nor even assoziationen in richtung oren ambarchi's "sun" zu, deren ebenfalls struck notes, everything is distant, reverberated, stratified, smooth and mysteriöse elektro-akustische melange eine sehr ähnliche stimmung slowly evolving: peripheral vision is a personal exploration of hidden evoziert wie eben "a bout de souffle". und noch mal die #5: lang psychological textures of harmony and sound." [label info] vorbereitet, dieses kippen um die 10.00 und perfekt in die #6, "take a breath". keine ahnung, ob die familienzugehörigkeit der titelgebungen * BRADLEY, PAUL - Sirens CD-R (Twenty Hertz TH019, 2008) genau dieses phänomen unterstützen soll oder ob zufall: weite teile der € 10.00 7 tracks nehmen mit ihrem ende bzw. anfang bezug aufeinander; eine SIRENS fasst die vergriffenen mCDRs "Cede" (Waterscape Rec.) und weitere rätselhaftigkeit dieses releases, werden doch die abstände "Searching for the way" (Locus of Assemblage) zusammen, sowie zwischen den tracks auch dann eindeutig als pause markiert... das bisher nur als digitalen Download erhältliche Stücke "Horizon".

30 Das sind warme, melancholische Dronescapes wie sie für BRADLEY clearing, the emergence of life: cars driving by, chiming birds, and typisch sind, hochsensibel & verzaubernd.. something squeaking in the distance. It's just another sublime puzzle ‘sirens’collects together the out of print releases ‘cede’ and ‘searching piece to Coster's immersive, quietly grand design." [Aaron Yapp - REAL for the way’ along with the download release ‘horizon’. ‘cede’ was GROOVE MAGAZINE] originally released as a 3 inch cdr on the German label Waterscape Records in an edition of 50. ‘searching for the way’ was issued through * CRIA CUERVOS - Ilauna mCD-R (Locus of mini-assemblage the UK label ‘The Locus Of’ in an edition of 100 3 inch cdr’s. ‘horizon’ is series mass21, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 also available as a download from Twenty Hertz Digital. "You know that scene in a movie where the orchestra is getting ready to ‘sirens’ comes in a plastic sleeve with full colour 4 panel insert and the play and they're sitting there warming up by scraping, plucking, tuning first 50 copies also include two photograph inserts (the ‘sirens’ and and generally being all discordant and noisy. Yes? Well, in the case of ‘searching for the way’ covers) and a numbered and signed obi. Tracks Cria Cuervos that scene is the starting point, the ending point and one and three were lightly re-touched in February 2008 at IC Studio." indeed the whole point although instead of a orchestra you should [label info] maybe picture the backline from Einsturzende Neubauten and the day- shift from your local ironworks. You're intrigued, I can tell. You should * BÜTTNER, GREGORY - Nil.: Audio mCD-R (A.I.C. AICdisc009, be, it's very good." [Wonderfulwoodenreasons] 2007) [lim. 75] € 7.00 "Cria Cuervos also just released a solo 3"CDR, so its interesting to "GREGORY BÜTTNER schickte für nil:.audio (AICdisc009, 3“ cd-r) compare it with his work with Bradley. The music here is more Daten in den Softwarehimmel, in dem sie gelöscht werden und alle experimental, more loud and, dare we say it, more industrial. Cuervos Sorgen enden. Vorher jedoch hört man in vier Varianten mehrfach scrapes the barrel of metal and picks up the sound to give it some komprimierte Sequenzen aus CDRom-Werbungen (heute auch nur additional treatment, by adding a bit of reverb here and there. Over the noch prähistorische Kuriosität). Nach der ersten Überformung sind noch course of the piece things develop in a rather minimal manner - it die Werbestimmen vernehmbar, wenn auch schon vermulmt, seems as if sounds are stretched out and more space is added verzischelt und überwummert. Mit jedem Prozess nimmt die Information between them. Later on these empty spaces are filled with what could ab und die Entropie zu. Sirrend, bitzelnd, schmurgelnd verteilen sich die be field recordings. Quite interesting, since this piece moves out of the Klangmoleküle und nähern sich über eine Phase, die vielleicht den known drone field and crosses the field of noise and industrial on one sprichwörtlichen Traumweiden von Androiden ähnelt, mehr und mehr hand and microsound on the other - certainly in the second part of the dem anderen Ende der Bewusstseinsund Verstehensskala, um in den piece." [FdW / Vital Weekly] elysischen Gefilden zu verlöschen." [Bad Alchemy] "Gregory Büttner, known as member of the duo Für diesen Abend , and * D.D.A.A. - Dans la nuit du souterrain scientifique mCDR also for running the fine small label 1000füssler, is giving honour to AIC (Illusion Production IP 035, 2007) € 7.00 by this impressive concept of subversive appropriation. Quicktime Aufnahmen von 1990 von der französischen Kult-Gruppe ! movies, taken from various internet providers’ advertisement CDRoms, "This obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used were used as source material for the audiovisual work “nil”. The images improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed as well as the sound tracks of those flics from the late 1990s / early songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions 2000s ( so, from medieval times of digital technology ) have been as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and compressed again and again by Buettner, using different Codecs – Nurse With Wound. In fact, DDAA are three visual artists, Sylvie followed by some precise compositional arrangement. “nil:.audio” Martineau, Jean-Philippe Fée, and Jean-Luc André in Lion sur Mer, documents the most prolific audio pieces of the series – dense and France." [label info] idiosyncratic electroacoustics." [label info] * DEAD BLACK ARMS / MY LOVE WE FOUND THE SKYS - Black * CALARCO, JUAN JOSE - Raiz de Invierno mCD-R (the Locus Visions White Versions do-CDR (A Beard of Snails Records of mini-Assemblage series mass20, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 ABOS123, 2007) [lim. 40] € 10.00 We haven't heard of JUAN JOSE CALARO before, but with this one- Two projects by the same artist (CLAUS HAXHOLM), one black tracker in the mini-assemblage series he (coming from Argentina) coloured CDR with black inlay (DEAD BLACK ARMS) with dark & makes a real strong impression, with deep sub bass drones and at oppressive electronic ambience, the other is white coloured w. white times massive field recordings of rain & thunder, highly dynamic & inlay and features more soft & peaceful drones, still sounding quite slowly oscillating between the very near and the very far away.. otherworldy. Nice concept, worth to discover! exceptional stuff for field-recording droners... "A massive double dose of oscillating drones, ear-tickling tones and, most of all, minimalist meditative synthetics, from the multi-faceted * CHEAPMACHINES - Transit mCD-R (the Locus of mini- Claus Haxholm. Limited edition of 40, in hand stamped Stumpdown Assemblage series mass18, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 jackets." [label info] "Cheapmachines' version of the drone eschews the almost stereotypical mellowness that many think characterises such music and instead opts * DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS - A Line : Align CD-R for a far more insistent and muscular variety. The 16 (and change) (Mystery Sea MS 42, 2007) [lim. 100] € 12.00 minute rolling organ tone that makes up the bulk of the sound on offer Das bisher noch weitgehend unentdeckte "Experimental Drone"-Projekt here is a frontal lobe squeezing, third-eye squeegeeing, perspective aus Göteborg mit einem Beitrag für die MYSTERY SEA - Reihe. contorting hallelujah of otherworldly bliss. Far too short to be fully 3 lange Stücke, dunkel dronig effektiert, rauschende field recordings die satisfying and exactly the right length to leave you desperately craving ins Unendliche & Unkenntliche schreiten, mit leicht mechanisch- for more." [Wonderfulwoodenreasons] repetitiven Untertönen... hat sehr schöne Parts, die absolut mysteriös und undurchdringlich tönen .... Tip für "archaic drone"-Fans ! * COSTER, TIM - Star Mill CD-R (Claudia CLaudi_015, 2007) "Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words is the emanation of Thomas € 10.00 Ekelund's dim imaginary, a sensitive music box giving tangible outline to Neben FABIO ORSI ein weiterer Geheimtip des Jahres in Sachen the ghost songs hummed by his immediate environment... Dead Letters "sensible Drones", TIM COSTER benutzt hier Feld-, Instrumental- und Spell Out Dead Words reproduces the in-between & shadowy sounds, Objektaufnahmen, das ganze wirkt sehr "organisch", schwer zu moulding in each work, a journey of deep intimate emotional resonance, beschreiben aber es hat eine eigene "Handschrift"... magic daylight nurtured with a sharp conscience of a multitude of past & present aural ambience... to discover ! forms... Thomas Ekelund has a lengthy Curriculum Vitae with music "New solo recordings, three long drone pieces over 37 minutes. Made released under various guises since 1999 (Dead Violets with Jeff Surak from layered instrument, object, & field recordings. Recorded March - - Winquist/Virtanen with R. Abrahamsson...)... Dead Letters Spell Out July 2007, using bass guitar, ocarina, accordian, bells, harmonica, Dead Words counts numerous releases either on Thomas Ekelund's mbira, cloves, bottles, bowls, alarm clock, wood and string." [label info] own imprint WHEN THE SKIES ARE GREY, or on CONV, "Coster also recently released the stunning Star Mill, a 37-minute three- ZEROMOON, KALLIGRAMMOFON, and his main home IDEAL track (or one-track-in-three-parts) EP that's probably the best work he's RECORDINGS... He's also a designer and used to be the curator of the done yet. As with past releases Landing and Rowboat/Blackberry, specialized FUKK GOD LET'S CREATE netlabel... Coster uses the laptop to manipulate and layer his field recordings into From walks in Gothenburg (SWEDEN), his place of residence, he has langurous stretches of humid, trance-inducing ambient tones. The collected a string of everyday fertile sounds, and mounted them for imperceptibility of his sources infuses these untitled pieces with delicate Mystery Sea into a flow of magnified details inducing an intense ambiguity, which in turn allows them to develop very visual qualities. transformative experience... The first track begins its epic 20-minute voyage with some faint clicking Within lost recesses, in the folds of silence and tapping, then a sustained hum, then what sounds like an incoming hidden under dust & half-remembered memories ship's horn. 5 minutes in, glass harp-like slivers seep into the web, with A faint heartbeat slowly pulses in your veins... Coster continually shifting and tweaking things to create an intensely like an echo of broken days, warm, womb-like shroud of sound. It eventually ends with a bright

31 the amplified presence of invisible micro-energies that this is a nice soundtrack to a b-movie. I was playing this a couple of a view through a clouded glass... times in a row, and each time I turned it back on and discovered new You're on the trail of scintillations, themes in this crazy road movie. It has a strange appeal, this madness, through the subliminal tales of rustles, clickings, & object world... this hotchpotch of music. A strange kind of radio play even when words Erase yourself, fade a little bit, tune in, aren't really used here to any extent. Not even a real story actually now And side murmurs will show unexpected tones..." [label description] I come to think of it. Turntablism without turntables. A story of no words, but the perfect soundtrack to out and make your own crazy roadmovie." * DELPLANQUE, MATHIAS - L'inondation CD-R (Mystery Sea [FdW /Vital Weekly] MS45, 2008) [lim. 100] € 12.00 "I managed to create a film score sensation giving the dynamic as if it “L’inondation is the stereo version of a multichannel sound installation were done strictly following a script. Includes one mash up in between presented at the VKS gallery (Toulouse) in june 2005. All sounds are Bernard Herrmann & Silvestre Revueltas." [Christian Dergarabedian] drifted from the basement of my apartment building in Nantes”. [M.Delplanque]. Burkinabese/French sound artist Mathias Delplanque is * EXIT IN GREY - Twilight Waters CD-R (Abgurd AB41, 2007) € 9.00 an accomplished musician who has classical music studies in his rich Das Guitar / Analog -Drone Duo aus der Moskau-Region weiter auf pedigree, as well as a grade at the Ecole Nationale d'Arts de Cergy "Versenkungs-Kurs" , TWILIGHT WATERS enthält 4 Stücke mit Pontoise & a master's degree in aesthetics (Paris I university)... ozeanisch-glühenden Mind-scapes, still & meditativ & dunkel, deep Multifaceted, Mathias has many strings on his bow, using different droning under-water flows, sowohl leise auch als lauter gehört ein identities to explore different paths... LENA sees him deal with Genuss, da es viele Details zu entdecken gibt. TIP ! contemporary dub forms, while in BIDLO, he navigates at the fringes of "[S] and (S), who live in Pushkino city in Moscow suburbs, created their electronica... He has also done numerous collaborations with various project EXIT IN GREY four years ago. During the last couple of years musicians (Black Sifichi, Ghislain Poirier, Charlélie Couture, etc...) and they worked with their solo-projects as well. Those are ABANDONED released 2 albums (Zeropolis, Hidden Doors) with THE MISSING HEAD of (S) and SISTER LOOLOMIE and FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC of ENSEMBLE (John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos) where he took [S]. EXIT IN GREY is 100% example of Drone Ambient: hypnotizing part into the conception of hallucinogenic hybrid pieces mainly dealing field-recordings of city and nature, their own unique methods of with the dark corners of our derelicted cities...Under his own name, musicianship, harmonizing guitar, synths and singing bowls helps the Mathias composes soundscapes of a more concrete, or experimental- musicians to follow their chosen path of Archaic and Emotional. ambient nature (“Ma chambre Quand je N'y Suis Pas [Montréal] on «Twilight Waters» was recorded in the year 2005 and was released by Mondes Elliptiques, “La Plinthe” imminent on Optical Sound) or the musicians own label Daphnia Records in ultra-limited edition «for conceives works meant for galleries or art centers (specific friends-only». Gloomy and cold, streaming through underground caves installations)... so far, he has collected many rewards, and has made sound collages. Transformed droning streams of ever-water and noises some artist residencies in France, Canada, and India... of oceanic spaces co-work with guitar-based drones and singing bowls. His MS contribution, is a piece aptly named “L'inondation” which was Calm and introvert recording for dilution and absorption." [press- first presented at the VKS gallery in Toulouse during 2005...all sounds release] are drifted from the basement of his apartment building in Nantes... In an enclosed space where all lights are low * FEU FOLLET - Fogbank CD-R (Triple Bath trb.010, 2007) [lim. we skip over a dark surface seeping into the walls 96] € 7.00 brushed by their reverberations "Fogbank, German artist Tobias Fischer's second solo full length album, We learn to listen to new nocturnal chants, is coupling two long pieces based on sound material provided by the the constant flickering of lamps, the tiny deflagrations, famous (Sindre) Bjerga / (Jan-M.) Iversen duet. These works comply to the microfluxes of electricity, the surrounding moistness, the Norwegian duet's aesthetics while Feu Follet spices these drones and memories drip, dragging us back to their inception... up with grandiosity in an unlikely - to his previous (toi et le son & “L'inondation” is about letting ourselves overcome with, souvenir d'ermitage - full length & ep respectively) releases - way. a submersion of the senses, celebration of the underlying..." Drone substrata that hold and somewhat, if not completely, make up the [full label press release] base of both included pieces, underlie the effervescent infusion of "If my reading of the press statement is correct then at least the bare harmonic mirages that carry iridescent hues of Charlemagne Palestine, bones (if not the entirety) of this remarkable album consists of a Klaus Schulze and even of Aidan Baker, Pole and Mirror." [label info] recording (or recordings) made from sounds filtering up from the lower floors of Delplanque's apartment building. L'inondation consists of all * FLEURY-STEINER, BEN - He dreams in Rivers mCDR (Taalem those sounds that are so exotic and disturbing in a 'silent' house - drips, alm48, 2007) € 5.00 hisses, clangs & taps. Sounds that are both amorphous and mundane. "Head of the gears of sand label, also known under the paradin and For Delplanque they are the building blocks from which he creates his light of shipwreck aliases and for collaborations with aidan baker or soundworld. As you'd expect from that premise there isn't huge scope oophoi, ben fleury-steiner proposes here two highly evocative droney of material to be had but those sounds that are available are used to pieces, as its title suggests it... full-colour printed 3" cd-r with artwork by their utmost and to spellbinding effect. " delphine ancelle-b." [label info] [Wonderfulwoodenreasons.com] * FOR KINGS AND QUEENS - Merz CD-R (Subterranean Sonic * DERGARABEDIAN, CHRISTIAN y MILAN SANDBLEISTIFT - No. 001/008, 2008) [lim. 200] € 7.00 Lamentamos informar al universo CD-R € 10.00 Interesting experimental / ambient / drone debut-CDR by a german "der stuhl an der wand ist leer ich project on a new label from Berlin. To discover. lebe" / "nadien ocupa la silla delante de la pared yo "Man tut For Kings And Queens womöglich Unrecht, wenn man vivo" / " the chair next to the wall is empty I behauptet, diese Musik klänge wie ein Tribut an den charakteristischen am living " [from the credits] englischen Sound, dem David Keenan mit »England’s Hidden Reverse« Lovely collaboration of these two Drone Records-artists (MILAN ein ganzes Buch gewidmet hat. Und doch ist die Liebe zu Nurse With SANDBLEISTIFT being a part of LICHT-UNG). Mysterious drones & Wound und die typische Stimmung der verwandten Projekte schon in ominous sounds all over the place, rumbling & resonancing in den ersten Minuten vollkommen unüberhörbar. Das Projekt-Debüt polymorph ways, arrays of highly effected stuff...quite rough but »Merz« (Subterranean Sonic) profitiert nun von der Sorgfalt, mit der beautiful, recommended! Exists in two editions of 28 / 27 copies, of both diese vertraute Atmosphäre nicht nur eingefangen, sondern weiter we got few copies.. fortgeführt und interpretiert wurde: In seinen besonders ›musikalischen‹ Momenten schleppt sich das Album dahin, so scheinbar lethargisch, * EARZUMBA - Real Ruido Pastizo CD-R (Editions Zero #13, wie man es von den zähesten Dokumenten der aktuellen Free-Folk- 2007) € 8.00 Bewegung kennt (etwa von Jackie-O Motherfuckers Embrace the unexpected! Again C.D. manages it to create very Schaffenshöhepunkten »Wow!« und »The Magick Fire Music«). In unexpected and uncommon soundscapes made up out of found sounds dieser entspannten, von spannenden Geräuschen bereicherten & samples. This has at times even a jazzy & funny feel, but its like Umgebung können sich die inspirierten Improvisationen stimmig und being in a totally deranged & transformed reality-system. Collage- lebhaft entfalten." [Spex] music, Loops, all arranged very nicely. Check it out! "Christian Dergarabedian is by now more known through his Earzumba * FREIBAND - 298 CD-R (Tosom 029, 2007) [lim. 150] € 11.00 than his previous engagement with Reynols, and releases a great "CDR. 3 TRACKS, 41 MINUTES. LIMITED AND NUMBERED EDITION bunch of great CDRs. More and more he relies on the sampler to be the OF 150 COPIES. DVD BOX IN CD SIZE WITH 3 INSERTS. crazy melting pot of sounds and here he seems to be taking matters a TOSOM is very proud to present a new work by FREIBAND. This is one bit further. From the field recordings of 'Intro' to a heavily cut up reggae of the many projects by FRANS DE WAARD, he has been since many collage madness in 'Descuidado'. Spinning vinyl by hand and picking up years active. Founding member of KAPOTTE MUZIEK, BEEQUEEN, crazy fragments, and not by strange coincidence Editions_zero remarks GOEM aswell as solo projects like SHIFTS, FREIBAND or QUEST

32 (only to name a few). Projects that are classics in the wide world of DRONAEMENT begeistert wieder mit seiner Mischung aus field contemporary experimental music. So "298" by FREIBAND is one the recordings und sublimen Melodien, die Stücke sickern allmählich ins most experimental releases on TOSOM. Three compositions , all made Unterbewusste wo sie sich verzaubernd auszubreiten scheinen... with the sound of saxophones. FREIBAND use the material played by ".. pairing the German sound artist Dronaement who uses a Bo van de Graaf to create some nice hypnotic minimal sound drones." combination of field recordings and electronics, and the droney [label info] abstractionist Canadian artist The Infant Cycle." [label info]

* FREIBAND & COLIN TUDOR - Pantones mCD-R (My Own Little * INNERISE - Western Sky Music CD-R (Make Mine Music Label MOLL 008, 2008) € 5.50 MMM026, 2007) € 8.00 "Colin was one of the founding members of Zion Train and a regular "Tarl Broad-Ashman has been using the name Innerise for his music visit to the Amsteram shop I was once at. He liked experimental music since 1998. The music ranges from beatless ambient to vocal-led and one day mailed me a bunch of sound material from his solo project electronica, with two vocalists, Annie Rolph and Katherine Cobley, Pantonal. I reworked them, but didn't mix it, which I left for Colin to do. appearing on Innerise recordings to date. Having previously remixed He did it, quite nicely, and it has been several years with some label, fellow Make Mine Music artists Portal, Schengen and Yellow6, Innerise who didn't go about to release, for whatever reason I don't know. But released their debut album “Western Sky Music” on Make Mine Music in here it is, missing one mixed track, but hey, I'm only doing 3"s and 2007." [label info] business cards. Rhythm glitch music, or some such." [label info] * JGRZINICH - Ferric mCD-R (Taalem alm46, 2007) € 5.00 * FREIBAND - Capture mCD-R (My Own Little Label MOLL 017, "One 20min long piece created by this eminent american (but living in 2008) € 5.50 estonia) sound artist and based upon field recordings, a wind harp and Auf MOLL, dem neuen mini-CDR Label von Frans de Waard, gibt es various improvised wire and metal constructions. b&w printed 3" cd-r rares und besonderes Material von ihm in seinen verschiedenen with artwork by john grzinich." [label info] Projekten. CAPTURE ist ein 18+ Minuten one-tracker mit einem Remix "The vastly growing empire of Taalem: an endless line of 3" CDR, a bit (das läuft dann unter FREIBAND) zur Präsentation der AUDIOSCOOP like the other endless line of 7"s on Drone, and covering many similar doLP. Frans verwendete verschiedenstes Original- Klangmaterial der names and music. The first new one is by Jgrzinich, who has been Compilation und orientierte sich am Konzept der legendären active in the field of recordings for more than a decade now. These CAPTURED MUSIC LP, um dieses schöne Poly-Schichten & Drone- days he is in southeast Estonia, where collects his field recordings, Loop Stück zu erstellen, welches einen tollen Spannungsbogen along with rusty metal wires, a wind harp and such like. 'Ferric' is one aufweist... piece of alternating drone music and back in the shack rusty metal "On March 14th 2008 the 2LP 'Audioscoop' was released, with a.o. a shields, carefully swung together. Highly atmospheric, slowly in decay track by KapotteMuziek. At the presentation I did a remix in the style of towards the end." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 'Captured Music' (on Selektion), using a lot of the sound material from the 2LP. This has become 'Capture' "[label info] * KASSEL JAEGER - ee[nd] CD-R (Mystery Sea MS44, 2007) € 12.00 * GYDJA - Machina Mundi CD-R (Gears of Sand [GOS36], 2008) Wieder ein neuer / uns bisher unbekannter Name auf MYSTERY SEA, € 10.00 dem Explorer-Label für ambiente & dronige "ozeanische" Klänge, New (?) project from New Zealand, doing a kind digital / glitch- verbunden mit Wasser- und Tiefsee-Metaphorik. ambience with lots of tiny & high pitched microsounds, creating a JAEGERs 5 Stücke tauchen ein ins grosse unbestimmte Rauschen, ghostly world of its own... wenn field recordings bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verfremdet und effektiert werden, alles geschieht hier in anderen Zeitdimensionen, langsam & * HATI - Prehistory of HATI: Vol. 2 CD-R (Eter etcdr07, 2007) schwer; konkreteres Material wird mitunter "sichtbar", unglaubliche [lim. 111 copies] € 9.00 Sounds kommen ans Tageslicht, aber alles bleibt immer recht Amazing live-recordings made in September 1994, much different from undurchdringlich & fremd... KASSEL JAEGER ist das Pseudonym eines today's drone-scapes, this is typically "polish" wave-influenced französischen Komponisten aus dem INA GRM-Umfeld, electronic / experimental music, made with bass, guitar, drum machine, dementsprechend neue Impulse gibt es hier für das "Oceanic Drone"- keyboard & without vocals, showing their early musical abilities... Genre... ".... I must keep on guessing, as to the sound input, which seems to me * HORCHATA vs. SIL MUIR - same mCD-R (Taalem alm52, 2008) field recordings, which are heavily processed. None of the sounds in € 5.00 any of the five tracks can be easily traced back to it's original form. The Zwei wunderbar dichte & "volle" Dronedreamscapes, hyperminimal, end result is what counts of course and the endresult may be heard! In vielschichtig & obertontänzelnd; für diese mCDR in der kultigen trying to change the underworld of deep sea life, Jaeger has something Taalem-Reihe fanden sich AMON, HORCHATA und ANDREA new on offer that sets him apart from his peers. His music is somewhat FERRARIS zusammen.... louder and grittier than others. A bit more noise based, although this is "latest project featuring andrea marutti (afe records, amon, never still far away from Merzbow. At the same time it's not ambient industrial, known, hall of mirrors with giuseppe verticchio/nimh), sil muir also but rather more academic in approach, even when the compositions features andrea ferraris, an italian musician coming from the hardcore themselves are not like serious computer avant-garde. You get my and experimental scenes. together, they create some beautiful guitar- drift? Jaeger's music moves between the lines, off side microsound (too based ambient/drone soundscapes... add horchata's refined deep loud), off side noise (too soft) and off side musique concrete (the pieces ambient layers and here you are!" [label info] are too minimal). This all makes this a highly interesting release. Rough and not entirely refined, this is certainly also an odd ball for this label!" * HUM - Caldron of Winds mCD-R (Taalem alm47, 2007) € 5.00 " [FdW / Vital Weekly] "Three beautiful tracks mixing dones and natural sounds from this "Kassel Jaeger is an elusive shadow, a password, a catalytic entity, not talented & prolific russian artist (previous releases include a 7" on drone a real name anyway... Behind this cover hides a French sound engineer records and a cd-r on mystery sea). full-colour printed 3" cd-r with largely involved in the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales)... artwork by cyril herry." [label info] this rather enigmatic self-effacement serves the purpose of an equally "..More field recordings can be found on the release by Hum, also impenetrable aural art... One thing is sure, Kassel Jaeger is assuredly a known as Dmitry Christov from Russia, or perhaps his other aliases, fine soundsmith, and he presents here his debut which should definitely such Sphogha, Maw, Mikosterion or Small Town Zombie, all of which I intrigue and draw you into a multifoliated sonorous world... never heard. Hum had releases on Mysery Sea and Drone. There you Passengers on a rough shore, we listen to the wind moanings & are. Here he has three untitled piece of slow enveloping ambient/drone faraway voices under the swaying sky... Still stones turn to sand, music. A bit of field recordings is set against some obscure electronics, to tiny grains rolling down our dreams... Pools warp our image, which are hard to pin down. Synths? Computer process? Can't tell reducing it to a volatile emanation... This is the sound of within, skin really. It's a nice lo-fi affair this one, not high and mighty on the deep... the sound from turmoil, as a sign of another life, recording side, but full of raw intent." [FdW / Vital Weekly] a new creeping language into the folds... - Faded forms under the melting sun, blurred silhouettes inhaling a * INFANT CYCLE / DRONAEMENT - split CD-R (Cohort Records golden mist... "ee[nd]" draws an intricate layout of disturbances, CRCD 127, 2008) [lim. 100] € 9.00 a corrosive sea of transmutation... " [label info] Sehr gute 9-track CDR (3 Stücke von INFANT CYCLE, 6 von DRONAEMENT) auf dem KIRCHENKAMPF-Label COHORT ! * JETZMANN - Unter die Deutschen mCD-R (A.I.C. AICdisc010, INFANT CYCLEs Stücke sind intensiv-atmosphärische Industrial- 2007) [lim. 75] € 7.00 Droners mit mechanisch-wuchtiger Variante, welche hypnotische "On his first solo release in some years, Hamburg based Jetzmann Strukturen mit bemerkenswerten Sounds & Effekten verbinden und eine presents an exceptional, unclassifiable piece on AIC. In this pulsierende Spannung aufbauen, intensiv & schön ! combination of spoken word and abstract minimal electroacoustics, the

33 considerable german poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) enters the Very first LICHT-UNG release, the most "anti" & weird you can go: a 5" stage with a ( prose ) text taken from his Hyperion. Hölderlin is often vinyl & mCDR fixed together in a cardboard-folder with no real info, a mistaken for Romanticism and has been ideologically misused for most weird german inlay "Verehrter Tanzfreund" copied from the 50's maybe, miserable occasions. Totally opposed to that, Unter die Deutschen supports the continuously valid notion that the Germans are not all placed in a used german "Schlager" 7"-cover together with the necessarily to be trusted..... Jetzmann has published numerous records original record (all different). The music: cut up & feedbacks! Great as member of various band projects, most notably with the duo unwieldy release, more an object for itself, edition of 489 copies. Jetzmann & Liquidsky on Soleilmoon, The Bog and Cashbeat / ZickZack." [label info] * LICHT-UNG - Gieb Fahrt! mCD-R (Tosom XS-003, 2008) € 7.50 3" CDR, 1 TRACK, 1 VIDEOFILE, 12 MINUTES. LIMITED AND * KAPOTTE MUZIEK - N° 103: Tilburg mCD-R (My Own Little NUMBERED EDITION OF 150 COPIES. MINI DVD BOX WITH 2 Label MOLL011, 2008) € 5.50 INLAYS. licht-ung, a art (lyrics, pictures, etc.) and sound project from KAPOTTE MUZIEK, wohl Frans de Waards frühestes Projekt, ist weiter Germany. The name stands always for his very own art. Strange, aktiv - im September 2007 probierten sie etwas neues und spielten rein peculiar, dadaistic. licht-ung have several releases on his own label, akustisch draussen quasi als Strassenmusiker in Tilburg!! some are splits with artists like Government Alpha, Stilluppsteypa, "On Sunday afternoon the 23rd of September 2007 Kapotte Muziek Aube. There is also a 7" on Drone Records, that shows the lower side. played their very first all acoustic concert on the streets of Tilburg as This TOSOM release contains a 12 minute piece, in the best japanese part of Acoustic Noise which was again part of ZXZW. Highly curious 15 Noise tradition. Very harsh, very intensive, very loud. The second track minute concert, and the recordings are likewise curious, with people is a short video file for your PC. talking, bikes passing and us playing." [label info] lichtlaterne. wenn der regen nebens cafe faellt. und jemand spaziert. einen brief schreibt, und geburtstag hat. endlich, finalmente, sind wir * KREBS, K.M. - Alchymy CD-R (CON-V net-lab CNVR14, 2007) drin. wir koennen tanzen, klettern, sehen den fluß. seine schiffe. [lim. 60] € 9.50 auch fuer sie scheint eine ampel. die post spart hilfe die ganze nacht Already the 14th CDR release in this nice drone / experimental ambient/ lang auf. waere sie nicht gewesen, haette viel dort bleiben muessen, field-recording-series (who also offer a big amount of online-release on denn wir koennen nicht alles behalten. wir konnten nie alles loslassen. their website) with extraordinaire packaging. KEVIN KREBS convinces nur alles haben wir verloren. die maserung bleibt wie eine spur in der with 9 pieces (55 minutes) of electro-acoustic drone-soundscapes, tuer. in einem anderen land. Du lebst." [label info] using field recordings and more "played" concrete elements from "... So Johannes is to contemporary noise what Da Vinci was to the instruments or objects at the same time, for a stunning result where one renaissance? The 3inch has a strange short video of 6 seconds and a can focus the attention totally. Sometimes the compositions seem to 12 or so minute harsh noise work which mixes harsh rumble with high float and stream, at times they appear to be more collaged..... pitched feedback. The noise piece is competent to the point of a total Great album, which really should have more than just 60 listeners.. refinement of what harsh noise should be, and that's praise not "The voiceless heart of alchemy is a deepening into metaphor. The criticism, it winds and weaves through a sonic landscape at times resplendent and complex array of colours, animals, and techniques that quixotically so much so that the piece IMO could have been longer - but initiate transformational processes. A quickening of the leaden world of it pays to leave your audience wanting more - which I do (though not quotidian experience, unearthing a 'participation mystique' and sprouts!)." [Jliat / Vital Weekly] deconcretizing the symbolic face of the world. 'Alchymy' is an ear placed on the imaginal heart, a dialogue of field recordings, musical * LIGHT OF SHIPWRECK - From the Idle Cylinders CD-R (Crucial fragments, noise and silence: focused yet expansive, complex, subtle Bliss BLISS 20, 2007) [lim. 200] € 10.00 and shimmering. A work of archetypal listening. "Even sleepers are Kraftvoller Guitar-Drone mit wummernder & stampfender Drum- workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe." -- machine und heftigen Gitarren-Loops, ekstatisch, geisterhaft, nicht von Heraclitus. liner notes by Kevin M. Krebs." [label info] dieser Welt... erinnert an NADJA, klingt für unsere Ohren aber zum Teil auch wie eine Metal-Version von RAPOON ! * LAVELLE, BRIAN - The petrified Forest mCD-R (Taalem alm51, LIGHT OF SHIPWRECK ist das Solo-Projekt von BEN FLEURY- 2008) € 5.00 STEINER, der auch hinter PARADIN und dem GEARS OF SAND-Label "Following his recent "fallen are the domes of green amber" cd on steckt, eine echte Überrraschung! diophantine discs and released just before "supernaturalist" on ee "Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man band operated by Ben Fleury-Steiner, tapes, scottish sound artist brian lavelle delivers here two highly a Deleware-based drone artist and owner of the excellent Gears of evocative ambient/experimental tracks full of melancholy..." [label info] Sand Recordings imprint, which has released discs from some of our "Brian Lavelle recently surprised us 'Supernaturalist', and the two favorite ambient/drone/drift artists including Encomiast, Cordell Klier, pieces here were recorded just before that and show the best side of and Aidan Baker. It was actually through Aidan Baker that we found out his: manipulating field recordings and very much altering them into about Ben's Light Of Shipwreck project; knowing that we're fanatics for microscopic detailed pieces of ambient drones. Slowly changing "heavy ambient" sound, Light Of Shipwreck was recommended as patterns of what seems to be rain fall, deep bass sounds in 'The Wood something we should check out. At first expecting something more Turned Dark And Silent' and more synthetic in 'This Twisting Glade', along the lines of the kind of floating ambient rumble that marks so which sounds like a church organ being dissected. Very nice." [FdW / much of my favorite Baker solo stuff, I was pleasantly surprised by how Vital Weekly] percussive the tracks I heard online from LOS were, the dense, ominous feedback drones and heavy rumbling ur-riffs floating freely * LECANORA - Immunity CD-R (Kokeshidisk kodi10, 2007) over a mechanistic tribal-rhythm freakout. We ended up getting in touch € 9.00 with Ben from Light Of Shipwreck and it turned out that he had a nearly Der französische Musiker & Filmemacher CYRIL HERRY war früher als hour-long disc that he wanted to have released through our Crucial EXOTOENDO aktiv, inzwischen nennt er sich NINTH DESERT. Als Bliss imprint, and here we are: a three-track full length of rich, crushing Zwischenstufe kann man diese Aufnahmen (entstanden 2001-2003) als power-ambient, titled From The Idle Cylinders, a reference to the LECANORA bezeichnen, zwischen der eher okkult-dark ambienten American Objectivist poet George Oppen whose work is a consistent frühen Phase und den stärker ethno-ambient geprägten neuen Stücken influence on Light Of Shipwreck's imagery, with huge slabs of resonant fügt sich "Immunity" perfekt ein: feine Synth-Drones, lange Echo- sheet metal shimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedback and Klänge, konkreter Einsatz von Instrumenten & Gegenständen & Metall reverberating guitar drone, and surges of droning tribal Krautrock & Gongs & Glöckchen, schleppende Rhythmik, leicht rituelle percussion floating along with distorted ambient doom powerchords and Atmosphäre, "es" atmet... "es" bewegt sich... washed out vocal cord bliss, each track running upwards of 20 minutes "lecanora was cyril herry's alias in 2001-2003, between the end of in length. A totally breathtaking piece of music, like Steve Reich, Brian exotoendo (he was one of the founding members) and the birth of ninth Eno, Can, and Earth swirled together into an austere, hypnotizing desert (his latest solo project). four albums were recorded during that heavy-trance masterpiece. This limited edition CD-R of From The Idle time but for various reasons were never released. we have compiled Cylinders comes packaged in the signature Crucial Bliss foldover card "immunity" from these unreleased works, a kind of best of lecanora! sleeve with the disc itself attached to the sleeve on a plastic hub and expect ambient/ritual atmospheres, percussion, drones, treatments & featuring striking photo design, in a print run of 200 copies." [label info] effects... please note that people who purchase the "immunity" disc can "Haunting super rhythmic industrial soundscapes laced with a download an exclusive bonus album (featuring seven more tracks) from propulsive locomotive shuffle of programmed percussion, keening high the Kokeshidisk website." [label info] end and hissing whirs of smeared almost jazziness, looped and cyclical, some sort of disembodied krautrock/spacerock like a more * LICHT-UNG - anfangsrusiwuthsnull / zweiwenigerdreizehnb mechanical Necks jamming in a thick cloud of Birchville Cat Motel mCD-R / object (Licht-Ung, 2002) € 7.00 fug. A groaning creaking percussive framework beneath a sky full of shimmering black clouds.

34 All three tracks begin all abstract and drifty, the first "I Rode And Am "Millimetrik is Québec City resident Pascal Asselin. Pascal’s music Riding On An Ocean Of Violent Lights", quickly explodes into a fog of unites his love of hip-hop, electronica and ambient music, but takes jagged edges and swirling squalls of chaotic percussion and these influences to somewhere entirely his own. Over the course of four overlapping drones, while the second, "I Watched And Am Watching albums, Millimetrik’s music has evolved, becoming less concerned with A Cold Dead Sun Rise Then Explode" coalesces into a serious chunk ambient textures and atmospheres, and more richly layered, warm and of glorious Ur-kraut, a simple stripped down rhythm spread out over a melodic. 2008’s “Northwest Passage’s New Era”, his first full-length massive expanse of low end whir and phantom drone drift, gorgeous release for Make Mine Music featured contributions from Ulrich and mesmerizing, with a dark dreamy melody, both ominous and Schnauss and Port-Royal. Pascal also records as half of Le Chat Blanc lovely, think a super mellow druggy Circle, or a slightly more noise rock Orchestra." [label notes] Necks... The final track begins with subtle Eastern sounding percussion, * MOLJEKBA PVLSE - Fall in Woodland Cemetary mCD-R before giving way to some Fear Falls Burning massive glacial guitar (Taalem alm 49, 2008) € 5.00 drone, eventually splintering into glimmering harmonics, the rest of the "With his first works released on well-known labels like cold meat twenty minute track, a tangle of the two, shuffling skittering rhythms industry, eibon records or fin de siècle media, mathias josefson's wrapped around slow burning solar flare guitar. So good. moljebka pvlse has fastly gained a strong reputation in the dark As with all Crucial Bliss releases, the packaging is gorgeous, ambient/industrial world. including more & more field recordings in his a dvd sized fold over thick cardstock sleeve, full color inside and sound, josefson soon departed from his typicial "swedish roots" to more out, the cd attached to a plastic hub affixed to the sleeve... and droney sounds like his more recent productions on mystery sea, gears LIMITED TO ONLY 200 COPIES!!" [{Aquarius ] of sand, drone records or this very 3". minimal yet captivating droney field recordings!" [label info] * LUASA RAELON - Into the Void CD-R (Crucial Bliss BLISS24, 2007) [lim. 200] € 10.00 * MONOS - Promotion CD-R (Twenty Hertz TH 020, 2008) € 14.00 Endlos kalte Sphären-Sounds, maschinell & elektronisch-rauschend, Edel aufgemachter CDR-Release, die Wiederveröffentlichung des ein klaustrophobisch-kosmischer Industrial-Trip in die eisige allerersten MONOS-Albums von 2000! Unendlichkeit... "Promotion was originally released in 2000 by Nil Records in a total of "Finally, after a pronounced delay, we're presenting the latest in grim, three editions of fifty in four sleeve designs. The first edition depicted a Cthulhian ambient death from David Reed, the man behind the Snip- dark orange fern, the second a yellow cactus and the third either a red Snip CD-R label and the ice-drones of Envenomist. With Luasa Raelon, or green texture. It marked the debut release of Monos, the project of ex Reed uses deep-frozen synthesizers and electronics to construct pitch- Ora member Darren Tate. From this beginning Monos went on to black sonic sculptures that evoke lost cities carved from obsidian whose produce a number of releases for labels such as Anomalous Records masterless machines have been left to grind on into eternity, or and Die Stadt gaining an extra member along the way in the shape of descents into stygian pits whose bottoms cannot be gauged. Into The Colin Potter. Out of print and unavailable since it's initial release, Void is the newest masterwork from Reed, recorded in 2006 and Promotion is now issued on Twenty Hertz in a slim jewelcase with obi, presented here as a five-chapter narrative that chronicles a doomed postcard and photograph insert. Promotion was recorded and mixed in space exploration, where all that is left are the faint transmissions of Hull, 1999. Mixed by Darren Tate with additional sounds contributed by apocalyptic dread drifting back at us through time. Beyond ominous, Daisuke Suzuki." [label info] and gorgeously eerie, Reed continues to craft some of the blackest, "Darren Tate has quietly been producing drone-based heaviest drift this side of Gruntsplatter, Troum, Lull, Yen Pox, Melek- compositions out of smeared field recordings and electronics for Tha, Lustmord, and Megaptera. Into The Void has been released in an almost two decades now, but the bulk of his productions have been edition of 200 copies, packaged in the signature Crucial Bliss foldover tiny self-released editions. In the early '90s, he and Andrew Chalk sleeve with the disc attached to the interior on a plastic hub, and released a handful of cassettes under the moniker Ora, often with featuring some of our best Bliss artwork yet, which David described as help from Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Michael Northam, and looking like 70's science-fiction art. " [label info] Daisuke Suzuki. Around the turn of the millennium, Tate and Chalk " A concept record about a lost expedition left to die in space, parted ways under amicable circumstances from what we can the sound is appropriately spacious and massive, buzzing and grim, ascertain, with Chalk focusing on the equally impressive Mirror with black and foreboding. Massive swells of billowing buzz, wrapped Christoph Heemann, and Tate beginning to record as Monos with around slow shifting expanses of near static whir, over the top, continuing production support from Colin Potter. Promotion was the first thunderous industrial crashes and sputtering shortwave transmissions, Monos album. While many of the ensuing Monos records had the same distant keening melodies, muted klaxons sending sonic ripples out in dappled deep ambience and impressionist use of field recordings as the emptiness of space, long stretches of downtuned brutality draped Ora, Promotion was an entirely different beast. Here, Tate works with a over epic minimal smears of barely there blur. Mournful melodies comparatively caustic recording of him dragging a heavy metal object pulled apart and tangled up with grinding distorted crumbling across a concrete surface with all of the abraded textures and rusted decaying riffage, everything lumbering and drifting into the growls that one might expect from such an action. Against this, Tate bottomless depths of some sonic black hole. interweaves several long-form electronic drones with off-set Like Wolf Eyes doing the score for the remake of 2001 A Space oscillation sweeps, recalling more of the bunker electronics of early Odyssey, a bleak wasteland of tones that grind and buzz and rumble, '60s computer music. Originally, Promotion was released in three tiny stretching out into infinity, an epic sonic blackness, from editions of 50 copies each back in 2000. Of course, those are long coruscating doomdronedirge to soft shimmery black ambience, the gone; but Paul Bradley has rescued this gem from the dustbin, soundtrack to your cold corpse floating through the great black void. although this current edition numbers only 200 copies. And, no these And as with all Crucial Bliss releases, the packaging is super won't be long for this world either!" [Aquarius Records review] striking, an oversized fold over thick cardstock sleeve, full color inside and out, creepy alien tendril artwork, the cd attached to a * NAKAJIMA, AKIFUMI - Water do-CDR (Kokeshidisk kodi11, plastic hub affixed to the sleeve... 2008) € 14.00 LIMITED TO ONLY 200 COPIES!!" [Aquarius ] Wiederveröffentlichung einer raren do-MC aus der Frühphase von AUBE aka AKIFUMI NAKAJIMA von 1991, auf dem TAALEM Sublabel * MIGHTY ACTS OF GOD - Joy of the Mountain CD-R (Ruralfaune KOKESHIDISK! Rur023, 2007) [lim. 87] € 8.00 "With "water 1991", Kokeshidisk continues the re-release of pre-AUBE Obscure & haunted Drone-Folk? No problem! If you like VERY weird & releases. like "water 1990" we released in 2005, this is the soundtrack improvised somehow "folky" music then this is a perfect album for you, to an exhibition by arichi+sasaoka in 1991 and is a two-disc set (to with strings & stringed instruments, female singing, organ-like drones, respect the format of the original release) designed to be played at the flutes, scratchings & whatever, this project or band (we have no info same time. don't worry they can perfectly be played separately, though! who or what it is) creates their own specific sound-universe, a beautiful nakajima-san follows the same path started on "water 1991": using low fi chaos at times... mainly water as sound source, he composed an almost peaceful Comes in a handmade wallpaper-cover with organic plant-material soundtrack with a (not so) surprising noisy finale, announcing the first included, and a full-colour mini-poster with 6 drawings. AUBE works..." [label info] "Goddess of a lost art, Niwi's painted 11 musical and organic stories. that joy links together the images of creation of a narrative path where * NAHVALUR - Aboideau CD-R (Mystery Sea MS46, 2008) [lim. fragility is the ground. Celebrate the divinity that descends from the 100] € 12.00 mount, burn your offerings, praise the secret beauty, crown her..... Neuentdeckung / Newcomer auf MYSTERY SEA! NAHVALUR ist ein An imperial work" [Tomentosa] französisch-britisches Duo die einen hier in allerdickste Sound-Watte einhüllen, 4 Sücke mit rauhem, rauschenden, dunklen Schwall-Drones, * MILLIMETRIK - Northwest Passage's New Era CD (Make Mine lässt kaum Dfferenzierungen zu, man ist "sucked in"... we love it ! Music MMM039, 2008) € 12.00

35 "Alexandre Rito, the single French man & dronologist with projects Clouds seem to pass in unison... a pure flow made of multiple streams under the names of Oh, Birds! (and cd-r releases for Dust Apparition, all running to the same destination, a delicate place of ultimate Palustre, and Cook An Egg) and more recently Xalaxsxaq (whose debut awareness..." [label info] on MS is already scheduled) & UK delicate soundscaper Matthew Ellis (operating also under the Parhelion moniker with Emily from Sorrel, and * ONODERA, YUI - Rhizome CD-R (Gears of Sand GOS33, under Openverge, his own solo experimental-ambient folk vehicle) have 2008) € 10.00 teamed up to form the arcane náhvalur... Endless subtle loops of piano & guitar tunes, soft improvisations & field náhvalur navigates clearly into the unspeakable, conveying a force and recordings are added, totally mesmerizing & fragile ambience.. very a prodigious sense of Mystery... beautiful & atmospheric, 7 tracks. Another nice CDR of this Japanese At the edge of what could be an ageless dim wood artist, Ambient with a big "A", executed with great care. long belts of humus sigh spreading as erratic evaporations * OPIUM - Etere mCD-R (Taalem alm 50, 2008) € 5.00 floating nonchalantly... "Known for his solo albums on respected ambient labels like hic sunt The soil flutters seeming to murmur... "aboideau" fans out, flirting leones or silentes, as well as numerous collaborations with stefano furtively with the opaque shadows musso/alio die (sola translatio) or francesco paladino (nosesoul), italian sounding the depths, and all things invisible ambient master teo zini describes opium sound as "a river of different to extirpate its core... a world of vast meaningful echoes & sibylline frequencies". a perfect definition of "etere": luxurious ambient with activity a metaphysical immersion..." [press release] multiple layers & samples, ethnic percussion and field recordings... " [label info] * NEZNAMO - Seme)Zemlja maxi-CDR (Moonsun Prod., ms001, 2007) [lim. 111] € 8.00 * ORPHAX - Drowning in a Pool of Trees mCD-R (Orphax, 2008) Two pieces of whispering drone-ambience similar to the "british school" € 6.00 (BRADLEY, CHALK, COLECLOUGH, etc) from this newcomer from The dutch experimental drone project is back with this little release, Russia. "I've released this one-man project as UNKNOWN on STRELY containing one lang track which begins rather peaceful with subtle fields PERUNA (it also opens V/A "ZVUKOLAN"). Beautiful a little bit "light' & a humming drone, but moves forwards with siren-like tones and more ambient. He changed it's name on more Slavic NEZNAMO and rough expanses of sound, all bathed in rather heavy overtunes, when released it on his own label MoonSun Productions. Style: beautiful concrete scratchings & rumblings are added... veda-ambient." [label info] Quite strong piece from a project still to discover ! "Self-Released. First edition of 44, second edition of 80. 3"cdr release * N.STRAHL.N - Wahrnehmungshygiene CD-R (Tosom 030, with a 24 minutes long track recorded live in Augsburg, Germany at the 2007) [ed. of 150] € 11.00 Lab30 festival and reworked at home. This contains vocal drones, field "CDR. 12 TRACKS, 75 MINUTES. LIMITED AND NUMBERED recordings and ambient rumblings." [website info] EDITION OF 150 COPIES. COMES IN DVD BOX WITH 4 INLAYS. After the debut "Eingang" and "Brot und Lügen" (that shows the noisy * ORSI, FABIO - Picture myself in a Cloud (speaking through side), "Wahrnehmungshygiene" is the third TOSOM release by Thought) CD-R (Ruralfaune rur046, 2008) [lim. 83] € 8.00 N.STRAH.N, a fantastic and very busy project from Germany. FABIO ORSI ist der neue italienische Meister trancig-verträumter In the past N.Strahl.N released also some works on different labels (like Ambient - & Dronesphären, auf dieser limitierten RURALFAUNE CDR Apocalyptic Radio or Krakilsk) and some very limited self-releases. All finden sich zwei lange Stücke voller dichter Drone-Layers und the stuff by N.Strahl.N is very worth to check. "Wahrnehmungshygiene" Gitarrenloops, das zweite Stück kreszendiert in einen absoluten LICHT- was recorded between February and May 2006, mostly using field DRONE hinein! Anklänge an FEAR FALLS BURNING, EXIT IN GREY, recordings. And this time the project also used, for some compositions, AIDAN BAKER, aber insgesamt noch sanfter & subtiler, und stärker acoustic instruments (like flute and melodica). The music is more than Electronica-verwandt.... TIP for dream-droners ! normal and usual soundscapes, this are sounds for a head cinema. "Another journey over Italy in a sky full of drone meditations and floating Listen to N.Strahl.N.s world and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy..." [label info] melodies. An impressive work by one of the new master of drone music - psych butterflies artwork by George Parsons of Dream Magazine - " * NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES - Legnica CD-R (Impulsy Stetoskopu [label info] 003, 2008) [lim. 120] € 12.00 A nice live document of the (through the death of GEERT FEYTONS) * ORSI, FABIO - Birds are smart but they cannot speak mCD-R disbanded project from Belgium, showing them in their best form live in (Locus of mini-assemblage series mass15, 2007) [lim. 150] Legnica, Poland, on 5. October 1997, during their second Poland-tour. € 7.00 A one-tracker of about 46 minutes with their trademark of mysterious Wunderbar verträumter, loopiger ambient der mit eigener "vorbewusster drone- & object-noises made on self-made instruments, with rumbling & Sprache" spricht, field recordings & lichte Instrumental- & Synthklänge squeaking sounds all over the place, but this also has electronic sounds werden behutsam eingesetzt. Wieder sehr gut! & shortwave or tape-sounds in the mix.. "Release by the Italian artist. A fantastic 18 minute piece of shifting This comes in an amazing handmade Cover with alu-paper sleeve, textures and drones. Limited to 150 copies. Full colour cover, insert and on a new label from Zielona Gora. label in our customary thick mini pvc sleeves. Pre-Order now and we'll email invoice on the day of release for immediate shipping if using * ONODERA, YUI - Substrate CD-R (Mystery Sea MS43, 2008) paypal! Audio excerpts and streams uploaded to the locus of site and [lim. 100] € 12.00 myspace page soon!" [label info] Unendlich impressionistischer & versunkener Drone / Microsound, SUBSTRATE strahlt eine herrliche Ruhe aus und wirft wunderschöne * PICK-UP - From here to anywhere mCD-R (My Own Little Label knisternde Soundblasen, perfekt für Meditation & Trance und die MOLL 020, 2008) € 5.50 Fokussierung der Aufmerksamkeit. "Pick-up is a new duo of Martin Luiten (Girlfriends, Uw Hypotheek "Young Japanese artist Yui Onodera officiates in the sphere of Advies) on guitar and Frans de Waard on laptop. Two gorgeous pieces (ec)static ambient soundscapes where the ingredients mainly drift from of digital blues? Well, whatever. Forthcoming is a LP on Important environmental sound & field recordings, digitally treated & combined Records and one on Plinkity Plonk." [label notes] afterwards with the use of more traditional instruments which remain nevertheless largely unrecognizable, and melted with finesse in the final * PORTAL - Waves & Echoes CD (Make Mine Music MMM012, assemblage... Like many artists with a vision, he launched his own 2005) € 12.00 label CRITICAL PATH in 2003 as a platform for releasing his initial "Portal is the project of multi-instrumentalist Scott Sinfield, occasionally works and asserting his own style, but also to sustain experimental featuring guest vocalists and other musicians. Since their inception in music in his own country by organizing events... Yui has also his hands 1996, Portal have had numerous CD, vinyl and other format releases on into scores for experimental films, and contemporary dance & Butoh... several British, European and American independent labels. Portal's He has just released his first official extraordinary CD "Suisei" on the music won early support from legendary DJ John Peel, for whom a BBC ever excellent and/OAR, and will very soon have another one out on the Radio 1 session was recorded in 2000, and received acclaim from gripping GEARS OF SAND label... diverse sources including The Guardian, the NME and DJ Magazine. On "Substrate", Yui Onodera is definitely on a quest to unlock the The music of Portal has shifted in style over the years, from lo-fi guitar- fundamental vibe underneath things, pushing further the limits of based ambient pop, to a more stripped back sample-based sound, to perception... and it's as if he succeeded in capturing the silent auras more recent material, released after a four-year hiatus, which saw Scott gliding through our bodies, the night hum, the flickering of low lights nod towards his early musical influences of classic 1980’s 4AD, Factory above the trembling river... "Substrate" goes through the membrane, and Mute artists. Scott co-founded Make Mine Music with Jon Attwood leaving inner organic structure open & bare to see... From aural bruises of Yellow6 in 2002, and he oversees much of the day-to-day running of & drowned resonances, ascend mental pools like slow breaths... the label." [label info]

36 acoustic concrete blocks of energy. Recommended for lovers of * PORTAL & YELLOW SIX - Split maxi-CD (Make Mine Music monumental drones! Comes in nice little photo-cover design. MMM001, 2002) € 8.00 "Yellow6 has at times been described as post-rock, space-rock, * RIPARBELLI, PIETRO / K11 - Radiodrama do-CDR (Radical electronica, shoegaze, ambient… The reality is that the music has Matters RM-ED/L/ RML.E.011, 2008) [lim. 211] € 18.00 some similarity with each of those genres but is not so easily definable, Wer sich für die geheimnisvolle Welt der Äther- & und Radiowellen- using aspects of drone, repetition, melody, harmony, noise and silence sounds interessiert sollte hier hellhörig werden ! Diverses Basismaterial to create absorbing soundscapes to drift off into. Jon Attwood is a wird hier vom Klangkünstler PIETRO RIPARBELLI (aka K11) auf guitarist who grew up with punk in the London suburbs. Playing in a kunstvolle Weise bearbeitet, es entstehen schwindelig machende, number of punk bands in the early 80s. Landing in the mid 90’s with no fauchende, zischende, röhrende Geräuschtracks. Auf der Bonus CDR band, Jon started to experiment with guitar sounds, drones, befinden sich die uneditierten Basistracks von z.B. BAD SECTOR, programmed beats and loops, resulting in a debut Yellow6 single GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, A.M.K., PROJECT D.A.R.K., etc. released in 1998 on Enraptured Records. This was followed by a Alles handgemacht /verpackt in Pappbox mit Booklet und extra- number of single, EP and compilation releases on many labels, with a Videotrack, 211 Stück gibts davon in dieser Edition. debut album “Overtone” released in 2000. Over the following years, "A SPECIAL CONCEPT ALBUM WITH INCREDIBLE AND ORIGINAL Yellow6 has amassed over 50 releases on nearly as many labels RADIO SIGNALS AS SOURCE MATERIALS, RECORDED IN across the globe, and played live shows in the UK, Europe and North DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD BY: BAD SECTOR, STRANGE America with the likes of Tarentel, ISAN, Jessica Bailiff and Charles ATTRACTOR, CLAUSTHOME, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, SIMM-EL, Atlas. Jon established Make Mine Music with Scott Sinfield of Portal in GRUPPO PSICOFONICO DI GROSSETO; RECOMPOSED BY 2002." [label info] PITERO RIPARBELLI. A CONCEPT ALBUM CREATED FOCUSED ON THE ESOTERIC SIDE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES * POTTER, COLIN - The sights of the drowned fable CD-R (ICR (ITC, EVP, AND TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PHENOMENAS) ALL 67, 2007) [lim. 100] € 12.00 AROUND US... Listen this sounds in your hands... Jessas! Ungewöhnlich noisig-rhythmische Klänge am Anfang dieses 3 DIFFERENT KIND OF CONCEPTUAL EDITIONS ARE REALIZED Mitschnitts (eines Konzertes vom July 2007 in Preston UK), dessen FOR THIS GREAT WORK OF RADIONOISE, Klangstrom dann immer droniger & geisterhafter wird, wo tiefergestellte INCLUDING AN ENHANCED CD-R (AUDIO + VIDEO AND EXTRAS) + Stimmen durch den Äther zischeln, Frequenzmodulationen aus dem A XEROGRAPHIC BOOK EDITED IN A SPECIAL HANDMADE Nichts erscheinen, meditative Gongs auftauchen auf und field DIGIPACK, BASED ON THE AUDIO INSTALLATION "CAMERA recordings von Regen & Donner.... SONORA", REALIZED BY PIETRO RIPARBELLI/K11 DURING "The first couple of minutes of this live recording seemed to have been PIOMBINO EXPERIMENTA 3 - INTERNATIONAL SOUND ART designed to get the blood boiling and the heart pumping. Colin Potter FESTIVAL, WITH UNEDIT PIECES REALIZED BY: (the technical foil to Steve Stapleton's macabre psychedelia in Nurse MASSIMO MAGRINI/BAD SECTOR, GIANLUCA BECUZZI, With Wound) opens with an agitated set of electro-bleep rhythms which ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI, A.M.K., GLOBSTER, VITTORE double upon each other into a squiggling dervish. After these few BARONI/L.T. MURNAU, PROJECT D.A.R.K. minutes though, the sidereal ambience and barren dronescapes which Full lenght audio: 45:00 min. Potter has brought to the recent NWW productions slip into focus. "RADIODRAMA - CAMERA SONOR"A Ghostly fragments of echo and reverberation glide around chiming track list: drones from harmonium, gongs, field recordings, and bowed strings, all 1 PIETRO RIPARBELLI/K11 - COLLAPSE#01 displaying Potter's polychromatic, oil-slick production which has such a 2 GIANLUCA BECUZZI - RADIO TANS_IT peculiar, funhouse warble modulating each and every sound, ever so 3 BAD SECTOR - PROPAGAZIONE slightly. Some 15 minutes into the piece, there are a series of metallic 4 RM-ED/L - LISTEN REVERSE: A CONCEPTUAL VINYL bangs and ominous metallic clicks, puncturing a bed of low-end MANIPULATION - DOCU-DRAMA, WITH: frequencies. One of these repeating bangs is quite similar to the ones ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI used on John Duncan's River In Flames. Along with the signposts of A.M.K. Duncan and the NWW Shipwrecked Radio series, Potter's live set from GLOBSTER the 2007 Resonator Festival in Preston, England also resembles the VITTORE BARONI/L.T. MURNAU late period Zoviet France albums InVersion and Digilogue. Limited to PROJECT D.A.R.K. just 100 copies, and certainly will not last for very long!" [Aquarius] Full lenght audio: 40:00 min. INCLUDING A SMALL DOCUMENTAL VIDEO + INSERTS." * PROTOPLASMIC REVERSION - Sunken Temples CD-R (Reverse Alignment RA-2, 2007) [lim. 200] € 7.50 * RIPARBELLI, PIETRO / K11 - Radiodrama CD-R & object Quite nice transcendental ambience on this new label from Sweden. (Radical Matters RM-ED/L/ RML.E.011*, 2008) [lim. 80] € 18.00 PROTOPLASMIC REVERSION play with endless waves of light choirs For the collectors: Special edition with 2 small speakers enclosed! & melancholic synths with some rougher drones underneath at times, this has more in common with OÖPHOI or the lighter side of MAEROR * RUMFORSKNING - Himmelhvaelv CD-R (Gears of Sand TRI (minus the guitars) in our opinion, but with a very "mystic" flair... [GOS34], 2008) € 10.00 and it becomes darker and darker towards the end.. Drone-newcomer from Denmark, very subtle, dense, with hidden very well done, definitely recommended! harmonies, a one-tracker of 53 minutes! To discover! "Taking inspiration from the dark ambient greats such as Lustmord "We are extremely proud to release this brand new work by one of our (aswell as the name) and Thomas Köner, the purpose of this project is favorite groups out there, Rumforskning. Danny and Mads create the to create compelling, and slightly unsettling soundscapes, using normal kind of sound of impermanence that strike to the core of the GoS electronic strings, "found" sounds and layer upon layer of effects. aesthetic: minimal, haunting, but always evolving, however The perfect soundtrack for rereading your favourite collection of H.P. subtly....Check the news for more details and an interview with Lovecraft or Algernon Blackwoods stories. This is the debut album from Rumforskning.... [Gos website] swedishbased Protoplasmic reversion. Professionally made CDr in a limited edition of 200 copies in plastic sleeve (handnumbered)." [label * SONATA REC- ... und wir waren nicht die ersten Utopisten mCD- info] R (A.I.C. AICdisc011, 2007) € 7.00 "Heidrun Schramm aka. Sonata Rec continues her selfcontained path * PSYCHEDELIC DESERT - Keshiki CD-R (Pharmafabrik, 2007) on her second 3” release on AIC, with associative and ambiguous € 8.00 sampling collages, sparse yet of high intenseness. this music is rare in "Japanese noise ambient group Psychedelic Desert bring you the its density (comprised of few elements), in its broken narrative aspects dessert of electronica —blip-less, atmospheric, and eerie soundscapes. and in its pure sound sensitivity. and, even more special, it offers some Noises collapse upon one another with minimalism well in mind. unintrusive, sarcastic hints on prevalent ideologies of our society. “Keshiki” displays elements of discordant chaos armed with a The work “...und wir waren nicht die ersten Utopisten” (...and we hadn’t cacophony of noise, dreamscapes, pitch-shifting tones, and drones. been the first of all utopians) has been presented in different versions in Weird two tracks of 79 minutes or so but well worth the journey." 2007, within various concert and exhibition projects – for instance at [label info] Ballhaus Naunyn (Berlin), and at Kulturfestival Preetz." 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* RECHE, PABLO - Paredes mCD-R (Locus of mini-assemblage * SCHUMACHER, MICHAEL J. / STEPHEN VITIELLO - Untitled / series mass16, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 Exchange CD-R (A Question of Re Entry 3, 2007) € 9.00 Two pieces of very massive, otherworldy drones from this Argentinian Looking for strange stoff ? Here you are ! Incredible sounds derived artist. PAREDES means "walls" and these sounds appear indeed from field recordings & objects, very concrete but it all has rather a

37 "small sounds"- feel to it... some sounds also seem to be based on "it starts out with abuzz and then goes straight into a scratchy sound of electronic devices, its hard to say, quite weird at times, but also lovely... giant bells clanging, it disintegrates into a murky soup of hissy cassette "It's unclear wether they did each a track, or that both tracks are the sounds, sometimes recognizable, but always possessing a dark result of a collaborative work. Both Schumacher and Vitiello are known ambience. it ends up sounding like a funeral procession through jelly." for the love of minimal music, that is music with not many changes, [label info] usually made with computers. As such this collaborative work is a bit different. Although they still play around with longer, repeating textures, * STIMULUS - Untitled Landscapes One CD-R (ICR 64, 2007) almost in a drone like manner, there are also sounds that swirl in and € 12.00 out of the mix. Sometimes it seems to be a synthesizer, sometimes a STIMULUS sind weiter auf Drone-Kurs, sie erfinden nicht unbedingt das guitar, sometimes perhaps the processed version of acoustic objects. "Drone-RAD" neu, aber beeindrucken mit sehr kräftigen und Not always this comes across as super structured music, but more like monumental-archaischen Poly-drones, die genug trancige Ekstase a free flow. Nothing leaps out of the mix, and things move all the time besitzen ohne ausufernd noisy zu werden. Die verschiedenen (6) on the same level. This gives the whole release a nice and relaxed Stücke zeigen auch heller schimmernde Sphärenklänge auf, stets tönt ambient feel, even when as such the music has not much to do with es "organisch" und handgemacht... super!... für uns einer der Drone- ambient music. Not really a big surprise, but throughout very nice." Highlights des Jahres 2008 !! [Anklänge: alte ORGANUM z.B.] [Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly] "Drones with an edge. Organic with a synthetic envelope of hypertension. On this release that dates from 2006, originally only * SECONDS IN FORMALDEHYDE - Construct m-CDR available as self released, micro edition handmade CDRs, the band (Waterscape WS01, 2007) [lim. 50] € 7.00 utilize a variety of live instruments including Cello, Accordion, "Construct offers a 22 min journey through nice shimmering drones that Trombone, Drums, Cymbal, Electric Guitar, Bass and Organ and layer have a quiet romantic glitch appeal. Euphoric but at the same time them along with studio equipment such as Samplers, Drum machines fragile. This release marks the highlight of SiF's quiet young career" and Computer software plus field recordings, short wave radio and lots [label info] of effects pedals to produce some very interesting and unique sounding music Stimulus have been active since 1995 recording a variety of * SECONDS IN FORMALDEHYDE - Suddenly Silence burst my Ear different styles of music ranging from highly programmed Electronica CD-R (Tosom 031, 2007) [lim. 150] € 11.00 and Drum n Bass to live improvised experimental music." [label info] "Die Noise Culture hatte immer sensible Sensoren für die Sphären, in denen wir leben. Und reagierte entsprechend allergisch auf die * SUBINTERIOR / SELAXON LUTBERG - Summer Meeting mCD-R Vergiftungen und Verhässlichungen, die dem Environment und (Cold Current Prod., 2008) [lim. 50] € 6.50 lebensweltlichen Ambiente zugefügt wurden. Neben der Terror-against- Noch so ein "geheimster Geheimtip" aus Italy, ganz ruhige guitar Terror-Strategie gab es dabei immer auch eine therapeutische - Balsam drones, aber so abgehoben und erhaben, perfekt gerade am frühen für die Ohren, aphrosphärische Schäume für die wunde Seele. morgen, bringt die Seele zum schwingen... field recordings sind auch SECONDS IN FORMALDEHYDE scheint mit Suddenly Silence Burst enthalten, backwards-sounds-effekte, alles so subtil und verträumt.. My Ear (TOSOM 031, CDR) ganz darauf zu setzen, dass Wellen und Wellness korrelieren. Per Gitarre schichtet er, ähnlich etwa wie Fear * SUMMANEN, HENRIK - The Great Attractor CD-R (Ahasverus Falls Burning, dröhnminimalistischen Wohlklang, lange harmonische Records AHH004, 2006) [lim. 50] € 7.00 Schwingungen mit sanften Delayeffekten. Martin Fuhs illustrierte seine This is nautic, submarine dark ambient, very minimal & condensed, Klangwelt mit dezentfarbener Abstraktgrafik, die jedem Esoverdacht slowly sluggish masses of sound are build, siren-like noises appear like gegensteuert. Ebenso wie er mit Übersteuerungen, euphorischem ghosts, with slow pulses originating underneath... HENRIK Flirren oder erruptiv aufrauschenden Wogenkämmen dumpfes SUMMANEN is the man behind AHASVERUS and also runs Cocooning durchkreuzt." [Bad Alchemy] ELEKTRON RECORDS, a swedish label for electro-acoustic music. "CDR, 5 TRACKS, 45 MINUTES. LIMITED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF 150 COPIES. * SUNCHARIOT - Fictio CD-R (Abgurd AB-42, 2007) [lim. 100] DVD BOX IN CD SIZE WITH 3 INSERTS. € 9.00 The fourth release by a young german drone project, after releases on Another new project from Russia, creepy drones and slow-motion Umbra, Verato Project and Gears Of Sand. Seconds In Formaldehyde pulses, mechanic & cold sounds, little harmonies appear in the acoustic is a one person project playing guitar through a few effects and creating dust... intense dark & visionary stuff, on Moscow's ABGURD-Label. moods and atmospheres across time and space. "Suddenly Silence "A project of a sculptor and an ethnographer Denis Shapovalov from the Burst My Ear" contains 5 drone pieces recorded without studio city of Rostov-on-Don, who is also the one and the only member of overdubs or post productive effects. What you hear is totally live and ADRIVA, ENMERKAR and MATTER. "Fictio" calls to self-dependent improvised." [label info] comprehension of forms by sublimation of clods of clay and granite monoliths with alchemy of archaic Drone Ambient, giving birth to * SLEEPING BABIES - Arrow in the Earth CD-R (Ruralfaune resonances and fluctuations of Time. As deep stone strata that move by Rur026, 2007) [lim. 86] € 8.00 one millimetre in a thousand years, humming and drifting drones spread Another real undergroundish act on the french label: SLEEPING over the body, moving away all the vanity and fuss. BABIES create ecstatic low fi drone-noise/folk, as "primitive" as The release consists of two 35+ minutes parts, one of which was inspiring. Handmade cover with little coloured wood-pieces. released as the same-named CDr on Observatory recordsin an edition "Buried under the hills of Love, the Sleeping Babies' music is of 40 copies." [label info] transpierced by an arrow of emotions. This patchwork of drones, carried by ethereal voices, dances among bells, flutes and percussions. It is a * TAPEPHOBIA - Anomie CD-R (Reverse Alignment RA-3, 2007) wonderful and shamanic trip to the holy Mantra. Featuring member of [lim. 200] € 8.50 Quilts, Grateful Dregs, and head of American Grizzly. More Info : Melancholisch-minimale Dronescapes basierend auf Synths, Gitarre, www.myspace.com/sleepingbabies." [label notes] Stimme. Sehnsuchtsvolle Klänge breiten sich in langen Wellen erhabend aus, hallend-metallische Wolken erfüllen den Raum... * SOL, EDWARD - Wrong Action mCD-R (Quasi-Pop QPOP klasese Debut-CDR eines Projektes aus Norwegen mit deutlichen MC046, 2007) [lim. 100] € 6.00 Anklängen an z.B. MAEROR TRI oder STARUHA MHA. EDWARD SOL ist der Betreiber des emsigen ukrainischen Labels Sehr zu empfehlen ! QUASI POP aus Kiev. Seine "Wrong Action" mCDR ist eine ziemlich "This productive Norweigan act released it´s debut album "House of absurde & durchaus witzige Klangcollage über eine Pop-Diva in vier memories" this spring on Belgian label Nothingness records and have Teilen (z.B. "inside Kylie"), basierend auf Analog-Synths, Loops, now signed to Reverse alignment. On Anomie Taphephobia steps Plunderphonics, Tapes, Objektklängen, Noise-Feedbacks, etc.. sehr forward in the progress of it´s guitardrone based dark ambient and schön verpackt in ein handgemachtes Digipack.. evolving into it´s own path building soundscapes upon soundscapes in "Tape collages, audio-objects and wild psychonoise in surrealistic a meditative/hypnotic way. Professionally made CDr in a limited edition cinematic mood. This is the tragic (and funny at the same time) story of 200 copies in jewelcase (handnumbered)." [label info] of Pop Diva working and partying hard. Audio tabloid in some sort, inspired by the early works of Pierre Henry, but Inland Empire and The * TATE, DARREN - Black Beauty mCD-R (The Locus of Hafler Trio as well." [label notes] Assemblage mass22, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 New release in this nice mCDR series by the ex ORA & MONOS - * STELZER, HOWARD - Go on CD-R (Banned Production BP-131, member with swirling analogue electronics & suspended drone- 2007) € 9.50 expanses going in circles.. very nice.. Quite amazing weird archaic & droning low-fi sounds on this one, raw & "Available Monday 10th December. Strictly limited to 100 copies. New undefinable. Really a suprise. Comes in a great handmade "cardboard- work from Darren in colour sleeve, insert and label. Darrens Bio map" cover. "English experimental/drone musician, born 8 May 1966 and well-

38 known for his solo works and his work in Ora and Monos. Tate started label and other like minded dronelords, should absolutely consider in music around 1983, in early recordings with Andrew Chalk. He also every Mystery Sea release required listening. runs the Fungal label." [label info] From the Basque region of Spain comes the one man soundscaper known as Tzesne, with previous releases on Drone, Antifrost and a * TATE, DARREN & BANKS BAILEY / IAN HOLLOWAY - handful of other small labels, this is his first for Mystery Sea, and Summerland CD-R (Fungal 30, 2008) [lim. 150] € 11.00 it's a perfect match. A deft blend of deep billowing blackness, and "We're not all that sure who Banks Bailey or Ian Holloway are, subtly processed field recordings. Of whispery ambience, and soft but Darren Tate has long proved to be a reliable source for long-form focus atmosphere. Three long tracks, that sprawl and drift, dense and dronemusik thanks to his previous collaboration with Andrew Chalk as ominous, pulsing clouds of muted black buzz, a sonic black cloth Ora and his ongoing work with Colin Potter in Monos. Not to mention draped over a slowly undulating sea of dreamlike murk, and mysterious the multitude of self-released cd-rs under his own name. Tate's indistinct sonic activities. It's like laying on the ocean floor, observing life aesthetic for sculpted drones through field recordings, pedal and movement above, all filtered through the dim prism of the manipulation, and occluded processing is central to Summerland, as it constantly shifting waters, everything rendered in smeared streaks, and has been noted that Tate proved the treated guitar drones with Bailey softly wavering shapes. All three tracks are ultra minimal, near static contributing some of the field recordings and Holloway reconfiguring stretches of deep layered drone. The most musical moment being the everything at the end. Thick shadowy tones hover ominously alongside second half of the second track, where the various layers coalesce into fluctuations of tactile crackle, sounding more like some of the one thick ribbon of sound, a very Niblockian drone, huge layers all earlier Ora recordings than anything that Tate has produced recently. tangled and interwoven, rife with microscopic overtones that transform Elsewhere, tinstrung guitars splutter with atonal resonance, which static shimmer into an intensely (yet still subtly) active sonic swirl. Then stretch, elongate, and blur into drifting dark ambience. it's straight back into the gauzy blurred abyss, underwater, Summerland is a limited production. There are only 150 copies underground, a sleepy staticky world of whir and hum wrapped around of these in existence, and Summerland is already out of print at the the ghostly traces of barely perceptible melodies. So gorgeous. Another two labels who released this." [Aquarius Records review] disc of perfect late night drift. Beautiful packaging as always, and again, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES." " [Aquarius Records review] * TOTSTELLEN - Tunnel / Brücke CD-R (Reduktive Musiken "... For his MS excursion, Tzesne permeated himself with the REDUKT012, 2007) € 9.00 surroundings of an old marine bottom located in the region of Salas de "Eine der Hamburger Elbebrücken diente als Klangquelle für eine los Infantes (Burgos), next to the Basque country... A panorama of akustische Studie über das architektonische Phänomen Tunnel und eroded cliffs standing there in a belt in a rather wild nature, a sort of Brücke. Raumzeitliche Aspekte wie Hall oder Dopplereffekt bestimmen paleontological museum in the open air, gave the impulse to the das dröhnminimalistische Klangbild. Pathetische Zeilen wie 'Die project... On "Cliffs under the mist", you can feel the fallen night veil on Sehnsucht kehrt sich um Eine neue Hoffnung keimt Der Kreis schließt the stone crests reshaped by the wind... sich' machen aber deutlich, dass es nicht bloß darum geht, wie es sich An hidden land lying behind the dew, anhört, wenn Autos hin und her fahren. Obwohl sich manchmal sogar a long opaque flow... die Illusion landender Jumbojets einstellt. Rhythmische und rain has laminated the fields peitschend-klackernde Momente, eine Fata Morgana von Meeres- and tones of earth come to the surface brandung, die Stakkatos von Maschinengewehrsalven, Funkgejaule, through past fissures... rituelle oder martialische Paukenschläge auf Metall summieren sich zu A language of veins, Bunkerbesatzungsparanoia. Im Dunkeln treibt die Einbildungskraft & exhaled fossilized memories Blüten. Der Totsteller schreibt Tunnel und Brücke einen totalitären petrified by time... Charakter zu - es geht nur von A nach B, keine Abzweigung, keine "Cliffs under the mist" is another invitation to see through Auswege, nur vorwärts. Die Alternativlosigkeit würgt. Der Ausweg and caress that interior sea which is our true spine..." [label notes] wäre, von der Brücke zu springen oder sich an der Tunnelwand den Schädel einzuschlagen. Für weniger morbide Assoziationen wie * UBEBOET - Albada mCD-R (Locus of mini-assemblage ‚Fluchttunnel‘ oder ‚überbrücken statt ersaufen‘ verlangt Totstellen series mass19, 2007) [lim. 100] € 7.00 Eigeninitiative." [Bad Alchemy] "Miguel Tolosa once more emerges from behind the Con-V label to "A study of architecture and the perspectives it implies. An acoustic adopt his Ubeboet persona for his contribution to Locus Of's mini- reflection of so called civilisation. Entirely recorded inside the structure assemblage series. Each teeny-weeny CDR in this series is a treasure of a motorwaybridge, wich is also a tunnel or even a labyrith underneath trove of delight for drone enthusiasts and this is no exception. Tolosa the droning traffic. A collaboration between Reduktive Musiken and takes the listener on a diving sleigh ride of sound, pulling and nudging Totes Format. First edition of 100 copies! Comes with colour-cover and the sounds into a bewildering array of shapes and puzzles that he then inlaycard." [label info] forces us to negotiate. His primordial roar cossets and buffets and pounds and submerges sounding very much like the soundtrack to all * TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD - All of the true things I'm about to tell the documentaries about volcanoes I watched as a kid. You can feel the you are lies CD-R (Gears of Sand [GOS35], 2008) € 10.00 power and the ferocity contained within these sounds but the simple New work with a cryptic title by the italian project, static & ultra-spheric and organic way in which Tolosa handles his material allows it to guitar-drones meet more experimental cut-up passages, strange near- maintain a naturalistic cohesion that is often lost in recordings of this silence atmospheres, more harmonic arrangements, 10 tracks from the type. Hugely recommended." [Wonderfulwoodenreasons] very far away & other-dimensional... "Guitar drone with a decidedly subversive edge (i.e., what we love.): It's * UHLIG, MIRKO - The Rabbit's Logbook mCD-R (Field Muzick time to take your musical pre- (and mis-) conceptions and check them fm.m04, 2007) € 6.00 at the door. Form, melody, rhythm, chords: these words represent Fantastic one-tracker in different parts, long string-drones and field- nothing but rules, barriers and walls which only serve to limit the places recordings. Tiny edition. where "music" can exist or reach towards." [label notes] " [fm.m04] red 3" mini CDr with a recording between reality and dream True traum muzick - concret sounds embedded in drones and tones * TSARAAS - Agrimony mCD-R (Linija Shuma, SHUM 0004, point to the real world, but it's too clear - that is a dream. The lady saw 2006) [lim. 31] € 7.00 the rabbit planting melons on the fence." [label info] TSARAAS is a side-project of one member of the russian neo-folk band * URE THRALL - The Great Zoviet-French Kiss-Off CD-R MAJDANEK WALTZ, on "Agrimony" we listen to a great one-tracker full (Discorporeality Recordings UT-16, 2008) € 10.00 of mysterious drones & hidden harmonies. Comes in a very handmade Really "new" recordings from what must be the darkest Californian little paper-package. "TSARAAS "Agrimony" 3" CD-r LINIJA SHUMA Hippie existing! The album with the weird title builds visionary music so lim. ed. 31 copies. Side project of MAJDANEK WALTZ member. far from this word that it develops a strong undertow & sucks you in; a Wonderful mystic/dark/ambient." [label info9 very dark and elegant, superp eerie ambience, an atmosphere of decay & fin de siecle is created. Field recordings of playing children arise, * TZESNE - Cliffs under the Mist CD-R (Mystery Sea MS41, 2007) endless echo-spaces & effects and melancholic drones are in the mix, [lim. 100] € 12.00 and it still has the "typical" URE THRALL elements like e-bow guitars "Latest in the ever expanding sonic microverse that is the Mystery Sea and percussion or drum-machine... one of our favourite URE THRALL label's super limited, gorgeously curated and meticulously assembled albums definitely! series of night-ocean dronemusic cd-r's. Each limited to 100 copies, and presented in beautiful full color packaging, and every one, a * URE THRALL - Comes Apart CD-R (Discorporeality breathtaking disc of dark and meditative minimalism. Fans and Recordings, 2008) € 10.00 obsessive collectors of releases from folks like Jonathan Coleclough, This release documents the legendary performance of URE THRALL on Andrew Chalk, Mirror, Ora, Organum, anything on the Drone Records the Tesco-Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, on 29. Sept. 2007, with help

39 of JIM WILSON & BONNIE MCNAIRN (VOICE OF EYE). Contains two krautrockish jam from The Stumps, some whispered crystalline bonus-tracks rec. 1999 at Burning Man, and "PREMONITION 10/11" shimmer from Fursaxa and we could go on and on. Varied and recorded in Trieste, Italy, Oct. 2007. expansive, from folk to drone to noise to pound to swirl to buzz to twang... * URNA - Liber Lelle CD-R (Abgurd AB-46, 2008) [lim. 100] As with all RuralFaune stuff, meticulously packaged, each one € 10.00 hand assembled, three spray painted discs, rouge, blanc and bleu (the Quite a special release from this italian project, creating a kind of colors of the French flag), housed in a cool textured red and orange hyperspheric folk with tons of real instruments, but also very droney- wallpaper cover, in a thick vinyl sleeve, with a sticker on the front. Inside pathetic pieces with his vocals (which sounds quite near to some is a huge fold out, 2 sided poster insert, with liner notes on one side and TROUM stuff) - very spiritual & sacral stuff, worth to discover ! a painting on the other, as well as a bunch of other inserts, stickers, a "Obscure art of Gianluca Martucci makes a big step towards shining tiny square of paper hand numbered and a "piece of blotting paper eternity with every new recording. He started in early 90s with raw, dirty, impregnated with red wine"! LIMITED TO 300 COPIES. We will blasphemous and fetid Black Ambient. Two of his recent albums that NOT be able to get more..." [Aquarius Records] were released by Slaughter productions turned to acoustic sacral rituality. * LANDSCAPE I / THE FOREST CD-R (Centre of Wood The new album is devoted to the life and death of Angela da Foligno C.O.W.004, 2007) [lim. 100] € 10.00 who was a Christian author, nun, and mystic. Voice, heart, breath, CENTRE OF WOOD ist das neue Label von COLD CURRENT blood, bells, cymbals, percussion, mandolin, balalaika, zither, accordion PRODUCTION mit dem Fokus auf "Folk" in verschiedensten Varianten, and flutes weave of superfine ether strings a smooth covering canvas of diese Compilation gibt einen Label-Überblick mit 15 Stücken von acoustic music." [label info] Geräuschmusik & Akustik-Drone bis free form / Impro & Neo Folk, mit schönen Stücken von TIM COSTER, NEBELUNG, THROUROOF, * VELEHENTOR - Zona Otchuzhdeniya (Zone of Alienation) CD-R PRAGUE, ES, WE WAIT FOR THE SNOW, und vielen uns (Abgurd AB-53, 2008) [lim. 100] € 10.00 unbekannten Acts.. Nummerierte Auflage & handgemachtes Cover, "The album is tributed to the Russian «ghost-towns» Kadykchan, kunstvoll verschlossen mit einem Stück Ast! Kursha-2 and Halmer-U. Kadykchan («Death Valley» in Evenk) is a "[Forestes, the most important influence for "Centre of Wood" label, of miners urban village in Susuman district of Magadan region, which was every kind and in every part of the world, are a magic place where to left by the inhabitants after the mine detonation in 1996. Nowadays only get lost and then find our deep relation with the nature. 14 bands from a few native people live in this dead town without central heating and the acoustic, drone, lo-fi and free folk underground called to rappresent water and power supply in half-destroyed apartments. through music their relation with these places. The Result is this CD-R Kursha-2 was build shortly after the Russian Revolution as a workers that contains more than 60 minutes of weird music. The projects and village for mastering vast forests of the Central Meshera. In the year the bands involved are : Tim Coster; Donato Epiro; Nebelung; Vapaa; 1936, during hot and windy summer, 1200 humans were burnt out alive Chora; Aalto; throuRoof; Eyes like Saucers; The Katie Winter; Belly because of the forest fire that surrounded Kursha and outskirts. Boat; Prague; Es; Las Vegas Club; We Wait for the Snow. Listening to Halmer-U («Death Valley» in Nenets) is situated in the area that was this compilation is like getting lost in a immense green forest, walking used by natives as a burial place for centuries. In the end of 20th through its trees, meet the eyes of its creatures...] century it became another «not wanted» miners town. People were PACKAGING : The packaging is composed of a brown and green evicted to Vorkuta city by riot squads. heavy cardboard, closed with a small branch and a brown cotton Three tracks of disturbing static oppression. All-dead Drone Ambient thread, with an insert in perfect d.i.y. old style. limited to 120 numbered and sizzling Drone Noise dressing you alive. VELEHENTOR is well- copies." [label info] known for its skill in creating the proper atmosphere using only facts, and here it is reproducted as by a direct witness." [label description] * MANDALA Volume 1 mCD-R (Ex Ovo EXO003, 2007) € 5.50 "The concept for this new series by Ex Ovo is simple: Four artists are * WOMEN IN TRAGEDY - The Shame CD-R (Ruralfaune Rur023, selected for a musical session of Chinese Whispers. The first starts with 2007) [lim. 81] € 8.00 five minutes of his music and passes it on to his successor, until there is Experimental one-man project from Canada with limited CDR release a complete track of about twenty minutes’ length. Starting things off are on the french Underground-Label RURALFAUNE, comes in handmade labelfounders Mirko Uhlig and Tobias Fischer (aka Feu Follet), as well cover and reminds on typical 80's / 90's cassette-scene style.. as two guests for this edition: Zen Drone master Keith Berry and "From the North came the plague... Drifted noises, distorted voices & German guitarist Jörg Eger. From Uhlig’s deep and multilayered murky electronics in the land of the spectral moose. The ghost of the opening, the piece crosses into a space of enigmatic listening with Feu beast whistles in the tunnel of dark forest. You are lost in the woods ? it Follet’s spacious and touching contribution and Berry’s dark majesty, will find you, it will come to teach you the music of the damned souls.. before culminating in a triumphant and otherworldly slide solo." [label No shame, no tragedy, just another obscure and brilliant tale. info] - Hidden behind a granulous veined green paper cover - " [label info] "Chinese whispers are when someone tells you a line of a story, you make up the second line, a third person the next one etc. Ex Ovo started a series of musical works based upon this notion, where a musician makes up five minutes and then someone else takes over, 3.1. CDR-COMPILATIONS until four are done. This is 'Mandala Volume 1', starting out with Mirko Uhlig, Tobias Fischer (both of them behind the label), Keith Berry and * FRANNCE 3 x CD-R (Ruralfaune rur024, 2007) [ed. of 300] Jörg Eger. Almost without noting the first two pieces slide into € 21.00 eachother, in a very weightless space sort of way. The music is highly Ausufernde Compilation auf dem DIY-Label aus Frankreich, wohl etwas (in every sense of the word) atmospheric. When Keith Berry takes over, ironisch als "Ode an France" untertitelt. 45 Projekte zwischen kraftvoller things move from heaven right into the ocean, deep down, but here to Drone-Psychedelia, wirbelnden Analog-Electronics & Instrumental- the cross into guitarist Jörg Eger works really well, he comes in later on Madness, so ziemlich alles aus dem Bereich "Experimenteller / Impro with his slide guitar and not from the very moment as he is supposed to Folk-Drone" was man sich nur vorstellen kann... play. A project like this could be a real miss, but these four are spot on. "A quick look at the listing of groups on this super limited triple cd-r One excellent piece of ambient music, in not too clear four parts, but it collection of songs from France, or about France, or with some sort of surely makes sense." [FdW / Vital Weekly] French angle, should have most weird music fans freaking out bigtime. All exclusive tracks from tons of AQ faves, including: The Shitty Listener, Quetzolcoatl, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Silvester 3.2. VISUALS & SOUND-ART: DVDs / Video- Anfang, Heavy Winged, Tom Carter, The North Sea, Taiga Remains, Ashtray Navigations, Uton, The Futurians, Mike Tamburo, Tanakh, CDRs / VHS Black Forest Black Sea, Ben Reynolds, Volcano The Bear, 6majik9, CJA, The Stumps, Gregg Kowalsky, Fursaxa, Seht, Valerio Cosi, Fabi * BRAINWAVES 1 (Z'EV - NADJA - TROUM) DVD-R Orsi, Birds Of Delay, Bjerga / Iverson, Robert Horton and more more (Brainwashed BFD101, 2008) € 16.00 more. 3+ hours of strange and magical sounds from all over the world, Professional video-film recordings from the first night of the but all centered around France. From the ultra lo-fi barely audible pop BRAINWAVES-Festival that happened from Nov. 17-19, 2006, in genius of The Shitty Listener, the gorgeous mournful steel string Boston USA. By buying this DVD you directly support "Brainwashed" to Appalachian folk of The North Sea, the washed out murky drift of get funds for organizing the next Festival. TROUM is performing the Quetzolcoatl, some super spare solo electric guitar drift from Tom SHUTUN-set here which features NINA KERNICKE / ALL SIDES! As Carter, a bit of haunting high end tribal buzz from Brothers Of The bonus-material you'll find many "stills" and backstage material ! Occult Sisterhood, some gorgeous shuffle and twang, slither and creep from Silvester Anfang, an epic druggy slowburning NZ-style

40 * ECKLOFF, JÜRGEN - Instruction 37/57 DVD (Tochnit Aleph TA086, 2008) € 13.00 4. CDs "Instruction 37/57 is a surrealistic b/w animation film by COLUMN ONE- member JÜRGEN ECKLOFF with a cryptic & dreamlike quality. Being set into a nostalgic, gloomy ambience you can follow a story about a * ABTAN, FREIDA - Subtle Movements CD (Durtro Jnana UJ111, mysterious message, a strange voyage and the big machine, full of 2007) € 14.00 symbols and miracles. About 27 minutes long and very professionally Debut-Album von FREIDA ABTAN, die zuletzt als NURSE WITH made, absolutely strange & wonderful! WOUND-Bandmitglied & Collaborateurin auffiel. Auf "Subtle "a column one film by jürgen eckloff produced 2005-2008. "one Movements" bewegt sie sich zwischen experimentellem Abstrakt-Drone morning: in front of the door a slip of paper, in the radio receiver an und Elektro-Akustik und setzt dabei oft & gekonnt ihre Stimme ein, um ambiguous message. a telephone call dispels any remaing doubts. and z.T. sehr schöne harmonische, repetitive & sich überlagernde Texturen i make my way...." region free dvd features german & english version zu bilden. Auf zwei Stücken ist STEVEN STAPLETON vertreten. plus bonus. printed artwork, booklet and disc in dvd-case." [label info] Ein sehr vielversprechender Erstling ! "Freida Abtan loves sound. Her music falls somewhere in between * PAN SONIC - Kuvaputki DVD (Blast First Petite PTYT 009DVD, musique concrete and more modern noise and experimental audio. 2008) € 15.00 Concentrating on the visceral and inspired by dreams, she has created "Die erste DVD von PANSONIC, gefilmt von Edward Quist, dem visual shows for and played with Nurse with Wound, and also as Bildhauer des Digitalen. Eine Liveperformance, die aus nächster Nähe presented her own sound and visual work at festivals across Canada. gefilmt wird. Ein digitaler Film, der sich um die New Yorker Show von Subtle Movements was completed over four years from the sidelines of PANSONIC dreht, als sie dort 1999 während ihrer abenteuerlichen Abtan's other projects and during her schooling in Montreal. It's a Round The World Tour anhielten. Der Film ist eine hyperreale, collection of her favorite pieces, combining her love of electro-acoustic abstrakte Reflexion des Duos im letzten Jahr des letzten Jahrtausends. music with her love of found melody. Two of the songs that appear on Während im Kern noch immer der Ton der Dokumentation vorherrscht, the album are collaborations with Steven Stapleton of Nurse with wurde das Material von Quist jedoch in eine neue Form gegossen, die Wound, recorded in Colin Potter's studio in Preston, England, when sich glatt an das improvisierte Set von Vaino und Vaisanen anlegt. Das Abtan traveled there to play a show as part of Scribble Seven in March Duo scheint tief verbunden mit dem Bildhaften der Kathode, die zu 2006 alongside Stapleton, Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Joolie atmen scheint und sich mit ihren Körpern über drei einzelne Filme Wood, and Maja Elliott." [label info] hinweg verbindet, um im eigenen Sound und den Bildern Quists zu verschmelzen. Das SXSW Festival beschrieb "Kavaputki" als "eine * AESTHETIC MEAT FRONT - Temple of Flesh CD (Old Europa Verkörperung. Der wahrscheinlich gelungenste elektronische Musikfilm, Cafe OECD087, 2006) € 14.00 den es jemals gab". Vierzig Minuten volle intensivstem Sound und Das "eigene Fleisch" als einzig reine Wahrheit? "Temple of Flesh" ist ebenso intensiven Bildern.// Region 0 (free)/NTSC format DVD. The eine Sammlung von live-Aufnahmen, man sollte eher sagen first-ever Pan Sonic DVD release, directed by Edward Quist, an "öffentlichen Ritualen" der US-Band, die seit 10 Jahren ihre rituell- American digital visual artist. A live performance, close-filmed. A redux ekstatischen Blut & Fetisch-Performances zelebrieren, irgendwo digital film based around a Pan Sonic performance from a New York zwischen HERMANN NITSCH, BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, stop on their adventurous 1999 "Round The World" tour. The film is a HYBRYDS oder SLEEP CHAMBER, musikalisch beschwörend und hyper-real abstract reflection of the duo, in the final year of the last höchst esoterisch und in dieser Konsequenz durchgezogen trotzdem century. While the documentary core remains, the footage is twisted gesellschaftskritisch: "Spürst Du Deine Sehnsucht brennen, hast du and shaped by Quist into a new form in conjunction with Pan Sonic's Angst vor Deinem Tempel, Deinem Fleisch? Fürchtest Du Dich im improvised set. Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen are immersed in the Abgrund der Ekstase zu verlieren? Schau Dich um, bist Du befriedigt imagery of the cathode which seems to live and infect their physicality mit dieser Realität?" Kommt in DVD-Box mit 6 doppelseitig bedruckten over the course of the three parallel films, until they merge with their Vollfarb-Postkarten, mit Fotos & Texten in diversen Sprachen. own sound and Quist's mesmerizing visuals. Sonar Electronic Festival Ein Muss für Fetisch-, Okkult- & Ritual-Freunde! described the film as "a beautiful and unique film capturing the very "Aesthetic Meat Front celebrates 10 years of Public Deprogramming essence of a Pan Sonic live performance... which really is quite an Rituals with a new Release. to be released on Old Europa Cafe / AMF achievement." SXSW Music Festival calls it "...an embodiment. Records. "Temple of Flesh" is based on an Invocation of Rapture from Probably the most perfect electronic music film yet." ICA Film London A-M-F's "Blood Sun Rising" Rituals (2003-004). The text of this says it's "...surprisingly watchable. Forty minutes of unswervingly invocation has been translated into 12 languages, and sculpted into a modern, super intense sound & visuals." Duration 38:05 mins.; digipack dark electronic abyss. Ritual drones are the framework for haunting packaging; Dolby digital 5.1 Upmix." [press release] invocations and chants, which are supported by the seductive mantras of Zaskia Morgan. Bombastic drums and instruments connected with * SPK - Despair (digitally extracted) DVD (Twin Vision / CAT TV1, hooks into the skin of the ritual participants are also sound sources for 2007) € 19.50 this release. "After being hidden in time for more than 20 years this industrial Elegantly packaged in a DVD case, Temple of Flesh comes with 6 milestone of the infamous 1st generation got renovated extended and double-sided cards reflecting the essence of an A-M-F ritual. digitally overworked. A true statement and monument for the Italian invocation featuring vocals by OEC master : Rodolfo Protti ... outstanding band S.P.K. who gathered together under so many names Sounds remixed by R|A|A|N" [press release] like: SoliPsiK, Selektiv Pornography Kontrol, Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, System Planning Korporation just to name a few. * AKERLUND, LARS - Rivers of Mercury / Via Styx CD (Firework Twin Vision, Cat TV and Tesco Germany proudly bring you a band Edition Records FER1025, 2000) € 13.00 about nothing could be said, the only group in industrial musics history Quasi der erste Teil von Tanztheater-Stücken von diesem interessanten that stands on the same level as Throbbing Gristle, for some even Stockholmer Komponisten! Exquisite Geräusch-Klangkunst & Elektro- above. Influence to so many followers. The project ideal is to express Akustik, sehr perkussiv geprägt.. the content of various psycho - pathalogical conditions, especially “The rumble and quake of one tone leads to a ringing bell and voices schizophrenia, manic - depressive psychosis, mental retardation and out of a sea of confusion. Many different kind of bells speak to each paranoia. Information Overload supersedes normal, rational thought other in misunderstood introspection. Do tones have secret lives of their structures, forcing deviation into less restrictive mental procedures of own? A more measured cadence bridges backward voice to backwards so-called 'mental illness'. SPK is trying to be a voice for those voice - it's easy to see where this could be rampantly applied in modern individuals condemned to the slow decay of mental hospitals and dance. Tones vault, frightened flocks of birds in the seas of unease and chemical / electro / surgical therapy, without fetishising them into blatant the rumble and shine reverberates (which incidentally is the longest entertainment product. 'SONIC FOR MANICS' aims to be a vehicle for word one can type using solely the left hand). Mass acceleration hits sharing mental experiences through sound. like a bell that was struck and beats wash effulgently across the This DVD compiles material that marked the genesis of the group speakers and what's being called out by the ringing tone? The end? . The members at that time were known as Operator, Ne(H)il Drone emerges against the wind and the heavy engine incarnates, and Tone Generator. Like rare live moments of the bands, energetic pulsing with its own secret heart. Telegraph signals wave in its path and performances covering music from “Leichenschrei” to “Information it grows, planet on the prowl. The living thing - the recording that can be Overload”, Live rehearsal footage from “ Auto Dafe”, slide shows, turned on, just below the level of hearing, increasing a certain amount documentary and a filmed interview with Tone Generator aka Domink of emotion or tension - moves onward, second by inexorable second. Guerin founding member and man behind Twin Vision." [label info] How long can the manta ray live? No one knows, not even the sudden voice that appears, gesticulating urgently. A gentle test tone inculcates. A sweeping wave of the sound from hands drinks in the remaining waters from Styx, possibly moving on to Lethe...” [label info]

41 * AKERLUND, LARS - UR VOLT CD (Fylkingen Records FYCD drones, tinkling bells, and wordless vocals with Middle Eastern, 1028, 2007) € 14.00 medieval and folk touches, as well as sophisticated and evocative Zwei lange Stücke minimale Elektro-Akustik und elektronische neoclassical vocals that are used as more of a focus of the track rather Geräuschmusik für Tanzperformances von dem schwedischen than the other styles that put in briefer appearances. Less song- Komponisten (* 1953), auf den renommierten schwedischen Label oriented than many Projekt releases, but its ethereal nature, coupled FYLKINGEN. "UR" laviert zwischen sehr ruhigen Passagen und with the slightly dark take on folk/world/classical music, fits right in with anschwellenden Phrasen, mit vielen dumpf perkussiven Parts, fast much of the label's other output. Combining elements familiar from the maschinell wirkenden Geräuschloops, pulsierenden Elementen, immer ambient/drone/experimental genre with creative, intellectual ideas of spannend, subtil, verhalten, archaisch-rituell.. und ohne jemals in their own, the album is relaxing yet slightly unsettling at times, and goes endlos verschwurbelte Digital-Effekt-Sounds abzugleiten... beyond music and into the realms of aural art." [Bliss / Aquamarine] Bei VOLT geht es um Elektrizität & Radioaktivität, Rauschen & elektronisches Sirren & grollende Kraftströme von Klang werden * ALIO DIE - Aura Seminalis CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL045, 2008) hier eindrucksvoll in Szene gesetzt... Auf AURA SEMINALIS verwendet ALIO DIE vokales und chorales AKERLUND ist beeinflusst vonMinimalismus & afrikanischer Musik , Material, welches elektronisch verfremdet oder mit elektronischen das ist Hörgenuss pur für den anspruchsvollen Hörer. Effekten angereichert wird. Dabei entstehen zwei lange Stücke von unglaublicher Emotionalität und Tiefe, frei fliessend & sanft wirbelnd um * ALEXANDERSON, MAGNUS - Stretched in the Dark CD imaginäre Zentren....Die sakralen Choräle verschmelzen auf eine (Elektron Rec., EM1010, 2005) € 13.00 einmalige Art und Weise mit akustisch-elektronischen Sound, Drei Stücke von dieser Neuentdeckung für uns, dem schwedischen vielleicht das beste ALIO DIE -Album bisher, auf jeden Fall aufregend Elektro-Akustiker MAGNUS ALEXANDERSON; seinen Stil könnte man anders als vorherige Arbeiten ! als "dark & droney electro-acoustic" bezeichnen, v.a. das Titelstück "The new work by Alio Die it is part of the Castle's sonorisation series, begeistert mit schneidenden, sehr kraftvoll-intensiven Dronescapes... titled AURA SEMINALIS. The first track 'Sine Tempore part I-III' it's an "Elektron is the record company of SEAMS, the Society of Electro- epicentre of mystic music carachterized by a gold cathedral's Acoustic Music in Sweden. Their tenth release is by Magnus atmosphere, while 'Aura Seminalis part I-II' displays an ascensional Alexanderson (1961). He studied guitar, bassoon and musical theory in soundworld of arcane purity and rare beauty. his youth and later on computer music. Nowadays he works mainly in One of the best works by Alio die so far. the electro-acoustic field. There are three pieces here on this release, CD packaged in an elegant three sides digipack!! HSL 045" [label info] one from 1991, one from 1997 and the most recent is from 2000, the opening piece. It's called Stretched In Dark (the word the mentioned in the title is missing here) and is listed as musique concrete, but it's wall of the sound drone could easily be listed as 'amplified electric guitar "This latest release in a recent outpouring of creativity from Italy's plays with a chain saw', as it has the heavy saw sounds of an amplified master of organic drones is possibly the most unique in this artist's long agricultural tool. The midiguitar is part of the second piece, Melting career as a sound sculptor. While most of his recent releases on his Points (1997) together with a sampler. Similar chainsaw effects are own Hic Sunt Leones label have been collaborations, this is his first reached here, but it's a much more serious piece of slowly gliding solo effort since the release of the 10 inch vinyl Aurea Hora. As the sounds, occasionally interrupted by smaller sounds. The oldest piece is elaborate Renaissance style artwork on the cover suggests, this music Fu (1991), and it's also the longest piece. It's for computer-controlled points in the direction of a more "classical" sound insofar as the synthesizer and of a much more quieter nature. Bell like sounds open utilization of Gregorian style chants. These are successfully the piece, and over the course of almost thirty minutes these get incorporated into Musso's customary drones comprised of field stretched out and are sometimes visited by the bell sounds. A deeply recordings, acoustic instruments, and electronic processing, giving this atmospherical piece that is the highlight of the CD, even when the other disc a particularly reverent ambience. Don't think Enigma or Delerium, tracks are also quite good." [Vital Weekly 525] because as one listens to this they may be inclined to bow their head and meditate or pray rather than nod or chill. I imagine that if today's * ALIO DIE & MARTINA GALVAGNI - Eleusian Lullaby CD (Projekt sound recording abilities were available during those times evoked by Records 208, 2007) € 14.50 the artwork or chants, they too would have then added the organic "Oasen-Ambient" auf dieser Zusammenarbeit von ALIO DIE mit der elements that Alio Die does, creating a balance of both the heavenly italienischen Sängerin MARTINA GALVAGNI, hell klingend & klar, eine and the earthbound. Fans of his music may or may not find this paradiesische Schönheit und Geborgenheit heraufbeschwörend, approach a departure from what they are accustomed to, but it is zärtlich, warm & sinnlich. ALIO DIE benutzt wieder diverse Instrumente certain that this artist is going beyond his previous huge body of work to wie Zither & Sitar und field recordings, die er auf seine typische Art und encompass a broader sonic pallette." [Pauldient / Discogs.com] Weise verwebt... "Eleusian Lullaby is a sensual ethereal-ambient collaboration between * ALL SIDES - Dedalus CD (Make Mine Music MMM036, 2007) Italian soundsculptor Stefano Musso (aka Alio Die) and Italian singer [ed. of 500] € 13.00 Martina Galvagni. It is the third release in Projekt's series of Alio Die's Erste full-length CD für das Bremer Projekt! Die Mischung aus vocal collaborations following 2001's Apsaras (with Amelia Cuni) and elektronischen Beats & Sounds und den organisch-melancholischen 2005's Mei-Jyu (with Jack or Jive). Eleusian Lullaby blends the natural, und auch sehr dunklen Flächen und Harmonien (die per Gitarre & Bass warm and earthy ambient compositions of Alio Die with the elegant, beigesteuert werden) schafft einen sehr eigenen Stil... das ganze ist neo-classical voice of Martina, merging notes and silence into an vielleicht nicht immer "auf den Punkt" gespielt, aber das macht auch expanded dreamscape. This is lullaby music like an aural caress from den Charme vieler Kompositionen aus, denn sie sind erfüllt von rauher darkness into the light. The combination of the vocal melodies with the Kraft, Lebendigkeit & Intensität. Nur 500 Stück wurden gepresst, auf abstract qualities of the loops and instruments creates a suspended dem unkommerziellen Label-Projekt MAKE MINE MUSIC aus UK ! near-dream space, intimate and sensual at the same time. "Nina Kernicke is not a composer concerned with bombast. Her already The opening track, 'The Oniroid Sleep,' displays a foggy atmosphere developed (and superb) atmospheres and sinuous melodies are joined where the voices wash beneath the acoustic layers of the cithara, sitar, on her first full-length by a newly acquired sense of patience and kalimba and field recordings. On the second track, 'A Drone Song for interconnectedness. One song at a time, Kernicke assembles a thriller Alienor,' the voice is clearer and more upfront with all its powerful of a record that triumphs because of its unhurried development and beauty apparent creating an intense and fragile song with a neo- thickly amassed tension. classical approach. The third song, 'Eleusian Lullaby,' was created as a It isn't until "Dedalus," the album's fourth track, that Kernicke really lets totally free improvisation of psaltery and voice; the text is sung in a her explosive side loose. The previous three tracks are something of a dialect of the Engadina language (Switzerland). Drones and loops were primer for the pseudo-dystopian aura for which All Sides is known. With added later from the original recordings. a minimum of sources, dirty city-scapes and seedy, back-alley 60 minutes of music, composed by acoustical improvisations with voice, transactions are manifested and situated among a fast-moving and psaltery, zither, cithara, bells, metals and field recordings. The original impersonal population of greedy businessmen, cautious detectives, and recordings were made in locations in the woods and in ancient medieval dirty street punks looking for a kick. All Sides' music is far from places then processed and layered by Alio Die at Temple Studio in impersonal, however. On the contrary, the music brings characters, 2005-2006. locations, fears, and even suspicions to life with a great deal of ease. Listen to this trance music in the dark and be lead to a tranquil earthly Before the title track's explosive guitars and extended synthesizers garden. Like in the best lullabies, you are caressed as you are slither their way among Kernicke's populated rhythms, both "The Idea" transported to a mysterious parallel soundworld of peace and harmony." and "Luv" establish an imposing and mournful background that radiates [label notes] throughout the rest of the album. When "Dedalus" finally breaks the "Three elongated tracks making up a full length album of arty, filmic album open with an organic melody and seemingly endless guitar experimental soundscaping. Delicate and subtle, yet slightly discordant, meditation, relief comes as a tangible and wonderful sensation. melodies from archaic stringed instruments interweave with ambient Yet it is interrupted; the conspiratorial tone of a German speaker finds

42 its way into the calm heart of the song and Kernicke includes the in the normal sense, but VERY funky in some sort of fucked up futuristic sounds of seagulls chattering away in the background to increase the minimal robot dancefloor way. A few of the tracks feature vocals, but sensation that whatever is happening in this album's dark world, it's just they're in German, and spoken quickly and rhythmically, making them as real as the world in which we live. At this point Dedalus begins to feel less like lyrics and more like another overlaid rhythm (especially when like a narrative. The narrative was there when "The Idea" first started to the voice is just reciting numbers). play, but as in many good books and movies, Kernicke doesn't Imagine a huge white glass cube filled with robots, all hunkered immediately give away how all the various puzzle pieces fit together. over computers and drum machines, and synthesizers and equalizers, "The Unfinished End of H.W." is where Kernicke begins to draw her everything totally automated, huge gears turning, machines pulsing, the disparate ends together. The intrigue of spy novels and detective robots locked into the same motion over and over, a strange assembly stories quickly solidify in the rush of its pattering rhythms and swelling line. At the end, a tiny speaker, facing a huge empty grassy field, a blue strings, each movement in the song conjuring up the lightning-quick sky, nothing in the sky but a single white cloud. Perfectly ovoid. Out of reflexes required of a man on the lamb or an investigator caught in a the speaker comes this. That's what we imagine when we listen to plot much bigger than he could possibly know. Each following track Unitxt. Stripped down, cool and clinical outer space future robot anti- feels like a well-placed edit or narrative switch wherein the plot is funk, laced with plenty of sculpted buzz and crackle, and shaped from moved along by an unexpected twist or omniscient switch in bits of hiss and crunch. Tacked on to the end of the record, are a whole perspective. "Mistake" exhibits Kernicke's ability to build believable and series of fragments and sound sources, each created from threatening environments out of sound whereas "Against the Sun" transforming an image or information into sound. These are 'Source shows off her ability to write a sensuous tune that is equal parts Code Solos' to be played over the other tracks, or might assume, that sexuality and nervous suspicion. with these sounds, and your own giant robot manned glass cube sound Like many great dystopian fictions, Kernicke does not end her work on factory, you could make your very own Unitxt! " [Aquarius Records the most positive of notes. "Into the Sea" is a drone of resignation; review] imagining a hero at the center of Dedalus' story, this particular track is the main character's tragic failure to rise above the dark and constantly * AMBARCHI, OREN & Z'EV - Spirit Transform Me CD (Tzadik twisting machinations of the world Kernicke so expertly constructed in TZ8123, 2008) € 14.00 the opening songs. Both the title of this particular song and its overall "Raise Praise on drum, in dance - Raise Praise on strings and pipes. mood remind me of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, a book that ends Raise Praise on singing cymbals - Raise Praise on shattering cymbals". with the female protagonist committing suicide by swimming too far out Wie schon auf den vorangegangenen Collaborationen scheint Z'EV auf to sea. "Stay" concludes the album with the beating of an evil heart and neueren Aufnahmen zu versuchen, seine Metal-Perkussion zu the metallic echoes of cold indifference. Upon repeated listens, Dedalus verfeinern, zu verfremden und zu transformieren - das passt hier ganz emerges most firmly as an account of someone's downfall. Drawn into a hervorragend zu AMBARCHIs Digital-Drone Gitarren und Sirr-Sounds, web too thick to escape, the imagined hero reaches for safety, but falls ergibt ganz wunderbare Klang-Bewegungen und Verformungen. short and is hopelessly lost. But the fall isn't the only attraction in this Drei lange Stücke sind enthalten, betitelt ALEF, BET und GIMEL. story as each song is ripe with minute and involving details. All Sides' "Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting previous recordings were all fine examples of beat-driven electronic in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music, but Dedalus is an exceptional record that succeeds on many music. His newest collaborative project features the legendary more fronts. It is one example of how vivid and intense a record can be percussionist/composer and mystic Z'ev in a hypnotic series of pieces without taking recourse to ostentatious measures. It is also a record exploring the inner meanings of the Hebrew Alef-beit. A remarkable with great hooks and a definite sense of direction and purpose." [Lucas vision from beginning to end, with sounds both fragile and powerfully Schleicher / Brainwashed] intense, Oren and Z'ev take the sonic investigation of guitar and percussion to startling new heights. Qabalhistic euphoria from two * ALVA NOTO - Unitxt CD (Raster-Noton R~N 095, 2008) masters of trance!" [label info] € 14.00 "Carsten Nicolai aka ALVA NOTO, der sich inzwischen auch mit der * AMBER ASYLUM - Garden of Love maxi-CD (Paradigms Feder eines Björk-Timbaland-Remixes schmücken kann, verfährt hier Recordings 001, 2006) [lim. 750] € 10.00 einmal mehr nach dem Motto: Nothing beats Beatz. Strenge und doch Nach langer Pause fünf neue Stücke von KRIS FORCEs Band; animierend mobile Raster von Ton und Nichtton bestimmen Unitxt melodramatische, Kammermusik-artige Elegien wo ein klares Song- (R-N 95). Die ständig pixelnden Plops in eifrigem 120 bpm-Tempo Gerüst aber immer zu erkennen ist, eingespielt mit Bass, Piano, Violine wirken gleichzeitig aleatorisch komplex, unendlich variabel, beruhigend & Cello, Bläsern, Percussion, und dazu KRIS eindringliche Stimme; selbstähnlich und unfehlbar automatisch. Kaum etwas könnte den zurückhaltend, slow, so einsam & verloren.....bisher ihre ergreifenste, Zeitgeist aus der Maschine, der Aufregung und Beruhigung zur weil ausgereifste Veröffentlichung ! Deckung bringt, besser transportieren als dieser Minimal Techno. Die "San Francisco's Amber Asylum return with their first new recordings in Hälfte der Synapsen wird auf Touren gebracht, durch beständigen nearly five years . Five dark, brooding chamber works of misanthropic Beschuss aktiviert und angeregt, die andere Hälfte durch eine resonance and chilling emotional beauty. A blackened neo-classical Art Monotonie zweiter Ordnung hypnotisch eingelullt. Sinnesreiz und masterpiece following their previous recordings on Relapse and Neurot Desensibilisierung werden ununterscheidbar, ich möchte zugleich as well as their acclaimed collaborations with Neurosis, Swans and mitzucken in diesem Stakkatobeschuss, diesem eckigen Jarboe amongst others. Just under half an hour of new recordings, Swingprogramm, diesem steppenden Automatenballett, und wohlig featuring the bonus soundtrack recording, "Serenade"." [label notes] wegdösen unter dieser übersinnlichen Massage, die sich jeden Quadratmillimeter der Hirnrinde einzeln vornimmt. Zwei Tracks ragen * AMP - All of Yesterday Tomorrow 3 x CD (RROOPP RR02PP, heraus durch den txt-Faktor, den Anne-James Chaton, Soundpoet aus 2007) € 18.50 Montpellier, beisteuert. Er liest automatenhaft banale Infos über Nicolai Schöne Zusammenstellung von raren Stücken, Outtakes, Compilations- und eine Zahlenreihe. Dazu gibt es dann noch 15 weitere Kurz- und tracks und Unveröffentlichtem dieser britischen Band aus dem Umfeld Kürzesttracks, prasselndes Zischen, weißes Rauschen, krätzig- der 90er Jahre "Guitar-Drone-Psychedelia", in einem Atemzug zu stachlige Attacken, allesamt hörbar gemachte Nichtaudiodateien." [Bad nennen mit SLOWDIVE, MY BLOODY VALENTINE & FLYING Alchemy] SAUCER ATTACK. Gerade die experimentelleren, Soundscape-artigen "We love Alva Noto. His minimal rhythmic soundscapes are just so Stücke hier machen "All of Yesterday Tomorrow" auch für Hörer fantastic, dense and complex but at the same time impossibly simple interessant die sonst weniger mit "Shoegazer"-Sound anfangen and spare. And everything he does is so high concept. But in a way, können... that's not obvious just listening to the music. This may be art, high "Well over a decade ago, Bristol was the birthplace of a community of concept art, but the resulting sounds transcend art, and become music, psychedelically inclined art-rockers. At first, there seemed to be an and grooves, pleasing to the ear, not only the mind. open door policy to the projects that emerged, with members rotating Unitxt is Alva Noto's (aka Carsten Nicolai) return to 'the rhythm' after between Flying Saucer Attack, Third Eye Foundation, Crescent, and a handful of releases (in several different series) that were much more AMP. Eventually, all of these projects settled into their own particular esoteric and ambient. Unitxt is still pretty ridiculously high concept, with aesthetic with Flying Saucer Attack continuing an overblown 'rural the songs developed through various methods: one song is a portrait of psychedelia,' Third Eye Foundation completing the project that Kevin Nicolai converted into sound, another is based on the golden ratio, a Shields never finished of bridging darkcore drum'n' bass with snarling recitation of an endless row of numbers, another is based on a reading guitar distortion, and Crescent sinking into an abject grit of narcolepsy. of the various items in Nicolai's wallet, credit cards, business cards, AMP had been the most elusive of the four, shifting between luminously notes, just reading the words and numbers and converting the resulting smeared space rock and ungrounded electronics-plus-guitar noodling. information into sound. Endlessly amusing for sure, but it wouldn't mean When AMP were focused on their somber tunes, the smoldering shit if the music was bad. Thankfully, this is exactly the stuff we love washes of distortion and fuzz worked very well (i.e. their debut album from Nicolai, super clinical machine like soundscapes of skitter and Sirenes and their two proper albums on Kranky); but the exploration of glitch. everything sharp and clipped, the grooves far from funky, at least guitar drone and post-Eno ambience proved to be less successful for

43 AMP. This triple cd collection of singles, compilation tracks, and rare your parents, then you’ll want to get in on the Anakrid craze before it’s material from AMP showcases the highs and lows of their career. too late. They’ve got a whole new way of kickin’ it old school. With Fortunately, the less than inspired ambient noodling merely drifts into electronics AND home-made instruments, Anakrid CREATES an the background of this collection. It's never offensive, but just lulls and exploratory atmosphere WITHOUT all those boring, go-nowhere drifts, waiting for one of AMP's exceptional, slow burning crescendos improvisational hang-ups. Everything sounds fresh, progressive and balancing between Bardo Pond at their druggiest and the early '90s weird!!! It’s just that good. Let’s face it; outsider music has gotten plain shoegazing contingent." [Aquarius Records] boring. Anakrid is just the electrodes to the testicles that left field music has been weeping for since, like, forever. Ex-punks hang up their * ANAKRID - UnoDos do-CD (Beta-lactam Ring Records Mohawks and make good mayhem." [press release] mt154 / Black Series negro 31, 2007) [lim. 400] € 15.00 ".... 'Father', the first CD is a nineteen track affair, which brings out the * ANGELI, PAOLO - Tessuti CD (ReR Megacorp ReR PA3, 2007) collage man. Bicker has all sorts of sounds (percussion, cheap old € 14.00 tapes, microphones) which he throws together in what seems to be an "Es ist wirklich kaum zu glauben, dass PAOLO ANGELI Tessuti (ReR audio-blender (no, don't look on the internet for this lovely device, I PA3) ohne Overdubs eingespielt hat. Dabei ist seine verblüffend made up the word): sampling his stuff together, adding more electronics polyphone Virtuosität auf der präparierten und elektrisch verstärkten in what becomes a wild, hot brew of sound. The influence of Nurse With sardischen Gitarre noch der geringere Anlass zur Verwunderung. Was Wound is never far away in this work. It's wild, even industrial at times, ist schon Virtuosität? Noch erstaunlicher sind das Material und die but the musical element is never lost. The second CD in this package Arrangierkunst, die Richtung, in die Angeli strebt. Neben Eigen- is 'Rapture Of The Deep', which takes the material into a different kompositionen spielt er Björk und Fred Frith. Dem dabei der Geist von direction. Things happen here in a much more peaceful manner. No Tom Cora über die Schulter blickt. Nicht nur bei Skeleton Crews ‚The wild collages, longer tracks and in general a more electronic approach. Hand That Bites‘, auch bei ‚Ahead in the Sand‘ und ‚Navajo‘ von It seems as if sound is captured inside an electronic system, locked in Speechless oder dem miniaturisierten ‚Lelekovice‘, Friths String Quartet rather and from there on things start to live their own life, in that closed #1 (auf Quartets, RecRec, 1994, und, neu interpretiert vom Arditti String system. Here no real Nurse With Wound influence, but rather that of the Quartet, auf Eleventh Hour, W & W, 2005). Der Cora-Touch rührt wohl academics of the fifties and sixties, the era of serious composed daher, dass Angeli seine Gitarre zwischen den Knien hauptsächlich electronic music, although Anakrid is not as rigid as the old masters. His arco wie ein Cello spielt. Bei seinen Interpretationen hebt Angeli neben form is more free, aiming for dark effects and sounding like a good dem experimentellen Aspekt der trickreichen Mehrstimmigkeit auch das horror soundtrack. Two different sides of the music of Anakrid, now Frith-typische Substrat der Imaginären Folklore hervor bis hin zu that's what I call a successful double CD package." " [FdW / Vital Anklängen an Spielformen der Renaissance. Von Björk erklingen Weekly] ‚Unravel‘ (von Homogenic), ‚Desired Constellation‘ (von Medúlla),‚One "UnoDos (Father/Rapture of the Deep) Edition of 400 numbered and day‘ (von Debut) und ‚Hyper-ballad‘ (von Post). Dabei gelingen Angeli signed copies each with an original piece of art by Anakrid. A 2CD set ebenfalls erstaunliche Rückbindungen des Pathos und der verstiegenen compiling the self released LPs. "Anakrid is the experimental outlet of Poesie der Isländerin an die manieristische Tradition (minus des Chris Bickel (the raconteur behind In/Humanity, one of the greatest ‚Angeschossenes Reh‘-Timbres, das mir Björk verleidet). Die zart groups of hardcore agitators of the 90s, and its follow-up, Guyana angeraute Sanglichkeit der sardischen Gitarre ist durchwegs Punch Line). Here he applies the smashist manifesto against atavistic bestechend schön. Wie Angeli dazu die perkussiven Spuren zaubert, darkness of the pre-laptop variety, evoking an affected take on Nurse sirrende Vibrationen und geklopfte Beats, das ist der alte Skeleton- With Wound and their contemporaries aether in more than a few ways. Crew-Zauber." [Bad Alchemy] This comparison is particularly apt on "Father", recorded with what "The latest from Paolo on which he plays compositions by Fred Frith sounds like a home full of disused instruments, second-hand sound and Bjork - solo (though when you hear it, you definitely won’t believe it) sculpture, and the ideas found on countless cassette-only xpr releases on his highly customised and extended, electrified, giant Sardinian of the 80s, returning to roost on the mostly empty temple of No Fun guitar. A tour de force of technique and a musical pleasure. There is so style extremity. Its balanced, rhythmically primal, fairly engaging head much subtlety and so much attention to the minutiae of sound, and so music that leverages the occasional reheating of landmark ideas with a much going on at any given time that it is difficult to relate what you refreshing purity of craft wholly missing from the current noise hear to just one person playing. Very concentrated, it rewards listening landscape. Rapture of the Deep subtracts the percussive elements, to a few songs at a time. Though strangely, you could probably also leaving the listener floating in a sea of blue-black death ambience, dance to it." [label info] without any pre-determined boundaries. Song titles and the cover painting of a woman drowning all but spell it out for you, so Ill spare any * ANTENNE - # 3 CD (Helmet Room Recordings HR0020, 2008) further nautical/asphyxiatory metaphors and just inform you that this € 13.00 work leans toward the sedimentary, eternal evil type of drone once Überraschung! Diverse Jahre nach dem letzten Werk " # 2 " sind practiced by Coil than that airy, Stars of the Lid style; its more granular ANTENNE zurück, und zwar auf dem Sub-Label von BETA-LACTAM and by side two becomes quite terrifying. Its eerie, tribal, almost RING RECORDS. Der besondere Stil, die magisch-zarten & polyrhythmic yet not improvisational in the least. Bickel doesnt view his zerbrechlichen Songs, Akustikgitarren & sanfte Elektronik, music as an excuse to wank off. It is deliberately composed. He zurückhaltende trip-hop Beats, der unfassbar sanfte & wundervolle eschews the use of conventional instrumentation, preferring found Gesang, all das wurde weiterentwicklelt und perfektioniert. Extrem subtil sounds, home-made instruments and pretty much anything that "makes & gefangennehmend melancholisch, ohne pathetisch zu sein. Ein leicht a sound that can be sculpted and manipulated". I hear the abstract geräuschhafter & experimenteller Einschlag rundet das ganze ab, surrealism of Nurse with Wound or Current 93 in the creepy, industrial wahrhaft dunkler Ambient-Pop! soundscapes, but theres certainly a thread of Stockhausens electronic "Antenne is the critically acclaimed solo project of Copenhagen’s Kim period, though its not nearly as mathematical." [press release] G. Hansen, who formerly recorded as half of the Danish industrial duo Institute for the Criminally Insane. Kim G. Hansen was also one of the * ANAKRID - Banishment Rituals of the Disenlightened CD founding members of Danish experimental noise-rock band Grind, who (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt199a, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 later became Amstrong - a project focused on trip-hop aesthetics but Tolles Album dieser Neuentdeckung auf Beta-Lactam: sehr dichte, still influenced by the origins of the band. In 1999, Kim left Amstrong to dunkle, geräuschhäft-mysteriöse Klänge, elektronisch unterfüttert & form a solo project - Antenne. The female vocalist of Amstrong, Marie- stets in dynamischer Bewegung, ein weites Spektrum auf den 11 Louise Munck, also participates at the project as vocalist on most of the Stücken austestend... sehr eigener Stil! songs. Antenne is known for a minimal and profound style of "..A very dark, often unsettling and intense album of electronic experimental and dark trip-hop. This is their third full length release and experimentation." [Side-Line] their first release on BlRR/helmet room recordings." [label info] "First ed. of 500 copies in a book bound CD case. Anakrid a day keeps the doctor slurred in a trove of fish-tallowed sling slong. This is what it * ANTLERS MULM - Of Withered Sparks CD (LOKI Foundation sounds like when doves cry because the mother ship crashes into their LOKI47, 2007) [lim. 222 copies] € 13.00 nest in the 6th dimension. With this symphony of sickness comprised of "Our hopes, our flesh, our tears... are draped like dead birds in the scraped palpitations, pitched whooshes, roaring cathodes and skies"... Different from most other LOKI-artists, ANTLERS MULM syncopated metallics, Anakrid have another breakthrough chart topper appears to be much more song-oriented, doing a kind of dark electronic on their bruised hands! These avant-garde hit-makers have real pop-music, but very refined, minimal, deeply melancholic & quiet. crossover potential, combining the best, most dynamic experimental Reminds us a bit on TWICE A MAN or TOR LUNDVALL at times, but noise with the very latest drones. This exciting NOW sound is OUT OF with a much darker singing... THIS WORLD! The long awaited fusion of ritualistic tribalism with the "The third album of ANTLERS MULM opts for deep resonating tones tweaked electro-tech of ancient alien cultures is finally here. Hey kids! If that are harmonious and hypnotic with a greater emphasis on you love Nurse With Wound, Genocide Organ, Hafler Trio, percussion, and the massive foray into song based structures. Dark Muslimgauze, Pierre Henry, Nadja and Harry Bertoia and confusing Beats and phantasmagorial Melodies are melting into an intense

44 atmosphere guided by the outstanding voice of the father of shadows * ARC - Glassine 1 CD (A Silent Place ASP22, 2008) € 12.00 Hans Johm. Throbbing samples enriches this compositions to a "Glassine I was recorded live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto on homogenic masterpiece. These 10 songs are catching the mood of the 03/07/2006; and can be easily described as an organic space ambient, warm feeling of being at home and creating a landscape of a coruscant with very strong references to Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Popol Vuh, kingdom that lies deep within the lyrical and musical expression. These Ashra Temple, Jackie-O Motherfucker, O Yuki Conjugate, AMP and tracks building melancholy on the most song based LOKI release ever - Flying Saucer Attack or "Fourth World" ambient music! Four tracks of take a deep breath and get lost in this aural world of ANTLERS MULM. pure vibrant multi-layered psychedelic drone music! Now, close your Limited digipack and vinyl version (222 copies) released in January eyes, listening to "Glassine I" and start for your trip even without the 2008." [label info] intake of any substances… waiting for “Glassine II (coming soon on A Silent Place)." [label info] * ARANOS - Mother of Moons Bathing CD (Soleilmoon Rec. SOL 145 CD, 2007) [lim. 400] € 14.50 * ARCANA - Raspail CD (Kalinkaland Records KAL32, 2008) Für den Hirn-zerschabenden Stil-Mix alleine hätte ARANOS bereits € 14.50 einen Preis verdient - von klickender Sinuston-Elektronik über free-form "Die CD kommt in einem hochwertigen Artwork, das sowohl ein 8- Noise bis hin zu swingenden Songs mit Gesang ["MAMA GOT A NEW seitiges Leporello, als auch ein 12-seitiges Booklet enthält! BOYFRIEND"], von Drone-Loops und Gongflächen über obskurste Arcana sind seit Jahren über alle Grenzen hinweg stilprägend und Geräuschtracks bis hin zu XXX kann hier einfach alles passieren.... eines der großen Aushängeschilde der weltweiten Gothic Wave Szene. für den Wiedererkennungseffekt aber sorgen die immer wieder Ihre Musik umfasst eine einzigartige, kraftvolle und verzauberte präsente Violine & seine rauhe, markante Stimme, verbunden mit den Anmutung, der sich kaum jemand entziehen kann. Mit ihrem neuen verschroben-ironischen Texten. Das ganze ist auch noch verpackt in Werk Raspail schlagen Arcana nun das nächste Kapitel ihrer ein edelstes, Filz-artiges Cover... immer wieder, so scheint es, geht es einzigartigen Karriere auf und verschmelzen die filigrane Romantik ihrer ARANOS darum, Grenzen jedweder Art zu überschreiten, aber mit früheren Werke, um ihr erfolgreiches Album Inner Pale Sun, mit STIL... ARANOS bildet sich sein ur-eigenstes Genre. bahnbrechendem Gothicwave der Neuzeit. Raspail begeistert durch die "Aranos (pronounced Aranyosh) is a prolific composer and storied multi- außergewöhnliche Mischung aus orchestralen, mächtigen instrument performer from the Czech part of Bohemia, by way of Soundcollagen, natürlich instrumentierten Arrangements, und den Ireland, where he lives near his friend and frequent collaborator Steve himmlisch klaren Stimmen des Baritons Peter Bjärgö und der Stapleton of Nurse With Wound. “Mother of Moons Bathing” is his first Sopranistin Ann-Mari Thim, die das Album in einen mystischen release for Soleilmoon, but his lengthy discography includes releases Klangzauber verwandeln der alles bisherige in den Schatten stellt. issued by Beta-lactam Ring Records, Brainwashed, Crouton, Die inzwischen sechste Veröffentlichung des schwedische Quintetts ist Klanggalerie, Noise Museum and United Daries as well as his own label ein magisch, geniales Glanzstück, getragen von zarten Pianotupfern Pieros. The album covers a lot of ground, and refuses to be und intensiven Klangwelten aus Streichern und Hörnern. Klassisch, categorized, unless “Aranos” can be its own category. It opens with melodramatisch und kaum zu überbieten!" [label info] “Awaking Horns”, a minimalist piece built around a simple repeating "Arcana has turned another page in the book and the next chapter will click track containing absolutely no horns whatsoever. “New Boyfriend” be a meeting between the old and the new. As before, we hear the begins as a jaunty ode to new-found love, but the conversation between many instruments that vary the music, but this time the vocals parts mother and daughter turns dark as it’s revealed that the new boyfriend have taken more room. The medieval sound from Dark age of Reason has a dodgy past with little girls. “Some Clowns Are Not Funny” and and Cantar de Procella is there, the majestic sound from... The Last “Almost Pulled Through” are a pair of scary electro-acoustic roller Embrace appear along with the serene notes from Inner Pale Sun and coaster rides that sound like they might have escaped from Steve the oriental instruments from Le Serpent Rouge. Blend this with the new Stapleton’s little shop of horrors. The fifth song, “Legs Thighs Splits” sound once again created by Peter Bjärgö, and you will have Raspail, returns to the gently fun whimsy started with “New Boyfriend”, but the next chapter in the book of Arcana." [label info] trades literal meaning for delicious texture and experimentation. “I saw Women’s Rising Fry” is a song of fearlessly eccentric lyrics married to * ARCANE DEVICE - Devices 1987-2007 do-CD (Monochrome complex, brain-tingling instrumental arrangements. “Ta-taa-ta, Taah Vision (mv18), 2007) [lim. 500] € 17.00 merged” is a side dish of looped, sampled vocal minimalism leading into Texturen aus Sirenen-Klängen und Sinuston-Feedbacks, repetitive the the longest track on the CD, “Towards Glittering Warm Dumplings”, Patterns aus Extrem-Frequenzen, Effektgerät-Übersteuerungen bilden a rolling trance-dance weighing in at more than 21 minutes. “Invisibility seltsame Klangkegel aus, elektronische Cut-Ups formen Kaskaden aus Cloak of Time”, another minimalist electro-acoustic instrumental, closes befremdlicher Rhythmik. Und alles basiert nur auf einer Soundquelle: the album. The total length of “Mother of Moons Bathing” is 71 minutes Feeback! Auf dieser russischen Kollektion des emsigen 41 seconds, and it’s sheer bliss from start to finish. In the face of a MONOCHROME VISION-Labels findet sich älteres rares Material von market dominated by increasingly bland visuals and dire throw-away längst vergessenen Compilations, aber auch neue Stücke von 2007, packaging, this album stands apart. In the tradition of other Soleilmoon welche nahtlos an die Vergangenheit anknüpfen, insgesamt aber releases, the presentation for “Mother of Moons Bathing” is second to weniger noisig & offensiv klingen. Very special stuff! none. This time the CD comes in a hand-made silk-screened soft- "Anthology of rare and previously unreleased tracks by Arcane Device, textured folder with a pair a sparkly screen-printed inserts backing up recorded within the 20 years. It is divided into two parts. The first one the disc inside. The costly and stunning materials have work together to consists of tracks from compilations issued by Subterranean Records, produce a pleasingly harmonious package that will appeal to music fans Tragic Figures, SFCR Tapes, and Generations Unlimited, but also and serious collectors alike. “Mother of Moons Bathing” is limited to 400 unreleased material remastered and/or remixed in 2007. The second copies. After his child was taken away and sent to slavery Carlos one is subtitled as "Feedback symphony" and based on various resigned himself to becoming low to medium quality moon fodder. recordings, presented in four movements and finished in 2007. One Spending his days in rearranging surface molecules with his broken more chance to approve the exceptional skills and compositional/ arms and dislocated shoulders while filling his eyes and lungs with technical talent of David Myers who can control the electrons by will, yellow dust. All the while pondering impermanence of the unpredictable creating fantastic soundscapes. Arcane Device is the unique project of his reward was flow of hill magic and stunning sunsets. Too much american graphic designer and musician David Myers, active between knowledge gathered over the years was proving to be a mixed blessing. 1987 and 1995. His creative output is going beyond any Change of timbre in his diabetic movement master’s voice clearly categorization, because it’s possible to re-arrange and demonstrate indicated a forthcoming constriction of coronary arteries, but there was such many styles of modern music with only one thing that is feedback. nothing Carlos could do. Certainly not over the distance of four and a This effect usually happens when you shortcut the input and output of half thousand miles. The only thing was to accept all. Child slavery, any electric device. It’s hard to believe but this almost uncontrolable master’s coronary, yellow dust, beautiful sunsets, flow of magic…" beast became the driving force for Arcane Device music, armed by self- [press release] made bank of delays and filters. Looking like inward sound research, decorated with finest web of random processes and microvariations, it * ARC - Arkhangelsk CD (Epidemie Records EPR064, 2008) [lim. becames the peculiar feature. Endless circulation of electrons, never 600] € 13.50 repeating routes and always having some chance for individual life Bei ARC werden die typischen BAKERschen Grundelemente (endlos inside of any macrostructure." [label notes / credits] lange Gitarren-Loops / Delays mit vielen Mikrodetails, die jedoch klar "....I might be wrong, but the oldest guy here is David Lee Myers, also strukturiert sind) mit zum Teil kraftvoller Perkussion und elektronischen known in the mid eighties as Arcane Device and one of my heroes of Effekten umhüllt....psychedelisch, improvisiert, dronig, eigenwillig.. the time. Myers created his own feedback machines long before Anklänge an TARENTEL und andere Post-Rock & Ambient-Guitar- someone thought of 'no input mixers'. Myers controlled his feedback Drone Projekte... with all sorts of sound effects, which made him sound differently than say the average industrial musician. No wonder his first release was on Recommended/ReR records, known for improvisation rather than noise. In the time span of less than eight years Arcane Device released a

45 bunch of CDs, a LP, a double 7" pack and some cassettes (many of set of chords that build inexorably from multiple guitar, string and organ them these days available from http://www.pulsewidth.com). For lines." [press release] Monochrome Vision, Myers went to his archive to pick some rare (from various compilations on Subterranean Records, Tragic Figures, SFCR * ATRIUM CARCERI - Ptahil CD (Cold Meat Industry CMI.168, and Generations Unlimited) and unreleased for his double CD. I admit 2007) € 14.00 straight away that it has been a while since I last played a CD by ATRIUM CARCERI gehört sicher inzwischen zu den besten der COLD Arcane Device, but hearing this feast of recognition, prompts me to pull MEAT-Acts, seine Kompositionen weisen eine kompositorische Schärfe them all out and play them again in the next weeks, when time allows auf, die einen leicht in den Bann zieht. Sein viertes Album heisst me. The strength of Arcane Device, to work with such unmusical PTAHIL: Sehr elektronisch, fast orchestral breitwandig, oft mit sounds in such a musical form, hasn't lost any of his magic to me. langsamem halligen Pulses versehen, von cinematoskopischen Unlike say the current wave of no input mixers, who like to be Charakter; und immer wieder tauchen unheimliche, rumpelnde, microsound, minimal or overtly harsh, but nothing musical, I only know elektronisch sirrende oder organische Geräuscheffekte auf, wie in einer of one equivalent to Myers and that's Marco Ciciliani, who I once saw von fremden Wesen bevölkerten Unterwelt. Trotzdem sind die Stücke play a no input mixer in such a musical manner. Great stuff!" [FdW / perfekt durchstruktiert, jeder Sound wirkt gewollt platziert, stilistisch Vital Weekly] irgendwo im Kreuzungsbereich von post-Industrial, dark ambient & Neo-Klassik. Erstklassig! * ARTEMIEV, ARTEMIY - Five mystery tales of Asia CD "The fourth album from composer Simon Heath (Sweden) ventures (Electroshock Records ELCD007, 1998) € 13.00 beyond the vestiges of your mortality, granting a fleeting glance at the "Neues Werk (die 4.te CD) des Moskauer Komponisten ARTEMIY world beyond the veil. As ever, Simon has reinvented the genre as well ARTEMIEV (der Sohn von Edward Artemiev, der für viele as himself with a unique ambience created from his ever-increasingly TARKOWSKI-Filme die Soundtracks schrieb), auf seinem eigenen complex and obscure techniques of mental dissolution and musical Label veröffentlicht, ein dichter ambientartiger Soundtrack mit Ethno-, innovation. Atrium Carceri emerges from the vapours with yet another Worldmusic- und orientalisch anmutenden Einflüssen (Flöten, stunning release entitled Ptahil (fetahil). The obsidian citadel stands Gesänge). Manchmal wie eine Mischung aus RAPOON und stoic, its forceful gaze forever over streets running rampant with the DESACCORD MAJEUR. ARTEMIEV benutzt hier Instrumente aus councils bidders, while the citadel of glass attracts the mindless Japan, China und der Mongolei, und erzählt dabei Geschichten aus reincarnates grasping at anything physical while their memories slowly Asien..[Drone Rec. info 1999] burn away in the womb of their eternal home. The comforts of quiet Back in stock this nice CD from the russian composer (and son of lives forever washed away by a miasmic tidal wave of necrotic flesh, EDWARD ARTEMIEV who wrote most film-soundtracks for the sagging, protean forms and the chill of the grave.This is a place where TARKOWSKI films. Dense ethno-ambient with oriental touch, still worth steel rusts and is forgotten, where flesh and the fleeting forms it inhabits to discover! are forever changed. Ptahil sees all, and forgets naught. Let your mind be stripped to the pulpy, undulating core with this darkened voyage into * ART OF PRIMITIVE SOUND - Musical Instruments from Prehistory domains both dreadful and serenely beautiful." [press release] CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL003, 1993) € 13.50 Einer der allerersten (und leider lange vergessenen) Veröffentlichungen * AUBE - Imagery Resonance CD (Aquarel 05-07, 2007) € 13.50 auf dem ALIO DIE-Label HIC SUNT LEONES war diese CD mit "Resonanz" ist ein gutes Stichwort für dieses Album des japanischen obskuren Aufnahmen, die ausschliesslich auf prähistorischen Projekts, enthält es doch 4 lange, pumpende, fräsend-elektronische Instrumenten eingespielt wurde.. alte Hörner, Hölzer, Bögen, Steine, Dronescapes und knarzend-sirrend Analog-Electronics, die Muscheln, etc.. klang so die Musik der Ur-Menschen? Resonanzen-Blasen zu werfen scheinen in imaginären Mikro- und "As the title suggests, this peculiar project commit to disk recreation of Makrowelten... dabei entstehen langsame Bewegungen von sich 'music' from the Paleolithic period. Involved in the project is Stefano ergebenden Strukturen, die einen hinfortreissen in diesem Kangstrom.. Musso, of Alio Die, and Walter Maioli, a researcher of the Archaeology Definitiv einer der besten AUBE CDs der letzten Zeit! of Music." [Equilibrium] "This album has been specially recorded by Akifumi Nakajima for presentation at his Moscow concert in November 2007. This time he * A SILVER MT. ZION - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons CD found the sound source in a small analogue percussion synthesizer (Constellation Records CST 051-2, 2008) € 14.50 Amdek PCK-100. Mostly calm album showing roughness and asperity Die derzeitige Vorzeigeband des Montrealer Labels (da es GODSPEED of sound only in the first track. The rest material sounds more like nicht mehr zu geben scheint) klingt auf "13 BLUES" noch weitaus lingering psychedelic soundscapes created from stratifications of looped wütender, aggressiver, rockiger & lauter als man es gewohnt war. and freely running electronic signals." [label info] Geblieben ist das verzweifelte Pathos und die ausschweifende bis mitreissende Psychedelik, die immer wieder zu wunderschönen * AUBE - Ambera Planeta Wawar CD (Autarkeia acd 025 Instrumental-Passagen führt, denn noch immer sind diverse Streicher bootlegged 001, 2008) € 13.00 im Kollektiv dabei. 5 tracks recorded in Latvia, thats the only thing we know about this "Nachdem sich die komplette Band hinter Silver Mount Zion über die strange release, which was at one point a bootleg but now its not? letzten drei Jahre etwas rar gemacht hat, kommen sie nun umso This is the typical AUBE-sound, endless loops & samples in rows, eindringlicher um die Ecke. Doch der Reihe nach; denn unsichbar spheric drone-fields and more disturbing noise-mantras.... waren sie beileibe nicht. Als Silver Mountain Reveries oder The Silver "AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD was the first bootleg issued Maountain Elegies Play War Radio suchten sie diverse Clubs in by AUTARKEIA label. However, after the author Akifumi Nakajima wecshelnden Bestzungen heim, zuweilen unterstützt durch Hangedup, apologised to us for his "negligence“, the misunderstandings between oder als abgespeckte "Kammer"-Version. Und dann natürlich nicht AUTARKEIA and Akifumi were cleared out. In the meantime after the zuletzt als Backing Band des famosen Vic Chesnutt auf seiner kürzlich author recognised the bootleg, AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar absolvierten Tour. Das alles jedoch konnte nicht den Hunger der Fans goldenCD has acquired a new status. This publication has become an nach einem neuen Album des Montrealer Künstlerkollektivs stillen. Und official release of the project, while its previous concept (that of a hier ist es nun: das neue Album. Nie zuvor waren SMZ eindringlicher, bootleg) became meaningless. The exclusive record by the Japanese nie zorniger und nie mächtiger. Die Basis dieses Albums ist mehr als je genius is based on excellent psychedelic ambient and the collages of zuvor: DAS Riff! Vom Blues, den es im Titel trägt bis hin zu zornigem extreme, structural noise music. The release is sold in an elegant Noise und wieder zurück zu ausufernden Klangkaskaden - zwei digipack, which is probably the first in AUBE history." [label info] Gitarren, zwei Violinen, Cello, Kontrabass und Drums können nicht irren! "13 Blues..." ist Donnerhall und Sturmwarnung zugleich - es ist * AUBE - Reworks Stefano Gentile II CD (Silentes minimal laut und doch fein arrangiert. Kurz: es ist absolut zwingend!" [thee editions sme 0720, 2008) € 13.00 unknown reviewer] Second part of the Collaboration between AUBE and the SILENTES & "The music of the full band (two guitars, two violins, cello, contrebasse (ex-AMPLEXUS)-runner STEFANO GENTILE, with 4 long movements and drums) has grown louder, looser, full of spittle and tears. On 13 (almost 70 minutes). Let us describe only the first track in detail, a long Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever. movement of beautiful waving drones which change their tone & colour Anchored by new drummer Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup), the band works from time to time, the waves begin to overlap more and more and its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and slowly from new textures and overtunes appear out of nothing, also in ferocity. Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on- waves... the other 3 movements use different sounds and textures, but the-floor punk dirge of "1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound" or have the similar hypnotic character of pure drone-streaming shimmers. exploding in sheets of free noise and melody on "Black Waters One of the most meditative AUBE-works we know, highly Blowed", the band has never rocked harder and has never sounded recommended ! more determined, desperate and driven. A stuttered blues riff is the foundation for the album's title track, making its appearance after a blisteringly minimalist intro. "Engine Broke Blues" features a gorgeous

46 * AUBE - Le Syndrome Aquatique do-CD (Silentes minimal drums complete the picture. Shocked awake by a heavy pound on a editions sme 0721, 2008) € 18.00 barrel and a cracking door. Where am I at this point? The gruesome "This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube's work sounds I heard before are overtaken by heavenly sounds, birds and originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by some vocals. But it was a short victory, the dark sounds kick in again MANIFOLD records. The new reissue included the original album with a and the beat starts to get back at me. I am stunned, this is not music, bonus track and a bonus live CD. this is straight on sound-engineering! The second track “Scared datas” LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction goes like the first track, but gets more of a triphop sound. Dark triphop, and resetting of sonorous material to work of Aube, this particularly that could become a trend. Count me in for that genre, because what extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be Babylone Chaos is doing here is new, refreshing and awesome. The proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Through sophisticated and very third track “Blood on thorns” gets a lot noisier than the previous tracks tested technical of sonorous rework assembled in years of untiring and is suddenly petrifying when circus music starts. (I always had activity in a searching experience, Aube puts molding on and models something against the circus and clowns, don’t ask why.) fragments of concrete sounds of "aquatic" derivation transforming them Listening to the CD I found that Babylone Chaos can be compared, in a in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops rhythms -mechanics, strange way, with Aphex Twin. You can hear beats, but they never last constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and longer than a few measures. That is one of the reasons why this CD incredible impact, and unavoidably bringing back to the memory the first sounds so great. Babylone Chaos doesn’t care about being tagged with three CD constructed with single water sounds of the monumental one a genre; the artist just does what he wants. The CD isn’t one you listen box of 12 CD " proudly published from Amplexus more than 10 years to on a regular occasion. Listening to “les machines exerlates” is a trip. ago. One new unforgettable work for all those who love, and has loved, A trip to the beautiful, the ugly, the frightening the heaven and the hell. the avant-guard-istic sonorous experimentations of large the great As I continued my exploration, I found even more interesting material. Japanese master." [label info] The piano pieces in the fifth track “Death crusade” are so strange. It doesn’t fit with the music, but in some way it jet [i]does[/i] fit. The tender * AUBE - Metal on Metal do-CD (Silentes minimal editions sme background sounds are divided and shattered to pieces by deep noisy 0722, 2008) € 18.00 scrapes, pounds and scratches. This is music which can be compared "Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for with using acid. But please dear reader; don’t use it at the same time! AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for The tracks go well into each other, although that isn’t hard with such this work, over the original album, you'll can hear a bonus track and a experimental music. Track eight, “Paranoiac morons”, made me think of full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of a scene in the Kubrick movie “Full metal jacket”, where Joker tries to the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible find the sniper who turns out to be a woman. I’ve always found that technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull scene and especially, the music, incredible. But I think “Paranoiac out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells morons” would be even better as a soundtrack to that scene. rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular As an overall thought I must say that this release surprised me muchly. elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of The packaging is awesome, although I can’t stand it when a CD doesn’t common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the fit between the regular jewel cases and digipacks. The music is sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and refreshing and “les machines ecarlates” is more like a piece of art then recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and a CD filled with songs. “Les machines ecarlates” brings you to the verge elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complexwafts, resounding of your life, a leap of faith, a trip to hell and back and leaves the weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles unprepared to wonder. This isn’t my regular “sing along in the shower” and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, CD, this is something I admire, treasure for the special moments and harmonic drones... "Metal on Metal", two only, fantastic CD for and a certainly use in tiny portions. All those experimental fans out there, matchless release." [label notes] beware! “Les machines ecarlates” gives you the journey of a lifetime." [Heathen Harvest] * AVSKY - Silent Decay CD (Reverse Alignment RA-1, 2007) € 13.00 * BAD SECTOR - Storage Disk 2 CD (Waystyx WR43, 2008) [lim. A new label from Sweden presents this newcomer from Norway with 500] € 13.00 synth-loops and huge reverberations... Zweiter Teil der Anthologie mit raren Tracks vom italienischen Kult- an act with potential to delevop, worth to check out ! Projekt, die beweisen dass Massimo Magrini auch auf Compilations und "The Norweigan dark ambient scene is growing with acts that defines "kleinen" Releases nur hochwertiges veröffentlicht hat; inklusive 4 the sound to be. Avsky is one of the upcoming stars at the dark unveröffentlichen Stücke von 2002, und wieder im besonderen heavens of isolationism/ambient. The eminent debut Silent decay takes WAYSTYX-Design! the listener into eight passages of distorted and vast soundscapes, "2nd part of rare tracks anthology. Contains material from: "Planar giving the opportunity to fall into relaxing infinite. Energy" picture 7" (Smallvoices), "Scrignum Vitae" box with CD and Edition of 500 copies comes in standard jewelcase." [label notes] objects (Old Europa Cafe), "Ten Years Of Madness" 2 CD (Achtung "... So Avsky is from Norway, judging by his e-mail, and he likes his Baby!), "Land:[Schaft]" 2x10" (Cold Lands), "Hover" CDr (Bastet Rec.), tunes to be dark. As far as I can tell he plays guitar through 863 "L'Ame Electrique Presents Old Europa Cafe" (Ame Electrique) + 4 different kinds of effect processing devices, foot and hand controlled. previously unreleased tracks recorded in 2002." [Zhelezobeton] Alright, now that sounded not very nice of me. Perhaps I just don't "...The Waystyx label focuses on Industrial based music, drones and know. No, I really don't know. The eight sonic landscapes sound field recordings. Behind the Bad Sector-project you find the Tuscanny- actually very nice. Dark, controlled and haunted, atmospheric. Fans of born artist Massimo Maggrini who has been active under the Bad Moljebka Pvlse, Troum and such like should take notice. Fine dark Sector flag since 1994 with the debut cassette release "Ze" on the ambience all around. Maybe this is one of those obscure things that Slaughter Productions label followed by the CD-release "Ampos" on float around on blogs in ten years as the long forgotten classic." Dutch label God Factory in 1995. Since then it has resulted in an " [FdW / Vital Weekly] extensive number of releases on various labels with quite a few on the Waystyx label. Present album titled "Storage disk 2" is a compilation of * BABYLONE CHAOS - Les Machines ecarlates CD (OPN later materials of Bad Sector from the period 2002-2005. The overall Records OPNCD007, 2007) € 14.00 expression is quite dramatic combining industrial sound spheres with The project of BOTCHAN KARISEN (Belgium) with a new work, a deep more downbeat ambient. Despite the downbeat expression approaching tour de force into a electronic / technological chaos-music, with the tranquilizing sound of melancholic ambient, there are masses of influences from Industrial, Collage-Sounds and even Electro-Acoustic, industrial elements combined with interesting noisy and state of the art dark & ecstatic & dangerous ! electronics added elements of manipulated guitars and processed "A man with a fish eye stared at me when I satisfied my computer with human voices. The music of Bad Sector is intense and very this CD. The artwork on this release is awesome, something which is atmospheric. Thus a pleasant overview of earlier materials from a thoughtful to do when you release your CD in a DVD case. On the front talented Italian artist calling himself Bad Sector. Intense!" [NM, Vital of “les machines ecarlates” stands a man pierced through his forehead Weekly] with a huge piece of piping. On the back a man with a fish eye gives me a look, which keeps me away from the track listing underneath it. I must * BAKER, AIDAN / LEAH BUCKAREFF / NADJA - Trinity CD (Die say, it pleases me to receive such artwork, I could write a good review Stadt DS107, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 about the artwork alone. Als NADJA zusammen mit ALLSEITS in der "Friese" in Bremen Babylone Chaos is new to me, not only as an artist, but the music is auftraten, gab DIE STADT diese CD heraus, mit dem wohl ersten very new to me too. Listening to the first track “Dissect me” I got very veröffentlichten Solo-Track von der weiblichen NADJA-Hälfte LEAH enthusiastic. This artist knows how to frighten someone with sounds. BUCKAREFF! Dieser erscheint tatsächlich wie ein Gegenpart zu Electronic heavy sounds flow back and forth while strange ‘ahhh’s and AIDAN BAKERS Musik-Kunst, ist aber bassiger & abgründiger, ‘oohh’s can be heard. A shivering breath, winds and strange electronic

47 pulsierend & gefährlich ... allein dieses Stück "Socorro" wäre das Geld combined a familiar ambiance within his body of work with folk music for wert! Ansonsten gewohnte Klasse ! something that is loosely being dubbed as his “folk/drone” album. I "A special NADJA CD also feat. one solo track by both members Aidan really didn’t know what to make of that at first. I suppose a description Baker & Leah Buckareff. Released in conjunction with a live like that shouldn’t be too hard to really figure out, but still it was performance on 20. April 2008 in Bremen. Limited edition of 500 intriguing. numbered copies in full color sleeve. Total playing time: 38:35 min. The album opens with the track “K” and greets the listener with the Track listing: simple plucking of an acoustic guitar that as the song moves forward 1. Aidan Baker 'Carrizozo' 10'31 begins to merge into a dreamy backdrop of sound. Everything seems so 2. Leah Buckareff 'Socorro' 10'42 incredibly delicate, which is only enhanced by the overall sparseness 3. Nadja 'Jornada del Muerto' 17'22 " [label info] throughout the recording. One of the many things that I really enjoy "Die Stadt always takes great care of their artists. Once you belong to about Scalpel however is the increased focus on Baker’s vocals, which the label, the label will carry all your releases, and when in Bremen, have gradually become a part of Baker’s sound but not so much to the Stadt of Die Stadt, the artists will play and there is a CD for the amount of attention that they receive here. Granted, his vocals are still occasion. This trinity of a matter of one plus one is three. Nadja is the very subdued, and like the music are softly spoken amongst the duo of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, so they can do three things on strumming of his guitar. The last three tracks on the album are where it the same night. On April 20th (a day with historic significance... Bebe really begins to take shape however, in the form of otherworldly drones, Barron died that day this year for instance) they visited Bremen and on strings, and shimmering backdrops that gradually consume Baker’s 'Trinity' there are two solo pieces and one duo piece. It's interesting to vocals and guitar into many layers of beautiful sounds. And while see how things add up, or perhaps don't. Nadja is in full form here, with drifting and sparse as it may be, there is still a certain feeling of warmth a loud rocking piece: the drum machine hammers time away, while within it all that for me is what makes Scalpel worth many repeated guitar and bass play distorted, meanwhile looping their sound. A strong listens. It couldn’t come at a better time either as winter begins to settle 'hole' in the sound adds an odd angle to the piece. A far cry away from itself in here in the Midwest." [Built on a weak spot] Baker's solo piece, made of carefully strummed guitars which are looped around. Drones are faded in over the course of ten minutes and * BAKER, AIDAN - Green & Cold CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records things remain subtle. In the middle, literally, is Buckareff solo for bass. mt164, 2008) [lim. 400] € 13.00 Also starting out quiet things are unmistakably but the distortion pedal is BLACK SERIES NEGRO 41. Re-issue der CDR auf GEARS OF SAND. already lurking underneath and adds a more noisy tone to the music. If Eine tolle Mischung aus eher song-orientierten Stücken und dem these names don't mean anything to you, but see their music all around, dronig-experimentellen "typischen" Baker! 10 Stücke, vielleicht das then this is absolutely a fine place to start. Trademark pieces bisher ausgearbeiteste Album. everywhere." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "Edition of 400 numbered copies. A kind of different album from A. Baker (Nadja) as it leans more into shoegazery and drone-pop songs. * BAKER, AIDAN - The Book of Nods CD (Beta-lactam Ring “Green & Cold” is the strength of strings proved by A. Baker. His soft Records mt163 / Black Series NEGRO 40, 2008) € 13.00 lyrics suffuse weightlessly into a humming cloud of perfumed guitar "First ed. Of 500 numbered copies available late May, 2008. A new scour. Yes, when gazed upon, these patent leather shoes really do landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the reflect up. However, “G&C” is accomplishes much more than throwing dawn. The finished piece is neither night nor day, but the transformation Loveless lights back up to Heaven. An ass-load or so of previous avant- itself. Aidan Baker's (Nadja) "Book Of Nods" crests experimental peaks garde releases has developed in Baker a skill-set to be able to tweak in similarly paced sonic transmigrations. His lustrous chimera blooms normality. His 6 strings ring out like Echoes in a Shallow Bay in the year open in shifting onion layers built out of slow-moaning guitar, flute, 4 A.D., but vox and drone are couched in subtly weird production. Over- organ and drums. The resonant frequencies of quietly crashing nodes emphasized Esses and Tees cross pollinate with the squeaking vibrate the ozone with a sub-textural beating of multi-pianic feathers. between-chord transitions, inventing a sort of clacking secondary dialog Baker's prior metallic inclinations lend in heaviness, adding a certain underneath the quieter songs. While other pieces play out into long, stylistic thud to Terry Riley-like territories, and colouring portions almost hyper-transcendent, cosmic vibes that end up in left field (see also Jim as if they were middle passages in some sprawling prog excursion. A O’Rourke, Ben Chasney and Michael Gira). And, of course, there is soft eruption of synchronous sweet airs." [label info] other odd fragments sneaking around behind the curtain of each tune. "...Book Of Nods begins with a 8 minute drift that sounds remarkable Baker’s voice is calmly pleasing, and like Vini Reilly or Henry Frayne like a more subdued Necks jam. Simple piano figure repeated over and (Lanterna), his vocals often seem more like another frequency/rhythm over, slowly shifting and changing, but looped and hypnotic and than specific words. “G&C” is total radiance and not quite as dreamily repetitive. Almost like a much more mellow and muted heartbreaking as, say, Red House Painters, which is why it is still safe Lubomyr Melnyk, soft flurries of piano blurred into indistinct streaks, to listen with knives around. So, it turns out “Green & Cold” is neither. It quite lovely. The 18 minute follow up is another sort-of- jazz sprawl, is experienced and warm and suitable for disappearing into midnight slow smoldering drones, super spare abstract percussion, warm and to." [label info] languid and laid waaaaay back, before the original slow motion drift is "...Essential for fans of all things Jeck and Tim Hecker and Jasper subsumed by some Pop Ambient washed out whir, giving the track a TX and Machinefabriek and Grouper and Troum and Main and the like, strange alien ethereal sheen. Track 3, “Obsession”, is like a dubbed but also worth a listen for more adventurous fans of Iron & Wine, out hybrid of Low and Bohren, jazzy slowcore, allowed to slither and Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500, Low and other slowcore drugrock crawl, the drums a bit more skittery, some of the melodies effected, and dreaminess..." [Aquarius Records review] flipped backwards, allowed to swoop and thhhhwp, there are even some fluttering flutes, again, bringing to mind a Necks style jazz jam, * BAKER, AIDAN - I fall into you CD (Basses Frequences 0.1.4, but give a bit of an electronic tweaking. The 15 minute closer, is yet 2008) [ed. of 500] € 13.00 another slow burning jazzy slowcore crawl, but here the drums are a bit Re-issue of an early CDR from 2002 (in fact this is maybe his second or harder, the mood is much more ominous and foreboding, everything third ever solo-release), which was recorded on analogue 4-track at that wreathed in deep shimmering drones and distant rumbles, peppered time. Five pieces mix heavenly ocean guitars with rhythm-box and with still more swooping backward beats, steaks of feedback, building to (sometimes weird) tape-loops, whisphered vocal material by AIDAN and an intense, skittery, skipping coda, sounding a bit like Oval remixing the NAOMI OKABE, and beautiful violin-drones by LISA ROSSITER- Necks. Nice. THORNTON. Between pure drone-spheres and more poetic & vocal- And thus somehow, yet another Baker disc well worth owning! based song-oriented material, this shows already nowadays fully And not a bad place to start for the newbie, although the sounds here developed skills. Highly recommended (as almost everything AIDAN are unlike most of Baker’s output. Beautifully packaged in an oversized touches) ! fold over textured paper digisleeve, with a dearth of information, just various Asian calligraphic characters. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!" * BARDOSENETICCUBE + NOISES OF RUSSIA - New Orthodox [Aquarius Records review] Line CD (Some Place Else SPECD07043, 2007) € 12.00 Rauhe, trancige Dronescapes mit sakralem Touch & intensiv * BAKER, AIDAN - Scalpel CD (The Kora Records TKR008, 2007) ansteigendem Spannungsbogen zum Ende hin. Vielleicht lässt sich € 12.00 dieses feine Album der beiden in St. Petersburg beheimateten Projekte SCALPEL beinhaltet vier Stücke, auf denen sich AIDAN BAKER neben so mit einem Satz charakterisieren. Letztere sind zuletzt durch eine seinen beliebten Endloos-Loop-Drones dem Songformat (mit sehr Reihe von ekstatisch-rituellen Konzerten aufgefallen, die sie in zurückhaltendem Gesang) annähert... das ist höchst feingliedrig, Russland und im angrenzenden skandinavischen Raum gaben... introspektiv, ausgefeilt: Akustische Magie zwischen Drone & Folk. "New Orthodox Line brings together two of the most notable Russian " ... Baker has tried his hand in many different areas of music and it’s post-industrial / experimental groups: Bardoseneticcube and Noises of always amazing to here the outcome, as more often than not the results Russia. This unique collaboration stirs the best of both artists to are excellent. There have been records that dabble more in psych, surface, and results in an extremely powerful and intense emotional kraut, ambient, drone, and so on. However here on Scalpel, Baker has experience. The opus travels from sacral soundscapes of orthodox

48 choirs and church bells to a more punishing end of the sonic spectrum Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new provided by pounding rhythms and howling feedback. Here, the version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 opposites unite with passion and compliment each other for the sake of (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. the greater good, the synergetic New Orthodox Line. 'Untitled 1' contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski Bardoseneticcube, having released dozens of albums on various labels elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 2 contains Chartier worldwide, has gained recognition in the international experimental / elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using electronic scene. Bardoseneticcube self-describes their music as the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 3-3(reprise)' contain Chartier elements from “surrealism”, using A. Breton’s description: "pure psychic automatism 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the willing to express the real functioning of the reflection either orally or Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, written, or in any other form. Dictation of mind without any control from California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. the intellect, outside of any aesthetic of moral considerations". 'Untitled 3' mixed by Basinski. 'Untitled 3(reprise)' mixed by Chartier. More info » bsc.radionoise.ru 'Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he Noises of Russia is a highly active Russian experimental music act, with and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me practically countless live performances and a number of albums and about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was videos under their belt. This four member group uses styles and very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been imagery from dark ambient to drone, all the while never forgetting working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling 'The Garden of traditional noise music. Their unique mixture of influences, along with Brokenness' after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I their extremely powerful use of vocals, create an unforgettable popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was experience in modern music. More info » www.noises.ru " [label notes] happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different "... a joint venture between two of Russia's interesting projects from the things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy Noise-related scene. Noises Of Russia is a quartet known for its high with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit activity of live performances plus a large number of albums and videos together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we released. The other project is called Bardosenetticcube also being in decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one the forefront on the Russian scene. This album titled "New orthodox and again, it just worked with something else I had been working line" is a strange beast even in the noise scene with the inclusion of on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! sacral soundscapes consisting of church bells and orthodox choirs I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!' " [label info] swirling in the storm of abrasive noise drones. Consisting of one lengthy "...William Basinski, of course, has explored temporal phenomenology track of 47 minutes the expression is impressive with a nice emotional before, most notably through his breathtaking documentation of tape approach to sonic aggression. Intense." [NM, Vital weekly] decay on the Disintegration Loops series. While Chartier's ultra- minimalism tend towards stasis, his under appreciated Archival 1991 * BARRETT, NATASHA - Isostasie CD (Empreintes Digitales album imparts a similar slow-motion effect upon the listener. Working IMED 0262, 2002 ) € 13.00 together, Basinksi and Chartier add a considerable amount to each Die britische Elektro-Akustikerin NATASHA BARRETT (die inzwischen other's work; and hopefully, they will be working together again as in Oslo lebt) mit Kompositionen die im Zeitraum 1998-2001 entstanden Basinksi provides an emotional center to Chartier's rationalism, and sind. Immer wieder geht es um die Wirkmächtigkeit von Natur- und Chartier offers a reductivist edginess to Basinski's ghostly romanticism. Wetterphänomenen, die Faszination von Modifikationen des For this album, Basinksi and Chartier present glacially slow shifts Naturzustands, die sie zu einprägsamen und dynamischen, aber oft between extended passages of synthetic drones, occasionally haunted auch undurchdringlich-geheimnisvollen Stücken verwebt. by shadowy whisps and windswept details. There's very little drama and Das klingt schon mitunter recht "typisch" elektro-akustisch, aber very little activity, just an incredible piece of minimalism that has the auffällig ist die z.T. sehr grosse Dynamik und der hohe Anteil an ability to stop time. "environmental" recordings, die sie einsetzt. The repress also features two bonus tracks that enjoy a similar Wahrnehmungsprozesse werden klanglich in ganz anderer zeitlicher time-stopping quality, centered upon the sounds that Chartier Auflösung "dargestellt", z.B. das Fallen von Regentropfen auf den Kopf employed for his installation at the 2006 Bleeding Edge festival, and während man im Grass liegt, das Erfahren der Mitternachtssonne am Basinski's work with the antique Voyetra 8 synthesizer. Each produced Polarkreis, etc.. a different mix of this source material. Still just as recommended " Thema ist auch die die Wirkung von meteorologischen Phänomenen [Aquarius Records review] auf die natürliche Umgebung (Nebel, Wind, Sturm, Nässe), oder die räumliche Wahrnehmung in einem Dschungel / Wald in * BASS COMMUNION - Dronework maxi-CD (Headphone Dust Abhängigkeit der Tageszeiten. Anspieltip: das fantastische RED hdbccd14x, 2008) € 8.00 SNOW! Wiederveröffentlichung der schönen CDR jetzt "fabrikgepresst" im mini LP-Cover! * BARRETT, NATASHA - Kraftfelt CD & DVD-Audio (Aurora ACD "Damn, this is a drone ! Mysteriously cracking sounds on the surface, 5037, 2005) € 19.50 deep space-waves below, absolutely stunning, the only criticism point is Drei wieder faszinierende Stücke von NATHASHA BARRETT, die its shortness, as this could go on forever..... very much regelrecht von dynamischen Entwicklungen und akustischen Effekten & recommended!" [Drone Rec. 2005] Ereignissen zerbesten. “Reissue of the Bass Communion entry in the Droneworks series of "...fetters..."-> über Molekülbewegungen in einem festgesetzten CDRs issued by UK label Twenty Hertz (this edition was withdrawn). Rahmen, wobei die Vorstellung dahinter steckt, dass weiterer The piece is unavailable elsewhere.” [label info] Energieinput den "Rahmen" zerbersten lassen wird. Aber "dahinter" stehen immer weitere neue Rahmen.... * BASS COMMUNION - Pacific Codex CD & DVD-A BOX "Prince Prospero's Party", ein sehr narrativ geprägtes Stück, basierend (Equation Records E=mc16, 2008) € 30.00 auf einer Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allen Poe... und B.C.-Sammlerstück mit Buch auf EQUATION - war dort sofort nach "Exploratio Invisibilis", ein Stück über das Suchen (im "Suchen" reisen Erscheinen ausverkauft ! "An extended work of majestic beauty and wir, und manchmal ist das Gesuchte die ganze Zeit schon bei uns, wir submerged low-end vibrations. Deluxe box set includes stereo CD and erkennen es nur nicht). "The great explorers travelled to the "unknown" 5.1 surround sound DVD-Audio, 36-page perfect-bound book, , looking for treasures and new lands". Eine 30minütige "Energie gefüllt casebound (aka tip-on) gatefold sleeve, hand-numbered insert and mit Landschaften von Verwicklungen, Klang und Stille". Wer auf heavy-gauge box-slipcase -all designed by CARL GLOVER at Aleph aufregende "komponierte" Neue Musik steht, der muss hier einfach Studios. This work was originally destined for a vinyl release but-sad to zugreifen! say-even the best mastering engineers could not capture the deep tones present in this gorgeous musical work. Only the CD+DVD-A * BASINSKI, WILLIAM & RICHARD CHARTIER - 1-3 CD (Line formats were able to do the bass and subtle sonic textures justice." line_034, 2008) € 13.00 [press release] Re-issue der vergriffenen SPEKK-CD (KK:002), re-mastered und mit Bonus-Material versehen! Unser damaliger Kommentar: "Zwei lange * BASS COMMUNION - Molotov and Haze CD (Important Records Collaborations-Stücke der beiden Minimalisten, ultra-meditativ & ruhig & IMPREC 193, 2008) € 13.00 mysteriös verzaubernd, glitzernd feedbackend... Anklänge an Vier neue (rec. Feb. 2008) lange B.C.-Stücke, z.B. "sphärische Klänge, TIETCHENS, VIDNA OBMANA, ARCANE DEVICE.. die von unter Drogen stehenden, Harfen zupfenden Engeln stammen" Two very long collaboration pieces, very meditative, quiet, mysterious [Volker W. Stephan], die sich zwischen rauhen & röhrenden guitar & encharming, glittering feedbacking..... on a new japanese label in a synth-drones und betörend herüberwehenden Melodien & Klangwolken nicely designed cardboard cover.." [Drone Rec.] bewegen... wie so oft absolut hypnotisch! "LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of "Molotov and Haze is packaged in a deluxe, tip-on style heavy-duty William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work gatefold jacket with the CD slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label by Carl Glover. Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven

49 Wilson's recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most per Du gewesen sind, imprägniert den Dreamscape der beiden of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing Niederländer mit einer Tristesse, die jenseits von Gesten der recordings of real instruments and field recordings. The atmosphere of Auflehnung um eine poetische Einstellung zum Unvermeidlichen the music has tended towards the dark and melancholic, but expressed bemüht scheint. Das rituelle Getrommel von ‚Fafagg‘ sagt wohl: Nach with an almost zen-like beauty. More recently, Wilson has also started uns die Steinzeit. Bei ‚V-Time‘ ist das Getrommel industrial geworden, working with a guitar and laptop configuration -- the first material in this ein monoton rotierender Morlock-Beat auf vollen Touren, der bei style is contained on this album." [label info] ‚Illusions‘ schon wieder archaisch ausdünnt zum Toktoktok, neben dem einer zu versuchen scheint, aus Feuerstein Funken zu schlagen. * BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC - Musicamorosa CD (Cronica 029, ‚Perhaps...‘ lässt dann wie von einer Klangschale einen ‚singenden‘ 2007) € 15.00 Oberton dahin schweifen, bevor das 21-min. ‚Six Notes on a blank "Im Schatten blühen junge Mädchen pink? Jorge Mantas jedenfalls ließ Tape‘ mit nachhallenden Dongs einsetzt und dunkles Gewummer - wie sich durch Proust inspirieren, untermischt mit von Tristesse und von einem Bombengeschwader? - die Luft erfüllt. Eine Geige Abschied geprägten Liebesgeschichten von Poe bis Wong Kar-Wai, kratzt diskant und kaputt. So klingen die ersten Notizen. Weitere, Mädchenbildern von Waterhouse und Rosetti bis Rohmer und Deville, ähnlich düstere, und ein Ritornell des Getrommels, aufs Äußerste aber auch den Erotika-Ikonen der Fotografen Guido Argentini und alarmiert, folgen. Der Zahn der Zeit hat dem bisher nichts anhaben Roy Stuart. Mein erster Eindruck - Bilitis - war also gar nicht so können. Und Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters." [Bad Alchemy] abwegig. Ein Computermönch träumt von Sensuality & Sadness und schon treibt Sublimation delikate Blüten. Gefühlskitsch bekommt im * BEEQUEEN - Sanddancing CD (Important Records IMPREC Halbschatten einer künstlerischen Sensibilität gleich etwas Sublimes. 177C, 2008) € 13.00 Musik als Geliebte, umsponnen von einer Delectatio morosa, der Lust BEEQUEEN sind mit "Sanddancing" ganz im "Song" angekommen, an sündigen Vorstellungen? Fast alle Titel stammen aus Prousts Die einer Art elektronischer "Ambient Pop" der ein Spektrum von kitschigen Gefangene. Colleen spielt dazu La Lectrice und alles wird gleich Kindermelodei-Stücken bis hin zu verschrobenen Instrumentals ‚Pariserisch‘. Nicht Lukas, der Hl. Antonius ist der Schutzpatron der umfasst, mit weiblichem Gesang, irgendwo zwischen alten BRUNNEN, Künstler. Das ist nicht halb so sarkastisch, wie Dionysius als Nothelfer PIANO MAGIC und LPD, charmant, verträumt & luftig leicht, ohne gegen Kopfschmerzen. Ich schwanke, während Mantas mollige Drones experimentelle & geräuschhafte Elemente ganz zu verbannen... mich umschweifen und verführerisch ihre Gestalt wechseln, zwischen "After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to Kopfzerbrechen und Gedankenverbrechen - wie denn auch anders, present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The wenn eine Musik gleichzeitig so schön, fatal und schizophon daher Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song-based, this album kommt. Ach wie so schwelgerisch öffnet der Laptop seine Speicher, auf features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek deren Grund man auf Wagners Liebestod und Debussy stoßen würde. Kinkelaar). Well rounded pop songs in some places, but Beequeen Was gerade noch knirschte wie Sand oder schäumte wie die never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the Brandung um Aphrodites Knöchel, ist nun blinkende Gitarre, dann dark alley of pointless experiment. Orchestral in 'The Illogical Song,' wieder eingedampftes orchestrales Rauschen. Als Encore folgt ein collage like in 'The Edie Three Step' or a simple rhythm machine in 'The ausführlicher Remix durch @c, schnüffelnd wie eine Maus, die rosige Honeythief.' Beequeen does all, and with great care and seemingly Nackedeis wittert." [Bad Alchemy] ease. This album features also the help of Barry Gray, former (and first) "Marcel Proust has been one of the main sources of inspiration to me in guitarist of The Legendary Pink Dots, and would not have been the the last years. His ideas devoted to the affections of the human heart, album that is without the invaluable productional skills of Erik Drost." his approach deeply rooted on the long literary French tradition in which [press release] love can only be lived in sadness, is something that goes much beyond "Beequeen is the long running collaboration between Dutch music pure aesthetic. So it came only natural that somehow I would try to veterans Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar. The duo mainly focused convey this literary and philosophic interest with the sound aesthetic I on ambient and industrial music during the nineties, until their album pursue. The image of a sleepless solitary writer confined to a Parisian 'Ownliness', back in 2002, which marked a more or less radical break soundproof room, has everything to do with the experience of a modern with Beequeen's past. Since 'Ownliness' the music of Beequeen has laptop composer, alone in the dark of a room, in a sort of headphone shifted to well crafted electronic pop songs. 'Sandancing' is no ecstasy with his acoustic fragments of reality. Both experience exception. It's an atmospheric and dreamy album due to the beautiful loneliness. Both are melancholic dreamers creating from an imaginary (female) vocals of Olga Wallis. memory of the world. Whether this music is truly related with some of The songs are built on electronics, guitar and keyboard, combined with the delicate emotions depicted in A la recherche du temps perdu or not, fine microsonic details, pulsing drum machines and subtle field it's up to the listener to decide. Could this be a possible sound recordings. It can easily be seen as a rather accessible record, equivalent to the literary images of affection written by Proust in the especially considering Beequeens past, but 'Sandancing' hides enough early 20th century? Is the sound atmosphere of each piece loaded with surprises to keep it exciting. It somehow reminds me of the early works some kind of sensual aura? Would ever be possible to express a of Piano Magic, the project of Glen Johnson, who also used to work sadness full of joy in the same moment of music? Probably we'll never with different vocalists to transform his electronic instrumentals into know. But perhaps we think about it next time we'll listen to songs. Being aware of the adventurous approach of these experimental musicamorosa." [Jorge Mantas] wizards, you immediately wonder what Beequeens next record will be like. But you certainly hope that Olga Wallis will be involved again as * BEEQUEEN - Time waits for no one CD (Herbal Int. CD0801, 'Sandancing' is definitely their best record to date." [MW, Vital Weekly] 2008) € 13.00 Re-issue of their great second CD from 1994! * BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & SIEGMAR FRICKE - Stroma-Konkret CD "Taking their name from a work by Joseph Beuys, the Dutch duo (Monochrome Vision (mv07), 2006) [lim. 500] € 13.00 Beequeen have taken it to heart to createa sonic experience that Is like "...eine Kollaboration des italienischen Kult-Noisers MAURIZIO a living organism, a melange of oozing textures, rhythmical structures, BIANCHI (*1955, Pomponesco) mit SIEGMAR FRICKE (*1968, cyclical pumping surges of sound, arranged as if In an ambient Wilhelmshaven). Letzterer, frühreifer Klangtüftler bereits in den 80ern visionary landscape, a painting for the ears. The experience naturally mit Releases bei Irre Tapes oder Old Europe Cafe und anfänglich recalls earlier works by Zoviet France and The Hafler Trio, with much bekannt als Bestattungsinstitut, hat bereits durch Projekte zusammen use of processed and degraded sounds. As strange and enigmatic as mit Giancarlo Toniutti, Mathias Grassow und mit Miguel A. Ruiz als Its minimal four-fold diglpak cover." [Alan Freeman - from Audion Efficient Refineries seine ‚Pharmakustik‘ in der internationalen Sound Summer/Autumn 1994] Art vernetzt. Eines seiner Tapes hatte er mal ‚Unsophisticated‘ getauft, "BEEQUEENs Time Waits For No One (Herbal (International) CD0801), aber wer Tracks ‚Keratoplastie (für transversale das mit seinem Titel die Rolling Stones zitiert, hatte 1994 noch Marilyn Magnetbandakzeleration, sensorisches Klavier und konkrete Monroe auf dem Cover, jetzt bei dieser Wiederveröffentlichung eine Mechanik)‘, ‚Distrofia Atonale (for paralysed aritmia, nuclear ambience völlig zerbombte WW II-Stadtmondlandschaft. I really think it matches and anamorph tone-pigments)‘ und ‚Dissonanza Sclerotica (for the original Monroe-cover when it comes to beauty, gibt sich Freek polineuropathic surface, piano edematosa and opaque microsections)‘ Kinkelaar dazu hartgesotten. Er & Frans de Waard schienen aber nennt und als „the sphaerialic polymetamorphose of stromatic bereits in Marilyn ein Vanitas-Motiv zu umkreisen, das deuten plastocyanin“ beschreibt, der hat offenbar nicht nur bei Dr. House sein zumindest Titel wie ‚The Shore of Leaves‘, ‚Illusions‘ und ‚Perhaps Praktisches Jahr gemacht, der ist auch ein mit allen trüben Wassern perhaps perhaps‘ an. Da könnten ihnen durchaus Mick Jaggers Zeilen gewaschener Pillendreher, der Russolo und Marinetti, Jary und Henry Drink in your summer, gather your corn; The dreams of the night time in nicht nur homöopathischen Dosen verschreibt. Immerhin erspart er will vanish by dawn durch den Kopf gegangen sein. Aber wo fände man mir so alle näheren Beschreibungsversuche. Wer Stroma-Konkret keinen Anlass für Melancholie und dystopische Ahnungen? Die ‚Furie einwirft, der darf sich jedenfalls über psychedelische Nebenwirkungen des Verschwindens‘, mit der schon Hegel und H.M. Enzensberger nicht wundern, vulgo, wo Rosa war, stellen sich Nekrorealismus und Sarkasmus ein. Vermutlich hätte zwar eine 42-Stundenwoche in einem

50 chinesischen Stahlwerk einen ähnlichen Effekt, aber Scheiß doch auf Fragments of music, short fragments of sonorous material of varied China." [Bad Alchemy] extraction, now short, now long, placed in sequence one behind the "Extra heavy fusion of industrial noise and musique concrète, this other, in a "dry" way, following absolutely unforeseeable times and exclusive collaboration unites forces of two legendary musicians who dynamics. were witnessed the roots of industrial music movement. It consists of Continuous loops, raw unexpected cuts, noise alternated to musical three long tracks of mechanical aggression, clinical obsession and parts, single sounds, drones, notes of piano, buzzes, soft pads, electric uncompromizing psychic attack. Dedicated to the memory of Pierre current workers... Two long traces, 75 minutes, a listening experience Schaeffer, this is the second part of ongoing series, started by Tibprod over any edge and reliable definition. A old work for the first time on label CDR-release. Release date is 30th December 2006. Limited CD." [label notes] edition of 500 copies in jewelcase." [label info] * BIANCHI, MAURIZO - Dead Colours CD (Silentes minimal * BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & SPARKLE IN GREY - Nefelodhis CD editions SME0717, 2008) € 13.00 (Cold Current Production CC-CD006, 2007) € 12.00 Amazing & rather peaceful synth-based work about colours which was Das Schwester-Album zu "Erimos" verknüpft melodische und mitunter created between 1997 and 1999. 10 pieces, over 70 minutes of music. fast andächtige Instrumentalklänge der italienischen Post-Rock Band "This is the reissue of a CDR published by SILENTES a couple of years SPARKLE IN GREY mit den z.T. obskuren Geräuschsounds von M.B. - ago in only 120 copies. Now finally available on CD with restored das klingt manchmal dann fast nach GODSPEED oder anderen Post- artwork. DEAD COLOURS shows the more quite side of MB... with an Rock / Psychedelikern, sehr introvertiert und ruhig mit viel Violin- incredible dark melancholic tough in vein of David Lynch's Einsatz... Namensgeber für die 8 Stücke sind Bezeichnungen atmospheres... Fantastic!" [label notes] verschiedener Wolkenformationen, sehr passend !! "Nefelodhis album was then recorded in few days in a totally improvised * BIANCHI, MAURIZO & ATRAX MORGUE - M. PLUS T. CD session where Sparkle in Grey, the ensemble of Alberto Carozzi (guitar, (Silentes minimal editions SME0825, 2008) € 13.00 bass), Cristiano Lupo (piano, guitar, drums), Franz Krostopovic (violin) Last work of ATRAX MORGUE before his death in May 2007, low-fi and Hue (laptop, objects), played melancholic melodies on the piano drones drenched in endless delay-effects & speed-changes, mysterious analogical and a-rhythmical soundscapes provided by MB. fragmented and cut into many pieces... The results of these sessions, recorded into the factory where Sparkle "Just before leaving this world in 2007, Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) in Grey are used to have their rehearsal, was assembled and mixed by made a series of recordings in collaboration with the old Italian master Hue himself. As the sounds coming from MB were mainly analogical of pre-industrial culture Maurizio Bianchi (MB). The end result is this (treated guitars, DVD players, tapes and other unknown instruments), devastating album, centred around morbid themes of 'mord' and 'tot'. and as the laptop was used only in the mixing phase, the result is a dirty "Germinal murders... A betulinic bath of hydrocloric acid... Coprological but very analogical mixture of sounds, where the concrete drony noises Isomorphism... It is with deep grief that... Terminal death!" [label notes] and the textures of violins and guitars melt in a quite uncommon way. Nefelodhis is a desperate but dreamy picture in sounds of the concept * BIANCHI, MAURIZO - An Absurd Trilogy 3 x CD & T-Shirt of clouds (in Greek 'Nefelodhis' means 'cloudiness') and, after the (Silentes minimal editions SME0715-17, 2008) € 50.00 careful mastering of Giuseppe Ielasi, sounds like a trip through the wet Collector's item! Special "trilogy"-edition with T-Shirt, only 60 made, lands made of vapor. Being part of a complex quadrilogy about the contains the three new BIANCHI CDs on Silentes ("Selfportrait", spaces Between the Elements, this records inaugurate a series of CDs "Menstruum Regles" and "Dead Colours") plus a black T-shirt with white of various experimental sounds, where Erimos (in Greek “Desert” is the print and a badge! Only very few in stock, sizes M, L, or XL ! second chapter, already available on the American label Digitalis Industries." [label info] * BIOTA - Half a True Day CD (ReR Megacorp ReR BCD6, 2007) € 14.00 * BIANCHI, MAURIZIO - Elisionem CD [lim. 500] (Klanggalerie BIOTA, das ist "Neo-Folk" der ganz anderen Art, surrealistisch & gg115, 2007) € 14.00 fremdartig, mit unglaublichem Sound- & Effekt-Reichtum, ohne Pathos Fünf neue Stücke von BIANCHI zu Ehren der "experimentellen Periode" und von feinster Klangsprache. HALF A TRUE DAY lässt einen des deutschen Komponisten GISELHER KLEBE; der Begriff wunderbar verwirrt & emotionalisiert zugleich zurück, irgendwie "Elisionem" bezeichnet das Verbinden von kleinen Klangeinheiten und belustigt und trotzdem tief verzaubert. Es gibt wohl keine andere Band elektro-akustischen Partikeln. Dronige Wellen und rauschige Anteile der Welt die auch nur annähernd so tönt. halten sich hier die Waage, ohne das es jemals wirklich "noisig" wird, "Kaum ein anderes Projekt steht derart für kollektive Kreativität und eher driften die Stücke mysteriös wallend vor sich hin, in sanften Kontinuität, für elektroakustische und audiovisuelle elektronischen & mechanisch ratternden Loop-Schichten, Equalizer- Gesamtkunstwerklichkeit wie die seit 1979 (anfänglich als und Phasenverschiebungen verstärken die geheimnisvolle Aura. Mnemonists) in Colorado operierenden BIOTA. Sechs Jahre scheint Definitiv eines seiner besten Drone-Alben! eine natürliche Biota-Schwangerschaft zu dauern, denn solange "We are very honoured to offer you a new album by Italian composer liegt Invisible Map (2001) zurück und davor Object Holder (1995). Dass Maurizio Bianchi a.k.a M.B. 'Elisionem' is a fantastic continuation of Bad Alchemy Records 1989 die Biota-10“ Awry herausbrachte, M.B.'s work from the 1980s, dark and droney, and can be seen as a lässt mir noch heute jedes Loblied auf die Gruppe wie Schleichwerbung true sister album to classics such as 'Neuro-Habitat' or 'Symphony For erscheinen. Doch schon die Tragfähigkeit des Konzeptes verdient A Genocide'. A definite highlight in the Klanggalerie catalogue and not Bewunderung, ebenso wie das kollektive Artwork, das nun Half A True to be missed!" [label info] Day (ReRB6) wie jeden Biota-Release zuvor visuell einzigartig macht. William Sharp, Steve Scholpe, Randy Yeates, Mark Piersel, Tom * BIANCHI, MAURIZO - The Selfportrait of M.B. CD (Silentes Katsimpalis, Gordon Whitlow, Charles O'Meara (aka Vrtacek) und all minimal editions SME0715, 2008) € 13.00 die andern zauberten zudem wieder eine unverwechselbare Melange "An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and aus den Klängen von Akkordeon, akustischer Gitarre, Rubab, introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft Flügelhorn, Keyboards, Piano, Percussion und mehr, in minutiöser and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of Kleinarbeit verwebt durch Tapework, Mix, Processing und Editing zu 17 intersected sounds, stratified, continuously chancing, manipulated and von einem zum anderen fließenden Aspekten eines träumerischen, molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... surrealen Ambientes, in dem die Zeit manchmal rückwärts läuft oder Expanded places, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at sich verzweigt. Diese Exotica vom andern Stern entführt in ein the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, akustisches Spiegelkabinett, in dem sich Klänge in Ketten of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads vervielfältigen oder wie in Echokammern brechen oder überlagern. towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery... Soeben noch transparente Folklorismen krümmen sich zu a new and definitive "manifesto". This is simply MB... no other word is Loops, zarte Vokalisen von Kristianne Gale, Gitarren- und Rubabzupfer necessary. A MUST!!!" [label notes] und Akkordeonsound zerfließen zu Musique concrète, zersplittern als rockiger Widerhall aus dem Cyberspace, kollidieren als * BIANCHI, MAURIZO - Menstruum Regles CD (Silentes minimal mittelalterliche Fantasies mit Sonic Fiction. Die Musik zerläuft editions SME0716, 2008) € 13.00 stagnierend und doch stetig, erschafft ihre eigene Traumzeit, "This album is decomposition instead of composition. De-structured unablässig morphend, äußerst seltsam. Einzig die Sun City Girls music instead structured music. Not to complex and articulated kommen als halbwegs vergleichbar in Frage" [Bad Alchemy] technologies for recording, mixing of the parts and mastering; not to one "Six years in the making, the visual/sonic art group Biota have finally sophisticated production and maniacal and defined participations completed their Sixth CD for ReR. Unique in their history and method, correct in post-production... This the new "challenge" capacity to the Biota painstakingly construct complex, organic structures that mix extreme limit from Maurizio Bianchi, a new musical effort, "directed", extensive studio processing and musique concréte techniques with a "raw", immediate, absolutely uncompromising new, to outside of highly eclectic orchestra of acoustic and electronic resources - from kit every law and from every pre-constituted rule... drums, through mediaeval winds, strings and barrel organs to early

51 experimental electronic instruments. Their works are always einst ein anderes, tatsächlich ungewohntes Gesicht verpasste, kreiert performance driven and interleaved with successive stages of Kneale in diesem Spektrum auf »Seventh Ruined Hex« (Important lamination, imbrication, and radical pre- and post-processing, Quietly Records) eine weitere hörenswerte Variation auf ein Themas, das ploughing their own furrow for decades, Biota resemble no one, follow zuletzt vielleicht etwas oft beackert wurde, um dauerhaft spannend zu no one and, if the sonic arts were like the visual arts, would by now be a bleiben. Mann muss ihm allerdings zu Gute halten, dass seine Layer national treasure." [label notes] aus Noise, angedeuteter Harmonie und purer Klangwand jederzeit überzeugend, durchdacht und manchmal sogar recht originell * BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - same CD (Insample # 1, 1997) erscheinen." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] € 15.00 "A further step out in Birchville Cat Motel's ruminations on time/space "Guitar - Cymbal - Electrics" prangt auf dem Innencover (7"-Hülle) der distortion featuring the additional mystikal talents of fellow gravity allerersten BCM-CD von 1997! Hier begann der Siegeszug von destroyer, Matthew Bower (Hototogisu/Sunroof!). Seventh Ruined Hex CAMPBELL KNEALEs rauhen und furiosen neuseeländischen Drone- presents like a lonesome planet, occasionally struck with super-sized Sounds, unglaubliche Feedback-Skulpturen entstehen hier, aber auch fragments of space detritus, but for the most part, just hangs around, ruhige Dronismen... wenige Kopien dieser CD (Auflage etwa 550 Stück) spinning on its axis and doing fuck-all. Strangely emotive for 'a buncha sind wieder aufgetaucht, das Label ist seit Jahren nicht mehr aktiv!! noise.' Like the deepest love, it's warm yet tenuous, and filled with the ever-present potential for loss and brutality. More in line with the * BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - Birds call home their dead CD estranged love tangle of the Birchville classic Chi Vampires than the (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon CPP19, 2007) € 16.00 most recent befuddling hyperspace rock overload of recent albums like Da sind Gitarren drin, da ist Stimme / Gesang drin, Orgel und Our Love Will Destroy the World and Birds Call Home their Dead. perkussive Elemente, aber alles versinkt hier in einen allmächtigen Features Matthew Bower, who has been known to put out a good album Gesamtsound, pulsierend & vibrierend, schwebend & noisig schön, or two on a regular basis. Powerful." [label notes] endlos kreisend im Feedback-Nirvana... CAMPBEL KNEALE jammed psychedelisierend wie kein Zweiter.... * BLACKSHAW, JAMES - Litany of Echoes CD (Tompkins "All instrument played by Campbell Kneale with the additional Square TSQ1783, 2008) € 13.00 assistance of Neil Campbell: flanging, flutter, and wow. Bex Coogan: "Initially inspired by the guitarists of the '60s Takoma label to teach screaming wings of vengeance. Diana Thomson-Kneale: electric himself fingerpicking, London-based musician James Blackshaw writes sander. Gigantic. White-hot stars suddenly huff off their outer layers of pieces primarily for solo 12-string guitar that share more in common gas and debris and collapse into their own gaping void of everlasting with the minimalist works of composers such as Philip Glass, Steve density and nothingness. Hammered into shape in the glowing furnace Reich and Charlemagne Palestine, as well as French composers of their most recent European tour, these monolithic tracks are the Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, than the blues/raga influence of his closest Birchville Cat Motel has come to capturing the gargantuan peers. Using drones, overtones and repeating patterns alongside a shoegazing nirvana of their monsterous current live assault. A ritualistic, strong inclination for melody, Blackshaw creates instrumental music full frequency, bulldozing of superheated twitter and swirl, swimming in that is both intelligent, hypnotic and unashamedly sentimental. Litany of a turbulent undercurrent of molten, sub-metallized, dream-rock. A Echoes, Blackshaw's sixth studio album in five years, shows a more hurricane of sound singing the everlasting lullaby of the universe." [label mature, focused and, on the whole, accessible approach to info] composition. While the album often feels darker and more introspective in nature than on previous releases, many of the songs have a huge- * BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven CD sounding, classical quality to them. With Blackshaw adding some (Pica Disk PICA004, 2008) € 13.00 glistening piano work for the first time and Fran Bury returning to play Absoluter Überflieger, diese BCM-CD; ein One-Tracker Poly-Drone der swarms of sweeping string parts for violin and viola, Litany of Echoes is in 1000 Farben schillert & mäandert, wunderbar raumfüllend und mit a truly original, affecting and timeless album from a guitarist/composer harmonischen & atonalen Sounds & Orgel-Flächen darin, die mehr und coming into his own." [press release] mehr zu einer sich himmelwärts bewegenden Harmonie entwickeln, die "With each new James Blackshaw release, we're always amazed at einfach unwiderstehlich ist ! Wunderschön und fast schon "elegant", mit how someone who works within such a small musical framework can das beste was wir von BCM kennen! continuously exceed our expectations. Definitely a favorite among Das ganze im schönen Papp-Klappcover mit Filzeinlage und Booklet favorites of solo guitarists, Blackshaw has bulked up his arsenal of mit dem Text "Silver machines and stone henges: pumping the pipe compositional approaches by introducing for the first time the use organ of psycho-social mind control" von BRUCE RUSSELL. of piano as a key element. Bookending the album are two long form "Birchville Cat Motel is the project of New Zealander Campbell Kneale, pieces of solo piano in a minimalist style that remind us of Charlemagne who has from his base in Lower Hutt since the mid 90-ies established Palestine or Lubomyr Melnyk. When the twelve string is first heard on himself as the leading voice of this generation of NZ sound artists. the second track, it's not before we're set up with a foundation of Gunpowder Temple of Heaven is a new highlight in his extensive resonant timbres of violin and viola (played by Fran Bury) that give discography. A single 40 minute long-form piece that keeps building weight to the airy modal improvisations of the guitar. Adding subtle and unfolding; heaven for drone-noise enthustiasts. layers of richness and dynamics, the strings ground and support the The CD comes with a booklet with a complete Birchville discography as ringing overtones of the 12 string creating complex harmonies to the well as liner-notes by Bruce Russell." [label info] pulsating melodies. We can't imagine we'll ever tire of hearing "....One long meditative ur-drone, shimmering, glistening layers of Blackshaw's shimmering textural pieces. Amazing how sound so deep, reverberating sound, like Spacemen 3 played Phill Niblock. The sort of dark, damp and resonant can be so transcendentally uplifting." dense dronemusic, that becomes alive when listened to closely. The [Aquarius Records review] various sounds sprawling and twisting, changing shapes, timbres shifting, overtones beating, subtle rhythms, ghostly melodies, all this * BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS - Astral Walk CD (Finalmuzik going on just below the surface. The surface being long thick, rich FM01, 2004) € 13.00 tones, each drifting subtly, tonal colors gradually changing. First real album by the Swiss duo, very electronic, sludgy, hypnotic, What begins as soft and shimmery, soon builds to something trancy & creepy industrial-grooves! more gritty and dense, glistening sonic flares smeared into roiling "Musick originally created as a soundtrack for the performance of swirls of blinding sound. Eventually, the rough edges are worn away, Plastic Spider Thing Part XXII. Performed by legendary COIL and the tone becomes more and more pure, smoother and more rich, collaborators and performance artists Massimo & Pierce. Energetic, the sound of organs, and lilting melodies surfacing, the sounds gentler, breathtaking ritual music for mind and body. Includes a cover of Soft their interactions with each other more complimentary, soothing, Cell's "Macabre (Meet Murder By Angel)". Definitely one for COIL fans. dreamlike, mesmerizing, various notes and tones gradually sloughing Ltd x 1000 copies with beautiful artwork by Lukas Lux and layout by off, leaving less and less sound, the drone becoming more fine, more BSP." [label info] simple, until finally, a single note wavers and then blinks out. Divine! Super deluxe gorgeous packaging. Gatefold digipak, with thick * BOWLINE - same CD (Sonoris sns-04, 2007) [lim. 500] € 10.00 velvet backing for the cd, and a booklet with an awesome BCM essay Neues Projekt von DAVID MARANHA (OSSO EXOTICO) und einem from the Dead C's Bruce Russell." [Aquarius Records review] FRANCISCO DILLON am Cello - oszillierende Streicher-Drones in dynamischer Veränderung kontrastieren mit den eigentlich hoch- * BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - Seventh Ruined Hex CD (Important minimalen Arrangements. Subtil & sparsam, aber von ungeheurer Records IMPREC 169, 2007) € 13.00 Wirkung. "... Die Grundästhetik seiner Arbeit als Birchville Cat Motel speist sich "Behind Bowline we find the more and more present musician David dann auch aus einem starken, deutlich hörbaren Black Flag-Einfluss, Maranha, who was once best known as Osso Exotico, and these days der auffällig gut mit einigen Querverweisen an Drone Music und Power also works as a solo musician and one Francesco Dillon. He is from Electronics harmoniert. Unter der willkommenen Mitwirkung von Italy and studied the cello. These days he is a member of Alter-Ego Matthew Bower, der dem Rock unter anderem bereits mit Skullflower (see Vital Weekly 602 for their work with Gavin Bryars) as well as

52 playing with people like Matmos, Pan Sonic and Scanner. A man of at one point the rhythms of a marching band arrive out of a mass of many talents. Here too Dillon plays cello, whereas Maranha gets credit sound and sounded like an odd counterpoint in this music. On other for 'hammond organ, violin, vox amplifier (with Francesco cello signal), spots we hear the crowd cheering or talking in a reverbing hallway. This glass harmonica, tremolo and distortion pedals'. Of the four tracks, the 'revealing' of sources is a quite nice new feature in this music. It doesn't first is the most silent one, taking several minutes to get started. Like add a whole new perspective, nor does it break the good flow in this with so many other projects of David Maranha, in which ever form it work, but at the same time, you feel that Bradley is slowly shifting takes, this is a work of minimalism. Of sheer, utter minimalism and what interest towards new paths. I wouldn't be surprised if he switches over beauty, once again. The careful strumming of various string one day and reduces the electronic processing in favor of the pure field instruments, the drones added, sparsely of course, from the other recording. But that's all for later. For now, Bradley added another fine instruments. Three short tracks which eventually culminate in the fourth work of drone music to his already nice discography." [FdW / Vital track, which takes up about two-third of the CD and in which the three Weekly] previous excursions return but glorified. Everything comes together here. If you love Osso Exotico or any of the works Maranha did after BRUME / NOMUZIK – Transports CD (Cheeses International CI09, that, this is will be a most welcome addition. Also fans of traditional 1997) € 13.00 minimal music, especially Lamonte Young will find this a great release, "Auf fast 70 Minuten breitet sich die wundersame Musik BRUME's in I'm sure of that." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Zusammenarbeit mit NOMUZIK (New York) hier aus, sehr elektronisch und von unglaublicher Komplexität, viele akustische Ereignisse treten * BOY DIRT CAR - Spoken Answer CD (Aftermusic 001CD, 2008) nahezu gleichzeitig auf. Sehr guter Film für die Ohren, hochgradig € 13.00 atmosphärisch, aber unentwirrbar und fordernd, an elektroakustische "In one of the most unlikely reunions of recent years, seminal Komponisten erinnernd." [old Drone Rec. 1997] Milwaukee noise group Boy Dirt Car announces the release of its first Back in stock few last copies of this mail-collaboration recorded new recordings since 1988. Spoken Answer To A Silent Question 1992/1993 ! brings together several original members -- co-founder Darren Brown, Keith Brammer and Dan Kubinski (Die Kreuzen), T.S. Wahlen and Dave Szolwinski -- and, consistent with Boy Dirt Car's classic revolving-door * BRUME - Re-issue / Anthology series on lineup, brings in several newcomers, including longtime Milwaukee WAYSTYX RECORDS! mainstays Peder Hedman, Karl Paloucek and Jeff Hamilton. For much Part 3-13 of this amazing re-issue series on Moscows WAYSTYS of the 1980s, Milwaukee was home to Boy Dirt Car's brooding sound. RECORDS have appeared! As before, we can only praise & Influenced as much by Wisconsin's brutal winters and the dark tales of recommend almost everything BRUME did, his style was absolutely its North Woods as by any of their avant garde contemporaries, the unique! There's a nice limited numbered box existing containing all 13 group forged a sound different from other so-called 'industrial' bands of CDs, see below! If the lim. ed. box is sold out you can still get an un- the day. As one reviewer once put it, 'Boy Dirt Car creates a sound not numbered box for the single CDs from us for free! Just ask ! like being in a car crash, but of being under one.' Just as it cadged its * BRUME - Schiluuk CD (Waystyx Records WR53, 2008) industrial instrumentation from scrapyards and roadsides, BDC culled [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 its members from across Milwaukee's vibrant music scene of the time, "This is the 3rd CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology, originally recorded in building up an intense following and a reputation as one of the city's 1991 and released on cassette in 1991 by Corrosive Tapes. Digitally most potentially hazardous acts. At the same time, the group recorded remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. C. Renou - all instruments, numerous (now-legendary) cassettes and LPs which, while escaping home-made instruments, tape, pseudo ethnic voices, electronics, mix..." the ears of Rolling Stone, garnered them coverage in The Wall Street [label info] Journal, and -- even more unlikely -- from late advice columnist Ann * BRUME - Stable CD (Waystyx Records WR54, 2008) [lim. Landers." [label notes] 375 copies] € 13.00

"This is the 4th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - * BRADLEY, PAUL & CRIA CUERVOS - Moraines II CD (Small electronics, tapes, voices, mix. Track #1 was recorded in real time in Voices SVR07025, 2007) € 13.00 the studio: programming, 3-string guitar + effects. Track #6 is alien stuff Auf dem langen one-tracker "Moraines II" verschmilzt die feinsinnige called "Erection in Church" from Nihilistic Recordings compilation Ambient-Kunst des Briten PAUL BRADLEY mit den eher rauhen & cassette. Because of the destruction of the original master, this archaischen Feldaufnahmen-Drones von CRIA CUERVOS - recording was revisited and remastered from a bad quality cassette ein wunderbares Stück voller mysteriöser Sounds und mit sehr copy. Produced in 1995 by Bandaged Hand Produce. Reworked and einnehmender, dichter Atmosphäre; es gibt Brüche und sehr "konkrete" digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] Passagen, Wind- & Äther-artige Klangflüsse, und zusätzlich zum fast * BRUME - Electrocoagulation Tapes CD (Waystyx Records einstündigen Stück noch einen 16+ min. Remix von ANDREW LILES, WR55, 2008) [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 welches verwunschene Piano-Klänge & Sphären-wabern verbindet... "This is the 5th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-9 basically "About two years ago we reviewed 'Morainos', a collaboration between recorded live in the studio. C. Renou - electronics, metal, tapes, loops, Paul Bradley and Eugenio Maggi, aka Cria Cuervos from Italy (see Vital horn, trump, voice, mix. Pat' Blanch - trump, voice, tapes. G. Guiggia - 516). Since they have been working on 'Moraines II', or rather re- percussion, flutes. Reprocessed at Brume Rec. in winter 2006. working the first one. Such can be the world of drone music. One drone Originally produced on cassette by Irre-Tapes in 1991. Tracks 10-12 - endless possibilities. The original recordings have been used, highly were extracted from the split tape Brume / Telepherique, produced by processed field recordings that is, and together they created quite a Drahtfunk Products in 1991." [label info] dark album of drone music. Rather than moving about in one single * BRUME - Les Victimes sons dangereuses CD (Waystyx drone, this new piece moves along various paths, clearly divided into Records WR56, 2008) [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 separate parts, each with it's own build up and changes, before moving "This is the 6th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all to the next piece. Some clear field recordings punctuate the music, instruments. Compiled, recorded and mixed at Brume Rec. in 1996-97. such as rain sounds, birds and footsteps. Perhaps nothing new, but the Ultrasonic mastering by Richard Johnson / Atmoject. Originally minor changes, such as the various parts approach, make this however produced by Atmoject as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Digitally quite a nice disc. Plus more treatments arrive through the work of remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] Andrew Liles, who was given all the material and made a remix (a * BRUME - Moll CD (Waystyx Records WR57, 2008) [lim. phrase we should not use for the first track). Liles has a distinct sound 375 copies] € 13.00 (well, as far as I know, as his output is vast and incomplete here) that is "This is the 7th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. C. Renou - all somewhat close to the more eerie Nurse With Wound sound. Here via instruments, tapes, mix, Marie-France - voice. Compiled, recorded and the reverse sound approach, like a single wave washing ashore and a mixed at Brume Rec. in 1999. Originally produced by Prion Tapes as a metallic drone rumble make up a creepy soundtrack to a perfect limited edition CD-R in 1999. Remastered from the DAT-master at nightmare. Sounds arise from previous, and make this a more Brume Rec. in winter 2006. Dedicated to Philip K. Dick." [label info] singleminded piece. Quite a nice one at that." [Vital Weekly] * BRUME - Lost in Karrack CD (Waystyx Records WR58, 2008)

[lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 * BRADLEY, PAUL - Memorias Extranjeras (2) CD (Alluvial "This is the 8th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of Recordings A30, 2008) € 12.00 rare/unedited tracks. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, voice. "...At the basis of all Paul Bradley music is the field recording. After that Remastered from the DAT-master at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label Bradley manipulates the material until is a stretched out piece of drone info] music and the original source recordings have disappeared. That's why * BRUME - Early Tracks CD (Waystyx Records WR59, 2008) in the early days we thought it was a bunch of synthesizers. However [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 for 'Memories Extranjeras' he has these recordings made in Spain, and "This is the 9th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. A compilation of the he by and large does the thing he always does best but there is a slight very first recordings from 1981-1986. C. Renou - all instruments, tapes, difference. The original field recordings are here and there to be heard:

53 mix; Antoine Faure - guitar; Eric Erfurth - guitar, voice; Phil - guitar; reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching Thierry Febvre - sequencer. Remastered from the cassette and DAT- climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] interplay between beauty and bleak desolation. You know their work as * BRUME - Live with or without Audience CD (Waystyx Records separate entities, find out what they do when brought together. Limited WR60, 2008) [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 to 888 copies with speciality eco-wallet packaging designed by ::: "This is the 10th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Live recordings eye.lyft ::: (www.eyelyft.com)" [label info] from 4 performances held in 1985-1988. Remastered from the cassette and reel-to-reel masters at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] * C.C.C.C. - Chaos is the Cosmos CD (Cold Spring Records * BRUME - In Death we trust / Programm T4 CD (Waystyx CSR79CD, 2007) € 13.00 Records WR61, 2008) [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 "We are very proud to announce the return of C.C.C.C. to Cold Spring "This is the 11th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. Tracks 1-8 (after their outstanding album 'Flash' in 1996).This is also the first album recorded in 1987 and produced by Underground Prods in 1998. Track 9 from C.C.C.C. in 10 years! This cult Japanese Noise group is made up recorded in 1986. Remastered from original cassette masters at Brume of Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, YBO2, South Saturn Delta), Mayuko Hino, Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] Fumio Kosakai (Hijokaidan, Incapacitants), and Ryuichi Nagakubo * BRUME - Drug CD (Waystyx Records WR62, 2008) [lim. 375 (Tangerine Dream Syndicate). An absolutely essential album for those copies] € 13.00 with a penchant for extreme Japanoise. Just under 45 minutes of "This is the 12th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "Drug" (parts 1-7) music." [label info] was basically recorded in 1999 and released as a limited edition CD-R "A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of reviewing two folk-based by Blade Rec. in 1999. Track 8 was basically recorded in 1986 and albums from British label Cold Spring Records. It was Von Thronstahl's released as a limited edition cassette by Brume Rec. in 1998. Tracks 9- latest effort "Sacrificare" and the excellent compilation "John Barleycorn 10 were the very last stuff recorded in 1999 under the name of Brume. Reborn". Now it's time for a radical change in stylish expression from Digitally remastered at Brume Rec. in winter 2006." [label info] the impressively musically wide spanning Cold Spring label. As you * BRUME - Prehistoric Tapes CD (Waystyx Records WR63, 2008) probably know Japan is the place to be if you're searching for ear- [lim. 375 copies] € 13.00 shattering symphonies of noise. Two new albums from Cold Spring "This is the 13th CD in the 13 CD Brume anthology. "These recordings present some of the Japanese noise-legends. First album is by Mayuko were the very first electronic experiments I made, just after I gace up Hino and husband Hiroshi Hasegawa operating under the project Uria, and just before I create Brume. The main stuff was inspired by C.C.C.C. (shortage of "Cosmic Coincidence Control Center") with music like Heldon, Suicide... but also progressive music and German contributions from Fumio Kosakai (Hijokaidan & Incapacitants) and kraut-rock." Recorded from 1979 to 1983 at Primitive Studio and Brume Ryuichi Nagakubo (Tangerine Dream Syndicate). Having been active Rec. Remastered from "dusty tapes", reprocessed at Brume Rec., since 1991, this album is their first release in more than ten years. winter 2006." [label info] Previous effort was the "Flash"-album released back in 1996. The C.C.C.C.-project is first of known (or rather notorious) by the shocking * BRUME - Anthology 13 x CD-BOX (Waystyx Records WR50, live performances that earlier included onstage striptease and the 2008) [lim. 100] € 130.00 throwing of urine-filled plastic bags into the audience. "Chaos Is The "13 CD Brume anthology, consisting of releases from WR51 to WR63 in Cosmos" consists of one single track running 40+ minutes. Despite its special box with red silkscreen, limited edition 100 copies. For people length there is a great development in the piece. Main part of the noise who bought all 13 CDs separately an empty box with black silkscreen is creation consists of guitar distortion and keyboard generated noise with available for free." [label info] the addition of vocals from Mayuko's peaking with some hellish screams of fright. A great album that definitely has been worth the long wait!" * BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - The Instrument of Control CD [NM, Vital Weekly] (Archivio Letterario, 2006) € 14.00 Tja, mehr als die Recordings gibt es hier nicht! Aber das reicht voll und * Andrew CHALK - The River that flows into the Sands II CD ganz! Lesungen mit Publikum (ziemlich witzig!), Radio-Features, ein (Faraway Press FP07, 2007) € 17.50 Interview, sogar ein bischen Musik ist drauf.... Material aus den 70 oder Wie immer auf Faraway Press, exquisite Artwork und sensible Drones 80er Jahren, leider keine weiteren infos im Cover.. 17 Indexe, 55+ formen ein Gesamtkunstwerk erster Güte... dies hier ist eine Minuten. Wiederveröffentlichung des bisher nur auf MC erschienenen zweiten "Collection of rare recordings of William Burroughs in conversation and Teils von THE RIVER THAT FLOWs.... readings from the 1970s/80s. This is an essential insight into the mind "....As on the first part of The River, Chalk picks up the guitar for his and writings of arguably the most influential writer from the Beat minimalist explorations tightroping between the ghostly impressionism generation. "Through his mordant satire of cultural aspirations, of Keiji Haino's Nijiumu project from many moons ago, the narcoleptic homosexual eroticism and political power, Burroughs focuses our gaze atmospheres of Maeror Tri / Troum, the oceanic ambience of Boris' into the abyss. His cold, surgical language creates beauty through a Flood, and the time-reversal qualities of Eliane Radigue, all the while terror that we are just able to bear". A great collectors' item! putting to shame every upstart drone artist with a cd burner and an [label info] Echoplex. Just as the first River cd meanders through five variations of * CANTU-LEDESMA, JEFRE - The Garden of forking Paths CD the cascade sound, Chalk produces another five tracks of rippling (SPEKK KK:009, 2007) € 15.50 drones on this disc. Similarly, he has packaged the disc in the "The Garden Of Forking Paths is the first full length solo CD by San dotted decalcomania which graced the first cd. The major differences Francisco based musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Eschewing the laptop can be found in the gritty, growling distortion which exists just processing of his earlier work as Colophon, the album was created with beneath the surface of these glassine drones. Beautiful, beautiful, an assortment of tape recording mediums (Cassette, Micro-Cassette, beautiful!" [Aquarius Records] Reel to Reel tape machine) and a small arsenal of guitar stop boxes used on wide variety of instruments from electric guitar to bowed gong. * CHOP SHOP - Oxide CD (23five Incorporated 23FIVE012, 2007) In addition to recording at his home studio, various sites found in the [lim. 500] € 13.00 near by Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco were used for live Neben den HATERS ist CHOP SHOP der US-amerikanische Spezialist outdoor site specific recording. für den "Klang des Zerfalls" und Konzept-Noise; bei diesem neuen one- With its title taken from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the album is tracker (49 Minuten Länge) benutzt er alte & sich auflösende overtly concerned with dreams, memory, death, birth, infinity and the (oxidierende) Tapes und Tonbänder aus seinem Archiv und präsentiert possibility of a labyrinth like approach to music making, where songs als Ergebnis dissoziierte Geräusch-Drones und "kaputten" Maschinen- are not written as much as they slowly emerge out of the process of Lärm, wie man ihn konsequenter kaum zu hören bekommt... viele cut- music making." [label info] ups, verschiedene Noise-Schichten; innere Veränderungen des Klangs,

Übersteuerungen & Knacksen & Störgeräusche werden hörbar * CAUL vs. KIRCHENKAMPF - Sleep - Night - Death CD gemacht, vieles davon unglaublich "low-fi" & rauschig... das ist (Malignant Records tumorcd31, 2008) € 13.00 "recycled sound" par excellence! Zwei langjährige aktive US-amerikanische Ambient-Projekte in "This filled me with much pleasure, as I never expected this. Towards Zusammenarbeit: Ein 65minütiger Trip ins Dunkle, Formlose, the end of the 80s and in the early 90s, when we were still firm Amorphe... sehr fliessend und düster-melancholisch, aber eher industrial music lovers, Chop Shop was one of our heroes. Not because geräuschhaft, unendlich einsam und verloren ... insgesamt sehr ruhig, he was so incredible loud, but his loudspeaker installations looked raw aber immer wieder aufwallend... vergleichbar mit YEN POX, AMON, and sounded good. No, actually they sounded 'rusty', as well as a rusty HALO MANASH.. Schöne Artwork von Alan Mc.Clelland der auch look. Through his speaker installations Chop Shop, the one man band einige TROUM-Covers gemacht hat.. of Scott Konzelmann fed a blend of decayed sounds, taken from all "Two artists return to the Malignant roster, having teamed up to create sorts of machinery, sonic residue taped on cheap cassette tape or reel over 60 minutes of dark ambient solitude. A soundscape for late night

54 to reel tape machines. Much more serious in his approach than the Personal Top 25 albums of all time, this is certainly one of those average noise maker, Konzelmann was already more a visual artist records you can keep returning to and find new things buried in all than a musician. I have no idea why he 'left' the scene, or why we didn't those layers of ZOUND." --Julian Cope" [label info] hear his name that much in the last ten years, but it's good to hear 'Oxide'. Salvaged from old, damaged tapes, which caused 'flaking, * CISFINITUM - Tactio CD (Mechanoise Labs MN033, 2008) static, dropouts and print through'. If you never saw or heard a cassette € 13.00 or a reel tape - and in these digital days that is probably a lot of people - Mitschnitt des denkwürdigen CISFINITUM-Konzerts im Bremer St. it's hard to understand what static or dropouts are. Listening to 'Oxide' is Petri-Dom vom 24. November 2005, welches v.a. durch die a like being transported back in time, to the era of cassettes, hiss, when Verwendung monumentaler Kirchenglocken-Drones besticht the music dropped a bit due to an imperfection of the cassette tape. (Aufnahmen einer russischen Kirche basieren); es fand statt im Konzelmann takes all of these sounds, of pure hiss, of loud machine Rahmen der REIHE ELEKTRONISCHER MUSIK ("Rapid Ear noise, of decay, of erosion and creates his 'Oxide' piece with it. He Movement"), kuratiert von CHRISTOPH OGIERMANN. deliberately leaves in the 'unwanted' breaks, the mistakes and the "CISFINITUM ist eines der am längsten bestehenden Moskauer faults, but his piece is, at least for me who heard pretty much everything Industrial / Experimental/ Elektronik - Projekte (Gründung 1989) und of his 'old' music, a true delight. Great to see this on CD and becoming steht für die russische Variante des sogenannten „ambient Industrial“, more easy to access, but surely its time to out some of the older „drone“ oder „dark ambient“. Als „dark ambient“ bezeichnet man in der releases and have a nostalgic evening of humming noise." [FdW / Vital neueren elektronischen Musik seit einigen Jahren die „dunkle“ Seite der Weekly] atmosphärisch-experimentellen Musik, bei der es oft weniger um den "Akita. Menche. Blankenship. Dilloway. These are the men of noise with explizit Ablauf der Komposition geht, als vielmehr um die Schaffung discographies the size of small town phone books, proving their might in „bewusstseinsverändernder“ Atmosphären mit Hilfe von Klang. the international noise community by the sheer audaciousness of their Hinter CISFINITUM steckt Evgueny Voronovsky, ein ausgebildeter output. But then again, you might really only need a single testament to Violinist, der neben konkreten und instrumentellen Klangquellen auch stake your claim as one of the greatest noise musicians. Chop Shop alte sowjetische Synthesizer in neuem Kontext benutzt (wie auf der has chosen the latter tactic, with Oxide being that sole document, after letzten CD-Veröffentlichung „BEZDNA“ [Monochrome Vision]), z.B. den a relatively tiny back catalogue of cassette only releases, a couple of legendären ANS. CISFINITUM (=„Jenseits des Endlichen“) ist ein Text cdrs, and two infamous 10"s. Both released through RRR, the first was & Begriff des russischen Dichters Daniil Charms, der für die „Logik der the Steel Plate 2x10" that was literally bound to a steel plate; and the unendlichen Nicht-Existenz“steht: das was hinter dem second was a split 10" with Small Cruel Party that was literally cut in Verstandesmässigem liegt. Die Endlichkeit der logischen Welt wird half, making playback a dangerous proposition for the needle on your durch die Logik selbst nachgewiesen." [Konzertankündigungs-Info record player. Both of those releases have long been out of print; and Drone Records] despite the hushed respect that those 10"s demand, Chop Shop has "With a parsimonious discography mostly released on seasoned kept a low profile. A very low profile. Hence, after a career that has Russian labels such as Waystyx, Ewers Tonkunst and Monochrome spanned nearly two decades, Oxide is his first proper CD. And it's Vision, Evgeny Voronovsky has established himself as an uniquely stunning. engaging artist in the country's current ambient scene. Under the name The sole proprietor of Chop Shop is New York based noise technician of Cisfinitum, he has taken a syncretic approach to an often codified Scott Konzelmann, whose audio demolition revolves around speaker genre, uniting his formal training as a violinist at the Moscow State constructions forged out of hammered plate metal and disfigured University with his affinity for concrete sounds and experimental commercial grade pipes, which focus particular frequencies and structures. Past releases have shown a capacity to synthesize these resonant overtones into swarming orchestras of rust, noise, drone, and factors at times while emphasizing the contrasts between them at static. Tape has long been Konzelmann's medium of choice for others, sometimes over the course of a single track. In this aspect, this recording; and like William Basinski before him, Konzelmann endures album follows the tradition faithfully. the self-disintegration of the medium whilst transcribing the sounds of Tactio is the live recording of a Cisfinitum concert at the St. Petri Dom Oxide digitally. Where Basinski's vocabulary of decay is all romance (St. Peter's Cathedral) in Bremen, on November 24, 2005. The and melancholy, Konzelmann's is muscular and urgently present. Oxide particular (and as expected highly favorable) acoustics of this offers a metallurgist's din where compressed air strikes hard steel and environment were consistently used not only as an enhancing effect but machine vibrations generate noxious resonant frequencies in as an integral foundation for the performance, making it unmistakeably neighboring vents. Konzelmann composes the old school way, with a tied to its context. Presented in the form of six continuous tracks, the razor blade and pieces of tape, generating jump cut edits alongside the album is a contemplative composition of vibrant drones, reverberating self-generated debris from the magnetic literally falling apart. These bells and synthesized resonance, gracefully evolving from the celestial grey, dead-tech drones thus rupture and explode along the faultlines of tones of its start to the tellurian pulses of its climax. This is a piece of those edits, and Oxide emerges as a forceful, dynamic album without work that is elaborate in its simplicity, and it's with much appreciation resorting to purile shock tactics. This is a seriously great noise album that it is presented here today. The beautiful iconic artwork by Evgeny for anybody with a passing interest in Broken Flag, Hansen Records, or Kuprienko further emphasizes the relic-like qualities of this recording." early Hafler Trio."" [Aquarius Records review] [label description]

* CHROME - Alien Soundtracks CD (Noiseville #77, 2007) € 16.00 * CLEAR FRAME - same CD (Continuity... Records TINU001, Die frühen CHROME-Alben werden von NOISEVILLE wieder aufgelegt, 2007) € 14.00 ihre rauhe Science Fiction / Industrial / Psych / Post-Punk Mischung "Continuity... Records, ein neuer Trabant, der RéR umkreist, wurde war damals (und ist es heute) ziemlich einmalig! ALIEN initiiert von Charles Hayward & Lesley Evans, um sich speziell um die SOUNDTRACKS war das erste Album auf dem sich der so typische Musik von Hayward zu kümmern, aber auch Leckerbissen aus dem CHROME-Sound in voller Gänze entfaltete.. britischen Underground der 60s & 70s auszugraben, und bringt gleich "This is Chrome's second album, released in 1978, and comprised of als Erstes ein besonderes Meeting of the Spirits. CLEAR FRAME (TINU members Gary Spain (bass, guitar, vocals), Damon Edge (drums, 001) ist nichts weniger als ein All-Star-Gipfel - Hayward (Quiet Sun, synthesizer), and Helios Creed. Alien Soundtracks is the first of their This Heat, Camberwell Now) an den Drums, Hugh Hopper (Soft releases that would later mark them as early innovators of post-punk Machine, Soft Works, Brainville 3) am Bass, Lol Coxhill (Delivery, Kevin industrial experimentalism. This release is raw punk heavy on the Ayers, The Melody Four, The Recedents, Burt / MacDonald + Coxhill) Stoogeian vibe, featuring Creed's flanging, scrawling guitar sounds am Soprano, dazu Orphy Robinson (Courtney Pine, The Jazz Warriors) backed up by Edge's use of tape manipulation and samples. " [label an Vibraphon, Steel Pan & FX, der zuletzt auf Robert Wyatts notes] Comicopera zu hören war. Wyatt selbst spielt auf Gegenbesuch hier Kornett. Zusammen kreieren sie eine post-canterburyeske, * CHROME - Half Machine Lip Moves CD (Noiseville #78, 2007) neo-fusioneske Ästhetik, mit agil-dynamischem Drumming und € 16.00 dem E-Bass als gewaltigem Soundelement und zweiter Leadstimme "Originally released in 1979 on Siren/Beggars Banquet, Half Machine neben Coxhills einzigartigem, schnörkelig-näselndem Knören. Diese Lip Moves is Chrome's third album and is considered an absolute Bitches Brew bekommt durch Robinsons karibisches Steelgedengel classic of raw punk/experimental genius, authored by the duo of Helios und das tönerne, gläserne Perlen des Vibraphons eine exotische Creed and Damon Edge. "Half Machine Lip Moves was a curious and Würze, das tagträumerische Ambiente eines neuen Horizontes und powerful hybrid, which fused a Stooges-styles aggression with a sci-fi fremder Küsten. Wyatts dunkler Kornettklang, schnarrend oder mit and LSD-inspired otherworldliness, reflected in titles that evidenced kaskadierendem Nachhall, mäandert dazwischen wie ein weiterer Duft their interest in aliens and contemporary technology. This album was von weither. Hoppers fuzzige Klangwolken sind der Stoff, aus dem arguably their finest moment ... Creed's searing, heavily FX-laden guitar Cloud 9 geballt ist. Coxhills Swing kann einen entführen in das New and Edge's eerie Moog and vocals, underpinned by metallic drums, Orleans eines Paralleluniversums, nichts ist hier wie man es kennt. came together to create what could have become a radical new departure point for a nascent form of post-rock." --The Wire; "One of my

55 ‚Figure Eight‘ hat ganz klar Jon Hassells Possible Worlds vor dem und Fffffuck It! befiehlt, wird wohl so mancher feuchte Traum wahr." inneren Auge. Diese Exotica lässt durch ‚noise‘ und ‚void‘ hindurch [Bad Alchemy] etwas Höheres und Besseres durchschimmern. Dass Rock "Coh Plays Cosey CD is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project + Improvisation weniger ist als die Summe seiner Teile, ist übrigens nur between Ivan Pavlov-COH and Cosey Fanni Tutti known for her solo Smalltalk, an dem man einen Schmock erkennt." [Bad Alchemy] performances and work with Chris Carter-CTI as well as for being a part "An all-star line-up convened and recorded for a BBC radio project, of the radical cultural phenomena COUM Transmissions and Throbbing subsequently radically reworked by Hugh Hopper. These are clear, Gristle. Very much a statement rather than just a musical venture, Coh defined and shapely improvisations, music rather than noise based, Plays Cosey deals with concepts of honesty, trust, privacy, invoking the best of the ‘70s rock- improvisational approaches; genre- communication as well as (perception of) sexuality. The work free and structurally-minded. Robert appears in an unfamiliar role, represents a very close, if an intimate, contact between the two, where playing trumpet throughout, and everyone is on top form. A rarity in one (Ivan) was to interpret voice recordings made for him by the other these times, this is deep rooted music that grows with listening." [label (Cosey) - recordings made in intensely emotional states to establish a info] dialogue that extends beyond words, beyond intellect. A most private emotional diary of one (Cosey) pronounced to the general public by the * CLOAMA + BLUTLEUCHTE - From Wasteland Mausoleums CD other (Ivan). The work has been kept hermetic by Ivan voluntarily (New Old Sentinel SENTINEL-CD-06, 2007) € 12.00 restricting his choice of sound exclusively to that originating from the Finnish Industrial-Noise in the way of TG or other noise pioneers - raw, voice recordings, thus preserving the raw quality of his source material. analogue & authentic power! In this explicit sonic adventure Coh Plays Cosey without inhibitions, "Cloama and Blutleuchte rise anew From Wasteland Mausoleums with without fear and without questioning the content submitted. Coh Plays desolate, cryptic and evocative soundscapes of the world beyond Cosey like an actor - becoming her through his elaborate perception. Further removed from the noise and power electronics transformations of the voice. Coh Plays Cosey like a computer game - beginnings of both projects, here one is to find experiments in candlelit making his way though the infinite combinations and variety of human rituals, analogicism inspired by early German electronic pioneers, expression with ease and sense of fun. Coh Plays Cosey like in sex - voices and hauntings and crushing guitar. Melodies and raw noise fully controlling the process and manifesting the eventual outcome. Coh interlap as the twin phases of existence or the primal creations of Plays Cosey is a world of the embarrassingly unspoken made audible, deities both wrathful and dreaming. The CD is comprised of 12 tracks Coh Plays Cosey is the place where there is nothing left to hide." [label with a total duration of almost an hour of parapsychological exploits. info] Comes in a jewelcase with an 8-page UV coated booklet containing lyrics and exclusive art." [label info] * CONTINUUM - Volume 2 CD (Soleilmoon Rec. SOL 159, 2007) € 14.50 * COH - Strings do-CD (Raster-Noton R-N 85, 2007) € 16.50 Second album of this collaborative effort between FEAR FALLS "Recht aufwendig verpackt in einem speziell gefertigten Kartonfolder BURNING & BASS COMMUNION. präsentiert COH aka Ivan Pavlov auf Strings (R-N 085, CD + CDep) in 3 "These three new pieces certainly break away from the previous CD in Teilen und in abstrahierter Form einen chronologischen Rückblick auf a major way, which is of course a great thing. In an odd way, Serries seinen musikalischen Werdegang. Part I ‚Sidereal As If Not‘ verwendet and Wilson combine ambient music with metal music, which if you read als Basis Piano-Aufnahmen, die bereits für die Doppel-12“ Seasons von this sounds like the most illogical possible (next to metal reggae), but 2001 hergehalten haben, Part II ‚No Monsters No Rock‘ basiert auf den hearing is believing. A major leap forward and making me curious to the Tönen, die er seiner ersten Gitarre (rot, Moskau, 1988) entlockte, und third installment." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Part III ‚Euphrates‘ sowie das 17-min. ‚SU-U‘ auf der Extra-EP auf den Klängen einer Saz bzw. eines Oud. Letzteres Bonus-Stück wurde * CONTRASTATE - A live Coal under the Ashes CD (Tesco 010, zuerst für die Raster-Noton-Installation "Essential Room" (Sonar 2008) € 15.00 Festival 2006) aufgenommen. D.h. von der frühen Pianostunde über die Wiederveröffentlichung des wohl bekanntesten CONTRASTATE- Heavy-Metal-Phase hinterm Eisernen Vorhang bis hin zur aktuellen Albums von 1992, welches damals auch wegen der besonderen experimentiellen Ambient-Minimal-Elektronik erzählt dieses Album eine Verpackung für Furore sorgte in der Szene! Inkl. 1 Bonus-track! persönliche Geschichte und wirkt dadurch emotionaler und offener als "1992 saw the release of "A live coal under the ashes" which was viele seiner Werke, die formal ausgereift sind, aber kaum noch den inspired by the events leading up to the changes across Eastern and Geist in der Maschine spüren lassen." [ [cs] / Bad Alchemy] Central Europe during 1989. This release marked the change "Strings is primarily an attempt to reconcile the aesthetics of digital conceptually in which the group's ideas became more specific and more sound with that of the more traditional music instruments and to enrich focused on contemporary political issues. "A live coal…" was critically the respective domains with the qualities of each other. In a larger acclaimed not just for the music, but also for the artwork and packaging: scale, the album targets the stereotypes in today's perception of music, - a CD placed in the middle of a 12 inch clear vinyl record. After many trying to smooth out the borders between academic and popular, years of unavailabity Tesco can finally present a rerelease with traditional and contemporary, serious and amusing - all in favour of remastered tracks and a new yet unreleased track called: "Death music. The choice of instruments follows COH's own experience in follows the one eyed cow." An album full of ambient atmospheres, music: from years of piano lessons as a child, through playing in a drones, percussion, suitable dark narrations and some steady muted heavy metal band during teenage, further to the recent years of work in rhythms. These are intense, highly charged recordings with a powerful the area of digital sound and composition. Composed and recorded in mystic and ritual feeling. A masterpiece of sound poetry. Comes in nice 2006 by Ivan Pavlov-COH." [label notes] Digipak. Total Playing time 50:30. Contrastate were formed in 1987 and disbanded in 2000. Ever since the demise of Contrastate there has * COH - Plays Cosey CD (Raster-Noton R-N 091, 2008) € 14.00 been a void in the experimental music scene that no other act has "If I Ever sit and think about what all these things are about I‘d go managed to fill. Their diverse creative output, manifested as sweeping absolutely crazy, lautet einer der intimen Gedanken von COSEY FANNI electronics and sound manipulation together with theatrical spoken TUTTI, die sie mit COH / IVAN PAVLOV austauschte. Der machte auf word, was nothing less than mind blowing in its complexity and COH Plays Cosey (R-N 091) daraus Musik, Musik, ausschließlich aus originality." [press release] Lauten, die aus Cosey Mund stammen, meist gesprochen, teils gesungen, manchmal nur geseufzt, geraunt, dann wieder geschrieen. * CORDIER, ERIC - Osorezan CD (Herbal Records cd0701, 2007) Er transformiert die Throbbing-Gristle- und Chris & Cosey-Legende - € 13.00 Chris Carter wirkte als Toningenieur und Fotograf mit - in eine Human Eine faszinierende Welt der Vulkangasgeräusche und -ausströmungen Beatbox. Einige der Laute werden zu Beats, andere stotternd betritt man im ersten Stück auf ERIC CORDIERS "Osorezan", der hier verhackstückt, verzerrt, verfremdet, wieder andere scheint Cosey in "reine" Feldaufnahmen aus Japan verwendet hat. Daneben finden sich ihrem erstaunlich jungen Tonfall einem unter vier Augen zuzuflüstern, auf dieser Kollektion auch Aufnahmen aus einem (französischen?) poetische Zeilen wie I am a fish in your soup I am a crow on your roof I Bergdorf, pure field recordings mit Maschinen- Tier - Menschen- am a star from above I am the love... I am the water... I am the fire... I Naturgeräuschen..... am the mud... the mad... I am not (‚Mad‘), träumerische Gedanken wie dazu sehr schöne Farbaufnahmen auf dem 6-teiligen Digipack. Thinking over and over So quietly alone Sinking quietly alone... Sinking "Selected field recording 1993 - 2006. Recorded in Niseko, southwest of Sinking Sinking Never Never Never (‚Sin-king‘) und Alone Quiet Inside Hokaïdo and in Osorezan, northern of Honshu in August 2006. Gas Safe and quiet Behind these walls Caressed by silence (‚Inside‘), oder emanation of volcano in Japan. The sound recordings were carried out ein philosophisches Fazit wie The lie that surrounds life is as inevitable in the depths and then re-organised. We listen to gas bubbling in water, as it‘s endless And the sadness of that is not sweet (‚Lying‘). Der gas mouths, gas that creates rhythms while escaping from under a Sound-Poetry-Ton ist dabei ein mindestens ebenso großer Reiz wie dead leaf down in the clay, whistling. All panoramic movements, Coseys Worte selbst. ‚Lying‘ lässt COH sie im Eskimo-Stil zu repetitions, effects of phasing have been carried out during the time of Schamanenbeat und Trompetengetute und dann als Lalalala-Litanei the recording, travelling at the mouth to gather the sound of sulphur gas singen. Und wenn sie mit Technobeatstilettos auf einem herum steppt as a sound pallette." [label info]

56 * DEATH AMBIENT - Drunken Forest CD (Tzadik TZ 7264, 2007) * CORPOPARASSITA - Inesorabile CD (Finalzmuzik FM06, € 14.50 2007) [ed. of 500] € 13.00 Orchestraler, instrumentaler Ambient & Ethno-Folk & Noise mit Kind of low-fi ambient & drone industrial from this italian project, ausufernden Experimental-Ausflügen, "musikalischer" und weniger melancholic and dark & worth to check out ! düster & eruptiv als die beiden Vorgänger. Drittes Album des Projekts "Italian project Corpoparassita is known in the industrial underground von FRED FRITH, IKUE MORI und KATO HIDEKI. scene for a few outstanding limited edition CDr releases. "Inesorabile" "Es hat geregnet. Der ganze Wald ist mit Feuchtigkeit gesättigt. Moose is their first full length CD, including - trust us! - the most obscure and und Flechten sind mit Wasser voll gesogen. Kleine Rinnsale winden colder stuff around! Just imagine a modern version of Italian 70's horror sich die Stämme hinab. Es tropft. Von Blättern, Ästen, Lianen, Blüten movies' soundtrack meeting thrilling dark ambient and morbid black und Früchten perlt das Wasser herab. Es ist heiß. Der Boden atmet noise. "Inesorabile" is a must for industrial / dark ambient fans, and it is dass Nass wieder aus, welches als dampfender Nebel zwischen den available in a beautiful poster sleeve akin to some Crass and hc / Bäumen treibt. Mittendrin sitze ich, völlig durchnässt und schwitzend, crustcore releases. Limited to 500." [label info] und lausche den Klängen des betrunkenen Waldes. Death Ambient sind Kato Hideki, Ikue Mori und Fred Frith. Das Trio gibt CRANIOCLAST - Iconclastar (Icon ) CD (Musica Maxima es seit 1995, als man sich die drei in New York zusammenfanden. Magnetica eee09, 1992) € 14.00 Death Ambient sind eigentlich keine richtige Band. Konzerte gibt es Wir konnten ein paar NEUE Kopien dieses ambient Industrial- selten und jeder der drei Musiker ist meist mit anderen Dingen Klassikers ergattern, CRANIOCLAST wurden lange Zeit in einem beschäftigt. Ab und zu trifft man sich jedoch um ein Album Atemzug mit ZOVIET FRANCE oder HAFLER TRIO genannt! aufzunehmen. Das 2007 erschienen "Drunken Forest" ist bisher das "Great surrealistic soundscapes! Das Meisterwerk der westdetschen dritte und - nach Meinung des Rezensenten - das dichteste, Gruppe erstreckt sich auf zwei CDs, die auf zwei verschiedenen Labels ausgewogenste und gleichzeitig abwechslungsreichste Album von veröffentlicht wurden. Der erste Teil beinhaltet die ICONS I – VI. (66 Death Ambient. min). Wer dieses geniale Werk noch nicht kennt: allerwärmste Avantgardistische Ambientmusik, RIO-Elektronik, Krach, Geräusche, E- Empfehlung!" [old Drone Rec info] Gitarren, Rock-, Jazz- und japanische Folkrudimente, diverse akustische Instrumentalklänge und allerlei Samples vermischen Death * CURRENT 93 - Of Ruine or some blazing Stars CD (Durtro Ambient zu einer beeindruckenden Klangsauna, einem schwebenden, Jnana DJ1961, 2007) € 14.50 wabernden, dröhnenden und hallenden Gemenge aus intensiven, "Was ursprünglich 1994 veröffentlicht wurde, gilt nicht umsonst als homogen dahinfliessenden Klängen. Wasser ist immer präsent. Es Klassiker: Durtro Jnana machen sich 13 Jahre später an die gluckert und plätschert, rauscht und wogt, und die Musik scheint von Wiederveröffentlichungen des CURRENT 93 Opus "Of Ruine Or Some riesigen, flechtenverhangenen, im Dunst halb verborgenen Blazing Starre". "Of Ruine." folgte den fast schon legendären "Thunder Urwaldbäumen herabzutropfen, mal delikat und zerstäubt, mal heftiger, Perfect Mind" Album und katapultierte den Sound von CURRENT 93 tropisch-warm und in schweren großen Tropfen herabstürzend. Was auf die nächste Ebene. Die wunderschön zerbrechlichen Death Ambient hier bieten ist ein subtiler elektroakustischer Gitarrensounds von MICHAEL CASHMORE, die sich durch Drones, Impressionismus, sind beeindruckende Klanggemälde, die Glocken und Soundexperimente weben, machen "Of Ruine." zu einem geheimnisvoll und düster aus den Boxen quellen. Frith erzeugt der hypnotischsten Alben, dessen Kraft DAVID TIBET mit seinem Myriaden von möglichen und unmöglichen Klängen mit seiner E- Gesang kontrolliert. Neu gemastert mit brandneuem Artwork im Digipak Gitarre, Hideki bedient gleich ein gutes Dutzend verschiedene mit 20-seitigem Booklet // Originally released in 1994, Current 93's akustischer und elektronisch verstärkter Instrumente, Gast Pugliese masterpiece Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre followed the classic steuert allerlei Perkussives bei und Mori verwebt das alles mit Thunder Perfect Mind album and marked another leap forward for the unzähligen elektronischen Sounds zu einem dichten Klangnetz. Das band. Michael Cashmore's gorgeously delicate guitar, augmented by Ergebnis schwankt zwischen zerbrechlichen, zarten Tongeweben und drones, bells, and sound manipulations, help to make this one of C93's heftigeren, fast industriellen Klangskulpturen. Ausgesprochen intensiv most musically hypnotic albums, with David Tibet's vocals and text und mächtig ist diese Musik, wenn man sich auf sie einlässt, adding a quietly controlled power and drama virtually unsurpassed in schweißtreibend, schwül und stellenweise ungemein gewaltig und the Current 93 canon. This reissue has been completely remastered beängstigend, stellenweise zart und feingliedrig. and features newly designed artwork in a full-color Digipak with a 20- Wer ein offenes Ohr für kantiges Klanggewölk hat, für avantgardistische page booklet." [label info] Elektronik und freiformatige Tongebilde, der sollte in "Drunken Forest" dringend einmal reinhören. Grandios!" [Babyblaue Seiten] * CURRENT 93 - Black Ships heat the Dancefloor (remixes & "This best selling trio from Tzadik’s New Japan Series returns with videos) CD/DVD (dualdisc) (Durtro Jnana 12, 2008) € 9.00 special guest percussionist Jim Pugliese for a spiritual exploration of Four remixes from the "Black Ships" album by JG THIRLWELL sound and color. Beautifully orchestrated ambient music blending the (FOETUS) & MATMOS, with additional vocals by ANTONY, PLUS 2 acoustic world of violin, mandolin, ukulele, banjo and percussion with videoclips made by CAM ARCHER on the DVD-side! the electronic soundscapes of computer and guitar, this is their most evocative and mysterious creation to date. Six years in the making, Drunken Forest opens your ears to a striking new world." [label info] * DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE - Collaborations do-CD (Monochrome Vision (mv09), 2006) [lim. 500] € 16.50 * D.D.A.A. - Action and Japanese Demonstration CD (Fractal Collection of collab-works with: ERG, ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE, Records 333, 2008) € 16.50 JÖRG THOMASIUS, THE OVAL LANGUAGE, TBC. lim. 500 Endlich, die CD-Wiederveröffentlichung ihres ersten Albums von 1982, "DSM's music world appears as the intricate but finest tapestry of dazu 2 Bonus-Tracks von denselben Sessions, und das 1985 microscopic sounds, sophisticated packing of voids with sonic erschienene rare Tapes "Musique et Bruits du Bas Pa-Tat"! hallucinations, textural interactions and layering effects. Mostly sourced ".... Deficit des Annees Anterieures or, in abbreviated form, DDAA; are from the ordinary life, sounds changed beyond any recognition, the one of the biggest names in experimental/industrial music. Formed by endless flow of electroacoustic treatments and studio engineering. This three artschool students (Jean-Luc André, Sylvie Martineau-Fée, Jean- album includes collaborations with some finest sound-artists over there, Philippe Fée) in 1975, they are (amazingly enough) still active today, and must be attended as the most diversified one. which I guess makes them the Rolling Stones of experimental music. Release date is 30th December 2006. Limited edition of 500 copies in However, in direct contrast with the Stones, DDAA have managed to jewelcase." [label info] remain a highly original sound unit over all these years. As new albums by DDAA are far and between (their last album was released a couple * DAUBY, YANNICK - TW04-05 CD (Kalerne / Editions Ere of years ago), this reissue of their first album from 1982 is most ere01, 2007) € 12.00 welcome. Originally privately released on their own Illusion label (who Auf 20 Abschnitten breiten sich die reichhaltigen field recordings aus were also responsible for a plethora of vinyl and cassettes often in TAIWAN aus, die YANNICK DAUBY dort 2004-2005 machte - pur & amazing complex handmade packaging), reading the sleeve notes to unbearbeitet - Natur & Zivilisation, Menschen & Tiere, U-Bahn & this can be slightly confusing. There is a lot of semi-intellectual talk of Stadtgeräusche... man bekommt hier eine psycho-geographische the Japanese Nebule, which is interesting and fun, but it isn't always akustische Fernreise vom feinsten serviert... clear how this relates to the music. Leaning heavily on traditional "Soundscapes from Taïwan, from the subway to the smalll streets of theorism (hence the title) and DDAA's imaginary travels to Japan, the Taipei, from the Fu-Shan forests to the swamp areas of Dao-Mi, some music could best be described as somewhere between the Residents acoustic traces of urban activities, human and animal crowds, and a traditional Japanese band. Semi-acoustic string instruments are atmospheric mouvements ansd sonic ambiences, field recordings made plucked and treated, there are trebly guitar intermissions and vocal during the summers 2004 and 2005." [label info] chants with lots of room for improvisation and collages. This leads to

naïve-sounding structures, but listening to the music is still strangely entertaining and rewarding. The full original LP is reproduced here with

57 the original Musique et Bruits du Bas Pa-Tat tape (7 tracks dating from "Electric and acustic guitars, voices, ambient and noises, piano, 1985 and much in the same vein as AAJD) as a welcome bonus. There keyboards and violin by Rubén d'Hers. Clarinet on track 05 and 08 by are two further bonus tracks from the original sessions. Despite the fact Gorgias Sánchez. All tracks composed, recorded, mixed and mastered that the cover is printed on somewhat flimsy material and my CD came by Rubén d'Hers in la maleta estudios. Caracas, Venezuela 2006. without any protective inner sleeve, this is, for once, truly an essential Original photography by Rubén d'Hers. www.dhersmuzik.com reissue by one of the most original bands in the experimental/industrial Art direction and design by Marius Schillak. www.graffixyz.de DIY genre. If you don't have the original vinyl, there is no longer an Published by Jeans Records. www.jeansrecords.com " [label info] excuse for not having the music in your collection." [Freek Kinkelaar, Vital Weekly] * DIALING IN - Cows in Lye CD (Pseudo-Arcana 083, 2006) € 13.00 Sehr interessantes Drone-Projekt aus Seattle, absolut * DEAF MACHINE - Found Noises CD (Raubbau RAUB-002, undurchdringliche low-fi drones, die aber voller verdeckter Harmonien 2008) € 13.00 stecken, die kaum noch erahnbar sind. Basierend auf v.a. indische field Das Berliner RAUBBAU-Label (früher auch als FORMOSAN aktiv) hat recordings, wird hier mit der klassischen LUCIER-Methode immer das längst vergriffene, verstreute Material dieses Solo-Projektes eines weiter verfremdet... MEGAPTERA-Mitglieds zusammengestellt. Low-fi droning & death "DIALING IN is the ecstatic roaring psychedelic drone project of Seattle industrial stuff mit obskuren Samples & found sounds... based sound artist REITA PIECUCH. Utilizing the natural acoustics of a "The groups in the Nyköping/Oxelösund region of Sweden (Megaptera, series of reverberant spaces she weaves together super saturated The Protagonist, Morthound) have been pretty thoroughly documented soundscapes by recording in one environment, playing back in another, in the past. But one crucial missing link of this micro-scene has been and then re-recording this recording playing back in yet another overlooked, and not given the deserved recognition. Until now, that is. environment (etc.). On Cows in Lye, the original sound sources range Mikael Svensson, founding member of Megaptera, also did his own from loops of field recordings from a trip to India, piano, and the shifting project Deaf Machine for a while, though it vanished without leaving drones of a "Shruti Box" (electronic Tamboura). One track also features many traces behind. Besides a couple of wildly obscure self-released a long stream of consciousness vocal performance from avant-crooner tapes, the only other marks were contributions to seminal compilations HERB DIAMANTE! After a trek with recording gear through the caves, such as "In the Butcher's Backyard" (CMI) and "Death Odors" cathedrals and bunkers of Seattle these ingredients are transformed (Slaughter Prod.). into huge and sublimely distorted quasi-melodic dreamscapes. The Not content to rest on the laurels after the successful inaugural album lifts off with an ecstatic roar and the intensity doesn't let up until release by Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, the fresh German label Raubbau one is released exultant in the green flash of a setting sun." [label info] has decided to treat Deaf Machine with an ambitious rerelease program covering two separate CD albums. This first one, "Found Noises", * DIRAC - same CD (Dirac d00001, 2006) € 13.00 contains one of the tapes, two tracks culled from compilations, and Debut-album of this austrian trio (PETER KUTIN, DANIEL LERCHER, one previously unreleased track. The similarity with Megaptera lies in FLORIAN KINDLINGER), working with various instruments to create a the frequent use of voice samples from movies and news broadcasts. very deep & melancholic drone-ambience. Quite nice, to discover! But whereas Megaptera relies on a method with upfront pounding machine rhythms, Deaf Machine opted for a subtler approach more * DOYLE, ROGER - The Ninth Set CD (Die Stadt DS103, 2007) based on textures and moods. The mix of muffled voice fragments, [ed. of 500] € 15.00 disjointed rhythm loops, and crude, bass-heavy synth-noises sound Noch aus UNITED DAIRIES-Anfängen bekannt ist ROGER DOYLE - unlike anything else that came out of Sweden at the time. A unique sein 66 minütiges prämiertes Werk "The Ninth Set" überzeugt mit sound by a neglected artist that thankfully no longer will remain a secret raumfüllenden atonalen Sphären-Drones, so rauh und symphonisch wie within small circles of cognoscenti." [label info] einige KAYN-Stücke! Durchsetzt von elektro-akustischer Spannung schaffen "stehende" Wellen von Klang tiefe suggestive Räume, * DE FABRIEK GOES THE HITMACHINE - Het Terrein II CD (EE harmonische Wechsel geschehen unerwartet und zirkulär, Tapes EE08, 2007) [lim. 300] € 13.00 Lautstärkelevel verändern sich dynamisch. Mitreissend! "After years of inactivity, De Fabriek teams up with The Hitmachine (Olé "Irish composer Roger Doyle's first release on Die Stadt is his prize- Records), a Dutch combo rising from a new generation of electronic winning work The Ninth Set, a 67 minute masterpiece in 5 parts. He freaks! Don't expect easy listening tunes, folks, this one/off collaboration was awarded the Magisterium Prize at this years's Bourges is the fruit of 5 audio artists chasing their ghosts in a rather bizarre way: International Electro-acoustic Music Competition in France for parts 4 free impro, noise, chaos, dada or simply avantgarde?" [label info] and 5. The award, which is one of the most important prizes in the world for electronic music, is open to composers having at least 25 years of * DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS - Clear Light CD (Public Guilt professional experience in the field, and its objective is 'the promotion PG011, 2007) € 13.00 and diffusion of works that might become milestones in the history of Nebelhafte Rausch-Ambience mit vitalen & psychedelischen Elementen electroacoustic music'. Previous works of Doyle include a 5-CD set im "Innern", nach der "Mountain" EP ist CLEAR LIGHT das erste volle Babel which took ten years to compose, where each track corresponds Album für das US-Duo, die sich einen besonderen Stil erspielt haben... to a room or place within an imagined tower city; and the 3 hour worth to discover ! Passades, music made from software that freezes sounds like a freeze- "Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche for themselves over frame in DVD. He's also known for his project OPERATING THEATRE the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic walls of white which released the classic "Rapid Eye Movements' album - consisting noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their recordings of 4 works composed between 1968 - 1980 - on Steven Stapleton's are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience constructed from (Nurse With Wound) own United Dairies label in 1980. Furthermore he countless piles of tortured sounds. Influenced heavily by 200+ needle- guested on Fovea Hex's 'neither speak nor remain silent' EP number 2 dropped, out of print psyche records, "Clear Light" is their strongest 'Huge', alongside among others Clodagh Simonds, Brian Eno, Percy effort yet and the next step on their journey to artistic isolation." [label Jones and Colin Potter. More at http://www.rogerdoyle.com info] The CD comes in a color digipack in a first edition of 600 copies. “A wild ride on the dark side of Psychedelia.” - [Rock Sound] Total playing time: 66:29 min." [press -release] "Noise comes in all textures and tones, but there's something truly "...Through the five lengthy pieces of The Ninth Set, Roger Doyle unique about Destructo Swarmbots' experimentation. Somewhere cycles through rumbling episodes of recontextualized tumult and between the creaking ambiance of Larsen and the incessantly clipping industrial heft, with every sound recorded and presented with Xela, Destructo Swarmbots will ruin your life." [XLR8R] impeccable digital clarity. At times, his work mangles Ligetti-esque vocal chorale through timestretching DSP tricks and thick digitally * D'HERS, RUBEN - El Reflejo en las Hojas CD (Jeans Records swabbed crescendos of grey noise; at others plucked cords, wires, and 05, 2007) € 13.00 strings congregate into an unsettled mass with opaque rumblings and We have no info at all about this artist which seems to come from seasick swells. Throughout each movement, there's plenty of pregnant Venezuela, his album on our beloved weirdo-label JEANS RECORDS interludes of relative quiet with punctations of rapidly approaching (run by FRANK ROWENTA) is a hybrid of all kinds of instrumental, noise that halt at its peak with a razor cut to silence. Uncool, it electronic, sampled and environmental sounds, sometimes more may be; but The Ninth Set is a brilliant record." [Aquarius Records introspective & nice in a folky, droney or electronica-way, sometimes review] quite obscure & "difficult", electro-acoustic collages or even free-jazzy improvised with wild samples..... hard to pin down what it is really, but * DRUMM, KEVIN & DANIEL MENCHE - Gauntlet CD (Editions the 9 tracks offer a very broad cross-over of styles, from "serious" to Mego 88, 2007) € 12.50 "weird", a kind of mixture of minimal short sketches and longer tracks, "Gitarre, Orgel, Fuzz Boxes und die Liebe zu Noise, Noise, Noise. Ein most stays in the more silent areas.. very idiosyncratic, there's großes Dröhnen und mittendrin ein Gitarrenloop oder pumpender Puls. definitely something to discover here. For adventurers. Konsonanz, die im Obertonbereich verklumpt zu einem Hornissen- oder schwirrenden Heuschreckenschwarm, groß genug, um den Himmel zu

58 verdunkeln. Zu einem Geläut, das alles erbeben lässt. Die Hornissen used in making The Jewels. Frontman Blixa Bargeld devised a series schwellen an zu Bombern, des Schwirren zu Hubschrauberrotoren, die of arot-like cards which represented the vast collection of materials Gitarren entzündet sich selbst in Hendrix‘scher Pyromanie. Ich liege which are at Neubauten's disposal - steel, tin, zinc, wood, plastic, längst wimmernd auf den Knien, als noch nicht einmal die Hälfte dieses glass, ceramics. The entire band would then draw cards, and the Spießrutenlaufes vorüber ist. Zwei sarkastische Ritter spielen mit compositional process would begin. The tracks tend be a bit shorter eisernen Fingern Metal Machine Music. Nach 21 Min. wird das than the typical Neubauten opus, and the songs follow the recent Dröhnen heller, sirrender, die Rotoren schrappen aber weiter und aesthetic shifts towards quieter, controlled orchestration for their gegen Ende zu immer schneller. Den Schlusspunkt dieser unusual materials. On a few tracks, there are hints of their formerly Herausforderung für die Höre-mit- Schmerzen-Fraktion setzen grobe infernal selves, glancing back to one of the last true masterpieces Störimpulse." [Bad Alchemy] Funf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala. Originally released as "Kevin Drumm (guitar and noise) and Daniel Menche (organ and noise) a subscription only download through their website; now available with recorded Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae's Porta-toilet studio. Mixed a 40 minute film as a Quicktime movie and large book with lyrics and and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon. One Blixa's insight into the process." [Aquarius Records review] organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two highly regarded purveyors of american extreme sonics are the savuory ingredients that * ERIK M - Steme CD (Room 40 RM426, 2007) € 13.00 created Gauntlet. Building on Menche's aural low end physicality and "Steme" ist eine Arbeit über "Fragmentierung, Genese und Drumm's exacting attention to high frequency detail - the aptly titled Erneuerung", basierend auf einer Auswahl von zehn 1minütigen 'Gauntlet' is sizzling, scorching slab of essential audio. Heavy in iron Klangstücken von einer defekten CD. ERIK M ist ein Meister im and protein. A lean cut indeed, no fat included." [label info] improvisierten Konstruieren und Dekonstruieren von Klangschnipseln; hier klingt das unfassbar abstrakt, zerschnipselt & geräuschhaft, * DUNCAN, JOHN / KONTAKT DER JÜNGLINGE / C.M. VON von Gekräusel & Rauschen durchsetzt, aber es gibt auch schillernd- HAUSSWOLFF - untitled CD (Die Stadt DS104, 2007) [lim. 500] elektrisierte Drone-Parts....muss man gehört haben... € 12.50 "Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer Übriggebliebene Kopien einer CD die anlässlich eines DIE STADT- and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has Konzertabends in Brüssel (18.10.2007) veröffentlicht worden ist: Ein earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. langes live-Stück von JOHN DUNCAN (San Francisco July 2007) -> With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to wieder spürt man man hier die rohe & archaische Kraft von reinem date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound Klang und die grossen Dynamikeffekte von eingesetzer "fliessender" source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection Stille (24+ Minuten). Überraschenderweise dann ein älterer live- of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD which was Mitschnitt von KONTAKT DER JÜNGLINGE, und zwar vom Mai 2003 deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field aus Montreal, der sie sehr rauh und ausserweltlich dronig zeigt, auf recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including verschiedenen Klangleveln (gefällt uns natürlich ausgezeichnet). multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic Bei CM VON HAUSSWOLFF geht es wie gewöhnlich noch 'ne Ecke matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k- verschrobener zu, wenn beim "All Tomorrows Parties"-Festival (?) pad system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are rhythmisch wiederkehrende Quietsch- oder Sinustöne zu vernehmen truly distinctive – filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, sind.... diese CD funktioniert sowohl als rares Bonus-Material für die tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs Fans, aber ist auch für Drone-Novizen geeignet, die sich in die Materie of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. hineinzoomen wollen. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent." [label info] "To be on Die Stadt as an artist seems to me a great thing. Besides "...Unlike say Oval, ErikM is not interested in creating some new (old?) great looking releases, they organize events for you, and for such an form of popmusic out of it, but rather tries to use all these blocks in a occasion they usually release a CD or a 7", which can be bought on the large composition of a highly delicate, electro-acoustic nature. With the night, but there is always a left-over for the unlucky who didn't make it. exception of 'White Out' which operates more from the drone end, and Last month there was an event in Brussels with three stable mates: there for seems a bit out of place here, all the seven other pieces are of John Duncan, CM von Hauswolff and Kontakt Der Junglinge. Perhaps a collage like nature, which adds a great vibrancy to the material, Die Stadt asks too much of their artists, and none did a new studio bouncing all over the place while the listener only can submit to this with recording, but you could also think it's interesting to capture a live track full attention. That 'White Out' piece could have been easily left of from by them. So three live tracks here. Duncan's piece was recorded at the this, and it would have been a perfect CD, now it's near perfection." Compound, earlier this year, and although it's a while since I last heard [FdW / Vital Weekly] studio recording by John Duncan, it sounds like a trademark piece for him: micro tones, composed from heavily processed shortwave sounds, * ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO - Mekano Turbo CD (Geometrik make up a fine piece shifting from intense loudness to careful and GR24, 2001) € 13.00 delicate. Very nice. Kontakt Der Jünglinge, being Asmus Tietchens and Wiederveröffentlichung dieses Klassikers von 1988 - als sich E.G. Thomas Köner, present a recording from 2003, at the Mutek festival. immer mehr vom Industrial-Noise früher Tage lösten und den Prototyp They too present a characteristic piece for them with computer des "rhythmic & machine-like Industrials" schafften. Inkl. zweier Bonus- processing of acoustic sounds. Loads of dark rumble and high pitched tracks die nicht auf der LP drauf waren..... processed sounds. Hauswolff's piece seems to be made with bird "Includes the Original Mekano Turbo LP (1988) + two extra tracks sounds, looped around and with a crescendo of noise coming in and originally included in the cassette Sinn & Form (1983). Finally, the fury more insect like sounds. Nice but not his best. Three good introductions is unleashed in all its splendour. The superb three initial tracks are pure of three great artists (well, four), in case you ever would need that." rhythmic adrenaline on which is supported the totally runaway voice of [FdW / Vital Weekly] Arturo Lanz. "Rotor" would be even considered as a shy not intentioned approximation to the electronic body music. In the same wave are also * EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - The Jewels CD (Potomak, 2008) located "Belew" and "Mekano-Turbo". On the other hand, it seems to be € 17.50 that the residence of Gabriel in Melilla and the consequent proximity of Kartenspiel als Navigationssystem: 15 Miniaturen der the arabic culture it influences on some of the most sedating tracks Experimentalband; + Film. "Jewels" ist ein Konzeptalbum mit 15 zwei- ("Sheikh"). Considered by the media as their masterpiece, in my opinion bis dreiminütigen Songs, die ursprünglich nur als monatliche Download- some next works have obtained to surpass it. The CD includes two Geschenke an die Supporter der dritten Phase des Neubauten.org- great extra tracks originally included in the cassette Sinn & Form Unterstützerprojektes gedacht waren. Die Zeit, die auf den Schliff der (1983). The wonderful cover continues the customary line of showing Juwelen verwendet werden konnte, war begrenzt: Zwei Tage mussten strange machines or decadent ruinous buildings." [label description] reichen, um von einer ersten Idee zum fertigen Song zu gelangen. Die Band um Blixa Bargeld suchte also nach einem Verfahren, das die * ESSEIVA, KIKO C. - Sous les Etoiles CD (Hinterzimmer Records dafür nötige Dynamik entwickeln konnte. Man erfand ein Kartenspiel als HINT 04, 2008) € 13.00 Navigationssystem. Jede Karte gab einen kryptischen Hinweis auf Für Klang-Abenteurer genau das richtige, das zweite Album dieses uns Elemente des Neubautenschaffens seit 1980: Instrumente, Materialien bisher unbekannten Soundtüftlers auf dem Schweizer Label. ESSEIVA und Strukturen, mit Bezug auf Strophe oder Refrain, Intro und Outro, kreiert hochdynamische Geräuschmusik mit vielen breaks & cut-ups soziale Beziehungen und Bündnisse: Wer mit wem? Wer womit und mit und meist instrumentellen & konkreten Klängen, en detail quasi welcher Geschwindigkeit und Haltung? So entstand eine Art Musik des unbeschreibbar da zu komplex (zum Glück aber gibt es Rigobert Zufalls, die einige der egofreisten Kompositionen der Band beinhaltet. Dittmann), von der Machart an alte NWW oder spannende Elektro- Die CD erscheint in Ecolbook-Verpackung mit 40-seitigem Booklet, Akustik erinnernd. Empfehlung ! Liedtexten in Deutsch und Englisch sowie dem 40-minütigen Film "Acht "Sous Les Etoiles (HINT04) ist nach Musiques pour haut-parleurs Lösungen". [press release] (Music For Loudspeakers) und Improvisations / Bricolages I-IV im Split "Much will be made of the strategies that Einsturzende Neubauten mit Eric Boros (1000+1 Tilt) eine weitere Manifestation der Kreativität

59 von KIKO C. ESSEIVA in Lausanne. Es ist ein komplexes Werk, in grail? Either way, this is dope! The familiar old chunking guitar and Szene gesetzt als experimentelles Cinema pour l‘oreille, mit einem baleful organ-synth are there as well as the swelling minor chord ‚Prélude‘, 8 Episoden und einer ‚Fanfare de fin‘. Hervorstechend ist miasma of texture and noise that no human could possibly evoke. Oh dabei die Plastizität der Klänge, ob knackiger Apfelbiss, knurrige wait, that’s right, humans ARE doing it! Care to go on sublime, long- Drones oder windspielerisches Klimpern. Das erinnert an Hanna form instrumental excursions through the centre of the Green Man’s Hartmanns Bildprägnanz, geht aber eigene, geräuschhaftere Wege. Ein bindu? EIG got it! Been itching to rock out to well written, post punk pop weiteres auffälliges Ingredienz sind Stimmen, als gutturale Vokalisation, tunes? EIG got it!! Have you and your family been craving that astrally dann ein Frauenmund, der den Titel ansagt. Aber auch andere Klänge projected experimental fondue pot of swirling beauty and skewed scheinen per Mund erzeugt zu sein, wenn auch verfremdet bis zur rhythm that makes you feel like you’ve crawled back to the womb and Unkenntlichkeit zu perkussivem Rippeln, zu Knarren oder Fauchen. ‚En the best chill room ever was there? EIG got it!!! Have you ever rêve‘ wirkt wie alte Streichmusik, wobei der Geigenbogen jede Rauheit wondered if anyone can combine virtuoso musicianship and studio der Saite übertrieben ausreizt. Aus vielen Fugen flattert, knarrt und effects in a truly magical way that doesn’t make it seem like everything knarzt es, ein Metalldeckel eiert, Wasser gluckert, Dulcimersaiten has been CGI’d in? EIG GOT IT!!!! Ebb and flow; high and low; cooked flickern. Keine Landschaft tut sich auf, alles ist hier konkreter, and raw. See Martyn. See Peter. See Eyeless. GO!!! Pulchritudinous all detaillierter, informeller, in plastischer Nahsicht vor das Tagtraumauge the way…as in ravishing…as in splendorous…as in metal pipes rattled gerückt. ‚Sous les étoiles toujours‘ überrascht mit einem Piano, in a driveway while someone is playing the piano. So many soft little dumpfen Glockendongs, wooshenden Drones, fragilem Klingklang. things. So much perfectly appointed emptiness. Such sweetly crafted, Zum Finale erklingt keine Fanfare, sondern kaskadierendes Tamtam, quiet headbangers. Prosetry in words and music. Songs and un-songs. Cymbalschläge, Scherenschnippen, eine quäkende Hupe, Some cadences and atmospheres even smell a bit like cosmic third Posaunengeblubber, alles Teil eines surrealen Orchesters der Dinge. stream jazz. This must be the 4th stream. Float down it. For once 2 Ich drücke gleich mal auf repeat." [Bad Alchemy] CD’s isn’t even enough. How can it be that 2 people have made their "We are proud to release - four years after his first longplayer on umpteenth truly sublime album? Rumour has it they bought the Canadian imprint 'Manufracture' - Kiko C. Esseiva's second album stratosphere." [label info] 'Sous les étoiles'. The electro-acoustic-musique conrète compositions he has constructed during the past years are brilliant soundpieces that * FAR BLACK FURLONG - same CD & CD-R (ICR 65, 2007) remind sometimes on Luc Ferraris electro-acoustic works but also the [lim. 150 with bonus CDR] € 17.50 very narrative nature of some older Nurse With Wound albums. The Sehr poetischer Impro-Drone eines uns bisher unbekannten Kollektivs way he mixes (almost) melodic elements into a complex structure of aus England, das meiste Material wurde im Freien auf akustischen well arranged sounds and noises is simply beautiful. 'Sous Les Etoiles' Instrumenten eingespielt; einer limitierten Auflage von 150 Stück liegt goes even a step further than Esseiva's debut 'Musiques pour haut- das erste Album der Band ("HAIDD 2") in remixter Form bei, ein one- parleurs', the tracks being audibly held together by leitmotifs, making it tracker Kleinod mit subtilen endlos entfernten Drones, melancholisch one big opus instead of being just a collection of tracks." [label info] schimmernd... "Far Black Furlong' is a rapturous, symphonic work in six movements. * EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH (E.A.R.) - Beyond the Pale The music describes tides - from the summer breeze through barley, to CD (Space Age ORBITCD 31, 2008) € 14.50 the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean extending to the shifting birth Wiederveröffentlichung von wahrhaft psychedelischen Drone- pangs of stars. Much of the music was recorded at outdoor locations - Aufnahmen von 1992, die SONIC BOOM (SPACEMEN 3) hier im such as the barley fields of the Clun Forest - and is performed on Verbund mit namhaften Leuten zeigt, die extrem effektierte & verhallte acoustic instruments. FBF comprise of baroque oboist Mark Baigent, Saxophon, Percussion, Beckendrones & Gitarre beisteuern zu seinen composer Richard Moult, dulcimer player John Letcher, the Candian rein elektronischen, sirrenden Drone-Teppichen.....sehr wavend, frei flautist Amanda Votta (of the group The Floating World), Shropshire fliessend, endlos weit..... sechs "Movements".... poet Bryony Lees, guitarist Ian Tengwall & Andy Cotterill on "Originally recorded way back in 1992 - Beyond The Pale was E.A.R.'s electronics. ’Haidd 2’ a beautiful 34 minute remix/reworking of their first album, although it remained unreleased until 1996. Pete Kember, previous album." [label info] working with Eddie Prevost (AMM), Kevin Shields (My Bloody "... They are a band of oboist Mark Baigent, dulcimer player John Valentine) and Kevin Martin (God) recorded six tracks at Far Heath Letcher, flautist Amanda Votta, guitarist Ian Tengwall, Andy Cotterill on Studios, Northampton and mixed the resulting audio at MBV Studios, electronics, along with composer Richard Moult and poet Bryony Lees. London. This release for 2008 features artwork from the highly Outside in Clun Forest - and I mean outside - they performed much of collectable artist Kozick, with design overseen by Pete Kember." [label this work, thus adding the outside world as part of the music. The six info] pieces, I am told, describes 'tides from the summer breeze through barley, to the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean extending to the * EYELESS IN GAZA - Summer Salt & Subway Sun do-CD shifting birth pages of stars'. It seems to me that the music is largely (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt210/mt121, 2008) € 19.00 improvised but in a quiet and peaceful manner. Perhaps a little less Erweiterte Neu-Auflage des letzten EIG-Albums, kommt mit einer modern classical than the Mouldycliff piece, although they get close. kompletten Bonus-CD in einer dickwandigen / überformatigen Box mit And in a good ICR (and Die Stadt) mode there is a limited CDR of 16 Seiten Booklet! 600 Stück. music from the CD that is remix/reworked by Cotterill. Perhaps because "Martyn Bates offers the following commentary on this huge set of he doesn't seem to be very present on the CD (or the electronics are recordings. "For me, one of the key impulses at work behind this set save for some delay that is used), he gets his way in a full out treatment of recordings is an understanding of "The City", where individuals of the material, adding spooky electronics to the material, or perhaps are clearly a microcosm within the macrocosm -- a distinct sense of a feeding the material through electronics. Long sustaining sounds that 'person' as a player on a stage with activity going on below them, sound a bit creepy like a wait for something veil and nasty to happen, around them, above them and also within them. The feeling is of which of course (spoiler coming up) doesn't happen. However the drone something at work that is always subterranean … a sense of the like character of this piece brings us back to the start of this review. ICR invisible machinations of men and Gods. This is evidently something does drone music of an outstanding kind, but it's not at all exclusively to material -- namely, work being done in the here and now. It is an that, and offer various fresh views on the subject at hand." (FdW) expression of something non-corporeal, however … of something bigger than 'spiritual', you might say. And yet it is holistic, and 'of the * FEAR FALLS BURNING & BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - same CD body' somehow. For me, this is a 'big picture' that makes perfect (Conspiracy Records core055, 2007) € 13.00 sense: this context of living, as a body and a sprit -- where the THE Ein intensives und ausuferndes Machwerk des monumentalen low-fi CITY is resolutely an outward manifestation of the human psyche. This Gitarren-Drone (ein One-Tracker von 49 Minuten Länge): rumbles, warming and awe inspiring thought was with me during the writing, drones, surreale Atmo, metallisch sirrend, und weitaus weniger loopig arranging and recording of this mammoth set of recordings." [EIG als man FFB bisher kannte.. am Ende wandern ominöse sub-Bass mailing list] drones durch den Raum, wunderbar! Absolut ekstatischer Dronecore ! "Standard 2CD edition. Standard edition of 600 copies are packaged in "A collaboration between the two experimental artists that meant to a deluxe full color book bound box, 16 page lyric booklet , full color happen. Belgium's Fear Falls Burning teams up with New Zealand's book bound cd cases. Eyeless are an earful. Messrs Bates et Becker Birchville Cat Motel for 1 single long track displaying their fascination for have miraculously come trembling through the decades musically the metallic and slow expanding drone. Made with guitars, amps, unscathed. And yay though it is within the office of many bands to have processing and subtle percussion, this album brought out the best in precedents in other bands, EIG really only sound like Scriabin saw. Or each other and is a lively, pulsating, moody and intense drone like Stonehenge weeps. Or like cumulus clouds unite to make bunny manifest." [label info] shapes. Caught in flux, as usual, EIG are absolutely in top form. Martyn "... The sound is intense, humid, and very cinematic. Eventually the is in brilliant voice and sounds like an angel, and the harmonic house in sounds build, layers upon layers, erupting into a blinding heart-of-the- which Peter and Martyn domicile this angel is the Taj Mahal. Or is it as sun nearly static raga, what sounds like a million guitars all left to drone simple and small as a poor carpenter’s cup, which some would call a endlessly amidst a cloud of tinkling glimmering sparkles.

60 The last twenty minutes or so, finds all the high end voices are inspired by slave songs, hence the title, which means swallowed by the low, the guitars begin to grind and rumble, pulse 'forbidden song', although the texts do not relate directly to slavery. The and throb, until the sound becomes a dark viscous river of crumbling instrumental part is a nice mixture of orchestral passages and field distortion, growing less and less distorted, until finally, all recordings, mainly street sounds. Lt. Caramel's music is poetic in that's left is a warm, minimal whir, that gently shifts and drifts approach, even when it's not always to grasp what his poetry is about until it fades out completely. and perhaps this is what makes the music so fascinating. It stands Most folks (like us) see FFB and BCM and already know this is completely in the tradition of concrete music, but has a true and strong a must buy, but this is indeed pretty fantastic, even amidst the voice of his own" [FdW/ Vital Weekly] seemingly neverending (let's hope!) avalanche of amazing releases by both of these prolific noisemakers." [Aquarius Records] * FHIEVEL / LUCA SIGURTA - The Wheel CD (Creative Sources "....It seems that Kneale takes the Fear Falls Burning guitar music into Rec. cs113cd, 2008) € 13.50 his own territory, that of 'cheap-o effect pedals' and '8 bit mono field' "The Wheel (cs 113) nutzte als Klangquelle die durch Wasserkraft while on the job with his own electric guitars and motorised acoustic teledynamisch angetriebene Wollfabrik (heute ein Industriedenkmal) in guitars (and drums it says on the cover, where are they?) and create a Pray in der piemontesischen Provinz Biella. Luca Bergero aka FHIEVEL monster of drone music, metallic ringing and distorted. Working in und LUCA SIGURTÀ stammen beide aus der gleichnamigen straight lines this one, building, climbing, working towards that large Provinzhauptstadt und wecken mit ihrer hauntologischen Musique crescendo, and then leaving the proceedings in an equally slow pace concrète Geister eines vergangenen Industriezeitalters. Das ist (well, not entirely equal, but you get my drift). The original from Fear Industrial Music im wörtlichen Sinn." [Bad Alchemy] Falls Burning seems to be swamped away here, but no doubt he did his "fhievel (fields recordings and electronics)- Luca Sigurtà (fields bit too add to the distorted mayhem (looking at his recent work with recordings and electronics). Recorded in Italy. The factory and its voice, Nadja, this might not be a surprise). One hell of a work, moving away sound textures of the textile industry." [label info] from the more 'usual' burnings, and certainly something to look forward to in the future, if more of these collaborations will unfold." [FdW / Vital * 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO - Under a Morphine Sky CD (Force Weekly] of Nature FON07, 2004) € 12.00 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO is a trio from the US, working somewhere * FEAR FALLS BURNING - Frenzy of the Absolute CD between experimental ambience and noise, using all kinds of sources (Conspiracy Records CORE061CD, 2008) € 13.00 from concrete instrumental sources (percussions, guitars) to more "This highly-anticipated new studio album is the initiation of a change in unrecognizable stuff; 7 tracks that reveal quite a variety of approaches method and playing for FEAR FALLS BURNING. On this album he & styles, quite strange & idiosyncratic & worth to check out! blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers "15 Degrees Below Zero brings you the companion to 'Morhine Dawn' such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of (2004 Crunch Pod Media), a further journey into the experimental Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious ambience of 15 degrees below zero, who were formerly known as landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of "Imperial Flower Unit". Mastered By Tomas Garrison At Misanthrope blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... studios. "15 Degrees Below Zero's sound ranges from subdued, drifting Over the past 2 years FEAR FALLS BURNING has manifested himself ambience, featuring skewed, conventional instrumentation and tatters of as a wilful and unique statement admits the ever expanding drone rhythm, to more insistent, grittier electronic flourishes." [label info] music genre with numerous limited and exclusive releases on both vinyl and compact disc and a highlight in collaborating with the epic 'once we * FRANCIS, RICHARD - Together Alone, Together Apart CD all walk through solid objects' 5lp set. (CMR21, 2007) [ed. of 300] € 12.00 The new cd/2lp 'frenzy of the absolute' is the summon of fear falls Tief wummernder microwave / field recording-drone des Neuseeländers burning's visionary in teaming up with kindred spirits and talented RICHARD FRANCIS (aka ESO STEEL), der hier herrlich rauschig & musicians from the experimental and metal scene. undurchdringbar tönt, v.a. in den mittleren Frequenzbereichen Digipak CD, Limited 180 gr vinyl, 150 copies on Clear with White vinyl, offenbaren sich feinste Details, ein Genuss! Filed under: mysterious 350 on Black in Gatefold dbl LP cover. The vinyl version has one extra drones opening mysterious ways! track 'The Passage Of Wrath' and one extra hidden track." [label info] "Tracks 1 and 2 recorded 2006-2007, track 3 recorded 2003 and "...At first we were worried that adding drums would just turn FFB’s previously released on V-A "Audible New Frontiers" CD (Physics Room- ethereal doomic drift into something much more generic and run of the Radio NZ). Sound sources: field recordings of indoor and outdoor mill, but just the opposite is true. Serries and his guests subtly transform spaces; handling of fabric, wood and plastic; self noise of home stereo the sound of FFB into something wholly different, the opening track amplifiers, loudspeakers and record players." [label info] says it all. That sprawling simple, spread out drumming, continues on "Sound artists like Matt Shoemaker, Loren Chasse, and Steve Roden throughout the first three quarters of the track, pounding away, not are some of the very few who are successful in turning found objects pummeling, but pounding, almost delicately if that were even possible, and field recordings into thoroughly engaging compositions that don't while Serries introduces soft shimmery delicate melodies, that drift rely upon the flashiness of techniques to make their work successful. dreamily in the background, the whole thing underpinned by a thick, Add New Zealand's Richard Francis to that gaggle as well. gradually building Niblock like static guitar drone. But that little lullaby It's been a while since any solo work has been available from Francis, like melody, keeps the track from becoming pure dirge. There’s way too who has previously recorded under the moniker Eso Steel; and more much space. It’s almost like a seriously metalicized and doomed up recently, he's been entertaining many a collaboration with his fellow NZ slowcore band. This is Low covering Sunn 0))), a dreamy droney noiseniks such as Campbell Kneale and Michael Morley. soporific downtuned dreamlike creep..." [Aquarius Records] On Together Alone, Together Apart, Francis turns to the miniscule events of daily life whose peculiar sounds capture his imagination. It * FELIPE CARAMELOS (LT. CARAMEL) - Se Prohibe Cantar do- could be a crackle from rain falling or the distant surf of the Pacific maxiCD (Waystyx Records WR31, 2007) [lim. 423 - special Ocean or a creaking electric radiator or the hissing static from television object-cover] € 18.00 snow. It's these small sounds which Francis has recorded and stretched Neues Material von LT. CARAMEL aka PHILIPPE BLANCHARD, der into relatively longer compositions. These rattling, crackling streams of auf ungewöhnliche Weise Sprachzitate (meist auf französisch) mit softened white noise move in a synchronous fashion, much like the way elektronischen & Kammermusik-artigen Kompositionen sowie that a huge flock of starlings can gracefully circle in the sky without experimenteller musique concrete mischt, so dass immer wieder bumping into each other, all moving organically in three dimensions. neuartige "Situationen", seltsame loops & Sound-Poesie entstehen; Think Loren Chasse, as if he were reworking any of Bernhard Gunter's ein Schwanken zwischen fast Hörspiel-artigen Skizzen und compositions, making them rougher, in line with Chasse's Hedge Of Geräuschmusik. Einiges erinnert an BRUME oder INA GRMsche Nerves disc. Headphones are certainly recommended for this album, as Elektro-Akustik, aber CARAMELS Montagen-Stil ist recht einzigartig. the last track is awfully quiet... at least, it is when there's a record store Spezielles Coverdesign mit 2 Vollfarb-Booklets & Banderole mit full of people. Very well done!" [Aquarius Records review] Metallverschluss. Zwei Maxi-CDs. "423 numbered copies, complete time duration is 36 min(18 x 2). This * FREIBAND - Replicas CD (Monochrome Vision (mv19), 2008) release consists of 2 CDs, each with booklet, in cover, made of "ethnic" € 13.00 paper, also with real silver decorative thing. It is brand new never before "Wenn ich das recht verstehe, dann entstand FREIBAND, eines der released musical material" [label info] Soloprojekte des umtriebigen Frans de Waard, aus einem per Scrollrad "...The music is not far away from the original Lt. Caramel sound, which erzeugten Geräusch, das ihn an Asmus Tietchens‘ Daseinsverfehlung hardcore fans immediately recognize: many voices. Eleven different (Stille Andacht, 1993) erinnerte. Der Hamburger hatte dieses Album people's voices are used, many of them are French and English but aus den kratzenden Klängen fabriziert, die entstehen, wenn man eine also some are Russian - probably from the people of Waystyx Records. Tonbandspule über den Tonkopf zieht, und die 13 Tracks allesamt It adds that poetic feel to the music that is such a common (but nice and ‚Freiband‘ getauft. De Waard wollte als einmaliges Projekt etwas unique) place in the musique concrete of Lt. Caramel. I am told that the Ähnliches probieren, woraus dann Microbes (Ritornell, 2001) entstand.

61 Wie das bei FdW so ist, wurde daraus ein Fass ohne Boden, in das nun Intensität, dieses Solo-Album der Performin und Instrumentenbauerin nach dem Gesetz der Unvermeidlichkeit auch Replicas (Monochrome LIMPE FUCHS, bekannt auch von ANIMA. Vision, mv19) eintaucht, das tatsächlich den Ausgangspunkt, nämlich "German sound artist Limpe Fuchs is not the kind of name that one Tietchens‘ ‚Freiband‘-Tracks, als 13-faches ‚Re‘ remixt. Selbst das sees popping out in trendy festivals and hip "avant" magazines. This is Cover ist eine Revision des Originals, jenem Haus mit Fenstern wie confirmed by the wholly spartan black and white cover lodging this CD: zwei aufgerissenene Augen und ein großes Maul. Inzwischen ist es no modernist graphics, no liner or biographical notes (her website, as eine Ruine mit eingeworfenen Fensterscheiben, herbstlich gesäumt von far as I could see, doesn't feature an English version), no explanations Ahorn. Wenn hier etwas einschlägig ist, dann A.C. Dantos Begriff whatsoever. But, once the disc starts, it dawns on us that no words are ‚Aboutness‘ - Kunst ist immer ein Über-Etwas - , gesteigert, aber necessary when music speaks for itself; and speak it does, with Fuchs gleichzeitig auch implodiert, zu: Kunst ist Über-Kunst. But what is it all using the few means at her disposal to translate them into first-rate about? Schleifende, knisternde, pulsierende, blasende, kristallin instant compositions and impromptu (or less) installations. funklende Geräusche, dazu - mit etwas Phantasie - aber auch "Odessa" pairs the instrument with a ring modulator and "metal discs paranormal, d.h. verhuscht und verzerrt ‚singende‘ oder ‚sprechende‘. rolling in a tube" to stretch the sounds until different kinds of resonance Das leerstehende Haus wird da zum Geisterhaus, auch wenn de moisten the furrows of our old listening habits. "Pavolding" exploits the Waards nüchterne und spröde Akribie diesen hauntologischen Schluss overtones deriving from the uncertain tunings and the preparations of selbst nicht nahelegt." [Bad Alchemy] an old piano, filling the air with infinite dissonances that sound celestial "Highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling to these ears. "Erlangen" is a curious duet between an escalator and and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of classic album by Asmus Fuchs' harmonium, a "machine-rhythm versus airy clusters" tolerance Tietchens “Daseinsverfehlung”. All what can be heard on this CD, as that Pierre Schaeffer would have applauded and early Kraftwerk could always in case of Frans de Waard framework, is made from music that have been willing to steal. "Orplid" sees the author accompanying already existed: every sound, word in titles and even the cover picture - herself with dissonant touches while vocalizing in a style not too distant all is just processing and manipulation techniques. Freiband is one of from early Meredith Monk's, while "Karpathos" juxtaposes more solo projects by Frans de Waard. Besides Kapotte Muziek, Frans prepared piano with the ambience of a sea cave, water sounds currently also plays in Beequeen duo with Freek Kinkelaar, runs Plinkity enhancing the artist's expressive freedom. Plonk and other small labels, writes tons of reviews for the Vital Weekly But my soft spot is for the two versions of "Berlin", ironically the only newsletter. When just get some free time, he becomes active with piano-less tracks of the album, being performed on an harpsichord various side-projects like Goem (minimal techno), Quest (ambient), which sounds more like a koto or a harp; Fuchs reaches for perfect Shifts (post-rock), Captain Black (remixes) etc." [label notes ] chords and gentle arpeggios managing to level any residual thorn in our "... Without getting too trippy or spacey, I would like to propose that this spirit, which receives this timeless music like some sort of gift from a is the kind of music that alters your state of mind and being. Not the delicate-looking, sad-smiled creature. It's almost like a soundtrack for a kind of album that you'll play in the background, 'cause it wants your full fairy tale, the most evident example of sensitiveness by an often attention. It freezes your body and at same time makes you experience overlooked artist who, in this particular instance, has given birth to it from head to toe. In this way it has the same effect as most of what's likely to become an obscure masterpiece." Francisco Lopez' work has on me: it grabs you by the ears and sucks [Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes] you right in." [SdT, Vital Weekly]

* FUHLER, COR - Stengam CD (Potlach P206, 2006) € 15.00 * FRIA KONSTELLATIONEN - Musik om Fria Konstellationen CD Wenig ist uns bekannt über COR FUHLER, aber durch die (Rev/Vega Records RVR004, 2008) € 10.00 untenstehende Vital Weekly Review führt kein Weg an ihm vorbei. Auf Geräuschhafte free from Drone-Psychedelia aus Schweden, mit fast STENGAM benutzt er ein Klavier, welches er mit elektrischem "konventioneller" Besetzung werden Soundscapes erreicht die auch an Geigenbogen und Magneten bespielt. Nach einem konkret- z.B. MORPHOGENESIS und NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES erinnern.. geräuschhaftem Beginn werden die Stücke immer welliger, "the debut cd from FRIA KONSTELLATIONEN are a unique blend of schwingungsreicher und obertoniger, oder die Drones bekommen einen freeform drones and avantgarde/ three songs that sprawls and point "metallophonen" und Gong-artigen Charakter. Herausragende Drone- your eyes out, but in the same time are great beauty.." [label info] Muzak die ohne Effektierungen auskommt, Anklänge an OREN "From Sweden hail Fria Konstellationen, who describe themselves as AMBARCHI, RAFAEL TORAL oder ELLEN FULLMAN. Tip ! being on 'the outskirts of psychedelic folk, drone and free form sound "Music by Cor Fuhler has been reviewed before in these pages, but one experimentation'. Not much further information is given here, but we has to know where to look. Fuhler has been a duo with Gert-Jan Prins hear guitars, drums, vocals, bass and electronics. So far they release under the name of The Flirts, of whom I once saw a brilliant concert, but three CDRs, and this is their first real CD. They say they play long also improvising with anybody in the Dutch improvisation scene, and tracks, but that's not entirely true: three pieces that in total last just beyond, such as with Mimeo. His main instrument is the piano, but "he under thirty minutes, but it's the perfect length I think to catch what this seeks to take it musically beyond usual perceptions, specializing in Swedish answer to the No Neck Blues Band does. They improvise sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, around a given set of sounds, wether that is the repetition of the guitar rotating threads, spinning disks". In addition Fuhler also plays an EMS or a drone. Everybody else improvises around that, by using smaller synthi AKS, as well as building his own instruments, such as a violin repetitive sounds. Just like the No-necks do. Which means I quite like it, with keys: the keyolin. On his new solo CD, he plays an 'acoustic grand since I like the Neck's, without keeping up with everything they release. piano, using ebows and super magnets. No overdubs, no electronics, This is a very nice alternative." [FdW / Vital Weekly] no electronic treatment'. Which is something I read on the cover after I

heard the CD. Fuhler could have fooled me. I recognized indeed the * FROZEN FACES - Broken Sounds of a dying Culture CD piano, and yes, there are long sustained overtones, but just as easily I (Wrotycz Records WRT 005, 2007) € 13.00 could have thought there was electronic treatment in these subtle walls Re-issue of self-released first LP from 1997, plus tracks from the 7" "Religion of droning and sustaining sounds, with sparse interception by the piano of Hate". Project of Lina / DEUTSCH NEPAL. large cardboard cover. itself. So there are none. Wow! Along the lines of Alvin Lucier, but in a "The year is 1996 I was surfing on cold waves through the very heart of much more musical context. Whereas much of Lucier's work stays on Linkopia, night after night it was all the same. Sleeping in the Karmanik the somewhat clinical and conceptual sides of things, Fuhler expands basement seduced by delerium echoing between white concretwalls. I beyond it, and makes great, careful music. It hardly sounds like a disc could hear the equiptment slowly disintegrating as I put out the light, of improvisation music, as one may expect from this label, but more a broken sounds of a dying culture. This might be the erosion of history disc of composed music. Great stuff." [FdW / Vital Weekly] eternally scraping on the crown of mankind...or was it just the decline of my personal belongings after years of abuse... and was there any * FULLMAN, ELLEN & MONIQUE BUZZARTE - Fluctuations CD difference between the two theories? I streched out my limb and (Deep Listening DL38, 2008) € 13.00 pressed the record-button." - Lina Baby Doll. "Monique Buzzarté and Ellen Fullman began working together in June Originally released by Entartete Musikk in 1996 as a limited edition LP. 2005. These collaborative compositions are rooted in tonalities that Now available in cd format with totally remastered sound, new unfold with unexpected possibilities. Buzzarté's trombone navigates and artwork and bonus tracks from the Religion of Hate 7" in original merges through an infinite array of distinct overtones from Fullman's extended versions. A must for all the fans of Lina's works who somehow Long String Instrument. With slight timbral variations and pitch missed the vinyl version! Fomat: CD, A5 folding cover" [label info] juxtapositions, sympathetic resonances articulate overtone colorations and threads of resultant melodic fragments emerge and intertwine." * FUCHS, LIMPE - Pianobody 2002 CD (Seven Legged Spiders [label info] & Co. SLS01, 2006) € 13.00 "Four female composers, two collaborations and one label, Deep Wildes Piano, Cembalo, Gesang, elektronisch effektiert, improvisiert, Listening. But the outcome is quite different. First the good news. Ellen atonal - irgendwie betörend obskur und von archaischer Kraft & Fullman is perhaps, hopefully, best known for her work with metal string music, ever since discovering it in 1981. Here she works with

62 trombonist Monique Buzzarte, of whom I never heard before. "Carlos Giffoni knows no mercy. Of all the noise terrorists on the loose Apparently she works with trombone, sometimes in combination with today, Giffoni causes the most upheaval. We know he specialises in electronics. The results are simply great. Long sustaining tones are brutal and invincible noise collages, but there is so much more to it than produced by the strings and Buzzarte's trombone plays like sustained that. There is always a glimmer of hope that shines through the dense tones on her trombone. Slow and solemn; that's the way this music clouds of noise. His noise lives, broods and swings. His latest album for moves forward. Majestically. Minimal and melodic. Sombre yet full of Bottrop-Boy is a true revelation in this respect, not just for the listener, light. Six tracks that work best however as one track. If you like Phill but also for the artist himself. After all, the Venezuelan artist, who is Niblock than you like this too. Great work." [FdW / Vital Weekly] based in New York, has conceded that this is a new style for him. With Eternal Noise Carlos Giffoni enters the holiest of holies, his noise * GELSOMINA & NO XIVIC - Furnace CD (Some Place Else nirvana. Even though Giffoni’s earlier works already sounded SPECD07044, 2007) € 12.00 impressively organic, with Eternal Noise he is heading for new heights. Das Titelstück ist ein furioses 25minütiges Power-Drone Monument, His customary thick layers of noise sound more subtle than ever before. welches beide finnischen Projekte im Oktober 2006 live einspielten; The four-part suite maintains physical impact, but all faces are turned to eine harmonische delay- Bass Grundlage wird mit harsch-noisigem heaven, towards eternity. Rather than a noise exercise that sounds like Brett garniert, danach folgen noch 2 lange einzelne Stücke von beiden a wrestling match in the dirt, this recording represents ascension Acts, pulsierend-beschwörender harsh-core Industrial von towards the sun and open heavens. At times you will find yourself GELSOMINA, fantastischer "mysterious noise" von NO XIVIC. almost drowning in the feedback splashing against you, at other times " 'Furnace' is an unlikely yet strangely natural union of no Xivic, you will find yourself breathlessly captivated by the peregrinations, renowned sculptor of dark electro-acoustic soundscapes, and whirls and swells of sinus tones. Giffoni is genuinely inspired by the Gelsomina, Finland's most prolific harsh noise artist. The title track, also avant-garde music of the 20th century and the results are miraculous. the main piece on the album, is a live collaboration recorded in late How Giffoni creates his compositions is of no importance. This is all 2006, a grand opus of psychedelic noise with a peculiar 'kraut' flavour! about their effect on your mood, the spectacle of your ravished soul. In addition to this, both artists created exclusive tracks on their own to You find yourself asking how it is possible that such loud and intense complete the album. In total, Furnace is a 44-minute blast of fire, music can be so tranquil and meditative at the same time. brimstone and hazardous electric currents, and thus a fine completion Eternal Noise reconfirms Giffoni’s status as the uncrowned king of of Some Place Else's tenth year of activity. CD in square DVD-box with contemporary noise. Bottrop-Boy is proud to release this key work in full colour artwork and insert. Edition of 500 copies." [label info] Giffoni’s oeuvre." [label info] ".... The eternal is the easier word to parse. Giffoni here deals * GENOCIDE ORGAN - Remember do-CD (Tesco Org. 067, exclusively with shape-shifting drones, mostly around the lower partials 2007) € 18.50 of the overtone series. Each of the four tracks doesn’t evolve so much "The 10th birthday of "Remember" sees the re-release, containing an as amorphously change emphasis at a geologic or tectonic pace, extra of 50 minutes live material. Total Time: 139min.! All material was almost a history of the Earth heard from the inside or the sound of remastered for this release by Propergol and the artwork is completely individual molecules vibrating, a kind of nano-counterpoint. Even where overworked. It gives an oversight on G.O. performances from the there is a pulse within the drone, it serves not as a driving teleological beginning until the year 2000. Powerful, provocative and subversive, force but rather as a mere marker of the passing time, alluding to the just different!" [label info] stasis of the most ambient of krautrock tracks. On top of that, Giffoni seems to be evoking a kind of throat singing where the vocal chords * GERONIMO - same CD (Three One G , 2008) € 14.50 have been replaced by charged wires that crackle, buzz, and distort as Heftige Noise-Rock / Industrial-Melange, dunkel & grinding, they vibrate. Each overtone has its own individual color of noise, so the minimal & trancy, manchmal fast groovy, Anklänge an WOLF EYES, composite is like the gradual color shifts of oil on water or of a uralte SWANS, JESUS LIZARD, etc.. Schlagzeug, Synths, Bass & dissolving Gobstopper. Vocals, meist instrumentell, sehr eigenständig & spannend arrangiert, & Were those flavors of noise not so harsh around the edges, this album experimentell genug um kein Abklatsch zu sein; immer wieder ruhige could almost be meditative. It is fitting that the liner notes are mostly Passagen, aber auch rasende Ausbrüche... pictures of Japanese temples, since their serenity is clearly behind "From East Los Angeles, California, GERONIMO members have played almost every sound here, even the harsh ones. And when each track with bands as diverse as Man Is The Bastard, Sleestak and Beck. cuts off suddenly, it feels as if you're being unwillingly wrested back into These reference points have nothing to do with Geronimo's self-titled reality." [Dan Rucchia / Dusted Mag] album or the minimalist tribal pounding it provides but it does hint at the quality of music the band produces." [label info] * GLORY FCKN SUN - Vision scorched CD & BOOK (Pseudo Arcana PA099, 2007) [lim. 200] € 16.00 * GERRIT + JOHN WIESE - The Disappearing Act EP maxi-CD "Formed in 2003 as a conduit for intense ritualistic sonic exploration (Misantrophic Agenda MAR014, 2006) € 8.00 Glory Fckn Sun is the ecstatic psyche-noise trio of Antony Milton Drei tracks zweier US Noise-Acts, häufige dynamische (guitar/electronics), Ben Spiers (guitar/violin/electronic) and improv Verschiebungen, Triebwerk-artige Drones und irre Sinus-elektronische percussionist Simon O'Rorke (gongs/percussion). Wallungen machen dies zu einer aufregenden und lohnenswerten 'Vision Scorched' collects together one studio track and two live pieces. Hörerfahrung. These range through long form rumbling distorted deep space "Berkeley noise terrorist GERRITT (Misanthropic Agenda boss) and his explorations (complete with supernova and the odd blackhole), intense prolific Los Angeles counterpart JOHN WIESE--both have been yet ethereal harsh noise to close with a droning metaphysical raga- freelance members of SUNN O)))--hook up to scorch down. Here they esque paean to the great cosmic inevitable of the collapse of the sun, display their expertise in pulling transmissions from an elusive And of light itself. Glory Fckn Sun have been described as having a dimension utilizing elements of dynamics, noise, rhythm, silence, and sound that is like a cross between Flies Inside the Sun and Keiji Haino. tone." [label info] Nearly 2 years in the making and continuing in the PseudoArcana tradition of fantastical over-the-top packaging (...) 'Vision Scorched' is * GHOST ON WATER - Senshu CD (Faraway Press FP 04, 2008) presented in a professionally bound 72 page picture book of sun related € 19.00 imagery with hand printed covers. This is a limited numbered edition CD "Ghosts on Water is Andrew Chalk and Daisuke Suzuki and together of 200 copies." [label info] the produce some of the finest quiet music around. On his solo recordings Andrew treats sound as a sort of misting or blurring of the * GOEM - Robbed CD (Small Voices SVR07023, 2007) € 13.00 senses. He blends the individual sounds into a multi-coloured "In the hectic year 2001, Goem played around the world: at Mutek, in expressionist colour-field. Daisuke's presence adds an extra dimension Japan, England, Austria, the UK, Spain, France and in between they to the sound. There are sketches of melody in the slowly tumbling worked on their 'Abri' CD, which was released later in 2001. Also they strings that, in places, give the work a vaguely eastern exoticism. organised the 'Gast' CD, with various people (Matmos, Taylor Deupree, Indeed it is the presence of what could, admittedly with a little stretching Richard Chartier etc.) at the controls of Goem equipment. For the of the definition, be classed as melody that makes this album so constant changing minds of Goem these activities were also marking impressive. It has an inherent lyricism that flows along and even across the end of an era. The working methods of Goem had been well the broad, washing tones upon which everything is built. explored and nothing needed to be added. In the year 2002 they As ever, heartily recommended." [Wonderfulwoodenreasons.com] produced a three minute sound piece for an installation and after that: silence. With Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop in Rotterdam and * GIFFONI, CARLOS - Eternal Noise CD (Bottrop Boy B-BOY 032, Frans de Waard in Nijmegen it was not very easy to meet up, also due 2008) € 13.00 to their personal busy schedules. Still, in early 2004 Roel Meelkop and Vier Stücke mit hyper-minimalen Analog-Drones, zwischen rauh- Frans de Waard recorded a remix of Esplendor Geometrico and Peter knarzigen Texturen und sanften Wellen a la ELEH. Duimelinks and Frans de Waard a 10" record for Auf Abwegen. Frans de Waard also recorded eleven new tracks as Goem for the Japanese

63 Atak label. Expanding on the known concept, he now incorporated * GREY, NICK & THE RANDOM ORCHESTRA - Spin Vows under breaks in the music and some tracks do not rely on samples but on Arch CD (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt184, 2008) € 13.00 pure synthesizer tones. This record breaks away from the old Goem Eine Art "magischer" ambient / drone Folk & Pop, dunkel, dramatisch, and walks new paths. Now it's Roel Meelkop who recorded 10 new schleppend, instrumental, wunderbar emotional... irgendwo noch folkig Goem tracks, shedding light on his view of the way to go for Goem. All aber reduziert auf das nötigste, mitunter mit jazzigen Einflüssen...man tracks are entirely based on stolen samples (the source should remain stelle sich ultra-düstere EYELESS IN GAZA vor, vermischt mit a mystery, but they can all be traced back to one CD...). With these langsamen TUXEDOMOON, und der Stimmung eines TOR samples Meelkop shows that Goem could walk other paths as well. LUNDVALL, so einsam, traurig und verloren... diverse hochklassige Sometimes really minimal, sometimes almost poppy, all of the tracks Gastmusiker wirken im RANDOM ORCHESTRA mit und machen share the same Goem style. Yet more possibilities for this Dutch trio... dieses Album zu einer besonderen Veröffentlichung. Goem as a trio will continue to exist and might record new material in "First ed. of 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound CD case the future." [label info] and full color booklet. The opening growl is so like a stomache churn "... The overall sound is of remarkable digital warmth and fullness, and that an immediate restart was needed to ensure that the noise was not far away from the standard vocabulary of clicks cum sine waves. physiological. And thus unfolds the bizarre tonal kerchief of Nick Grey. Cleverly switching between up- and down-tempo passages, Roel A great host of talent was enlisted to complete this project including: Meelkop achieves a nice balance between various moods. Some of the Charlemagne Palestine, Martyn Bates, Jean Marie Mathoul, Jessica tracks evoke a relaxed, at times even dub-like feeling, while others Constable et al. Fortunately, Nick sidesteps the pitfalls of a multi- include odd contrasting elements, which give them an insistent, driving vocalist endeavor by sewing the various excursions together to form a character. Goem's music is well structured and demands repeated united whole. The low spark of fuzzed guitars, married with ecumenical listening to discover the complex micro-variations within the rhythmic drones, navigates haloed ports, each guarded by its own siren song. patterns; but what makes 'Robbed' truly likeable is that it succeeds in Beautiful, subdued vocal performances (some spoken) add colour to blending these characteristics with a swinging, thoroughly pleasant the clouds, as do the well drawn-out spaces in between the voices. This overall atmosphere." [MSS / Vital Weekly] method of carving space has a relative in Cindytalk, vis a vis the patient accumulation of sound traveling like a carefully paced brooding force; * GOLYSHEV, NIKITA - Solaris CD (Monochrome Vision (mv20), un-tethered and given emotional exclamation at cardinal points 2008) € 13.00 throughout the album. By the mid section when Martyn Bates’ soulful Auf dem Moskauer Label MONOCHROME VISION erscheinen nicht charms are brought to the breach, Spin Vow’s quiet momentum is nur Fundstücke aus der Experimental-Historie, sondern auch unstoppable and seeps in like rain water to hungry soil. There is also a Newcomer der russischen Szene. NIKITA GLOYSHEV spinnt feinste playful Derek Jarman-ness when the recordings intentionally seem a microwave-drones, die sich sachte verwandeln, mit leicht little raw (and with the slight tug at the curtain offered by some well mechanischem Touch und untergründigem Brodeln versehen. placed drops of studio banter). Sometimes voices really DO carry." Ultra-minimal & wahrnehmungsverändernd... [label info] "The debut CD album of one of the most promising russian underground musician, presenting his own unique vision of ambient * GRIMM, JOE - Brain Cloud CD (SPEKK KK:015, 2008) € 15.50 music. Combining the deep layers of machine-like hum and minimal Oberton-Musik. JOE GRIMMs Hang für monumentale & erhabene melodic keys, Nikita creates highly emotional and dramatic journey to Drone-Wolken wird schon deutlich durch seine Teilname am GLENN the netherworld. Two parts of this one hour long suite are the partly BRANCA-Orchester. Auf "Brain Cloud" hören wir 5 lange Stücke presented in the program of Add Noise II festival on May 15th, 2007. basierend auf Piano, Cembalo und Obertongesang, die verschiedene Beginning in 2003 as the part of duo aptly titled CD-R, Nikita Golyshev Facetten seiner Kunst aufzeigen. Mitunter überlagern sich komplexe quickly became the one of the most promising electronic musicians on Soundnebel in langen auf- und abschwellenden Wellen, absolut the russian underground scene. His output progressed from rhythmic erhebend (wie auf "Brain Cloud IV")! Der Bezug zu C. PALESTINE ist noise mayhem to diverse and heterogeneous experiments, ranging eindeutig, aber JOE GRIMM spricht mit einer klaren und deutlichen from machine improvisation through bleak drones to pure processed eigenen Klangsprache.. acoustic minimalism. He released some CD-Rs and published many "Spekk is still on my favorite labels, and with these two new ones they works online, as well as on his own Musica Excentrica, Electrosound prove once again their style. Even when there is no information and Share My Wings imprints. He finally recorded the debut CD album supplied on Joe Grimm, from his personal notes to his CD we still learn under his real name." [label notes] something, such as the fact that he participated in Branca's 100-guitar ".... 'Solaris' is his debut solo CD and it's hard not to see this as a symphonies and that he's a keen admirer of Charlemagne Palestine. soundtrack to the Tarkovsky movie, even when there is no such On 'Brain Cloud' there are five of his own personal investigation into the reference on the cover. The music spread out over two pieces of world of overtones, not through electronic manipulation but through around thirty minutes could have been alternative soundtracks to that actual, physical playing of two instruments: three pieces for the piano movie. Golyshev's plays some interesting under water and under world and two with harpsichord. In the piano pieces, called 'Brain Cloud', like drone music of a great kind. Golyshev keeps things minimal but too there is also the addition of voices, violins and horns, but the piano is such an extent that changes appear at the right moment - the true the main player. In these pieces the Palestine influence is most clear. power of drone music, I guess. Don't be a bore, don't let changes come With a rapid attack and the sustain pedal down, Grimm creates a dense to quickly, everything on the right moment. This version of 'Solaris' is web of swirling sounds, not quite unlike Palestine, but with some great and surely the name Golyshev is worth keeping an ear open for. expanded sounds that go beyond Palestine. The two harpsichord " [FdW / Vital Weekly] pieces are improvisations of fast playing and the high pitched sound which is so recognizable for the harpsichord. The grande finale is * GRASSOW, MATHIAS & THOMAS WEISS - Conscience CD reached with 'Brain Cloud III', which is a piece for three piano's played (Nextera ERA 2041-2, 2006) € 13.50 the eighteen hands in total, yet they manage to work the dynamics very "An authority between the human made ego and his creator. well...." [FdW / Vital Weekly] The conscience is a regulator and gives always precisely feedback about our emotional actions. Everyone has the free will to accept this. * GRISEY, GERALD - Vortex Temprorum - Talea CD (Accord 464 Many people have forgotten to follow their inner voice. Instead their 292-2, 1997) € 18.50 decisions are depended on status symbols and social standards. Zwei Stücke mit "mysteriöser Kammermusik" von dem französischen This music doesn't want to entertain you, but give you a view inside Komponisten, der 1998 nur 52jährig verstarb. Markenzeichen seiner your "self". As soon as we have spirit, mind and body together we are Kompositionen ist die Verwendung der "Spektralharmonik", weshalb er practising the truth." [label notes] auch als einer der Haupt- "Spektralisten" bezeichnet wird. Diese Fokussierung auf die Obertöne & Rückkehr zu "reinem Klang" und * GRASSOW, MATHIAS & JIRI MAZANEK - Inner Path CD Klangfarben macht die Spektralisten auch gerade für Geräuschmusik- & (Nextera ERA 2051-2, 2008) Drone-Hörer interessant. Enthalten hier: "Vortex Temporum" (1995), Great meditative recordings using deep synth-drones as a basis, "Talea" (1986). Sogenannte Spektralharmonik, Zyklus-Denken und das overtone-voice-circles and subtle instrumental recordings (zither, Konzept der "klanglichen Erosion" sind die Hauptcharakteristiken der kantele, guitar). Creates vast spaces & a stunning atmosphere.. Klangsprache GRISEYS. Für Explorer ! „Inner Path – the idea of combining pure handplayed acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature-sounds. * GROULT, CHRISTINE - Etincelles CD (Motus >Acousma With a spiritual sight behind, Inner path is open for free direction and M306012, 2006) € 13.00 interpretation nevertheless with a strong focus inside ourselves by Collection of stunning works from this french composer, very far away considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back from "classic" electro-acoustic music this reminds more on dramatic into the inner light. This work is a remembrance...“ [label info] dark & drone ambient at times, but with an intense cinematoscopic atmosphere and full of concrete sound-details.

64 "Christine Groult studied at the GRM, at the Experimental Conservatory feverishly burst through a vista of golden chrysoberyls. Let the of Pantin, directed by Michel Decoust, at the Sorbonne in the ceremony commence." [label info] department of musicology. From 1976 to 1986, she was an assistant in the department of pedagogy at IRCAM under the direction of Pierre * HAFLER TRIO - Dislocation CD (Korm Plastics paragraph 23, Boulez. From 1985 to 1990 she was responsible for the subsection 81, 2008) € 14.00 electroacoustical studio of the National Music School in Chalon-sur- Das frühe Staalplaat-Werk in edler Verpackung wiederveröffentlicht, Saône. In 1989, she passed her CA (Certificat d'Aptitude) in kommt mit sehr kunstvollem Posterkarten-Booklet. Weitflächige field electroacoustical music. Since 1990 she teaches electroacoustical recording drones und seltsamste konkrete Sounds (die aber alle composition at the National Music School of Pantin. In 2002 she "natürlichen" Ursprungs zu sein scheinen) prägen das Album, founded the association Music in situ, the mission of which is the insgesamt eher "collagig", orakelhaft, verwirrend. Wer sich für die erste proposition of scenographies. 'Les frontières de l'autre' (2001), "experimentellere" Phase von H30 interessiert, findet hier einen idealen 'Étincelles' (2005), 'L'Heure alors s'incline' (1991), 'Canal instantané' Einstiegspunkt in das ominöse Multiversum des Andrew McKenzie. (2004), 'Le Temps du ciel : entropie' (2000), 'Passagers imminents' "Wer dachte, mit der Staalplaat-Edition von 1990 ein Schmuckstück (1993)." [label info] sein Eigen nennen zu können, dem wird die Neuauflage der 86er H3O-Kassette einen Stich versetzen. Das Artwork ist nicht nur * GROWING - Lateral EP maxi-CD (Social Registry TSR064, 2008) opulenter, es ist stupend. Die Landkarten sind nun farbig und statt eines € 9.50 simplen Booklets gibt es ein raffiniert gefaltetes Kartonleporello mit den "Lateral'" finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly Texten über die gnostischen Nag-Hammadi-Rollen (‚Trimorphic underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic Protennoia‘ wird wörtlich zitiert) und über das Ptolemäische Weltbild motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. The textures und erneut mit dem ungelösten Rätsel der Route From Lonely Island in are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning the Arctic Circle to Shiant Island near Lewis, to the tip of the gulf of minimalist changes within GROWING'S dense aural fog." [label info] Policastro, to Cranbourne in Dorset, to St. David in the East CD-Version der neusten EP dieses New Yorker Ambient/Drone-Duos, Archipelago. To complete the sequence and make the ‚circle‘ possible, deren Analog & Guitar-Sounds mal wieder höchst schwingend & travel from Jabbok in Perea, to the Great Salt Lake, to the foothills of vibrato-schwanger klingen... full fuzzy guitars, extreme Vibrato- the Pyrenees. (Eine 9. Karte zeigt Istrien und die Kroatischen Inseln) Melodien, analogue blurbs überall, leiernde Sounds wanken There is a hidden point. Als Inspiration ist wieder der Archäologe und umher...eine sehr eigene Version von psychedelischem Drone-Sound... Okkultist T.C. Lethbridge (1901-1971) genannt, Autor von z. B. The " Brooklyn-based ambient-drone duo Growing never fails to please Legend of the Sons of God: A Fantasy? (1972) und The Power of the the devoted. It could also easily be said that the duo has failed to Pendulum (1978), dessen Erbe inzwischen von The Sons of TC- truly diverge from their original starting point. Although, part of the Lethbridge, d. s. Welbourn Tekh (ex-Sinking Ships), Doggen Foster & charm of this sort of music is indulging in a process of creation that Kevin Bales (Spiritualized), und, wem sonst, Julian Cope ebenfalls celebrates the difference and repetition within a given theme or musikalisch umschwurbelt wurde, wenn auch auf andere Weise als concept; expanding or investigating a specific idea over a length of durch Andrew McKenzie. Dessen ‚Tourist with Pendulum‘, das neben time. Thus, if you like Growing, you'll love this EP. All of the usual ‚Chronos Destroyed‘ Dislocation füllt, spielt direkt auf Lethbridge an. landmarks are here: a Nadja on opium meets some sort of Windy & Der Sound - meist irritierende Fieldrecordings - ist freilich Mindfuck Carl and Labradford hybrid, heavy filter manipulations, masked, genug. Ein Klassiker." [Bad Alchemy] aquatic tremolo and chorus leads, and full-on auto-pan attacks that "Travel! It's the drug of the common man! Why, it keeps the wheels of completely embrace stereo dynamics. We've read that -- specifically industry flowing to make sure that he has a home to come to, earned within the ambient-drone scene -- Growing has been particularly and paid for by his labours! Why don't you, the rich, privileged, indulge reluctant to utilize computers, preferring to employ pedals and more in a journey that (trust me) money can't buy! And send a postcard to organic looping techniques. Still, a quick listen to this release unearths your friends! X marks the spot!" Originally released by Staalplaat as a enough digital-sounding distortion to make the listener wonder whether cassette in 1986 then as a CD in 1990. Revised now, with the proper or not these two dronesters have finally caved in or not. Fans of long, package." [label info] drawn-out melodic landscapes or psychedelic explorations won't want to miss out on this one. Definitely recommended." [Aquarius Rec] * HALO MANASH - Language of Red Goats CD (Aural Hypnox [AH09], 2008) € 13.00 * GUAPO - Elixirs CD (Neurot Rec. NR052, 2008) € 14.50 Die wohl dronigste und kontemplativste CD des finnischen Projekts, Das dritte Album, dunkler 70er Jahre Psych & Prog ins neue eingespielt mit gigantisch grossen Gongs, beschwörenden Vocals, Jahrtausend transformiert, Stimmungsmässig irgendwo zwischen archaischen Blasinstrumenten, ultratief und meditativ, schleppend & BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE und ART ZOYD... zeitlupenmässig, glocken / metall- artiges wird eingesetzt, simple "Dunkel, drückend, depressiv bis zur Ohnmacht - GUAPOS Sound Melodien erstrecken sich in dieser "Nicht-Zeit", seltsame Geräusche kreist um diese Emotionen und sie untermauern auch mit ihrem aus der Zwischenwelt begegnen einem.. sehr dicht, einnehmend, mittlerweile dritten Album wieder eindrucksvoll, dass niemand authentisch.....man kann sich nur wundern wie schnell die CD vorbei ist, Misantrophie so in Sound giessen kann, wie das Londener Dreier- obwohl sie über 50 Minuten lang ist - erzeugt einen absoluter Kollektiv um Matt Thompson und Daniel O'Sullivan." [Cargo] Zeitdehnungseffekt! Musik aus der "Andernwelt", ritualistisch & "Three years have passed since Black Oni (Ipecac). Four years since hypnotisch, alles "live" eingespielt, ihr bestes Album bisher! Five Suns (Cuneiform). The new album by Guapo is finally here and This is the real otherworld-drone! thus concludes the recondite triptych. Each record has taken on new "Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the musical hues and offered disparate ideas and perspectives. However, light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a an upheaval in the line-up, which has been anchored most recently by cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and Daniel O'Sullivan, Matthew Thompson, and David Smith, triggered a springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and change in course when Thompson left the band just prior to the release dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at of Black Oni in 2005. In the interim O'Sullivan and Smith have been Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into active with an abundance of other projects. Both members perform in the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings. the antique-prog band Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be (Mimicry). O'Sullivan's work with AEthenor (VHF), Mothlite (Southern), viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are part Grumbling Fur (Aurora Borealis) as well as moonlighting in the live line- of one holistic creation three faces of the same being. More akin to a up of Sunn O))) has been keeping him extremely busy. Smith created a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic exploration, than large-scale multi-media installation for which he made a soundtrack with an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy tripartite soundscape. O'Sullivan and Antti Uusimaki under The Stargazers Assistant moniker. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and wind instruments, as well Smith also plays with members of Coil, Cyclobe and Shockheaded as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast to earlier more refined Peters in the Amal Gamal Ensemble. Despite these distractions, Guapo works that feature a wide multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. has maintained their focus, and Elixirs has been three years in the Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural making. It is unequivocally their most poignant and powerful work to landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and date. an edge of otherwordly luminosity. The album transcends any musical antecedents for which Guapo have Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 been acknowledged in the past. Instead, the music here explores the copies." [label info] outermost regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, "...Long wailing blasts of a distant horn punctuated by shimmering This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, Moondog, and early-'70s Miles gongs, the sounds seemingly welling up preternaturally from the very Davis are present, as the dense orchestration and finespun virtuosity bowels of the earth – deep sonics from the deep places of the world. create a richness previously hinted at but until now never fully realized. This is a summoning, an invocation for the Elder Gods to return as On Elixirs, Guapo have opened a secret vault of treasures where jewels rightful overlords of this realm, with small bell-like sounds echoing and of sulphurous green and ashen blue blossom dwell, and springs of fire reverberating, chasing each other into the gloom of subterranean

65 kingdoms unknown to human eye and knowledge. Time here is an Who effortlessly produces the primary orb and stimulates it? irrelevance, a meaningless concept to those who have always existed The winds rise in the north and blow to the east and west. and will always do so – endlessly languorous reverberations hang lazily Others move upward uncertainly. in the air, little murmurs circulating eternally, and eventually becoming Whose breath moves them? part of the very fabric of the subterranean stone itself..." [Heathen Who effortlessly causes them to blow? Harvest] What is the cause? [Chuang Tzu] " [from the label info] * HALO MANASH - Language of Red Goats [special ed] CD (Aural Hypnox [AH09], 2008) [lim. 71 copies] € 22.00 * HARMONIA - Live 1974 CD (Grönland GRON78, 2007) € 13.00 We could grab few copies of the special edition of the new HALO "A dusted-down recording of hypnotic machine music from a gig on MANASH-album, coming in a bound 7"-cardboardbox with exclusive March 23rd 1974. It was recorded at the Penny Station Club (a former artwork, organic material & drawings. Lim to 71 copies. Rare & railway station in Griessem) in front of about fifty people, according to beautiful! Neu! mainman Rother, who played the same venue in 1971 when he was still a member of Kraftwerk. It might be a live record but it won't * Harley GABER - The Winds rise in the North do-CD (Edition RZ satisfy anybody in search of a rowdy, feel-like-youre-there gig 4008-9, 2008) € 21.50 atmosphere; there's no whooping, applause or even heckling. It's simply One long multi-layer drone-minimalism piece (more than 100 minutes, the sound of a band locked into a groove, backs to the audience (as in 4 movements) played on five strings, which reveals lots of inner you'll see on the album sleeve) and concentrating hard in an effort to micro-movements and developments (kind of intense micro- blow minds and take their industrial space music to the further reaches. (dis)harmonics) with almost dramatic effects, a great piece by this Rother suggests that the lack of applause and noise wasn't because of modern US-composer. Originally released on Titanic Records in 1976 audience indifference but because every member of the crowd is either as do-LP. stoned (no incense sticks though, reassures Rother) or because they " "Natürlich verstehe ich" - so räumte Harley Gaber, der Komponist, ein couldn't decipher when one ten-minute epic started and another - "dass dies nicht jedermanns Sache ist". Er meinte sein 1973/74 finished. Amazingly, it still sounds as experimental as it must have done entstandenes und über hundert Minuten dauerndes Streichquintett "The in that former railway station thirty-three years ago. It certainly shows Wind Rise in the North", dessen magische, rau schimmernde Klangwelt the kids a thing or two about losing themselves in music. The album sich in vier Abschnitten nur extrem langsam wandelt - ohne erkennbare contains just one track under nine-minutes, featuring the wiggy, temporale Textur, ohne Eindeutigkeit und ohne Ziel. Man könnte beim industrial chug (it was recorded in a former railway station) of Hören an das Lied einer verstimmten Äolsharfe denken, die, bespielt Schaumburg; the pulsing, seventeen-minute opus that is Veteranissimo; vom schroffen Wind an den Klippen Irlands, von den Unendlichkeiten the almost pop song-short Arabesque; the dark and dubby, proto-trip des Meeres singt. Doch wer es versteht, konzentriert lauschend die hop of Holta Polta and ambient template Ueber Ottenstein." [label info] subtilen energetischen Wandlungsprozesse wahrzunehmen, von denen "Record covers like this one just aren’t fair. Michael Rother, diese Musik getragen wird, der schult nicht nur sein Ohr, dem fließen Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius hiply dressed on a vor allem Heiß und Kalt zusammen. Es hat schon seine Richtigkeit, platform in an abandoned train station with their backs turned to the dass vom CD-Cover der geschmackvoll ausgestatteten Produktion audience playing all manner of amazing looking analog electrical flammenden Blickes, mit drittem Auge auf der Stirn, eine Gottheit die equipment: synths, farfisas, banks of tone generators, oscillators, patch Dämonen im Zaum hält. Das gold-braune Thanka-Bild aus dem Umfeld bays, stacks of amps, leaning guitars, and cords everywhere, amongst des tibetischen Buddhismus öffnet den Assoziations-Raum, dem die racks of machines with all sorts of knobs and levels. It just makes us Musik sich verdankt. Gaber selbst erlebte sein Werk als einen "Spiegel, soooo jealous. Not only for such beautiful equipment, but also nostalgic in dem man sich selbst und dann auch dahinter schauen kann". (Kein for this period of time in Germany in the early seventies when so much Geringerer als Pierre Boulez hat übrigens mit Musikern der New Yorker thoughtful and incredibly inventive music was being produced. First Philharmoniker Teile daraus aufgeführt.) Amon Duul II, Can and Faust then Kraftwerk, Cluster, and, Neu!, with Die 1976 dezidiert nicht in einem Studio entstandene Aufnahme des Harmonia being the perfect synthesis of the latter three bands both in einzigartigen Quintetts für drei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello erschien sound and personnel. Especially when you see the back cover and you nun digital remastered auf einer Doppel-CD bei der Berliner Edition RZ get a closer look at the band and you can tell the trio just have this - bei einem Label mithin, das immer wieder für Glanzlichter der alchemical connection with each other and the sounds they make. Each besonderen Art zu sorgen weiß. Bewundernswert sind die member is focused but self-assuredly calm. Not exactly what you would Konzentration und der Musiziergeist der fünf Interpreten. (Malcolm expect from a band whom Brian Eno once called “the world’s most Goldstein spielt mit, ein Geiger und Komponist, für den John Cage oder important rock band”. Not that much of the world had ever heard of Christian Wolff geschrieben haben und dessen Affinitäten zur New York them. Nor is it what most folks consider rock music to be. School und der Kunst des Abstrakten Expressionismus evident So this is it! We’ve been reading about this for months, and it’s finally erscheinen.) here: a live document of a now legendary show on March 23rd, 1974 at Harley Gaber selbst wurde 1943 in Chicago geboren. Er gehört zur Penny Station in Griessem, Germany. Not that it really matters that this bunten Gilde amerikanischer Künstler, die prägende Eindrücke in is live, as their is no applause or chatter to clue you in, just bits of Europa empfangen haben (in den 60ern u.a. bei Aldo Clementi, Franco mumbled talking as the songs wind down at the very end. Harmonia Evangelisti, Darius Milhaud) um dann im Zeichen jenes spezifischen members attribute this to there being only 50 or so people in the Freiheitsgeistes ihrer Heimat neue Wege zu beschreiten. Im New York audience most of which were either too stoned to clap or too unsure at der siebziger Jahre schien seine Kunstproduktion zunächst zu what points the songs begin and end. Doesn't seem to matter to the versiegen, um dann in Kalifornien in den Bereichen Photographie, band anyway as we've already seen their backs were to the audience Malerei, Klanginstallation und Mixed-Media erfolgreich und nachhaltig the entire time. But for a live document the sound quality is impeccable wieder aufzublühen. Zu seinem Quintett meinte Gaber, man möge es and what's even better all of the tracks performed weren't on any of als Ganzes anhören wollen/können oder auch nicht. Ein verkrampftes their recordings, giving us, thirty-three years later, 5 new vintage Durchhalten würde dem Geist des Stückes jedoch nicht entsprechen. Harmonia tracks to pore over. Most of which are over 9 minutes long. Und er gab der Musik einen Text des Dschuang Dsi mit auf den Weg, in Recorded between Harmonia's woozy debut, Musik Von Harmonia, dem es fragend heißt: "Die Wolken bewirken den Regen, der Regen and its more rock-leaning follow-up, Deluxe, Live 1974 is the logical bildet Wolken. Wer ist's, der sie hernieder sendet? Wer ist es, der weilt conglomeration of both sounds, sort of like the merging of Terry und uns diesen Segensfluss schickt? Der Wind entsteht im Norden. Er Riley-ish repetitions with Robert Fripp's or Heldon's spacey and weht bald nach Westen, bald nach Osten; bald steigt er auf als searing guitar extrapolations. But unlike conventional rock bands, Wirbelwind. Wer ist's, der ihn blasen lässt?" [Helmut Rohm, BR-online] Harmonia's music doesn't climax or necessarily change all that much, " Questions making their deceptively simple musical structures more akin to How endlessly the heavens turn. trance, electronica and slow disco. Beginning with the slow burn of And yet the earth remains at rest. "Schaumberg", an 11 minute epic of Rother's sinewy guitar lines that Do the sun and the moon quarrel as to their positions? build and loop over gentle pulses of Moebius's programmed percussion Who rules over and orders all these things? and Roedelius' repetitive tonal keyboard patterns merging into a By whom are they in harmony? more sped-up and hypnotic version with bass rhythms on Who effortlessly causes and maintains them? "Veteranissimo", an extended 17 minute meditation on "Veterano" from Is there, perhaps, some hidden tension Musik Von Harmonia that breaks down to quiet heartbeats before slowly that prevents them from being other than as they are? building again. "Arabesque", the shortest track at five minutes, does Must the heavenly bodies move as they do, powerless to do away with the percussive elements altogether, instead focussing on otherwise? overlapping patterns of melodic synth and guitar before slamming into Look how the clouds drop the rain! the loping quarter-hour stoner lurch of "Holta-Polta", then finally And how the rain rises again to form the clouds! culminating in the blissful pastoralism of "Ueber Ottenstein". Who moves them to this abundance?

66 It's been a stellar year or two for krautrock reissues as most of the where the waters break upon the shore. This is like an endlessly Klaus Schulze, Cluster, Harmonia, Popol Vuh and Michael Rother crashing wave of drones and rumbles, the sound swirling around one’s catalogs have been reissued, re-introducing to the world the proto- new ears, initially breaking into myriads of liquid cut-diamond arpeggios age realms of seventies German kosmiche music at a time when we glinting in the pure sunlight and submerging the body in womb-like can easily see its influence weaving through so many new bands like warmth; and then slowly and infinitesimally receding, the music clinging Arp, The Alps, White Rainbow, Lichens and Sylvain Chaveau. Always longingly, almost reluctant to let go. Paradoxically, one doesn’t feel timeless, and never dated, Harmonia, like most of their German stifled or as if grasping for breath; instead, there’s a feeling of contemporaries mentioned above, were the most important rock band in timelessness and limitless freedom, as if one could be absorbed by the the world simply because they cared about what they did, kept it simple, waters and somehow find oneself a part of every single drop of water in never indulged, and always left us wanting more." the oceans and seas. Also paradoxically, even though the drones drape [Aquarius Records review] one in the velvet of the deepest ocean depths there is contradictorily a fragile beauty, airiness and lightness evident throughout." [S:M:J63, * HARTMAN, HANNA - Ailanthus CD (Komplott escudre 09, 2007) Heathen Harvest] € 16.00 "Recorded at the Norberg Festival (Sweden) amidst the mineshafts and Vier neue Stücke des schwedischen Geräuschmusikwunderkinds, so cluttered buildings strewn throughout parts the city, this 21 minute live intensiv dynamisch und konkret & nah wie irgendwas prasseln hier piece summarises much of what makes Tim Hecker’s music so vital and bannende Klänge aus den Lautsprechern; vor allem das Quietschen, compelling. Adept at counter-pointing the most ferocious of distorted Knirschen & Knarzen der Dingwelt scheint es ihr angetan zu haben, platters with smooth beds of ambient sound and potent melodic aber auch auf menschliche & tierische vokale Aktivitäten wird ein Fokus overtones, Tim Hecker creates music with a vast depth. On Norberg, gesetzt, wobei sich als quasi Zeitlupen-Collage ständig neuartige this depth seems almost endless, as layer upon layer of sound are Kontexte ergeben. Manchmal ergeben sich ruckartige Klangmuster, die compiled into a swelling and all together visceral oceanic sound wave. jedoch auch immer wieder aufgebrochen werden ... eine eigenartige, Recently touring Australia and New Zealand and performing at neuartige, aufregende Klangsprache ist das! ROOM40’S annual festival Open Frame, this CD comes on the back of "Von HANNA HARTMAN, Karl-Sczuka-Preisträgerin 2005 aus Uppsala, some incredible live performances in the Southern Hemisphere." [label die zuerst von BAs Radar erfasst wurde mit dem Elektron-Release ihrer info] Arbeiten von 2000-2002 und dann mit dem Komplott-Vorgänger Longitude/Cratere, liegt nun mit Ailanthus (escudre09) ihre * HELVACIOGLU, ERDEM - Altered Realities CD (New Albion Elektroakustik der Jahre 2003-2006 vor. Als erstes erklingen mit ‚Att Records NA 131, 2006) € 14.00 Fälla Grova Träd Är Förknippat Med Risker‘ gleich die 8:35, die die Jury "Meine erste Post aus Istanbul macht mich bekannt mit einem mehrfach des SWR so beeindruckt hatten. Nachvollziehbar, denn ‚Das Fällen preisgekrönten Elektroakustiker mit weltweiten Performance- und hoher Bäume ist mit Risiken verbunden‘ umknarrt und umfetzt die Installationserfahrungen, mit einem breiten Fächer an Sounddesigns für Ohren so plastisch, dass man wie ein aufgeschreckter Vogel zur Seite Film, Theater, Tanz, an Produktions- und Sessionjobs, an Auftrags- flattert. Mittendrin, statt bloß dabei, dieser Werbespruch trifft hier Punkt kompositionen, Kollaborationen (etwa mit Kazuya Ishigami von Neus- und Nerv. Jede reißende Faser und jeden krachenden Ast glaubt man 318) und Kompilationbeiträgen. Bei seinem Beitrag Kicking Memories am eigenen Körper zu spüren. ‚Wespen Vesper‘ (2005) wechselt kaum zum Projekt Audio Elf beim ScoreCologne-Festival zur letzten Fußball- den Schauplatz, wir sind noch in Wald und Wiese, aber mehr bei Fauna WM zeigte er polyglotte Fußballerinnerungen als global gemeinsamen statt Flora, unter summenden Insekten und ‚Schmetterlingen der Nenner. In seiner Performance Living in Istanbul zur Ausstellung BLUT Sprache‘. Fragmentarische Sprachsamples, kürzeste Haspel- und & HONIG - Zukunft ist am Balkan (2003) operierte er u.a. mit Lippenlaute, mischen sich unter muhende Kühe, größer als Elefanten, Soundtracks populärer türkischer B-Movies und, ähnlich wie bei seinem und unter geflügelte Sechsbeiner, die wie Mopeds vorbei surren. Mit CDDebut A Walk Through The Bazaar 2003, mit Straßenmusik und der Sopranstimme, die den Schlusssegen einer Abendandacht dem Alltagslärm von Istanbul, den er zusätzlich elektronisch abwandelt. anstimmt, erklärt sich, wortspielerisch, dann auch noch die zweite Trash und Mischmasch ist das einzig ‚Folkloristische’ und ‚Balkan- Hälfte des Titels. ‚Plåtmås‘ mischt einen herzhaften Apfelbiss, einen spezifische’ dabei. Abwandeln, to alter, scheint Helvacioglus Leitmotiv schrillen Falkenschrei und ungrad gebrochene Rhythmik zu prallen 3 zu sein - wo Blut [türkisch kan] war, soll Honig [türkisch bal] werden. Minuten. Die ‚Musik För Dansstycket Jag Glömmer Bort‘ entstand 2006 Seinen neuen Arbeiten gab er Namen wie ‘bridge to horizon’, ‘sliding on für eine Choreographie von Gunilla Heilborn. Simmfetzen, Apfelbiss a glacier’, ‘dreaming on a blind saddle’ oder ‘pearl border’. Sie und knarzige Percussion kehren hier wieder und fungieren wie entsprechen vollkommen dem impressionistischen, träumerischen, Leitmotive, die dem Stück Struktur geben. Der noisig-perkussive Akzent eskapistischen Charakter der Klänge, die er mit einer akustischen ist stärker ausgeprägt, ein Hühnergackern macht komischen Effekt und Ovation Custom Legend 1869-Gitarre erzeugte und gleichzeitig überhaupt ist die vierdimensionale Plastizität der Sounds liveelektronisch mit Multieffektprozessor, Midi foot controller und atemberaubend. Schwedische Elektroakustik wird hier ihrem Ruf als Audiomulch-Software so modulierte, dass Wohlklang betont schwerelos Markenartikel voll gerecht." [Bad Alchemy] und frei veränderlich sich entfaltet. Der folkloristische, mehr kosmo- "Having developed her very own language, the Swedish sound artist politische als rein orientalische Aspekt des Saitenspiels wird transferiert Hanna Hartman creates compositions that are exclusively made up durch ein Hightechmorphing, das ungeniert Wohlfühlsignale ausstrahlt, from authentic sounds which she has recorded around the world. Entspannung jenseits so erdenschwerer Trivialitäten wie EU-Beitritts- Sounds are taken out of their original context and thus perceived in their verhandlungen, unbewältigtem ‚Armenierproblem’ und ‚Beleidigung des purity. Hanna Hartman seeks to reveal hidden correspondences Türkentums’. Ohne Scheu vor Kitschverdacht lässt Helvacioglu seine between the most diverse auditive impressions, and in new Gitarre harmonieverliebt und zart blinken und all seine virtuosen constellations she creates extraordinary worlds of sound. The album is elektronischen Manipulationen scheinen das Ziel zu haben, built out of four shorter pieces composed during 2003-2006. Compared zuckersüßen Tee zur Entspannung zu servieren und spielerisch to the large compositions of her earlier albums this music shows Veränderlichkeit zu realisieren. Einfacher sagte es Ishigami: "Ich fliehe another side of Hanna Hartman's work. The album opens with 'Att flla in den Klang, es ist die Flucht aus einer kleinen Welt in eine große." " grova trd r förkippat med risker' that was commissioned by [Bad Alchemy] Rikskonserter and which received several prizes, first and foremost the "Altered Realities is an album of solo acoustic guitar and live prestigious Karl Sczuka Prize in 2005. Hanna Hartman is also working electronics. All of the compositions were recorded in real-time, directly with installations and sound performances and is currently Composer in to DAT (Digital Audio Tape) without any overdubs, mixing, editing, post- Residence at Sveriges Radio 2007-2008." [label info ] processing, or the use of previously recorded material. All of the "... Hartman is a pure concrete composer. She hardly uses electronic textures were created based only on the acoustic guitar signal with no sound processing, but almost entirely on focussing on concrete sound other sound source used during the recording. Within these textures, collages to craft her pieces of music. All around the world she has there are long sustaining single notes, beautiful shimmering chords and captured sounds of human doing something. Like a fence being rhythmic clusters. During the making of this album, Ovation Custom strummed, voices, eating, but of course also birds in the harbor. Unlike Legend 1869 acoustic guitar, TC Electronic Fireworx multi effects some of the older garde in the musique concrete scene, she uses processor, Behringer FCB1010 midi foot controller and the software repetition to quite some extent, which connects her music to the world Audiomulch were used. With no post-processing, no editing and no use of 'pop' music, but the actual result has nothing to do with it. No doubt of previously recorded material, the moment that is recorded is the many hours of editing went into these four pieces, which are very moment that we hear on the cd." [label info] soundtrack like. Perhaps a bit of short release, but the four pieces are great. Very impressive stuff here, once again." [FdW / Vital Weekly] * HLADNA - Melting Water CD (Aquarellist 04-07, 2007) [lim. 300] € 13.50 * HECKER, TIM - Norberg maxi-CD (ROOM40 EDRM414, 2007) Lobenswerte Re-issue dieses frühen HLADNA-Albums, mehrschichtige € 8.50 Schwälle von metallisch-fliessenden Lava-Klang, heruntergetunte "....Imagine if you will sitting on the sand of some enchanted beach Gesänge, alles verliert sich in unendlich grossen Hallräumen... auch somewhere, precisely at the intersection between land and ocean,

67 wild ekstatisch-krachige Parts kommen vor... frühe MAEROR TRI sind through some of the noise seems to coalesce into sort-of-riffs, and hier auch nicht weit.. suddenly it a strangely propulsive slab of white hot white noise, "The reissue of early album from Saint-Petersburg noise artist Nikolay albeit with a bit of groove to it. The next track is the most melodic, a Kalmykov's project Hladna. Recorded in 1998-1999 and released as a gothy, doomy sort of glacial dirge, almost like an ultra lo-fi Hawkwind, very limited CDR, it is still one of the best records ever made by crushing drums and more of that noisy blown out squall jammed into Russian industrial scene and the CD edition was long overdue. This is every crevice. The drums drop out almost entirely for the next number, ritual ambient with some additions of noise and metal percussion, the guitars and synths and violins and vocals spread out into long reminding of some classic Lustmord, Cranioclast or early Hybryds effulgent streaks, super noisy, but strangely hypnotic and dreamy. tracks, but the sound is more raw and harsh. The overall atmosphere of The final track is a sort of throwaway, a brief sputter of creaks and industrial decay is rather brutal and rusty than profound and mystical clatter, scrape and grind, angular and atonal, a blown out noise coda, here, but there are obvious strong primordial currents in this music that but it's the loooooong tracks that make up the rest of the record that wake up your archaic patterns. The release comes as a beautiful paper really hit the drone-dirge-noise spot. folder limited to 300 numbered copies." [label info] Packaged in a cool, black plastic case with a black and white cover, black and white insert, and each copy includes a button, one * HOROLOGIUM & K.MEIZTER - Eight Studies in Transition CD & of 5 different designs chosen at random." [Aquarius Rec.] mCDR (Old Europa Cafe OECD095SE, 2007) [lim. 150] € 18.00 K. MEIZTER ist der Mann hinter BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE * HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA - Means without ends CD (Daft (B.S.E.), diesen OEC-release teilt er sich mit dem polnischen Projekt Alliance DA015, 2007) € 13.00 HOROLOGIUM. Dieser geisterhaft dunkle Release bewegt sich Für Fans des ultra-langsamen Noise-Rocks a la SWANS, GODFLESH, zwischen dark ambient und martial folk ambience bzw. Neo-Klassik. Wir etc. kommen HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA genau richtig! Ihr Slow- konnten einige Exemplare der limitierten Version mit bonus mCDR Drone-Noise aus herrlich verzerrten & scheppernden Snare-Drums, ergattern! entmenschlichtem Schreigesang & dunkel Noise-Flächen klingt "On Eight Studies in Transition the Polish industrial nostalgic unfassbar abgründig & visionär, wie ein letzter Aufschrei vor dem Horologium and the Swedish BSE sound scientist K. Meizter Untergang. examine human’s impossible fight against time. From birth to death, "Various permutations of this disc have been floating around from playfulness to bitterness, from serenity to mental awe, this tale is for a while, each in various states of completeness, but every one transposed into music ranging from calm dark ambient to orchestral we'd heard sounded even better than the last. But this is the one, delirium, making it a fascinating exploration that will appeal to most the final, finished product. The long in the works Human Quena industrial and dark ambient tastes. Presented in a special 6-panel digi- Orchestra, the work of Ryan Unks, formerly of techgrind combo file + inserts . Creation Is Crucifixion, but don't be expecting grind, or even Special edition, limited & numbered to 150 copies, including bonus 3" technicality, this all the way on the other side of the spectrum. CDR with two exclusive tracks !" [press release] Abject, filthy, pummeling, slow motion noise drenched doom. A plodding sonic monster, guitars, not just distorted, but treated and * HOROLOGIUM & MOLJEBKA PVLSE - Penfield Mood Organ CD twisted into harsh, skin scraping, caustic slabs of sinister sound, a (Divine Comedy DC056, 2008) € 13.00 low end so thick, it's like dunking your head in a cement mixer, "Back in 2005, Divine Comedy Records released the first ever insane sounding drums, each snare crack like the recording of a Horologium full-length. Three years later the discography is impressive : million breaking windows, each kick drum the sound of a slowed down DCR, Steinklang, O.E.C, Neuropa, Cynfeirdd, Blade, BOP... For the car wreck. And beneath it all, thick swells of black ambience, third time, DCR is working with Horologium (just remember the abyssal drifting and slithering, pulsing and swelling. A lurching, stumbling and beautiful "Père-Lachaise" compilation) on a split release with blackened doom dirge behemoth. Moljebka Pvlse. This new opus entitled "Penfield Mood Organ" is about Think Swans, Godflesh, Pitchshifter, that sort of machinelike a device from P.K. Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric apocalyptic industrial pound, mixed with some funereal ultra doom a Sheep?"... A box destinated to induce emotions and feelings to people. la Moss, Bunkur, etc., but filtered through a druggy psychedelia, This release is definitely the coldest to date for Horologium. Divided into with a minimal shimmery drone bent, that ends up sounding like a way three evolutive parts and quickly diving into lurking sadness, "Penfield more brutal, way more harsh, tripped out, psychedelic, industrial Mood Organ" initiate the feeling of something tragic soon to be version of Jesu, that sort of blissed out sun baked vibe, but as if unleashed...' So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood played by some misanthropic black metal horde, harsh blackened organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair. So I vocals, shrieking hysterically and growling demonically over the put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable relentless amp melting metallic trudge. Every track is rife with amount of time to feel hopeless about everything...' Philip K. Dick "Do layer after layer of undulating low end. Like being tossed about on a Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [label notes] stormy sea, but instead of water, it's an endless expanse of roiling black sound waves, rumbling drones, and thick snarled streaks of * HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE - Volume 1 CD throbbing bass. (DroneDisco FIG.87, 2006) € 13.00 The magic Of Unks' Human Quena Orchestra though is that this "Five tracks, totaling approximately fifty minutes by the time-defying duo hellish harshness is balanced with a nearly equal amount of of MATTHEW BOWER (SKULLFLOWER, RAMLEH, SUNROOF!, meditative ambience, long stretches of deep shimmer, and even some TOTAL) and MARCIA BASSETT (DOUBLE LEOPARDS, GHQ, of the harshest tracks are tempered by the swirling low end drift ZAIMPH) collaborating with C. SPENCER YEH, ROBERT BEATTY, lurking beneath. So brutally gorgeous. Definitely essential listening and TREVOR TREMAINE (the latter two of HAIR POLICE, EYES AND for fans of all the above mentioned outfits, as well as Monarch, ARMS OF SMOKE, SICK HOUR). Originally released as a tour merch Nadja, the Angelic Process, Fear Falls Burning, Skullflower, CDR, this edited and re-sequenced edition begins with an appropriate Abruptum, Monument Of Urns, Trollmann, Khanate, The Body and all invocation and from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after our favorite purveyors of crumbling downtuned beauty and dreamy another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies damaged doom. motionless. The ritual concludes with a moment of naked Packaged in a gorgeous hand screened multiple panel fold over acoustic/instinctual spasm. Packaged in a black polycase with black- sleeve with super striking ADD style microscopic super detailed and-white inserts and a special randomly-selected one-inch button (five artwork." [Aquarius Records] button variations in all). All different material from the companion volume HG/BxC II released by the Heavy Blossom label." [label info] * [HYPH] - Alter.Tenacio CD (Tourette 004, 2008) [lim. 300] ".... And what in fact happens, is a big sprawling chaotic blown out € 13.50 spaced out free rock noise jam. The addition of drums makes a huge Vier höchst spannende und eigenwillige elektro-akustische difference, grounding the sound in 'rock', but said drumming is free Geräuschkompositionen vom inzwischen in Berlin ansässigen Projekt and abstract enough to let the music breath and expand and spread [HYPH], hoch-dynamisch & klaustrophobisch werden hier zermürbende out like a black fog. The opener is a static Dead C style jam, a simple & zersetzende Klangcluster in Szene gesetzt, die wenig mit den plodding beat, cymbals and kick drum mostly, while all around, dizzying "klassischen" elektro-akustischen Sounds gemein haben, aber es gibt swirls of guitar fuzz and thick swaths of distorted synth, and in there to auch mikrosound-artige Gebilde die klanglich an A. TIETCHENS some damaged electronics and of course some of Yeh's FX drenched gemahnen... sehr sorgfältig und mit viel Liebe fürs Detail violin. The backdrop is a constantly shifting swirl of noise and sound, zusammengesetzt... but the simple plodding rhythm makes it sound like some ultra gritty lost krautrock rehearsal tape. * IKEDA, RYOJI - Test Pattern CD (Raster-Noton R-N 093, 2008) The second track is a bit more unhinged, the background of the € 14.00 first song, brought to the fore and allowed to swallow everything up. Kaskaden von Morsezeichen, dynamische Klangpatterns von Rauschen The drums this time are just an incessant clanging buried in the mix, & Sinustönen, alle Frequenzen abdeckend, anstrengend & like a railroad crossing bell heard from within a tornado. Part way

68 wahrnehmungsüberfordernd; Klänge wie ratternde Punkte die ins Hirn rhythmic patterns, an omnidirectional aural assault of high pitched, & den Körper eindringen, Mikrointervalle & akustische Zeitfresser, panicked, hissing sine tones, and deeper bass hums n' buzzing eine Klangsprache die fremd und durchdringend ist, wirklich fordernd.. drones... it's a pretty incredible collection of constructions, die Sinne verwirrende Anordnungen von Sinustönen, Clicks, zudem vibrant and varied within Ikeda's self-imposed electronic boundaries ein Belastungstest für Lautsprecher und Organismus. Die neue IKEDA- and specific sets of data-based building materials. As ever with CD. "Anorganisch" to say the very least.. Ikeda's output, recommended." [Aquarius Records review] " Ryoji Ikeda hat mit »Test Pattern« auf Raster-Noton soeben ein Album herausgegeben, das aufgrund der Tatsache, dass es ab einer * ILLUSION OF SAFETY - In Session CD (Waystyx WR40, 2008) bestimmten Lautstärke die Unversehrtheit von Lautsprecher und [lim. 500] € 13.00 Trommelfell gefährdet, vielleicht viel eher diskutiert als gehört werden Neues Material des Projektes von DAN BURKE - als eher elektronisch wird. Das aber wäre in der Tat bedauerlich. Ihm ist es gelungen, eine arbeitende Industrial-Band fing man an, aber die verschiedenen Musik zu schaffen, die tatsächlich gefährlich ist, und er erreicht diesen Metamorphosen in der nunmehr 25jährigen Geschichte führten über Punkt erstaunlicherweise, ohne deutliche Bilder oder einen Geräuschobjekt-Improvisationen und eher collagigen musique concrete offensichtlich bedrohlichen Klang zu gebrauchen. Im Gegenteil: der Werken bis hin zum dark ambient und drone-basierender Musik. Klang ist so sachlich, wie man sich einen Klang überhaupt nur IN SESSION führt einiges davon zusammen, besitzt Anteile von vorstellen kann. Dieser Umstand freilich ist ein bedeutender Teil der verschiedenen Stilen, spannungeladen & sirrend, wellig, dronig, dicht, Konzeption, denn es geht Ikeda in seiner hiermit fortgeführten wieder ein kleines Meisterwerk. »Datamatics«-Reihe darum, Hörbares aus einer umgewandelten Geräuschmusik wie sie intensiver kaum vorstellbar ist. Auswahl blanker Daten aus dem tagtäglichen Informations- und "Illusion Of Safety is one of the oldest post-industrial acts in the Unterhaltungsstrom zu gewinnen. Vergleichbar ist dieser Ansatz zu Americal musical underground, and in my opinion, of the most Teilen mit einem etwas weniger abstrakten Projekt, das in einer interesting projects ever. During 25 years of existence IOS have früheren Episode dieser Kolumne Erwähnung fand: Christina Kubisch recorded a lot of various albums and their music has been changing a hat im Rahmen ihrer »Five Electrical Walks« Magnetfelder, die den lot. Having passed through all the circles of industrial hell, Dan Burke Menschen permanent umgeben, in eine nicht nur interessante, sondern has lost almost all his companions and remained alone. He hasn't zumeist auch sehr wohlklingende Musik verwandelt. Hatte man bei released too many albums recently, and "In Session" released in 2008 Kubisch allerdings jederzeit eine menschliche Note durch die wichtige has become a real surprise for me. I mean of course the fact of the Rolle des Spaziergängers vor Augen, bleibt der Prozess hinter »Test release, because the highest quality of musical material and huge Pattern« für den Laien überaus unpersönlich und wenig greifbar. Oder? amount of pleasure while listening to it is guaranteed by any of IOS Nicht ganz: Immer öfter findet sich in dem Getummel aus albums. "In Session" was recorded in 2007, the mastering was made by vornehmlich schrillen und zischenden Geräuschen bei fortschreitender Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Music Studio. This is a very thorough and Spieldauer eine Folge von Tönen, die an Rhythmus oder jedenfalls an delicate work, an abstract performance in which synthetic and natural ein eiliges Andeuten einer musikalischen Idee erinnert. Gerade hier sounds mix in the most unusual combinations, when you really hold wird es spannend: Wird der Empfänger mit seinem natürlichen your breath to wait what's gonna be further. In 6 tracks of the album Verlangen, Struktur in das Gehörte zu bringen, zum individuellen there are a lot of quiet microscopic sounds which whirl in front of the Architekten einer eigentlich doch weitreichend subjektlosen Musik? eyes like thoughts without rational content. They change into the Zugegeben, das klingt hochtrabend. In Wirklichkeit aber hat es etwas smooth waves of melodic ambient, then to insane sampled collages Spielerisches, das einen immer wieder dazu bewegen könnte, doch which don't make you feeling relaxed keeping the constant tension. This noch das Risiko anzutreiben und »Test Pattern« ein bisschen, nur ein shortening of the distance between contemplativeness and neural kleines bisschen lauter zu stellen. Ikeda zwingt den Hörer in die spasms has always been the trademark of IOS - it's interesting to watch Aktivität und wird dadurch zu einem äußerlich fast stillen Unruhestifter, how the musical structure transforms under the emotional passion der es seinem Publikum scheinbar noch ein ganzes Stückchen hiding after each second of the track time, but not always going out. ungemütlicher macht als sich selbst." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] Separate compliments should be given to the artwork designer - you "Following 2005's Dataplex CD on Raster-Noton, Test Pattern is the can observe the cover for a really long time being astounded by it's second audio release in Ryoji Ikeda's multimedia project, Datamatics, beauty. [Dmitry Vasilyev, Monochrome Vision] an ongoing exploration of the potential to perceive the invisible multi- "One of my favorite post industrial bands ever. Period. Since more than substance of data that permeates our world. Test Pattern acts as a twenty years I am a fan and every new release is awaited with eager system that converts any type of data (text, sounds, photos and movies) anticipation. This highly limited release from Russia, in a gorgeous into barcode patterns and binary patterns of 0s and 1s. Through the package, is no different. These days, since many years actually, Illusion conversion of raw data into digital audio files, Ikeda enables us to listen Of Safety is reduced one person, following a free floating membership to the flow of data, creating an extraordinary and unexpected that included Thyme Jones and Jim O'Rourke to mention just two, soundtrack. These sequences of data reveal a rich variety of which is Dan Burke. He plays 'sound generating devices and random microscopic structures which form Ikeda's raw material; working with objects that deliberately provoke, mesmerize and even affront listeners'. these micro-structures, they sometimes form the basis of chronological I deliberately use the term 'post industrial' and not say 'electro-acoustic' sequences, and sometimes he focuses on their rhythmic qualities. All or 'musique concrete', which could also easily be applied to the music of sounds are the result of Ikeda's manipulation of this raw data. Test Illusion Of Safety. When they started they were firmly rooted in the Pattern aims to examine the relationship between critical points of world of industrial music, and later on elements of musique concrete device performance and the threshold of human perception, pushing came along, but if you listen to 'In Session' the elements of industrial both to their absolute limits. Almost all tracks on this release are music are still there. Heavy, steel walls of drone music pierce your ears unsuitable for conversion into high-quality mp3 files. The velocity of the and are as easily replaced by soft drones, crackling sounds of hand audio files is ultra-fast, some hundreds of frames per second, so that held objects and contact microphones. I wouldn't be surprised if Burke the album provides a performance test for the audio equipment, as well plays all of this 'in session', live at home so to speak. I saw him a lot of as a response test for the audience's perceptions. A sticker on the CD times playing concerts which capture the equal beauty that is captured jacket warns of high volume listening as this may cause damage to here. Ranging from sheer noise to near silence and there is always an equipment and eardrums." [label info] element of surprise lurking around the corner. An abrupt, full stop or "Been waiting for this for a while, the new Raster-Noton disc start and it bring the piece in a new territory. Illusion Of Safety's music from Japanese electronic artist Ryoji Ikeda! There's a bunch of other can be compared with the likes of Roel Meelkop or Toy Bizarre, but is new Raster titles that we're excited about too (Coh, Alva Noto, less bound to rules of composition and more free and joyous (well, Byetone, etc.) but this is the one we were anticipating the most. that's probably not the right away) than those of the Sure, lots of folks make electronic music of the experimental glitchy, microsound/musique concrete posse that inhabits the world of Vital clicky variety - like many of Ikeda's just-mentioned labelmates - but Weekly so frequently. That alone makes a great band and another great in our book, Ikeda is the KING. His precision architect(r)onic CD. Very fine concentrated bursts of sound." [FdW / Vital Weekly] computerized clicks and cuts are on a whole 'nother level, totally hallucinatory and 3-D spatial. An immersive environment you enter at * IRM - The Cult of Young Men CD (Annihilvs apex005, 2007) your own risk (of epileptic seizure, perhaps). But if you pass the € 13.00 test (of his relentless electronic pitter patter patterns) you'll be Sounds der Ohnmacht und der fast schon surrealen Verzweiflung! entranced and entangled. Musikalisch entfernen sich IRM vom puren Noise und kreieren z.T. And we're pleased to report that Test Pattern is yet another rauschhaft-schöne Pulsations- und Drone-Räume, geblieben ist der strobing, brutally stereo display of his skills. 16 binaryily named harte Schrei-Gesang, der sich aber perfekt einfügt. Ihr bestes Album tracks, "Test Pattern #0001" to "Test Pattern #0000", that provide bisher, meinen wir, mit einer Mischung aus Studio- und Livematerial, prickly pleasure with rapid, stuttery nano-beats, like a frantic und einer unglaublichen Noise Cover-Version von einem JOY Geiger counter on the fritz, or some sort of Morse code madness. DIVISION-Stück ! Ikeda's techniques include both minimalist repetition, and sudden "ANNIHILVS proudly presents our first proper CD release from IRM: shifts; his skittering, synthetic slices of sound arranged in complex, THE CULT OF THE YOUNG MEN. Returning with a singularly cold,

69 desolate and lonely release, IRM continues to fervently espous YURI KALENDAREV arbeitet mit grossen Metallplatten & irreligious, body-obsessed abstractions of the highest order. Departing selbstgebastelten Gongs und erzeugt so tiefe Oberton-Frequenzen & from the aggressive PE outbursts of the past, the duo of Erik Jarl and perkussive Muster, alles uneffektiert und konkret, auf der Suche nach Martin Bladh sculpt pulsating drones and powerfully dark sounds, as the der "reinen Akustik"... 3 Stücke mit seinen archaischen Klangskulptur- bleeding wound of IRM continues to flower. THE CULT OF THE stücken sind hier dokumentiert. Kommt in DIE SCHACHTEL-typischer, YOUNG MEN contains 'live' tracks recorded in the studio, selections grossartiger Verpackung! from live performances (including the APEX Fest), and a cover of JOY "Belonging to the generation of underground “non-conformist” artists, DIVISION's 'Here are the Young Men." [label notes] the dissidents of the 70s, Yuri Kalendarev has employed various media to develop the outcome of his research that explore the intersection of * JARL - Akatisi / Somnolens Part I-IV CD (Tantric Harmonies sculpture and sound vibrations. He came upon the sonic possibilities of X21, 2005) [lim. 499] € 13.00 his work after 30 years of working with granite, land art and light "Advanced Experimental Drone"-Musik von ERIK JARL (eine Hälfte von projects. IRM), das grossartige TANTRIC-Album (aufgenommen bereits 2003); His Sound Plates are forged out of acoustic bronze compounds using schwelende Geräuschfelder, wummernde Klangflächen, elektro- hammers and fire, in order to generate a large range of frequency magnetische Mikrodetail-statik, zwischen Ent- und Anspannung, voller oscillations that allow multiple interactions with the listener’s inner interessanter Sounds & kontemplativer Kraft ! being. Yuri’s bronze “Sound Plates” are designed to create massive "Solo material from soundartist Erik Jarl known by his works with power low-frequency drones and midrange howls, capable of creating a wide electronics monster IRM. Sustained static fields and repetitive patterns variety of deep percussive sounds. In redefining the concept of construct expressive layers of sound in contrasting colours. Delicately sculpture in pure sound terms, the work of Yuri Kalendarev extends an and ambitiously put together to a transcendental cycle - this is music for explores a new aural experience beyond the sound itself, an occidental meditation. Limited to 499 copies." [label info] investigation into the realm of “pure acoustics”. "....Over the 6 tracks and 45+ minutes Erik has taken the concept of The performances captured on this CD represent the crystallization of drone music and revitalised and buffed this sometimes staid and boring the physicality of Kalendarev’s sound sculpture - a set of ten resonating music into a shimmering gossamer sheen. Drifting pastoral passages sound plates - his attitude to rhythm, to the persistence of sound itself, are continually looped into hypnotic rippling waves of sound that appear and his ability to create an atmosphere of deep concentration, silent almost ethereal in structure. Slight faint jarring effects are carefully communion, and mystery." [label info] layered into the mix along with flecks of faint Industrial and ritualistic bias that reaches out towards black malevolent ambience before being * KALMA, ARIEL - Le Temps des Moissons CD (Beta-Lactam drawn back clutching despondently at the air. "Akatisi / Somnolens" is Ring Records mt189, 2008) € 15.00 music to meditate to. To dream sweet dreams to. To fully immerse Wiederveröffentlichung des ersten Albums von ARIEL KALMA von yourself and lose all track of time to. Time becomes totally irrelevant, a 1975! Saxophon, Tape-Delays, minimale Drones, ethnische non event, when listening to music that bathes and cloaks the senses in Blasinstrumente, Perkussion, elektronische Bearbeitungen.... full spectrum of a rainbow. Erik and his amazing Technicolor drone scheinbar war es die erste LP mit Endlos-Loop am Ende einer Seite, overcoat. der hier auch reproduziert wurde. Around this part of a review I suppose I’ve got to try and mention like "First ed. of 500 copies packaged in a book bound CD . First time on minded recording artists in case the words I’ve written haven’t conveyed CD for this classic prog album! This has been the first solo recording LP the musical style adequately enough. Fair enough…though it will be a from Ariel Kalma, recorded in 1975. After a long journey to India where difficult task…so having had a quick trawl through my record collection I he learnt the basics of modal music and singing, Ariel was inspired by offer up the following: MRSA-16, Troum and Elektro Nova. Elements of the fusion of ancient and modern ways of playing music in the 70s with each can be found ever so partially on "Akatisi / Somnolens" but Erik saxophone, ethnic instruments, effects, electric instruments and has retained a unique individuality and foresight which has been electronic filters. As making a record was expensive at that time, when stamped firmly across this recording. If his earlier works were his the first thousand records were pressed Ariel run out of money so he evolution then "Akatisi / Somnolens" marks his re-birth as a genuine bought blank sleeves and one by one, he drew the shape of his hand musical maestro. Artist and label in a marriage made just for each and numbered each LP. This first pressing is now rare and sought after! other." [Aural Pressure] Another detail made this LP memorable because it had not been done before: Ariel convinced the pressing engineer to loop the groove at the * JESU - Lifeline maxi-CD (Hydra Head Industries HH666-127, end of side 2 - thus creating an endless loop - and although it was 2007) € 8.50 casually mentioned on the cover, it caused surprises sometimes by Manche nennen es "Shoegazer-Metal"! Schwebend- & seelig sending listeners into trance. or on some occasions burning the motor machende 4-track EP mit Gastauftritt von JARBOE. of their turntable after endless hours! On this CD, Ariel included a loop "Lifeline" contains four of Justin K. Broadrick's most refined tracks of of several minutes only, because the LP loop had an audio advantage: shoegazed metallic abandon, one of which features Swans diva of as time passed the sound of the loop changed because the diamond doom, Jarboe. Broadrick's music comes over the stereo like its own eroded the groove. To the 3 compositions originally on the LP have weather pattern, an experience with more layers and detail than even been added 2 other ones from that period of time. Note from Ariel : 10 or 20 listens can trace out." [label info] Saxophone is powerful. It has raw sounds that are often filtered, ".... Jesu is all about texture, and Broadrick does some amazing polished for easier listening. I like to let my saxophone sing and when I thing with his guitar and laptop, whipping up orchestral chordal play, I hear high-pitched, teasing sounds that I like so much. they titillate swells, lush soundscapes, wrapping billowy spaced out FX and warm my senses. If it is too sharp for your ears, adjust your EQ till you are sun dappled reverb around everything, making every note sound like comfortable. " [label info] big glorious snow flakes of sound." [Aquarius Rec.] " We raved over the earlier reissue of minimalist composer Ariel Kalma's 1978 epic Osmose. So much so we made it a Record of the * JOAQUIM, VITOR - Flow CD (Cronica 025, 2006) € 15.00 Week! Now Beta-Lactam Ring has reissued Kalma's 1975 debut Les "Crónica is delighted to present an endless existential dive, the latest Temps des Moissons (Time of The Harvest), a foray into electronic release from Vitor Joaquim, Flow. In the artist's own words, Flow is an ragas using saxophone (lots of sax), ethnic instruments, effects and all exercice of confrontation, a placing in context between voice and manners of electronic filters. Less proto-new age sounding than computer, all the idiosyncrasies of bare-naked human expression, Osmose, Les Temps takes cues from Terry Riley's Poppy NoGood altered, expanded and processed beyond its own flesh and blood. It explorations with saxophone and time delay and expands on them with also stages the possibilities and the impossibilities of relationships, or at krautier influences using kalimbas, flutes and wah-wah effects into a least tries to pose some questions about the construction of our identity metaphysical tapestry of free music. Fans of Riley, early Kraftwerk and as a permanent conversation with others, through emotions that flow Joakim Skogsberg will find lots to love here! As long as you don't mind from rational collaborations in this record, with the beautiful and sax..." [Aquarius Records review] unsettling voice of Filipa Hora and the guitars of João Hora and Emídio Buchinho. Its a 'go with the flow', a journey with people, through light * KAPOTTE MUZIEK vs. GOEM - KGM maxi-CD (Hushush HSH- and darkness, together in an endless existential dive. 17CD, 2008) € 9.50 The voice of Filipa Hora is heard saying... "I think this is so dangerous, Zwei Gruppen mit denselben Mitgliedern, die sich quasi selbst remixen this intimacy, i think... i think you’re getting so close, I think I’m gonna und dabei doch nicht ganz dieselben sind? have to stop you from getting closer. I think I cannot get so close and Ein KM-Mitschnitt vom GARAGE-Festival in Stralsund vom August then… not be close, I think I’m close… I think I don’t want not to be 2004 wurde auf GOEMatischer Art und Weise remixed, das ist ziemlich close...” [label info] kurios, wie die knochentrockenen, knarzenden & rieselnden Objekt- Geräusche und Field Recordings sich in loopig-repetitive Muster * KALENDAREV, YURI - Sound Sculptures CD (Die Schachtel verwandeln und durch Filter gejagt werden, wobei etablierte Texturen DSART04, 2007) [lim. 300] € 18.50 sich immer wieder verändern und neu abgelöst werden durch weitere Das russische Gegenstück zu BERTOIA, Z'EV & HATI ? neue... ein One-Tracker von 21 Minuten Länge.

70 "The challenge of asking two bands evolving in two different sonic schlussendlich zu einem kleinen Highlight abrundet, ist vor allen Dingen universe to collaborate is not quite one, but asking two bands consisting das hörbare emotionale Engagement, das hier selbst die of the same members to collaborate with each other is a real one! unscheinbareren Töne mit großer Sorgfalt begleitet. (Nicht nur) in When asked by Hushush to confront Kapotte Muziek’s sound - made dieser Hinsicht erinnert das Album in der Tat an einen ganz großen from instruments consisting of discarded objects, discovered by the trio Avantgarde-Cellisten, nämlich an Arthur Russell." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] on locations and played in combination with prerecorded found sounds - "Julia Kent left Rasputina in 1999, after releasing two albums on with Goem’s pulses and shifting layers of rhythm, the three Dutch Columbia Records, and shortly thereafter became a member of Antony minimalists were enthusiastic and dived into the studio, only to discover and the Johnsons. She played on and contributed string arrangements that trying to combine the two trio’s was near to impossible. So a to the group's Mercury Prize-winning record I Am a Bird Now. Her debut different course was decided on. A Kapotte Muziek live recording was solo effort, Delay, is a CD of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was edited and subsequently used to create Goem tracks, which were then inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional mixed back into the live recording. Complicated you ask? "Well, in a worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel. way it is, but the result is definitely worth the trouble!" are saying the Delay was recorded over the course of a year (or so) at home in three brains from this double trio collaboration. Kapotte Muziek’s sound between touring and traveling. After so many years of playing with other is an electroacoustic experience with many subtleties and almost people, Julia felt that it was time to do something entirely on her own. cinematic qualities. Frans de Waard’s interest in Roel Meelkop’s As a result, she is the sole composer/performer on all tracks. The title Student Stimulator, a device discovered in a thrift shop and made refers to both the effect, to traveling and to the fact that it took so long to audible by Roel led to the creation of Goem. Their minimal sound record. It is also an homage to Arthur Russell's World Of Echo -- a consist of simple pulses used by Frans to create dense layers to which masterpiece of (among other things) externalizing the intimate." [label on Roel’s suggestion they added analog synthesizers and filtering. info] Goem makes electronic music in its purest form (very dutch, really). The confrontation of both universes bring this release a crispy, dense, well * KLUSTER - Kluster: 1970-1971 3xCD (Water 194, 2008) € 28.00 defined and minimal sound. A very "boeiend" experience. Never before "Founded in 1969, German ambient space-rock pioneers Kluster were you heard Goem nor Kapotte Muziek sound that way! Short and sweet." originally a trio featuring Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, [label info] and Dieter Moebius. During their brief lifespan (before Schnitzler left in 1971 and the duo renamed themselves Cluster) they recorded three * KARKOWSKI, ZBIGNIEW & DAMION ROMERO - 9 before 9 CD LPs, all of which are available here. The first two records, Klopfzeichen (Blossoming Noise BN035CD, 2008) € 13.00 and Zwei-Osterei, recorded in 1969 and 1970 respectively, were VERY low sub-bass drones, waving analogue sounds, hisses... Pure sponsored and released by a church-run record label (Schwann) and as vibrations arising from the low end world, really dense & dull ! a result of contractual obligation, featured religious-themed text on the "Collaborative work from Damion Romero (Speculum Fight, Astromero, first side of each. The trio's third album Eruption was a live recording of Ptapes) and Zbigniew Karkowski (MAZK, Cosmic Trigger). Low the band's last concert together in 1971. All three are amazing frequency speaker disruption." [label info] examples of pioneering ambient music featuring guitar, percussion, keys, and cello heavily processed with echo, filters, and tape machines * KARKOWSKI & ZEITKRATZER - World as Will III CD (Sub Rosa to create an effect unlike anything else that was being made at the time. SR282, 2008) € 13.00 Absolutely essential and seminal progressive music. Contains liner Dritter Teil des WORLD AS WILL-Projekts, diesmal von Berliner notes." [label notes] Geräuschmusik-Kammerensemble ZEITKRATZER eingespielt. Wieder ist ein Meisterwerk dunkel-dynamischer Drone-Musik entstanden, sub- * KOMMANDO - Nekroinvasiv CD (L.White LW-050, 2007) [lim. bassig wummernd, mächtig, gefangennehmend, gefährlich, 300] € 13.00 anschwellend bis ins Chaos hinein.. THOROFON-fans aufgepasst! KOMMANDO war das prä-THOROFON- "... Mergence, Below the demarcation and Mix white conclude the World Projekt, enthalten sind hier Aufnahmen von 1993-1999. "...Wie man As Will project, started ten years ago, the result of a collaboration bereits dem blutigen Cover entnehmen kann, ist dabei ein Sound between Zbigniew Karkowski and Tetsuo Furudate. The first piece erstanden bzw. erhalten geblieben, der doch etwas roher und gröber ist arises from an infrabass ocean to crudely develop through a series of als das, was man von THOROFON oder THE MUSICK WRECKERS distant explosions, percussive energy, and short open cuts. As a whole, kennt, wobei „Necroinvasiv“ nicht nur von musikhistorischem Interesse the structure is reminiscent of a slow crawling process. Tremors follow ist, sondern als eigenständige Veröffentlichung zu sehen ist. Dreizehn (with Karkowski, something always ends up shaking). For me, the Tracks lang werden einem noisige Klänge um die Ohren gehauen, die second piece is both the imprint and the development of the first one. immer mal wieder die Schmerzgrenze des Hörers ausloten, ohne diese Furudate's contribution to this joint venture is also easier to grasp. A dabei gar zu lange zu übertreten. Abwechslungsreiche und so weit ich menace passes by, and we are glad to remain hidden in our hole, das erkennen konnte, klischeefreie Samples, kräftige, krachige letting the beast move along in short bursts (it must be rusty, metallic, Rhythmusloops und einiges an Feedback lassen hierbei keine torn, scorched). Commissioned and performed by the Berlin-based Langweile aufkommen, allerdings sind auch keine tanzflächenfüllenden ensemble Zeitkratzer, the third piece provides a cathartic and tragic ’Hits’ à la THOROFON zu erwarten. Kaum gezähmte oder stilisierte, conclusion, achieving what could be called a sketch of Chaos." [label sondern noch ziemlich brutal und ursprüngliche musikalische Energie notes] und Wut ist es, was KOMMANDO einem entgegenschleudert und das "This release, performed by Zeitkratzer, is the third part of a series of ist, auch wenn es keine Musik für alle Stimmungen ist, gut so." [BLACK compositions by composer Zbigniew Karkowski and noise artist Tetsuo Magazin] Furudate. Zeitkratzer are an ensemble with the reputation for tackling "They digged very deep in the UMB-archive, and finally brought some the “new music” repertoire that’s challenging to the point of impossible. really rotten, dirty, sticky "audio-corpses", dated from mid of the 90`s,to Their acoustic transcription of Lou Reed’s feedback opus Metal the surface. The material had been digitally cleaned and partly Machine Music stands in testament to an almost perverse fearlessness. restructured for being presented for the very first time on cd. Well The music contained in World As Will III is a dark and menacing mix arranged power-electronics with distorted screams and aggressiv that blurs electronics with acoustic instruments, blowing clouds of grey vocals, leads to the roots of this pre-THOROFON project." [label info] and black dust flecked with bits of glass and crystal. “Mergence,” co- composed by Karkowski and Furudate, starts it off with an almost * KUBISCH, CHRISTINA - Five Electrical Walks CD (Important indistinct bass rumble populated by shapes that enter and leave like Records IMPREC 167, 2007) € 13.00 characters in a Clive Barker flick. Furudate’s “Below the Demarcation” "Christina Kubisch präsentiert mit »Five Electrical Walks« (Important continues in the same vein, exploring the bass atmosphere, but infusing Records) eine Musik, welche aus einem Fundus an Bestandteilen that bed with more industrial machine drones and breath interventions. komponiert wurde, die sich zum einen praktisch selbst generieren. The CD closes with Karkowski’s “Mix White,” which takes us further into Abhängig sind sie zum anderen jedoch um so stärker vom neugierigen the autopsy of a factory, travelling through the recesses and pulsing Empfinden der Menschen, die hier im Prozess der Klanggewinnung organs of metal and dust." [Exclaim.Ca] jeweils als Medium fungieren. Um elektromagnetische Felder hörbar zu machen, hat Kubisch bereits 1981 einen speziellen Kopfhörer * KENT, JULIA - Delay CD (Important Records IMPREC149, entworfen, der hörbar macht, was sich den Sinneseindrücken 2007) € 13.00 üblicherweise vollkommen verschließt: Wer ihn auf den Ohren trägt, "Ein gutes Beispiel für Zurückhaltung und Maßhaftigkeit ist dagegen hört, was zweifellos da ist, aber was augenblicklich kein anderer mit »Delay« (Important Records), ein feines, melancholisches Stück Musik seinen Sinnen erfasst. von Julia Kent, die sich ansonsten etwa als Teil von Antony And The Das Artwork zu den fünf Spaziergängen dieser Sorte wurde nun zum Johnsons verdient. Hier nun widmet sie sich einem sanft mitreißenden einen recht sachlich bis ansehnlich gehalten und zum anderen an Mix aus Field Recordings und geistreichen Cello-Kompositionen, manchen Rändern unscheinbar verziert von einigen der zuweilen erinnert dies an die sehr musikalischen Momente der letzten bemerkenswerten Zeichnungen, die Kubisch ebenfalls aus den Mira Calix-LP »Eyes Set Against The Sun«. Was »Delay« elektromagnetischen Feldern gewinnt. Diesen haftet stets etwas

71 sonderbar Geordnetes an, das sich in Reih und Glied auftürmt, um pulse of his bass drum and electronic sruti box. This is improvisational letztendlich doch nur eine vage, kantige Ahnung zu hinterlassen von music replete with sounds branching in unpredictable directions and dem, was sich in dieser durchdringenden Musik so geisterhaft und doch slowly smouldering drones. An aural rite of passage fit for these modern auch so förmig manifestiert. Die Klangskulpturen, die ihrerseits mal times." [label info] schlängeln, mal pulsieren, sind hierbei zu einigen Anteilen strikt "....The 24 minute opener “Gin” is built around the sustained presence ortsgebunden und beflügeln durch diesen individuellen Charakter die of Zachs sruti and saranghi boxes – electronic facsimiles of Indian Sehnsucht nach einer eigenen Begegnung mit diesen Räumen und harmonium and fiddle, respectively. With these blissed out vibrations, Plätzen, auf den Punkt gebracht durch die eigenen Worte von Kubisch augmented by bells and the sparse isolated booms of a bass drum, it zur Beschreibung von »Night Shift«, einer wunderbar finsteren Collage, has the feel of a slowly unfolding devotional ritual, but it’s saved from die in verschiedenen Bahnhöfen und Flughäfen aufgenommen wurde: descending into ersatz spiritual tourism by Stäckenas’s jarring »What you see and what you hear seems to create a new, unknown embellishments. Even without seeing him at work, it’s probably safe to reality.« assume Stäckenas is operating out of the Keith Rowe school of Man mag dieses Album als eine Dokumentation einer durch und unconventionally manipulated tabletop electric guitar, producing grating durch künstlichen Addition zum menschlichen Wahrnehmungs- textures resembling the hum and drill of an overworked air conditioning instrumentarium betrachten. Erfassen aber lässt es sich beispielhaft unit or the piercing whine of a wineglass rim. leicht und intuitiv: »Five Electrical Walks« ist ein wahrhaft inspirierendes For “Rin”, he switches to acoustic, with simple strumming phasing in Projekt, das den kindlich ungetrübten Synästheten in seiner Hörerschaft and out of sync in left and right channels and a three note melody anspricht. Überhäuft wird man mit einer Vorstellungsverknüpfung nach picked out on slide guitar – creating a satisfying mash of Country, raga der anderen, ohne jemals Kontrolle über das bunte, in einen and contemporary music that recalls Zach’s other trio, Huntsville. But, zeitgemäßen Elektronik-Sound gekleidete Treiben zu erlangen: Die with the throbbing, sruti-drenched “Showa”, the album returns to its core musikalischen Resultate, die sich durch einen sauber ausgearbeiteten mission to explore the bottomless reaches of drone, discovering dark, Filter manifestieren, sind von einer zuweilen recht spröden, euphoric realms along the way." [Daniel Spicer / THE WIRE] aufwühlenden Qualität, die dem Effekt der angesprochenen Grafiken "... On the risk of being accused (again) that I heard this only once, I recht deutlich entgegensteht. Ein noch größerer Kontrast im Rahmen must say that the work he produced as LabField with Stackenäs is einer Präsentation, die beide Ausdrucksweisen zu gleichen Teilen great. Absolutely great. Zach plays bass drum, percussion, electronic berücksichtigt, könnte die eindrucksvollsten Aspekte dieser Arbeit scruti-box and electronic saranghi-box and Stackenäs plays acoustic womöglich deutlich vertiefen." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] guitars, resonator guitar, preparations and low budget electronics. With "Christina Kubisch is a first generation sound artist of the highest order. a background in improvisation you would expect careful, quiet, intimate Kubisch has been working with electrical induction since the late playing - and in a way they do that. But it's not tender, soft or hardly seventies and in 2003 she began her Electrical Walk installations. outspoken. I suggest putting the volume up and get immersed by their Listeners wear specially built headphones that reveal electro-magnetic wall of machine sounds. They play their instruments using all sorts of radiation emanating from the technological world around us. Five motors, fans or other mechanized instruments to create a natural Electrical Walks is her first collection of compositions utilizing material resonating yet acoustic sound. Especially in 'Gin', the opening track recorded during Electrical Walks." [label info] which spans two-third of the entire CD this works wonderfully well. Dense to bone (mm, that's no expression)... dense like clouds, like * KUBISCH, CHRISTINA - Night Flights CD (Important Records being in a factory and one hears all the machines humming at once. Not IMPREC 168, 2007) € 13.00 deafening loud, but well constructed, balanced, varied, not from one "Reissue of this 1987 album, originally issued on Auf Dem Nil. "Night point of the factory, but one has the feeling of walking about, hearing Flights is a groundbreaking work from one of the most influential of the new aspects of the machines or new combination of the machines. By first generation sound artists. For some reason, this staggering work contrast 'Gin', the shortest piece, is a like bridge between that and has been left out of print for over 20 years. Night Flights has been 'Showa', soft tinkling guitars and percussive sounds, until things start to remastered and includes updated liner notes from Christina Kubisch. heat up again for the final piece. Hardly improvised sounding at all, this Night Flights is being released in conjunction with Kubisch's release of is sophisticated drone music of an outstanding order." " [FdW / Vital new work for Important Records titled Invisible/Inaudible: Five Electrical Weekly] Walks." [label info] * LA COMUNIDAD - Bastion 23 CD (L.White LW-032, 2007) [lim. * LABFIELD - Fishforms CD (Bottrop Boy B-BOY031, 2008) € 13.00 300] € 13.00 Ein neuer Name für die Drone-Szene, dieses skandinavische Duo, die "second release of LC / german power electronics meets ambient noise mit indischen "Sruti" und "Saranghi"-Boxen wunderbar füllige Drones parts in a mixture of noise / strength by political provokation" [label info] erzeugen (klingt nach Harmonium oder endlosen Sitar-Loops), die sich "Control, Slogun, Sickness, MZ412 they all have something in common in endlosen Wellen und Obertönen fortbewegen, dabei aber sehr nah with La Comunidad . the pure fucking brutality and angry that these und konkret erscheinen. Subtile Bass-Dumm Percussion wird units can project. There is nothing happy or hopeful about this release. eingesetzt, (was meist auch einen low-freq Drone ergibt, der aber This German force are not a happy lot. This is about the disgust of ones unruhiger schwingt ) und in Stück 2 ist eine Folk-artige Akustikgitarre zu world and surrounding and how a single source submits it to anyone hören, ... sehr schönes Debut! that will listen. Not all of La Comunidad is full on noise sometimes there " 'Phanta Rhei’ - everything flows. Whatever else might happen, life is a very suffocating Death Ambient assault going on here. You need to hurtles on and everything follows its natural course. Music is also listen to the speeches and spoken word movements as much as the subject to these ineluctable laws. While often breaking the mould, when backdrop of the music to get the full picture. everything is in its right place, the music follows its own course. As it La Comunidad likes the thought of War, Pain and Dispair. That much is does in the little experimental cabins of Laboratory Field, or LabField for very simple. Its not this vision alone that makes La Comunidad any short. This Scandinavian monster collective consisting of David more interesting then the bands listed above. What makes them a bit Stackenäs (guitars, electronics) and Ingar Zach (percussion) knows more out there is the distance and isolationist feel you get when exactly how to manipulate sound. At the same time, Ingar Zach is also listening to this. La Comunidad aren't to make this recording for your. creating a big stir with three-piece kindred spirits Huntsville. Your here so someone can hear the deconstruction of a human soul on Not fussed about getting their hands dirty, Stackenäs and Zach dig for the bring of either greatness or insanity. Your never really sure and I sounds of gold with successful results. Sound waves emanate from hope to never find out. Just let the extremity of it all take you and their instruments slowly. This unstoppable flood of sound is not change for ever. distinguished by brute force but rather by its boundless subtlety and L White has presented La Comunidad in a wonderful A5 full color 4 inventiveness. The listener will completely find themselves submerged panel card package. The only thing is limiting it to 300 copies after all by an overwhelming stream. Bottrop-Boy is proud to release LabField’s this hard work. L white is the Harsh Industrial/ Noise/ Power Electronic first sound experiments onto the world. fans best friend as they give an outlet to very amazing projects such as Swedish guitarist Stackenäs and Norwegian percussionist Zach are there were others would never even look at them. Thank you for this L known names in the European improvisation scene. They previously White and keep up the pain inducing release as I know I will keep on worked together in three-piece TRI DIM, together with saxophonist listening." [Clint Listing] Håkon Kornstad. Two years later, Stackenäs and Zach decided to work as a duo, deciding on a radically different course. Improvisation, sound * LAINHART, RICHARD - White Night CD (Ex Ovo EXO1974, art, minimal music and drones are fused to form a completely unique 2007) € 11.00 style of performing. Zach plays, among other instruments, the unique Ein wunderschön schimmernder, fast 30minütiger Drone von 1974 electronic sruti and saranghi boxes. This is music that evolves quietly offenbart sich auf WHITE NIGHT, der aus vier sich umtänzelnden, and often refers to the dronescapes of free improv pioneers such as schwingenden Tönen besteht. Obwohl hierzu Sinus-Töne auf einem AMM. The sounds which Stackenäs manages to conjure up from his MOOG-Synthesizer kreiert wurden, ergeben sich Obertöne und eine guitars are unprecedented: softly humming, viciously rattling and "wavende" Räumlichkeit, die das ganze eher nach Gitarrendrones intensely meditative. Zach answers these sounds with the hypnotic

72 klingen lassen, wie ihn heutzutage STARS OF THE LID oder reveals a name in the ethereal infinity: Les Fragments de la Nuit." [label ULTRASOUND machen... info] Erschienen auf dem Label von TOBIAS FISCHER (FEU FOLLET) und "Michel Villar (piano) and Ombeline Chardes (violin) both hailing from MIRKO UHLIG (ex AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF). France are the talented musicians who set up this project. They’ve been "Back in 1974, one year before Brian Eno’s first landmark in Ambient- joined by a few more musicians and guest vocalists. While releasing music, some young musician from New York wrote down a fragment of their debut-cd on Equilibrium Music they have already been involved in beauty’s hidden story with the minimal vocabulary of sine waves on the various soundtrack compositions for independent cinema, animations young black skin of a Moog synthesizer. The first release on CD and documentaries. The soundtrack-influence is easily recognizable features Richard Lainhart’s masterpiece in its original 29-minutes- while the piano and violin parts also bring us to make a link with neo version. There’s no single second to add, after this time everything is classical music. Les Fragments De La Nuit sounds like a journey told though nothing has been said. Richard Lainhart about the work’s through darkness and the name of the project perfectly fits to this goal. origin: "White Night" was composed and recorded in the late fall of 1974 Most of the songs remain instrumental version filled with low piano keys at the State University of New York at Albany in the Coordinated and sad feelings emerging from this melancholia. Mysterious chants Electronic Music Studio (CEMS). CEMS was created by my emerge to the surface on one of the pieces, but the music remains like composition teacher Joel Chadabe with design and custom fabrication encaged in an atmosphere of endless darkness or should I say an by Robert Moog and was, at the time, the largest integrated Moog endless night. The different fragments of this night have been modular synthesizer studio in the world. The piece consists of a dense, expressed with a gift for melancholia coming from musicians with continuous four-note chord, each note in the chord recorded in a talent!" [Side-Line] separate pass to one track on a Scully 4-track studio recorder. Each track consists of a single sine wave oscillator which is frequency * LE SYNDICAT - Corrumpate CD (RRRecords / PURE series #30 modulated by a group of eight additional sine wave oscillators. Those 1995) € 12.00 oscillators are all tuned to different tones, each harmonically related to * LE SYNDICAT - Relikat & Schlaguemusik CD (RRRecords / the fundamental chord tone. The amplitude of each harmonic oscillator PURE series #31, 1995) € 12.00 is continuously varied under the control of an individual sequencer, and * LE SYNDICAT - Rectitude CD (RRRecords / PURE series #32, each sequencer is free-running - that is, the sequencers are not 1995) € 12.00 synchronized to each other, but rather running in their own independent In the mid 80's the french cassette-scene project LE SYNDICAT was timebases.The result is a continuously-changing complex harmonic one of the most famous industrial noise acts, comparable with waveform which modulates the frequency of the chord tone oscillator, MERZBOW. These are 3 re-issues of MCs they released in 1983, 1985, generating a continuously-changing complex timbre based on the 1986. Pure Bruitism! fundamental pitch of the note. The center tone of "White Night" is 212 Hz, slightly higher than the G * Andrew LILES - Black Pool CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records below Middle C. The other notes create a chord consisting of a perfect mt135/ Black Series negro15, 2007) € 16.00 fifth below the center tone, a major seventh just below the center tone, The Vortex Vault part 11, black cover lim/numb/signed 300 copies. and a major second above the center tone. "White Night" was Featuring COLIN POTTER & FREEK KINKELAAR and others composed without reference to the standard A-440 tuning system, as * Andrew LILES - Black End CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records we had no such pitch reference in the studio; I just picked a center tone mt136/ Black Series negro16, 2007) € 16.00 that felt right, and went from there. As such, "White Night" lives in its The Vortex Vault part 12 (final album in the series), black cover own pitch world. lim/numb/signed 300 copies. Featuring STEVEN STAPLETON (NURSE The title "White Night" came about so: it was late December in upstate WITH WOUND), MATT WALDRON (IRR.APP(EXT)), and others! New York when I was finishing the piece, and a blizzard passed through Die letzten beide Teile der VORTEX VAULT-Serie sind nun auch town the night of the final mix. As I sat in the glow of the sequencers erhältlich !! and tape decks in the University studio listening to the final version, I looked out the window and saw a security light on a building opposite * LILES, ANDRES & DANIEL MENCHE - The Progeny of Flies CD the studio illuminating the blowing snow as it drifted off the roof. All I (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt206, 2008) € 14.00 could see was the snow swirling in the light against the blackness; a Untertitel: "TRES MUSCAE CONSUMMUNT CADAVER EQUI AEQUE moving painting continually drawn, erased, and redrawn, always CITO AC LEO" - "Die Nachkommen dreier Fliegen können ein totes changing, but always the same. It may sound bleak, but it wasn't - it Pferd schneller konsumieren als ein Löwe". Was das Label hier was beautiful. It seemed to me that the image of the dancing whiteness aufgeregt und ziemlich passend "brutal kosmisch" tituliert, entpuppt sich perfectly matched the sound of the piece, and so I called it "White als eine dicke Drone-Suppe mit (wahrscheinlich) LILESschen Synth- Night" to commemorate that evening of wind and snow." [label info] und Piano-Sprengseln, man kann sich kaum auf diese nebligen Sounds konzentrieren, immer wieder wird das Bewusstsein eingelullt und quasi * LAVELLE, BRIAN - Supernaturalist CD (EE Tapes EE12, 2008) ausgeschaltet... vier lange Stücke. Minimal, dronig, und wie immer bei [lim. 300] € 13.00 LILES mit einem dunklen surrealistischen Flair... Der Ambient-Geheimtip BRIAN LAVELLE schafft behutsame "Ed. of 500 copies in a book bound CD case.. Kold Krush Groove, y’all. Klangfigurationen, die wie Schatten im Raum liegen; verträumt bis Literally! Individually Liles and Menche have torn the experimental world mysteriös schimmern seine akustischen Gebilde aus "electronics, field many new ones, but as a unit they achieve a critical mass so recordings, synth, piano & bass guitar", alles driftet wie in Trance monumental that they deserve their own Hollywood-style canoodling dahin... name. That name: Linch-Me-Eels. The graceful ferocity that oozes out "Exclusive new output from this ambient/electronic artist from Scotland, within the first few seconds is such that…well, let’s just say that if you UK. On ‘Supernaturalist’, Brian Lavelle presents 4 long brilliant called friends and told them you were on the moon, they would believe compositions (70 minutes), minimal at first hearing, but with full you. A vicious, celestial-cathedral rumble gapes its maw and spews maximum impact: bare to multi-layered drones, gentle to forth into a sluggish river of electro-magma, reshaping landscapes once hallucinogating field recordings with natural elements, ambient noises carved out by Cremaster Cycles and the gravitational forces of the and real instruments (piano, bass…). A classic album with style, planet Solaris. While Menche’s test-tones defying low-end slowly hauntingly beautiful!! Full metallised CD housed in the usual 7” folder compresses the woofers into diamond earrings, an emerging theme for cover, ‘pâle bleu’ (pale blue), in an edition of 300 copies only. tack piano cautiously stabs at the din. And just before cowboy-robot- Mastering, photography and design by Brian Lavelle." [label info] gone-mad Yul Brynner shows up to kill all humans, the piano slinks away to make room for the buzzing progeny of the flies, whose * LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT - Musique du Crepuscule CD crescendo of wing-beats quietly, subtly rises and rises the swarm to (Equilibrium Music EQM 022, 2008) € 15.00 Jupiter and beyond the infinite. After multiple listens a Xen(akis)–like Dramatic & expressive neoclassic / chamber music from this quintett state is realized and there should be a giant Star Fly-Child in your living using mainly strings, lots of minimal & repetitive string-structures are room. Brutally cosmic!!!" [label info] build, all instrumental. Their music has been compared with ARVÖ "I have been a fan of the works of Mr. Liles and Mr. Menche for a while PÄRT, STEVE REICH, PHILIPP GLASS and GODSPEED YOU BLACK now, so this CD of their first ever collaboration is most welcome. And it EMPOROR, but we also think of WIM MERTENS and RACHELS. looks great; packed in a hard carton slightly oversized CD sleeve with "Musique du Crépuscule" is a vision of night wrapped in mystery: a typical Liles-artwork. The 65+ minutes that form The progeny Of Flies night haunted by spectral chants, under the spell of epic, poignant are divided into 4 parts. Opener Eggs (signifying the first stage of the fly strings and sustained by hypnotic piano pulsations. Its nocturnal life cycle) features the now typical Liles-sounds augmented by universe oozes with hybrid ink, enveloping hidden emotions tainted with Menche's higher and harsher frequencies. In one word beautiful. The melancholy and voluptuousness. A neo-classical or post-nocturnal second track 1st To 3rd Instar features low frequency pulses before piece, "Musique du Crépuscule" has many different faces. It alternates subtle piano chords (and reverbed pedals) set in. Again full marks to between violin riffs, dark cello projections and the complaints of a lone Liles and Menche. "Pupar" (the third track) starts off with a horse's piano, highlighted by enigmatic echoing voices. The moonlight slowly neigh. After that surprising intro we're in a world filled with bass tones

73 with plucked strings and percussive elements. Closing track Metamorphoses (to end the fly theme) features a low, almost prehistoric * LOPEZ, FRANCISCO - Lopez Island CD (Elevator Bath eeaoa011, growl and Menche's more noisy elements which builds up to a climax. 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 The track ends with piano and the buzzing sound of a fly. This CD, "Absolute konkrete Musik", hier basierend auf field recordings die subtitled "tres muscae conummunt cadaver equi aeque cito ac leo", LOPEZ im Winter auf einer kleinen Insel machte, wir vermeinen Feuer which loosely and very cryptically translates into "three muscular & Tierlaute zu hören im Mix, aber es kann auch täuschen; ultratiefe complete corpses indeed quick justice and lion" is a gorgeous piece of Drones wummern und Wind-artige Klangstrahlen zischen vorbei, wie so work; beautiful, restrained and highly recommended!" [FK / Vital oft schwerlich zu beschreiben aber die Stimmung ist absolut Weekly] einnehmend! "Elevator Bath is immensely proud to present this exquisite new work * LILES, ANDREW & JEAN-HERVE PERON - Fini! CD (Dirter from one of the major figures of contemporary experimental music. Promotions DPROM 62, 2008) € 14.50 "Lopez Island" was crafted from original environmental sound matter "Introducing the debut collaborative release from sometime Nurse With recorded in Lopez Island during the Winter of 1999-2000. The Wound/Current 93 member, Andrew Liles and Jean Hervé Peron of resulting composition is 51 minutes of both delicate minutiae as well Faust. Neither of these artists needs any introduction and all as startling power - crackling, howling, and haunting. The small expectations are overtaken with this incredible album. Here is island in Washington state provided the beautiful, isolated terrain something that sounds like both a Krautrock album and also like nothing for Lopez' gathering of raw sounds and, as a personal audio document else you can imagine. Its twists and turns keep surprising and thrilling (though clearly beyond mere documentary), the landscape has been you several listens on from the first. The words "classic" and expertly translated. A quintessentially chilling interpretation of the winter "masterpiece" would not be out of place here. Both Faust and NWW are beach, "Lopez Island" is a worthy addition to Lopez' exemplary body of touring all over the world in 2008, and the profile for both of these absolute concrete music and, indeed, one of his finest works to date. legendary acts has never been higher. This release is packaged in a Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, gloss-laminated digipack, with beautiful artwork by Liles." [label info] this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 500 copies." [label "When mayhem artists like Nurse With Wound's Andrew Liles and info] Faust's Jean-Hervé Peron conspire, the result might be described as acousmaniac. Fini! is an arsenal of fun that comes on like a vibra-gun * LOPEZ, FRANCISCO - Wind [Patagonia] CD (And/Oar blast to the pineal gland. The glorious studio tomfuckery of "The and/27, 2007) € 13.00 Drummer is on Valium," Fini!'s opening cut, let's us know in no Nur selten entscheidet sich FRANCISCO LOPEZ, seine uncertain terms that Krautrock hasn't stopped mutating after all these Feldaufnahmen "pur" und unverfremdet zu veröffentlichen. WIND ist die decades, nor has it been successfully recycled by the archons of dritte CD einer Trilogie, die mit den fantastischen Dschungel- mainstream airwaves. That's one thing that makes Fini! delightful. It Aufnahmen von LA SELVA begann (und v.a. Tiergeräusche enthielt), comes on like an artifact from an alien culture excavated by reanimated danach kam BUILDINGS (die materielle Dingwelt), und nun die Dadaists from five feet of moon-dust. Touch not the obelisk lest "unerbittliche Umgebung von akustischer Kraft", wie er dies selbst centuries of Germanic gnosis light up your central nervous system like nennt, die NATUR. Die Windaufnahmen aus Patagonien zeigen den Meister Eckhart's pinball machine. This wanton little orgone-grinder is Geräuschstrom, der durch natürliche Prozesse entstehen kann, in all enhanced with blasts of blago-bung plus multi-lingual spoken word. seiner Vielfältigkeit, aber vor allem als archaisches anmutendes "Congo Bongo La La La," coming in shy of two minutes, stands out with Kraftfeld. brilliant eccentricity, teasing us with a slow build up of La La La before "An immersion into the sonic matter from micro- and macro- the Congo Bongo briefly shakes the bachelor tree house until it environments dominated by wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space disgorges all the monkeys. While most cuts are incredibly brief, leaving shaped and inhabited by the ever-changing forces of unmuted plants, the listener a little hungry for more, much more, and seeming to be the rocks, sand, snow, and ice. An irregular broad-band environment of disc's connective tissue, "Shake Your Hooves" rises up like a delirious relentless strength and richness. And above all, a tour de force of five-minute ethno-pagan evocation of Pan. profound listening." [label notes] A sweet release like this demands its own context, maybe a dainty tea- "... So we learn that this piece of fifty-six minutes is an 'non-processed, party of genteel aristocrats at which you, stripped naked with cabalistic not mixed environmental sound matter from a certain 'reality'' and in this signs emblazoned on your shaved body, spin Fini! at maximum ear- case the reality is the wind the empty spaces of Patagonia, in the bleeding intensity before setting fire to the curtains and riding off on a southern part of Argentina. During the 'austral winters' of 2000 and white ass. You can claim that you did this at the behest of "It's Too 2003, Lopez recorded a whole bunch of wind. The empty space, usually Loud," which sounds like it was recorded on a Messerschmitt. If this referred as a quiet one in the world of musical reviews (certainly by Vital impromptu circus doesn't result in the New Aeon of Amon Düül IV, all is Weekly) is of course a misconception. Silence as such doesn't exist and lost. Out of this world!" [Steve Aydt / Weirdomusic.com] the wind can be harsh player. The wind blows here heavily in the microphone - varies types are used - and the membrane shakes along. * LINIJA MASS - Trud CD (Der Angriff No. 13, 2007) € 13.00 It's not a straight forward, almost one hour piece of win blowing. In his * LINIJA MASS - Mechano-Faktura CD (Der Angriff No. 14, 2007) piece he uses various segments of wind sound, both the 'quiet' and the € 13.00 'loud' and thus depicts a beautifully cruel world. As a biker I learned to * LINIJA MASS - Proletkult CD (Der Angriff No. 15, 2007) € 13.00 dislike the wind, as much as I like it; it depends on which way you are "Der Angriff is proud to present the reissue of all three early albums going. This new work fits along very, very well along the two previous from the famous russian old-school analogue industrial noise project by mentioned releases and for those who care to know: this isn't the all out Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (also involved in Stalnoy Pakt and silent Lopez, as it's audible through the end, although the sound is in a Vetrophonia). Having been previously available only on tapes and long long fade out. A great conclusion to a great trilogy." [FdW / Vital deleted vinyl, those records now are the ones of the most sought after Weekly] collectibles of russian industrial culture heritage. Each CD is packed into the cardboard black&white package with a poster, which is different * LOPEZ, FRANCISCO - Untitled # 188 CD (CON-V cnvcd001, to each album. "Trud" (1997) has an exclusive previously unreleased 2008) [ed. of 400] € 14.50 bonus track, "Proletkult" (1999) has a track which has been missed on "Back in Vital Weekly 537 I reviewed 'Montreal Sound Matter', a vinyl edition and appeared only on a tape and CDR, and "Mekano- compilation CD, which was made up using sounds from that lovely Faktura" (1999) offers as bonus a track from a rare 7". All the sound Canadian city (I hope I now apply for a free plane ticket after all this material have been remastered from the original source tapes. Each promotion), put together by Francisco Lopez as part of a workshop title is limited to 400 copies only. A must for all fans of pure and true organized under his guidance. Lopez lived in that city at that time, and industrial art!" [label info] had been there on numerous occasions. On 'Untitled #188' he goes "Great 'mechanical industrial' from St. Petersburg. Real metallic back to all the sound material from that city he recorded over the years, machine-sounds mixed with russian voices. Retro-Futurism at its best!" as well as the sounds recorded for 'Montreal Sound Matter' and built a [original Drone Rec. info, about "Mechano-Faktura"] new seventy-one minute piece out of that. Perhaps as a goodbye to the city, since rumor has he is going to live in Amsterdam (which in my * LINIJA MASS - Industrealism mCD (ALF Produkt No.9, 2008) book is a big leap backwards, but alas). It's a very Lopezian work, [lim. 500] € 9.00 divided in various sections of sounds from the environment, yet it's hard Strong 3-track EP from this legendary russian industrial project around to recognize these sounds. I won't even try to make an assumption ALEXANDER LEBEDEV-FRONTOV, celebrating the 20th anniverserary here. It moves from block to block, divided by silence, or near silence. It of this project. An atmosphere of construction-working & machine- makes you aware of your environment, even in the silent street I live in. circling is created: pounding cold steel, the banging of metals, found Highly 'processed' sounds, although perhaps (perhaps!) it's just a sounds & vocal material combined with mechanized humming, all put matter of making all the right equalization or even adding loops to the together very carefully; the soundtrack for the marching working-class! proceedings. Quite a dark piece that requires full attention. You should Comes in oversized silver-print cover in a total edition of 500 copies. adjust the volume in the opening sequence. Put that up there, quite

74 loud, and you'll be find for the rest of the CD. It moves away from the der Dadaisten, zitiert Debord, wenn er Russisches Roulette den old Lopez and his side steps with heavy metal samples, but it's so much Spektakeln des Kapitalismus vorzieht, und wenn er auf die unheilbare better: a thoughtful collage of sounds, never near silence when the Freiheit ohne Gott pocht, schwingt darin das Ni Dieu ni maître sowohl music actually plays and can easily meet his best releases, 'La Selva', des Anarchisten Auguste Blanqui wie auch des Chansoniers Leo Ferrer 'Buildings [New York]' or his recent 'Pantagonia Wind'. Great first real mit. Bereits in den 80ern inszenierte er als Ministrant der unheiligen CD for Con-V - way to go, boys." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Dreifaltigkeit Lautreamont - Jary - Breton sein Cinema pour l‘oreille als Theater der Seltsamkeit, aus Lärm- und Stimmfetzen surreal collagiert * LOPEZ, FRANCISCO - Technocalyps CD (Alien8 Recordings und geloopt. Hier bietet es sich dem Zahn der Zeit als harte Nuss." [Bad ALIEN CD 77, 2008) € 13.00 Alchemy] Intensiver Film-Soundtrack zum Dokumentarfilm von FRANK THEYS "Lieutenant Caramel is the musician and film director at the same time, über "Transhumanismus" (2006) - eine Theorie, die annimmt, dass die he shoot movies for ears with microphone. The continuous search for Menschheit nicht mehr länger die antreibende Kraft der Zivilisation ist, poetic images, frantic interchange of subjects, twisted and broken sondern dass die fortschreitende Technisierung auf ein Ziel hinausläuft: mosaic of fuzzy elements, the breathtaking incoherence of perception, etwas "Über-Menschliches" zu erschaffen, die Begrenzungen des the mark of primitive life, the total absence of organization and rational Mensch-Seins zu überwinden, quasi als nächsten Evolutions-Schritt. thoughts. All this breathes, moves, obtains the voice and gradually In Genetik, künstlicher Intelligenz, Robotertechnik, Bionik & becomes meaningful. Theatrical view of musique concrète, humorous Nanotechnologie sieht der Autor die beginnende Umwälzung für and surrealistic collection of masterpieces recorded in the ten years. die kommende Herrschaft des Technischen, und beleuchtet die Release date is 30th December 2006. Limited edition of 500 copies in wissenschaftlichen, ethischen & metaphysischen Dimensionen des jewelcase" [label info] Phänomens über verschiedene Interviews (z.B. mit R.A. WILSON, TERENCE MC KENNA, MARVIN MINSKY..). * LULL - Like a slow River CD (Glacia Movements GM004, 2008) Der Soundtrack schafft zu einzelnen Themenbereichen des Films € 13.00 insgesamt 15 Stücke, die eine mechanisch-kalte Atmosphäre schaffen, "Fünf sich ewig in die Länge ziehende Ambient-Tracks des ehemaligen selten hat man FRANCISCO LOPEZ so "industriell" gehört.. Napalm Death Drummers Mick Harris. Die Drums sind hier schon lange "Continuing his 'exploration of the universe of broad-band noise from verschwunden, keinerlei Spur normaler Trackstruktur ist auszumachen. the real world,' Francisco López delivers his latest tour de force, the Die Elektronik strömt eisig und mindestens 6000 Meter tief, da wo original soundtrack to the film TechnoCalyps by Frank Theys. Wasser ungesehen furchterregenden Stillstand zelebriert. Die Eisblöcke TechnoCalyps is a documentary in three parts on 'Transhumanism,' oben rauschen und singen, uns Hörern bleibt einzig ein betäubender which deals with the subject of human beings no longer being the Tiefenrausch." [Ed Benndorf / DE BUG] driving force of civilization. Director Frank Theys raises the question of "After a long period of silence, Glacial Movements Records is glad to whether we are prepared to accept the prospect that humanity is not the announce you the return of the most important representative of end of evolution. Francisco López' soundtrack compliments the film ambient isolationist music ever: the wonderful English artist Mick J. wonderfully. Anybody familiar with the sound art of the composer will Harris aka LULL (Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death).Unquestionable understand why this is a sensible pairing. Francisco's ability to utilize genius of the last century's second half European music and point of everyday sounds that most people barely even notice, and transform reference about the rising isolationist aesthetics, being on the same them into sound art is quite astonishing. The original soundtrack opens wavelength as post-rock last scenaries. "Like a slow river" it's a work with an intro that is based on repetitious industrial sounds that bring to characterized by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold mind heavy machinery heard from a distance. It is much more difficult to and huge such as big bodies of ice which slowly move carried by an discern Lopez's source material on this release than on many of his endless river. The five compositions of "Like a slow river" reach the high previous works. While the recording features his trademark ebb and expectations of the previous works such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" flow of quiet passages leading through crescendo to louder climaxes, and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt, this is the industrial nature of TechnoCalyps, makes it more difficult to absorb the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of than many of his recordings centered on environmental recordings. The industrial-ambient music. You all will be led to the oblivion of your sound experience found on this latest recording can be compared existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come somewhat to Lopez's highly-regarded Buildings (New York) which down on your bodies and minds....you'll fall in your deepest sleep with features recordings of the actual sounds of the buildings themselves. the far echo of glacial runnings....the way to eternity is in front of you..... This is our sixth release with Francisco López and is packaged in a full LULL is Back!!" [label info] color digipak featuring stills of the film TechnoCalyps." [label info] "... Certainly something to watch one day, as the documentary sounds * LULLABYE ARKESTRA - Ampgrave CD (Constellation CST044- interesting, but the music itself is also quite interesting. Its a Lopez that 2, 2006) € 14.00 we don't know. There are fifteen tracks here, short and long alike, and Band-Projekt aus dem GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR-Umfeld, while probably having the original sound sources in field recordings, sehr psychedelisch / progig und rockend ! Lopez went to a great length to transform them into a mechanical, post "Seems there's been another spate of outcroppings from the Godspeed industrial music. The sound of what the world may sound like after the You Black Emperor musical empire recently -- notably the Fly Pan Am apocalypse. Metallic rumble, sonic debris, stale wind over empty offshoot Feu Therese and this duo of drummer Justin Small (also of Do industrial sites, flickering lights. All the cliche images one could have Make Say Think) and bass player Katia Taylor. Hmmm, we suspect that while thinking of this pass in front of your very eyes. Cliche's, but Lopez this Lullabye Arkestra will fail oh so miserably at the task of sleep does a fine job here. With lots of imaginative sounds depicting this new inducing, but it will succeed formidably at kicking the thermometer up a world of transhumans, and its certainly not something to watch out for. degree or ten. Their aggressive sound is markedly different from the Music that is hardly comforting, but more a warning. An alien release." rest of the GYBE clan. It might be the most trashy, garage rawky, [FdW / Vital Weekly] angstful, swampy blues boy'n'grrrl punk edged thing we've ever heard from the Constellation Records label (home to Godspeed, Fly Pan Am, * LT. CARAMEL - Early Tape Works CD (Monochrome Vision Silver Mt. Zion, et al). The fury churned up by the two core members is (mv08), 2006) [lim. 500] € 16.50 further fueled by horns, Hammond organ and violin contributed by their "Pierre Blanchard aka Felipe Caramelos, der 1961 geborene skilled musical brethren including other members of DMST. A fevered Bäckersohn aus Annecy, und sein Projekt LIEUTENANT CARAMEL ist good time!" [Aquarius Records] ein schönes Beispiel für einen Elektroakustiker, der trotz der Anerkennung, die er auch im Establishment der Geräuschkunst fand, * LUMINOUS - Links CD (Tara Records TARA004, 2008) € 12.50 seinen Reiz und seine Glaubwürdigkeit als Artiste maudit im Patchwork Neues Drone-Projekt aus UK - amorphe & transzendentale Klang- der Minderheiten nicht verlor. Early Tape Works (mv08, 2 x CD) greift Figurationen, fliessend & zeitlos..... to discover ! zurück in seine Kassettentäterjahre und versammelt als ‚Après les "After a decade of activity, the first official CD by Tim Chaplin's horreurs...‘ und ‚Suit naturellement la beauté‘ Stoff, der ursprünglich bei electronic/experimental project Luminous. Links consists of two thirty den Tapelabels Audiofile (L‘Odyssee Du Lieutenant Caramel, 1985), minute pieces. For fans of drone, dark ambience and experimentalism. SPH (Et Ca Vole!, 1993), Acteon (Du Plomp plein les siles, 1985, Je ne All CDs are housed in red clam shell cases and feature on body artwork veux plus voir le ciel, 1988) und Old Europe Cafe (Les Bonnes archives by Thumbprint Press's WT Nelson." [myspace] du Dimanche, 1986) erschienen war. Die beiden Halbzeilen des Titels "Time for some sub-aquatic bubbling abstract electronics and dark scheinen eine direkte Umkehrung von Rilkes Zeilen aus der Ersten ambient sound worlds from Links. 'Luminous' Two 30 minute tracks take Duineser Elegie zu sein: Denn das Schöne ist nichts / als des you on a sonic journey and really give you the sense that your lost in a Schrecklichen Anfang, [den wir noch grade ertragen, / und wir different space and time, like floating around in some liquid metal bewundern es so, weil es gelassen verschmäht, / uns zu zerstören. Ein dreamscape. With the sound of drones creating a feeling of amnesia. jeder Engel ist schrecklich.] Überhaupt scheut Blanchard nicht vor Very absorbing stuff. I'd like to listen to this whilst locked in a cupboard literarischen und philosophischen Bezügen zurück, stellte sich schon and become a total void. Housed in a red clamshell case on Tara als Kurator des Festivals Bruit de la Neige in die Tradition Russolos und Records." [Norman Records review]

75 * MACHINEFABRIEK & STEPHEN VITIELLO - Box Music CD (12K * LUNDVALL, TOR - Yule CD (Strange Fortune SF4, 2006) [lim. 12K1048, 2008) € 13.00 333] € 13.00 Subtile atmosphärische Experimental- & Geräuschmusik auf dieser Rare extended maxi-CD (47 minutes, 10 tracks) with his his typcial and Split & Collaboration-CD (je 2 Solo-Stücke, die aber mit dem Fundus unique electronic late-night songwriter-ambience... last copies ! des anderen eingespielt wurden; und ein "echtes" Collab-Stück am "Electronic music artist Tor Lundvall is enjoying something of a Ende) - das aufstrebende Experimental Ambient / Drone-Projekt aus breakthrough year in 2006, his Empty City album of evocative "ghost den Niederlanden, und der lange aktive VITIELLO aus den Staaten. Für ambient" tracks generating his highest critical attention and fastest BOX MUSIC haben sie sich in der Tat Boxen mit Klangobjekten und sales to date. Tor's music was heard recently on NPR radio stations by Alltagsgegenständen zugeschickt, die der andere dann benutzt hat. 200,000 listeners, on the famous "Hearts of Space" radio program. Kurioses Konzept und ansprechendes Ergebnis, zwischen Drone und Announced November '06 is Tor Lundvall's next release, a limited digitaler Musique Concrete. edition EP called Yule, described as "snowy soundscapes and "Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple celebratory songs for the season." Tor explains with his Yule EP he has note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e- attempted to capture "another side" of the holiday season than the mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all typical Christmas album, offering all original compositions in a "blurred happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by and distant," slightly melancholic form. Release date for Tor Lundvall's the concept of 'exchange,' as a means to cross space and time -- Yule EP is set as Thanksgiving 2006. It is to be a numbered limited Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the edition of 333 copies, and will be available only directly from the label at time, when (electronic) musicians work together, it's a matter of strangefortune.com." [label info] swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or * LUSTMORD - Other CD (Hydra Head Records HH666-157, 2008) musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the 'assignment' € 13.50 to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the "Seit 1980 sind Lustmord auf der musikalischen Welt. Das Projekt des titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken Walisers Brian Williams bewegte sich zunächst in den Industrial- Kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" Kreisen um Throbbing Gristle, Current 93 sowie SPK, deren Mitglied er record, etc . Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the zeitweise war. In den 90ern machte sich Williams durch Filmmusiken box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger (u. a. "The Crow", 1994) einen Namen. Das Lustmord-Album "Other" ist adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For nach "Juggernaut" (2007) das zweite für das Label Hydra Head - eine Rutger/Machinefabriek, this is part of his most delicate work. For Sammlung albtraumhafter Songs, die gekonnt die Atmosphäre von Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance David-Lynch-Filmen heraufbeschwören. Mit dabei: Adam Jones (Tool), collaboration." [label info] Aaron Turner (Isis) und Buzz Osborne (Melvins); das Artwork stammt "....Its not easy to recognize these sounds in the music presented here. von Adam Jones." [Indigo] The treatments are wide and extensive. There are two solo piece by "Lustmord has been specializing in creepily atmospheric ambient music Rutger, two by Stephen and one collaborative, started by Rutger, since the early 1980s. Having worked on several solo albums and finished by Stephen. I haven't kept up with Vitiello's work, so it's a bit provided his own dark drama to other artists (including Tool, Graeme hard to say wether his pieces are like his other music, but this is a great Revell, and Puscifer), Lustmord's deranged sense of reality comes full collaboration. Very delicate sound processing going on here, subtle circle with OTHER. The music contained in this album could easily crackling of sound, the best of ambient glitch music. Machinefabriek has double as a horror film score; the compositions are foreboding, and found a sound of his own, but that he did for more than a year ago, and eerily mesmerizing. Lustmord's artistic ability to tap into primordial fear now it's time to deepen that sound. This is certainly a highlight in his is also heightened here by the guest appearances of Adam Jones career." [FdW / Vital Weekly] (Tool), Aaron Turner (Isis), and Buzz Osborne (Melvins)." [press release] * MACHINEFABRIEK - Dauw CD (Dekorder 029, 2008) € 13.00 "Rutger Zuydervelt nennt sich zwar weiterhin MACHINEFABRIEK, * MACHIDA, YOSHIO - Hypernatural # 3 CD (Baskaru karu:10, entwirft aber zunehmend Szenerien mit einem pastoralen Ambiente. 2008) € 13.00 Auch Dauw (Dekorder 029) suggeriert mit zartem Gitarrengepicke oder Lange angekündigt, endlich erschienen: der dritte Teil in der nostalgisch knisternden und dröhnenden Vinylrillen stadtflüchtige HYPERNATURAL-Trilogie! MACHIDA verwebt field recordings und Soundscapes. Zuydervelt ist mehr Fotograf als Ingenieur. Wenn bei Instrumentalklänge auf so geschickte Weise, dass zwar "irgendwie ‚Engineer‘ Drähte harfen und Metall schleift, dann klingt das als würde konkrete", aber doch höchst ungewöhnliche Atmosphären & Sounds der Wind auf dem Schrottplatz spielen. Das Titelstück träumen entstehen.....bei seinen ständig wechselnde Klangwelten vermag Gitarrenpicking und Pianotupfer gemeinsam. ‚Singel‘, mit 25 Min. der jedes Stück neuerlich zu überraschen, teils eigenartig harmonisch, Schwerpunkt dieser von Giuseppe Ielasi gemasterten Dreiviertelstunde, manchmal sind ganz "pure" field recordings zu hören...MACHIDA spielt alle Tugenden des Niederländers noch einmal besonders bewahrt mit diesem Release seinen ur-eigensten Klang-KOSMOS vor geduldig und zart aus. Eine stillgelegte ‚Fabrik‘ dröhnt in leichtem dem Vergessen.... Nieselregen, bis sich aus melodiös schwingenden, dann auch knarrig "Finally, the conclusion of the Hypernatural electroacoustic trilogy... verzerrten Gitarrensounds und flirrendem Cymbal eine Klangglocke Six years after the release of "Hypernatural #2", Yoshio Machida is aufwölbt zu einem Mausoleum des Industriezeitalters. Wenn es das rounding up his magnificent trilogy of electroacoustic collages with Wort ‚Dreamscape‘ nicht schon gäbe, müsste ich es genau dafür "Hypernatural #3". A unique and highly personal work, the Hypernatural erfinden." [Bad Alchemy] series has made of Machida a world-class sound artist. Assemblages of "Machinefabriek is the alias for Rutger Zuydervelt currently residing in field recordings and treated instrumental sounds, the music on Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2004 Zuydervelt has unleashed an "Hypernatural #3" evokes simultaneously the universal and the intimate, uncountable number of self-released 3"CD's (his format of choice) in Mankind and Nature. lovingly designed sleeves (all made by himself). In the past years some Yoshio Machida has been working on this series since 1997. The first of these releases have been compiled into amazing albums such as volume was self-released in 1999 and had for theme memory in "Slaapzucht" on the Root Strata label, "Weleer" on Lampse, the "Cello Eastern Asia ; Volume 2, released by Softl Music in 2001, focused on Recycling" 10"/CD on Type Records and "Bijeen" on Kning Disk. transparency, unconsciousness and invisible existence. "Hypernatural Recent collaborations with Stephen Vietiello (on the 12K label), #3", the last instalment in this triptych, is about oblivion. Machida Freiband, Steinbrüchel and other likeminded artists have expanded the explains: "Oblivion is characteristic of the correlation between matter horizon veritably. Machinefabriek's music has been remixed by the likes and time. Oblivion has a positive aspect: it appears as a natural of Xela, Lesser, Svarte Greiner, Alva Noto, Pita, Kim Cascone, Ben phenomenon in the passage of time and becomes a factor in creating Frost, Black To Comm and others. new worlds. Nature consists of a myriad of different memory-oblivion Only few Machinefabriek material has been recorded specifically for an cycles". album release but these have always been stand-outs in the vast Born in 1967, Japanese artist Yoshio Machida studied minimalist art. catalogue. Both "Marijn" on Lampse and "Ranonkel" on Burning World While working for international cooperation, he had the opportunity to Records were classic recordings, squeezing a large amount of what travel and make field recordings. Since then, he has been using these people love about Zuydervelt's music into one album, at the same time field recordings, combining them to the treated sounds of real giving him the space to expand on new ideas. Likewise "Dauw" is one instruments, including gongs and steel drums (the latter instrument of Zuydervelt's most subtle & quiet yet refined works. Mainly built playing a non-negligeable role on "Hypernatural #3"). Machida has around small but gorgeous melodies of piano and guitar playing and the performed at music festivals, including ISEA2004 and Maerz Musik. crackling sound of dusty vinyl samples, these songs slowly build into David Toop has introduced his music in his book "Haunted Weather", intensive hymn-like angel choirs of sheer heavenly beauty. and a track from "Hypernatural #2" was featured in a commercial on Zuydervelt's output often has drawn comparisons to the likes of French television. He also runs his own Amorfon label." [press release] Fennesz, Godspeed, Arvo Pärt, Basinski, Tim Hecker, Phillip Jeck, Mogwai and Earth, which is certainly not all wrong and some of these

76 have been influences in the early stages of his career but he has since or are inter-related to the original vocal track, recorded by Lisa Barnard, developed a strong and individual language all of his own. which is no longer present. The text/voice part has been multi-tracked Mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi with elegant artwork by Zuydervelt himself; and now represents five "separate entities". The electronic parts have metallic print on grey cardboard stock." [label notes] been extracted and processed from the original vocal track. The five flute parts were performed by Jane Rigler and Jacqueline Martelle, and * MARANHA, DAVID - Marches of the new World CD (Grain of was be improvised by them. They recorded to the separate voice Sound GOS21, 2007) € 15.00 tracks. None of the performers heard the entire piece that they worked Ein höchst überraschendes Album von DAVID MARANHA, der hier on. Lisa Barnard is a vocalist and performance artist. Most noted work quasi im Band-Kontext mit Hammond-Orgel, Violine & einer Dobro- is her interpretations of her dreams into original performances for Deep Resonatorgitarre sehr rauhe und kraftvollen psychedelischen Drone Listening Institute's annual Dream Festivals. Jacqueline Martelle is a produziert hat... unterstützt wurde er von HELENA ESPVALL (Cello), flutist and arts administrator, living in New York City since 1996. She JOAO MILAGRE (Bass) und ANTONIO FORTE (Drums). Zusammen performs new music and has recorded on the Mode and Centaur record erschaffen sie treibende, röhrende, endlos mäandernde & langsam labels. Jane Rigler, flutist, composer, educator and producer is an perkussive Improvisationen mit starkem 60 & 70's Minimal Music- active featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout Bezug! the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as within chamber ensembles "Marches of the new World', new record by legendary Portuguese Al Margolis was one of the prime movers in the cassette underground underground figure David Maranha, who has also been putting out scene of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label music with the mythical Osso Exótico unit for almost 20 years (his released over 300 cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, previous release was with Patrícia Machás and drone duo Minit as Amy Denio, John Hudak and Jim O'Rourke) and is the éminence grise Organ Eye, who put out a self-titled album on the Staubgold label), is behind twenty-three years of music under the name If, Bwana. He is the his more recent study & advancement in exploring, witnessing and man behind the Pogus label, as well as label manager for Deep generating new slices of blissful, savaged drone music." [label info] Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music." [label info] "...The drone music played by this group is one that stands in a long "The resulting texture sounds more like a Horatiu Radulescu piece tradition: from Yves Klein, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young and Velvet performed by Morphogenesis." [DW] Underground. Ongoing, banging rhythm features, with a dominant role for organ and cello, but, certainly in 'Infinity March' also for the rhythm * MARTINEZ, ISRAEL - Exorcizos CD (Abolipop Records AR009, section, which placed at the end makes a beautiful grand finale. The 2008) € 10.00 four preceding tracks are quieter, certainly 'Virgins Visions' (which is the Ein neuer Komponist / Klangkünstler aus Mexiko, der sich zwischen only solo piece by Maranha here), but in the other three tracks things bizarren musique-concrete Passagen & spannungsgeladener Elektro- already rock like hell or drone like heaven. It moves away from the Akustik bewegt... to explore & discover, special priced ! previous works by Maranha, which was the more classical overtone "Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, Mexico. 1979) is sound artist, empirical pieces of resonating strings and beautiful humming wave fields. The composer and he has a degree in communications. He works for music is harsher, grittier, more angular, and I must admit very nice, different fields: composition of experimental - electroacoustic music, because it goes back to a tradition which is not copied these days very installation and sonic intervention as well as video and analysis of the much, and certainly not as nice. Its a great thing to see this done here, impact of sound in society. moving away from his earlier work, but still re-inventing drone music. He has participated in diverse sound art, electroacoustic and Great stuff." [FdW / Vital Weekly] experimental music festivals in Mexico in the last years as Visiones Sonoras, Mutek, Muestra Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Instrumenta, * MARCHETTI, LIONEL & SEIJIRO MURAYAMA - Hatali Atsalei Interface and SONOM. He has also performed and his works have (l'echange des yeux) CD (Intransitive Rec. INT031, 2007) € 12.00 been played at different festivals and concerts in England, Spain, "For his second album on Intransitive, Lionel Marchetti returns to his France, Austria and Colombia. Recently Israel won the Award of favorite subject: music as an essential element of ritual and ecstatic Distinction of Ars Electronica 2007 in the Digital Musics category for his trance states. Unlike his Knud un Nom du Serpent cd (to be reissued in work "Mi vida". Israel is also co-founder of the Mexican electronic Spring 2008), which offered a critique of avant-garde and popular music alternative music label Abolipop and producer of "pop" project Nebula as an extension of the transcendental impulse, Hatali Atsalei is more 3." [Virb-info] literally an experience of ritual. Using percussion, wind instruments, field recordings of natural sounds, and most importantly the voice of * MARUTTI, ANDREA - The Subliminal Relation between Planets collaborator Seijiro Murayama, Marchetti once again gives us a multi- CD (Nextera ERA 2049-2, 2008) € 13.50 leveled engagement with the elemental urge to converse with nature "Also live but of a somewhat different kind is the release by Andrea and to use sound as a means to achieve altered states of Marutti, whom we sometimes know as Amon and Never Known and consciousness. Referencing narrative radio art, musique concrete and also as the labelboss of Afe Records, releasing many Italian artists. He acoustic ecology, Hatali Atsali is a fascinating work that reveals more too operates in the area that we could loosely identify as drone music, layers with each listen." [label info] or ambient, but unlike his German counterparts on the other CD this is "....Marchetti uses fire, water, wind instruments and percussion along of a much darker nature altogether. It's hard to tell what it is that he with the voice of Seijiro Murayama, the percussion of ANP. It's a work does; be it synthesizers, samplers, computer processing or just tons of that is not like many around in the fields of musique concrete. Usually sound effects, in the end the effect is a seventy-minute opus of dark, it's a strictly composed piece of music from daily sounds and field utter dark electronic music. The planets mentioned in the title may give recording, heavily processed, but Marchetti and Murayama take it into a away some of some of the darkness, and perhaps its all too easy to say theatrical field and makes things very visual by using sound only. The that its pitch black as the stars by night, but on christmas eve, with stars crackling of fire, the far away drum sound, the splashes of water and bright and almost full moon, these sort of references may count. Think the voice make you feel almost part of the ritual, but you remain an Lustmord meeting Mirror, the darkest fantasy of Klaus Schulze or such outsider. It's hard to tell what the ritual is about, but you can watch/listen cosmic hero from yesteryear, and Andrea Marutti is your man. The with full fascination. It's a work that grows in the listener. It's brief at ambient/drone posse might be a dead end, and as such none of these thirty-three minutes, but as soon as it was over, I played it again and it three offer any real innovation of the genre, but they all do a great job, started to grow on me further. It's highly captivating visual music, very producing some excellent music, the best you can get these days. That much along the lines of Etant Donnes' 'Bleu' CD - and that's possibly alone justifies the release of their music on CD and before you know, the only thing I can compared it with. A true beauty, fascinating and we have our own new stars." [FdW / Vital Weekly] captivating." [FdW / Vital Weekly] * MARHAUG, LASSE - Tapes 1990-1999 4 x CD-Box (Pica Disk * MARGOLIS, AL / IF, BWANA - An Innocent, Abroad CD [Pogus PICA001, 2007) € 26.00 Prod. 21046-2, 2007) € 13.00 "Deluxe 4 CD box-set containing almost five hours-43 tracks of material Zwei grossartige neue Stücke von IF BWANA aka AL MARGOLIS, der selected from Lasse Marhaug's cassette releases in the 90's. From cut- im Frühjahr 2008 auch endlich mal in Euopa live zu sehen war (z.B. im up voice and turntable thrashing to harsh wall-of-sound power noise Hamburger B-MOVIE). AN INNOCENT ABROAD lässt sich als höchst and scum sounds. Solo work and collaborations with Bad Kharma, strange & surreale Geräuschmusik charakterisieren, basierend auf der Grunt, Macronympha and others. Packaged in a handsome custom- Stimme von LISA BARNARD und Flöteneinspielungen, in einer NURSE made solid box with a 24 page booklet, cover reproductions and liner- WITH WOUND-ähnlichen Machart bearbeitet und collagiert. notes by Tommy Carlsson and Tore H. Boe. Remastered by Tommi "The new Al Margolis/If, Bwana cd is comprised of Issue, for electronics Keranen. Limited edition of 500 copies." [label notes] and multi-tracked voice, and An Innocent, Abroad, a 40 plus minute "Norway and “extreme” music. I know what you’re thinking: black metal. work for electronics, vocals, and flutes. An Innocent, Abroad can be Well, this isn’t Lasse Marhaug’s lost “metal” archive. But the Norwegian best described as a Sonic Oratorio: an assemblage, a construction of noise architect – who’s been called the Nordic Merzbow – makes music an event that never happened or will happen. A live installation for as frosty, intense, and relentless as Burzum or Darkthrone. There’s radio, perhaps. There is no "meaning" to the text. All parts were drawn something about the temporary, almost fragile form of magnetic tape

77 that’s quite appealing. Everyone reading this can remember the close to each other as possible. Sound engineer Thomas Hukkelberg simultaneous horror of a beloved recording being mangled by spools, used two custom-built condenser mics for the organ, two Shure KSM 44 even as we marvel at the fantastic, otherworldly sound the destruction for the electronics and two Neumann U87 by the altar for the ambience. created. (And yes, the metaphoric possibilities here are endless.) He used a Millennia Media HV-3 preamp and an Apogee AD-16X Marhaug – who has received more notice of late, due to his involvement converter. The recordings were made at night to avoid unwanted in ensembles like Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band – is a specialist in ambient city sounds. The final mix was made by Marhaug in January such experiments with loss and damage. This four-disc set (mostly solo 2007." [press release] Marhaug, though there are several tracks where he collaborates with folks like Bad Kharma) is no mere nostalgia trip, no exercise in wistful * M.B. (MAURIZIO BIANCHI) - Regel CD (Finalmuzik FM08, 2007) remembrance of some “good old days.” It’s fresh, disturbing, and very, € 13.00 very fun. Some tracks are cavernous, groaning, and sound like the end "We're proud to inform you that Final Muzik official reissue of one of of all things. Others are more dense, playful, and referential, crammed MAURIZIO BIANCHI's best works is out now! with multiple sound sources piling into each other like highway wrecks. M.B. “Regel” CD (FM08). 1982 recordings. Official reissue, jewel box Muffled or blaring, percussive or spacious, hellish or more hellish. Some edition, limited to 1.200 copies. of it, like “Untitled #1,” is just unbelievably caustic and teeth-rattling – Track-list: like Sheer Hellish Miasma but years earlier. Regel This is the kind of richly imagined music that powers up language, a 1- [23.31] sound so alien and so completely itself that its violence and unfamiliarity 2- [23.20] convey very direct and coherent, if improbable imagery. This is most plus true on the longer pieces, which sound to me like extended field 3- Acido Prussico [08.39] - first issue on "Neuengamme" Lp (Broken recordings assembled in a land of angry machines – they shriek and Flag, 1982)" [label info] drone in rapid shifts like two mechanized boxers. On tracks like “Noise Ninja,” Marhaug layers these effects and creates a towering edifice of * M.B. / HUE / FHIEVEL - Erimos CD (Digitalis Recordings noise. DIGI048, 2007) € 12.00 But just as you start to appreciate the craft and the detail… POW! This Sehr schöner "organic drone" one-tracker, eine italienische stuff is just relentless, like a revenant howling to break free of its Zusammenarbeit von Ur-Gestein MAURIZIO BIANCHI mit den mechanized confines. “Untitled #4” sounds like mutant horns – shofars, "Nachkommen" FHIEVEL und HUE (MATTEO UGGERI). a tag team of Albert Aylers, and a wheezing beer hall band – run "This release is quite special as it has given us the opportunity to work through beat up analog processors. You almost feel sorry for the with one of our all-time favorite artists (and one of the true all-time mutated source materials, so distorted and transformed that they sound greats), Maurizio Bianchi. Erimos is the first in a series of works about like the aural equivalent of a disfigured corpse (for a quick study in the spaces 'between the elements.' This album contains a single, 40+ effaced identity, listen to the old timey voices buried beneath “The Girl minute exploration. Heavy on electronics, the amazing thing is how Who Always Eats Chocolate”). Listening to each of these hour-plus warm the whole piece feels. Bianchi is joined by two of the next discs leaves you dizzy, but somehow energized by precisely the generation of Italian sound sculptors, Hue (aka Matteo Uggeri) and harshest moments: the huge chorus of struck metal on “Wish You a Fhievel (aka Luca Bergero). The two have breathed new life into Merry Christmas,” locked into a construction-site drill riff, repeating Bianchi's music, showing that the future of the Italian underground is endlessly in your skull; “More Guts Than Brains,” which is like a blast of brighter than ever. Bianchi began producing music almost 30 years ago glaring, harsh light after being entombed for a while; or the mutant in 1979, and since 1980 has used electronic equipment with the industrial music, deconstructed and reassembled, of “Miss Plastic avowed goal 'to produce technological sounds and in such a way to Murgatroid’s Red Metal Wet Dream” (all amplified metal, like rusty work on complete realizing of the modern decadence.' His best known screwdrivers contact mic’d and used on excited strings and space work, Symphony for a Genocide was recently reissued by New York- fossils). How, then, to make sense of five hours of noise that at times based Hospital Productions. This seminal work proved what a pioneer beggars description? The power, depth, craft, and vision of these in electronic music he was. On Erimos, we find Bianchi stretching time pieces are impressive. Nothing about this music sounds dated, in fact. I and manipulating sound as ever. Over the course of this monster guess if you wanted to sum it up, you could look to “Kommer og Gar,” performance, the trio weaves intricate circles around one another, which features a stilted voice quoting Baudelaire: “There is no nearly colliding at every point. But the success comes from their abilities forgiveness without bloodshed.” Then again, maybe it’s as simple as to play off each other, resulting in original and captivating sounds and the brief spasm on the final disc, aptly entitled “I Like Violence.” textures. It is electronic drones unlike any other. Erimos is captivating [Jason Bivins / DUSTED mag] and beautiful, even if its main inspiration comes from something as desolate and isolated as the deserts on its cover." [label info] * MARHAUG, LASSE & NILS HENRIK ASHEIM - Grand Mutation CD (Touch Tone 30, 2007) € 15.00 * M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) + E.D.A (Emanuela De Angelis) - "Orgelspiel trifft Laptop-Electronica - spannende Ambientkompositionen Regolelettroniche CD [Baskaru karu:8, 2008) € 13.00 im Stil von Johann Johannsson. Hat sich das britische Touch Label mit "Maurizio Bianchi kommt aus der Industrial-Bewegung der frühen der Spire"-Serie schon absolute Kompetenz in zeitgenössischer Achtziger, als einige wahrhaft verstörende Alben aufgenommen Orgelmusik erworben, so setzen sie mit "Grand Mutation" einen wurden, die die vorangegangenen Arbeiten von Throbbing Gristle in vorläufigen Höhepunkt. Die beiden Schweden Lasse Marhaug und Konzept und Ausführung noch weit übertrafen. Bianchi verband damals Henrik Assheim nutzen zwei konträre Klangquellen zur Umsetzung ihrer immer wieder ganz deutliche Anspielungen auf die Greuel des Dritten Kunst: Henrik Assheim spielt auf einer großen Kirchenorgel, während Reiches mit seinen jederzeit trostlosen Kompositionen, und diese Lasse Marhaug mit elektronischen Equipment diese Sounds Mixtur kann einem bis heute Bauchschmerzen bereiten. Heute freilich manipuliert. Das Resultat ist mehr als die Summe der einzelenen Teile. weiß man, dass der notorische Einzelgänger seinerzeit unter Eine Mischung aus erhabener Ambientmusik, Neo-Klassik und lähmenden Depressionen litt, was das künstlerische Schaffen als Soundtrack arbeiten die fünf langen Stücke mit dem Raumklang und Spiegel von inneren Zuständen begreifbarer macht. Nach einem dem Volumen der Töne. Ein spannendes Hörerlebnis der modernen längeren Rückzug aus der Öffentlichkeit ist Bianchi zuletzt als stark Avantgarde und Electronica!" [Cargo] engagierter Anhänger der Zeugen Jehovas in Erscheinung getreten und "Lasse Marhaug and Nils Henrik Asheim started their collaboration in veröffentlicht neuerdings Musik, der nicht selten arg vorschnell der 2004 at the All Ears festival in Oslo, Norway. This turned out as a fruitful vernichtende »New Age«-Stempel aufgezwungen wurde. Dabei ist etwa meeting between two musicians of very different backgrounds. »Regolelettroniche« – Anfang diesen Jahres bei Baskaru erschienen Marhaug's feedback to Asheim's organ sounds in the Oslo concert und gemeinsam mit Emanuela de Angelis erarbeitet – nach started to reflect how the work was to develop. Asheim is working with eingehender Auseinandersetzung ein karges und doch faszinierendes half-stops and subtle playing techniques that create multiple layers of Stück nebelig verzerrter Loopmusik, deren potenzielle Halbwertszeit sound with a vibrating or fluctuating character, as well as with the power schon heute größer scheint als die der früheren Alben. Manch ein Titel of the full organ. Marhaug's tools belong to the world of sine wave darauf klingt, als hätte man der Musik eines Christian Fennesz gänzlich oscillators and noise generators. The aim was to set a sonic frame into das Sonnenlicht entzogen." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] which they could both gradually tune. The two musicians met again in "Twenty years of silence is made up in a few years via an endless June 2006 just before Oslo Cathedral (which contains Asheim's stream of releases from our beloved Maurizio Bianchi, also known as favourite instrument) closed down for a few years of renovation work. M.B. who teams up here with his twenty year colleague Emanuela de One day of soundcheck and musical work and one night of recording Angelis, who was the lead singer and guitarist of Joyce Whore Not and produced an improvised flow of one hour, afterwards structured into five who founded later Mou, Lips!.Since 2004 she works solo. Like with a lot tracks. The recording was made in a live setup on the organ loft. Nils of collaborations that Bianchi undertook in recent times, it's pretty Henrik Asheim was sitting at the organ console and Lasse Marhaug unclear how things were made, who did what. Bianchi gets credit for right behind, playing his electronics through a loudspeaker system in 'rulelectronics', loops and waves and De Angelis for drones, re- order to make the electronics and the acoustic organ sound blend as echoings and also 'rulelectronics'. 'Electronic rules for reflecting

78 disciples' it says on the cover. The four pieces are pretty minimal affairs "... This live set finds Baker handling guitar duties, but you’d never know of shifting layers of drones of similar yet detailed differences. The whole it from the sound, augmented by short wave radios, electronics, and things hums, vibrates and shakes on all sides. Ambient industrial at it's various bits of processing, the sound here is deep and dark, a very best, steady moving, slowly changing. Very cleverly things get crumbling and epic expanse of rumbling shimmering low end. Roiling stretched throughout a piece, to make more space, which works best in clouds of murky melodic fragments, distant swells, throbbing low end the opening piece 'Earthly Principle'. This is a pretty strong collaborative pulses, barely audible bits of static and washed out glitch. Very disc, of highly unsettling ambient drone music. " [FdW / Vital Weekly] cinematic, if you were watching a film that was almost entirely dark, with just barely visible shifts in the various shades of black and grey. Lovely * MENCHE, DANIEL - Glass Forest CD (Important Records though, minimal and haunting. Think Coleclough, Chalk, Lustmord, that IMPREC 176, 2008) € 13.00 sort of ambient darkness. "....Scoping out those titles might give you the sense that Menche is sort But the second track is an entirely different beast. Simple guitar strums, of the noise equivalent of David Cronenberg, and he’s definitely minimal melodies, the strings struck softly, the metallic buzz and clang interested in the relationship between the organic and mechanical. ringing out into the ether, some sort of underwater slow motion Fahey, Glass Forest evokes that idea perfectly: as the title suggests, crystal- smeared and soft and dark and dreamy. clear tones are combined, refracted and cut-up to create something The final half of the track, the guitar disappears completely, leaving rough and dense. Likewise, the rawest static and distortion is often streaks of feedback that sound like the cries of gulls, grinding slow pushed back in the mix, as if the music was shedding its tattered skin to motion slabs of shifting low end, whirling windlike whirs, almost like a reveal something pure and silken. Menche seems to take the most manufactured nature recording. piercing, visceral sounds and then chisels them into something more The guitar returns for the third track, drifting gently, while the subtle, yet immediate—a clanking wall of industrial noise rendered into background noise builds into a slow motion wash of sound, the track chirping crickets and perhaps vice-versa—while amplifying micro-tones culminating in a cloud of chimes and reverbed percussion, seasick into unrelenting drones that seem like they’re right inside your head. swirls and struck steel strings, before slipping languidly into the final Much of the three compositions on Glass Forest center around the use track, a lugubrious underwater crawl, all of the sounds muddy and of high-pitched chimes or clusters of tones that play hypnotic patterns indistinct, a sonar like ping buried way down in the mix, underneath it all over the murkier, fractured sounds. This would be the “glass” part of the a thick blanket of constant whirring drones, quite lovely. album; the presence of an odd sense of iridescence amid a million Packaged in one of those cool, 6 panel, gatefold aRCHIVE shades of black and grey. On the first track, this takes the form of sleeves, glossy paper, super striking image of forest and clouds, shapeless tones way up in the high register that are barely audible, LIMITED TO 600 COPIES!!" [Aquarius Records] growing over some of the scariest drones this side of Sunn O))) (and to Menche’s credit, he creates this effect with only a fraction of the volume * MERZBOW - Merzbuddha CD (Important Records IMPREC052, and intensity), and a sound like something rattling against the bars of a 2005) € 13.00 cage, which will prove to be another motif. Wie auch DANIEL MENCHE hat sich MERZBOW in letzter Zeit The second track is probably the best example of Menche’s collision verschiedenen "Klangkategorien" oder Genres zugewandt, aus deren between organic and industrial sounds: characterized by long, slightly- Fundus er sich bedient um sie durch seinen eigenen NOISE oder buzzy high-pitched sounds like fireflies, and a blaze of rumbling, HARSHDRONE Fleischwolf zu drehen - in der MERZBEAT-Trilogie crackling static, he slowly introduces more mechanical percussion and sind es Beats, die untergründig wummern, langsam und wallend, die low bass tones like an idyllic summer camp-out in the woods suddenly Stücke heissen "Mantra 1- 3" und überzeugen durch die intruded upon by a willfully destructive force. The development over the hinzugewonnene Stringenz ! course of its 24 minutes is staggering, as if the whole forest had been "..Merzbow is essentially a psychedelic artist, attempting to create shifts paved over into a techno-battleground. On the third track, chimes play in consciousness through extreme sound." [Pitchfork Media] like warning bells, subsuming halfway through to furious punching-bag "What did you listen to last summer? Masami Akita, otherwise know as percussion; by the end of the album this percussion seems to be Merzbow, spent most of his summer listening to Horace Andy, Dennis coming from all corners, with erratic rhythms that recall Supersilent’s Bovel, Keith Hudson and a whole pipe full of other dub mavericks. most recent masterpiece. At the very end, these rhythms coalesce into That's probably why this brand new full length, with cover art by Jenny a brutal death march, only to be suddenly lifted as the album fades out Akita, is dripping with deep bass riffage and a whole lot of electronic with a persistent, ominous rattling. dub vibes and beats. Merzbuddha is third in the series of Merz-titled Needless to say this isn’t even remotely an ambient album, despite the releases following in the audio footsteps of the flagship release degree of precision that Menche brings to his music. This is bleak, Merzbeat. With the same reverence for crushing analog beats, weaving foreboding, harsh music that’s even more visceral for the way in which it noise textures and a compositional complexity Masami Akita switches transforms familiar sounds into alien landscapes. The violence is in the direction and dubs it up. Imagine The New Blockaders in an audio way you can sense, as a listener, the physical relationship Menche blender with King Tubby and you're not even halfway there." [press seems to forge with his sounds. Perhaps his outlandish descriptions release] predetermine the effect of his music, but “bleeding” his equipment seems pretty apt to me." [Joel Elliott, Cokemachineglow] * MERZBOW - Peace for Animals CD (Quasi-Pop QPOP CD049, "Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers 2007) € 13.00 curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Lim. to 500 copies and already gone at the label! Menche, the last CD he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his "....But next you find yourself listening to some of Akita’s super-heavy music on LP only or on DVD to accompany films he's been working on. slab of pure noise and once again wonder and wonder how he does Glass Forest is also the companion release to Body Melt which is being that? Merzbow still is the most energetic, the most dynamic and the released simultaneously on Important on LP only. Recorded in the most complex of all musicians and experimentators going for pure winter of 2005, Daniel Menche's Glass Forest displays a glistening intense noise. Where other artists are mono-causal in their auditive sound world that is finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic attack – and honored for that like Masonna or Aube - his tracks are sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menche's multilayered pieces of shrieking piercing and burning noise previous work, but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on interferences. Where others go for slowly evolving dynamics or chaotic Glass Forest. Subsonic bass drums crawling underneath massive bursts or shock-elements, he builds and destroys and re-erects them sheets of glass-like sound layering infinitely into a thick and dense masterfully over and over again without once losing the force of the forest of delicate noise. For fans of Daniel Menche's ambient work and overall wall of noise." [Monochrom.at] also his loud violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of "Here's 3 long pieces on “Peace For Animals” full of ice-breaking these two polarities." [label info] analogue feedbacks over dense overdrived textures, some beasty, pulsing rhythmic elements on the background and rollercoaster's LFO * MERRELL, TODD / AIDAN BAKER / PATRICK JORDAN - Nagual spazmes of analogue synth. This is the bright example of modern “post- CD (Archive CD 41, 2007) [ed. of 600] € 13.50 analogue-post-laptop era” sound of Merzbow: these compositions are Verzaubernde Rausch-Drones und subtile Gitarren-Loops und Tupfer, wild at heart as the wild nature is, but they're certainly could be friendly ganz zart & betörend sensibel ist dieses Trio bei einer Aufnahme in to whom who wants to be friendly to beasts. As many others HARTFORD, CT vorgegangen, die Teilnahme AIDAN BAKERs Merzbow's records, this CD is dedicated to wildlife and it's calling (NADJA) ist unüberhörbar. 600 Stück wurden aufgelegt und mit dem to fight for the animals rights. Don't send animals to war! Meat besonderen ARCHIVE-Artwork von SELDON HUNT ausgestattet. is murder! Fur is murder! Peace for Animals! Noise for the rest of us!" "long playing ambient dronescape focusing the combined efforts of [label notes] Todd Merrell on shortwave radio and electronics, Patrick Jordan on shortwave radio and processing and Aidan Baker (Nadja) on guitar. * MERZBOW - Higanbana CD (Vivo Records vivo2007032cd, Recorded live in 04 in Hartford. Comes packed in heavy stock center 2007) € 14.00 open sleeve with environmental mirror image landscape artwork "Drei Tracks, die zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, dass Merzbow wieder courtesy of Seldon Hunt. Pressing of 600 copies." [label info] analoges Equipment in seine Musik einbringt. Nicht dass die reinen

79 Laptop-Arbeiten der letzten Jahre irgendwelche Schwächen zugelassen Gesangselemente, das erinnert gar an alte 4AD-Bands oder hätten, es mangelte aber hier und da an Farbe, Abwechslung und sphärischen Neo-Folk, mit einem Schuss NADJA... Schwere. Vorbei damit, hier thront wie erwartet Masami Akita über all "METHADRONE is a solo project from American musician Craig Pillard, den weltweit gleichbescheurten Noise-Affen und Wolf Eyes-Epigonen who in the 90’s was a member of extreme metal band INCANTATION und konfrontiert mit im Grunde unüberschauberen geschweige denn and currently plays bass in one of the best doom metal bands from fassbaren Gebirgen, Quatsch: Universen an Geräuschmasse. USA, EVOKEN. Under the moniker of METHADRONE, Craig dives into Unbändige Kraft entspringt den Maschinen, nie ausgelutscht, frisch wie murky waters of impenetrable sonic depth created by heavy and kein Sommer und planlos weil allumfassend. Kein Bär hält dieser Musik torturous guitar sounds. From the very first tunes of the title track stand, Wölfe flüchten und Hühner bersten - Mahlzeit." [http://www.de- “Sterility” you are taken down to witness the perfect musical desolation bug.de/ ed *****] and dryness entrapped in eight inches of the silver plate. After a "Higanbana is the Japanese name of Red Spider Lily, a red and fatally successful debut full-length album “Retrogression” on Craig’s own label poisonous flower associated with death in Japan. It belongs to the Subdrone Recordings and a split release with NADJA on Nothingness species Cluster Amaryllis, which in turn is the title of Track 1: a red-hot Records, METHADRONE’s sound evolved into more organic and inferno of screaming feedback sounding like scorched crickets, with original entity, which definitely can be heard on “Sterility”. Being a low-fi bass growling in the urgent undertow. The 30-minute work of art natural continuation of previous offerings, the new album defines feels like an unsettling journey into the toxic medulla of Higanbana, Craig’s style and maturity as an independent musician. The guest eye(ear)-opening and dangerous. Like a fuse burning itself out, track 2 vocals appearance by the incredible artist David Galas, who also is an unstoppable roar of fuzz, white noise and psychedelic pulsations mastered the whole album, added even darker and gloomier flavour to that explore dynamics and sound channelling to its hushed end. The these doomy sounds. With lights out and headphones on enter into the album features Ukons (Silky Feather) which appears to be a chook; and world of sound where no life dwells…" [label info] the 'courtesy' extended 'by Hell' hints at the macabre manner by which "Methadrone is New Jersey-based Craig Pillard, and Sterility is his third Ukons may have contributed to the uncredited sounds on track 3. Like a album recorded under that name. Sterility brings us eight exquisite sick metronome, the mutilated clucks of Ukons count down as different examples of the grungy and oppressive bass-heavy dronescapes, frequencies of static, sirens, and squelches explode in disjointed augmented by acoustic guitar and vocal elements, that Pillard has phrases, on and on, without resolution. Indeed, none of the three tracks made the trademark of Methadrone. Never has doom and darkess been find peace in themselves as none ends resolutely. In this the last album encapsulated so appealingly..." [S. Marshall-Jones, Brainwashed] of 2007, Merzbow once again makes a statement by defying complete comprehension." [FLuViRuS] * MGR vs. SIRDSS - Impromptu CD (Neurot Recordings NR049, 2007) € 14.50 * MERZBOW / SUTCLIFFE JÜGEND / SATORI - split CD (Cold "MGR, short for Mustard Gas and Roses, is ISIS guitarist Mike Spring Records CSR102Cd, 2008) € 13.00 Gallagher's solo vehicle for ambient instrumental experimentation. His Speziell aufgelegte CD für ein Konzert der drei Bands vom April 2008 2006 debut, Nova Lux, a critical success that drew comparisons to K.K. welches in London stattfand. MERZBOW zeigt auf dem pumpend- Null and Robert Fripp, featured contributions by members of the Red drängenden "-feedyellow mix.1" (14+ min.) seine ganze Klasse, Sparrows and Dalek. MGR has recently shared the stage with the likes SUTCLIFFE JÜGEND geben auf "Pigmother" den Power Noise Blues, of Pelican, Mono, and Destructo Swarmbots. und die COLD SPRING-Hausband SATORI schafft mit dem "Paralysis David Scott Stone, who adopted the moniker SirDSS after doing time in [Hypnopompic Mix]" Musik wie einen Lovecraft'schen Organismus, the '90s with Slug and Get Hustle, has recently recorded with Big monumental-noisig atmend, perkussiv & wuchtig & unheimlich. Business and the Melvins. A musician not afraid to take a long, hard Die etwas kurze Spielzeit der CD wird durch diese drei heftigen step outside of how music is normally created and interpreted, Stone Adrenalin-Ausschütter, die hervorragend zusammen passen, mehr als uses both conventional (modular synthesizers) and unconventional wettgemacht. (micro-phoned sheet metal and bowed cymbals) to create unique and "Released on the occasion of Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jügend and Satori at disturbing sounds. Impromptu, previously only available on a limited- ULU, London, 19th April 2008. Japanese Noise, Power Electronics and edition CD-R, is a beautiful, compelling collage of instrumental Fortean Electronics from these 3 giants of the Noise / Industrial scene, improvisation and flowing soundscapes." [label notes] with one exclusive studio track from each act. This CD is presented in a "Long slowly unfurling whorls of abstract steel string tangle, huge slow full colour card slip and is shrinkwrapped. Limited to 1000 copies only - burning electric guitar shimmers, drifting amidst glistening sonic act fast!" [label info] cobwebs, silver streaks of minimal feedback, while in the distance some "Three exercises in ear-crushing symphony on this one! Japanese sort of industrial apparition grinds and clangs, creaks and keens, noise-legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow opens the show with the beneath an outerspace world of dreamlike ambient guitarscapes, astonishing work "Feedyellow mix"; a repetitive piece of aural radiant sine waves and thick luminous layers of crumbling melody. So machismo clocking 14 minutes runtime. With an excellent hypnotic nice." [Aquarius Records] atmosphere of blasting noise this is Merzbow at his very best. Second on stage is Sutcliffe Jügend with the utterly bizarre track "Pigmother" * MICO NONET - The Marmalade Balloon CD (Micro Nonet containing probably some of the sickest vocals ever recorded. Together Records MN1001, 2007) € 12.00 with noises from something sounding like a distorted chamber orchestra Das fünfköpfige Ensemble um JOSHUA LEE KRAMER verbindet the listener will feel anything but comfortable throughout the five Kammer-Musik-artigen Wohlklang (Viola, Cello, Horn, Oboe) mit minutes in company Sutcliffe Jugend. Last sound destructors are owner vorsichtig eingesetzten elektronischen Sounds - rein instrumental, of Cold Spring, Justin Mitchell, in joint venture with Neil Chaney of Filmmusik-mäßig, athmosphärisch, luftig, melancholisch, aber nicht Pessary. Operating under the name "Satori", the two sound pilots crush düster oder aufdringlich. Auf den 13 Stücken bewegen sich vor allen the hell out of the listener with a multi-layered noise-inferno. The work is Dingen Streicher im Vordergrund, es sind nicht die "grossen" Melodien a so-called "Hypnopompic" mix of the Paralysis-track originally from the die hier im Zentrum stehen, sondern eher die allgemeine Stimmung die "Kanashibari"-album released on the Dogma Chase-label in april erzeugt wird, zeitlos und irgendwie "zwischen den Welten".... month. Crushing drones of high frequency noise creates the ground Anklänge an JOHANN JOHANNSSON, RACHELS, OPION SOMNIUM. layer meanwhile ritual rhythm textures of acoustic drumming add a "The five musicians at work here all have day jobs with symphony great structure to harsh sound symphony. The result is hypnotizing and orchestra's, all over the world: from Berlin, Richmond, Baltimore to brutally intense. If you're looking for the art of contemporary noise music Philadelphia. Only their leader, one Joshua Lee Kramer (who is a this split-album is a very good opportunity to destroy silence. Highly member of Matt Pond PA) is not, and he's also the only one who plays recommended." [NM / Vital Weekly] synthesizer. He describes Mico Nonet as 'ambient chamber music' and quite right it seems to me. French horn, oboe, cello and viola are the * MERZBOW - Here CD (L.White Records LW-048, 2008) [lim. other instruments and they play quiet chamber music that you could 500] € 13.00 easily define as ambient. 'The Marmalade Balloon' is their debut album "The undeniably premier Japanoise artist Masami Akita with 54 minutes with thirteen relatively short pieces that glide by like a cold winter, sun- brand new noise manipulations and audio deconstructions. covered day. It's cold outside, warm inside, and this music is the perfect 3 lengthy tracks blistering walls of relentless noise from the heat of last soundtrack for such a day. Sustained tones, glissando and pianissimo summer - ultra heavy and brutal electronic assaults!" [lablel info] with the synthesizer very much pushed to the background, producing an overall color, rather than adding sound. Highly atmospheric music that * METHADRONE - Sterility CD (Foreshadow FSHCD006, 2008) could come straight out of the Cold Blue Music catalogue. Peaceful € 13.00 music, without being a cliche or new age...[FdW, Vital Weekly] Solo-Projekt eines US doom-Metallers (INCANTATION, EVOKEN), der "The Marmalade Balloon is the year's ultimate flirtation with subtlety and mit METHADRONE auf dunkel-ambienten, fast romantisch zu seductiveness. Existing somewhere between the neo-classical and the nennenden Pfaden wandelt; Akustigitarren, Synths, hallende Drum- ambient, Mico Nonet fashion a world that is hazy and succinct, at times machine, amorph wavender Bass und mitunter elegischer dark and haunting and others playful and inspiring, but always open to personal interpretation. The balance between musicians is gracefully

80 maintained, where neither the electronics nor the strings are ever overly instrumentation to perform certain plays before moving on to not just pronounced as to withdraw the listener from the intoxicating, new locale, but new tools for performance sculpting. This retrospective spellbinding trance which The Marmalade Balloon invokes. The future of work is a troupe of electronic pulses, glitches, groans, explosions, will certainly take this musical act on a variety of different presentations, susurrations, and endless other sonic perturbations. but with their strong understanding of musical space and development, Suppurating at first, “Drilling Holes in the Wall” bloats with unhealthy we're confident that they'll be a favorite for years to come. " [Jordan ichors pressing the sores with throbbing ululations that are lanced with Volz, The Silent Ballet] synaptic lacerations of noise, using sound to sonically cut and carve away tumorous flesh. Every digital strike is never the same with each MIMIR - Mimyriad CD (Streamline 1001, 1993) € 13.50 collop dissected bringing new electronic whimpers unexpected; the Wieder erhältlich, das zweite MIMIR-Album von 1993, mit Aufnahmen infinitesimal filigree of surgical strikes of sound is like the marginalia of von 1991-1993 (damals auch der Startschuss für CHRISTOPH some robotic surgeon. Sound fuses, splatters, roars, and blazes HEEMANNs STREAMLINE-Label!) contorted shapes in a linear-spatial sculpture. There is no empathy Re-issue of the second MIMIR-album (1993), a project by EDWARD here, nothing to relate to human experience. Gen Ken Montgomery’s KA-SPEL & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, here also featuring JIM first track is more Opus No. 1, a matrix of half an hour of disassembly, reassembly and alien interdiction upon frequencies we recognise. It O'ROURKE & SILVERMAN.... comes as great surprise to find the liner notes disclose a recording date * MOLJEBKA PVLSE / SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING - Ravha / of 1990 as it could easily sit in this milieu. Electricity Gardens CD (Tophet Prophet TPO015, 2007) € 13.50 Two years prior to that and the next two tracks – the latter of which and Split & Collaboration vom beliebten schwedischen "Experimental its two succeeding ones being unreleased - divulge more montage of Drone"-Projekt mit den uns bisher unbekannten 17 MIGS OF SPRING digitally modelled scintilla, though here in more unified form, if only by aus Tel Aviv. Eröffnet wird das Album durch ein sehr langes, sinewy electrical strands of frazzled computer nightmares of the surreal ungewöhnliches Stück von M.P. mit vielen eher konkreten field kind. Unidentifiable and humanly unpronounceable vespers are strobed recordings, welches wieder dessen grosse Variabilität aufzeigt; es and shuffled to the pulpit for recitation but there is no quantifiable bourn folgen ein echtes Collaboration-Stück beider Projekte und 5 Stücke von to address, only to witness and wonder. 17 MIGS OF SPRING, die sich zwischen dunklem drone-ambient und The last two tracks are the shortest but of the familiar distortive and aggressiven Analog-Industrial bewegen. displacing concurrence sound forms previously expressed. They scurry "It is not every day you find reviews of albums released by Israeli labels and quiver across the mottled surface of Gen Ken Montgomery’s odd in Vital Weekly. Topheth Prophet is an independent Israeli label formed musical conglomerate. The incision of human vocals in the last track is in summer 2002 whose aim is to spread the knowledge of the Israeli a bizarre feeding of radio station into tesla coils that seems a poor noise scene to the outside world. The label focuses on styles ranging accompaniment to the unearthly welding going about it, and before it. from harsh noise across power electronics to dark ambient. This 13th Nonetheless, if you enjoy chewed electronics unlike anything you have release from the label deals with drone-based ambient music. On this previously heard, Gen Ken Montgomery is for you." [Heathen Harvest] particular release one of the presented projects has its origin in Sweden. It is a split album between Israeli project SEVENTEEN MIGS * MOOR, ANDY - Marker CD (Unsounds U14, 2007) € 13.00 OF SPRING and Swedish project MOLJEBKA PULSE. The album "Der Londoner The Ex-Gitarrist als Fotokünstler mit Blick für chaotische opens with the 27 minute long track titled "Ravha" from the latter Muster und komplexe Strukturen und als Meister seines Instrumentes, mentioned project. The brain behind Moljebka Pvlse is the Swedish solo, mit Overdubs und einmal multitrack. Einige der 15 Tracks sound artist Mathias Josefson who explores the sounds of both acoustic entstanden zwar für Theater- oder Filmsoundtracks, aber ohne die and electronic origins, quite often with the starting point taken in found Fesseln des Funktionalen, das meiste ist spontan aus dem sounds and field recordings. The "Ravha"-track is a nice example of Mr. Handgelenk geschüttelt, gespeist von Erfahrung und Einbildungskraft, Josefson's ability to transform the sounds of reality into a world of nur Augen, Ohren, Hände. Es gehört etwas dazu, das wohl meist- drone-based minimalism. Opening with a mixture of concrete natural gespielte Instrument im Weltall so zu entstauben, dass es nach dem sounds and buzzing drones the expression slowly turns more and more Anfang des Buches Genesis klingt - ein Ding, auf das man einschlägt harsh as the field recordings develops into noisy drones including und dissonante Geräusche entlockt, das aber noch nicht mal einen spoken words. At a point the concrete sounds fades away or turns into Namen hat. Das mehrspurige ‚Naming the animals‘ kehrt an diese noch sonic abstraction. The track moves into pure drone ambient minimalism. undefinierten Anfänge zurück. Schon ab dem zweiten Track ist Marker Nice work. aber mit Gitarrenkultur aufgeladen, meist repetitiv und mit logisch Seventeen Migs Of Spring is an Israeli project consisting of three strukturierter Harmonik oder simplen, aber effektvollen Rezepten (‚From members, Gurfa, K-76 and B-74. As was the case with aforementioned e to f‘, ‚Repeat suite‘). Zwischen diesen Polen zieht Moor seine Saiten Swedish project the conceptual approach of this Israeli project is sonic stramm. Repetitiv, drängend, und gleichzeitig dissonant, so präpariert, drones based on concrete sounds. Compared to the Swedish project dass es rau, roh, stumpf klingt (‚Uganda fly‘, ‚Stop/pause‘). Dann the Israeli projects goes further to the extremes with sounds of a rather ausgedünnt, reduktiv, nur einzeln blinkende Lichtpunkte am noisy kind. Especially four or the five tracks get quite harsh with the use Nachthimmel, 3 Uhr nachts. Oder flirrendes Gekrabbel und Surren, das of an on-going mixture of static noise and radio-based shortwave zu Gamelandingdong aufklart (‚Weather‘). ‚About face‘ hört sich an, als frequencies. Inbetween the two projects comes a collaborative track ob ein Alien sein extraterrestrisches Motorrad zu kickstarten versucht. that successfully combines the style of the two projects. Everyone ‚Truth in numbers‘ und ‚Small things under glass‘ erzielen mit einfachen interested in drone based ambient with focus on concrete sounds Zahlenreihen rührende Wirkung, während ‚Myrka‘ mit schmutzigen should definitely check out this album. " [NM, Vital Weekly] Fingernägeln an der Schallmauer stöchert. Gitarrenfreund, was willst Du mehr? Spandexhosen?" [Bad Alchemy] * MONTGOMERY, GEN KEN - Drilling Holes in the Wall CD "On this his debut solo Cd, andy moor explores a wide spectrum of his (Monochrome Vision (mv17), 2007) € 13.00 unusual guitar style, resulting in an exciting, varied and challenging "Archive materials from one of the most mysterious musicians in collection, ranging from melodic solo guitar pieces to atmospheric electronic underground, dating from 1988 to 1991. Each piece soundscapes, and wild outbursts of radical sound." [label info] composed by Gen Ken Montgomery is the result of domestic alchemy, ".... Andy Moor is in the pages of Vital Weekly known as an improviser transforming some ugliest environmental sounds into artistic images with the likes of Kaffe Matthews, but in the real world he is of course the of impressive beauty. His instruments are just prepared toy synth, but guitarist of The Ex, my all time favorite dutch punkers. Favorite just for also from time to time laminator, icebreaker, radiator, film projector and the fact that they don't stay inside that little closet called punk, but get so on. These recordings were made in Conrad Schnizler studio in West out and do so many other things, playing with musicians from Africa and Berlin, and also live on stage there, in time of Germany reunion. from the world of improvisers. Moor might very well be responsible for Gen Ken Montgomery has been active in the experimental, electronic the latter move of The Ex, so a solo CD by him is perhaps more than and noise scenes since the early 80s. Montgomery was the founder of welcome. He plays electric guitar with objects and hardly any effects. Generations Unlimited and an original co-founder of Pogus Productions, Over the past five years he off and on recorded his pieces, and this respected experimental music labels. In 1989, he founded Generator, collection shows a wide variation of moods and textures. Some in punk the first sound art gallery in New York City, where he created a home fashion, but mostly in a melodic style, uptempo, downtempo, for sound artists and noise makers who were part of the thriving melancholic and distorted. Fifteen tracks, spanning over fifty-four international cassette culture of the 80s. Since 1996 he has published minutes, that might sound a bit much, but Moor effectively holds your recordings by sound artists in collaboration with Scott Konzelmann attention, when moving through all these pieces. Mostly solo guitar, but (Chop Shop) releasing them through Generator Sound Art." [label info] also overdubbed and layered, there is a lot to discover here. Not "Gen Ken Montgomery’s ‘Drilling Holes in the Wall’ is less an ambient masturbation but a great card. Less is Moor." " [FdW / Vital Weekly] record than it is an opus among the work of an experimental sound artist – being two divergent concepts – the latter more among artists of * MUELLER, JON - Metals CD (Table of the Elements TOE-CD- the ilk of Daniel Menche, who choose to create using a circus of 108, 2007) € 14.50

81 Beeindruckendes Album desPerkussionisten JON MUELLER, der das We Share A Shadow continues where Murmer left off with the Spektrum der gängigen Drum-Sounds erweitert und auch die exceptional Husk album (in collaboration with Jonathan Coleclough), in Vibrationen und Drones von grossen Gongs & Bass-Trommeln einsetzt. spiraling his manipulated field recordings as a slow revelation of the Von der Intensität und Herangehensweise erinnert "Metals" an DANIEL environmental sonorities that undeservedly go unnoticed each and MENCHE, nur dass hier alles "handgespielt" ist , v.a. Dingen geprägt every day. Singing frequencies of a bowed piece of metal undulate durch Trommelwirbel-artige Wellen, die sich mit Obertönen vermählen; against a grey tapestry of rain and rasping insects. Golden overtones genial minimal & trancig, von grosser Kraft & Intensität... from shimmering drones quell what agitated textures reside in "Percussionist Jon Mueller works with rhythms that come from gong McGinley's active field recordings, rendering the aggregate sound a frequencies, from vibrations of the bodies of bass drums, and the nocturnal opiate with considerable potency. surprising sonorities that occur with the combination of these elements. As Murmer, Patrick McGinley has produced a handful of releases on Now he applies these techniques to his latest solo effort, to stunning ICR, Ground Fault, Drone Records, and Absurd; and he has performed effect: Metals is, as its name suggests, a bold, all-percussion foray into in venues both large and small across North America and Europe. He is heavy metal. No theatrical silliness here; just sheer exhilaration; the also the host the Framework radio show on Resonance FM, dedicated fundamental power of loud, organized, precise rhythms; ringing, heavy to the consecration of field recordings and their use in composition. anti-melodies. It's this sound, in the many forms it has taken over the We Share A Shadow is strictly limited to 300 copies, featuring hand years that continually inspires new philosophies, drives independent water-coloured artwork and letterpress printing." [label description] thinking, and causes hundreds of thousands of people to bang their heads. Jon Mueller takes it, shapes it and makes it his own." [label info] * MURRAY, BRENDAN & SETH NEHIL - Sillage CD (Sedimental sedcd049, 2007) € 13.00 * MURCOF - Cosmos CD (Leaf Records BAY59CD, 2007) Ein reichhaltiges Album das zwischen wunderbaren Drone-Sphären € 14.00 und konkreten Mikrosounds oszilliert, und mit jedem neuen Hören Das dritte Album des Mexikaners mit Bezug zu Himmelskörpern & weitere Facetten offenbart. Astronomie, das ist dramatischer, cinematoskopischer Breitwand- " Certainly amongst our most challenging releases, Sillage is the mind- Ambient in Perfektion, weniger rythmisch als zuvor, beeindruckend blowing collaboration of Brendan Murray and Seth Nehil and is the "auskomponiert" und mit Einsatz vieler Original-Instrumente. Rein result of a first meeting in a live setting from 2004, a performance that instrumental, dunkel, mit neo-klassischen Elementen. was loud, powerful, and very successful. This event combined with Erinnert uns an XABEC, JOHANN JOHANNSSON, COIL.. knowing these electronic sound artists previous work as generally "Fernando Corona’s long-awaited third album as Murcof marks a maximalist and full makes Sillage both curious and nearly shocking in dramatic departure from previous works. Truly monumental in scale, this light, as here the material is continually turning inward, trying to Cosmos is composed almost entirely of recordings of classical push out but always being submerged. This document takes many, instruments, a process which Corona describes as “expanding the many listens and can remain baffling and impenetrable. Yet with possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics.” It’s a move patience one does get underneath it, and once this happens the sonic away from the micro-programmed sound he helped to pioneer, and his rewards are otherworldly and deep. Followers of either or both artists seamless integration of these apparently opposed forms is almost work should recognize his particular contributions but this venture has unprecedented. These new recordings were inspired by a very simple provoked new and uncharted territory from both." [label description] motion, the act of tilting the head towards the skies, or as Corona puts “There’s a shapeliness that’s unusual in abstract music of this kind, and it: “Cosmos basically comes from that state of wonder and mystery and no matter how fractured, layered or collage-like the sounds become, joy and humbling that you get when you let your mind wander freely on they always seem to fit the immediate purpose, the requirements of the a starry night, away from the contamination of city lights. From the composition, and the trajectory of the CD as a whole. Sillage, is a realization that there's an infinite universe outside the man-made world hugely satidfying piece of work.” [Brian Marley / THE WIRE] and how silly this latter one seems in comparison.” Originally intended as an EP, the early Cosmos tracks were so * MURRAY, BRENDAN - Commonwealth CD (23five Inc. mesmerizing that those around Corona encouraged him to make it a 23FIVE013, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 full-length. His past approach involved mixing disembodied orchestral Dröhnminimalismus pur! Poly-Drones die sich in endlosen Wellen passages amidst microbeats, letting a song shift and mutate in a umeinander legen, regelrecht anfangen zu schlingern. Aufs "erste minimal environment. With Cosmos, he has progressed towards a more Hören": Statik. Beim genaueren Hinhören: Eine unendliche Klangfülle, sophisticated compositional mode. The immensity of tracks like the tänzelnde Obertöne, schwingende Frequenzen in multiplen Schichten, monolithic twins ‘Cosmos I’ and ‘Cosmos II’ draw to mind the work of stetige Veränderungen und Verschiebungen. Der Drone-Gott steckt in the German electronic pioneers of the ‘70s or the Hungarian composer den Details! Eine sehr feine Aufnahme des Bostoner Klangkünstlers György Ligeti as much as the visceral, low-end rumblings of SunnO))) BRENDAN MURRAY! or Coil. Murcof’s compositions have always been as much about the "Nie wurden Sehnen mehr gedehnt als über Murrays 49 Minuten absence of sound as what you actually hear, and these techniques are Commonwealth. Nur Phill Niblock, Eliane Radigue oder Jean-Francois further refined here. Laporte erzeugen solch sture Dronegebilde, in denen schüchterne “This album took me one and a half years to finish,” the quietly-spoken Obertöne zu gigantischen Kolossen mutieren und Langatmigkeit den Corona says. “I like to leave the tracks there to stand the test of time klaren Ton angibt. Harmonieansätze tauchen in diesem Wall aus before I put them out, and I generally don't like rushed jobs.” Corona’s Gitarre und analogen/digitalen Soundmanipulationen nur ganz spärlich care and precision is very evident on Cosmos, a brilliant, powerful auf und entblößen sich rasch als hilflose Wegweiser vergangener recording that charts his musical destinations completely off the map." Genres. Nostalgie spielt allerdings keine Rolle, Commonnwealth schabt [label info] nach vorne, dezentriert Zeit und vermag sogar den Bewegungsapparat zu blockieren. Liest sich eventuell zu statisch, wirkt unter der * MURMER - We share a Shadow CD (Helen Scarsdale Agency Oberfläche aber äußerst drastisch. " [Ed Benndorf / DE BUG] hms011, 2008) [lim. 300] € 14.00 "Brendan Murray has become a central figure in Boston’s sound art MURMER gehört zu jener neuen Generation von Field Recording- vanguard through a reputation of exceptional live performances and a Spezialisten, die mit Hilfe von Computerprogrammen eine ungeahnte growing catalogue of slow-shifting compositions for rarified drones. A Detailfülle & Klangdichte in ihren Kompositionen erreichen. Auf "We single crescendo terminating at the end of 49 minutes, Commonwealth share a Shadow" (2 Stücke, 46 Minuten) erklingen z.B. wunderbar is an epic investigation into subtle harmonics and overtones expressed vielschichtige Metall-Drones, Vibrationen von langgezogene Sirenen- through layered slippages of pure sound. Conceived through guitar, artigen Tönen, rückwärtige akustisch glitzernde Resonanzen, analog synthesis, and plenty of digital manipulation, Commonwealth krispelndes Rauschen (Regen?)... etc. - ein einziger Genuss, diese expresses a rare confidence in Murray's finely tuned detailing of sinewy neuartige Drone-Musik in Perfektion, das Selbst scheint sich aufzulösen tonalities and sculpted megalithic surfaces. Murray himself has qualified in diesen Sounds! Die Auflage beträgt leider nur 300 Exemplare, kommt this album as a "sincere bow to 'classic' minimalism," and im handgetönen Wasserfarben-Cover. Commonwealth is a worthy parallel to the work of Phill Niblock, Eliane "Murmer is the pseudonym for Patrick McGinley, a man with several Radigue, and Iannis Xenakis." [label info] passports which have taken him to many a foreign land in search of "We've ballyhooed Brendan Murray's exceptional, yet perennially found sounds of the unsettled, the forgotten, the mysterious, and the overlooked drone & din work in the past; but nothing could have beautiful. His field recordings of activated environments (e.g. resonant prepared us for Commonwealth. Damn, this guy is good. No, wait; he's industrial spaces, windswept telephone lines, bowed branches, gasping fucking great! After a handful of cd-r productions, a Twonicorn cassette, ventilator systems, etc.) originate from all of the locations where he has and a fine cd release on Intransitive of processed shimmer, shifting traveled; yet, the documentation of these sounds is the not the terminus frequencies, and some low-end girth rumblings for our bligatory of McGinley's work. He is far more interested in extracting a particular SUNNO))) reference, Brendan Murray has produced his best work to emotional, transcendent, or metaphysical kernel from those sounds, date with Commonwealth. Compositionally, it's incredibly simple: a and then recontextualizing that germinated sound into sympathetic drone goes up, and it goes down. It lasts a little under 50 minutes. But compositions of magnificent dronemusik. buried with this single minded composition, there are thick spun

82 rumbles, reflective vibrations, sympathetic sub-harmonics, and rich dense recordings favoured by the likes of Fennesz and Tim Hecker but tonal frequencies. Out of the constant tectonic whir that introduces with the bite of metal. Radiance of Shadows opens rather gently taking Commonwealth, shimmering clusters sound like a battery of reed its time to give birth to an amazing Isis-like riff which becomes organs or hurdy-gurdies, slowly modulating into heavier, deeper drones. completely washed out with Nadja's trademark wall of ambient noise. We've been told that the source material for these sounds is guitar, Just when you think it cannot get any louder or more saturated it begins although you'd be hard pressed to hear anything guitar-shaped to subside into another more subdued section of ambience and anywhere on the disc. It's far more like the hallowed minimalist sound of occasional riffing. This eventually gives way to a brutal tandem of guitar Charlemagne Palestine and La Monte Young. Dare we say, it's better? and drums that recalls early Swans. Nadja has an unique ability to Yes, Murray's drone hums like a perfectly tuned machine, with multiple make their long recordings seem like they are a few tracks blending into pistons purring in a steady progress along Commonwealth's one as oppose to the grandiose epics that they are." [label info] compositional arc. When Murray shifts the focus of the album "...Three 20+ minute tracks, each perfectly balanced between downward, which begins not even halfway through the piece, suffocating crush and hazy dreamy bliss. Most folks obviously focus the descent is noticeable; but it actually becomes Murray's most fertile on the heavy crushing riffage, but the magic of Nadja happens just as work within Commonwealth. Here, low rhythmic thrumbs crawl beneath much if not moreso during the quiet parts, the rhythmic parts leading the surface of the slowly collapsing drone, precluding its inevitable up to the bombastic climaxes. The build up is just as satisfying terminus. Perfect trance-enducing dronemuzik. Fans of Aidan Baker, sonically as the pay off, the musical version of the whole journey / Andrew Chalk, and Phill Niblock should definitely take note!" [Aquarius destination thing. But that said, the pay off is a massive and Records ] gloriously impossibly heavy crush, like being beaten to death with "... Much louder and less subtle, this is loud drone music, one of the rays of sunshine or being suffocated under layer after layer of soft kind that Niblock plays live. Although playing music on headphones is fuzzy concrete slabs... not something I usually recommend, this piece sounds pretty fine on The sound is so much more epic and massive, but warm and headphones, pressing air against your ears, making a thunderous 'live' sounding. For the first time, it actually sounds like A BAND, storm, which shoots right in your brain. Towards the end the volume more than a record constructed in a room by a guy (and a girl). Not drops a bit in favor of more heavy weight bass sounds, forming the sure if it's the songs, or the arrangements, the recording or all natural ending to a heavy work. Murray delivers, once again, a mighty three, but whatever it is, made a sound we already thought perfect, fine album that will be another step forward in recognizing him as a true even more perfect." [Aquarius Records] master of the genre. Fans of classical drone music be aware - this is the classic of the future." [FdW / Vital Weekly] * NADJA - Bliss torn from Emptiness CD (Profound Lore Records PFL-031, 2008) € 13.00 * MUSLIMGAUZE vs. SPECIES OF FISHES - same CD (Tourette Re-issue der CDR von 2005, zu der wir damals bekundeten: 003, 2007) € 13.00 'Unglaublicher one-tracker, der recht konventionell beginnt (metallig- "More than a simple remix album, this is a beautiful and haunting rockig-rhythmisch), sich aber allmählich in einen extremem Drone- addition to the catalogue. Instantly appealing to those seeking a Strudel verwandelt, der alles halluzinogen in sich hinabzuziehen zu mellower sound, there is enough complexity and edge to keep everyone scheint & wo vielerlei Sounds spiralenförmig verwirbelt werden.... happy. Includes four new tracks." extrem hypnotisch-energetisch und sub-bassig.... was DANIEL MENCHE in Sachen „power-drone“ ist, scheint hier NADJA im Bereich * MUSLIMGAUZE - Nadir of Purdah CD (Aquarellist 06-07, 2006) „guitar-doom-drone“ zu erschaffen.. genius stuff !!' € 13.50 Diese neue Version wurde von JAMES PLOTKIN re-mastered und ist "The CD reissue of the very old Muslimgauze material never been etwas länger... eines unser absoluten Lieblings-NADJA-Stücke! released on CD before. Tracks 1-3 are taken from the "Nile Quartra" 7" "Profound Lore's second collaboration with NADJA comes in the form of (originally released by Jara, 1994), tracks 4-7 from the "Nadir Of the revamped, augmented, and altered Bliss Torn From Emptiness. Purdah" 12" (originally released by Jara, 1995), track 8 taken from the Given the ultimate facelift from its original CDR release, and now "Impulse #4" (Impulse Magazine Tape Compilation)." [label info] expanded into a massive three-track plunge (with a mastering job via JAMES PLOTKIN), Bliss Torn From Emptiness is a sprawling and * MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - Comis Debris Volume 2 meticulously crafted epic where controlled ambience and static crawls CD (A Silent Place ASP23, 2007) € 13.00 through a murk of claustrophobic cerebral chaos. Yet through the Interesting collab of two artists / projects that work in totally differents sprawling mass of overbearing feedback and noise, Bliss Torn From fields of sound-art creation... Emptiness, just like Bodycage (and what has been a characteristic "CD re-issue of the second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART- within Nadja's music) also employs a character of pure celestial grace LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An through an elegantly deposited sound picture that brings the cinematic Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.II sees the two space vibe of Nadja to new heights." [label info] brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Californian visual and sound artist "....Unlike the more fluid washed out shimmer of later Nadja, Bliss Steve Roden. What makes this collaborative release so peculiar is the finds the band lurching and pounding, almost industrial, with plenty natural interactive exchange occurred between the artists, and that of Godflesh going on. The drums, a staggering stuttering staccato, came out from the concept behind the experience itself. Roden's the guitars long streaks of blistering psych blur, gauzy clouds of contribution thus represents the unique experience of hearing him whir and buzz, the whole song like some massive sonic beast, literally 'playing' guitar chords. His first track, "E-bows and Rainbows", lumbering into the twilit night. The melody and mood intense and developes through the minimal and reiterated sound architecture of emotional, very cinematic, and very darkly dramatic. Roden's so-called 'possible landscapes', where singular source As the record progresses (it's a three part suite), the rhythms materials such as objects and field recordings are abstracted through smooth out a bit, slow down, lurch less and groove more, the electronic processes to generate new audio spaces, characterizing the atmospherics growing more shimmery and soft focus, with more artist's aesthetic in sound works; the following "My dog is a Yufo" is so stretches of tranquility, softly processed vocals, glimmering minimal far a pretty unheard aspect of Roden's ability to shape a fascinating drones, gauzy glitchery, while remaining really really heavy, the intimate piece only with an old electric guitar and his own fingers, and it final part, after a looooong stretch of fuzzy warble and sun dappled also demonstrates how a true artist can re-create his own personal drift, finishes off with a deafening supernova of sound, the guitars universe, no matter what kind of source utilized. On their side, MCIAA so white hot that they almost drown out the drums completely, a deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered swirling chaotic soundscape, all end of the world psych blow out and echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, bleary eyed solar eclipse shoegaze, a bit like playing ALL your M83 and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which records at the same time and blasting them through loudspeakers reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes mounted on satellites, showering the planet with brilliant blinding of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording shards of glorious buzz." [Aquarius Records review] itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled "Everything waves like cosmic debris" also features Ramona Ponzini's * NADJA - Skin Turns to Glass CD (The End Records TE101, Japanese bells contribution." [label info] 2008) € 12.00 So ziemlich alles was NADJA in ihre Frühphase jemals herausgebracht * NADJA - Radiance of Shadows CD (Alien8 Recordings haben, wird dieser Tage wiederveröffentlicht, so auch SKIN TURNS TO ALIENCD72, 2007) € 13.50 GLASS; die drei Stücke erschienen 2003 als CDR auf Nothingness "The Canadian ambient doom band Nadja returns with the follow-up to Records und präsentiere NADJAs unnachahmlichen "Ambient Metal"- their critically acclaimed Touched release. Radiance of Shadows is a Sound, vom emotionalen Charakter her betrachtet sind das Drone- mammoth monster of a record, spanning well over an hour with three Stücke mit Hang zum Unendlichen und Dunkel-Kosmischen, als tracks that are more epic and heavier than ever. Nadja's constantly stilistische Mittel werden Metal-Elemente benutzt.. increasing fan base will not be disappointed with this outing; it's classic Als besonderes Schmankerl gibt es hier noch einen wunderbaren Nadja. Radiance of Shadows has the feel of the super-saturated and vierten, unbetitelten Track (fast 30 min lang), der NADJA von ihrer

83 ambient-experimentellen Seite zeigt, mit endlosen Wellen von an- und Ausser einer zeitlichen "Komprimierung" des Sound-Materials wurden abschwellenden Soundflächen...... aber keine Effektierungen der Originalaufnahmen vorgenommen. "Dirge-like metal riffs & heavy, minimal percussion w/ ethereal Außergewöhnlich & von unwirklicher Schönheit! melodicism & something of a shoegazer asthetic, creating a swirling "...The sounds here, like many of the other field recordings we are so amorphous wall of sound that strives to be both obliterating & uplifting. fond of, sound NOTHING like what you would imagine ice would sound 3 tracks with a running time of 80 minutes." [label info] like. Apparently, the layer of ice on the lake, acts like the head of a drum, transmitting the various cracks and crackles and vibrations * NADJA / NETHERWORLD - Magma to Ice CD (Fario CD 10, across the expansive sheet of ice, producing strange tones, some very 2008) € 13.00 electronic sounding, all of them mysterious. 10. Ausgabe in der FEAR DROP / FARIO - Split & Collaboration-Serie, This record was woven together the sounds of the ice covered lake on diesmal sind die kanadischen Drone-Metal Überflieger NADJA und der a single day. Hours of recordings edited into one hour, but no other italienische POLAR-AMBIENT Act NETHERWORLD in interessanter work has been done on these sounds, this is the actual sound of the Kombination zu hören - 3 Stücke von NETHERWORLD, ein langes von ice. It begins with the sound of birds, the ice producing tiny little streaks NADJA welches eine einzige gigantische Drone-Blase darstellt, und of sound, that do sound like synthesizers, strange space-y FX, eine fast 10minütige Zusammenarbeit). Kommt im überdimensionierten suspended in an expanse of murky murmur. The intensity and the Vollfarb / Aufklapp-Cover! Eine Verbindung von "heissem" und "kaltem" frequency of those space-y streaks increases as the day warms up and Ambient wie man sie nur selten auf einer CD finden wird. the ice begins to fracture and melt, the barrage of bleeps and bloops "Talented Italian ambient composer Alessandro Tedeschi runs the begin to sound like a Star Wars laser battle, and sound like it couldn't Glacial Movements record label and plays music as Netherworld. His possibly be the sound of ice. Eventually, the laser like streaks get fascination for polar landscapes and soundscapes makes him close to deeper, and more resonant, as if someone was adding reverb or delay, industrial ambient pioneers such as Thomas Köner, Rapoon, Biosphere until it's just a cloud of fuzzy bleeps and warbly tweets, underpinned by and Lull. Icy, windy, droning and deeply "protomelodic" at once, his the actual staticky crackle of the ice cracking. music is a poetic translation of the ice floe. For this record, he used It's hard to explain much better than that, try listening to the sound processed fragments of classical music. Nadja is the drone / doom / samples, you will be amazed. It truly is a rare glimpse of some ambient duo of Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. impossible and mysterious soundworld. A peek into how nature works, Their behemoth of sound is a construction of heat, weight, loop and or at the very least, a chance to overhear the magic of nature, the vapour. Here, they had to break Netherworld¹s ice and find a way to the sounds the exist in the wild, even if most of the time we're unable to red core of Earth. The common track brings heat onto ice, which warms hear them. Magical."" [Aquarius Records review] up, crackles and soon melts. As a conclusion, the long piece by Nadja is total heat. This is Nadja "unrhythmed", which means pure lava. This * NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES - VTERUS CD (NCC CD features exclusive graphic concepts and artwork by Alan Records NCC012, 2008) € 13.00 McClelland (www.eyelyft.com) " [label info] So wie es aussieht das letzte Album des US-amerikanischen "manic- "French label Fario is not very active: this is their tenth release in about depressive noise"- Projekts von LEE BARTOW, der wieder tief die as many years. The label is an off shoot of the excellent (but en eigenen dunkelsten Obsessionen & Traumatisierungen auslotet.. Francais) magazine Fear Drop, whose only goal seems to release a CD "From within the darkest regions of the heart, insane exultations to soft with the meeting of two artists. They present each a couple of solo skin are screamed out through barriers of clotted blood and white noise, pieces and one collaborative piece. Lopez & Roden, Troum & Christian as once more, the thin line between obsession and devotion is crossed. Renou, Rapoon & Desaccord Majeur and Vromb & Telepherique went Originally conceived as a companion to "Pure Skin", this collection of 14 ahead (among others) and here it's the turn for Alessandro Tedeschi, feverishly-deranged love songs heralding the coming end of an era. also known as Netherworld, and owner of the Glacial Movements label Where "Pure Skin" was in large part a collection of previously released and Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, from Canada and best known as rare tracks, "VTERVS" is the first all-new full-length album from Power Nadja. Netherworld's three pieces are an excellent sound example of Electronics / Industrial Noise act NTT in three years, and the first of the his own label: glacial movements. A very apt description. Still music of final four releases by the project. "VTERVS" features collaborative input slow moving, utter deep movements. A turtle moves faster I think. A from Cloama, SKM-ETR, STROM.ec and Silent_Command, as well as deep bass rumble in 'Closing To A Glacial Dawn'. Sounds like stalwart NTT personnel Mark Kammerbauer (Fragment King), Matt Biosphere or early Thomas Köner, but surely with a fine twist of his Slagle, and recent addition to the NTT war machine, Fallon Nieves own, apparently all made with snippets of classical music. I skipped the (Covet). Ltd x 1000 copies in a stunning digipak with pictures of naked collaboration to save that until the end and first heard the piece by ladies. Please include an 18+ statement when purchasing." [label notes] Nadja, which spans nineteen minutes. A giant explosion takes place, ".... A real reminder what NTT is all about - heartbreak and loss, and and it sounds like a 180 degrees turn around from the Netherworld showcasing it. The album wraps up with a twelve minute epic (I Am My tracks. Yet that is only deceiving the listener. Yes, Nadja is much Own Worse Enemy.) of numb ambient music, where the final word louder, but it's the same side of the ambient at work here: long uttered is a sample "romance." If this is the end of NTT, so be it. Letting sustaining sounds, feeding through effects, creating a ringing effect in the project die can only be a good thing is such brilliant albums like this your ear. Absense of rhythm is noted. How exactly their collaborative come out of it. This exceeded my expectations, and only makes me effort was recorded is a bit unclear but both ends meet up well here. even more excited than what I already was for the next releases. There is the glacier like sounds of Netherworld, amplified of course to Essential for anyone interested in a diverse style of power electronics compete with the harsher sounds of Nadja, who mix in their own blend and industrial music that focuses on personal issues - without being of guitars and electronics. Placed as the fourth track on the CD it makes afraid to say it. Loud." [Blood Ties Web] perfect sense, forming a perfect bridge between the trio of silence of Netherworld and the solo outburst of Nadja. A perfect collaboration." * NEBRIS - Bleak Angels CD (Dystonia EK D.40, 2007) € 13.50 [FdW / Vital Weekly] Promising Dark Ambient act from Canada with spheric earthquake- drones, sirenesque sounds & more concrete crunchings & grindings, * NADJA - Thaumoradiance CD (aRCHIVE Recordings derived from "amplified organic and geologic materials, kora and aRCHIVE44, 2008) [lim. 600] € 14.00 Tibetan thighbone trumpet". Quite refined & special, to discover! Wieder im herrlich designten SELDON HUNT-Cover, zwei lange live- "Dystonia EK is a label from Montreal and already exists since 1989. tracks die die urgewaltige Monumentalität von NADJA verdeutlichen For ten years they released cassettes and a few CDRs, but with the (aufgenommen October 2007 in ihrer Heimatstadt Toronto). release of the Nebris CD they start up their activities again. Before "...two track live release from Nadja which functions as a companion being Nebris, they (he? she?) were called Column, with various release for the studio archive CD. Radiance of Shadows preludes into releases as Dystonia EK and 'Bleak Angels' is the second release as the cliffnotes 20’ish min. version of Thaumogenesis. Similar graphic Nebris, following 'Krone' from 1999. They use 'amplified organic themes and sleeve design all once again from Mr Seldon Hunt. materials (bones, gut strings) and minerals (fossils, meteorite Pressing of 600 copies." [label info] fragments, stones)' and produce three lengthy tracks. First I thought they were spinning empty grooves of a record, extremely amplified, * NAMBLARD, MARC - Chants of Frozen Lakes CD (Kalerne alongside long wave recordings, but knowing what they do make it all Editions KAL01 / Atelier Hui-Kan, 2008) € 14.50 sound even more fascinating. There is a backdrop in all three pieces of In eine faszinierende Klangwelt taucht man auf diesem One-tracker von rotating sounds, crackles, highly processed and multi-layered voices, MARC NAMBLARD ein, der die irgendwie zwitschernden, fast especially in 'V' this latter feature, and it sounded very much like peitschend-perkussiven Sounds eines gefrorenen Sees aufgenommen Tibetan Red. Probably they throw in lots of electronics to get this hat, die wahrscheinlich durch Luftdruck- und Wärmeveränderungen im swirling mass of sound. Bleak indeed. There is a great sense of Eis und in der Atmosphäre entstehen. Auf dem Stück werden desolation around this music, the usual ambient industrial post nuclear verschiedene Phasen dieses Phänomens deutlich, bis hin zum emptiness. The empty industrial lot at night. For those who love Tibetan Auseinanderbrechen des Eises, so dass mitunter wirklich der Eindruck Red, old zoviet*france, or the more softer edges of releases on Old eines "singenden Sees" entsteht... Europa Cafe and Cold Meat Industry will surely find this quite

84 interesting. Executed with great care and skill, with a keen eye for gefrierendem Atem, diesen ganz gewissen kalten Farben des details and variation, this is an excellent work in the genre." [FdW / Vital Winterhimmels. Die auf- und abschwellenden Flächen sind teilweise Weekly] überlagert von einem hellen, hochfrequenten Sirren und stellenweise begleitet von so etwas wie langsamen, dumpfen Herztönen, ganz, als * NECROPHORUS - Drifting in Motion CD (Old Europa Cafe OEC höre man, neben dem Wind und den Geräuschen des Eises, nur den 104, 2008) € 13.00 eigenen Herzschlag in der Weite. Wie aus der Ferne hallen zuweilen "Emotional ganz großes Kino offenbart uns hier Peter Andersson mit gedämpfte Gesprächsfetzen über das Eis. Diese sind teilweise aus der Neuauflage des Albums "Drifting In Motion", welches original im Dokumentationen des NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC über die Arktis Jahr 2000 erschien und wohl eines der besten Werke von Necrophorus entnommen, andere stammen aus aufgezeichneten Unterhaltungen präsentiert. Über 70 Minuten dauert die Achterbahn der Gefühle an, über den Norden und seine Phänomene. Allerdings sind sie – auch, welche sich in 9 fantastischen Klangflächen unaufhaltsam ausbreitet wenn manche Stimmen durchaus den Charakter eines und den Hörer in ferne Ebenen trägt. Tracks wie "Partial Melt" oder Dokumentationssprechers haben – kaum verständlich, kaum mehr als "Drifting" sind ganz einfach wunderschöne Tondokumente geworden, Echos des Menschlichen in der weißen Einsamkeit.... " denen jedoch die restlichen Stücke keinesfalls nachstehen - schon [Caillean K. für nonpop.de] allein der Zweiteiler "Lost Land" ist hier sein Geld wert, während "Ice "MORKETID is a Norwegian term that indicates a certain period in the Shifting" glatt aus der Feder von Raison D'être stammen könnte. year when the Arctic winter cold encases everything and the sun "Drifting In Motion" sollte man am Besten als Gesamtwerk betrachten doesn’t rise over the horizon. It’s a cold and dark period that und am Stück konsumieren, so entfaltet das Werk seine emotionalen distinguishes regions and people living in the Artic. Music is composed Ergüsse am Feinsten. Da stören auch nicht die teils recht langen using short fragments of sounds found in the Artic area, these are Songs, im Gegenteil – viel zu schnell ist diese einfühlsame Reise documented and subsequently sampled and then completely beendet, welche sich wunderbar in den Gehörgängen festsetzt. transformed into new forms and therefore a new vision of the Artic." Um diesen Silberling möglichst reizvoll zu gestalten, hat sich Peter [label info] Andersson nicht lumpen lassen und noch 3 Bonus-Tracks beigefügt, wovon "After The Silence" bislang unveröffentlicht war. Die beiden * NETHERWORLD - Kall. The Abyss where Dreams fall CD anderen Titel sind hingegen schon bekannt und auf den Samplern (Mondes Elliptiques E.Q.05.03, 2008) € 13.00 "Tribute To Beksinski" bzw. "Perception Multiplied" vertreten. Auf ".... In a tradition that is anchored, at the same time, in avant-garde, "Drifting In Motion" mangelt es wahrlich nicht an gefühlvollen ritual soundz and dark-ambient, with a typically Italian touch, Klangwelten, hier gibt es wirklich keinen Ausfall zu benennen. Wer sich NETHERWORLD gives a peculiarly and elegantly organic and palpable diesem Klangwerk in ruhigen Momenten hingibt, dem ist grandioses feel to sounds that, in the hands of others, would maybe fall flat …and it Kopfkino zugesichert. is as if the sound universe conjured by the magic of NETHERWORLD Mit diesem gelungenen Tonträger legt uns Old Europa Cafe eine wahre was strangely…how could one say? OCCUPIED. Each moment, each Perle der absolut überzeugenden Ambientkunst vor, welche den Hörer twist and turn of this sound adventure bears infinite richness and zum Träumen und Abheben verleitet. Da gibt es nichts zu überlegen, elasticity, at all times …those are rather ‘busy’ sound layers but each of hier gilt unbedingte Kaufpflicht!" [Necroweb] the elements has sufficient breathing space and can differentiate itself " 'Arctic ambience, melting with imagination, leads the listener to the from the other surrounding components. This antagonism represents frozen tundra at the top of the world. This rarely explored land, resonant one of NETHERWORLD’s greatest strengths. Another noteworthy with a shimmering radiance that is bleak, barren and mysterious, is antagonism: this tendency to propose us ambiences that are distinguished by slivers of fantastical nuances that twinkle like crystals excessively introspective, subdued, withdrawn into themselves, but under the midnight sun.' The above quotation was taken from a review which, at the same time, expand, subtly dilate to occupy an of the original CD release of ’Drifting in Motion’ (2000 on Crowd Control incommensurable space. Upon the first notes (or pulses??) of the Activities). Now, 8 years later it is time for an enhanced re-release for opening track, ‘’KALL’’, this infinite abyss, envelops us and our dreams even more refined sound and experience of ’Drifting in Motion’. The sink, dissolve, reinvent themselves…The sound propositions found entire album has been carefully re-mixed in 2007 and has been spiced on’’KALL’’ have enough movement and density to please the ones fond with 3 more nuances. Peter Andersson is a multi-talented man most of depth in their music, but the overall ‘purified’ feel will please the most famous for his RAISON D'ETRE project on the notorious label Cold discerning purist. For the occasion, MONDES ELLIPTIQUES once Meat Industry LABEL but he is also are responisble for music projetcs again used the mastering talents of JOHN SELLEKAERS @ METARC like Stratvm Terror, Bocksholm, Atomine Elektrine, Panzar and many and it is CHRISTIAN SA LETTE who put his savoir-faire in our service more. For this new release, two artists, Maria Gullqvist (Sweden) and for the design of the sleeve and images. Limited to 441 copies! Deluxe Eva Verholen (Holland) has been asked to contribute with their own cardboard sleeve." [label description] impressions of experiencing ’Drifting in Motion’. Their amazing works "Netherworld is Alessandro Tedeschi and on the album 'Kall - the abyss are presented on the completely new designed CD artwork in a six where dreams fall' he shows his interest in cool ambient and drone panels digipak." [label info] related kind of music, that slowly and patiently unfolds in the space. The music is presented in four tracks that are called 'Kall', from part one to * NETHERWORLD - Morketid CD (Glacial Movements GM002, part four. What's most present in the 14 minutes of the first piece is the 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 pulsating drone atmosphere, that sounds very gentle and is put in the "Landschaften unter ewigem Eis, kollidierende und kollabierende front, while from time to time there are other sounds too that are Eisberge, Polarlichter, der Wechsel zwischen Mitternachtssonne und appearing in the background and are adding a specific and slightly tribal anhaltender Polarnacht, Eisdrift und Schneestürme: Mit GLACIAL sounding sense to the track. The sense of tribal ambient music is even MOVEMENTS RECORDS ist ein neues Label geboren, das es sich zur more present in the second piece, while in the third longer piece of 21 Aufgabe macht, speziell Klangbilder dieser eisigen Gefilde zu minutes, there are motives similar to those in the first track - slowly verbreiten. Glacial and isolationist ambient nennt der Italiener unfolding layers of sounds that are coming from the cooler corners of ALESSANDRO TEDESCHI das, und bringt, als zweites, mit „Mørketid“ the ambient spectrum, a kind of atmosphere that is present through the ein Album seines eigenen Projekts NETHERWORLD heraus. Nachdem whole album. 'Kall - part 4' is no exception in the sounds that auf der ersten Veröffentlichung, einem Sampler namens „Cryosphere“, Netherworld uses in the music on this album. The fourth part is as sich mit Ambient-Protagonisten wie THO-SO-AA, TUU, TROUM, smooth ambient music as the previous parts, it is the smoothest track, AIDAN BAKER und OOPHOI keine Unbekannten dem glazialen Thema with almost 8 minutes of few slowly shifting layers of a kind of gewidmet haben, geht TEDESCHI mit „Mørketid“, ganz gemäß des sustained, unusual, calm and sometimes linear sounding and spreading Label-Credos, diesen Weg weiter, indem er Geräuschfragmente, die er ambient music, a kind of aesthetic and approach to the music that is im Bereich der Arktis aufgenommen hat, zu kristallkühlen Klangflächen mostly present on the whole album, that is not a typical ambient zusammenfügt. Der Name der gut sechzig Minuten langen Polarreise aesthetic, but it crossovers the border-lines between the ambient and kommt aus dem Norwegischen und steht für jene Zeit des Jahres, drone kinds of music." [BR / Vital Weekly] wenn der arktische Winter das Land erstarren lässt und die Sonne kaum über den Horizont steigt; eine kalte, dunkle Zeit für die Menschen * NIELLERADE FALLIBILISTHORSTAR - Skrankverk CD im hohen Norden. NETHERWOLRD ist kein gänzlich neues Projekt: (Dystonia D.41, 2007) € 13.50 Bereits 2004 brachte TEDESCHI auf dem OOPHOI-Label UMBRA mit Schwedische Gruppe aus dem Experimental / Impro / Drone-Bereich, „Eternal Frost“ eine CDr heraus; es folgten weitere auf UMBRA, dessen die sich zum musizieren an verlassenen Plätzen treffen und eine Sub-Label PENUMBRA und, noch Anfang des Jahres, auf TAÂLEM. geheimnisvolle Aura erschaffen; field recordings, Electronics und Nach dem ersten kehrt jedoch erst das aktuelle Album, endlich auf konkrete Geräusche treffen aufeinander, Anklänge an NOISE MAKER's „richtiger“ CD und in einer gelungen schlichten und farblich kühlen FIFES, ORGANUM oder die AURAL HYPNOX-Releases. Aufmachung, wieder zum ewigen Eis zurück. "Niellerade Fallibilsthorstar (henceforth referred to as NFH) is a quintet Diese Polarnacht hört sich allerdings nicht dunkel an. Kühl und of sound artists that formed in Umea, Sweden, in 2001 and 'Skrankverk' kristallklar ist sie, durchsichtig wie reines Eis und von eisiger Helle. Sie is their fifth release to date. The group engages in site-specific erzählt von überstrahlten Eislandschaften, von klirrendem Frost, improvisations in abandoned buildings, swamps and forrests using

85 materials found in each locale. The recordings are then brought home equipment, using up to 50 year-old tapemachines, filters and generators and 'arranged, edited, collaged and added to in the studio.' The results that end up being the soft cushion in these cold location recordings. share a certain kinship with the late 80s work of Zoviet France and Location recordings from Mälaren, Stockholm, Sweden, Coombe Nurse With Wound without sounding like either. This sounds right up Gibbet, Berkshire, England and Landakot, Vatnsleysuströnd, Iceland.” my alley, so my expectations are rather high and were subsequently [label info] met much to my delight. "... True, if you were to compare this album to the lilting work of The opening track is an organic excursion into a world unknown. Water Colleen or even to fellow label mate Biosphere, The Short Night would drips sporadically in a cavernous space amongst metallic clatter. The appear quite dark; but in the context of Nilsen's entire discography, way in which such disparate sounds are montaged creates an The Short Night is a dramatically colorful piece of work. Sure, Nilsen's imaginary landscape of sorts. In the visual art world, I'm reminded of sustained low frequencies and a few moments of growling noise do Tanguy's landscapes, Ernst's frottages and even some of Salvador have their devilish undertones; but throughout the album, Nilsen Dali's early work. Whether coincidental or not, there's a very structured punctures these impressionist clouds with elegant electronic chorales of feel as opposed to a random juxtapositioning of varied source ethereal melodies that are surprisingly beautiful for BJ Nilsen. There is recordings. Activity peaks around the fourteen minute mark and sounds a melancholy to Nilsen's work, but melancholy isn't always synonymous more like raw group interplay before settling down again for the final two with dark, as is the case here. In many ways, Nilsen has found himself minutes. It's all time well spent at any rate. 'Ohagn' begins like a trekking into the territories previously ventured by Fennesz and wounded jet taking flight into some perilous night sky. Once the Machinefabriek, creating a transcendent sound through the tension optimum altitude is achieved, it remains a bumpy ride with obtuse between shoegazing / drone-based driftwork and subtle discordant clouds full of chunks of foreign particles and space debris. Rather than agitation. This record is highly, highly recommended!" [Aquarius fight any adversarial circumstances or atmospheric turbulence, this one Records] rolls with the punches with the aid of some plate reverb. The third piece hits its stride straight out of the box with some choice percussive action * NILSEN, BJ & ZEV - 22'22 CD (Ideal Recordings IDEAL045, and high frequencies riding over some nondescript drone-work and 2007) € 13.00 bass rumbles. It's an eight minute-plus odyssey that exemplifies what Split-Album des inzwischen in Berlin ansässigen und auf TOUCH NFH is capable of here. It's both abstract and concrete and has a sense veröffentlichenden Schweden BENNY NILSEN mit Z'EV, die hier beide of drama, however perverse. auf ihre unnachahmliche Art wunderbare Drone-Stücke abgeliefert 'Ral' presents some spastic industrial percussion music that has a haben, die genau 22:22 Minuten lang sind! Wobei uns Z'EV mit seinen character all its own. It builds up and breaks down in both momentum metallischen Verfremdungen im Drone-Geäst innerlich wieder extremst and rhythmic sensibility to varying degrees before disintegrating into a illuminiert... das dritte Stück (ebenfalls 22:22 Minuten) ist dann eine more ambient and squealing metal (the substance, not the musical Zusammenarbeit von beiden, die grösstenteils aus [ ] besteht, style) territory.This is not a bad thing; balance is an asset that pervades aber nicht nur.... this record. The reverb-laden loopy coda is just icing on the cake. The "... About 22'22: Key words: Drone | Trance | Meditation On Power. next number is mysterious in its sources and dark demeanor, which is The atmospheric impact of the collaboration of B.J. Nilsen and Z'EV is further enhanced by the heavy processing throughout. Fans of early massive. Their genius is the power of drone and the beauty of trance. Hafler Trio should not be disappointed. The final eight-and-a-half They build atmospheres that are at the same time disturbing, meditative minutes are given over to 'Spjallmotor' which is a tour-de-force of metal and enjoyable. The atmosphere I am talking about is of course deep percussion and other electronically treated sounds. Clanging, grinding and dark, and its hitting the spine hard. Its hard not to listen to the and full-on pounding are the order of the day with a structural conceit album in its full bloom. Were hearing killer drone music here. In 22'22, that would make Einsturzende Neubauten proud. After a brief silence, we see something natural happening. I want it to continue. I dont want it there are two final minutes of sonic blowout that is sure to tease any to stop here. Its too intense and beautiful to stop here. Maybe it is that noisehead that made it this far. feeling that makes this album so great to me. The fear of this is it." Fine music, here issued in an edition of 500 copies housed in a foldout [label info] digipak with some beautiful photography. NFH manages to strike a nice "Three tracks, each of exactly twenty-two minutes and twenty-two balance between the organic and the synthetic, the real and altered seconds. This is not a work of collaboration, but two sides of the coin reality, with great creativity and very little trouble. 'Skrankverk' manages called drone music. Each of the players is a renowned player in this to incorporate noisy source recordings into compositions that are field, yet the outcome is quite different. BJNilsen, best known for his anything but noise and likewise presents a concrete music that avoids releases on Touch, presents an eerie, quiet piece solely based on the stuffy confines of academia. What more do you want?" [Heathen treated field recordings. Where others in this week's issue fail to Harvest] succeed in using field recordings into their music, BJ Nilsen succeeds wonderfully well. Highly atmospheric, without letting the transformations * NILSEN, BJ - The Short Night CD (Touch TO:75, 2007) € 15.00 take over, nor keeping the field recordings too recognizable. A very fine "Auch für The Short Night (TO:75) hat der sturmerprobte Landschafts- piece. Drone music also comes from Z'EV, who these days may seem maler BJ NILSEN seine Staffelei an Ecken und Enden der Welt to be more into creating electronic music, but here returns to using aufgestellt, wo sie für Menschen unwirtlich ist - ‚Finisterre‘, ‚Pole of metallic percussion alongside electronic treatments. Rumble from the Inaccessibility‘, ‚Icing Station‘, ‚Viking North‘. In der frostig dröhnenden below surface form the basis of the material, but slight treatments Luft sind nur noch Vögel in ihrem Element. Die Brandung nagt an den create a long sustain, at times, on the sounds, which add up to a mighty mageren Felsen der schwedischen oder isländischen Küste und von powerful piece of trance inducing drone music. A good combination of oben prasselt Regen herab. Als Pinsel und Leinwand freilich fungieren various types of drone music. However I don't understand why there is Mikrophone, alte Tonbandmaschinen, Filter und Generatoren, Wetter- a third track of equal length, but with seventeen minutes of silence and phänomene und eine finstere Imagination führen die Hand. Weitere five minutes of Z'EV like music. I thought that gimmick of silence on Schauplätze, genauer, Klangfundstellen waren nämlich Triest, ein CDs was more than explored by now." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Ortname mit unwillkürlich tristen Assoziationen, und der Coombe Gibbet in Berkshire, 1676 errichtet, um ein Ehebrecherpärchen * NILSEN, BJ & STILLUPPSTEYPA - Passing Out CD (Helen aufzuhängen und zur Abschreckung stehen gelassen. ‚Black Light‘ Scarsdale HMS013, 2008) € 13.00 bringt die Stimmung dieses Dark Ambient oxymoronisch zum Ausdruck. Dritter Teil der nordischen "Drone & Alkohol-Intoxikation"-Trilogie, die Nilsen malt urige Seelenlandschaften. Er bespielt mit seinen Field- den Zustand des Wegtretens zwischen Wachheit und Dämmerzustand recordings eine große Naturorgel, die wallende Düsterwellen aussendet klanglich adäquat wiederspiegelt; im tiefen Drone-Morast erscheinen und dröhnende Gischt aufschäumt. Ein Grundton in modulierten Traumbilder, -gedanken & akustische Sequenzen der Realität auf. In Varianten, aber immer getragen, immer erhaben, ein schweres und paradoxer Weise ist man dann in der Lage, sowohl unbewusste wie langsames Sich-Dahin-Wälzen von bleierner Zeit, von Luftströmungen, bewusste Geistes-Inhalte zur gleichen Zeit wahrzunehmen...(sagen die die Wettervorhersagen wie Orakelsprüche aus der Megalithkultur Erzeuger dieses Albums). PASSING OUT ist ein One-Tracker von fast mitführen." [Bad Alchemy] 70 Minuten, tiefgrummelnd-bassig und sonor und von mysteriösen, “BJNilsen (b,1975 Sweden) is a sound and recording artist, has since atmend-ächzenden Sounds durchzogen.... the early 90’s been putting out work in various constellations. Primarily "The first chapter found the drink. The second came after a night of focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field intoxicated shouting. The third chapter is inevitable: Passing Out. recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced The Nordic sound artists BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa have authored through sound, often electronically treated. Using location recordings, the last component to a trilogy of isolationist compositions for barren weather, birdsong and radio, BJNilsen continues to map and explore field recordings and lumbering electric drones, thematically linked in the uncharted territory. A follower to 2005’s Fade to White [Touch # TO:65], psychotropic effects of alcohol. In doing so, they have issued a brief BJNilsen develops his work further, based on field recordings and statement in defense of their research: "It's been four years and three electronics. This time he adds harsher yet clearer harmonies with studies, Passing Out being the final. Even in its most general, colloquial musical elements to the compositions, creating a beautifully complex usage, Passing Out indicates the occurrence of a state that is and detailed study. Recorded in 2006-7 with mostly analogue incompatible with active behavior. It is possible that the individual could

86 experience both consciousness and unconsciousness at the same time dirges, classic old school funereal doom, frenzied of buzzguitar, and while encountering Passing Out." lengthy, meditative guitarscapes. An intense and overwhelming sonic Yes, Passing Out is a crepuscular recording, with the flickering of journey, as heavy and brutal as it is delicate and beautiful. Doomy and twilight further dimmed by the distant Arctic sun in wintertime and the blackened, drifty and drone-y, soft focus and hazy, dense and blackened numbness of too much drink. With one singular track that devastating... and of course, so so recommended." [label info] spans 60 minutes, a nearly constant thrum and rumble of monochromatic low frequencies casts a grim pall upon the precisely * NORDVARGR (HENRIK BJÖRKK) & BEYOND SENSORY dialed-in modulations and vibrations. Spectral guitars, maudlin tunes EXPERIENCE vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Hypergenome 666 do-CD from haunted radios, angrily growling voices, and field recordings of Box / BOOK (Old Europa Cafe OECD 088, 2007) € 24.00 wind-whipped snow and ice bury themselves deep amidst these Aufwendig gestaltete Box inkl. 80-Seiten Buch mit den skurril subharmonic drones. All of these tease at the edge of perception, anmutenden "Cyber Cut-Up" Texten von KENJI SIRATORI; die Lyrics sculpting the narrative of the drone into a vehicle for unhinged ergeben keinen rational erfassbaren "Sinn", trotzdem lösen sie etwas expressionism of varying degrees of horror, melancholy, beauty, and aus im Leser, vereinigen Paradoxien und Gegensätze und lösen sich oblivion. widersprechende Emotionen aus. SIRATORI's Stimme wird mit allen The Swedish born BJ Nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the erdenklichen Methoden verfremdet, und mit den dunkel-schleppenden sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time Soundscapes von HENRIK "NORDVARGR" BJÖRKK aka B.S.E. and space as experienced through sound." He has numerous versehen... HYPGENOME ist die Cyper-Kreuzung, wo sich recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris BURROUGHS & J.G. BALLARD-Phantasmen in post-industrieller Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. The Icelandic citizens Sigtryggur Ästhetik vereinigen. Ein höchst bemerkenswerter Release. Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson are Stilluppsteypa, whose "Subtitles : NORDVARGR vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Antimaterial: Tragedy electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine Rom Creature. BSE vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Substance : Sympathy Cell surface of minimalism..." [label info] Waves. This 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial projects leaded by "....The complete and total isolation of the music, the long passages of MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in KENJI SIRATORI seemingly no action (there is just one piece, clocking it at 68 minutes), acid world made of encrusted blood & samen, made by all the with then a sudden break, a melody filters in, the radio starts humming information in the universe plus several bits from other dimensions ! and field recordings - that backbone of so much in Vital Weekly and KENJI is surely a madman, but if you scan his hallucinatory textual certainly here - make this an album of not just pure drones or just mashups in the right frame of mind, they all begin to make sense !!! processed field recordings, but the strange elements thrown in, give this Kenji gave birth to a virulent amalgam of modern technology & illnes album a stranger, almost alien feel to it. If it's the equivalent of passing like a mix of Tetsuo the Iron Man & a modern version of William out is a bit hard to say: the act of passing out on alcohol prevents you Burrougs cut-ups ! & his "Blood Electric" book was aclaimed by DAVID from remembering anything. This is however their best album to date BOWIE ! On the 2 albums NORDVARGR & BSE are creating best dark and makes a strong trilogy." [FdW / Vital Weekly] ambients, for which both projects are very well reknown, to support "...Deep resonant vibrations abound, with some creepy breathing in Kenji vocals frames ! Japanese words disgorged by Kenji Siratori are your ear whisperings that may be those Leif Elggren vocals that Benny here strongly entwined in the chaotic calmness of BSE's audio universe was talking about. Gradually, all of these deep drones and shadowy & in the deepest sounds born in the surgery of Nordavrgr's Villa Bohult overtures glide into a slumbering descent. But the Icelandic weirdoes .... All songs are based upon the spoken prose by the uncompromising in Stilluppsteypa couldn't just let the album drift away without their Japanese writer, creating a new fascinating depth in the musical absurdism forcing through the door, as they blurt with a clinical experience! The CD's come with an 80 pages exclusive book by Kenji repetition of blooping electronics smashed and grabbed from Raymond Siratori, the whole inside a very special box ! Art-work designed by the Scott circa Manhattan Research. It's an unsettling climax to the album, super-designer & artist Paul McCarroll ! If you don't know his Art & but one that works brilliantly through Stilluppsteypa's expert use of works you really lost something!" [press releases] electro-acoustic black humor. But it's drone that dominates the album, as angelic wash and devilish rumble collude to end this magnificent * NU & APA NEAGRA - Omag CD (Lollipoppe Shoppe LSCD 08, album. Oblivion never sounded so good. Passing Out is beautifully 2008) € 13.00 packaged with letterpressed and silkscreened artwork. Very nice." Rumänische Underground-Psychedelia auf dem Berliner Label [Aquarius Records review] LOLLIPOPPE SHOPPE (die auch schon VOLGA und KARPATY MAGICZNE herausgebracht haben)! Ethno- & Folk-Einflüsse, field * NIYAZ - Nine Heavens do-CD (Six Degrees, 2008) € 19.50 recordings, dichte & dunkle Atmosphäre; das Spektrum reicht von "Weltmusik für das 21. Jahrhundert: zweites Album des hochgelobten ruhigen, sehr anmutigen Passagen bis hin zum ekstatischen free-impro Trios. Bereits mit ihrem von der Kritik gefeierten Debütalbum aus dem Chaos und elektronischen Bearbeitungen, immer weird & eigen, was Jahre 2005 erwiesen sich Niyaz als Brückenbauer zwischen ist das nur für Musik? Aber lassen wir jetzt noch den staunenden traditioneller und moderner Weltmusik. Auf seinem zweiten Album Rigobert Dittmann sprechen: gelingt dem Trio erneut die Balance zwischen alten Sounds und neuer "Ähnlich wie The Magic Carpathians Projekt lässt mich der Sazspieler Elektronik. Wobei sich hinter "Nine Heavens" ein wesentlich und multiinstrumentale Alleskönner Sasa-Liviu Stoianovici im komplexeres Werk verbirgt: neun aufwändig geschnitzte rumänischen Timisoara bedauern, dass ich so wenig Musik aus den Originalarrangements und Kompositionen traditioneller Folksongs und östlichen Nachbarländern kenne. Omag (The Lollipoppe Shoppe, LSCD mystischer Sufi-Gedichte aus Iran, Türkei und dem indischen 08) ist nämlich wieder ein stellenweise beklemmend schöner und Subkontinent. Mit der Betonung des Kompositorischen verweist die durchwegs spannender Beitrag zur ‚Imaginären Folklore‘, mit dem Gruppe um Sängerin Azam Ali auf die strukturelle Ähnlichkeit der Musik selbstverständlichen Einsatz von Loopsampler, Mikrokorg und der erwähnten Länder und Regionen. Gleichzeitig vertieft sie sich in die Fieldrecordings neben der Saz und der Kurzhalslaute Cobza, von Vlad dort jeweils überlieferten Melodien, teils mit Unterstützung von Sturdzas E-Gitarre neben Maultrommel und Szilander Farks Sitar, von hochklassigen Musikern aus den entsprechenden Ländern. Das Album Calin Torsancs Reeds & Klarinette neben Alexandru Hegyesis "Nine Heavens" besteht aus zwei CDs: Eine präsentiert das akustisch- bundloser akustischer Bassgitarre. In den Lauten und dem näselnden elektronische Originalkonzept der Band, die andere die rein akustischen Gebläse scheinen Wurzelfäden bis hinab zu prototürkischen, ja sogar Versionen der Lieder." [label info] thrakischdionysischen und panischen Zeiten zu flattern. Aber in der elektroakustischen Verschwurbelung wird diese Aura von altem Balkan * NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS - Viral Shedding CD (Klanggalerie und mythischer Zeit ganz eingemischt in ein psychedelisches und gg110, 2008) € 14.00 surreal-kosmisches Tripping. Dass Alan Holmes, der walisische "A personal favourite and one of the band's strongest albums, "Viral Produzent von Gorky's Zygotic Mynci und Gitarrist der Faust Shedding" has never before been released on CD in its original form. verehrenden Ankstmusik-Band Ectogram, einen Mix von ‚Peste munte‘ We have re-worked the original cover and inner sleeve, mastered it anfertigte, deutet auf ein Raumzeitnetz hin, in dem sich Nu & Apa from a vinyl copy, and added four rare bonus tracks to make this a very Neagra, was übrigens Nein & Schwarzes Wasser heißt, ideell bewegen. attractive release. Soundwise, the album stands somewhere between Beim Titelstück ertönt arabesker Gesang zu Sazgeschrammel und dem the synth pop of "Songs of Love and Revolution" and the early harsher Zwitschern und Gurren von Vögeln inmitten polymorphender, von einer stuff like "Fruiting Body" or "Tissue of Lies". It features the classic "No Furzelwelle angekurbelter Mixadelic. Mit ihrem Balkantouch setzen Nu separation", possibly one of Nocturnal Emissions' most important songs & Apa Neaga aber einen eigenen Akzent, den ich mit ‚schwerst alongside "Never give up"." [label info] halluzinatorisch‘ nur andeuten kann. Die Wirkung entspricht einer ziemlich kräftigen Dosis Mutterkorn, die Uhr läuft rückwärts, der Duft * NORDVARGR / DRAKH - The Betrayal of Light CD (Tumult von Ziegenbock ist stellenweise schwindelerregend, es wachsen einem Records TM373, 2007) € 13.00 Flügel, die einen auf Wolken aus Fuzz und Klingklang schweben "The latest collaboration between these ambient powerhouses and lassen, während ‚over the mountain‘ eine Flöte schallt, die nichts davon former MZ412 partners. Betrayal Of Light is one massive sonic event, a weiß, dass der Große Pan tot ist. Eine Gitarre auf Speed (‚Galop in black cloud of sound, separated into movements. Massive mournful 2/4‘), eine Orgel im Opiumrausch (‚Plinsul lui V.‘), dann ein

87 reedgetrillertes Loopdelirium, in dem ein Wortfetzen mitkreist (‚Cobzar Musically, Homotopy is a brilliant example of Stapleton's tape editing pneumatic‘). Der Geist von Muslimgauze hetzt vorbei - ‘Oh dear! Oh and manipulation, producing a disturbing avant-garde collage that dear! I shall be late!’ (‚Seara‘), Stimmen kaskadieren auf einem remains a stunning listen! Homotopy has been out of print for a few Orgeldrone (‚Umbra si copacul de fier‘). Man durchquert eine years and appears now with newly designed artwork in a six-panel Bahnhofshalle, in der die elektrisierte und maultrommelbetwangte Luft digipack. This issue has also corrected the misplaced track index points Turbulenzen bildet (‚Tambal ruginit‘), und taucht dann ganz tief ein in which marred previous CD reissues." [label info] plunderphonischen, von Stimmen durchraunten und dunkel beflöteten "FINALLY REISSUED!!! Of all of the Nurse With Wound records Tapesalat mit Sitardressing (‚Cinci suprapuneripareri‘). Zuletzt jamt (and we like a bunch of them!), this is our favorite. Perhaps because Greatful Dead, grillenbezirpt, ungeachtet ständiger Lautsprecher- this makes the least 'sense,' with a textbook definition of how durchsagen, gefangen zwischen Gestern und Übermorgen (‚13, Surrealism can be accurately applied in an aural context. Within pentru caracter‘). Vielleicht ist ja das der große Reiz unserer neuen Homotopy To Marie, Steven Stapleton (the proprietor of Nurse With alten Miteuropäer, dass sie noch nicht so durchrenoviert sind, noch Wound) addresses most of Andre Breton's qualifications of Surrealism nicht so up-todate, dass ihre Kunst des Erbens statt völliger Amnesie as "pure psychic automatism, by which an attempt is made to express, doch noch Träume und Räusche mit einschließt, die unserem Speed- either verbally, in writing or in any other manner, the true functioning of Way of Life spotten." [Bad Alchemy] thought. The dictation of thought, in the absence of all control by the "Formed in Timisoara, Romania, by Sasha-Liviu Stoianovici (self taught reason, excluding any aesthetic or moral preoccupation." In many saz player and visual artist) & Alexandru Hegyesi. The NU & APA respects, John Cage took Breton's theories to one possible logical end; NEAGRA sound project deals with a mix between traditional tunes, but Stapleton wanted to bridge contemporary musical production improvised vocals and spacy electronics. It started in 2001, as NU, techniques (musique concrete informed by Industrial culture) with the being at the time more of a folk/free form music project. original Surrealist fascination with Victorian imagery applied to Freudian Representing Romanian underground psychedelia, the group toured definitions of fetishism, thus offering a version of Surrealism that fits Germany twice in 2006, presenting their cdr 'At Gardina', which, in the better with how Breton may have thought Surrealism would sound. meantime, received some great revues. Played club gigs and also References to culture and the world as we know it abound in this festivals. NU's music has been airplayed at radio statoins like WFMU or record, but in such a convoluted way as to appear perfectly normal next Freies Radio Kassel, among others... After some changes and studio to something that would normally be aurally incongruous. The title itself work in 2007, NU 'reincarnated' as NU & APA NEAGRA and released certainly refers to this. Often utilized within the highly specialized the OMAG album at the German indie label Lollipoppe Shoppe in June vocabularies of genetics and chemical engineering (you think that *we* 2008. The tracks have been recorded both in Berlin, Germany and get verbose!), a homotopy (as best as I could determine) is the Timisoara, Romania. The sound became darker, being influenced by relationship between a specific object and the fundamental various trips in the mountains and forests of Romania. Field recordings, characteristics that define the family in which that object belongs. Who ancient instruments, strange overdubbing techniques, they all create a Marie could be is perhaps best left between Stapleton and Marie. rough ethno-psychedelic sound, definately a trademark of NU & APA Homotopy To Marie is Stapleton's finest audio collage, culled from NEAGRA. The title of the album is inspired by the very poisonous plant various studio sessions, found sounds, and unknown media samples. Omag, found in the traditional pharmaceutical universe of Romanians. Proceeding along at a stately pace, this album is certainly not a quiet There are 13 original tracks, the 14th one being a deep and strange mix affair, yet each sound within the album is given plenty to hold its unique done by Alan Holmes (Ectogram, Parking Non-Stop). Live shows in place with the collage at large. It opens with "I Cannot Feel You as the central Europe are planed for autumn 2008." [label info] Dogs are Laughing and I am Blind" -- a close investigation of shards of glass with a gated volume filter on it to accentuate the brittleness and * NULL, KK - BaryoGenesis CD (Vivo Records vivo0312007cd, fragmentation of the sound, followed by a period of snoring (presumably 2007) € 14.00 from Stapleton) which shifts to various screams, maniacal laughs, and "the album opens up with the sound of insects & birds which i recorded hysterical utterances as if from an asylum. The title track is an amazing live at wetland in Kakadu National park in Australia, that symbolizes collage of a multiple gongs with the tonal rings augmented by organic life/organism (including our human bodies) composed of occasional backwards masking and manipulated attack. Stapleton's use baryons. then, abstruct electronic noise overlaps them and takes you of the vocal sample is at it's best here with two characters (a shy little into a journey through deep inner and far outer spaces at any scales. girl and a confident woman) intermittently reciting ambiguous phrases however, you don't have to care about what i say here, just i hope this "When I woke up I didn't know where I was" answered by "Don't be music inspires you as much as it does myself, and enjoy with your open naive, darling!". The rest of the album is a clutter of non-descript mind and free imagination!! distortion, feedback from guitar buzz, microphones overloaded by technical note : all the music on this album was basically composed and megaphones screaming into them, broken by backwards dialogues in created in my home studio and it was performed live along with some Spanish, rag time pianos, and clattering horns finally explode into a improvized processing, playing a synthesizer and my voice on top of whimsical polka but have a weird aura surrounding them like when that." [KK Null] Hermann Nitsch uses polkas as punctuations to his orchestral drones. "KK Null would have been king of noise if Merzbow wouldn't be on the Homotopy To Marie is a confounding album that matches its throne. Ever since his work with ANP and Zeni Geva he loves to work psychological instability with its dexterity in its composition, that with the raw end of music and sound, which has become increasingly leaves you not with a recognition of sound within an organized more abstract and less rock based than say in his Zeni Geva days. context, but the feeling of unidentifiable unease. An absolute Unlike Merzbow there is a stronger rhythmic component in his music masterpiece." [Aquarius Records] which forms the backbone of his music. It's however not a rhythm of stomping kind, techno like or any such like, but more the repeated * NURSE WITH WOUND - Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at action of highly splintered sound fragments, which are looped. On top Rydberg's CD (United Jnana 399, 2007) € 14.00 KK Null plays a brand of harsher noise textures of freaked out "...At Rydberg's". This early NURSE WITH WOUND album, remastered psychedelic electronics. Other than Merzbow - again - KK Null's sound and packaged in a digipack, contains all three tracks from the original is much more detailed and clearer, even in the endless stream of vinyl version ("Several Odd Moments Prior to Lunch," "Phenomenon of information that his music is. Four strong heavy blasts of noise, and the Aquarium and Bearded Lady," "Dirty Fingernails"), as well as their re- tracks are pretty long, but in order to get this music working right, it only workings ("Odd," "Aquarium," "Dirty Fingernails") which later appeared seems natural to give it such a length. Here too we can wonder about on the CD Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven. The record, first the progress of the music, since it's certainly not Null's first CD, but with released in 1983, features one of Nurse With Wound's earliest a discography that is considerable smaller than Merzbow's that is hardly collaborations with DAVID TIBET of CURRENT 93. The album title is a a problem." [FdW / Vital Weekly] reference to Swedish authors Vilhelm Carlheim-Gyllenskoeld, Gustaf af Geijerstam, and Viktor Rydberg." [label info] * NURSE WITH WOUND - Homotopy to Marie CD (United Jnana "Another mighty reissue of audio irritation (meant in the best possible 366, 2007) € 14.00 way of course!) from Nurse With Wound. This CD with its guttural yet Das surrealistische NURSE-Meisterwerk von 1982, ein aurales slippery title has been through the reissue campaign more times than Irrenhaus oder: die bestmögliche Annäherung ans Irrationale, we really need to mention, but we will say that the original 12" was Unbewusste, tabuisierte Triebhafte.. wie ein Logbuch von verdrängten released back in 1984 through L.A.Y.L.A.H. At that time, Steven Gedächtnisinhalten, unheimlich fremd und unheimlich faszinierend Stapleton had just begun working with David Tibet in Current 93, and zugleich... endlich wieder erhältlich! thus Stapleton invited Tibet to contribute some of his vocal growling to "Homotopy to Marie, originally released in 1982, was the fifth Nurse the Nurse cause, although the Tibet material on Gyllenskold could With Wound album. Steven Stapleton considers it to be the first "real" simply be out-take material from the Current 93 material of the day Nurse record as it was the first record he'd made without any (Nature Unveilled); and it's vintage Tibet snarling through a series of intervention from his early partners. Its release also marked the point devilish words which Stapleton twists even more so with his inimitable where Stapleton assumed the mantle of Nurse for all future releases. talents in the studio. Splattered throughout the phlegmatic collage are volatile transmissions of piercing noise, rhythmic metallic scrapes

88 amassing into a seasick chorale of polyphonic alarm sires, banged sounds all treated with effects. Stapleton is here aided by Colin Potter. gongs which rippled with varispeed warble, and blurting horns that Ranging from dynamic to more drone-like, this is the kind of album that could be sampled from some bloodcurdling Morricone soundtrack and NWW-fans will love..." [FK, Vital Weekly] mangled into something even more uncomfortable. As with much of the Nurse material from the early '80s, there's plenty of sounds that had * NURSE WITH WOUND - Man with a woman face do-CD (ICR become recurring elements for Stapleton, and this album is no 69/70, 2008) € 18.50 exception. Stapleton's exceptional hand with a razor and a piece of tape Re-issue dieses Albums welches bisher nur als LP erhältlich war (2002, certainly makes this, like many of his recordings, seminal avant-garde United Dairies), jetzt mit Bonus-CD welche 3 Stücke (38 Min) enthält. listening." [Aquarius Records review] Die CDs sind auch einzeln erhältlich. "A welcome re-issue of this classic Nurse With Wound album. * NURSE WITH WOUND - Huffin' Rag Blues CD (United Dirter Originally this was only available for a short period of time before World DPROMCD63, 2008) € 14.50 Serpent went bust and is often thought of as a ‘lost’ NWW work. There "Nach Plattentiteln wie »Funeral Music For Perez Prado« oder »Livin’ is also an extra CD with 3 tracks from the same sessions. The first is a Fear Of James Last« zieht es Steven Stapleton nun auch musikalisch in remix of ‘African Mosquito’, the second an unreleased out-take and the Gebiete, die von Drone und Industrial so weit entfernt scheinen, wie es third is a home demo of ‘White Light'." [label info] überhaupt nur geht: »Huffin’ Rag Blues« (Jnana) nämlich präsentiert Nurse With Wound mit unerwarteter Schlagseite Richtung Lounge. Es * OLHON - Underwater Passage CD (Eibon Records OHL75, handelt sich dabei um eine überaus humorvolle Angelegenheit, für die 2008) € 13.00 die dargebotenen Stilmittel recht ordentlich durch den Wolf gedreht Unterwasser-Drone-Elektromagnetismus! OLHON haben sich wieder wurden und nur selten die typische Verschrobenheit anderer NWW- aufgemacht, Feldaufnahmen von wirklich abgelegenen Orten zu Releases vermissen lassen. Der Umgang mit Funk und Exotica erfolgt machen - für dieses Projekt nahmen sie 40 Meter unter Wasser so, dass die Musik wie ein schwülheißer Fiebertraum erscheinen kann Sounds an einem alten Telefonkabel auf, und transferierten das ganze – komplett mit Schmachtgesang und Tiergeräuschen. Gegenüber durch spezielle technische Bearbeitung schliesslich ins Hörbare. Stapletons besten Projekten der vergangenen Jahre – etwa dem Wieder entsteht hier eine fremdartige Klangwelt, mit faszinierenden hypnotisch monotonen »Salt Marie Celeste« (2003) – ist »Huffin’ Rag spiralartigen Sounds & sirrend-körnigen Überbau. "Natural Drone" der Blues« freilich ein ganzes Stück luftiger und letztendlich auch weniger besonderen Art, absolut herausragend ! gewichtig geraten: Zuweilen ist der Spaßanteil der vorliegenden Platte "Field-recordings maestros OLHON are back with a new stunning recht gewöhnungsbedürftig, erneuert zum anderen aber den Glauben album. "Underwater passage" is based upon underwater recordings an eine vordergründig unverbissene Kunstmusik." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] taken in 2006 by Zairo (WHERE), then treated by Massimo Magrini (of "Nurse With Wound is the main recording vehicle for British musician BAD SECTOR fame). These recordings were taken using special Steven Stapleton. Since 1978, with collaborators such as David Tibet sensing microphones attached to an abandoned telephone cable (Current 93), John Balance (Coil), Colin Potter and Matt Waldron (Irr. running on the sea bottom at -40 m.; they were then processed with App [Ext]), Nurse With Wound has released dozens of albums that draw particular demodulating treatments, resulting in a complex and rich on nearly every genre of music. The only constant is that one never ambiental monument. Strange clicks, impulses, a load of movements. knows what the next album will sound like. Stapleton and Andrew Liles Definitely far from the usual concept of dark ambient = low-rumbling form the core of the band on Huffin' Rag Blues, and the direction to drones only, "Underwater passage" shimmers with cutting mid/high which they are heading is the lounge! Huffin' Rag Blues is unlike any frequencies bursts. A very challenging listening, trust me." [label info] Nurse With Wound album in recent memory as they veer into the space-age bachelor pad. Guest vocalists Lynn Jackson and Freida * OLIVEROS, PAULINE & MIYA MASAOKA - Accordion Koto CD Abtan channel Peggy Lee, while Matt Waldron also lends his golden (Deep Listening Institute DL36, 2007) € 13.00 pipes to one song. This is truly exotica as imagined by the twisted " 'Listening to this recording session I am lifted to a world both genius that is Nurse With Wound." [label info] evanescent and yet somehow connected to a distinct culture of music making in the 21st century (Miya Masaoka) 'Though an unlikely * NURSE WITH WOUND - Images / Zero BOOK / CD (Beta-lactam combination - accordion and koto - it is not so much about the Ring Records mt103 / mt201, 2008) € 26.00 instruments as about the energies of the music that comes from the Dickes Hardcover-Buch im CD-Format mit Hochglanz / Vollfarb- intensity of listening - listening as close to now as possible. We know Reproduktionen der 200 Cover-Bilder, die STAPLETON für das ANGRY that our consciousness is delayed by a fraction of a second that the EELECTRIC FINGER-Projekt malte (ausgestellt in Galway, Irland, und brain interprets as now - however the body is instantaneous in its Portland, USA) malte. Dazu gibt es die rare "vierte" Bonus-LP auf CD. perception. Thus the phenomena of playing and becoming conscious of Wer die Artwork- & Design-Kunst von STEVEN STAPLETON mag, what has played - been played - is a continually surprising experience in erhält hier einen reichhaltigen & farbenprächtigen Einblick in sein such improvisation'. (Pauline Oliveros) Genie. Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created "Hardbound book featuring paintings created to celebrate the release of works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for the albums "Angry Eelectric Finger". The book also contains the album ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance "Zero Mix" packaged in a book bound cd case. Released in an edition pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as of 1500 copies featuring full color images and a matte and gloss spot well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her coating, plus full color dust jacket. Thou had best be ready when the own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music and nature, her angry eelectric finger points to YOU! THUS SPAKE NURSE (& Xhol): performance work emphasizes the interactive, live nature of The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve Stapleton, cooking up improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary expression of some recordings & mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol Caravan. Beta- Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism. Masaoka's work has been lactam Ring now serves up this piping hot dish to you, the hungriest of presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe and she has hungry, hungry hippos. In addition, Chef Steve painted 100 individually toured to India six times. Pauline Oliveros's life as a composer, hand painted discs to celebrate the release of the three album set performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' “Angry Eelectric Finger”. The paint and vinyl was salvaged from the sensibilities it the many facets of sound. Since the 1960's she has local landfill site at Inagh, County Clare, Ireland and recycled here in influenced American Music profoundly through her work with Cooloorta during September and November 2004. The paintings were improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Many credit displayed in Galway, Ireland and Portland, Oregon before being offered her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of for sale. All the paintings are now presented here in a deluxe Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and hardbound book with full color images and a spot gloss coating. improvisational skills. She has been celebrated worldwide. During the Released in an edition of 1500 copies with the album “Zero Mix”." [label 1960's John Rockwell named her work Bye Bye Butterfly as one of the info] most significant of that decade. In the 70's she represented the U.S. at "A few years ago Stapleton put a lot of time and energy in his Angry the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80's she was honored with Electric Finger project. Original NWW-recordings were remixed and a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in reworked by Irr. App. Ext, Cyclobe and Jim O'Rourke and released on Washington D.C.: the 1990's began with a letter of distinction from the three vinyl albums. I remember the Jim O'Rourke LP being particularly American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York: In effective. This boxset celebrates the original AEF-music as created by 2000 the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated with the NWW. The book features images of the 100 discs that were commissioning and performance of her Lunar Opera: Deep Listening handpainted by Stapleton for the AEF-project. They were put on display For_tunes. Oliveros work is available on numerous recordings produced at the Burren School of Art in November 2004 and later auctioned off. by companies internationally." [label info] The small-sized book is brilliant in its gorgeous colors and deluxe paper quality. The Zero Mix is a NWW-album featuring three tracks that make * ONDO - Mahavisnu CD (Paradigm Rec. 022, 2008) € 12.00 up its 40+ minutes of music. Zero Mix features stereophonic rattles, Geheimtip aus Schweden aus dem Doom-Drone-Metal Bereich: ONDO strings being wound up and down, saxophones and various other

89 erschaffen den absoluten Katakomben & Gruft-Sound, auf tiefsten * OÖPHOI - An Aerial View CD (Glacial Movements WSGM001, Höllenschlünden scheint ihr frei-flottierender Angst-Metal-Drone zu 2008) € 13.00 stammen, das ganze klingt sehr eigenständig und authenthisch & tief Erste Veröffentlichung in der neuen Serie von GLACIAL MOVEMENTS, melancholisch.... in der es um musikalisch-atmosphärische Umsetzungen des Themas "The majestic debut full length album from Sweden's Ondo. Intricate, "Eiszeit" geht. Auf "AERIAL VIEW" soll weniger das Klischee von Kälte, textured doomed drone, blackened ambience and lush nocturnal Tod & Isolationismus transportiert werden, als vielmehr eine Darstellung electronica, delicately crafted into a dark cinematic vision. A shadow der erhabenen Stille majestätischer Eis-Landschaften, der Licht- und dreamscape of overpowering density, akin to an intoxicating fusion of Wetter-Phänomene erfolgen... die Umsetzung ist gut gelungen mit early Earth, Raison D'Etre and a touch of the shimmering haze of diesem one-tracker von 65 Minuten, ein "luftiger" Drone mit minimalen Fennesz, perhaps? Presented as a limited edition of 500 copies only, in Harmonien; ruhig, gelassen & unaufdringlich... dvd presentation box with full colour art." [label info] "When I’ve been asked to describe the Ice Age with an uninterrupted ".... Whereas that cd-r was a single looooong song, this disc is split into drone, I knew I wanted to avoid the cliches of the genre: dark rumblings, distinct movements, each a bleak and caustic chunk of truly ominous massive low frequencies, cold atmospheres. I had to describe with ambience. Actually, there is so much stuff going on, and this is so dark sounds the white landscape, the blinding light reflected by the frozen and heavy, it’s almost disingenuous to call it ambient music. This is oceans, the abyssal silence. I have imagined myself in flight over this cinematic abstract free noise drone music. Heavy enough to worm its Sleeping Earth, a solitary winged-being surrounded by winds, air, water way inside the ears of drone inclined metalheads, but dark and blissed and ice. This led me to compose an airy drone with minimal variations out enough to keep the drone obsessed in downtuned druggy nirvana. and delicate tones, an hommage to a pure, incontaminated and remote The label mentions early Earth, Raison D’Etre and Fennesz, and damn land." [credits by Gianluigi Gasparetti / OÖPHOI] if all three of those don’t definitely apply. Pretty melodies are buried under slabs of grinding buzz, chords are woven into undulating sheets * ORGANUM - Omega CD (Die Stadt DS101, 2008) € 15.00 of fuzzy sound, everything is hissy and glitchy, with a gauzy sheen. "...Sitardrones evozieren buddhistische Untertöne, Dröhncluster Imagine Earth 2 as reimagined by Christian Fennesz and you might be schlagen die Stunden, die Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 wie eine Litanei aufzählt: getting close. Chords and notes, churn and throb, blackened sounds A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to pulse ominously enveloping crystalline shimmers and music box like dance; eine Zeit zu suchen und eine Zeit zu verlieren; A time to love, melodies, voices and samples are chopped up and distorted, riffs are and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Omega ist selbst pulled apart into washed out smears of sound. Some of the tracks in sich wieder dreigeteilt und erfüllt in der finalen von drei nahezu definitely border on serious doom territory, while others are blurred gleichen Viertelstunden den ganzen Raum mit pantheistischer distorted dreamscapes, all skittery and smeared, dark pianos, radio Erhabenheit. Jackman nannte (im Interview mit Kevin Spencer) für das, distortion and amp buzz, distant melodic whir, all tangled into something was ihm vorschwebte, big slow shape in time, Kegelschnitte und creepy and beautiful, strings draped over crumbling industrial crunch, all die minimalistischen Lichtinstallationen von Dan Flavin. Kühle, woven around heaving heaviness, rendered in slow moving swells. symmetrische Struktur, warmer Klang, keine Psychologie, keine Way recommended for fans of things slow and low, dark and doomy, höhere Bedeutung. A piece of time, a time of peace." [Bad Alchemy] murky and mysterious. Third part of this great ORGANUM comeback trilogy, more floating LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Packaged in a white dvd style case, again, endless repetitions of the same sounds lead to an experience of with a full color cover and printed black and white insert." [Aquarius timelessness... brilliant sounds & a highly contemplative effect... Records review] * ORSI, FABIO - Find Electronica CD (A Silent Place ASP21, * ONODERA, YUI - Susei CD (and/OAR and/28, 2007) € 13.00 2007) € 13.00 Wunderbare Drone-Wallungen mit sehr soften konkreten Tupfern, FABIO ORSI is another artist using long endless-delays / loops, like Wassersounds, etc.. ein wahrer Hauch an aromatisiertem, magischem AIDAN BAKER or FEAR FALLS BURNING, but his drones are "lighter", Wohlklang, definitiv eines der Highlights des Jahres in Sachen more electronica-like so to say, the atmosphere evoked is less dark, "meditative / minimale" Drones... TIP ! more peaceful and calming. FIND ELECTRONICA presents 3 pieces "Suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. that are maybe his most meditative & and sweet ones, perfect as Edited and re-mastered by Dale Lloyd. With Suisei, each listener's inner background-ambience in the truest sense, using much more synth- cinema will find its camera lens slowly panning and cross-fading from elements as before.. one enigmatic location to another, as if unveiling ambiguous visual "In only two years of work Fabio Orsi has achieved critique and fans, clues pertaining to some wondrous culminating event that many might imposing his name as one of the most promising and representative of not fully understand, yet it will still manage to leave an indelible the entire Italian independent scene. A drift began with the excellent impression upon the subconscious mind and a very subtle pull on the vinyl LP "Osci" (SmallVoices 2005), followed by the famous split CD emotions. A mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an "For Alan Lomax" (A Silent Place, 2006) together with Italian My Cat is unfathomable glistening sea. Packaged in four-color digipak. Very an Alien and a couple of cooperations with Gianluca Becuzzi: "Muddy limited at 300 copies." Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" (A Silent Place 2006) e "The ".... as Suisei is a gorgeous album of darkly textured drones with Stones Know Everything" (Digitalis Industries 2007). Today, as final parallels to Thomas Koner's isolationist compositions or Keith Berry's confirmation of his talent, A Silent Place is proud to present this new precious deconstructions. Wind, rain, and water all make themselves Fabio Orsi solo. "Find Electronica" is a wonderful album finely full of known in the collection of field recordings, as does the pump organ, lyric, structured as a long drone/ambient suite divided in two portions which reveals itself in harmonic sustained tones with a spectral timbre which are the frames of the articulated central track. A strictly personal (e.g. Niblock, Radigue, Chalk, etc.). During a particular enigmatic exercise on the "Weird Folk" theme, hypnotic and seductive. The episode, wooden creaks and sodden groans duet with a motorized "found" electronica meets the humoral sonorities made by the six persistant soft-grind, giving the impression that some unscrupulous chords, projecting enchanted landscapes on a vibrant horizon, with an machine is quietly compacting sinews, meat, and bone. Strangely, it intimate sensibility. Abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy, "Find never sounds macabre or unsettlingly grotesque; rather, these Electronica" is a great album: an essential step in the ascending Fabio's crunching textures situate humbly next to a hypnotic wash of career. Another great/small gem from that "silent place" in the deep compressed static and melancholic shadowy drone, which sublimely Italian South." [label info] shift into a slippery crescendo of grey massed sound. Very, very well done!" [Aquarius Records review] * OSSASERPIA - Mvsic for Solve et Coagvla BOOK & CD (Horus HCD08, 2006) [lim. 500] 26.00 * OPIUM - Algorithms CD (Silentes cd 200615, 2007) € 13.00 "Vladimir Igoshin (Ossaserpia) has created Opus alchymicum, Very nice work again from Italian's OPIUM, quite dense & almost spectacular account of the »work« of the musickal alchemists "cosmic" ambient, but with enough variation and a slight experimental who developed a symbolic kind of psychochemistry, aimed at producing edge, using concrete sounds that are perfectly arranged in the mix, but the gold of mystical illumination through celestial musick. See theories also slow & more "ethnic " percussion & pulses... somewhere between by Robert Fludd (Robertus Fluctibus) and Rosicrucian theories of the STEVE ROACH, OÖPHOI, ALIO DIE and darker stuff like HERBST9... monochord. Very unique drone chamber musick with some strange "Classically elegant and extremely refined ambient music. Multi- industrial elements. Vladimir Igoshin is known for his contributions to dimensional sounds that are warm and enveloping. An emotional HCD compilations such as Lust From The Underworld and/or AL: 100th travelogue, starting dramatically, then taking the listener down a slower Anniversary. Special art-work for an oversized hard-bound book (A5) path, comfortably easing you into a long and fascinating sonic trip, designed by fantastic Madeline von Foerster! Special limited edition where the sounds grow wide and large, and finally crumble inward, then consists of 500 hand-numbered copies in hand-made box covered with regenerate, returning for another phase. A new sonic alchemy, and an rustish top-notch embossed Quilt 120g paper. The oversized embossed entirely new world of soothing sounds for the adventurous listener to hard-bound book (A5) printed on Gmund Kaschmir cream 170g and visit." [label info] embossed CD sleeve-jacket again on Quilt 120g paper. Very rare print for all fans of occult & alchemy! Special limited box on request only!"

90 label notes] matched by large bass drum patterns that culminate in an expansive "Genre: Dark Ambient / Drone / Neo-Classical (Chamber) / Industrial. psychedelic pool of sound. This isn’t glassine drone music. It spews the In today’s climate where record labels seem intent on cheaply mass grit of Tony Conrad and the trance of Terry Riley, while radiating the produced releases to make a few quick bucks it comes as a relief to find experience of a sweat lodge in a behemoth explosion of tribal a record label that actually cares about the presentation to match the minimalism; only digressing for a segment of spatial hums and large music they release. Stepping into the, highly deserved, limelight is the frequencies rubbed from the surfaces of metal, before it dives back into Czech HORUS CyclicDaemon record label founded by Martin Mrskos. oblivion. With no sound processing, the result is a highly natural, All their releases, well the ones I’ve been lucky enough to track down, grossly enigmatic, and deeply energized recording. The power is yours have been impeccable in every respect. What went before though has for the taking." [label info] been overshadowed by this latest release by the artist Vladimir Igoshin "Curious. Just curious. A collaboration between Z'EV, legendary player recording as Ossaserpia. I doubt many labels would have the balls to of percussion and tape-manipulator (among many qualities) and the put out a recording housed in an actual hard bound book, A5 sized, in Portuguese trio of Osso Exotico (Andre Maranha, David Maranha and quality 120g paper and beautifully illustrated by the artwork of Madeline Patricia Machas), the little chamber orchestra of all things minimalist? von Foerster. My eyes still can’t take it all in. I’m not by any means up Maybe it's less of a mystery than it seems. This release lacks any on Art by any stretch of the imagination but I knows what I like and I like information besides artist names and label's website (unless some what I see set before me. The illustrations saying more than any insert is missing), so we have to be guessing (again). Unlike some of amount of words can possibly describe. Which they need to as there his previous collaborations I think it's not the result of some postal are no words to accompany the pictures. A wise decision as it leaves exchange of sound material, but the actual playing together of these the listener to use their own creative imaginations to make of it what four musicians. When you hear it than the unlikeliness of the recording they will as they listen to the music. For this book is best used in seems to vanish - this is music that actually sounds like it belongs conjunction with the recording. Which I suspect was the way it was together. The drones of Osso Exotico, tight, layered, minimalist fits meant to be. Separated both are superb stand alone products. Together actually very well with Z'EV tribalesque percussion work here. It's a jam, they open up undiscovered realms that feeds the senses. The touch, that seems a sure thing. No editing or overdubbing has been used here, smell and sights of the book complimented by the aural grandeur that which is a pity, since as a whole thing it is somewhat too loosely played. Vladimir has composed. Certainly when the four players are 'searching' for a sound. Once the Based on the theories of Robert Fludd (Robertus Fluctibus), 1574-1637, ball gets rolling, it rolls, it makes ripples becoming waves, waves a Kentish Anglican alchemist, mathematician, astronomer, cosmologist becoming thunder storm. It's in these moments when the true power of who wrote thirteen published works in his lifetime and the Rosicrucian the music comes alive. A tribal version of LaMonte Young, the grittiness theories of the monochord. Please Google these for I have not the time, of Tony Conrad on a multiple instruments and the psychedelic power nor the intellect required, to go into great detail here, the music expands that is found in more of the recent Osso Exotico recordings. Despite a on the theory that alchemists developed a symbolic kind of chemistry few flaws in the recording, and the fact that it sounds a bit muffled, this aimed at producing the gold of mystical illumination through celestial is a very nice work. Get them in a proper studio and let them work on it music. Clear as muck then. The concept may well be shrouded in more extensively. " [FdW / Vital Weekly] unintelligible mystery to a Neanderthal knuckle scraper like myself but even I could see what the artist has tried to envision through his music. * PACIFIC 231 & VOX POPULI - Cthulhu Revisitation CD Featuring, what I can only call, a Medieval vibe mixed in with modern [Monochrome Vision (mv16), 2007] € 13.00 Industrial noise and drone sensibilities the twelve tracks are a treat for Material der lange vergriffenen CTHULHU RECORDS - Tapes "Ebats the ears. Though you will need to give it a couple of spins to really get Spirtuels" und "Half Dead Ganja Music", sowie einige unveröffentlichte inside every nuance that Vladimir has created. Stücke aus der gleichen Periode, als die bemerkenswerten VOX From the off perceptions are challenged by the dirge drones and POPULI mit P.231 zusammenarbeiteten... ein ganz neues Stück assorted muted ‘noise’ effects that spread like wildfire from the schliesst diese Compilation ab. speakers. The bass tones are heavy duty and tinted with a dark Was VOX POPULI so besonders gemacht hat, war die gelugenen apparel. Move past this introduction and the speckles of Neo-Classical / Mischung aus Elektronik und Ethno-Instrumentarium, sowie der Chamber music begins to shine forth and suddenly the music takes the betörende Gesang von MITRA KYROU KHALATBARI! semblance of form as Vladimir throws all manner of different black "Extra-ordinary, mystic journey into musical world of these two long- musical combinations into the cauldron that bubbles with an intensity running, legendary french projects. This album was composed from the you never realised possible. You are treated to a music born of fire and old, but also completely new material (1986-2007), it includes both brimstone from an age past brought to life in the present day. As your studio and live recordings, re-arranged and reworked for your listening eyes scan and feast on the pictures of storm clouds, dragons and pleasure. The first ever Vox Populi! CD after many vinyls and tapes entwined couples the music conjures them in the minds eye. At its heart produced in 80-90s. Acoustics and electronics, lyricism and dramatics, the music is surprisingly downbeat and steeped in dark oppressive traditions and avantgarde. Pacific 231 is the project of Pierre Jolivet, a moods where tranquillity appears smashed to a pulp. For all the French musician now residing in Ireland. It came into existence in the unsettling swings the music takes, and it takes a lot, it ends on a note of early 80s and belonged to the first wave of industrial groups. Recently triumph. A glimpse of fortitude winning against all odds. Pierre got interested in ethnic music finds its extension in the most Unlike many recordings that have tried to re-create the whole ‘magical’ recent album"Palestine" recorded for Old Europa Cafe in collaboration dark ambient experience ‘Mvsic For Solve Et Coagvla’ is the only one with Rapoon. Vox Populi! was founded in 1981 by Axel Kyrou and I’ve encountered that has actually got under the skin of its subject released some remarkable LPs in the 80s, including the collaborations matter. I’ll not pretend that it is by any means an easy recording to get with HNAS and Pacific 231. Also interested in experiments with into and many of you may be put off by the way Vladimir has tackled the ethnic and industrial instrumentation, improvising and collages, Vox subject in such an uncompromising way. This might have been the Populi! creates very rich pieces, drawing on psychedelic and traditional Achilles heal for a lesser experienced musician but Vladimir’s music is music, but avantgarde and mystical approach as well." [label info] created in such a way that through repeated plays you become more accustomed to the sounds until finally the clouds break and the full * PACIFIC231 & RAPOON - Palestine CD (Old Europa Cafe visionary aspects opens up before your ears. If there was such a thing OECD096, 2007) € 14.00 as a perfect 10 for both presentation and music working in harmony and Surprising collaboration between the french Industrial pioneer and tandem with each other then ‘Mvsic For Solve Et Coagvla’ would be it. I RAPOON, very hypnotic beats & strange sounds with an "oriental" feel, tell you now that it will be one of the most sought after recordings for this is the electronic dervish-trance ! music lovers and collectors alike this year. With only 500 numbered "Palestine is a face-2-face in memoriam between Pacific 231 & Rapoon copies you’ll need to act fast…or live to regret it." [Alan Milne / Heathen to the late Bryn Jones 1961-1999 a.k.a. Muslimgauze. The production Harvest] also support the justified struggle for a truly free Palestinian nation, a key issue for a middle-east liberated from foreign ingerance. * OSSO EXOTICO & Z'EV - same CD (Crouton Music Music was the modus operandi Muslimgauze wanted to carry the CROU039CD, 2007) [ed. of 500] € 14.50 message and music is the medium we want to continue to convey the "Since 1989, the Portugal avant garde ensemble Osso Exótico have legacy. This regular edition is in-fact also a special edition due to the created a stunning body of work. Current members are André Maranha, special screen printed Protex-Box / Lever Kick-out box and for the black David Maranha and Patricia Machás, but besides the recordings, very coloured playing side of the CD! " [label info] little historical information can be found about the group. Rather, the music speaks for itself. Percussionist Z’EV, who has spent the better * PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE - From Etudes to Cataclysm for the part of 40 years finding ways to coax sound out of material, and then Doppio Borgato do-CD (Sub Rosa SR272, 2008) € 16.00 creating a mystic cacaphony out of it, also uses sound as "After the epiphany of An Aural Symbiotic Mystery by Charlemagne communication. Together, this grouping produces quite a statement, as Palestine and Tony Conrad (SR204) this is the first solo work by sound becomes something unexplained by words, yet shared as an Charlemagne on Sub Rosa - the first but probably not the last - because experience. Here, long stretches of rhythmic and bubbling organ are we would like not only to release some new important material like this

91 one - but re-release too a series of his classic works (most of them, why don't you ask a couple of other pals to do remixes?', it gave me the unfortunately, are unavailable). From Etudes to a Cataclysms is one of idea for this album. It is not simply a remix album, but a collaborative the most important work 'till this day. An impressive composition of project. I chose friends I admired as artists and who inhabit creative more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument - a double piano spaces that are connected in some way and on some level to me and to on which one keyboard is played by the feet." [label info] each other. I gave away my 'babies' to go out to play with the likes of "Several years ago Martin Kaufmann of Kaufmann Pianos in Brussels Andrew W.K., Stephen O'Malley, Lilium, Carter Tutti, Colin Potter, told me he had seen and heard an amazing and unique instrument in Andrew Liles, The Bricoleur, Plinth, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo Italy A piano with 2 separate bodies ! One with a normal grand piano (Larsen), and, of course, Fovea Hex. Even though I had an inkling that body having 88 notes to be played with the fingers, and below this the mixes would fit together as one coherent whole, I had no idea just piano was a second piano also with a grand piano body which could how much they would complement one another. There are also some play simultaneously the lower 37 notes of a grand piano with pedals for previously unreleased tracks including a cover of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's the feet. Having known my music for years and that i had been a 'Even If Love,' which didn't quite make it on Mercy Oceans for aural carilloneur where one plays with both fists and feet simultaneously reasons. However, this cover version has been gently manipulated and Martin Kaufmann thought that the Borgato would be perfect for my star-mangled by Susan Stenger (Band of Susans)." music. The inventor of this unique instrument was Luigi Borgato from [label info / credits] Padua who developed this instrument with his wife Paola I was ".... The sparse, delicate hazy folk of Pantaleimon remixed? Don't intriqued and through an intermediary, the Italian pianist Roberto worry there are no cheesy beats, awkward turntables or sloppy hands Posseda visited the Borgatos in Lonigo where they have their workshop on any of these songs. In fact the first time we listened we had no idea and found that their instrument was perfect for my body and my music. that any of these songs were in fact remixes. Maybe it's because we We immediately decided to organise recording sessions in a local hadn't heard any of these songs in their first incarnation. But wow, church for one week and "From Etudes to Cataclysms" is the result !" we were drawn in immediately. Andria Degens is making such beautiful [Charlemagne Palestine, October 2007] and haunting music as Pantalimon that we almost hesitate to mention that she's married to David Tibet of Current 93, as her own music more * PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE - Sharing a Sonority CD (Alga then stands on its own. But if folks who haven't heard her before and Marghen plana-P 28NMN.068, 2008) € 15.00 are C93 fans check this out then the more ears that hear Pantaleimon Diese CD dokumentiert den ersten & einzigen Auftritt der the better! FUNDAMENTAL D FLAT GROUP - bestehend aus C. PALESTINE, While the sound is similar to the music of folks like Fursaxa, TONY CONRAD und RHYS CHATHAM, die mit Gesang & einigen Grouper and Christina Carter, there is much more immediacy, focus Instrumenten ein langes, kraftvolles & urwüchsiges Drone-Stück and a connection to folk history in the songs of Pantaleimon. While less improvisieren (ein 32 minütiger Mitschnitt vom April 1974 aus New hazy then some of her peers there is a seemingly sonic mist hanging York). Daneben finden sich hier noch zwei sehr ruhige & feine Stücke over her songs which stops you in your tracks. There is also a rustic von PALESTINE im Zusammenspiel mit TERRY JENNINGS (1974) und quality in these stripped down songs that makes us think of Bridget ROBERT FELDMAN (1967). St. John and Hala Strana recording a record together. Plenty of folks "This CD of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you help out by adding sounds and ambience but all do so with much subtly Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of and respect. Who knew Andrew W.K. could be so subtle, his tasteful most important experimental artists and composers from either the New keyboards are heard on the record's opener, and the list of other York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also features world premiere contributors/remixers reads like a who's who of the musical recordings of Terry Jennings and The Fundamental D Flat Group. 'Short underground (Colin Potter, Andrew Lilies, Stephen O'Malley, Fovea & Sweet' is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed Hex, Lilium, etc). Heart Of The Sun is becoming the record we listen to on April 24th by Charlemagne Palestine and Terry Jennings. This CD both early in the morning and then late at night as we surrender to featured a very special duo by Palestine and Feldman playing sleep. So beautiful!" [Aquarius Records review] electronics and flute. The last track on this CD is the first 30 minutes of a recording from April 22, 1974 by The Fundamental D Flat Group PARKIN, NICK – Descent CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL013, 1997) performing in Db. During one trip back to NYC from Cal Arts, € 13.00 Charlemagne Palestine was invited by Tony Conrad (together with "Wie fast immer auf HIC SUNT LEONES, dem ALIO DIE-Label, gibt es Rhys Chatham) to Albright College in New Jersey for a Sunday auch hier wieder feinste "magical ambience". Der Engländer NICK afternoon concert. That was the first and last time The Fundamental D PARKIN benutzt "Strings, Keyboards, Electronics, Flutes, Gongs, Flat Group played in public (Tony Conrad: violin, horn, string drone; Percussions and Manipulated Stones" um seine ganz eigene Version Rhys Chatham: flute, organ, string drone; Charlemagne Palestine: von Ambient einzuspielen. Auf 62 Minuten Länge kreiert er einen voice, pipes, snifter)." [label info] abwechslungsreichen akusmatischen Genuß, ist nicht einseitig monoton, produziert aber auch keine atmosphärischen "Brüche", ...alles * PANTALEIMON - Mercy Oceans CD (Durtro Jnana 007, 2007) fließt, ist geheimnisvoll, spannend und lebendig." [old Drone info] € 14.00 Back in stock the first NICK PARKIN-album from 1997 !! "Mercy Oceans is the long-anticipated second full-length from Andria "A meditative obscure travel with acoustic and electronic treated Degens. The album follows the critically acclaimed Cloudburst EP sounds. First solo album from a member of Tuu and Stillpoint project." released earlier this year, and features Baby Dee, Isobel Campbell, [label info] Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), and John Contreras. Mercy Oceans is an album of exceptional beauty and depth. All ten * PARMEGIANI, BERNARD - L'Oeuvre Musicale 12 xCD-Box (INA tracks are stunningly captivating. The CD comes packaged in a GRM 6000/11, 2008) € 49.50 beautiful digipak with a full-color booklet containing lyrics, along with Das (vermutlich) gesamte Werk von BERNARD PARMEGIANI in einer artwork by Beth Carter and photography by Cam Archer. 12er CD Box zum unfassbaren Preis, inkl ein 92seitiges Booklet. In "Andria Degens is based in Hastings, southern England, but the sparse Box. Wahrscheinlich nur für kurze Zeit erhältlich! clarity of her music as Pantaleimon seems to exist in its own unique, "33 compositions from 1964 to 2007 with a 92 pages booklet in French indefinable space.... Its vivid simplicity is, in its own quiet way, quite and English. The best way to enter into the world of Bernard stunning." --Tom Ridge, The Wire Parmegiani, French composer of musique concrete, member of the "... Degens makes music which is so effortlessly gorgeous it almost GRM group. CD1 : Violostries. Jazzex. L'instant mobile. Capture defies belief. There is an icy simplicity to her compositions, a fragility or éphémère. CD2 : Bidule en ré. Pop'eclectic. Du pop à l'âne. frailty maybe, and this gives them a soft, melancholy feel, which makes Ponomatopées. Musico Picassa. Et après… CD3 : L'œil écoute. Pour them almost impossible to forget. For some reason I am reminded of en finir avec le pouvoir d'Orphée. La roue ferris. CD4 : Enfer. CD5 : De Jewelled Antler Collective man Steven R. Smith or possibly Ben natura sonorum. CD6 : Dedans-dehors. La table des matières. Des Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), but what Degens has done is bring mots et des sons. CD7 : La création du monde. CD8 : Exercismes. CD9 a feminine touch to the masses of male-dominated free folk." --Boomkat : Litaniques. Rouge mort : Thanatos. E pericoloso sporgersi. CD10 :

Trilogie plain temps. CD11 : Sonare. Sons - Jeux. La mémoire des * PANTALEIMON - Heart of the Sun CD (Durtro Jnana DJ008CD, sons. CD12 : Immer/Sounds. Espèces d'espaces. Au gré du souffle, le 2008) € 12.00 son s'envole. Rêveries." [label info] Eine gar illustre Schar von Musikern & Projekten remixten für dieses

Album Songs von ANDRIA DEGENS aka PANTALEIMON, daneben * PÄRT, ARVO - Tabula Rasa CD (Audiophile Classics APC gibt es einige "echte" Kollaborationen und vorher unveröffentlichte 101.058) € 13.00 Stücke von ihr. Folkiger, "magischer" Ambient in wunderbaren & Diese Kollektion zeigt mit 4 Werken den "frühen" ARVO PÄRT, der wundersamen Variationen, kein Stück ist doppelt vorhanden... anfangs noch dem Serialismus und der Collagen-Technik verhaftet war, "The whole thing started when Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex) asked if bevor er sich Ende der 60er wieder "romantischer" klassischer Musik she could remix 'Under The Water.' Of course, I said yes. When she zuwandtet.. Enthält: "Tabula Rasa" (1977), "Symphony No.1" (1964), came back with such remarkable music, and casually mentioned, 'Oh,

92 "Collage on the Thema B-A-C-H" (1964), "Pro et Contra" (1966), with British newcomer with a nice one-tracker of ghostly ambience, dark and booklet and liner-notes (english). Recorded by Congress Orchestra, St. transcendental noises from another reverberating dimension, develops Petersburg, 1995. some real suction to the end.. quite subtle stuff, worth to check out ! "Like listening to sounds from inside a shell or the wind in the trees, * PETERS, STEVE - Three Rooms CD (SIRR Ecords sirr0029, Transitions The latest album from Psychic Space Invasions is an epic 2007) € 15.00 40 minute drone, that becomes part of the space it inhabits, the faraway Exquisites Soundscape-Album mit drei Stücken, die völlig verschiedene bells and distant vocals merely shadows and spectres. Deeply Ansatzpunkte haben; ob field recordings, Objekt-Geräusche, der eigene introspective and filled with melancholy beauty, this album is easy to get Atem, PETERS entwirft stets sehr subtile und langsam dahingleitende lost in, everything ceasing as the final chords drift away." [Terrascope] Stücke mit faszinierender Aura... "We are very proud to present the music of Steve Peters, which Alvin * QUELLET, ISRAEL - Oppressum CD (Sub Rosa SR244, 2007) Curran once described as "pure, restrained, and rigorously beautiful." € 13.00 Originally composed as sound installations, these three delicate pieces "Quellet's music is not really outsider sound art, but it shares strong - or rooms, as the title states - are the result of very personal similarities with it. It explores a debarred universe almost impossible to investigation regarding the interaction between physical spaces and the escape. A minute - albeit extreme - exploration of sound (particularly experience of listening. The selected compositions on the disc seem to through saturation), mystical discourse and excesses. However, the emanate themselves from these spaces to continuously create room(s) composer is also pictured as a regular guy living in a Swiss town, a guy for the listener, intensifying quietly and subtly our awareness. who likes to toy with the local church's organ, accompanied by his wifeŠ In "Delicate Abrasions," all of the sounds are derived from tactile Sound materials come from a number of sources: the local church's interaction with the interior surfaces and materials of an old warehouse organ, rented or borrowed percussion instruments (bass drum, building in Santa Fé, New Mexico: nails, dust, sliding door, concrete, timbales, gong, djembe), various objects being struck (his oil tank at metal, glass, and wood. These seemingly inert materials yield a home struck with hammers and iron rods), pipes, faucets, telephone beautiful music hidden within the walls (and ceiling, and floor) of this touch pads, power tools, sound-producing toys, voice, mouth sounds, otherwise mute and neglected space. throat sounds, and wheelbarrows." [label info] "Center of Gravity" was composed for an installation with artist Susan York of one of her "graphite rooms," which evoke the contemplative * RADIGUE, ELIANE - CHRY-PTUS do-CD (Schoolmap space of a Japanese rock garden. The sound was made entirely with SCHOOL2, 2007) € 16.50 Steve's own breath and real-time electronic processing. Each individual Minimal / Drone-Werk von 1971 in neueren Versionen: Zwei Tapes mit breath was treated as its own miniature composition. These short Drones werden simultan abgespielt, es entstehen je nach Phasen- pieces are then layered and punctuated by silences of random length. verschiebung verschiedene Obertöne und subtile Harmonien. The final piece, "Mountains Hidden in Mountains," is made entirely from Man muss sich viel Zeit lassen, um die sich allmählich verändernden one strike of the densho (meditation bell) at a Zen Buddhist temple in Strukturen wahrzunehmen innerhalb des sanften mechanischen New Mexico. The sound of the bell never quite dies away, instead Summen, in dem leicht klopfende Soundtropfen entstehen. Die revealing the complex dance of overtones in the air and ever-deepening Wahrnehmung folgt dem ganzen nach einer Weile in scheinbar pure waves. It was adapted as a participatory sound installation in a unendlicher Rückkopplung, es entstehen Bewusstseins-Bereiche der faux bell tower at the Santa Fé Art Institute in 2004." [label info] Zeitlosigkeit.... Hier enthalten sind zwei Versionen des Stückes, eine mit GIUSEPPE IELASI. Faszinierend! * PILIA, STEFANO - The Suncrows Fall and Tree CD (Sedimental " 'Chry-ptus' (1971). Originally two tapes which are to be played sedcd045, 2006) € 13.00 simultaneously, with or without synchronisation, which does not affect Promising album by this italian artist (who is a member of the fabulous the structure of the work, but creates changes in the game of sub- 3/4HADBEENELIMINATED), who interweaves drones & interesting field harmonics and overtones. Three variations on this piece were recordings in a skillful way...to discover ! performed at the New York Cultural Center in 1971, with variations of "The Suncrows Fall and Tree bolsters Stefano Pilia's small but amplitude and location modulation as well as synchronisation. Realised substantial and well received body of solo work (LVD, Time-Lag) along on the Buchla Synthesizer at the New York University. The booklet with his participation in the highly lauded 3/4HadBeenEliminated project contains a text by painter Paul Jenkins, who also realised the with Valerio Tricoli and Claudio Rocchetti. The new document contains watercolor on the front cover, written on occasion of Radigue's first two 20-minute long sound arcs that are sweeping and focused, concert in New York, April 6th, 1971. CD 1 : 'Chry-ptus I' (1971). 'Chry- essentially drone pieces. They are beautiful in their restraint but not ptus', version 2001, realised by Eliane Radigue with the assistance of 'pretty' and are grounded in the subtle use of acoustic and natural Stefano Bassanese at CCMIX, Paris. CD 2 : 'Chry-ptus II' (1971). 'Chry- sound elements. The work was composed and recorded between 2003 ptus', version 2006, realised by Giuseppe Ielasi, Milano." [label info] and 2005 in Bologna, Milano, Codroipo and Arbatax using the following sound sources and devices: electric guitar, field recordings, * RAPOON - Time Frost CD (Glacial Movements GM003, 2007) microphones, piano, tape noise, instruments played by wind, sine € 13.00 waves, PVC tubes, filters with an additional contribution from Andrea "Eine neue Eiszeit breitet sich aus; ihr Zentrum liegt (Vielleicht ist auch Belfi of high frequency synth. Besides the above mentioned projects, hier der Klimawandel am Werk, der für paradoxe Effekte sorgt.) im Pilia is also a member of the Medves project and a collaborator with sonnigen Italien, genauer gesagt beim kürzlich vorgestellten Label Black Forest/Black Sea and has contributed to numerous installation GLACIAL MOVEMENTS RECORDS, ins Leben gerufen von and film sound works." [label info] ALESSANDRO TEDESCHI mit dem Ziel, sich speziell den Klängen eisiger Welten zu widmen. Nach dem Sampler „Cryosphere“ und einer * PROPERGOL - Ground Proximity Warning System CD Silberscheibe von TEDESCHIs eigenem Projekt NETHERWORLD hat (Annihilvs APEX004, 2006) [lim. 500] € 13.00 unlängst die dritte Veröffentlichung des jungen Labels das kalte Licht "ANNIHILVS is proud to present, in association with STRIDULUM der Polarsonne erblickt. Waren bereits auf dem Sampler keine RECORDINGS, the newest epic addition to French electronic sound Unbekannten vertreten, so ist mit Klangtüftler ROBIN STOREY von terrorist PROPERGOL's impressive discography, GROUND RAPOON, seines Zeichens Mitbegründer des Musikkollektivs ZOVIET PROXIMITY WARNING SYSTEM. More than two years in the making, FRANCE, weitere Prominenz an Bord gekommen. Und STOREY GROUND PROXIMITY WARNING SYSTEM represents a mammoth schafft es mit „Time Frost“, dem eisigen Thema inhaltlich einen neuen undertaking of research and sampling. Focussing solely on the theme Aspekt abzugewinnen, indem er ein aktuelles (manche möchten of airline disasters. and featuring a more densely somber, ultra-dark vielleicht sagen strapaziertes) Thema aufgreift: den Klimawandel. ambience than prior albums, this is a recording which will chill the Während über die wahren Ausmaße dieses Phänomens (Ja, nein, listener to the bone. The fear is palpable, the panic is imminent, and the vielleicht - und wenn ja mit welchen Auswirkungen?) diskutiert wird, ground is rushing up all too quickly. Brace yourselves for impact, this is spielt STOREY ein Szenario durch, in dem die Folgen der by far PROPERGOL's finest release to date." [label info] Erderwärmung paradoxerweise zu einer neuen Eiszeit in Europa "....This album is more ‘ambient’ than the other power electronics geführt haben, unter deren Gletschermassen die Ruinen der albums, but still ‘very Propergol’. Tons of samples (this time of airplanes menschlichen Zivilisation begraben liegen und auf ihre Entdeckung in distress), extremely dark and threatening in sound, but this time just durch zukünftige Archäologen warten. Stellvertretend für die im Eis not with the extreme noise outbursts. But… you will not be entirely begrabenen Überreste dieser untergegangenen Kultur stehen bei devoid of noise! This album may be a good introduction to Propergol for STOREY Soundfragmente aus der berühmten „Schönen blauen Donau“ people who are not familiar with this French project, but who are not von JOHANN STRAUß, deren Aufnahme er passenderweise aus einer sure about power electronics. For Propergol addicts I can only say that anderen Zukunftsvision entnommen hat: dem Soundtrack des this album won’t let you down for sure!" [Gangleri] KUBRICK-Films „2001: Odyssee im Weltraum“, der gänzlich aus bereits vorhandenen Werken aus Klassik und Moderne besteht. Bei STOREY * PSYCHIC SPACE INVASION - Transitions CD (Persepolis indes bilden die Fragmente von „An der schönen Blauen Donau“ so Records, 2008) € 13.00 etwas wie die Ausgangspunkte der fünf Stücke, in denen dann die

93 ursprüngliche klassische Komposition bis zur Unkenntlichkeit Bedeutungs- & Erfahrungsebenen, für mehrmaliges Hören wie verfremdet und verzerrt wird – die akustische Wiedergabe einer geschaffen.. Vorstellung von Musik, die über Jahrtausende im Eis eingeschlossen Wie auch für viele der BRUME-Alben gilt: unsere wärmste Empfehlung ! und in ihrem kalten Gefängnis der Eisdrift, den Bewegungen und "Ex-Voto - a votive offering to a saint or divinity. ‘I see words’ Verwerfungen der treibenden Gletscher, ausgeliefert ist. So wie das Eis With ‘ex-voto’, Christian Renou has forsaken his analogue machines to sich in diesem Prozess immer wieder verformt, gestaucht und gestreckt encourage a fresh approach via digital technology. As Renou states in wird, sich übereinanderstapelt, bricht und wieder neu verschmilzt, so his liner notes – he cannot escape narrative structures in his music – verformt und verändert sich auch die darin eingeschlossene Music: his sounds are so evocative of soundtracks without an actual film – „Like ghosts of music trapped in the evershifting permafrost“. encouraging the listener to conjure their own accompanying images. Eine eigenartig berührende Zukunftsvision, und wenn man das Ganze Yes, it is incredibly melodic, hauntingly so, though at times this is unter diesem Oberbegriff noch etwas weiter denkt, könnte man sich broken by shards of noise and implacable clicks. Midway through ‘ex- neben „2001: Odyssee im Weltraum“ noch ein weiteres Mal an voto’, alien beats provide a base for further evocative outpourings of KUBRICK, beziehungsweise an SPIELBERG erinnern. Das Ende der human vs. machine visions. The introduction of strings brings an Science-Fiction Parabel „A.I. – Künstliche Intelligenz“, die KUBRICK elegiac quality to the composition. Renou, when creating this narrative, aufgrund fehlender technischer Möglichkeiten immer wieder did not deny the ghosts of history in the name of progress… aufgeschoben und schließlich STEVEN SPIELBERG zur Umsetzung The disintegration and contamination of a guitar motif appears „vererbt“ hat, führt den Zuschauer in eine ferne, eiszeitliche Zukunft, in alongside chopped rhythms and often indistinguishable words. These der die Überreste der Zivilisation von Eismassen und gefrorenen distant, half-remembered voices babble incoherent noise which battle Ozeanen bedeckt sind; und wer die entsprechenden Szenen vor Auge against the sweet, sweet cracked melodies which pitter-patter and hat, dem fällt es leicht, sich bei „Time Frost“ ähnliches vorzustellen. dance around your head. An underlying, delicate metallic whirring plays Spannend ist die Idee, ein Musikstück vor einem elektronisch-eiskalten against a near indecipherable reverie, before the initial guitar melody Hintergrund die Verformungen und Transformationen des ewigen Eises rears its head for a final time. Layer upon layer of hubble, bubble, toil, mitmachen zu lassen. An der Umsetzung ist nicht zu meckern; was but no trouble, ensures this body of work to be Renou’s masterpiece schließlich herauskommt ist angemessen eisig, bekommt für die Idee [Frans de Waard / Vital claimed that this more melodic route was einen Novitätsbonus – und ein Hauch von Knistermusik ist auch dabei. something that he’d like to hear more of, whereas Barry G. Nichols / Europa ohne uns. Und wenn man schon einmal in dieser herrlichen Whiteline blog / Spekk recording artist, extolled the virtues of Renou’s Untergangsstimmung ist, dann sollte man gleich die Lektüre von ALAN ‘genius’ with this recording] 'I see death'. The cd is packaged in the WEISMANs „Die Welt ohne uns“ anschließen, in dem die Menschheit usual high standard expected of elsieandjack. spot varnish and silver gleich gänzlich verschwindet (inklusive der Archäologen), so dass man ink over beautiful photography and simple layout, printed on thick alle Hoffnung auf die Entdeckung ihrer Ruinen auf außerirdische cardstock - plus Renou’s liner notes printed on a vellum overlay. Forscher setzen müsste. " [Caillean K. für nonpop.de] Remember, there is a hand-numbered edition of 100 with laser-etched "One of the predicted swings in the weather due to global warming is jewelcases only available direct from Christian Renou and paradoxically a new ice age which could envelope Europe. Time Frost elsieandjack." [label info] is music based upon this concept and uses tiny fragments of music from an iconic European composition, Johann Strauss's Blue Danube. I * REUTOFF - Deprivatio CD (Ewers Tonkunst HHE 017 CD, imagined that tiny pieces of former cultures survived locked in the ice 2008) € 12.00 and waiting for future archaeologists to discover and interpret them.I Ganze fünf Jahre nach "Gute Nacht, Berlin" endlich das neue Album used vinyl lock grooves of the Blue Danube (from the 1968 MGM der Moskauer Ambient Industrial / Elektronik Band, die es wie wenig recording for the film soundtrack 2001 ) These formed the starting andere verstehen eine wirklich hoffnungslose Atmosphäre zwischen points for the five compositions in Time Frost which were then Misantrophie und trister Melancholie aufzubauen... manipulated and added to and re-arranged into new compositions. "... Reutov ist eine von Moskaus kleinen Satellitenstädten, die haupt- Time Frost is an imaginary recording of the mutational process of sound sächlich aus Industrieanlagen besteht. Ihr wird von den Band- locked into ice and transformed over millenia. Like ghosts of music mitgliedern, die alle in der Nähe leben, eine ganz besondere trapped in an evershifting permafrost." [Robin Storey, August 2007] Atmosphäre zugeschrieben, die man beim Hören der Musik als trübe Industriemelancholie zwischen Zerfall und Science Fiction begreifen * RAPOON - The Library of the Dead CD (Ewers Tonkunst HHE könnte; eine Stimmung, wie sie in Deutschland manche alte Häfen oder 018CD, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 Güterbahnhöfe ausstrahlen. Ein Faible für den Klang der deutschen "The second CD from Robin Storey on Ewers Tonkunst after the Sprache, das sich auch in vielen deutschen Songtiteln ausdrückt, hat “Mental Traveller” collaboration with Cisfinitum released in 2006. This aus dem 'v' am Ende der Stadt das doppelte 'f' für den Bandnamen time Russian artist is also involved and it is a folk singer Tatyana werden lassen. “Toloka” Stepchenko who has also took part in one track on the above Wie immer ist auch dieses REUTOFF-Album eine Antwort auf die mentioned album. Tatyana kindly recorded some songs for Rapoon a Frage, wozu eigentlich Dark Ambient erfunden wurde. Die fantastisch- capella and allowed him to pull apart, re-arrange, cut-up and re-sample düstere Stimmung erwächst stets aus der Musik der Russen selbst, und her voice into the sounds and arrangements on this album. The result is nicht – wie bei vielen Genrekollegen – aus den großen Worten, die a very delicate and enlightened work, it is a kind of a sonic travel begleitend zur Musik gemacht werden. Aber – endlich eine through clean and vast spaces of Russian North to find some ancient Veränderung – "Deprivatio" ist nicht mehr so durchweg archaisch wie and ancestral recollections, made using typical Rapoon sound tools, noch die ersten Arbeiten, es ist ebenfalls nicht mehr so homogen great and unique voice of Toloka and some very fresh and clear industriell wie die beiden letzten Alben "Unseen Rituals" (2002) und ambient tunes. The release limited to 500 copies comes in a stylish "Gute Nacht, Berlin!" (2003). Die neue CD ist die bislang dynamischste, digisleeve with artwork by Robin Storey." [label info] abwechslungsreichste, aufregendste und futuristischste Veröffentlichung von REUTOFF. * RENOU, CHRISTIAN - Ex-Voto CD (Elsie & Jack Recordings # Hypnotisch ist der Beginn. Zum Dauerloop eines Kindersummens gibt 016, 2007) € 13.00 eine rauchige, weibliche Sprechstimme auf Englisch Anweisungen, was In den Liner-Notes zu EX-VOTO erklärt CHRISTIAN RENOU das zu tun ist: "Stellen Sie Sich vor, Sie sitzen in einem riesigen Theater mit Scheitern seines Anspruchs, mit Beendigung von BRUME alle schwarzen Sitzen und können nur eine einzige Sache sehen..." So narrativen & lyrischen Elemente hinter sich zu lassen und die reine düster und geheimnisvoll die ersten Sounds, so beruhigend sind die "Struktur von Klang als Molekular-Zustand" zu erforschen (seitdem Worte. Später passt sich die Musik an und entspannt sich Richtung benutzt er Computer zur Sounderzeugung & Aufnahme). Alles Downbeat, garniert mit verhuschten Männerstimmen und noisigen Nachdenken und Philosophieren über Musik half ihm nicht, den Geräuschen. Der Opener bereitet die futuristische Atmosphäre, die das "wahren" Kern zu finden, denn "Mikro"- und "Makro"-Struktur sind ganze Album durchzieht. Noch häufiger im Verlauf der knapp 73 letztlich ein und dasselbe, selbst die abstrakteste Form von Klang Minuten kommt sich der Hörer vor, als würde er durch einen von erzeugt Narration sobald sie ertönt. Diese frustrierende Erkenntnis führt STANISLAW LEM entworfenen Park lebender Maschinen wandern. aber zu einer neuen Freiheit in der Komposition, letztlich ist all seine Auch das intelligente Songwriting – wenn man bei einem zehnminütigen Musik einfach "Seelen-Musik" und nichts anderes. Dark Ambient-Track davon überhaupt sprechen kann – offenbart sich Auf EX-VOTO geht RENOU neue Wege und benutzt geräuschhafte gleich zu Beginn. Überraschungen wie eine eingeflochtene und beinahe Feldaufnahmen aus einer Kirche (dort gespielte Violinenklänge & folkige Akustikgitarre sowie versteckte und vertrackte Melodien und Gesang). Es gibt wunderbare melodische Parts und elektro-akustische Rhythmen machen aus einem langen auch einen sehr abwechslungs- Noise-Elemente, Wasser- und Strömungsklänge, irgendwo taucht reichen Soundteppich. Es folgt ein eher klassisches Dark pathetischer Frauengesang auf, Verfremdung und Re- Ambient/Noise-Stück, dessen Drones in Verwandtschaft zu SAL Kontextualisierung setzt RENOU wieder in sagenhafter Art und Weise SOLARIS gleißen und schimmern wie Sonnen im Weltall. Großes Kino, ein. So viele verschiedene Ebenen & Stimmungen hier sind zu erfahren im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes, denn REUTOFF-Alben werden immer , kurz: EX-VOTO ist ein beeindruckendes Werk mit mehreren gerne mit der Stimmung von Filmmusiken oder Filmen – unter anderem "Stalker" von TARKOWSKIJ – verglichen. Und selten traf dieser

94 Vergleich so zu wie bei "Deprivatio", auch bedingt durch die technisch Even without referring to the word of Buddha, this interdependence hervorragende, satte Produktion. between all beings is easy to understand". [label info] "American Whores" geht dann wieder einen gänzlich anderen Weg. Die Collage bringt zu einem Bass, der auch MASSIVE ATTACK oder * RILEY, TERRY - Music for the Gift CD (Elision Fields EF 105, MOBY alle Ehre machen würde, ganz unterschiedliche Samples 2007) € 14.00 zusammen. Musik der 1920er-Jahre, fast eine Minute lang solo. Dazu Die wohl allerfrühesten Aufnahmen von TERRY RILEY in der Re- verdichten sich die Trainerin eines Fitnesskurses und ein release Serie sind hier zu finden! MUSIC FOR THE GIFT enthält das Kirchenprediger mit Chor – in Kombination mit dem Namen des Songs legendäre Titelstück von 1963, wo Jazz-Klänge von CHET BAKER & – zu einer infernalischen Amerikakritik. Nie wirken solche Samples Band mit Tape-Delays versehen werden (fängt noch recht gewöhnlich belanglos, sie unterstützen bei REUTOFF immer die Atmosphäre des an wird aber immer ausufernder und experimenteller), daneben auch Tracks. das unglaubliche MESCALIN MIX (1960-1962) (inspiriert von Meskalin- Auch der einzige deutsch betitelte Song, "In Die Leere Gehen", ist eines Experimenten & via obskurer Bandschleifen-Installation von ihm zu der Highlights: Hier ein strahlendes Universum mit synthetischen Hause aufgenommen, voller runtergezogener Stimmen, Piano-Klängen, Engelschören, dort düstere Gewittercluster, die glauben machen, dass Echos, dumpf & dröhnig, backward-Effekte...) sich die Hölle öffnet – fehlt nur noch ein Sample von Luzifer persönlich. Zusätzlich gibt es noch einen Mitschnitt eines Konzertes vom 11. Mai "Sun Of Sleepless" ist mit seinen knallenden und knirschenden Beats 1960 (Berkelely) mit LA MONTE YOUNG zu hören, wo beide mit 2 eine weitere Empfehlung für die Macher des nächsten Endzeit- Pianos & 5 Bandmaschinen aufführten (Radiomitschnitt mit Streifens; mit laut wehenden Fahnen geht die Welt unter. Und zum Kommentar). Abspann verglüht "25-th Hour" wie die letzte Moll-Hoffnung eines im "This CD brings together four seminal tape works of Terry Riley. futuristischen Kerker eingesperrten VANGELIS. Für so viele The Gift music was performed in Paris 1963 by Chet Baker, with tape Höhepunkte übersieht man gerne die wenigen schwächeren Momente, manipulations by Riley-- the first use of tape delay to fragment, etwa die Mischung aus Ethno und Dark Ambient mit piepsigen Loops attenuate, and return time, looping tape through twin-tape recorders. menschlicher Geräusche ("Nemesis"). The Gift recordings, referred to often by Soft Machine members, is the Alles an "Deprivatio" atmet russische "Metropolis"-Atmosphäre. Das precursor to the landmark that launched the minimalist movement In C. Individuum zwischen Experiment, größenwahnsinniger Industrie, "Bird of Paradise" is a radical tape-manipulation work, the earliset Verlassenheit und Zerfall. Damit ist die neue REUTOFF- known plundering that inspired Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain"-era Veröffentlichung längst nicht mehr nur ein Stimmungsbericht aus phase recordings. "Mescalin Mix" is a tape-loop recording from 1960- Reutov, sondern ein Abbild des neuen, modernen Russlands. 62, partly inspired by Riley's experience with mescalin and the work he Genreuntypische Experimente, die gekonnte Verknüpfung diverser did with Richard Maxfield. For this recording, the tape-loops extended Samples und Abwechslung in Tempo und Klangbild sorgen dafür, dass out Riley's window to a wine-bottle spindle in the yard; it was composed "Deprivatio" eines der besten und ausdrucksstärksten Dark Ambient- for choreographer Anna Halprin's The Three-Legged Stool. Alben der vergangenen Jahre ist. Es macht außerdem sehr neugierig Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders was recorded live at auf die angekündigten Kollaborationen im Herbst." Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in 1960 with a humorous [Michael We. für nonpop.de] broadcast narrative/play-by-play by Glenn Glasow. It was performed by "Finally, since five years after their 2003 “Gute Nacht Berlin” on Albin Riley and La Monte Young." [label info] Julius HauRuck!, here is the long-awaited full-length solo CD from this most well-known Russian industrial project worldwide. “Deprivatio” is a * RLW + TITO - Mahlzeit CD (Hinterzimmer Records HINT03, sad story of a person surrender to the enemy environment, it’s about 2008) € 13.00 idle struggle with time and fatigue, about constant withering of passions Really weird album with 12 tracks about the theme "meal" and "eating", and imminent vitality deprivation. Being maybe the most hopeless and solo- & collab-tracks using field recordings & body function-noises, oral sad work for the band, this album is paradoxically their most rhythmic throw-offs, singing, toys & kitchen tools, combined with various and dynamic. There are more noisy drum loops and electro sounds instruments & electronics. At times this reminds on RUNZELSTIRN & here than martial drum patterns and old school noise, but their unique GURGELSTOCK, at others on a free impro chaos group, and it also deep and profound melodic main themes are still remain as the has some real roaring low concrete drone stuff, you haven't heard basement for the brilliant new tracks of despair and downfall. The something that crazy for a long time we're sure! ascetic b&w artwork was done by Murad Ibatullin known for the recent "For his new ambitious project 'Mahlzeit' (german for 'meal') Ralf “Iznutri” compilation. The release comes as a jewel box with 6 panel Wehowsky teamed up with Hamburgs Transindustrial Toy Orchestra booklet, the first 100 copies come with 33x21 two sided poster." [label (TITO), a loose collective of people working in music and other art info] forms. Current members Peter Kastner, Ine Ophof and Jan Van Wissen created their part of the conceptual work with their vast collection of * RIMPOCHE, BOKAR - Sacred Chants and Tibetan Rituals from toys and kitchen tools, using electronic devices to transform them into the Monastery of Mirik CD (Sub Rosa SR264, 2007) € 13.00 bizarre acoustic situations while Wehowsky contributes another strange Die mantrischen Gebets-Gesänge des indischen Mönchs BOKAR mix of electronics, instruments, voice and body functions. All in all RIMPOCHE, solo oder in der Gruppe, aufgenommen im Himalaya. 'Mahlzeit' is a collaborative release, but in a special way as some tracks Anmutig & sakral & wunderschön! were created by Ralf Wehowsky using sounds by Tito and vice versa, "Recorded in Mirik Monastery (in the northeastern India) with the total but some were just done by one part of the project, assimilalting collaboration of Bokar Rimpoche - all the pieces were edited by the suggestions from the other part. It mixes electroacoustic composition, filmmaker Guy Maezelle (Bokar Rimpoché : Meditation Master). early electronic music and bizarre Kraut-era avantgarde. The Bokar Rimpoche: Acknowledged as a Great Master of Tibetan heterogeneous but totally coherent and self-contained 'Mahlzeit' is not Buddhism, Bokar Rimpoche (1940-2004) devoted his whole life to just a great experience and expansion of the musical activity of all meditation. Having fled Tibet in 1959, he lived in exile, isolated in a little involved, but also an album of fine music that is not easy to label." [label monastery in the mountains. The spiritual son of Kalou Rimpoché, a notes] close relation of the Dalai Lama and Meditation Master of the 17th Karmapa, Bokar Rimpoche was the heir and representative of an * ROCCHETTI, CLAUDIO - Another Piece of Teenage Wildlife CD ancestral knowledge (of the Kagyü line) passed along from generation (Die Schachtel ZEIT09, 2008) € 14.00 to generation and holding wisdom that still enlightens us today. These "Taking plaintive tones of drone music and early electronic and tape recordings match Guy Maezelle's film Bokar Rimpoche: Maître de experiments, 3/4hadbeeneliminated former member Claudio Rocchetti méditation and feature sacred chants recorded by Bokar Rimpoche has defined his personal sound signature, building a subtle, at time himself and ritual music from the Mirik Monastery (Himalayan majestic landscape. Using a wide variety of instruments (synthesizer, Mountains in Northern India, between Bhutan and Nepal). tone generators, organs, guitar, tape machines) he creates an A message from Bokar Rimpoche: "We, practising Buddhists, must absorbing sound that is mainly composed by layers of loops fading into understand that all that we accomplish in this life results originally from each other, ethereal vocals, repetition, melody, noise. An emotional our mothers goodness. For it is first thanks to her that we are able to resonance with a tinge of melancholia that permeates every moment survive. It is her that fed us, clothed us, and who took care of our and creates a sense of longing and nostalgia. Tri-fold digipak. " [press education. But in reality, our whole life depends on all the other beings release] and their activities. For example, meat, milk and butter are given to us "... Rocchetti's solo music is less complex than the band, more intimate, by the animals. Our food, our clothes, our home depend on the work more drone like but likewise beautiful. His guitar playing sounds like and effort of many other beings. In other words, on this earth, every day Ambarchi versus Ielasi, while his ominous drone music is more like of our lives is lived depending on an infinite number of other beings for Mirror or Monos. Nice intimate improvisation/drone music." [FdW / Vital no one, since their birth, can survive alone. They would have no food Weekly] and no clothes. So we must be aware that our life depends on the contribution of many other beings who show goodness towards us . Therefore it is all beings, without exception, that we should hold dear !

95 * RUHLMANN, MATHIEU & CELER - Mesoscaphe CD (SPEKK [label info] KK:014, 2008) € 15.50 Die Ko-operation von MATHIEU RUHLMANN und CELER führt * SAVAGE REPUBLIC - Siam CD-EP (Independent Project (sub)marine & ozeanische field recordings und melancholische Records, 2007) € 8.50 Instrumentalklänge zusammen, deep drones & deep emotions. Absolut For the collectors: SIAM marked the comeback of SR, includes material verzaubernder Transzendental-Ambient, der aber auch klanglich not available anywhere else ! Numbered edition. überzeugt mit vielen klaren Details. Auf dem japanischen SPEKK-Label "The first studio release by Savage Republic since 1989. This is a wie immer exquisit designed & verpackt! limited edition EP produced for the 2007 "Siam" tour. Features hand- "The album 'Mesoscaphe' is a sound work dedicated to the 1969 letterpressed covers by Bruce Licher at Independent Project Press. voyage of the Ben Franklin, the naturally-propelled submarine created More information and samples available at the Savage Republic to explore the currents of the Gulf Stream, and the nature of the sea. MySpace site." [label info] Half of the sound is composed of original pieces of music, meant to symbolize a deepening human element culled from memory, from * SAVAGE REPUBLIC - 1938 CD (Neurot Rec. NR-053, 2007) strings, pianos, and electronics. The other half of the sound is € 13.50 composed of natural field recordings, of the Ben Franklin itself, as well Eine DER Überraschungen des Jahres 2007 war das neue Album der as the surrounding oceans and habitats, with the intention of providing "Art-Punk" Band aus L.A.! realism through sound, just as if it were an actual document from the "Eigentlich könnte die kalifornische Band Savage Republic heutzutage voyage, of the surrounding ocean. The artists exchanged their own auch eine große Legende in Sachen Art-Punk und experimenteller original sounds with each other, allowing each artist to experiment and Indie-Musik sein, so wie Sonic Youth, Minuteman oder die remix outside of their own sound sources, with the potential to apply our Einstürzenden Neubauten. Warum man diese Band normalerweise own sound methods to each others' sound sources, and develop the nicht in einem Satz mit diesen Genre-Größen nennt, ist wohl eine concept even further. Titles were made to coordinate with the ungerechte Laune der Musik-Geschichte, standen Savage Republic movement of the voyage, creating their own story, in relation to the doch in den 80er Jahren eben mit diesen Bands zusammen auf einer progressing sounds. The final result is a documented literary and audio Bühne. Savage Republic sind deshalb auch so etwas wie Art-Punk- interpretation of the voyage, from the perspective of 3 sound and visual Pioniere, die auch nicht vor den schrägsten musikalischen Einflüssen artists, of the experiences and surroundings of the crew of the Ben zurückschreckten. Da wurde der frühe West-Coast Hardcore-Punk Franklin, traveling for 30 days by the gentle glide of the Gulf Stream. genau so angesehen wie 60’s Psychedelic oder Ethno-Folk. Dick Dale We hope to bring attention to an important event in history, gehörte genau so zu den Vorbildern wie Ennio Morricone oder Mikis overshadowed by the moon landings, and for people to know the story Theodorakis. Vielleicht war es diese Verschrobenheit und Kreativität, of the revolutionary submarine that explored the nature of the ocean, weshalb der Band aus Los Angeles ein größeres Publikum verwehrt challenged scientific development, and ended up in a salvage yard." blieb. Nun nach 18 Jahren Pause gibt es endlich mit „1938“ ein neues [Mathieu Ruhlmann & Celer] Savage Republic Album. Und zu welchem Label würde dieses Album "Of a different kind, more the Spekk kind perhaps, is the work by besser passen, als zum Neurosis-Label Neurot Recordings? Eben. Mathieu Ruhlmann which he recorded with Celer, a duo of Danielle Trotz seiner enormen Spielzeit von ca. 70 Minuten treten beim Hören Baquet-Long (pianosm words, custom electronics, tape-loops, von „1938“ an keiner Stelle Ermüdungserscheinungen oder Langeweile theremin) and Will Long (pianos, custom electronics, tape-loops, auf. Da finden sich auf dem fast instrumental eingespielten Album arrangement diagrams and splicing). I never heard of them. Ruhlmann, Industrial-Sounds, mittelalterliche Klänge, Folk-Elemente, Psychedelic, which we know from his previous releases in the field of microsound, Kraut-Rock, Impro-Musik oder auch mal jazziges. Ein besonderer field recording and ambient, gets credit for field recordings, bowed Fokus wird dabei auf die Percussion- und Schlagzeugarbeit gelegt, ukelin and cymbal, violin, kettel and contact microphone recordings of sodass Savage Republic trotz seiner Ausgefallenheit ein sehr the Mesocaphe. The latter is a work by Jacques Piccard, and is a rhythmisches Album ist. Freunde von Bands wie Pere Ubu, Can oder naturally-propelled submarine, also known as the Ben Franklin. It has den Butthole Surfers könnten bei „1938“ ihre helle Freude haben. Die been in the water for thirty days back in 1969, but it's not as well-known Betonung liegt dabei auf „könnte“, denn Savage Republic sind einfach as the moon-landing which happened shortly after that. The music here, zu Eigenständig und als Solitär im Musikgeschäft anzusehen, dass man in three parts and each with distinctive different parts, is build from both diese Band nur mit Vorsicht in gewisse Schubladen stecken sollte." the field recordings of water and the submarine as well as the [Independentkicks.de] instruments, which make a great combination. "Los Angeles art-punk pioneers Savage Republic have come roaring The sub-aquatic thematic approach here recalls the many albums out of obscurity with 1938, their first full-length album of new material in released by Mystery Sea, but I must say this is something that is just a 18 years-- hot on the heels of this spring's powerful Siam EP-- both on bit better. There is more detail in the music, due to better (more Neurot Records. Throughout the '80s Savage Republic was a deep- extended) mixing of the diverse sounds, and attention to smaller parts underground phenomenon, playing highly unorthodox shows in remote are brought in. Though it's not easy to differentiate between the various desert locations, abandoned factories, skid-row parking lots, and grimy sounds used, the boat rumbling, water splashing and the drones bars across the US and Europe with such luminaries as Einstuerzende produced by the various instruments, there is throughout a gentle flow Neubaten, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Live Skull as well as hardcore- (pun intended) in this music. Maybe less surprising than the Grimm punk slugfests with the likes of Bad Religion, Angry Samoans, and Final disc, this stands out well in the Spekk catalogue. " [FdW / Vital Weekly] Conflict. Known for their oddly tuned guitars, tribal beats, shouted vocals, metal percussion (typically 55-gallon oil drums and items * RYN - Astral Death CD (UNPRCD02, 2008) € 13.00 gleaned from dumpsters and junkyards), and Morricone-meets-Dick Das erste long-play Album des Duos aus England die kürzlich eine 7" Dale melodies, their performances were at times ritualistic and auf Drone Rec. präsentierten! ASTRAL DEATH ist ein massiver occassionally involved fire and explosives. monolithischer Trip ins pulsierende Herz der Auflösung, wenn sich In their current incarnation, Savage Republic core members Thom wahre Drone-Fluten ergiessen, schallend, vibrierend, Obertöne Fuhmann, Ethan Port and Greg Grunke are joined by UK punk-rock abgebend, es gibt hier nichts zum festhalten, der Geist wird einfach veteran Val Haller, whose resume includes stints with Wayne County, mitgerissen.... Dunkel-Ozeanische Drones ! Flying Lizards, Lords of The New Church, and X-Ray Spex, and noted "Finally the first real long-play album of this UK drone-duo presenting 6 drummer and percussionist Alan Waddington, known for his tenure with long tracks of waving & slowly shifting massive drones, based on The Unforgiven as well as live and studio work with everyone from "guitar, bass, metal & effects". The sounds here are just flooding Willie Nelson to Gwen Stefani. The album also features contributions by immensely, there's nothing "concrete" you can hold on to; the mind & guest artists including multi-instrumentalist Tara T. Tavi, classical body seem to be washed out slowly by these rustling, feedbacking & violinist Julia Zuker, and drummer Bryan Taylor. deeply reverberating overtune-waves. "Astral Death" is a journey into While staying true to their roots, Savage Republic have updated and the pulsating, meandering heart of disintegration. Filed under: dark expanded their singular Mediterranean-surf-soundtrack-folk-noise blend oceanic." [Barakah / label info] into a musical hybrid both contemporary and timeless. Trademark scrap-metal percussion and layers of guitar drone are now joined by * SAVAGE REPUBLIC - Jamahiriya Democratique et populaire de spooky ambient textures evoking sonic landscapes exotic, dreamy and sauvage CD (Mobilization Recordings MOB103, 2002) € 14.00 sinister. An undercurrent of dread is never too far away. In keeping with Re-issue of album from 1988. nice letter-press design, ed. of 1000 their tradition of graphic excellence, the album is packaged in a tri-fold "The third in SAVAGE REPUBLIC's new reissue series, originally cover designed by and featuring the photography of Ramona Clarke- released in 1988 on Fundamental Music. The band's patented tribal Fuhrmann. " [press release] psychedelia mixed with some Krautrock influences. Includes covers of Alternative TV's "Viva La Rock 'n' Roll" and Mikis theodorakis' "Pios * SCALA, STEFANO - Impermanence CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL Den Mila Yia Ti Lambri," three bonus instrumental mixes, and a radio 044, 2008) € 13.00 spot. Packaged in an Independent Project Press-constructed, hand- Field Recordings aus Tibet (Gewitter, Regen, Wind, Kuhglocken, letterpress card sleeve with inserts. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." Gebete, Ritualmusik, etc.) vermählen sich hier in höchst sakraler &

96 spiritueller Atmosphäre perfekt mit Obertongesängen, leichter STEALTH dabei ungeahnte Tiefen aufzutun, körperliche zu spürende Perkussion und weiterem subtilen Einsatz von diversen Ethno- Vibrationen verbinden sich mit psychischer Schockstarre ... Instrumenten. Das atmet Weite und meditative Versenkung. Starkes BAD CHILL MUSIC ! Album des Musiktherapeuten und Ethno-Musik Forschers STEFANO "15 years since his début and 5 since his last studio album: Mick Harris SCALA, auf dem ALIO DIE-Label. breaks the silence and delivers with "Stealth" one of his most massive "The new CD by STEFANO SCALA , 'IMPERMANENCE' havs its focus works so far. Staying faithful to his trademark sound, this corner-stone on Tibet, where Stefano Scala went for musical researches and of a musician, constantly redefining the boundaries of electronic music, recordings some years ago. The magic of the cult and traditions of the delivers here 8 salvoes of monumental bass, sparse dry beats and country with hightest peaks in the world accompany us in this journey, deep drones. Let it be heard: Scorn is back. on a mountain pass, walking along the pathways of the rarefied Few musician can boast such a prolific and influential catalog as Mick Himalayan atmosphere, escorted by a convoy of mules or yaks. Sounds Harris. Not only has his main project, Scorn, been re-defining and can be heard of the wind and rain, voices, songs and steps of nomads expanding the scope of electronic music and dub, but Harris's of Impermanence. An album that displays different acoustic discography, featuring literally hundreds of releases, spawns from his instruments, harmonic chant, percussions, flutes, rattles and bells, and début as the original drummer of Napalm Death to a founding member field recordings..this cd is more close to the Hic Sunt Leones releases of Painkiller (with Bill Laswell and John Zorn) as well as such seminal then the previously 'Il Tempo del Sogno'."[label info] projects as the ambient Lull, the drum'n'bass of Quoit or his participation to Extreme Noise Terror. To cut a long story short, * SCHÄFER, HELMUT & ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - Eminent Risk (electronic) music wouldn't be the same if this Birmingham-based Factor CD (ALKU 65, 2008) € 14.00 musician wasn't there. Sound? Geräusch? Klang? Nein, Energie umgewandelt in Klang! Fifteen years after Scorn's début, and five whole years after his latest Transformationsmusik, eigentlich Genre-frei. Ein einziges Wummern, studio album, it is a transformed Mick Harris (noticeably by his come- Strahlen, Zerreiben von akustischen Informationen. Leider das letzte back to his drum set) that deliver "Stealth", Scorn's 13th full length Projekt von HELMUT SCHÄFER, der im April 2007 verstarb. studio album. And while music has evolved a lot since 1992's "Vae "Internationally acclaimed sound artists Helmut Schäfer and Zbigniew Solis", Scorn has stayed true to his trademark sound. Downtempo, Karkowski met for the first time in 1997. From then on, they maintained illbient, dubstep have come and gone, but Scorn remains the epitome of a close friendship and worked together on several collaborations, minimal, dry beats, wall-of-sound unequalled basses and deep, performances and music projects. Then years later, in April 2007, mesmerizing drones. Helmut passed away. 'Eminent Risk Factor' gathers recordings from the Not only a massive, bodily experience, Scorn's monumental tracks last 2 concerts and studio session they ever made together. The master (which have proved over the years to provide for unforgettable live sets) was finished on the last day they ever saw each other. In memory of impress by their focus and efficiency. Keeping only the bare minimum of Helmut Schäfer (1969 - 2007)." [label info] what defines dub, Scorn drives these few elements (sparse beats, echoes, and most of all, bass) to their extreme. A godfather of the * SCHAEFER, JANEK - Alone at last CD (Sirr Ecords SIRR 0031, current come-back of slow, heavy basses in club music, Scorn's method 2008) € 15.50 still stand out with its towering, dark and minimal approach. "Stealth" is Acht "Auftragsarbeiten" für Installationen oder Compilations sind hier no exception. Spacious in its execution, oppressive, humongous in its zusammengestellt, die SCHAEFERs Fähigkeiten aufzeigt, outcome; let it be heard: Scorn is back." [label notes] Alltagsaufnahmen (hier z.B. spanische Unterhaltungen, Flamenco- Klänge) mit orchestralen und Orgel-artig wallenden Drones zu * SEHT - Dead Bees CD (Pseudo Arcana PACD097, 2008) € 13.00 verbinden. Sehr schöne Klangflächen sind hier dabei, aber man sollte Aus Drone-Perspektive eines der Highlights des Pseudo Arcana- auch einen Sinn für konkrete & vokale Materialien haben... Katalogs, diese CD von SEHT. Zwei lange Stücke mit melancholisch- "Alone at last is a studio album, written over the first decade of Janek's erhabenen Dronescapes und seltsamen Patterns, irgendwo zwischen career as a composer, sound artist, and musician. Each piece is a MAEROR TRI und ASMUS TIETCHENS, wobei auch wunderbare response to an invitation to write a piece of music for a compilation cd Oceanwaves Fieldrecordings zum Einsatz kommen und Vergleiche hier or installation. The source sounds are produced using location letztlich nur hinken können, so eigenständig und gut ist "Dead Bees" recordings and manipulated vinyl, which are simply processed through gelungen.. his collection of foot pedals & mixing desk, and then assembled on "Campbell Kneale once explained that to describe Wellingtons Seht as screen. Anamnesis - refers to the ability of sound to trigger mental drone music is much the same as describing Antarctica as white. images in our minds eye. Each new image is unique to each of us - and Where as many of us utilise the drone as an ingredient, a point of they are all uniquely framed within the evocative music. The cd is departure, Stephen Clover's Seht project distils drones to craft housed in a 100% black jewelcase with an eight page black white something very like a fine liquor. ‘One Moment’, the 35 minute first track booklet of Janek's photography." [label info] on ‘Dead Bees’ is Clovers somnambulant ambient drone masterpiece. "....That is: until now. 'Alone At Last' compiles eighth of these pieces, A famous insomniacs grand fantasy of sleep. Setting sail with the gentle composed between 1997 and 2007. Unfortunately that's all the sound of submerged bells one sinks deeper as lush rich tones gradually information that is given on the cover. Not the where, how, when or any merge into a swell of dreamscape waves. Deeper still and one finds other relevant information. That is a pity of course, but you could also oneself glowing in a deep warm golden molasses that shimmers and think that it is of no more importance. That was that, this is now. The sways until time somehow folds in upon itself and loses all meaning as positive attitude: be glad what you have and not what you don't have. ones consciousness shifts into angel gear for the lonnnng coast out. Each piece has a picture in the booklet (especially the one for 'Scarlett But Clover is also agent provocateur- a wry and acerbic wit. To say that Arrives' is very funny - but hey I like children) that also not always gives there are surprises to follow is an understatement…" [label info] us a clue. 'Alone At Last' may serve as an introduction to the work of Schaefer to those who need one (the die hard fans surely have this * SELAXON LUTBERG - Cold House of Love CD (Eibon Records already). Schaefer takes every day sound - field recordings - of SEL067, 2006 ) € 13.00 whatever nature and transforms them into pieces of music. He does Very emotional & melancholic dronescapes from this italian project - that to such an extent that the 'original' field recordings have slow & sad, many instruments are used, a bit mysterioius & strange... disappeared and what remains is, quite curious in these eighth pieces, this is quite a revelation for us !! Definitely worth to discover!! a highly 'drone' and 'ambient' piece of work. Schaefer works the mood "Pages of a diary under the form of ten minimal soundscapes based here. I couldn't help, while hearing this, thinking of Main - with whom upon emotional sounds made with guitars, piano and heavily processed Schaefer recorded a CD as Comae along time ago. The same subtle field recordings. Hard to say if this is dark ambient or minimal post- processing, taking the musique concrete into an entirely new realm - at rock… "Cold house of love" is all of this and a lot more. Subtly least for musique concrete that is - the form of ambient music. Four of disquieting ambience music - a journey through the cold rooms of the the pieces are long, perhaps a bit long altogether, for the diversity the house of love....." [label info] disc has to offer. With six of them the picture would have been equally "....Based primarily within the ambient genre Andrea mixes dynamic clear, even when the final piece 'Never Ending Story' is short and electronic soundscapes with the occasional use of samples and simple should be included. That moaning aside, Schaefer delivered a great piano refrains. For the most part though the electronics dominate disc, I think, of highly subtle music that should win him new fans and creating this phenomenal piece of work. You could rightly call this dark pleasantly surprise the old." [FdW / Vital Weekly] ambient music in many ways. There is a dense creepy edge to the sonics that would match that description. That though is open purely to * SCORN -Stealth CD (Ad Noiseam adn88, 2007) € 14.50 the individuals interpretation. You hear dark. I hear glorious light. You Nach langer Zeit etwas neues von SCORN, dem Projekt von MICK say full of remorse. I say full of hope. You say barren. I say lush and full HARRIS, der hier weiter an seiner Version von Industrial-Dub arbeitet, of life. What we hear and how we build associations with that der sich so langsam, zäh und schwer durch den Äther walzt dass einem information is what makes us each unique in our own little ways [...] A das Atmen schwer fällt... besonders im Bass-Bereich scheinen sich auf remarkable recording that dreamers the world over should get hold of immediately." [Alan Milne / Heathen Harvest]

97 über-poppy 'Blue Sunshine' (track 4), featuring a beautiful guest * SEVEN THAT SPELLS - The Men from Dystopia CD (Beta-lactam appearance from Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene and Do Ring Records mt207a, 2007) [lim. 500] € 14.00 Make Say Think on trumpet. This track recalls the over-the-top SEVEN THAT SPELLS beweisen, dass ost-europäischer "Drone / Folk / sensibility that seems to have informed many seventies TV show theme whatever-Psych" was ganz besonderes ist. Wild, ekstatisch, droney, songs or the hits of Burt Bacharach. The closing piece, 'The Kinder nur was für hartgesottene Psychedelic-Freaks! Aus Kroatien. Surprise,' has a very gentle, ambient feel and could blend in on a "CD edition of 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound case. release from the Boards of Canada or Mogwai." [press release] Simply amazing Croatian psych with special assistance from Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, ...) If the metallic mettle of these men * SIGILLUM S - Terror Auto-Obstetrics maxi-CD (BloodLust! represents Dystopia, then forget Utopia, I wanna bang on Dystopia’s B108, 2008) € 9.00 drum all day! The sweet ‘n’ sour smell of Kraut explodes in carefully Re-Issue einer alten 7" von 1990 und zwei Compilation-Tracks anno paced salvos, and then goes completely off the rails. And then gets 1991, re-mastered. crazier. And crazier. And crazier. And crazier. Until it reaches an "Released to coincide with the very first USA Sigillum S show in the insane, almost unbearably heavy sonic crescendo, and then gets even Italian post-industrial audio project's 20+ year history, this EP pulls crazier. And crazier. And crazier. A thick, unending firestorm of napalm together four songs originally released on AWB Recordings: "Terror psychedelia PUMMELS while its orbit decays into the swirling sounds of Auto-Obstetrics" and "Transkathartick Endoscopy" (7-inch, 1990), "Suck slowly going mad. An audio illustration of a mescaline trip that gets too Inside Thee Ov Bulb" (Effete compilation cassette, 1988), and close too enlightenment. Amon Duul II times ten to the fifth of "Purulence Peaks, Hairy Knobs, And Death Disturbances" (Private Beethoven! A truly massive attack!" [label info] Thoughts compilation cassette, 1991). The tracks were re-mastered by band member Eraldo Bernocchi. Sigillum S's ongoing explorations of * SHALABI EFFECT - Pink Abyss CD (Alien8 Recordings forbidden areas of the subconscious yields alien electronic mutations ALIENCD42, 2004) € 14.00 that merge concrete noise research with acoustic transmigration, while Drittes Album von der kanadischen Band mit ALEXANDRE ST.ONGE, visuals and other media achieve maximum interaction intensity." [label SAM SHALABI und als Gästen Mitglieder von GODSPEED YOU info] BLACK EMPOROR, die sich zwischen Experiment, ungewöhnlichem Post-Rock und psychedelischen, aber auch orientalisch-osteuropäisch * SIGUR ROS - Von CD (Smekkleysa SM 67 CD, 1997) € 14.00 folkigen anmutenden Wurzeln bewegen, mit viel Violinen-Einsatz und Wieder lieferbar, die erste SIGUR ROS von 1997, damals noch weitaus Gesang von ELIZABETH ANKA VAJAGIC.. immer wieder experimenteller und droniger als heutzutage...in einer hyper- überraschend, kaum wirklich einzuordnen und deshalb soo gut. sphärischen, frei fliessenden Art und Weise verbinden sich auf vielen Wurde mit AMM, ORGANUM und PINK FLOYD verglichen, aber auch Stücken dunkles Grummeln, field recordings, Instrumentalklänge und mit ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE und AMON DÜÜL, ist aber auch in z.T. mehrstimmige Elfen-Gesänge zu geräuschhaften Dronescapes... einem Atemzug zu nennen mit anderen nordamerikanischen Projekten daneben gibt es Stücke die schon typische Song-Strukturen und wie TANAKH und SET FIRE TO FLAMES. klassische SIGUR ROS Harmonien andeuten ... aber vieles klingt noch "Der Orient ist in dieser Musik ähnlich präsent wie etwa im Agitation reichlich anders, rauher, z.T. auch heftiger rockend, mit extremen Free-Klassiker Malesch, als psychedelischer Horizont, dem die Studioeffekten & Cut-Ups versehen, wunderschön das folkige Titelstück Imagination zustrebt. Elektronische Wolken oder ein Teppich aus "VON". Streicherklängen sorgen für einen Flirreffekt, der die Alltagsprosaik "I remember the feeling that enveloped me the first time that I heard halluzinatorisch verflüssigt und die Seele trägt wie Salz im Toten Meer. Sigur Ros - a copy of Agaetis Byrjun played over the loudspeakers at Schon der kurze Auftakt, ‘Message from the Pink Abyss‘, mit einer Vintage Vinyl in Fords, New Jersey (bless 'em) - my knees quivered, my Klarinette auf Evan Parker-Trip und immer neuen Schüben diffuser jaw dropped, and I had one of those all too rare musical epiphanies. Geräusche, stiftet wohlig-wehe Verwirrung, die einen hinein taumeln Subsequently, I worried that once acquainted with their lovely and lässt in die ‘Bright Guilty World‘, die Elizabeth Anka Vajagic mit idiosyncratic music, it would never elicit quite the same genuine and Louise Petts-Stimme zeichnet. Und ohne es zu merken gleitet man fresh response again. The reissue of the group's elusive debut, Von, on hinüber in die dunklen Flötenklänge von ‘Shivapria‘, konstant ummantelt One Little Indian, puts those misgivings to rest. It may be Sigur Ros's vom dichten Schimmer mikrochromatischer Saitenschwingungen. debut, but it is as ambitious as albums come. Und wiederum nahtlos driftet man weiter in ‘Blue Sunshine‘ mit seinem Yes, Von is a sprawling work - 72 minutes of sprawl - reveling in sonic elektronischen Gebrodel und einer von 4/4-Takten getragenen experiment, diverse in texture, and somewhat ambling in formal design: Trompetenmelodie, die im Noisestrudel ertrinkt. Hier kann man erstmals so what? When layers of choir-boy vocals are added to the group's Luft holen, bevor die Oud und sandig knirschende Beats ein rituell- singing ("Hun Joro"), when feeble, naturalistic sounds are used in monotones, mit ‘Iron and Blood‘ reichlich seltsam betiteltes LaLa questing improvisations ("Sigur Ros"), or when acoustic instruments anstimmen, das dann aber der auf einem Tablagroove erhaben dahin coalesce with a swath of electronics ("Dogun"), you'll find your jaw on schreitenden Gitarre weicht. Noch markanter dann das gezupfte und the floor, too, stunned as ever." [Christian Carey / Junkmedia] geklopfte Webmuster von ‘Imps‘ in seinem Marschduktus mit rollenden Drumsbeats und Steicherintensität, die im Schlund von ‘Deep Throat‘ * SILVERMAN - State of the Union CD (Beta-lactam Ring verschwindet, einer ganz unpornografisch gegurrten Miniatur mit Flöte, Records mt142/ Black Series negro18, 2007) [lim. 500] € 15.00 Violine und verstimmten Pianodreiklängen. In sonnverbrannter Wiederveröffentlichung der CDR die 2001 auf dem LPD eigenen Stoik schaukelt danach ‘We‘ll Never Make It Out Of Here Alive‘ durch "Terminal Kaleidoscope"-Label erschien, jetzt mit 21minütigen Bonus- die Sanddünen. Alle Sinne beugen sich der orientalischen Fatalität, Track, in der schönen "Black Series" von Beta-Lactam. deren intensive Glut einen Klangsturm entfacht, in dem das "The Silverman is one of the two remaining founding fathers of The Hirn wie Zunder aufflammt. Wenn sich die teleportierten Sinne wieder Legendary Pink Dots and this release serves partly as a sketch book of öffnen, treiben sie - ‘Kinder Surprise‘ - in einem sanften Ambiente aus ideas and stuff he did on a solo tour with the addition of a new 20 Orgel- und weichen Gitarrensounds in einem Park mit Kinderstimmen minute bonus track. The music by The Silverman only has a far away im Hintergrund. Doch das Sirren des Projektors markiert das Als-ob resemblance of the Legendary Pink Dots, like just one layer is distilled dieser Vision. Eden ist nur ein Film, die Welt ein rauchender Vulkan, and used as the backbone of an entire new world. It could be described das Leben ein Schauermärchenwald, durchstreift von Wesen by that dreaded term ambient, but it doesn't justify it. The sounds inside mit langen Schlachtermessern, denen weiß das Mondlicht auf den this release are at times far too alien to be filled under ambient. It Hintern scheint." [Bad Alchemy] moves along many different territories, ambient, cosmic, but it takes out "Shalabi Effect refer their latest effort, Pink Abyss, as their 'pop record' - the best elements and it is presented in a rather own way. Music that is - an apt description in comparison to their two previous releases. While like a disturbing dream, not a nightmare but a surrealistic dream." Pink Abyss retains elements of those efforts, there is decidedly more [FdW / Vital Weekly] emphasis placed on melody on this release, with more use of vocals and more prominence given to the guitar. Without a doubt, it is Shalabi * SILVERMAN - Blank for your own Message CD (Beta-lactam Effect's most rocking effort thus far, featuring impeccable musicianship Ring Records mt208, 2008) [lim. 500] € 15.00 and a brilliant and powerful recording quality that will blow away the "Available late Feb. 2008. First ed. of 500 copies in a full color book band's loyal following. Some highlights on Pink Abyss include 'Bright bound case. Silverman should be given a degree in bio-melodics. This Guilty World' (track 2), which features beautifully seductive vocal work most recent body of collaged constructions pulsates with aspects of a of Elizabeth Anka Vajagic who will be releasing a long-awaited solo living system. Slurred drones rush sonic corpuscles through electronic record on Constellation early next year. This piece moves along gently capillaries, imparting breath to each track. An obscured, parenthetical at a slow patter, with an unusual combination of cracked electronics, heart beat occasionally comes through as an unexpectedly metallic guitar and jazz-styled percussion giving it a very cinematic feel. The panging in the background, mostly drowned out by the fluid dynamics of somber chanting on 'I Believe in Love' (track 5) lends a deep eeriness localized subsystems playing out their various vital functions. Perhaps to the piece, also bearing a certain resemblance to the outsider folk that each one of us DOES sound a little like a Javanese gamelan orchestra is booming in the United States of late. Another absolute gem is the inside if you hit the right spot. Cutting to find out is not advocated.

98 Silverman’s fantastic voyage sounds like a spiritual dissertation on gain better knowledge of oneself through this self-revisionistic ambient degrees of scale. The musical camera obscura sometimes finds journey filled with ethereally lush passages that give way to a truly purchase on an atomic level, aurally zooming into the humming orbits of visionary and immersive experience. The album also features a special individual atoms and even creeping up on the sounds of the electrons, collaboration with Par Bostrom of KAMMARHEIT. In fold out gatefold protons and neutrons themselves. With this beautifully ambient series of cardboard sleeve. 7 Tracks. Running Time: 45:50." [label info] orchestral maneuvers in the dark, Silverman may have found a tonal replacement for Gray’s Anatomy." [label info] * SION ORGON - The Zsigmondy Experience CD (Lumberton "The Silverman aka Phil Knight is one of my favorite musicians in the Trading Company LUMBCD009, 2008) € 13.50 experimental ambient/drone scene. Over the past decennium he has Zweites Album dieses Walisers aus dem COIL & THIGHPAULSANDRA been responsible for some of the most beautiful ambient/meditative -Umfeld, der hier eine unglaubliche Stilvielfalt präsentiert. Drone- music I've ever heard. His previous LP/CD for BLRR Nature Of Illusion Sphären, wütender Post-Punk, freie elektronische Geräusch- is one of the best albums in this genre I have heard in many-a-year. Experimente, deep melancholic Song-writing, verstörender Sci-Fi- The Silverman's solo albums have always been slightly overshadowed Sequenzer Noise... jedwede Erwartungshaltung oder einsetzendes by his work for the Legendary Pink Dots. This is a shame, as his solo Schubladendenken wird nach jedem Stück gleich wieder zerstört. Dabei work deserves a place of its own. Perhaps this new CD Blank For Your spielt SION ORGON die meisten Instrumente selbst ein, bis zu 10 Own Message will do the trick. Starting off life as a "zen-opera" in seven Leute helfen ihm aber bei den Stücken aus (wie bei dem epischen parts, the music here is more varied than Nature Of Illusion. BLRR dritten Stück "PAPER WINGS"). Ein absolut bemerkenswertes Album, drops the term "bio-melodics". For once I have to agree. This actually dessen riesige Bandbreite sich nach mehrmaligem Hören als grosser fits the music and the world of The Silverman. Although the music has Pluspunkt darstellt. seven parts, the 43 minutes that make up this album are programmed "The second album by Thighpaulsandra and Coil affiliate, once more into one track. It is hard to tell the origin of some of the sounds; there gushing splendidly with so many universe-mulching ideas that it's are traffic tapes and acoustic sounds (percussion, cow bells) of a more difficult not to wonder what's floating around the air in his native Wales ethnical nature, all mixed up with synthetic sounds. These combined these days. From menacing near-ambience and the massive, punk 'n' make up a very strong album. Packed in one of those typical BLRR Prog-bloated 'I'm in Blackout' to vocoded passages over the very same deluxe hard-carton sleeves, this is a great addition to the already great electronic insanity that's spewed out Stockhausen and Xenakis, there's discography of The Silverman." [FK / Vital Weekly] much to wrestle with your mind's deepest and darkest corners here. Collaborators include Coil's Sleazy, Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones' * SILVESTER ANFANG - Kosmies Slachtafval CD (Aurora singer), Frank Naughton (Rocketgoldstar and ex-Uziq) Gaz Williams Borealis ABX016, 2007) € 14.00 (Rocketgoldstar), The Grangetown String Ensemble, The Chung "Silvester Anfang hail from Flanders, channeling an ancient spirit of Chinese Ensemble and many others." [label info] blasphemous anarchy, transposing the nameless fiends of yore as free- flowing ritual psych occultic Flemish rock. Kosmies Slachtafval * SITAAR-TAH! - Semimimimimin CD (aRCHIVE Recordings 32, (translation: "cosmic slaughterhouse sweepings/debris") sees Silvester 2008) [ed. of 700] € 14.00 Anfang in dark, post-krautrock, heavy jam mode: guitars, bass, keys, Ungewöhnliche Ethno-Sounds auf ARCHIVE, dem Label aus New flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy funeral Jersey. SITAAR-TAH! ist ein asiatisches 22köpfiges "Orchester" psych rich in the textures of ritual and worship. Through a series of welches mit Sitar-, Tabla- und rauhen Obertongesangklängen in den cassette tapes and CD-r's released in micro editions, the arcane Hyper-Trance & Ekstasen-Raum vorstösst... Belgians have garnered a fearsome and mysterious reputation for dark "Orchestra that provided the amazing musical backdrop for Keiji Haino intense musical outpouring and idolatry. We are very proud to foist their on the double disc archive release Animamima. The 22 piece unit is first ever full length compact disc release onto an unsuspecting public. back with this swarm of locus gem of a release. Graphic and design Deluxe digipack with 12 page poster booklet." [label info] work on the release by Stephen O’Malley features an outer cover that is a four color silkscreen, beautifully executed by Alan Sherry of Siwa * SINKE DUS - Akrasia CD (Cyclic Law 19th Cycle, 2008) € 14.00 records. Inside is a gorgeous photographic collage. Pressing of 700 "Aus dem Land der Elche erreicht uns dieser Tage das Erstlingswerk copies." [label info] von Sinke Dûs. Marcus Lönebrink ist der Urheber hinter diesem "...a single 43 minute ascension this time featuring featuring a Projekts und wer jetzt den Namen mit Kammarheit verbindet liegt hier khoomei/Tuvan throat singer, and hoo boy, it does not disappoint. The auch nicht ganz falsch, hat selbiger doch schon bei deren Werk "The group's sound swells gently to locust-swarm proportions, all the while Starwheel" ausgeholfen. Zeit also für dessen Künstler Pär Boström sich featuring pulsating percussion and recurring raga-esque motifs while mal zu revanchieren und bei "Akrasia" seinerseits seine holding down more of a modern groove. Despite the sheer magnitude of kompositorischen Fähigkeiten unter Beweis zu stellen, wenn auch nur the group and its sound, the piece never really gets aggressive; rather, bei dem Track "Fortitude“. Das heißt nun aber auch nicht, dass Marcus its insistence continually rises, ebbs, and spirals upward to a liftoff Lönebrink dies nötig hätte. Der Titel "Akrasia“ selbst steht für which begins about two-thirds into the piece, when the throat singing Willensschwäche, bei diesem Werk kann man aber beileibe nicht von begins and slowly but surely pushes things both upward AND forward." Schwäche sprechen. Warme, gefühlvolle Melodien schleichen sich da [Downtownmusicgallery] unter die Kompositionen, welche wunderbar anzuhören sind und den einzelnen Stücken so etwas wie Wiedererkennungswert geben. Speziell * SKITLIV - Amfetamin CD (Cold Spring Records CSR90CD, im Opener "The Premonition“ schimmern recht prägend Raison D'être 2008) € 13.00 durch, ansonsten regieren hier Klangsphären welche in ihrer Stilistik "...das norwegisch-schwedische Projekt Skitliv, hinter dem sich der denen von Svartsinn und Kammarheit nicht unähnlich sind. Die Mittel, ehemalige Mayhem-Frontmann Maniac sowie Schwedens Suizid- mit welchen Sinke Dûs hier die Aufmerksamkeit des Hörers auf sich Export Nummer Eins, Kvarforth von Shining, verbergen. Mit ziehen sind zwar nicht neu, aber dennoch überzeugende Unterstützung diverser hilfreicher Kumpanen haben die beiden ihr Kaufargumente. Der unspektakuläre Songaufbau mag zwar anfangs Debut-Scheibchen "Amfetamin" realisiert und nehmen damit direkten erstmal etwas ernüchternd wirken, beinhaltet aber trotzdem Einfluss auf das zentrale Nervensystem eines jeden Konsumenten. melancholische Elemente und nach wenigen Durchläufen offenbart sich Wahrhaft kranke Kost bekommt man nämlich geboten, was angesichts die musikalische Welt des Komponisten dem Hörer und sorgt für der beiden Bandleader nicht weiter verwundert. Black Noise, Doom gelungenen Atmosphäre im trauten Heim. oder etwas derartiges zelebrieren Maniac und Kvarforth mit Skitliv und "Akrasia“ ist kein Werk zum 'nebenbei hören’ geworden, man sollte können sich vieler Sympathien besonders aus dem Lager der Shining- diesem Teil schon das Gehör schenken, welches es auch benötigt. Ob Anhänger sicher sein. Zäh und klebrig zeigt sich das Songwriting, mal sich Sinke Dûs mit diesem Werk im mittlerweile recht überschwemmten psychedelisch, mal geisteskrank und chaotisch. Samples und Dark Ambient Sektor jedoch ganz oben behaupten können bleibt Synthesizer beherrschen die Szenerie, die nur ein Ziel verfolgen: Die abzuwarten, zählen aber mit ihrem Erstlingswerk definitiv zu den Nerven der Hörerschaft zu zerfetzen und schaudernde Klangbilder von besseren Vertretern ihres Metiers." [Necroweb] Schmerz, Verzweiflung und Tod auf deren Unterbewusstsein zu "Akrasia is an old question dealing with the weakness of the will. To projezieren. Nach dem eigentlichen "Amfetamin"-Tonmaterial folgt noch behave "akratically" is when one acts against his better judgement, die Aufnahme eines Londoner Live-Konzertes aus dem Jahre 2007, committing acts that are known to be wrong but yet still going through welche instrumental eine weniger gekünstelte und wesentlich with the motion. Markus Lonebrink wanted to explore not so much the authentischere Atmosphäre vermittelt und eine für Live-Aufnahmen philosophical issues at hand, but rather the subjective experience of erstaunlich hochwertige Tonqualität aufweist. Nur schwerlich ist die an akrasia itself. To learn of the underlying motives of when one acts den Tag gelegte Stilistik zu beschreiben - am besten wirft man Shining, akratically. Certain events in the akratic process felt natural to him and it Bethlehem und Sunn O))) in einen Topf, kocht das ganze gut auf und was those he tried to integrate into these soundscapes. There are no rührt kräftig um - fertig. conclusions described in the music, but there might be a glimmer of An Skitliv bedienen sollten sich demnach wirklich ausschliesslich light at the end of the tunnel and perhaps the shadow of a hint of why Gemüter, die schwerstverdauliche Kost gewöhnt sind und we humans sometimes act as irrationally as we do. A shared quest to strapazierbare Trommelfelle, Nervenstränge und Magenschleimhäute

99 ihr Eigen nennen. Alle Anhänger satanischer Schrammelorgien und psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most paganer Erhabenheit lassen besser die Finger von "Amfetamin" - das crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. IIIrd ist einfach die falsche Baustelle. An sich jedoch ein faszinierendes Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of post-industrial dirge rock Werk, welches gewaltig zünden wird, sofern es denn auf die passenden that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh in terms of Konsumenten stösst." [Schwermetall.ch] dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness. This is one of our favorite "Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex- albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are presenting this reissue with MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest new liner notes, a new package design that retains all of the original vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through artwork from the HeadDirt release, and a remastering job courtesy of Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern Scott Hull at Visceral Sound." [label info] extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December * SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - Nostromo CD (Cold Spring 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Records CSR34CD, 2001) € 13.00 Liles)." [label info] Wiederveröffentlichung des S.R.F. Debut-Albums, die später auch CDs "... Abusive storms of harsh noise add a quite interesting supplement to auf MANIFOLD hatten... the spheres of metallic steel. A quite interesting album that shows that "Ultra deep ambience, based on the first 8 minutes of the movie 'Alien' the mixture of metal and electronic expression can end up with a very which depicts the deep space haulage vessel slowly moving through interesting result. Thus recommended for listeners of both electronic the void. The disc takes you through a slow trip into the ship via tracks and metal music." [NM/ Vital Weekly] DECK A - E, deeper and deeper into the bowels of the 'Nostromo'. Colossal dark ambience from the abyss, with beautiful artwork that * SKORPIO, NIKO - Half Born in Half Light CD (Some Place Else evokes the sinister atmosphere of the ship. Reissue with bonus track SPECD08049, 2008) € 12.00 'Narcissus'." [label notes] Music like an occult electro-acoustic nightmare-earplay ! Really sinister! Welcome to NIKO SKORPIOS theatre! * SMEGMA - Glamour Girl 1941 + Pigface Chant CD (Japan "Half Born in Half Light" is based on the foundations of psychedelic Overseas J097-28, 1997) € 13.00 ambient soundscapes and darkly majestic bass drone, over which tribal "This 1997 CD reissue of vintage gorked-out wahoo originally released rhythms and magickal vocal invocations build grotesque alien monoliths by Los Angeles Free Music Society in the late '70s includes four bonus whose angles mock the euclidean mathematics of conventional tracks (the Pigface Chant 7-inch). A bizarre combo of the tape-loops- composition. Niko Skorpio is not restricted to one particular genre, but and-nonsense later perfected by Negativland, the meandering skronk of draws on many sources. This makes the music colourful and diverse, Jandek or Gate, and the nightmarish hippie meltdowns of the No-Neck yet it remains coherent and has the artist’s unique fingerprints all over Blues Band and their offshoots. Past collaborations include Wild Man (this time literally in the cover as well). If we are to give it a label, let’s Fischer, Merzbow, Blue Oyster Cult lyricist and rock critic Richard call it 'Hermetic Fusion Musick'. CD comes with gorgeously designed Meltzer and Stooges sax-man Steve Mackay." [label info] 12-panel leaflet with art, photos, liner notes etc. Edition of 1000 copies." [label info] * STROM.EC - Divine Legions beyond Psyche CD (Malignant “Visionary, experimental, magickal and evocative, the new work by Niko Records TUMORCD32, 2008) € 13.00 Skorpio Half Born in Half Light is a blend of ritualistic scenarios and "Anschnallen lautet die Devise, denn die wahnsinnigen Finnen von music experimentations. … What impressed me most is the balanced Strom.ec sind wieder los! "Divine Legions Beyond Psyche" lautet der sound mix and the crispness of sounds. This ability into giving the right aktuelle Anschlag, welcher zart besaiteten Seelen das Leben schwer space to sounds help a lot the creation of a functioning audio world machen und Anhänger derber Power Electronics dagegen in where the listener is surrounded by hypnotic a semi psychedelic Verzückung versetzen dürfte. Jasse Tuukki und Toni Myöhänen sind atmospheres.” [Chain D.L.K.] mit ihrem Projekt in der Welt der deftigen Klänge längst keine Unbekannten mehr, existieren doch bereits mehrere Tonträger dieser * SKULLFLOWER - 3rd Gatekeeper CD (Crucial Blast CBR63, talentierten Lärmbrüder. Eingeleitet wird dieser heftige Bastard mit 2008) € 13.00 "Helvetin Esikartano", einem Titel, welcher aufgrund seiner räudigen Vielleicht das beste Album der "frühen" SKULLFLOWER, und verzerrten Artikulierung - die übrigens das komplette Album füllt - wiederaufgelegt ! "Noise-Rock" im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ! sofort begeistern kann. Sehr gekonnt wirkt dabei auch der ruhige "Nachdem Crucial Blast 2005 und 2006 die aktuellen Alben der Mittelteil, welcher jedoch keine längere Atempause zulässt. Der reanimierten SKULLFLOWER veröffentlichten, legen sie jetzt das musikalische Terror findet nämlich seine Fortsetzung im folgenden ursprünglich 1992 auf Justin Broadricks (GODFLESH, JESU) Label "Security Council", dass im fortgeschrittenen Stadium enorm prägenden HeadDirt erschienene Album "IIIrd Gatekeeper" neu auf, das für viele Charakter erhält. "Pulsating Cranium" ist ein weiteres Beispiel, wie als das unübertroffene Meisterwerk der Band gilt. Die 1987 aus TOTAL wuchtig da angestaute Energie hervorbrechen und Eindruck und PURE hervorgegangenen SKULLFLOWER entstammen zwar der hinterlassen kann. Überaus bedrohlich wirkende Elemente beherbergt englischen Power-Electronics-Szene, benutzten aber im Gegensatz zu "Divine Legions Beyond Psyche Part 1", bevor im anschließenden Teil Bands wie WHITEHOUSE oder CONSUMER ELECTRONICS keine das Klanggewitter ausgeweitet wird (dieses dürfte jedoch mehr ein (oder kaum) Elektronik, sondern behielten wie ihre Bruderband Experiment als Song darstellen). Wie hart man wirklich ist, kann mit RAMLEH eine klassische Rock-Instrumentierung bei und entfernten "Vitaalinen Olomuoto" getestet werden, das mit seiner langen Spielzeit sich beim Songwriting nicht allzu sehr von gängigen Rock-Strukturen. doch einiges an Ausdauer erfordert. "Divine Legions Beyond Psyche" Bis 1996 veröffentlichten SKULLFLOWER in wechselndem Line-up (nur sollte unbedingt laut konsumiert werden, so hinterlassen die teils Gitarrist Mathew Bower und Schlagzeuger Stuart Dennison waren ungestümen und dennoch kontrollierten Klangflächen immense Konstanten, zudem fand ein ständiger Austausch mit RAMLEH statt) Wirkung beim Hörer. Strom.ec stehen somit auch 2008 für brachiale diverse Alben und EPs auf Labels wie Broken Flag, Shock, VHF, Power Electronics - ebenso begeisternd wie auch zerstörerisch. HeadDirt und sogar SFTRI, danach machte Bower wieder mit TOTAL Verehrer von IRM sowie Institut dürfen nicht zögern!" [Necroweb] sowie seinem neuen Projekt SUNROOF! weiter. Seit 2005 betreibt "With their fifth full length CD, Finlands Strom.ec continue to Bower SKULLFLOWER im Alleingang und die Noise-Drones, die er auf further explore the far regions of power electronics, challenging the den beiden Alben seit der "Reunion" erschaffen hat, sind mit dem, was confines and stretching the boundary of the genre, sculpting new man 1992 noch als Trio einspielte, nicht zu vergleichen. Zwar war auch and innovative creations that are uniquely their own. Having been "IIIrd Gatekeeper" in erster Linie ein schwer zu verdauender Brocken under construction for over seven years, Divine Legions shows größtenteils instrumentaler Monotonie, aber statt Soundscapes gab es Strom.ec with a majestic control of their craft, offering 8 tracks hier noch tiefe Bassläufe, ein echtes Schlagzeug und brutale, krachige (including one 21 minute epic to close the CD out!) of powerful and Gitarren, statt Kakophonie zwar noisige und teils psychedelische, aber explosive industrial music, full of volatile frequencies, brain bending, immer nachvollziehbare Songs, die sich eher in der Nähe von Bands enigmatic atmospheres, hallucinatory noise, and the trademark vocal wie GODFLESH und SWANS bewegten als in der des Industrials. Und assault that few acts can rival. Presented in a luxurious 8-panel so faszinierend die aktuellen Platten Bowers auch sein mögen, so DVDigipak, designed by Jerome Nougaillon, Divine Legions Beyond fantastisch hypnotisch und brachial wie hier gefallen mir Psyche represents Strom.ec at their finest, most creative form, having SKULLFLOWER wesentlich besser. "IIIrd Gatekeeper" gilt zu Recht als reached a pinnacle in an already illustrious." [label info] Genre-Klassiker." [Andre Bohnensack / OX-Fanzine] "A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper, * SUDDEN INFANT - Psychotic Einzelkind CD (Blossoming Noise featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison (drums BN036CD, 2008) € 13.00 and vocals), and Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is an "Founder Joke Lanz has paired up with Bill Kouligas & Christian Weber immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt, the to create the most musical & realized Sudden Infant studio recording to label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final fame back in the date. Psychotic Einzelkind clocks just over 71 minutes & features three early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, remixes by Z'EV, Lasse Marhaug, & Thurston Moore." [label info] sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of

100 * SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER - Farben Raum CD (Head Bett hervor kröche (8.5). Der Hall einer Possible-Worlds- Trompete von Worse Records HW-04, 2007) € 13.00 weit draußen, der Hauch einer ‚Flöte‘, immer wieder ‚psychedelische‘ Das totale Freak-Orchester aus Australien, bis zu 25 Mitspieler! Diese und ‚spaceige‘ Raumzeitverformungen durch Keyboards und Aufnahme stammt vom Februar 2007, ein vielschichtiges Impro-Chaos, Electronics. 8 ist wie eine Prellung, die schillernd aufblüht, welches aber recht gemächlich und "slow" bis düster daher kommt (und gleichzeitig zeitlupig und gerafft auf eine Stunde, vielleicht weil der teils mit deutschen (!) Sprechgesang in FAUSTischer Manier. Für Bluterguss einen ganzen Raumquadranten verfärbt. Manchmal Freunde von NIHILIST SPASM BAND, BORBETOMAGUS, AMM,... bleibt nur ein Zwitschern und aleatorisches Zucken wie von auf dem RATS WITH WINGS-Label! einschlagendem Sternenstaub, dazu Kopfstimmengesang "Following on from their 2007 New Zealand tour triple lathe cut LP, and (8.6). Plötzlich ein Freerock-Blitzgewitter, ein donnerndes, 6 cassette boxset on Breakdance The Dawn, comes Farben Raum, the schneidendes Inferno (8.7)! Mit einem finalen Gerumpel. Als Epilog debut CD by Sun of the Seventh Sister. This floating line-up, mushroom dann wieder Getröpfel. Und enigmatische Spaceharmonik. Die pure fuelled free-psych woolly mammoth often consists of a phalanx of Alienpoesie." [Bad Alchemy] between 10 and 25 players: multiple drummers, multiple electrified "Helge Sten, Ståle Storløkken, Arve Henriksen and Jarle Vespestad chordophones, horns, vocals, oscillators etc. Imagine half a dozen celebrate 10 years as a groundbreaking quartet with their first studio freak-folk ensembles congealing into a psychedelic din of Borbetomag- album in almost 5 years. Their music lives in a no-man's-land between ian proportions. On this occasion SSS comprised members of the genres, somewhere between rock, electronica, jazz and modern xNoBBQx, UnAustralians, Arse Lunch, Cock Up Shitting Whore, Rats composition. Yes, we say composition because when listening it´s not With Wings, Stasis Duo and others. The CD consists of 3 immense far fetched to think it could have been, although everything here is tracks, taken from a 3 hour straight session, lovingly recorded by the improvised, as it has always been with Supersilent. With ”8” they have Pulled Out mobile unit, with mastering analysis for Heard Worse yet again re-invented themselves, exploring more abstract and Records by DJ Beefcurtains." [label notes] mysterious pathways and ending up even further away from traditional categories. The album is produced by Deathprod and mastered by US * SUNS OF ARQA - Re-mixs MUSLIMGAUZE CD (Soleilmoon mastering guru Bob Katz." [press release] Recordings SOL 158, 2007) [lim. 500] € 14.50 ".... Another excellent, original Supersilent effort, with the use/abuse of Volle Version (21 tracks) der SUNS OR ARQA-Remixe von vocals opening up some new dimensions to their sound. Parts of MUSLIMGAUZE (rec. 1996), ein süchtigmachender und ausufernder Supersilent 8 give us the idea we're listening to some sort of really "Oriental-Dub" Trance-Dance Hybrid in vielen Variationen. Wieder im strange field recording, the documentation of the fracturing of an speziellen Cover! iceberg, the swarmings of bugs, or the language of birds or bats, when "IMPORTANT NOTE: Some of the material on this CD was previously in fact this is a very human-activated, machine- mediated, far-from- released with different mixes on on the SPV Poland CD "Muslim Gauze natural audio document. Of course at other times on this album that fact the Suns of Arqa Mixes" (Arka CD 22120). This new Soleilmoon release is quite evident! Indeed, Supersilent 8 also is the closest these "death- has six previously unreleased songs..... When Satoshi Morita jazzers" have come to making rock album, especially when the super introduced Muslimgauze to Suns of Arqa he had a good hunch the two distorted, hazy murk of psychedelic howling almost garage-rock-improv musicians would form a connection. Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze) and pummel of track 7 is taken into account." [Aquarius Records] Michael Wadada (Suns of Arqa) were already deeply immersed in the kinds of rhythmic music made far from England’s rainy shores. Jones’ * SVASTI-AYANAM - Sanklesa CD (Eternal Pride Productions fascination with the cause of Palestine found an outlet through his EPP010, 2007) € 13.00 prolific musical output, and Wadada’s interest in Jamaican reggae and Wer sich schon immer eine Melange aus tibetischer Ritual-Musik und Eastern mysticism was likewise reflected in his own recordings. But perkussiver ambient Industrial-Trance und dunklen Maschinen-Drones they moved in different circles and had never crossed paths, despite gewünscht hat, liegt bei SVASTI-AYANAM genau richtig ! Dies ist die living relatively close to one another. Bryn Jones in particular was well Wiederveröffentlichung eines lange vergriffenen Albums von 1998 vom known for his reclusiveness and lack of curiosity about other music (and RAISON D'ETRE-Seitenprojekt, enthält 2 Bonus-Tracks! musicians), so it’s no surprise that it took a Japanese label owner to "Svasti-ayanam is Peter Andersson's foray into dark, Tibetan-Nepalese bring them together. Morita knew both men individually, liked their ambience. Andersson is well known for his work as Raison D'etre, music enough to release it on his label Gift, and intuitively saw the Atomine Elektrine etc. In this incarnation, his signature Raison D'etre potential in a collaboration between the two. He arranged an sound has been modified in an incredibly pronounced, and effective introduction in 1996, and like a spark landing on dry tinder, a musical way. Sanklesa is marked by strong tribal rhythms that draw the listener firestorm blew up that summer. Several collaborations-by-mail were into distant, foreign, ritual soundscapes. Andersson has released a produced in the two-and-a-half years preceding Jones’ sudden and prolific catalogue of music, that includes many CD's, limited vinyl and unexpected death in January 1999 from a fungal infection of the blood. countless compilation appearances. Album incl. 2 exlusive bonus- The final sessions are presented today on this CD. “Suns of Arqa Re- tracks." [label info] Mixs Muslimgauze” tips the scales at nearly 74 minutes , with 21 songs forming an unmistakable hybrid of the two bands’ styles. Wadada’s * SZKIEVE - Chants et Danses Folkoriques des Hauts Plateaux Carribean beats pulse and flow alongside Jones’ staccacto gunshot CD (Rape Art Prod. RAP-CD #031, 2008) € 12.00 rhythms in a true blending of the two artists’ music. While it’s true that Nach der "Ekranoplanes" mCD auf Ant-Zen was neues vom Belgo- Bryn Jones is gone, we take comfort knowing that Muslimgauze lives on Kanadier SZKIEVE, er verwendet auf den neun Stücken analog-synth in the creative expression of the multitude of musicians who’s lives he sounds, schillernde organ drones & haufenweise field recordings, die touched. For Wadada, this album will stand as a lasting tribute to a mit bestimmten Plätzen & Geschichten Ekuadors verbunden sind. friend and creative collaborator. At Soleilmoon, packaging and Abwechslungsreiche Soundgemälde... presentation are never overlooked. This CD is presented in a square "Experimental sound composer from Belgium, actually he is living in black folder made of sugar cane fibers, and the whole thing is covered Canada. Dimitri Della Faille the man behind Szkieve started with his with a translucent vellum over-wrap. Only 500 copies of this handsome project at 1998 also, he founded on this year Hushush label. Szkieve CD have been made." [label info] has performed some concerts in Europe, America, Japan & China, previous records were released at Hushush label, Ant-Zen, Ad * SUPERSILENT - 8 CD (Rune Grammofon RCD2067, 2007) Noiseman and others. This new record enclose an amazing mixture of € 15.00 deep sounds with some short ambient parts on 9 tracks. Each track title "Inzwischen sind wir bei Supersilent 8 (RCD 2067), Dazwischen liegt has a reference about old Ecuadorian stories of different places. Limited ein beständig sich verändernder Klangfluss von harschem Free Noise edition of 300 copies, full color art works & packaged in PVC sleeve." (1-3) über Electrojazz (4) zu ambienten Soundscapes (5 & 6). 8 [label info] entstand, wie schon die Rune-Grammofon-Klassiker 1-3, Luggumt oder Raus Aus Stavanger, im Athletic-Sound-Studio in Halden. Alles ist * TAFJORD, HILD SOFIE - Kama CD (Pica Disk PICA003, 2007) improvisiert, aus 5 Stunden wurden 66 Minuten ausgewählt und von 1 € 13.00 bis 8 durchnummeriert, es gibt keine Overdubs. Abstraktion, oder Erstes Solo-Album von HILD SOFIE TAFJORD, die sich in den letzten nennen wir es besser Absolutheit, und Kollektivität sind Trumpf. Als Jahren in der free Impro & Industrial-Noise-Szene (v.a. als eine Hälfte Klangquellen dienen Audio Virus & Gitarre, Keyboards & Synthesizers, von FE-MAIL) einen Namen gemacht hat. "KAMA" beginnt wunderbar Drums, Trumpet, Voice & Electronics. Neologismen wie ruhig und dicht, bevor sich das Stück immer mehr aufbläht und sich FutuRhythMachine (K. Eshun) oder SonicFriction (T. Berne) sind langsam ein Tor zu einer anderen Welt auftut... gefüllt mit notwendig, um der Nowness von Supersilents Trips halbwegs gerecht Maschinennoises, wellenden Feedbacks, verzerrten & gequälten zu werden. Mit Supersilent unterwegs sein, heißt Niemandsland Sound-Objekten... aber sie kommt zurück zur Stille, wo sich weitere durchstreifen. Das Neuland hat gemeinsame musikalische Grenzen "Wege" und Überraschungen ergeben... eine hervorragende allenfalls mit Ektroland und Neuseeland. Fremdartig monotone, oder Geräusch-Komposition mit bruitistischen Anteilen, durchdacht & krumme Sun-Ra-Takte (8.3!), raues, rockfernes Gitarrengedröhn, spannend arrangiert; das schöne Cover rundet diesen Release ab, den Gebrabbel und Singsang, als ob der Geist von Leif Elggren unter einem wir nur uneingeschränkt empfehlen können.

101 "Hild Sofie Tafjord has been known to the public for over a decade as brooding drums" say Boomnkat. Can't wait to hear more from part of projects like SPUNK, Fe-Mail (her duo with Maja Ratkje), Agrare MARZURAAN - this is epic, like a bassier, looser, Mogadon dosed (Fe-Mail with dancer Lotta Melin), Trinacria (Fe-Mail with black JESU with a man past caring roped in to give his thoughts on where its metallers Enslaved) and collaborations with Birchville Cat Motel, Wolf all gone wrong. Pete from MARZURAAN did the artwork and layout. Eyes, Matmos, Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, Carlos Giffoni, Zeena Printed on heavy textured card and with 2 diecut runes. Comes in a pvc Parkins, Fred Frith and countless others. She has released albums on bag." [label info] labels like Asphodel, Rune Grammofon, ECM and Gameboy Records. " Every once in a while, someone will release a record, and we can't Her main instrument is the horn, but other acoustic instruments as well help but feel like it was made specifically for us. And for you. Some as metal objects and noise electronics has always been an intregral records just perfectly speak to the aQ aesthetic, as undefinable as that part of her pallet. Hild Sofie Tafjord is, quite simply, an amazing seems to be. This is another one of those cases. Someone thought it performer, composer and improvisor with a broad musical range. After would be a perfect combination to match up UK one man ambient drone consistent touring and performing around the world for years she has outfit Tenhornedbeast, with UK slow motion doomlords Marzuraan. And built a big fan-base of people who all ask themself: it is perfect. And a fantastic idea, but just because something is a great When the hell is Hild Sofie going to record her solo album? idea, doesn't always mean someone thinks of it. And we're not saying Finally, the wait is over. KAMA is here. A monumental 41 minute we had been thinking someone should get these two bands together colossal single-track of an album recorded in the period from summer specifically, we're just glad they did, and we sort of wish we HAD 2006 to february 2007 during dark nights in her studio in Oslo. thought of it. But that's neither here nor there. The important thing is KAMA is mostly made from the sound of her french-horn; although if that it happened, and now we can all luxuriate in the deep dark you didn't know it you probably wouldn't have guessed. Layers upon heaviness both of these bands explore. And while the bands are indeed layers of distorted, processed and mangled pieces of sound form a different, their aesthetics are not all that far removed. The both exist in consistent stream of sonic bliss. Within this massive sound-construction some blackened nether region, haunting sonic realms, where heaviness slowly shapes build into an epic climax. The title KAMA hits at few can be expressed in both utter darkness and extreme force, sometimes interpretations. A quick wikipedia search tells us that KAMA could be a both, and once in awhile neither. number of things; a double edged dagger, iron pots used in tea Tenhornedbeast offer up a nearly 30 minute long sonic ritual, beginning ceremonies, and indian for lust (as in kama sutra). Well, who cares as a bit of swirling black minimalism, but slowly building to a truly what it means when it feels and sounds this good?! Hild Sofie Tafjord's intense wall of doomdrone, the sound thick and textured, a churning debut album is here, and it has been worth the wait." [label info] cauldron of low end buzz and downtuned disembodied riffs, all brought "You could wonder if an active improviser as Hild Sofie Tafjord needs a to a boil and poured out in a viscous black torrent, left to flow like some solo record? She is a member of Spunk, Fe-Mail, Agrare, Trinacria as subterranean river. But these deep drones are laced with melodies, and well as an improviser with Wolf Eyes, Matmos, Birchville Cat Motel, Ikue keening high end shards, allowed to shine forth occasionally, but often Mori, Fred Frith and many more. I wonder: when does she have the swallowed up before they can fill those caves with their unnatural light. time to record anything solo? At night, it seems, from the summer of The track continually changes shape, sound and timbre, various shades 2006 to the winter of 2007, in her studio in Oslo, we find her with a of grey and black, lightening and darkening as the landscape changes, French horn. It says so on the cover, as it's not easy to believe. There a haunting journey through some lost world, where sound replaces are traces of a French horn in the opening bits of this work, but sooner sight, allowing us to navigate ever deeper. than later things explode into quite a noise blast of distortion, grunting Marzuraan counter with what must be one of their prettiest tracks ever. tones. It might be a French horn. It might. However don't expect this to It's still sludgey and doomy, but the notes ring out, the melodies almost be a work that is a full on blast throughout towards the very end of the soar, the sound fuzzy and glimmering, almost like these guys have disk. It's much more than that. Tafjord knows how to pull back the caught the shoegaze bug as well. Washed out and blissy, super brutality and you can find here producing raw, loud, but sparse tones, melodic and melancholy, but the coolest part is that the track seems to somewhere around the fifteen minute mark, before building up again. warble and waver, almost like someone is manually adjusting the tape Fifteen minutes and through another cascade of noise, the work finds speed, so the notes sound drunken and drugged, the track lurches and itself in a rather heavy rhythmic mood - deep pulsating, almost like early weaves drunkenly, only adding to the haunting and off kilter beauty. industrial music. 'Kama' is a noisy beast, but it's more than just being a Part way through, the riffs get a little more riffy, and then the vocals noisy beast. Tafjord uses the right amount of computerized doodling in come in, a moaning distant croon, and we're most definitely in serious combination with shifting textures to deliver a great release. Great noise Jesu territory, but that weird speed shifting hitch, keeps it from sounding this is." [FdW / Vital Weekly] too pretty, or two blissy. But if these guys keep heading in this direction, they could definitely give Jesu, and Nadja and other metallic * TAZARTES, GHEDALIA - Hysterie Off Music CD (Jardin ou fou shoegazers a run for their money. FOUCD002, 2007) € 14.00 The packaging is super swank, a three panel gatefold, each of Der "neue" TAZARTES anno 2007 klingt nicht weniger sperrig, the front panels diecut with each band's symbol, printed inside and anstrengend & expressiv wie der "alte", aber er benutzt ganz andere out, housed in a thick plastic sleeve with a sticker affixed to the klangliche Mittel, z.B. wilde Gitarrensamples, Synthesizer, Chanson- front." [Aquarius Records review] artiges - wie ein wildgewordener ARANOS klingt es mitunter, stets durchzogen von TAZARTES unverwechselbaren Gesang...pathetisch, * TENHORNEDBEAST - The Sacred Truth CD (Cold Spring melancholisch, aber auch total manisch und "ver-rückt" ! Records CSR77CD, 2007) € 13.00 "2007. In the beginning, Hystérie off Music was conceived as a "From the ashes of Dark Ambient legends Endvra the TenHornedBeast catalogue-record, playing with musical genres. It evolved quickly to is rising. Cryptic, menacing atmospheres erupt from droning chasms of unveil new landscapes of Ghédalia Tazartès' universe. Tender, funny, feedback. On an altar of horn and fire "The Sacred Truth" is revealed. but also scary, infernal, this new album is, according to its author, his An ultra doom / drone epic! Presented in a matt-laminate, spot- most accomplished to date, a true movie for the ear." [label info] varnished digipak. TenHornedBeast is Christopher Walton." [label info] "With a past in the British dark ambient-project Endura in joint venture * TENHORNEDBEAST / MARZURAAN - split CD (Aurora Borealis with Stephen Pennick, Christopher Walton knows exactly how to create ABX021, 2008) € 13.00 atmospheres of the disturbingly black kind. His solo-project Zwei lange Stücke auf dieser Split der Bands aus UK. Unfassbar weiten "Tenhornedbeast" is like a trip back to the early days of death industrial. & mächtigen, fast halbstündigen DOOM-DRONE produzieren The expression on the five intersections of the album is repetitive and TENHORNEDBEAST, die früher als ENDVRA aktiv waren. slowly moving, though the approach to dark minimalism varies on the MARZURAAN ist die zweite Inkarnation von RYN, und sie rocken hier overall album. With drones based on orchestration of the dark kind the weniger metallisch-krachig, sondern in wunderbarer ultra-minimaler associations from beginning of the album stylishly turns towards the JESU-Manier... Spezielles ausgestanztes Cover. Cold Meat Industry-scene, more precisely towards the lesser harsh "Aurora Borealis is proud to present this split CD by two of the lesser moments of Brighter Death Now around the "Necrose Evangelicum"- known greats from the Northeast of England. TENHORNEDBEAST is period. From fourth intersection titled "In the teeth of the wolf", the the dark vision of Christopher Walton, part of the much feted ENDVRA, drones becomes more guitar-based in the gloomy drone-rock style masters of 90s dark and occult ambient. 'Law of the needle', clocking in characterizing the expression of Sunn O))), with a dark ambient-based at over 28 minutes, is an oppressive opus of doomed drone, both touch reminding of Lustmord and early british industrial/metal-ambient- monolithic and multifaceted. Pure power. "elongated, sinister drone, project Saw Throat (aka SoreThoat ). The true power of this album is ...distant, echoing string resonance from bowed guitars and cold, steely Christopher Walton ability to create cinematic atmospheres of trance- walls of distortion" think the good folks at Boomkat, as well they may. like hypnotism with this great mixture of acoustic and synthetic. MARZURAAN contribute 'Into countless battles', 13 minutes of narcotic Impressive album." [NM / Vital Weekly] guitar haze. I think this is my favourite of anything they have done to date. So good, you never want it to end. The gruff metal grunts of the 'Solid Wood' LP have been replaced by a subdued, almost crushed vocal, totally stands out. "acres of textured guitar, low end pressure and

102 * THIGHPAULSANDRA - The Clisto mCD (Klanggalerie gg116, Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. An eponymous album was released in 2007) [lim.500] € 10.00 2003 by Bowindo. In 2004 the group welcomed Tony Arrabito and "Next to being a fantastic solo artist, Thighpaulsandra is also known for became a quartet. The next year Hapna put out their second album “A his great work with groups such as Spiritualized, Coil and Cyclobe. On Year of the Aural Gauge Operation”, and in 2006 the band self-released this limited edition EP, we bring your four exclusive compositions that a 7 inch single “DimethylAtonalCalcine”. The group straddles the line range from rock to avant garde. Originally intended as a 7" vinyl, we between live improvisation and studio experimentation, blending and have now expanded the running time and bring you 21 minutes of new shaping raw sounds into living pieces, then gently dissecting the music by this brilliant UK composer." [label info] delicately structured songs into disruptive sonic excursions more evocative of moving shadows and swirling leaves than recognizable * THISQUIETARMY - Unconquered CD (Foreshadow FSHCD007, tunes. Stasis and stability are nowhere to be found here. Instead, an 2008) € 13.00 ever-changing dialogue between structure and chaos shifts from one Debut-CD dieses Montreal Gitarren-Drone Projekts von ERIC QUACH- performer to the next, never resting long before launching again into wie auch bei NADJA werden z.T. heftige Gitarren, Loops & Beat-Box shuddering flight. Accoustic instruments and vocals form a familiar benutzt, aber trotzdem klingt THISQUIETARMY ganz anders, weniger reference point, but studio treatments take the music into psychedelic "metallig", introvertierter, mit abgefahrenen Gitarren-Effekten, gipfelnd and cinematic realms. In their words , “Improvisation is a way to in dem Song "THE GREAT ESCAPIST" mit "richtigen" Lyrics, gesungen experiment without thinking. When our improvisations ‘work’, the music von MERYEM YILDIZ.... auf dem ersten Stück ist übrigens AIDAN just happens on its own. It reveals itself as if guided by its own logic, its BAKER als Gast mit von der Partie... to discover! own desire. In fact we don’t even feel like we are actually playing the "THISQUIETARMY is a solo project from a young talented Canada- music. It’s more like a stream that moves and changes autonomously. based artist Eric Quach. He is also known for being a guitarist in a With composition (editing, overdubs, etc. etc.) we then remodel this renowned shoe-gaze band DESTROYALLDREAMERS. As stream, trying to make it more complex, ‘forever lasting, forever THISQUIETARMY, he explores never-ending spectrum of guitar changing’, in the sense that every hearing will reveal a new perspective ambience and loop drone sounds. From the mellow opening of of the music. As a live band, we improvise 100%, and it's really risky, “Immobilization”, through grandiose “Battlefield Arkestrah” and “The but when it ‘happens’, it’s the greatest satisfaction.” “Theology” is Sun Destroyers”, gloomy “Death of a Sailor”, to closing notes of presented in a wooden box with a hinged cover decorated with layers of “Empire”, Eric Quach manages to capture the essence of contemporary hand-painted tracing paper, and is limited to 450 copies on CD. The alternative guitar experimentation while maintaining disturbing but also companion vinyl LP “The Religious Experience” is a reinterpretation of captivating aural atmosphere. “Unconquered” presents this musical the recordings made for the CD. The LP is limited to 225 copies. The project as consciously standing among the best artists of this genre, two albums – and their music – should be considered as mirror which is symbolized by the guest appearance of Aidan Baker. On the opposites. Where theology is a completely artificial system of belief, a other hand, THISQUIETARMY, already on his debut album, looks far religious experience is the immediate experience of the thing itself. into the future and crosses the boundaries, the best sign of which are Likewise, the music on “Theology” is complex and elaborate, while “The the clean female vocals of Meryem Yildiz in one of the tracks – Religious Experience” is much simpler, going directly to the heart of the something not common in the field of ambient drone guitar music. Eric’s material comprising “Theology”. Thus, the two works are independent, experience in DESTROYALLDREAMERS, numerous live erformances, yet relate to each other as mother and daughter." [press release] brave open mind and genuine artistic freedom allowed him to deliver his "....and with some imagination you could say that they are a rock band. first official debut full-length album in a flawless and extraordinary way." Well, an expanded rock band that crosses many lines: post rock, singer [press release] songwriter, improvisation and above all musique concrete collage techniques. Maybe the stage isn't their place but they should be safely * THOLEN - Sternklang CD (Cyclic Law 20th Cycle, 2007) € 14.00 stuck in the studio, where they can freely experiment with sound. Each Kosmische Sehnsucht ("if I could reach the stars") und ein abgeklärtes member plays a wide variety of instruments, except Arrabito, who is just "aus der Welt treten" scheinen die Grundmotivation für das Debut- credited for drums. Inside the studio they find a safe place to improvise Album (?) dieses deutschen dark ambient Newcomers auf dem their music, but not as an end, but as a start. Recordings are separated, renommierten kanadischen Cyclic Law-Label darzustellen. deconstructed and rebuilt into something. These two new releases, both Minimal effektiert & "instrumentiert", erhält die Musik hier die Spannung lavishly packed with all sorts of nice paper, are best heard together, as gerade aus der Reduziertheit der Mittel. Mitunter tauchen zeitlupenhafte mirrors of each other. The CD (limited to 450 copies) and the LP perkussive "Schläge" und Pulsationen auf, die sich bis hin zu trance- (limited to 225 copies) have however their differences, but the provide a ambienter Rhythmik steigern, ansonsten schwebt "es" düster flächig nice view in the kitchen of 3/4HadBeenEliminated. The CD is perhaps durch die Sphären, durchbrochen von elektronischen Effektwirbeln die more complex in approach. We hear lots of processed guitars, fast dramatisch wirken... das ist "cosmic dark ambient" in Reinform! percussive sounds, organ like drones but also contact microphones "...Das gesamte Tonwerk ist von recht ruhiger Natur und trägt den scratching the surface alongside humming vocals. Not really rock by Hörer somit behutsam durch die klanglichen Dimensionen, welche any rock standard, even when things seems to hint that way. Seemingly durchaus als angenehm zu bezeichnen sind. Dennoch ist "Sternklang" things move from atmosphere to atmosphere, gradually, slow, but im Gesamtbild recht düster ausgefallen, beherbergt aber ebenso auch without doubt moving.." [FdW / Vital Weekly] träumerische Elemente. Das Ganze kommt in typischer Cyclic Law "...you'll know to expect fractured and mysterious soundscapes, a Manier im gelungenen A5 Digi Format. Wer also in die Weiten des densely textured drone-zone constructed from field recordings, record Universums eintauchen und sich tragen lassen will, wird an crackle, improvised acoustic instruments, radio static, fragments of "Sternklang" nicht vorbei kommen." [Necroweb] piano melody, electronic treatments, whispered Italian voices, turntable "Sternklang is the expression of the intimate encounter with the whole, scratchings, reel-to-reel tape manipulation, synthesizer sinewaves, the direct connection with the stars and the vast universe, the sense of scattered percussion, and more. That's a zone we LOVE to visit. complete union with all the overdimensional attributes of what There's two long tracks, lots to explore, all manner of curious creakings sourrounds us. With THOLEN, Eisen, the man behind this project has and cracklings, shifting rhythms and rumblings abounding within given us an aurally materialized glimpse of his numerous stargazing 3/4hadbeeneliminated's carefully crafted and/or improvised music. At evenings...where the soundscapes are revealed while the stars seemed times quiet and meditative, at others noisier and distorted, but always to gather and sing out of their primordial and powerful environment. The (to our ears) utterly gorgeous and compelling. Aligns quite nicely with darkest hour is always the one before sunrise... In fold out gatefold the likes of the Jewelled Antler collective, the Finnish forest foraging of cardboard sleeve." [label info] Kemialliset Ystavat, and of course others in the experimental underground Italian scene of which the members of * 3/4 HADBEENELIMINATED - Theology CD (Soleilmoon 3/4hadbeeneliminated are a part." [Aquarius Records review] Recordings SOL 148, 2007) [lim. 450 in wood-box] € 19.50 Die Band mit STEFANO PILIA & CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI, filed under: * THU20 - Live in Groningen CD (Stichting Mixer mxcd2, 2000) seltsame atmosphärisch-melancholische Improvisationen im € 10.00 (entfernten) Post-Rock-Gewand [mit späterer effektvoller Mitschnitt eines fantastischen Konzerts (August 2000) der fast schon Nachbearbeitung im Studio ohne das improvisatorische Feeling zu legendären THU20 - ein Projekt von JOS SMOLDERS, PETER zerstören]; zwei lange Stücke füllen THEOLOGY, schwebend und DUIMELINKS, ROEL MEELKOP. Sehr subtile Geräuschmusik, unfokussiert aber stets im Wandel, unter Einsatz von vielen "echten" zwischen sehr direkter & konkreter Collage & eher sanften Drone- & Instrumenten (Gesang, Drums, Gitarren, Piano), mitunter blitzen Microsounds, immer spannend und in höchster Konzentration vollendet. Ähnlichkeiten gar mit A SILVER MT. ZION auf... die ist der "Schwester- Letzte Kopien dieses Releases zum Sonderpreis ! Release" zur LP "Religious Experience". "Dutch electro-acoustic ensemble THU20 is the co-operation between "Soleilmoon Recordings is proud to announce the simultaneous release Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks, Sjac van Bussel and Ios Smolders. of 3/4HadBeenEliminated’s new CD and LP, titled “Theology” and “The The strength varies, their releases are limited and live shows rare. Not a Religious Experience”, respectively. 3/4HadBeenEliminated was steady thing this THU to say the least.. Despite all of this, all four have founded in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a trio, with Stefano Pilia, Claudio firm ideas about music and performances. THU has a unique sound,

103 established through numerous experiments in recording and several Letzter Teil in der MENGEN-Serie! Ruhige, metallische, "röhrende" collaborations (they've worked on hearplays, spoken word projects, Sounds aus einem nicht-organischen Multiversum. highly conceptual music-making and so on), but still is not a defined "Line is proud to present η-Menge (Eta-Menge), the final installment of thing.. and that's good. The THU20 philosophy is one which fits the critically acclaimed Mengen series from influential German perfectly with our own and obviously Mixer is very proud to release this electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. Eta-Menge means eta cd. "Live in Groningen" is an edited version of a performance they did quantity. Based strictly on sine tones and white noise, the Mengen during the CASA ELECTRONICA festival high up north in the series was released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux as the CDs Alpha, Beta, Netherlands. The hearplay-like character of their set/ music is very Delta, and Gamma-Menge and then continued on LINE as the CDs much imaginative and holds a lot of anekdotal, but still fairly abstract Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta-Menge. Asmus Tietchens' first released his elements. The sound of THU20 is a multi-layered object, compiled of unique electronic music in 1980, but created works since the late numerous sonic happenings, going through the complete range of 1960s. Since then, he has produced over 37 full length solo works and audible sound and certainly not in a lineair way. From highly digital to more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing dusty acoustics, from pleasantly calm to disturbingly hectic. It is exactly with electronic sound and concrete music. Some of his over 20 full this tension and variation which keeps you tuned and fascinated. The length collaborative projects include works with Merzbow, Achim way basic elements like repetition, tonal differences and time-elapse Wollscheid, Vidna Obmana, Richard Chartier, and Kontakt der are used is truly original and surprising. Things move around completely Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of free, accessible for one's own thoughts and interpetation, adding to the found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die constantly changing texture. THU20 dashes around sound, though all is Stadt has begun to reissue his ground-breaking early works on CD in embedded in a very gentle stream of subtle tones and little sound- limited edition. In both 2003 and 2006, Tietchens was awarded the Karl- events, which makes this work perfectly suitable for extended and Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst by Südwestrundfunk (SWR)." intense listening... THU20 has released previously on Staalplaat, Flenix "... In many of his works, Tietchens explores something, say the sound and Midas Music." [label info] of paper or voice or here sine tones and white noise, until things are fully explored. It gives us a whole body of works, like his 'Hydrophonien' * TIETCHENS, ASMUS - Das Vieh und sein Vater CD (Realization or his 'Teilmenge', going here from number 43 to number 50. Tietchens Recordings RZD020, 1996) € 13.00 feeds his sine waves and white noise through bunches of ring Irgendwie sind uns nochmal einige Kopien dieser "rare tracks"- modulators and sound effects, scrapes off the sound of the tape and Zusammenstellung von 1996 in die Hände gefallen, erschienen auf amplifies the silence. That is at least how I imagine this. 'Eta-Menge' is einem Label das schon längst nicht mehr existiert. 18 Stücke sind hier a beautiful, silent work that works great, again. Perhaps perhaps enthalten, die von 1981 bis 1995 (bis auf 3 Stücken aber alles aus den perhaps there is a bit of fatigue in this series, and we know what it is all 80ern) auf MC und LP-Compilations erschienen, das meiste davon ist about. It's good, it's great but it's also good that this comes to a rar & jetzt nirgendwo anders erhältlich. Einige Beispiele: "TINA, ICH conclusion. Those who are superficially interested in Tietchens may not LIEBE SIE!" von "Sex & Bestiality" 4 x MC (Bain Total, 1984, das DIE need any other portion of 'Menge' (pun intended), but the die hard FORM-Label); "TRIUMPH DES WILDEN" von "Alternative Funk 1" MC Tietchens inside this reviewer loves it of course immensely." (Audiologie 2, 1995), "KRYPTO-PHONOPHONIE" von "Captured " [FdW / Vital Weekly] Music" (Selektion 1987), etc. etc. * TIETCHENS, ASMUS - Aus Freude am Elend CD (Die Stadt * TIETCHENS, ASMUS & JON MUELLER - 8 Stücke CD (Auf DS105, 2008) € 15.00 Abwegen AATP20, 2007) [lim. 500] € 13.00 Wohl eine der ungewöhnlichsten & schönsten Tietchens-Alben, die "Second collaborative effort between german sound manipulation augenzwinkernde Verwendung von vokalem Material war hier der pioneer Asmus Tietchens and american improv-drummer Jon Mueller. Fokus, found sounds & field-recordings werden eigentümlichst The CD features 8 tracks that run up to 53 minutes. Jon Mueller on the verfremdelt, aus Schlager- oder Volksliedern die abartigsten Töne second collaboration: “The previous collaboration between Asmus and I rausgekitzelt, absolut unkategorisierbare Klänge entstehen... ein involved me using only sounds derived from drum heads. For Acht wunderbares-wundersames Re-Kontextualisierungs-Projekt! Stuecke, I've used only Chinese gongs and cymbals, so a completely JA WIR LIEBEN ES! 2 Bonus Tracks! different range of sound occurs. The performance of the percussion "11th part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums material was from various non-mechanical techniques (striking, between 1980-1991. AUS FREUDE AM ELEND is based on the human swinging gongs, extended techniques, etc.) to create a palette of voice as a primary sound source and was originally released in edition mostly textural sound with a large frequency range that Asmus could of 500 copies on Dom America in 1988. The CD includes two previously work with.” And indeed, work he did! The completeness that is Acht unreleased tracks and comes in a jewel case with full color artwork and Stuecke is of breathtaking beauty and simplicity and complexity at the poster booklet also feat. the original front and back cover. First edition same time. The album is definately more homogenous and ‘together’ of 600 copies. than the first meeting of the two musicians. It emanates a warm and Asmus Tietchens AUS FREUDE AM ELEND (Dom America Dom US deep sound evolving ou t of total soundless blankness as it seems. LP 02) 1988 "Following my research of piano and water sounds Jon Mueller has been active for several years in the us improv scene (DS102, DS88) it didn't come as a surprise that my next project was playing in various ensembles and doing solo work. he runs the excellent about the human voice as a sound source. The great masters of web mag/label/mailorder croutonmusic.com. Asmus Tietchens has Plunderphonics already showed the way in the early 80's, when they been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the plundered the gigantic junk-shops packed full of already recorded most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five material, which was stolen by them to use it for their own aesthetic years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize “Karl Sczuka targets. This album only consists of such stolen goods. Each track (with Preis” for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on the exception of 'In memoriam P.F.') was based on voices of people labels all around the world." [label info] who I naturally didn't ask their permission to use these recordings in the "...There are occasions in which one doesn’t need to speak too much to first place. So you can hear the voices of ecstatic religious people as establish a truth, and the truth here lies inside the repeated bends and well as other people making love. You'll also hear someone singing to turns of a gorgeous album, among the best of both artists’ career. The Annette and Peggy out of the trash bin of a publishing company. Even original materials furnished by the Milwaukee percussionist - sounds of the screams of furious teachers came in handy while I made loops from Chinese gongs and cymbals - were studio-treated by the German them. Especially loops: Rarely before this album and only once after it manipulator through his usual masterful methods, this time maintaining (on Stupor Mundi) did I made use of the structural means of loops to the qualities of the harmonic resonance of the metal rather evident such an extent. I was fascinated by the rhythmical and harmonic amidst the choked gulps, the modified waves and the fractured hiccups permanence, in the same way as many of my musical colleagues at the that we’re used to receive from the Hamburg-based sonic transformer. time. The aspect of the 'Ritual' was a self-evident common formulation There’s this splendid three-way cross between the real essence of in difficult music during the 80s, so loops and tape voices, monotonous Mueller’s stricken parts and swinging gongs, the instant mutated jargon rhythms and LoFi became obvious means to shape the music. AUS developed by Tietchens over that, the final elemental amalgam bringing FREUDE AM ELEND too was strongly spiced with these ingredients the whole to sound like a hidden microcosm where a hypnotically and therefore can be seen as a prototype album of this specific view of undulating presence is blemished by sparse singular voices of unknown music during the time. This tendency was supported - even partly entities. It’s really difficult to describe the overall feel in sheer words, but inspired - by a new generation of sound machines, which also made it those who are gifted with the ability of picking disguised frequencies possible for new aesthetic goals to appear at the horizon. The 90s were from the core of the more superficial ones are in for several special near at hand and sound art music would develop drastically in many moments, aware of phenomena that not everybody can actually ways in the years to follow. Samplers, digital editing, hard-disc penetrate." [Massimo Ricci / Touching Extremes] recording and the first PC's opened new doorways. Half of the material on AUS FREUDE AM ELEND was already created with these digital * TIETCHENS, ASMUS - η- (ETA)-Menge CD (Line _033, 2008) tools. I never quite understood how the labels Dom America (run by [lim. 500] € 13.00 Jon Carlson) and Dom here in Germany were connected. Did Carlson

104 used to be a fan of Dom which was founded by Christoph Heemann tonalities which gently vibrate against each other, bristling with quiet and Achim Flaam. Did he simply liked the release politics of this label. textures. His is a pretty unique sound, somewhat like the early And what became of Dom America ? Actually I don't know. I guess it electronic work of Xenakis with the diminutive sensibilities of early was one of the small enthusiastic independent labels which released a Bernhard Gunter. Highly recommended!" [Aquarius] handful of titles and which disappeared after being active for a couple of years during the 80s. However AUS FREUDE AM ELEND had * TOY BIZARRE - kdi dctb039 mCD (Ferns Rec. rhizome_05, vanished shortly after its release. I only used 'stolen' voices twice again 2007) € 6.50 ('Stupor Mundi', 1990 and 'Das Fest ist zu Ende. Aus', 1993) after this "Der Code kdi dctb ist bei Cédric Peyronnets Fieldrecordings so album by the way." [label info / credits] obligatorisch wie in gewissen Parallelwelten das BWV oder dergl. ‚kdi "... Much like some his previous records, most notably 'Formen Letzer dctb 039‘ speziell ist der Mittelteil einer Trilogie, die mit ’kdi dctb 151’ Hausmusik' and 'Seuchengebiete', its foremost a work of electro auf dem Split mit Dale Lloyd auf Bremsstrahlung in San Diego begann. acoustic or musique concrete. There is an element of repetition that one Dass Peyronnet auf puren Naturklang (keine Synthesizer, Sampler etc.) wouldn't easily spot with the original 'masters' of the genre, but pocht, wurde schon als bewusste Abkehr aufgefasst von der Tietchens uses them in his own, highly personal, way, adding his own erzfranzösischen Pariser Musique- Concrète-Schule. Aber die fine blend of electronics and in order to make a creepy sound, a sinister Lauschangriffe auf die akustische Umwelt, hier nur deklariert mit ‚made play of vocals. The people whose voices are used sound like they are in various places from 1994 to 2007‘, sind nicht weniger ‚typisch singing in a far away cage, in isolation, a cry to get out. After all these französisch‘. Oben propellert ein Flieger, unten knistern Laub und years this record hasn't aged at all, and is a highlight in Tietchens Ästchen, dazwischen ein Hüsteln, Klackern und Knurschen, ein career." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Zwitschern, Bitzeln und Zirpen, wie ein Glas prall gefüllt mit ‚Wald & Wiese‘. Duchamp hat 1919 in einer Apothekenambulle ‚Pariser Luft‘ als * TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO - Ure Itam Taala' Momjmuj Lowajamuj Readymade-Gastgeschenk mit in die USA genommen. Peyronnet Cooconaja mCD (Ferns Rec. rhizome_04, 2007) € 6.50 könnte entsprechend 20 Minuten ‚Heimatklang‘ verschenken, so Faszinierende Veröffentlichung von Klang-Morphologiker GIANCARLO komprimiert, dass er explosiv verpufft, dass es wie ein TONIUTTI, der auf dem Gipfel eines Berges in Italien (Monte le Zuffine) Percussionorchester aufrauscht und dann minutenlang nachbebt, als ein drei Meter hohes Kreuz fand (mit einer kleinen Glocke) - Klänge synästhetisches Konzentrat von ‚Natur‘, über die hinweg erneut dieser Objekte und die psychogeographische atmosphärische "Aura" Flugzeuge ihre Bahn ziehen" [Bad Alchemy] des Ortes dienten als Grundlage für diesen wunderbar mysteriös "kdi dctb 039 is a part of a trilogy made up of 'kdi dctb 151' (See wummernden one-tracker, der zischelnde & leiernde Blasen wirft.... bremsstrahlung recordings), 'kdi dctb 039' & 'kdi dctb 180' (TBR). this is really CRYPTIC Ambience... Another piece about childhood memories composed only with field "This work could be seen as a process of sonic magnification. recordings made in various places visited from 1994 to 2007 : A couple of years ago I made a field-recording on a mountain top. It acoustic spaces, sound objects, sound auscultations, bits of was meant to go on a project I had in mind. I needed a pure field- soundscapes... Microphone and recorder as the primary tools. recording, almost silent. On this mountain I also found a small bell and It's sometimes good to make a pause, seat and take a look at the decided to vaguely use it to generate a faint tonal presence. But in the past - then, some sound fragments may appear... our sound memory. end the recording was spoiled by the recorded presence of many tiny toy.bizarre (Cédric Peyronnet / ingeos) - sometimes qualified natural noises. as "rural headphone electro(acoustro)nic music" - works on field The project as process: Recently I took this recording back to life, and recordings, phonography, soundscapes, sound art, since 1985. He has decided to mainly work with the sounds coming from the short bell released more than 40 works on CDs, tapes, videos, compilations... performances, trying to generate the whole sound morphology from a Contact : http://www.ingeos.org" [label info] mesostructural derived process, through analogic treatments of these "Throughout the '90s, Cedric Peyronnet would boldy announce acoustic fragments. that none of his Toy Bizarre recordings were made with synthesizers The epiphenomenal world: Somehow intended as a magnifying or samplers, instead with field recordings and collage techniques as process of the internal structural features of the sounds from a bell and his twin media. It has been speculated that this notion comes from a its mechanics, the work took advantage also of the fact that all these punk attitude against France's institutional avant-garde which sounds were strongly embodied in the acoustic micro-activity of the evolved out of the work of Pierre Schaefer and Pierre Henri; but at natural environment. The selected sources were basically dirty, from the same time, Peyronnet's recordings focus on the specificity of interferences of insects and other small sounds. While magnifying and sound locations, and the technology of samplers and synthesizers isolating the bell sounds, it was impossible (and not meant in the end) didn't have the ability to reflect the unpredictability that Peyronnet to remove these accidental environmental noises surrounding each witnessed in environmental sound. While Peyronnet doesn't sound particle. Thus, as they became part of the timbral quality of each mentioned his aversion to technology on this 3" from Ferns, he's single sound, they also shaped the evolutionary process of the work. retained the same adventurous sensibility for dynamic edits coupled This work could be seen as a process of inflow moistening with nocturnal, slippery ambience. From the jump-start opening of (title in Hopi language) " [label info / credits] crackling twigs and grasses with an airplane's Doppler-effected "No one will ever accuse Giancarlo Toniutti of releasing too engine roaring in the distance, Peyronnet's 20 minute composition much music into the world. It has literally been ten years since dissolves into elegantly fluid timbres weaving out of tactile sounds Toniutti has released any recordings outside of a very rare from sand, grit, gravel, and other bits of detritus. Once all of the compilation track here or there. That said, Toniutti is an undeniably sounds have all settled into a drift of stasis, a quick jump to intriguing sound artist, who has deeply immersed himself into obscure another set of textures and abrasions begins with a corresponding set forms of ethnomusicology and linguistic study, all the while keeping of sympathetic drones. Fans of Loren Chasse's field recording work, a finely tuned ear to the habits of vangarde composition. His Tarab, and Steve Roden should all take note of this exceptional earliest recordings emerged out of the Italian power electronics release." [Aquarius Records] community of the early '80s whose most well known practitioner was Maurizio Bianchi. Like Bianchi, Toniutti put out a handful of * TOY BIZARRE & PIERRE REDON - Saisons CD (Auf Abwegen recordings on the seminal British noise label Broken Flag. While aatp24, 2008) € 13.00 bracing, complex, and adventurous in its crunched tape manipulations Die field recording drones von TOY BIZARRE im Zusammenspiel mit and sinister synthesis, Toniutti's work stood apart from the PIERRE REDONs feiner Gitarrenarbeit! Auf vier Stücken (zweimal signature Broken Flag arc of transgressive noise, due to Toniutti's beide zusammen, je eines beide solo) vermischen sich kunstvoll intellectual rigor. It was this rigor that brought Toniutti to pursue schwelend flächigen Klänge, immer wieder durchbrochen von elektro- his collaborations with Andrew Chalk and Conrad Schnitzler, and it akustischen Momenten, fein & subtil verwoben. was probably this rigor that caused the prolonged length between "This collaborative effort brings us some of the most beautiful and recordings over the past decade. atmospheric instances of composition with nature. the four tracks, some So, the 20 minute composition that Toniutti produced for Ferns solitary works, some creatied by using field sourcings of the opponent, impressive series of 3" discs has been granted a Hopi Indian title based feature subtle wildlife field recordings, detailed electro-acoustic on an ancient song dealing with cunnilingus and bedbugs. I'm sure that passages, swelling metallic drones and amplified silences." [label info] Giancarlo has a very particular reason for placing such a text alongside "...Toy Bizarre is perhaps one of the last 'old' guys to use his band this warbling set of mutated field recordings; but as of yet, it remains name rather than his own name, Cedric Peyronnet, which is good. something of a mystery. This composition does enjoy a hermetic Pierre Redon is a much younger guy and never used a band name, quality, in spite of Toniutti's explanation that he derived all of the sounds which is also good. They have been playing music together since 2002. from a field recording he made in Italy involving a mountain, a 10ft tall Peyronnet is in fine electro-acoustic mood and Redon's main instrument cross, a metal pylon, and a temple bell. Out of that environment and is the guitar and electronics. They both play two pieces, Redon those objects, Toniutti arrives at a record that might appear somewhat springtime and autumn (first and last piece), Toy Bizarre summer and meditative at first, with its constant wash of low frequencies; but upon winter (the two pieces in the middle). Listened closely to the music, one deeper investigations into the piece, he reveals queasy, off-kilter can spot the differences, even when Redon uses field recordings and

105 Toy Bizarre makes his field recordings sound like drones. The result hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal should appeal to all lovers of drone related music with a good, sturdy consciousness sphere. TROUM uses music as the direct path to the look at the world of field recordings. Subtle music goes loud, noise Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the human’s inner music goes subtle. Mind you, this is not a work of microsound. There is psyche. TROUM tries to create music that works like a direct much more happening than just a few static crackles built from a ten transformation of unconscious matter’. second rain sample. This is quite vivid, imaginative electro-acoustic In Symballein dreams are obscure and indecipherable..., in one music. Great stuff." [FdW / Vital Weekly] word nightmares; the music is archaic and droney, with multi-layered guitar drones..., oneiric ambient industrial nearly to Maeror Tri best * TRANSITIONAL - Nothing Real Nothing Absent CD (Conspiracy releases. The disc in packaged in a elegant and luxurious embossed Records core062, 2007) [lim. 250] € 12.00 cardboard digi-sleeve. Symballein: "perceivable & non-perceivable Erinnert sich noch jemand an die begnadeten HEAD OF DAVID? Das things fall into one" [label press release] lief damals unter "britischem Noise-Rock", war aber weitaus abgründiger und experimenteller als viele andere Bands mit derselben * TROUM - Darve sh / AJIN CD (Nefryt N 016, 2008) € 13.00 Stilrichtung aus dieser Zeit, von der Innovationskraft & rabenschwarzen " Two rare vinyls as one CD. The ritual face of Troum! “DARVÊ SH” Radikalität ehesten vielleicht noch mit der New Yorker Band LIVE was released in February 2003 as 10”-vinyl on Beta-Lactam Ring SKULL vergleichbar. DAVE COCHRANE gehörte zur Urbesetzung von Records (mt030) as part 10 in the “Lactamase” - series. “AJIN” was HEAD OF DAVID, war später bei GOD, SWEET TOOTH und JESU, released in December 2005 as a picture-12” vinyl on Equation Records und brilliert nun in diesem neuen Duo TRANSITIONAL, das irgendwo (E=mc11). DARVÊ SH: etymological persian source for “Dervish”, it zwischen JESU-Rock und elektronischen Power-Trance & Drone means “doorway” (metaphor for being between this word and the angesiedelt ist, mitreissend wie hier rohe Kraft in betörende Bahnen netherworld. AJIN: hebrew for “Eye”. It also means “Colour” or “Source” gelenkt wird....trancige Beats, Weite, rauhe Sounds wie Wellen & and is the 16th letter of the hebrew alphabet. The right eye that looks Wind... into the sky for transcendence, the left eye that looks to the ground to "Transitional is the new project of musician producer Kevin Laska the worg of god (one that dances and the other that speaks) -> balance (Novatron) and long time Justin K Broadrick and Kevin Martin of contradictions." [label info / credits] collaborator Dave Cochrane (Jesu, Grey Machine,). The debut 'Nothing "Troum has brought us to another fantastic dreamstate. This anticipated real Nothing Absent' offers a rich variety in their approach to sound new release is the tenth installment in the Lactamase 10" series. Each combining crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic side has the driving force of a sonic spiral that will leave your head ambience, mangling bass lines and distorted epic layers of textured spinning. Play it loud and the revolving pulse will envelop your being. guitar. Injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing Laska You may find yourself levitating.." [Anomalous Records about "Darve and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale which pull Sh"] you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off with some more soul dismantling sonic dysfunction. * TROUM - Objectlessness CD (Faria FAR-16, 2008) € 12.00 This is a band which can deliver both sonic tranquility and extremely Re-Issue der limitierten CDR auf MYSTERY SEA, neue Artwork von heavy slabs of dense music and just about everything in between; PETE BURN auf dem feinen FARIA-Label aus St. Petersburg! Heavy electronic machinery, juggernaut bass lines and hypnotic guitars "There is a big gap between “rational”, verbal language and the pre- go from passive relaxation to an unstoppable machine within a single symbolic language of our emotional and unconscious mind. Music is surge. Kevin Laska's woven creations of bleak electronic/organic perceived partly with our conscious mind, who can analyze it and reflect mesmerizing mayhem and bliss has found a new level. Now joined by on it. On another part, it is perceived by our unconsciousness, by our legendary bassist Dave Cochrane who played with the likes of Kevin “primal consciousness” that lies “under” the rational mind. The idea: Martin in God, Ice and The Bug and Justin Broadrick in Jesu and Head Experimental music, especially that of a more droning character, can of David. Born September 2006 Laska's found himself in another quality easier “get in touch” or be unconsciously connected with this primal up with Cochrane, following his last collaboration with a.o. Russel Smith state of mind. It is music that is linked with unconscious fantasies and Anthony Difranco (Ramleh, ex Skullflower) as Novatron. coming from a pre-verbal sphere of existence... the phase of life based Transitional; a solid, textured and dynamic sonic journey through a on the dyadic interaction with the “primal object”, the mother. At this world that is both self deprecating and enlightening, but either way early stage, there’s no awareness existing of being a full separated leaves you wanting more." [label info] Subject, and no other full separated Objects can be perceived. Inner and outer reality is the same. Spheric, droning, dissolving music is * TROUM - Symballein CD (Small Voices SVR07024, 2007) pointing unconsciously at this “objectless” sphere of existence. This € 13.00 release is dedicated to the idea of an especially formed “pre-symbolic” Sechs Stücke aus der Frühphase von TROUM, erschienen auf music." [liner notes] obskuren & raren Compilations im Zeitraum 1997 - 1999; "A couple years ago, we started to regularly carry the releases dunkel, dronig-morastig, tieffrequent, von massiver Konsistenz, post- from Mystery Sea, a Belgian label who only release cd-rs of "night- industriell, jenseitig ...am ehesten zu vergleichen mit der ebenfalls ocean drones" in editions of 100 copies. Unfortunately, there were a damals erschienenen Debut-CD RYNA. bunch of those micro-edition releases that we never managed to get a "...alle sechs sind gute beispiele für die "kl_F/B-S/comp-Theorie", bilden hold of: Mnortham, Coelacanth, Spiracle, and Troum being some of trotzdem ein fast perfektes gesamtwerk und zeigen troum durchweg those we wish we could have tracked down. The good news is that von ihrer düsteren seite; kavernenartig, rhythmen durch meterdicke some of these Mystery Sea discs have been resurfacing as proper cds wände gefiltert, stimmen aus der zwischenwelt. ein stärkerer kontrast on various labels around the world, both near and far. Troum's zur aktuellen, dagegen fast leichten A.I.W.S. erscheint kaum contribution to the Mystery Sea project was rumored to be out of möglich...... print right when it was released; and it's a very good thing that the ps: die "kl_F/B-S/comp-Theorie", deren erste erwähnung hier nicht Russian imprint Faria has made this available again. mehr eruiert werden kann, stellt die (unbewiesene) vermutung in den Nearly 10 years ago, Troum emerged from the ashes of the post- raum, dass bands kleinere Formate/B-Seiten/compilation-Beiträge industrial project Maeror Tri. In this incarnation, the Troum duo gerne dafür nutzen, ein wenig abseitigere tracks zu platzieren. neben focused their sound upon amorphous drone compositions for guitar, dem wunsch, auch mal über die eigenen stränge schlagen zu können, bass, accordion, and a shitload of effects boxes. We've long long der experimentierlust zu frönen, wird vermutet, dass zum teil auch championed Troum as one of the pinnacles of dark, heavy, guitar- stücke dergestalt eine heimat finden, die aufgrund von driven dronemusik alongside the likes of Aidan Baker / Nadja, BJ laufzeitbeschränkungen der veröffentlichungsmedien in Nilsen, Oren Ambarchi, and SUNNO))). Objectlessness is a mighty fine vorhergehenden releases gekippt werden mussten. entry in Troum's storied discography. Two long tracks of deep psps: und des wird zeit, endlich einmal small voices aus italien zu narcoleptic whirs, marked by Troum's signature infernal rumble, out loben; allgemein + besonders und jetzt besonders wegen der of which radiant drones soar towards the heavens. They's always coverartworks: hier strukturpappe-aufklapper mit schlitz zur cd- balanced the sublime and the nightmarish, the beautiful and the aufnahme: eine weitere perfekte annäherung an das lp-cover als die malevolent; and such dualistic metaphors play themselves out within sowieso perfekte verpackung." [n, Unruhr.de] the shadowy cascades of their dronemusic. "Symballein" is the second TROUM releases on SmallVoices label after The Russian version of Objectlessness features new artwork in the well ... "Autopoiesis" LP picture disc (SVV001) actually SOLD OUT. a slightly oversized cardboard sleeve with 4 postcards. Limited to This album is a collection of very rare material, from the very beginning 750 copies, which should last a bit longer than the original cd-r, of Troum (period: 1997 - 1999). As Troum meaning the music is but probably only a little bit longer." [Aquarius Records] dreamy... The concept of the ‘Dream’ is the common thread running through Troum; the name, the music and the philosophy. For not only is TROUM the old German word for "DREAM" but, according to their website, ‘the dream, seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious, symbolizes the aim of TROUM to lead the listener into a

106 * TROUM & REUTOFF - Kreuzung Zwei : Creatura Per Creaturam Scavengers and their own way of a farewell performance. Starry-eyed Continetur CD (Ewers Tonkunst HHE 019 CD, 2008) € 13.00 limbs and forget-me-nots. We tried to cull the more beautiful ones of "Jedes Wesen ist mit jedem anderen verbunden." both kinds. Fields of clouds come and go like Spanish veterans and Nach ANTLERS MULM der zweite Teil der REUTOFF Collaboration- young mothers, queens and accessories and the one big Serie: TROUM bearbeiteten hierfür Basismaterial der Moskauer und misapprehension that is the ocean for every well crafted ship. The utero gossen das ganze, inspiriert von der Kosmologie HILDEGARD VON for this two-headed baby was butt-joined after the Ex Ovo Orchestra BINGENs, in sechs dronig-sphärische Stücke. performance that took place at the AZ Conni venue, Dresden February "The second in Kreuzung collaborations series. The basic sound 2007. Mirko had caught some moaning itinerary fish para Puri a few sources and samples made by Reutoff especially for this release have weeks earlier while Marcus was fishing for it at that particular night. One been treated, arranged and mixed with an addition of their own is about leaving, the other about the destination. And Nextera is a very instrumental parts by Troum. Dark profound harsh ambient with some nice orphanage. Go and get orphaned in the fields of parting." [label occasional rhythmic patterns intertwined with transcendental prepared description] guitar loops and perfect drone noises - a perfect blend between two "A brave move here from Nextera. None of these three artists have a project distinctive features and creative manners. The concept of this big name yet, and in this day and age to release them on a real CD is a work is based on cosmology of Hildegard von Bingen. The release brave move, me thinks. All three artists have some reputation in the comes in a special “Kreuzung” series package made of brown kraft field of ambient and drone, mostly due to limited releases on CDR, tape carton with a full colour stickered artwork/info cover and Reutoff logo or vinyl. All three are always 'promising' in my book, especially Mirko embossed on the back, the CD is housed in the same carton die-cut Uhlig. He has made some great, much overlooked releases, and here inner envelope." [label info] returns with a piece that is great. Much reverb is used on the piano, and "The forty-five minutes are divided into six tracks, slowly building below deck there is a synthesizer or two lurking and the voices could be towards an intense mixture of miniature noisescapes, neoclassical the announcement of a train station, but reminds the listener of Bryars tapestries, ethnic rhythmic structures and eerie vocal samples. All titles 'Sinking Of The Titanic'. Uhlig seems to be heavily inspired - more than are in Latin, and since that isn't my strong point, I'll leave translations to before - by Brian Eno's ambient music, especially the first one 'Music the readers' enquiring minds. For Films' springs to mind. Maybe a bit too much in the direction of new The first track, "Aether Purus", is typical for Troum, although the familiar age but still on the right side of ambient music. Dronaement is Marcus bassy layering of Troum seems to have gone up in frequency; it's all a Obst from Germany, who offers a live piece here, called 'Fields'. It's bit higher. "Terrenus" has some partial neoclassical-like sounds, but it is not, as the title may suggest, a pure field recording piece, but at the set in a 1970s surrounding, "A Space Odyssey"-like environment. There foundation of it, there is some highly obscured field recording, which are moments there that appear like insects stuck in your aural canal. Or sounds like a boat or so and on top Obst plays organ/drone sounds, not is it really little aliens? unlike Palestine (which lead me to think these boys know their classics), This setting is forcefully continued in the third (title) track where the but as the piece evolves arpeggio keyboards come in and things land in Troum sounds find their way back into the composition. Later in the cosmic land - with soft noise underneath. Quite a nice piece, both of track rhythms are added to the composition. It is by far the longest track them." [FdW / Vital Weekly] on the album. "Ignis Niger" is the fourth track and its creepy, erratic voices and samples really get you into a mood fit for watching a horror * ULKOMAALAISET - One CD (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt147 / movie. Yes, two film references are my way of saying this whole release Black Series negro 23, 2007) [lim. 300] € 14.50 is very filmic. "Ignis Lucidus" has rhythms again, in combination with Erster Teil diese ungewöhnlichen brasilianisch-russischen Kollaboration deep droning layers. It's a bit close to atmospheres like O Yuki mit LEGENDARY PINK DOTS-Sänger EDWARD KA-SPEL, dronig, Conjugate. The disc closes with "Aer Aquosus (Reprise)" which is a experimentell, geräuschhaft... short but powerful track in an adapted Troum style. "Electro-improv album with Edward Ka-Spel. Edition of 300 numbered My knowledge of Reutoff is minimal, so maybe there are a few too copies. Ulkomaalaiset is a rather different kind of Gharbzadegi or many references towards Troum here, but on the other hand I love Fremd. In this context it speaks to a disconnection to place rather than Troum, and this album is, despite the references, so different from their to people. Fitting a square peg into a round hole CAN, however, be a other work that I think I'm secretly going to like Reutoff a lot also." good thing. Edward Ka-Spel united with Alena Boikova and Martin [Bauke van der Wal / Connexion Bizarre] Heuser in Finland to herald the coming of Spring and managed to paint several startling tone poems that reflect this sense of Ulkimaalaiset. The * TWICE A MAN - Clouds CD (Yellow Ltd. LC08873, 2008) € 13.00 trio settings were improvised with an intimacy, conveying both the "Seit 25 Jahren entziehen sich Dan Söderqvist und Karl Gasleben beauty and loneliness of exploring a strange, unpopulated place. erfolgreich jedem Versuch einer musikalischen Vereinnahmung. Als Sometimes Heuser's piano plays against Ka-Spel's and Bikova's Twice A Man verbinden die beiden Schweden Synthie-Pop, Ambient, electronics with the quiet subtlety and austere sweetness of a more Tribal-Rhythmen, klassische Töne und atmosphärische Soundscapes musical John Cage/David Tudor collaboration. Occasionally the spirits zu immer neuen, traumhaften Klanggebilden; zuletzt 2002 auf (and maybe even the ghosts) of Aho and Sibelius are inadvertently "Agricultural Beauty", einer indisch inspirierten Platte. Sechs Jahre conjured. This triumvirate is so well matched that they seem to create später melden sich die Grenzgänger des Electro-Pop mit einem neuen air above mountains. Two separate releases present with four very Album zurück, das die Spiritualität seines Vorgängers weitgehend am distinct pieces of loud, quiet, and loud. Cloudbursts of angelic rain Leben hält. Schlägt der Titeltrack noch einen indischen Bogen, wird das bewitching the souls of the ever wandering Ulkomaalaiset." [label info] sphärische Soundgerüst jedoch im weiteren Verlauf von "Clouds" ".. If "Part Two" is an altogether noisier offering, though, it's still aufgelockert: sei es durch Synthie-Wummern, düster-melodischen Pop possessed of a certain quietness, as if the three musicians were loathe oder 80er-Jahre-Reminiszenzen. "Clouds" entstand in Zusammenarbeit to get too loud for fear of offending the silence of the mostly-empty mit Johnny Friberg, der die Band seit 2003 verstärkt. Bei den Konzerten town. This gives the album a sort of coziness that persists even through werden die beiden Urmitglieder jedoch wieder allein auf der Bühne the more atonal passages. Play this album in an empty house in the stehen." [label info] early morning, and see if you don't discover the same sense of hushed excitement these three musicians must have shared while recording it." * UCHO / ENGINE - In Search of the Winter CD (Pataphysique [Re-Gen] Records DD-010, 2000) € 8.00 Band-project of members from ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE and * ULKOMAALAISET - Two CD (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt153 / INCAPACITANS, who let it rock here in an almost "post-punk" way, but Black Series negro 23, 2007) € 14.50 they also move into more psychedelic territorities. Japanese vocals, Really wyrd, folks ! EDWARD KA-SPEL met up with a brazilian guy & a japanese credits on the CD, somehow simple but also quite obscure russian lady in southern Finland and created four lengthy pieces and with a kind of naive power! Special priced between improvisation (with piano as the main element), drone, and electronic collage-music. Quite extreme at times!! * UHLIG, MIRKO / DRONAEMENT - Farewell Fields CD (Nextera "Edition of 300 numbered copies. Ulkomaalaiset is a rather different ERA 2048-2, 2007) € 13.50 kind of Gharbzadegi or Fremd. In this context it speaks to a Zwei lange ruhige Solostücke von MIRKO UHLIG (vormals auch disconnection to place rather than to people. Fitting a square peg into a bekannt als AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF) und DRONAEMENT, round hole CAN, however, be a good thing. Edward Ka-Spel united with entspannte Meditationen zum Thema "Weggehen" und "Ankommen". Alena Boikova and Martin Heuser in Finland to herald the coming of PARA PURI ist eine traumhafte Melange aus sanften Gitarren-Drones, Spring and managed to paint several startling tone poems that reflect Harmonien / Obertönen und field recordings, FIELDS (LIVE) ist this sense of Ulkimaalaiset. The trio settings were improvised with an elektronischer, Sequenzen-hafter..."Ambient mit grossem A", mit sehr intimacy, conveying both the beauty and loneliness of exploring a eigener & persönlicher Note... strange, unpopulated place. Sometimes Heusers piano plays against "There are various kinds of flowers in the farewell fields but what they Ka-Spels and Bikovas electronics with the quiet subtlety and austere have in common is not complaining when it's time for valediction. A sweetness of a more musical John Cage/David Tudor collaboration. scarcely audible "goodbye". Then wounded veterans on its soil. Occasionally the spirits (and maybe even the ghosts) of Aho and

107 Sibelius are inadvertently conjured. This triumvirate is so well matched "Imagine Christian Vander and Pierre Henry collaborating on a lost that they seem to create air above mountains. Two separate releases masterpiece when they were both at the peaks of their powers.... present with four very distinct pieces of loud, quiet, and loud. Imagine the master tape turning up in Chile..Imagine it's reputation Cloudbursts of angelic rain bewitching the souls of the ever wandering preceded it and turned out to be EVEN BETTER...... Un Festin Sagital is Ulkomaalaiset. Easter in rural Finland isn't exactly the most exciting a group I'd never heard of before, but I reckon I'll spend the next few holiday. Everything is closed, the few people that are normally there years hearing them again and again such is the depth of this debut." seem to vanish and even the mosquitoes maintain a respectful [Edward Ka-Spel] distance. Martin Heuser somehow found himself in Karis (also known Now all that is needed is for Dario Argento to step in and make a movie as Karjaa for, in Finland, most of the places have 2 names) with nothing around this album. At last, Rock In Opposition enters the 21st century, to do. He had flown North from his birthplace in South Brazil to avoid cuz FORGET POST ROCK! But even though Un Festin Sagital’s name military service and claim a spot at the delightful Lrkkulla College - but may be RIO, they are not dancing on the sand. Like little Chilean at Easter 2007 he very much felt like an outsider. The college was goblins, UFS pilot their fractured UFO into the cobwebbed corners of virtually empty. Likewise Edward Ka-Spel (an Englishman) and Alena the collective head heritage. They prefer to keep to themselves inside Boikova (a Russian) found themselves at the same place at the same the darkness on the edge of town, with their oddly timed opuses time, anxious to celebrate the coming of Spring but not quite sure how flickering like a forest of ill begotten faeries waiting to capture anything to do it. A casual conversation over a bottle of Chilean wine, procured that strays off the path. Their skittering, rhythmic angina pays skewed BEFORE the shops closed, revealed that Martin played classical piano. homage to immortal RIO titans like Hellebore and Samla Mammas Ka-Spel, a little excited by this news, declared that the three should Manna, but tends to spew forth with even darker hues, like those make an album. In fact they made two. They will probably make another splattered by Univers Zero, Art Zoyd and Legendary Pink Dots. UFS’s one at some time in the future. What else a poor foreign boy (or girl ) do dedication to experimentation and noise in between precision timed in Finland? Ulkomaalaiset means "Foreigners" in Finnish. The name progressive coughs could almost cast them into the same fiery pit was decided upon in a truly democratic way as all found the word to be currently occupied by many modern black and doom metal daemons. A a beautiful one. The band would like to thank Stefan at Lrkkulla College stalwart avoidance of jazz idioms further cements their psychedelic kick for making this all possible, and Chris & Heather at BLRR for allowing into the cosmic eye and could sort of brand them as RIOORIO (Rock In the music to be heard by a wider public. Martin Heuser: piano Alena Opposition Of Rock In Opposition). Whatever bullshit genre Boikova: Drums, percussion, electronics Edward Ka-Spel: keyboards, classification best suits them, like a mighty horse they rock the fat ass!" electronics, small indescribable objects." [label info] [label info]

* ULLMANN, JAKOB - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 CD (Edition RZ * UW HYPOTHEEKADVIES - Nature of Nurture CD (Beta-lactam 2005, 2008) € 15.50 Ring Records mt159 / Black Series negro 36, 2008) [lim. 400] A very quiet, breathing & meditative work from this east-german € 13.00 composer for 8 female singers & vocalists and 4 instruments (sax, "Ed. Of 400 numbered copies with full color insert each with an original transverse flute, viola, violoncello), recorded in a german abbey using hand drawing. Features members from former BlRR band Girlfriends the natural reverb there. One-tracker, 70+ min, spacey & a bit alien, and mastered by Erik Drost and Raymond Steeg (Legendary Pink creates quite a special atmosphere. Dots). According to the Explosive Ordinance Field Guide: “Uw "voice, books and FIRE ist das Ergebnis längeren und noch Hypotheekadvies should be handled with great care as it is one of the andauernden Nachdenkens über den Zusammenhang zwischen Musik most powerful EO’s, especially if detonated through speakers in the und Sprache, Sprache als Klang und Sprache als Text, des comfort of one’s own home.” As trios go, UH sound more like a Nachdenkens über die vielfältigen Verknüpfungen zwischen Texten thousand-tet. Imagine a heavily armoured Glenn Branca guitar army verschiedener kultureller und religiöser Traditionen, zwischen der Arbeit falling DOWN an UP escalator in such a way that they never reach the des menschlichen Geistes in der Gegenwart und der Vergangenheit. bottom and are forever tumbling and crashing. Now throw DNA down Das Nachdenken vollzieht sich vor dem Hintergrund der mannigfaltigen the same escalator and pour acid on that. UH don’t just rock; they Fragen, die aus dem Problem resultieren, diese verschiedenen ROCK. Like agates gone wild, their abstract explorations come Traditionen, Sprachen und Texte zu verstehen; mehr noch: sie delivered via sledgehammer and arrive on the plate as oddly conceived gegenwärtig zu machen in einer Situation, in welcher wesentliche gemstones with insects trapped inside. It smells like the teen spirits of Teile sogar der eigenen Tradition und Geschichte weitgehendem Naked City and Laddio Bolocko lurk underneath UH’s woodpile, but Vergessen anheimgefallen sind. / / despite the improv flavour of UH’s pummeling, they skew away from voice, books and FIRE is the result of my reflections about the jazz and lean in more towards prog than Zorn and Co. UH’s chaos relationships between music and language: language as sound and fleshes form and even descends into subtle soundscapes in between language as text, the numerous relationships between texts of different the rat-a-tat blastpatter. A beautiful monstrosity of Nature and Nurture." cultural and religious traditions, between the work of the human spirit in [label info] the present and in the past and the questions arising from the problem of understanding these different traditions, languages and texts and * VELEHENTOR - From the Gloom of Graves CD (Desolator representing them in a present, which has lost knowledge about Catacombs of Smersh SMERSH 02, 2008) € 13.00 substantial parts, even of its own tradition and history." Very gloomy dark ambience, sad & melancholic tunes in the way of [Jakob Ullmann] RAISON D'ETRE, SVARTSINN or other acts appearing on CYCLIC LAW, EIBON Records or COLD MEAT INDUSTRY.... * ULTRA MILKMAIDS - Pretty Day maxi-CD (Waystyx Records VELEHENTOR also uses spoken words, slow percussive elements and WR38, 2008) [lim. 313] € 12.50 guitar, and thus creates his very own vision & style.. Kleine zauberhafte Kollektion mit 2 neuen Stücken und 4 Remixen (rec. VELEHENTOR is the 2nd project of Drone Records-artist CLOSING 2003-2007), luftig-leichte Minimalismen basierend auf Gitarrenzupf- THE ETERNITY, from Ekaterinburg / Russia ! Klängen und Elektronik, wobei das fast schon NICK CAVE-artige "Classic Dark Ambient: cold echo of unknown rituals straying in the PRETTY DAY absolut herausfällt (mit Gesang von Harric Pitton), und pitch darkness of resonant stone labyrinths. Paranoiac trance auch ihre Surf-Musik Vorlieben werden deutlich erahnbar in den induced by the feeling of lifeless presence in the crypts that breathe Gitarrenklängen... with dead moisture. Glacial serenity of indifferent doom. "A small collection of new Ultra Milkmaids tracks and remixes both by The album was recorded during the winter of 1999-2000. them on other bands' tracks and by other bands on their tracks. A pretty Pitch black digipack with varnished pictures and info. Limited to 460 nice disk for the fans." [label info] copies." [label info]

* UN FESTIN SAGITAL - Epitafio a la Permanencia CD (Beta- VOICE OF EYE - soon out new 10" on Substantia Innomnata!! lactam Ring Records mt124 / Black Series negro 29, 2007) [lim. Letzte Chance die grandiosen Frühwerke von VOICE OF EYE zu 400] € 13.00 ergattern!! First three CDs BACK IN STOCK! Absolut erstaunliches Debut einer vielköpfigen chilenische Gruppe über VOICE OF EYE – Mariner Sonique CD (Cyclotron Industries die so gut wie nichts bekannt ist, die uns einerseits an Recommended CYCI-111, 1993) € 14.00 Rec. und Prog-Rock-Acts, LA STPO oder südamerikanisch Die erste CD der genialen Texaner Bonnie Mc. Nairn und Jim Wilson schwelgende VOLCANO THE BEAR erinnern, dann aber auch von 1993. Dschungel – Musik, viele Rhythmen, viele Soundeffekte, symphonisch-elektronisch schwelgen können wie die LEGENDARY erdrückend intensiv! PINK DOTS, oder völlig in ihren Geräuschexperimenten aufgehen, VOICE OF EYE – Vespers CD (Cyclotron Industries CYCI-222, wobei kein Ton oder Sound wirklich zufällig klingt. Jedes weitere Stück 1994) € 14.00 stellt eine Überraschung dar, eine Entdeckungsfahrt sondergleichen Die zweite CD, meditativer und harmonischer als der hitzige Erstling. und nicht umsonst hochgelobt von EDWARD KA-SPEL. Simply mesmerizing! back in stock Hochdynamisch, kraftvoll, ausgefeilt, in diesem Album stecken second CD of VOE , more meditative & harmonic than the first album.. unendliche viele Ideen...

108 for us an absolute classic of emotional trance-inducing drone-music ! Erschien übrigens vor einigen Jahren bereits auf Beta-Lactam als LP in VOICE OF EYE – Transmigration CD (Cyclotron Industries CYCI- einer Auflage von nur 100 Stück! 333, 1995) € 14.00 "Die wohl beste Band des CTM Festivals 2006 mit zwei über 20 Nach den beiden hervorragenden CD's 'Mariner Sonique' und 'Vespers' Minuten langen Tracks in oberdickem und teurem Pappcover. Natürlich ist nun das dritte Werk des texanischen Duos erhältlich - noch weiter werden VTB in keinem Weird Folk Artikel erwähnt, dafür sind sie viel zu scheinen sie einzudringen in tiefste Sphären von Sound & Bewußtsein, weit draußen, zu windig, hölzern, befremdlich und abseits von allem. Es eine neue Ästhethik aus Sehnsucht & Tiefsinn anstrebend... VOICE OF blasen alte, nach Gauklerfest klingende Tröten, aber nur selten zum EYE kreieren ihre Musik in der direkten Improvisation ohne Computer Tanz oder Marsch. Streicher werden gekappt und geschnitten, Vögel oder Sampler und erreichen dabei eine einzigartige natürliche und ein anonymes Publikum schauen teilnahmslos zu, an der Harfe Klangfülle.. Worte können nur lächerlich klingen, wenn man diese wird semi-improvisiert, Gesang in die Länge gezogen etc etc. Trotz aller glühenden Sounds beschreiben will! Experimentierfreude an den Instrumenten steht deutlich VTBs famose Studioarbeit im Vordergrund. Alle Spuren sind meisterhaft abgemischt, * VOLCANO THE BEAR - Amidst the Noise and Twigs CD (Beta- so dass klar der Eindruck des steten Machens über dem der fertigen lactam Ring Records mt204a, 2007) € 13.00 Arbeit steht. Unheimlich, mysteriös und spitzengut." [Ed Benndorf / DE "Die vier buchdeckelartigen Hochglanzseiten mit surrealen Bilderwelten BUG] des Nick Mott – Würfelkopfgestalt, gesichtslose Männchen fliegen "First edition of 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound cd durch die Luft, eines legt seine Stielaugen vor sich auf den Tisch – case. This year sees the eruption of the Volcano with a myriad of würden den Kauf von VOLCANO THE BEARs Admidst The Noise and releases leaving the town folk covered in a fine and mysterious silt of Twigs (mt204a) fast schon alleine rechtfertigen. Umso besser, wenn musical entropy. The limited release of "Mountains" finds our boy’s dann die Musik auch noch überzeugt. Neben dem Artworker zeichnen spelunking the creepiest of dream spawned caves, excavating für diese wieder Aaron Moore, Clarence Manuelo und Daniel Padden crystalline fragments along the way, which are then set in beautiful verantwortlich. Sie jagen den Hörer durch eine scheinbar zufällig mental jewelry appropriate for any formal occasion. Arpeggiated blurs chaotische Dadaund Patchwork-Welt, die bisweilen Dilettantismus and disinterred voices snap, crackle and pop as an unnamed rusted höchst gekonnt suggeriert und mit allen musikalischen und technischen hulk is slowly pushed across an ever morphing open landscape. More Tricks Illusionen aufbaut und zerstört. Hippiegeschrammel trifft auf accurately still, it's like that weird wind harp record from the 70's with a orientalische Flöten und Gongs der Chinaoper. Dann paaren sich mid period NWW and Mauve Sideshow marching up opposite sides of Flötengedudel, Geklapper und Geknarze ’Before We Came To This the hill to claim the giant harp. And that's just in the first 19 minutes!. Religion’. Auf ’Larslovesnicks Farm’ steht ein altes verstimmtes Klavier, Afterwards, there is a slo-mo interlude battle between rarified VTB auf dem ein Langweiler vier Töne tonleiteraufwärts stetig wiederholt, brand chamber music and the sounds of...things. As promised, the dazu scheinen Türen zu knarzen und Wasser wird verspritzt. Ein Banjo denouement is a brief, dare I say, pretty little whisper of pizzicato and beschränkt sich auf 2 Töne, die während des Anschlagens getunet drone. So pretty and little, in fact, that it caught the attention of my werden. ’Cassettes Of Berlin’ ist eine negativländlerische Collage aus otherwise weirdness deaf partner. A real symphony of the spheres that Geräuschen, Stimmfetzen und Radioeinspielungen, abgehackt, weil am showcases this Volcano's ability to blow its top and rain sweet tweeky Frequenzeinstellrad weitergedreht wird. ’Splendid Goose’ ähnelt den kittens on the valley below." [label info] langen Mothers-Stücken der zweiten Freak Out-Scheibe. Das Schlagzeug unterbreitet den treibenden Rhythmus, über dem sich * VON HAUSSWOLFF, CARL MICHAEL - Perhaps I arrive - music monotone Frequenzteppiche ausbreiten, gestört und unterbrochen von for Atatürk Airport, Istanbul do-CD (Auf Abwegen aatp25, 2008) Kracheinspielungen und begleitet von brummiger Stimmakrobatik oder € 18.00 Flötengequengel. ’She Vang Moon’ kreiert eine Atmosphäre "This double disc set includes some of the most unusual sounds you tibetanischer Klöster mit Mönchsgesang, Harmonium, will have heard from Carl Michael von Hausswolff. The story goes like Gonggeschepper, verzerrt dann immer mehr durch unsaubere this. Von Hausswolff was chosen by the 1997 Istanbul Biennal to create Frequenzen. Es geht auch gefühlvoll, wenn die Trompete zu einer Art a sound installation for Atatürk Airport. His classic sound combining low Hymne ansetzt, aber dann wird gegrunzt, gejammert und durch den frequency rumblings, very monotonous oscillations and hissy non- Kamm geblasen. Das letzte Stück, ’The Three Twins’, beginnt in narrative sequences was deemed too confusing for the commutors. It getragenem Tempo mit 3 Tönen und der tiefgreifenden Aussage “Hi-a- was feared, von Hausswolff’s sound installation might be mistaken for o, Hijä-jah...“ (oder so ähnlich), geht über in dilettantisches Geklopfe, an alarm and would be capable of causing serious panic at the airport. Kindergeschrei, Klaviergeklimper - das Schlagzeug wuselt im Hence the original soundtrack for “Perhaps I Arrive” was neglected. Hintergrund – und entwickelt sich tatsächlich noch zu einem Song, der This music can now be heard for the first time on disc 1. Carl Michael am Ende vom Sax regelrecht ’zerquetscht’ wird." [Bad Alchemy] von Hausswolff’s response to the artistic restrictions was to produce the "The first 1000 copies are packaged in a full color book bound case with four tracks you hear on the second disc. These only make use of the an eight page booklet. Volcano The Bear "Amidst The Noise And very basic pre-set industry sounds included in the Yamaha QY22 and Twigs" is the follow up to the critically acclaimed "Classic Erasmus show a new side to the von Hausswolff sound. Very simple, post- Fusion" album. Who knew that amidst the noise and the twigs there was nuclear lounge music. These four tracks you guessed it! were happily music…sweet, sweet music?! This world is Volcano the Bear’s womb. used in the context of the Biennal exhibition. Art is a three-letter word At last, the year that VTB gets a shot at Top Of The Pops, assuming the (William S Burroughs)" [label info] pops finally snaps out of its vapid trance and embraces the standards of "Nothing is for a musician more annoying than a response like: Comus, 3 Hurel, early Residents and 12th century Arabo-Andalusian whatever you are doing, it sounds like a test tone, alarm signal, hiss or music. As usual, our heroes are found keeping things stripped to the worse: I think your equipment is broken. So when Carl Micheal von bone trumpet, but dripping with a juicy, melodic marrow. The record Hauswolff was asked by the Istanbul Biennale to make a site specific pours slowly and resolutely like a folk-psych dream urn, loaded with full work at their airport, he was probably very annoyed when they turned metal banjoes; crumhorns at 12 O’clock; and autoharps at defcon 5. down his piece of low rumbling, because it could have caused alarm. The experimentalism is this time couched in shifting tides of self-spun So instead he created something else, on a Yamaha QY22, using acidic harvest ballads that noisily well up into proto-Kraut thrums and preset sounds only - probably to annoy the organizers. Now both tribal night t rips around the pyre. A rural, squelchy, DIY delicacy which versions are released as part of this double CD - the rejected piece on stinks of occidental embouchure so crystal crisp that every skkrrrr, one CD, and the accepted on the other. The rejected piece is indeed a pphaaapph and brrruuuummmm resonates like a small, sound-specific piece of low rumbling, a bit of hiss sounds (long waves picked up from god, intertwined with beautifully skewed notes, voices and rhythms. the ether I think) which may not have worked at the airport - depends of "Amidst The Noise And Twigs" plays like a recently discovered field course on how things are presented - but for home listening I must say recording of some obscured Celtic clan who accidentally stumbled onto this is quite nice. Perfect Hauswolff styled hiss music. And what a psychedelia 600 years ahead of its time. These pipers truly rock the difference indeed with the accepted version. Four pieces there of gates of dawn." [label notes] lounge like music, but with a more forceful rhythm underneath, so it wouldn't entirely work in lounge bar. But you can imagine people at an * VOLCANO THE BEAR - The Mountains among us CD (Beta- airport, hastily walking along Hauswolff march like beats and bittersweet lactam Ring Records mt200, 2008) [lim. 500] € 15.00 keyboards with a vague trace of arab-like sounds. This is a side that we Die bereits 200ste Katalognummer des Portlander Labels ist für haven't heard from him before, and it's not something he should do a lot VOLCANO THE BEAR reserviert, und diese präsentieren hier ganz (or in fact never did again, as far as I can recall), but it's surely a curious besonderes Material, 2 urlange Stücke mit sehr geräuschhaften album. " [FdW / Vital Weekly] Instrumental- Drones & field recording-Quellen, sehr frei & voller überraschender Wendungen und wunderbarer dunkler Parts. Das * WATERMANN, JOHN - 1935-2002 CD (Waystyx Records Album weist mitunter fast schon neo-klassische Qualitäten auf, ist WR36, 2008) € 13.00 überraschend atmosphärisch, dabei aber von unheimlicher Stringenz. Unglaubliche Sounds auf dieser "rare tracks" - Zusammenstellung, Unser definitiver Lieblingsrelease der britischen Band! Anklänge an man wird regelrecht hin- und her geworfen in Strudeln aus Dynamik & NOISE MAKERS FIFES, ZEITKRATZER, MORPHOGENESIS.... Klang; 13 Stücke von z.T. längst vergessen Compilations wurden hier

109 zusammengestellt, die Cover-Artwork ist wie immer bei WAYSTYX own, while maintaining a zen-like character to them. Great one." " [FdW speziell. / Vital Weekly] "... The "Sandokai" ("The Harmony of Difference and Equality") is a * WATSON, DAVID - Fingering an Idea do-CD (Experimental prayer written by the eighth century Japanese Zen teacher Sekito Intermedia XI132, 2007) € 15.00 Kisen. The basis for this piece was a tape given to Wickham-Smith by a Die perfekte Platte für den "Drone-Nerd" (wir zählen uns übrigens auch nun of a recital at her monastery. He wanted to create of this sample a dazu) - ein Album mit experimentellen Dudelsack-Drones!! prayer without borders, a follow-up to an earlier work, Ave Regina Obwohl der Dudelsack eines DER Drone-Instrumente par excellence Caelorum (2000, released on Extreme Bukake [VHF65]), in which he ist, wird er im "experimentellen" Bereichen nur äussert selten used the Latin plainsong of a prayer to the Virgin Mary in much the eingesetzt. Der Australier DAVID WATSON aber kreiert hier auf same way. The organ sample at the end is from a piece by Erik Satie, verschiedene komplexe Arten wunderbare Dudelsack-Drones, z.T. mit whose spirituality was equally strange and eclectic. All the samples einem ganzen Ensemble live aufgenommen, so entstehen acht have been stretched and pitch-shifted beyond (immediate) recognition; verschiedene "Movements" auf CD 1, polyphon & obertonreich. to the ears they have melded into something that seems at once both In verschiedensten Harmonie- und Obertonvariationen bewegen sich ethereal and solid. die hyper-organisch klingenden Dudelsäcke, manchmal sehr dynamisch "The Kin-kindness of Beforehand" grew out of his "Multiple Tongues" & schillernd, dann mit Entwicklungen die an HAFLER TRIO's Drone- project, a series of pieces in which Wickham-Smith exposed the spoken Werke denken lassen.... unsere besondere Empfehlung! word in many different languages to a series of digital manipulations. Auf der CD 2 als Bonus etwas ganz anderes, nämlich Kompositionen The Kin-kindness of Beforehand is divided up into several distinct für elektrische & akustische Gitarre, hier werden alte Cassetten- sections, each of which took on a particular persona during its creation. Aufnahmen von 1987 mit zusätzlichen Tunes versehen... For the composer, this was the most complex of all the "Multiple "Whoever David Watson is doesn't become very clear. But he's from Tongues" works, because he wanted to use specific strings of words Australia and it seems that his two prime instruments, well at least and the quality of writer Rachel Becker¹s voice somehow to comment covered on this release is bagpipes and guitar. Both have a single CD on each another. at their disposal here, and the result is quite different. 'Dexter' is the first "love & lamentation" started life as a setting for voice and electronics of disc and it has the bagpipes. It's been a while since I last heard that part of the biblical Book of Lamentation, but it quickly became clear that instrument, probably on a Nocturnal Emissions disc, but if you think of the literal setting of words was not going to convey the melancholic it, it's the perfect instrument to play drone music on. There are three intimacy that needed to be expressed. As a teenager Wickham-Smith recordings here, blending together in a natural way. There is an had heard Alain Gheerbrant¹s wonderful ethnomusicological recordings ensemble piece, a multi-tracked solo piece and one with recorded of a blind Turkish troubador and had fallen hopelessly in love with his material going through an eight-channel MSP patch. Cut into eight voice and exquisite playing of the saz. About the same time, through his pieces this is wonderful drone music, slowly moving and changing, friend Richard Youngs, he had discovered also the ex tempore psalm almost in a Phill Niblock like manner (he's the man from the label, so go singing of the Scottish Isle of Lewis. Fifteen years later, he decided that figure). Absolute great stuff and nothing outdated or old-fashioned, or these two could be made somehow to work together to show the love whatever you think of bagpipes." [FdW, Vital Weekly] and lamentation which he felt they both held in their deeper recesses, and which he wanted to present in this new piece. The result is a * WIESE, JOHN & DANIEL MENCHE - Behold the scathing light strange melée of feelings, repetitions and textures. From time to time mCD (Helicopter H31, 2004) € 8.50 we hear a somewhat bizarre percussion sample, which he had first A 23 minute one-tracker, based on a mail collaboration. Great shifting worked on in 2000. Part 3 opens with an offcut from an unreleased (and monuments of sounds. This is drone-music in perfection! now never-to-be-released) piece from 1999 called Deaf Piano. Veysel¹s “....Oscillating tones of violin like scrapings that over the course of these voice starts the piece and revolves through Part 2 in a kind of hippy twenty minutes grow in density. Layers are added of similar, but only trance love-in fashion. The congregation from Lewis sing their slightly different sound material. Quite a break away from Wiese's solo melancholy in a sparser and maybe wilder ways and die slowly away disc, and more closely related to Daniel Menche's current releases. into the distance at the close." [label info / credits] Noise is a thing that I heard to quite an extent in my life, but the dark sonorities of the Wiese/Menche collaboration is always well spend on * WRIGHT, PETER - At last a new Dawn do-CD (Students of me.” [FdW/Vital Weekly] Decay, 2007) [lim. 500] € 17.50 Back in stock last copies ! Episches Album des Londoner Gitarren-Droners, der mit AT LAST A NEW DAWN ein sehr dunkel-melancholisches Werk geschaffen hat, * WIESE, KLAUS & DOTEK TICHA - Tibetske Misy CD (Nextera LK voller versteckter sublimer Harmonien im geisterhaften Drone-Meer. 0304-2, 2005) € 13.00 " "At Last a New Dawn" is a double disc set of truly epic proportions. It Very subtle & highly contemplative drones made with singing-bowls. constitutes the first new recordings by Peter Wright released to CD Perfect meditation music for the emptying of the mind. Ambient & world since 2004's "Yellow Horizon," and is, without a doubt, a radiant high music artist KLAUS WIESE in collaboration with DOTEK TICHA. point, perhaps even the pinnacle, of his distinguished and exceptional discography. All of the familiar and wonderous Wright touchstones are * WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON - Love & Lamentation CD (Pogus present here in pristine form: a wealthof gorgeous, ghostly guitar drones Productions POGUS P21048-2, 2008) € 13.00 and swells, and impeccably employed field recordings from manifold Eine kaum zu beschreibende, faszinierende Klangwelt (basierend auf fascinating sources. Also worth noting is the emergence of some Bearbeitungen von vokalem Material) betritt man auf der neuen CD von slightly harsher sounds found here, a divergence from the traditionally SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH. Ob er ein buddhistisches Gebet verfremdet, pastoral nature of much of Wright's catalog. This is reflective of einen poetischen Text von mehreren Personen gelesen multipel Peter's current live setup, which employs increased overdrive and übereinanderlegt, oder Klagegesänge von Psalmen mit dem Sazspiel & distortion. der Stimme des türkischen "Troubadours" ASIK VEYSEL SIRSOGLU The album's title is, Peter asserts, a 'vauge reference to undying auf seltsamste Weise verbindet: stets schafft er so ungewöhnliche optimism in the face of gloom.' Many of the track titles too reflect a Ergebnisse dass man das Gefühl hat, etwas derartiges garantiert noch contemplation of death, pain, loss and tragedy. In fact, one of the nie vorher gehört zu haben - auch die emotionale Wirkung beim Hören tracks, 'Blue Light District,' was recorded on July 7th, 2005, the morning hat etwas ungeahntes, noch nicht eindeutiges... of the London terrorist attacks, its title referencing the rash of "... Its not easy to describe the music of Wickham-Smith, both from how emergency vehicles swarming throughout the city in the wake of the it was made and how it sounds. Perhaps he uses a computer to alter violence. This is the sound of misery and death, and ultimately, of hope his sounds, but I tend to believe that's only in the final stage of the and redemption." [label description] process. I envisage his music as generated with lo-fi means: worn out cassettes, cheap samplers, reel-to-reel tape loops. There are three * WRIGHT, PETER - Pretty Mushroom Clouds CD (aRCHIVE pieces on this album, all of which seem to be dealing with voices, archive 42, 2008) € 13.50 altered and otherwise. Wickham-Smith takes these, makes loops out of Wieder ein wunderbares Album von PETER WRIGHT, field recordings them and crafts a minimalist changing pattern with them. Through the & Gitarrendrones sind die Hauptbestandteile seiner warmen, various techniques, which I hope to be lo-fi as outlined before, the organischen, tagträumerischen Eskapaden, stets an der Grenze zu eine sounds are a bit hissy, static, crumbled, warped, folded and of a lower rauhen & gefährlichen Drone- & Noise-Sphäre... resolution. Chanting like in 'Sandokai' or the three parts of the title "... Weaving field recordings into longform drones, creating piece, or more poetry spoken word in 'The Kin-Kindness Of soundscapes from found sounds and processed guitars, Wright Beforehand', this is all excellent stuff, bringing back the good memories manages to create dreamlike expanses of sonic wonder. Take the first of his older work (which, if Vital Weekly wouldn't consume so much of track here, the title track, it’s hard not to imagine Pretty Little Mushroom my ear-time, I would grab out and play again). Wickham-Smith's music Clouds. The sounds of birds, and wind, maybe branches rubbing is like an anthropologic quest for voices connected of rituals, all over the against each other in the distance, while all around these sounds of world, from Tibet to Egypt, but he manages to give things a twist of his nature, deep buzzing swells ebb and flow, dark, slightly ominous

110 melodies, swell and recede, a super minimal pulse, a gorgeous cloud of Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa, Canada in 1968, Kraanerg originally was shimmer drifting across verdant hills and blue blue sky. You can almost the score to a ballet choreographed by Roland Petit with "op-art" sets imagine, lush rolling hills, dotted with wildflowers, cute little houses, by Victor Vasarely. According to Xenakis' program notes, the title also scattered copses of trees, birds soaring in the sky, while way off in the referred to the "current youth movements" - 1968 was a significant year distance, huge black mushroom clouds blossom in the sky, but from in modern social history - and to his utopian vision of the upcoming here, they just look beautiful, the music capturing that moment before "biological struggle between generations unfurling all over the planet, everything is turned to ash, a brief vacuum, where even the vilest of destroying existing political, social, urban, scientific, artistic and objects is transformed into a vivid picturesque sonic snapshot. ideological frameworks on a scale never before attempted by Over the rest of the record, the field recordings are much humanity." This powerful statement can be felt in the music. The more subtle, relying more on the processed instrumentation, guitars dramatic 4-channel tape is derived from a recording of the orchestra, are ground into muted walls reverberating buzz, rife with disembodied transformed and distorted. Its sonic textures kaleidoscopically expand melodies, streaks of high end and bits of rumbling drone, some tracks the range of expression while at the same time remaining connected to are massive and pitched down, the sound of drifting beneath miles of the instrumental material. The 4-channel tape has been restored for this ice in the Arctic Circle, everything glowing some unearthly blue, all the release from high-resolution transfers of the analog masters by German sounds muted and warbled, others are nearly ebullient, like the perfectly electronic composer Daniel Teige - revealing greater details in the titled “The Devil Wears Sunroof”, which from the sound of it we can texture and a wider dynamic range than previously heard on any only assume is a nod to Matthew Bower and his Ur-drone unit, all Kraanerg recording. 96khz/24-bit high resolution recording. Liner notes glistening high end shimmer, and long stretches of buzzing upper by composer James Harley. Available as CD and surround-sound video register guitar. The final track finds Wright taking all of his various DVD." [label info] sounds and assembling them into a super hypnotic, strangely heavy looped take on, well, Loop actually, a repeated riff, a static groove, * YOUNG, JOHN - La limite du bruit CD (Empreintes Digitales totally mesmerizing and space-y, eventually building to a full on blast of IMED 0261, 2002) € 12.00 almost Japanoise, before petering out, leaving just the sound of an Fünf Stücke von diesem neuseeländischen Komponisten, geräuschhaft- airport terminal or a train station, or a huge sparsely filled performance dynamisch-nah-ungeheuer vital-partitioniert-detailreich; fantastisch das space as it’s revealed to be, when the crowd finally offers up some 12minütige INNER welches auf menschlichen ATEM-Geräuschen applause, for what may have been a live performance, or may have besteht! Für Explorer ! been just a random bit of live crowd sound sampled and woven into “Pythagoras’s curtain” (2001), “Inner” (1995), “Virtual” (1997), “Time, Wright’s mysterious sonic sprawl. motion and memory” (1997-2001), “Liquid sky” (1998). “From New As always, amazing packaging from aRCHIVE. Six panel full color Zealand and now living in the UK, John Young’s main interest in glossy gatefold, the cd affixed to a nub on the middle panel, while composition continues to be in acousmatic music, particularly forms around the jacket, an outer sleeve of printed vellum. Super nice. Limited based on the interplay between recognizable natural sound sources to 500 copies, single one time pressing." [Aquarius Records review] and computer-based studio transformations. The 5 works on La limite du bruit (The Edge of Noise) are all truly acousmatic. With Pythagoras’s * XABEC - Transformed (Remixes) CD (Hands D113, 2008) Curtain this shift between recognizable and disembodied sound (or € 15.50 invisible worlds) is develop through sounds of intimately tactile origin. XABEC-remixes from: ALIO DIE, PATRICK FRANKE (aka NAHR), The suite made of Inner, Virtual and is exploring movement between WILD SHORES, AH CAMA SOTZ, NORTHAUNT, INCITE, ORPHX, sound sources which are ‘internal’ and ‘external’ to human sensibility. CONTAGIOUS ORGASM, etc. Liquid Sky is an exploration of the sound-image of rain.” [label info] "Transformed by Xabec isn't a new album by Xabec; It is a collection of remixes and therefore tributes made by other artists, celebrating the * YULCHIEVA, MUNADJAT & ENSEMBLE SHAVKAT MIRZAEV - music by Xabec. The front of the always exquisite Hands release reads The Haunting Voice ame CD (World Network 28297, 1997) € 15.00 "Xabec transformed by ..." which is something different then Traditionelle Musik aus USBEKISTAN, die der SUFI-Musik nahesteht, "Transformed by Xabec" which would mean a new Xabec album, with gesungen von MUNADJAT YULCHIEVA. Melancholische & that given title. sehnsuchtsvolle Liebeslieder, Stücke die die schöne Natur besingen, The artists on this album range from lesser known names like Incite, Religiöses, .. v.a. auf Klängen der Langhalslaute "Rubab", der "Gidjak" Wild Shores and Atmogat to the great masters of ambience (Alio Die (Spießgeige), der "Doira" (Rahmentrommel), und der "Nay" (Querflöte) and Northaunt) and (experimental) beats (Contagious Orgasm, Orphx basierend. Besonders beeindruckend aber die Stimme von and Ah Cama-Sotz). And each one of them does a very good job in YULCHIEVA, die wie ein eigenständiges Instrument für sich steht ! paying tribute to the man who deserves it. "This CD submerges the listener in the musical culture of Uzbekistan. The originals which are being remixed are taken from various Xabec The main attraction is the voice of the country’s most distinguished releases, though most of them can be found on Using Unused Methods traditional singer, Munadjat Yulchieva, whose dark vibrant tones already and Seelenschiff, both of them releases worth adding to your collection exerted their particular fascination on "Sufi Soul". Meantime, the unique themselves. And as you expected, there aren't any bad tracks on here. quality of Munadjat’s voice, her power of expression, and her natural Each artists adds something from himself or herself and thus additional charisma have charmed audiences in the most eminent international layers are created. concert halls, where sometimes people are so touched as to shed tears, If you consider this a "Various Artists" release, it wil get a 8,8 out of 10 as was recently the case in London. These recordings were made by possible points, because it is great listening. As a nex Xabec album, the Network in spring 1997 at the radio and television studio in Tashkent, note will be a bit lower, because it has more sounds added over the the capital of the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan. The famous rubab remakes of the original tracks. And his well thought of minimalism is player and professor at the Tashkent conservatoire Shavkat Mirzaev one of the aspects I personally admire Xabec for." [Bauke van der Wal, complemented his ensemble with additional outstanding local soloist so Gothtronic] as to be able to present all his country’s countless instruments and styles. The lutes, string instruments and zithers played on this recording

demand great concentration and skill in order to achieve the incredible * XENAKIS - Kraanerg CD (Mode Records mode196, 2008) € 15.00 glissando and vibrato effects. They are joined by flutes and percussion. Eine neue Aufnahme vom März 2006 von XENAKIS längstem Werk The slow hypnotic build-up in the pieces ends in a dramatic climax (ununterbrochen dauert es 75 Minuten), welches 1969 vollendet wurde, during which the tremendous mastery of the singer and the ensemble aufgeführt durch das "Callithumpian Consort" in Boston, wobei das highlight whole new facets of the melody." [label description] restauriertes "elektroakustische" Original 4-Kanal-Tape von der Uraufführung wieder zum Einsatz kam. KRAANERG ist als komplexes * ZAFFIRI, ENORE - Musica per un Anno CD (Die Schachtel experimentelles Orchester-Stück für eine Ballett-Choreographie in jeder DS17, 2008) € 17.00 Hinsicht fordernd, basierend auf den 6 grundlegenden "Throughout his life Enore Zaffiri has dedicated himself to the study of Kompositionsparametern "Timbres", "Register", "Klangqualität / extended time duration in music, from a mathematical and geometrical Artikulation", "Dynamik", "Dichte", und "Texturen", die nach festen standpoint. Early in his career, it became evident to him that electronic Regeln passagenweise kombiniert werden. Ein Hybrid-Werk zwischen music was able to open infinite possibilities for this type of experiments. Elektro-Akustik & Orchestermusik. Ausführliche Liner-Notes auf As early as 1964, Zaffiri started to use self-built and modified electronic deutsch, englisch & französisch im Booklet. instruments in order to find a new musical perspective based on a "Kraanerg (1968) for 23 instruments and 4-channel tape. Callithumpian structural principle derived from Euclidean geometry. From this principle Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor. First recording with restored analog he was able to determine the various sound parameters and both the tape. Kraanerg is one of Xenakis' most popular - and infamous - works. formal and spatial dimensions of his compositions. The seminal project A visceral and highly charged score for woodwinds, brass, and strings 'Musica per un Anno' (Music for One Year, 1968) was composed and along with quadrophonic tape. The title, Kraanerg, is a composite of two recorded in 1968. Based on a cycle of 360 days, it was conceived as a Greek words: "kraan", meaning to perfect, to accomplish; and "erg", possible sound track for ambients: the sound events change signifying energy. Commissioned for the gala opening of the National imperceptibly but continuosly, in relation to months, days, hours and

111 minutes. Every instant of time has its unique music, which merges with * Z'EV - Outwaard CD (Korm Plastics KP3031, 2007) € 13.00 the light and the air of the ambient. As this music develops over time, Einen ganz anderen Charakter als "Inwaard" nimmt der zweite Teil der with no clear beginning or end, every minute of it is 'important', when Zusammenarbeit von Z'EV & FRANS DE WAARD an. OUTWAARD listening to it. A masterpiece.' Deluxe cd box + booklet with graphic wird dominiert von schwer ächzenden & tiefbassigen organischen score." [label info] Klängen, Tiergeräusche sind vernehmbar aber so sehr verfemdet dass "Die Schachtel is proving to be quite some resource for obscure man sich wie in einem fremden Dschungel mit 10facher electronic works, a fact consolidated by this stunning piece of Gravitationskraft vorkommt.. (in der Tat beruhen alle Sounds auf field experimental composition from 1968. Using self-made and self-modified recordings von Frans die er in einem Kleintier-Zoo machte). Z'EV hat electronic instruments, Zaffiri sculpts an hour-long composition that sich stilistisch mehrfach gewandelt, und OUTWAARD ist wieder ein unfolds mesmerically into an extended bleep narrative, sounding beeindruckendes Zeugnis von seiner Transformationsfähigkeit. absolutely timeless in its precision engineering and tonal purity. After Beängstigend gut !! spending a decent amount of time with Musica Per Un Anno, it starts to "For close to forty years z'ev has been at the absolute fore front of new become all the more bewitching and addictive in its therapeutic musics. Playing his unique brand of percussive music he gained a lot of dissolution of temporal signifiers. Simultaneously the piece presents an attention, but in more recent years he returned to working with electro- illusion of stasis and restless irregularity, and you really lose all acoustic manipulations. Since 2003 he has also begun a wide ranging perspective of duration. the deluxe packaging of the release includes series of collaborations, working with Francisco Lopez, Stephen diagrams and tables mapping out Zaffiri's working methodologies, which O'Malley, David Jackman/Organum and Oren Ambarchi among others. only goes to reinforce the thoroughness and meticulous discipline One such ongoing collaboration is with Frans de Waard, with whom he involved in the production of these sounds. Very highly recommended." released 'Forwaard' in April 2007 and 'Outwaard' is the next installment. [Boomkat] Whereas the sound sources used on 'Forwaard' where of a varying nature, on 'Outwaard' they were all made at a petting zoo in Kleve, * ZEIT - Waves from the Sky CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL043, 2008) Germany. These recordings which are 'recoded' by z'ev into a forty € 14.00 minute, densely layered pattern of musique concrete. Many of the "The first solo CD by Zeit is a true revelation… After the two album in animal call like sounds disappear in the 'recoded' version and makes a collaboration with Alio Die with a more acoustic quality, in 'Waves from particular strong work, but occasionally one returns and leaves a no the sky' Tommaso Cimò undertake electronic orchestrations with inserts less than haunting listening experience. The cover contains field of guitars and bass perfectly integrated, you can find attachments with photography Frans de Waard and was designed by Meeuw Muzak. It the best mystic and cosmic music of the 70', translated with a subtle comes in the 15x15 cm cover that Korm Plastics has used before." sensibility into new territories of ambient music with a very fine touch. [label info] CD packaged in an elegant three sides digipack!!" [label info] * ZGA-FIGS - Who has stolen the Air? CD (Some Bizarre SBZ76, * ZENI GEVA - Maximum Money Monster CD (Cold Spring 2008) € 14.50 Records CSR78CD, 2008) € 13.00 "Russland? Postrock? Oh ja! ZGA haben sich in all den Jahren nicht "Re-issue of the legendary debut CD by Zeni Geva. Prepare yourself for unterkriegen lassen. Durch unzählige Personalwechsel und andere the pounding, monolithic Japanese noise / doom / post-rock barrage Hindernisse hat Nick Sudnick es immer wieder geschafft, seine Vision that is Zeni Geva. For fans of early Swans. Zeni Geva is Kazuyuki K. beizubehalten und asymmetrische Rhythmen, minimalistische Null, Mitsuru Tabata (ex-Boredoms), Ikuo Taketani and Tatsuya Melodien, verzerrte Gitarre und selbstgebaute Instrumente in einen Yoshida.Comes with 3 bonus, previously unreleased tracks, recorded einzigartigen Kontext zu rücken und am Ende bei einer Verherrlichung live in Tokyo 1988-1989." [label info] des Industrial zu landen. Während ZGA ein obskures russisches Wort ".... Musically, is like listening to an extreme version of Black Flag on ist, das etwas Winzigkleines beschreibt und noch im Wortstamm zu acid and by the way guitars are treated you can understand the reason "stockdunkel" zu finden ist, ist FIGS ein Akronym aus den Namen von why K.K. Null collaborated with Merzbow later. I saw Zeni Geva live vier Musikern: die Bandleader Sudnick und Fedorova und zwei twice at the times of "Desire for agony" and I assure you that their Drummer: Alexei Ivanov und Marcus Godwyn, ein Brite, der seit Jahren nihilism was throbbing and alive, on and off stage (the guitar player that in St. Peterburg lebt. / / ZGA is a unique phenomenon in Russian post- time was so angry for some reason that he beat his head against a wall rock music. There’s never been a band that would for so long, so of the bathroom). Thanks to this new Cold Spring reissue you can consistently and with such dogged perseverance and dedication pursue check their live sound on the three bonus tracks: "War pig" and the non-compromised approach to music. ZGA pretty much equals Nick "Skullfuck" (coming from this album) plus "Dead car, sun crash"." Sudnick. Throughout countless personnel changes Nick has always [Noisebrigade] been there - the mind, the heart, the soul, the creator and inventor of this unparalleled music. On first listen ZGA’s music is by no means * ZERO KAMA - Live in Arnhem / The Goatherd and the Beast do- sounded obsolete but obscure it very well is: asymmetrical rhythms, CD (Athanor ATNR033, 2008) € 18.50 hardly any melody, distorted guitar paired with Nick’s homemade Live-Aufnahme, Interview - & Studiomaterial dieser legendären Ritual / instruments. The result is an apotheosis of rhythmic industrial sound. Okkult-Industrial Band, die in den 80ern mit ihrem Cassettenlabel “ZGA” is a very obscure, obsolete, and peculiar Russian word. It means NEKROPHILE für einige Furore sorgten (und z.B. das ZOSKA / COIL something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it Tape herausbrachten)! survived only as a part of an expression "ni zgi ne vidno" - “pitch dark”. "Athanor is proud to finaly release the legendary live in Arnheim from FIGS is an acronym that stands for the names of four musicians: apart 14.9.1985 of Zero Kama. Michael DeWitt's Zero Kama was the from bandleaders Sudnick and Fedorova there are two drummers: precursor of the ritual and majick inspired music scene with bands like Alexei Ivanov and Marcus Godwyn (a Brit who has lived in St. Coil or Psychic Tv. Their label Nekrophile was a big influence on many Petersburg for many years now)." [press release] individuals and also for the creation of Athanor. Zero Kama did only two performances, in Amsterdam and Arnheim. This last one being presented here for the first time on CD.In concert, Zero Kama's sounds was quite different than on their only studio album "The Secret Eye of 4.1. CD COMPS LAYLAH." They used accoustic instruments aswell as bass and guitars. For this concert Zero Kama were Michael DeWitt (concept, tapes, voice, bone instruments, shenai, violin, percussion), Muki Pakesch (tapes, * A (CD) [Zelphabet, 2008] € 10.00 guitar, bass drum), Didi Neidhardt (bass, bass drum, congas, Wahnwitziges Noise-Culture Compilation-Projekt von G.X.-JUPITTER- percussion), David Aranyos (bass, bass drum, voice, percussion), LARSEN, welches 26teilig das ganze Alphabet umfassen soll, wobei Wolfgang Lehner (super-8 film and slide projection). Live mix by Martin allerdings die Vornamen der beteiligten Musiker zählen - auf dem "the Viech" Which. The CD also features the interview Zero Kama did ersten Teil versammeln sich ACHIM WOLLSCHEID, AMK, ARCANE for Stad Radio in Amsterdam 1985 As a bonus CD we added the rare DEVICE und ASMUS TIETCHENS - also alles schon sehr lange aktive tracks Zero Kama did previously to the legendary Secret Eye of Laylah Urgesteine der Szene: Irre Xylophon-Arrangements von ACHIM. LP released by Athanor as a ltd edition 10". It includes the track Liber Loop & Turntable-Madness von AMK. Spannende Klangcollagen mit AL I.13 based upon a verse from Aleister Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis alten Analog-sounds von ARCANE DEVICE. Und uns ASMUS: or The Book of the Law, this track is the only remaining part of a later hintergründige Sphären & Drones und anorganisch-konkretes abandoned project in which Zero Kama intended to set Crowley's Liber Geschacher im Vordergrund. AA, ein sehr guter ANFANG. AL to music. Other tracks, like "Prayer of Zos," are based on the "Almost close to thirty years now span the career of G.X. Jupitter- writings of Austin Osman Spare, whose Zos Kia Cultus was another Larsen, better known as The Haters, and throughout these many years major influence to Zero Kama's work. 6 pages digifile 2CD, 88mins. he has met many other musicians, labels and such like. His telephone ATNR 033" [label info] book is well stocked with names so it seemed him a good thing to make the musical variation of his phonebook, an ambitious twenty-six (well, actually one more) series of compact discs with each three or four

112 musicians with the same letter at the start of their name. So that * ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC do-CD (Sub accounts for the presence of Achim Wollscheid and Asmus Tietchens Rosa SR270, 2008) € 16.00 with the letter 'A'. With names like AMK and Arcane Device further on Teil 5 ! Wie immer eine wilde Mischung aus "seriösen" Komposern & 'A', one could all too easily think that G.X. knows only old folks, but on Elektro-Akustik, (Post)-Industrial Noise, Klassikern aus der Geschichte 'B' we find the young ones The Beast People, 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Bob der experimentellen Musik & Klangkunst, Klangpoesie und Minimal Bellerue with just one older person, blackhumour. 'B' is unmistakably Music bis hin zu Trash- & Powernoise-Phänomenen.. the noise variation, with loud distorted pieces by the three new "Charlemagne Palestine, Père Ubu, Sutcliffe Jügend, Li Chin Sung aka (relatively speaking of course) acts. Blackhumour, where has he been I Dickson Dee, Alireza Mashayekhi, Rogelio Sosa, Christian Galaretta, was thinking, hands in one of his trademark pieces of unprocessed François-Bernard Mâche, Richard Maxfield, Wolf Vostell, André voices. Looped around, cutting them shorter as the piece progresses, Boucourechliev, Helmut Lachenmann, Claude Ballif, Mauricio Kagel, this is both a stand still but since I gather not many people know him, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Raoul Hausmann, Gil Joseph Wolman, Léo it's good to get reacquainted. Bob Bellerue's piece of subdued noise is Kupper, Josef Anton Riedl, Sten Hanson + Henri Chopin, Dajuin Yao, the best of the rest. AMK on 'A' also does what he seemingly always Ground Zero, Masonna, Club Moral, Dub Taylor does, playing with damaged records. It's the least interesting piece on digipack 2 cd + 50 pages booklet / SR270. that one. Achim Wollscheid has a great computer controlled piece of Here I am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has playing Xylophone. Arcane Device created a recent mix of old feedback asked me to do. How can one bring together the history of electronic pieces and Asmus is in his recent mood of shimmering microtonal bits and concrete music to the history of noise music? For this volume, I and pieces, fed through ring modulation. Great promising start, can't want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's hardly wait. But it looks like a definite compendium of thirty years of Points,Mouvements), a country (Shur, Op. 15 by Alireza Mashayekhi), a difficult music. Subscribe now to this wiki of noise and know all there is studio (Helmut Lachenmann at the IPEM), there are also historic to know." [FdW / Vital Weekly, reviewing part A & B] (François Bernard Mâche's Prélude), and radical (Spectrum Ripper by Masonna) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. All this * A CLEANSING ASCENSION CD (Elevator Bath eeaoa040, 2008) organized with INTERNATIONALISM in mind and, for once, a focus on € 13.00 the voice - not as sung words, their traditional facet in music (from pop Das kleine aber feine US-Label ELEVATOR BATH vom hierzulande songs to lieder and operas), but as the word itself, recited, distorted, leider so gut wie unbekannten COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD feiert rendered abstract or disaggregated and screamed (the incantation so seinen 40sten Release mit einer Compilation, die den besonderen Stil often a part of rock and noise music)." [label info] vorstellt den das Label vertritt, der von elektronisch-meditativen Drones bis zu minimalen field recording-Kompositionen reicht....Sehr * A TRIBUTE TO THE WOR(L)DS OF JHONN BALANCE CD hörenswerte Stücke kommen unserer Meinung z.B. von JIM HAYNES, (Creative Fields Records, 2007) € 12.00 DALE LLOYD, MATT SHOEMAKER und FRANCISCO LOPEZ... Die Popularität von COIL wird eindrucksvoll deutlich, wenn man sich "The compilation of the week is 'A Cleansing Ascension', which is to nur die vielen "tribute" Compilations anschaut, die nach dem Tode von celebrate ten years of Elevator Bath, which bears catalogue number JHONN BALANCE erschienen sind. Dabei gibt es inzwischen ein 040, which means an average of four releases a year. That may not grosses Spektrum, das sich v.a. regional aufteilen lässt (zwei russische seem much, but why say more if you want to say fine things? Exactly Comps, eine französische, etc.); dies hier ist jetzt die "italienische" my point, there are too many mediocre releases. Elevator Bath's Version, eher elektronisch - rhythmisch - technoid ausgerichtet , releases span all sorts of formats, from 7"s and LPs to CDRs and CDs. aber auch dark wavige und experimentelle Stücke sind vorhanden, The ten artists gathered on this disc may be regarded as the current fokussiert sich insgesamt stark auf die lyrischen Aspekte von COIL. bunch 'signed' (a term not appropriate to the world of Elevator Bath, but BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS dürfen nicht fehlen, aber auch Projekte you get my drift, I hope) to the label and it makes quite a coherent wie CORPOPARASSITA, CROPCIRCLE, unser neuer Geheimtip family. The pieces move along the very fine line of ambient music, SELAXON LUTBERG, und WERTHAM sind dabei. sound scapes, drones and modern electronics. The exact definition of "We start off with Black Sun Productions and their 'A List of Wishes' is each might be hard to give, but fact is that there are vital and subtle very intense and convincing. Next up is Snuff 066. 'Blood from the Air' is differences between the pieces. It may require some insight to tell these a bit too simple for me and the beats sound somewhat cheap. differences, but they are there. None of these pieces is weak or even Corpoparassita and Mariae Nascenti quickly recover the mood with remotely weak, as all of them are quite good. But there is also no track their spherical tracks. PostmoRder[n]XS and Endtransmission continue that really makes the big jump and leaps ahead of the rest. Perhaps in a this nice ambience. Mekhate's contribution awakes the listener from the showcase like this, this is also not really necessary. The ten that create quite dream with painful screeching noises. DBMG/RAF brings another this birthday bash are Matt Shoemaker, Adam Pacione, Jim Haynes, more uptempo track. Two of the highlights are the contributions of Keith Berry, Rick Reed, Dale Lloyd, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Francisco Cropcircle and most certainly Selaxon Lutberg. 'Broccoli' is really very Lopez, James Eck Rippie and Tom Recchion. If this is a new label for nicely built up and very convincing. Wertham shakes your bones one you, then you should definitely seek it out." [FdW / Vital Weekly] last time with 'Boy In A Suitcase'. In Broken Fields ends this all with "...While each track is quite solid, the album also flows very well, with 'The Sea Priestess' and gives the listener a modest but alienated somber drones dominating the palette of sound although similar themes feeling. My conclusion is: if you want a good compilation concerning the and complimentary sounds seem to return after small detours towards life, works and thinking of Jhonn Balance, then buy “X-Rated: The Dark the heavy, the oblique, and the desolate. Highly recommended!" Files”. If you already have this one and want more, then definitely try “A [Aquarius Records] Tribute to the Wor(l)ds of Jhonn Balance". The contributions of Black Sun Productions, Mariae Nascenti, Selaxon Lutberg and In Broken * AIRPORT SYMPHONY do-CD (Room 40 EMDR 417, 2007) Fields, among others, really make this a special tribute." [Gothtronic] € 18.00 Australische Compilation zum Thema "Erfahrungen des Reisens in * DARK-AMBIENT-RADIO VOL.1 CD (Darkambientradio, 2008) moderner Zeit" mit Beiträgen v.a. aus dem Microsound und digital- € 14.90 ambience & drone Bereich. Jeder Musiker / Klangkünstler benutzte Das Hamburger Internet-Radio "Dark-Ambient-Radio" steht seit einigen dabei Original-Aufnahmen vom Brisbaner Flughafen, das ganze kommt Jahren für ein anspruchsvolles Programm und bietet den Hörern zudem in einer Metallbox mit Banderole verpackt. eine Plattform für Austausch & Kommunikation. Auf der ersten CD- "With David Grubbs, Richard Chartier, Francisco López, Camilla Compilation des Independent-Senders finden sich einige bekanntere Hannan, Taylor Deupree, Christophe Charles, Dale Lloyd, Marc Acts, aber überwiegend gibt es wohl für die meisten was neues zu Behrens, Toshiya Tsunoda, Tim Hecker, Stephan Mathieu, Fennesz, entdecken. Im Dark Ambient Genre mischen sich der Sinn für Burkhard Beins, Jason Kahn, Ulrich Krieger, Keichi Sugimoto, Geräuschhaftes und Soundeffekte mit der Sehnsuchtsweite der Drones, Christopher Willits, Joel Stern. 'AIRPORT SYMPHONY' commissioned wobei harmonische Elemente oft ein minimales Gerüst bilden. by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, Dabei sollen dunkle, kosmische, melancholische Atmosphären documents and synthesises the experiences of travel. Each piece entstehen... Die "Dark-Ambient-Radio" Zusammenstellung führt das represents a personal meditation on aspects of travel in the modern age sehr schön vor, unsere persönlichen Highlights kommen von: and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists SVARTSINN & ALLSEITS (die "andere Seite" von ALL SIDES), in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. NAGUAL ART, PHELIOS... Each of the pieces features a source recording made in and around "At eleven the track-count stops and another marvelous sampler will Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 in a raw form or have played on your stereo. With the title Dark-Ambient-Radio, Vol. 1, transformed by processing. Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic there is not much to guess about the content of this album. possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion and The collected artists on this sampler are in between completely new even at rest." [L. English, June 2007] and world-famous (within the genre that is). The absolute most well- known on here is Ah Cama-Sotz, but also Svartsinn and Phelios have earned their place in the dark ambient genre already. For Evoke Scurvee, Nihil Communication, Mytrip, and Nagual Art this is

113 the first occurence on a CD. All others on this album have had releases und noisiger; weitere Highlights sind die Stücke von JORGE CASTRO before, so depending on how much you like dark ambient, you might und TV POW, aber es gibt eine Menge guter bis sehr guter Tracks hier! have stumbled upon tracks or releases already. "The conception, the idea, realisation and sound sources of this CD are So the balance of "something old, something new" slightly tilts towards all based on original sound material (loops and sounds) from the "new" and that is always good. Getting to know new names and Rapoon's “Tribal Sci Fi” CD-ROM (courtesy of Sony/Sonic Foundry). finding the well hidden pearl in the oyster gives you the feeling there is Not the entire original Rapoon's tracks have been re-mixed or re- still stuff to explore in an at times slow developing genre. composed, but the general “sound” (or the sound aesthetic But does this album contain dark ambient? Well, yes and no. Partially of Rapoon's music) instead. All the artists have provided their own there is definitly some references toward the definition, but at times original compositions, that less or more based on the audio-sources there is also a lot of experimentation with fieldrecordings, samples, from Rapoon. Thank you very much for all contributors! drones, and emotion. A purist would call file those tracks under drones File under: drone/dark ambient/electroacoustic/industrial/noise." or experimental. But let's just f*ck purism this time. :-) 1. Francisco Lopez “Untitled #193” A must-have for explorers and those dark of mind ..." [Bauke van der 2. TV Pow “Ladder Friends Remix” Wal / Gothtronic] 3. Machinefabriek “Drijfzand” 4. Troum “Farawer” * DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY CD (Klanggalerie gg119, 2008) 5. Steve Roden “Colorscape Forming” [lim. 700] € 14.00 6. Jorge Castro “Depths” Sicher einer der ausuferndsten & interessantesten Experimental- 7. Paulo Raposo “Tidal Winds” Compilations des Jahres 2008, mit Fokus auf britische Acts aus dem 8. Aidan Baker “Percussive Drone” NWW / ICR-Umfeld! Material der Death Metal-Combo CADAVEROUS 9. Anla Courtis “Rapooned Rapunga” CONDITION (die es schaffen, übelsten Kitsch mit Grindcore-Gegrunze 10. Gert-Jan Prins “Raponsje” zu verbinden) wird hier z.T. auf irrwitzigste Weise dekonstruiert, 11. Heimir Bjorgulfsson “Obmam Ognom” manchmal haarscharf am Wahnsinn vorbei, manchmal entstehen aber 12. Mike Shiflet “Version Belize” auch unerwartet schöne Arrangements, das Spektrum ist trotz des 13. Family Underground “Tube” "rockigen" Basismaterials sehr gross.... man sollte allerdings Grunz- & 14. Ronnie Sundin “Distant Demons” Gröhl-immun sein, sonst hält man es kaum aus, am witzigsten & 15. Cisfinitum & Rapoon “Live in Ikra, Moscow 2006” [label notes] noisigsten wohl CONTROLLED BLEEDING, die Originalversatzstücke "Again Quasi Pop Label hits the target, with one of the most interesting mit Harsh Noise und bizarren anderen found sounds mischen. compilation Cds coming lately to my hands. so, this is at my eyes a kind of tribute to British ethnic ambient industrial solo project known as "NURSE WITH WOUND, THIGHPAULSANDRA, NOCTURNAL RAPOON, which has been developing all its talent through the years. EMISSIONS, ANDREW LILES, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, COLIN Through “escaping from color: Rapoon recomposed & remixed” album. POTTER, PRODUCT 8, ASMUS TIETCHENS, GJÖLL, HOLY We swim in an experimental sea of creativity, originality and dynamism. McGRAIL, ALI HELNWEIN versus CADAVEROUS CONDITION This time Quasi Pop Label in the shape of Edward.S has gathered a Destroying The Night Sky CD in a limited edition of 700 copies. selection of one of the most representative projects inside A very special release with an unusual mix of sound: Using Cadaverous experimental/ambient scene to escape from reality and to enter in a no Condition's "To The Night Sky" album as source material for their colors world, when Rapoon is the only tangible reality. A reality based in tracks, all the aforementioned bands have created a unique new style 15 compositions, all of them bringing the necessary essence to of music. Call it metal ambient, drone metal or electronics metal, the represent in a concrete way the nature of an act such as Rapoon. result is something previously unknown and exciting. Hear Nurse With FRANCISCO LOPEZ, with more a high quantity of releases, and having Wound doing one of their darkest tracks ever - listen to Controlled traveled the world developing electro acoustic performances, is opening Bleeding's totally insane restructuring of a rock track, or be this album with a minimalistic ambient composition, floating slowly from surprised by Nocturnal Emissions's return to noise - this album is start to finish. TV POW, surprises this time with an excellent track, full of unlike everything else you have heard in recent years. All cover dense percussive sounds and effects surrounding the whole track. artwork by Cyril Helnwein, son of Gottfried Helnwein." [label info] Really one of the best tracks here. The german duo of Baraka (H) and Glit(S)ch known as TROUM,one of the most representative acts * ENERGEIA CD (OMS Records OMSC003, 2007) € 13.00 nowadays comes with a tribal ethnic composition with impressive Dass im russischen Sprachraum YURI GAGARIN quasi als Heiliger percussive elements which moulds perfectly with the structure of the verehrt wird, macht diese Compilation zu Ehren des russischen track in general. Raumfahrt-Ingenieurs S.P. KOROLYOV deutlich. ENERGEIA ist eine The sound & Media explorer from Portugal, PABLO RAPOSO, makes international ausgerichtete dark ambient & electronic/drone Compilation its presence in this album with an interesting track, in the hands of mit erstklassigen Tracks von z.B. POLYGON, CISFINITUM, ISOMER, drone sounds mutating into dense ambient atmospheres, creating FILIVUS MACROCOSMI, DEUTSCH NEPAL oder SATORI und vielen architectural spaces through such musical vortex, as only Mr. Raposo anderen, die sich auf verschiedene Art und Weise auf das Thema could create. AIDAN BAKER, devour us with a magnificent "russische Raumfahrt" beziehen.. im Booklet dazu noch interessante convergence of drone elements, mixed with dense eerie percussive Informationen zu KOROLYOV und dem ihm zu Ehren gegründeten sounds floating between each atmosphere, to create an hypnotic Museum im ukrainischen ZHYTOMYR. voyage to the most hidden realms of Rapoon. FAMILY "UKRAINIAN DARK SYNDICATE proudly present an ENERGIA UNDERGROUND is a Danish trio, adapting its track into psychedelic tribute compilation dedicated to a centenary of the founder of world's drone/noise invasion full of madness. Another artist to mention is practical astronautics S.P.Korolyov (1907-1966). Former USSR chief Swedish RONNIE SUDIN, creating hypnologic states, covering a wide engineer and designer, he has gone down to spacecraft history as an range of styles as experimental and electronics. This time he develops ingenious inventor of world's first satellites, rockets, and human a provocative ambient piece with vibrating elements, abrasive spaceflights, Y.Gagarin's including. Herein we render homage to a atmospheres and subliminal vociferations at the core of this track. genius who brought human phantasies to outer space reality. An CISFINITUM, the Russian ambient act, develops a perfect emotive live exclusive compilation which ranges from multi-faceted deep track which was recorded 29.10.2006 at “Lkra” Club in Moscow, dark ambient to electroacoustics-related is featured by ATOMINE together with RAPOON, in which the percussive elements and ELEKTRINE, AUTOPSIA, CISFINITUM, DEUTSCH NEPAL, FILIVS atmospheres are the predominant patterns marked here. Limited to 500 MACROCOSMI, FIRST HUMAN FERRO, ISOMER, KRYPTOGEN copies, and coming in a kind of digipack with abstract drawings and RUNDFUNK, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, POLYGON, SATORI, general art, which reflects in part the material included on this excellent THOLEN, VESTIGIAL and VISIONS; compiled and executed by release." [Edgar Kerval / HEATHEN HARVEST] Olegh Kolyada (FHF/ Oda Relicta). Coming as a glossy six-panel digipack CD with 12-page booklet this * IMCA [ FRANS DE WAARD / IOS SMOLDERS / JOHN HUDAK / special recording is a must-have piece of art to all space-addicted G.DO HUEBNER / ISABELLE CHEMIN! ] CD (Absurd # 62, 2007) people of good will." [label info] € 12.00 Das IMCA-Projekt, fertiggestellt 1991, kann exemplarisch sicher als * ESCAPING FROM COLOR. RAPOON RECOMPOSED & REMIXED eines der klassischen "Mail-Art" und "Tape-Exchange"-Projekte der CD (Quasi Pop QPOP CD45, 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 80er und 90er Jahre angesehen werden. Heutzutage ist es absolut Eine der schönsten Compilations des abgelaufenen Jahres kommt vom erstaunlich, welche Ergebnisse rein analog durch tape-processing und ukrainischen QUASI POP-Label: eine Remix-Zusammenstellung von Boden-Effekt-Geräte zustande gekommen sind...Feedbacks und RAPOONschen Basis-Sounds. Das "Source"-Material von RAPOON scrapings, geräuschhafte Loops, meist im eher ruhig-minimalen bereich war so variabel und vielseitig dass es zu einer grossen Bandbreite angesiedelt, Collagen mit seltsamsten Alltags- und Konkret-Sounds, gekommen ist, es fängt mit einem atemberaubend guten Stück von immer wieder mechanisch-repetitive Strukturen, die archaisch und low- FRANCISCO LOPEZ an und wird zum Ende hin immer experimenteller fi klingen... noch heute klingt das so "bizarr" und "advanced " wie irgendwas! Beteiligt ware 5 Leute von KAPOTTE MUZIEK, DAS

114 SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE und JOHN HUDAK. Die LP kam Allen hier Beteiligten scheint gemeinsam zu sein, dass die Welt wie wir damals bei Korm Plastics heraus, es gab nur 98 Kopien davon. Ein sie kennen als viel zu eng empfunden wird. Das "Ausserweltliche" lohnenswerter Re-issue auf dem griechischen ABSURD-Label. repräsentiert hier möglicherweise einen 'innerweltlichen', psychischen " I have to admit that I have a love-hate relation with this album. I love Innenraum, der nach Auflösung der Begrenzungen des Ichs zu streben the way this album was made. It represents a somewhat bygone scheint, eine Überwindung des Selbst im Zuge der Verschmelzung mit musical age, a time with cassettes and without e-mail, when things Raum & Zeit, wie in fötaler Seinsweise... Der "Drone" ist wie ein Sog worked perhaps slower, but perhaps also more intensely. The full story des Unbewussten in Richtung Präsymbolik & dem Reich des of how the IMCA project (International Musique Concrete Ensemble) Vorsprachlichen. came together is told in detail in the CD booklet. In short, in 1990 Frans "The first release of a new sublabel of ZHELEZOBETON - Muzyka Voln de Waard started a mail collaboration with John Hudak and Jos - is a compilation of the same name, containing compositions from Smolders for a cassette on Midas Music, and later a second one with twelve Russian projects playing ambient / drone music. A selection of Guido Huebner (of Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe), Ios Smolders and audio-tales in which each project introduces the listener to its own Isabelle Chemin, which was the LP released by Korm Plastics. The sound world he's living in: mystical stories, isolationism, altered states basic soundmaterial (created by De Waard) was mailed to the first of consciousness, space landscapes, monotonous technogenic rumble, recipient who would rework the material and mail it to the next recipient guitar passages and much more... Specially for this compilation etcetera. Thus a network chain was born. The results were released on exclusive tracks were provided by: Anthesteria feat. Kaj?, the original IMCA album, which came on glorious white vinyl and Bardoseneticcube, Cisfinitum, Closing The Eternity, Exit In Grey, Hum, contained an explanatory booklet. The vinyl edition consisted of 98 Instant Movie Combinations, Kshatriy, Lunar^Abyss^Deus^Organum, copies; 77 of these were for the public, 21 for the makers, resulting in Necropolis, Polaris and RemoteBand. This compilation may be useful the fact that many people knew about it, but only a few actually heard for those interested in the Russian experimental scene and just for the music. I remember I was supposed to help gluing the covers, but I lovers of beautiful contemplative music. The CD is housed in a six- can't remember if I did in the end. I was given a free copy, so perhaps I panel digipak decorated with photos of Baltic Sea made by Pavel "fljõt" did. I love the way this re-release is presented; an old tattered cover of Pevnitsky." [label info] the LP was used for this CD, which gives it a nice archival touch. The booklet is well-designed (by Meeuw), contains some of the original * NEED FOR A CROSSING. A NEW ZEALAND VOL.1 CD (Table of notes and explains the recording process in detail. But now to the the Elements / Xeric, 2007) € 14.50 music: IMCA is not easy listening, it is in fact a very demanding, electro- "Geht man von der isolierten Position Neuseelands am unteren Rücken acoustic record with extreme dynamics. These dynamics were a bit unseres Planeten aus, könnte man der Illusion verfallen, dass dort lost on the original pressing on vinyl, but due to Jos Smolder's keine nennenswerte Musik gemacht wird. Glücklicherweise ist das remastering these are back in place, which means you'll get to hear the Gegenteil der Fall und die isolierte Position des Landes trägt dazu bei, IMCA ensemble as it was meant to be heard. The opening track of the dass keine Gefangenen gemacht werden und Musik aus Neuseeland CD still gives me a headache: high pitched feedback shrieks close to ein Monster ist, das sich permanent gegen seine Ketten stemmt und the level of irritation. It's hard to listen to this without turning the volume versucht, die Weltherrschaft an sich zu reißen. Gut, dass wir uns nicht down. Luckily the electro-acoustic/musique concret of IMCA becomes direkt in die Klauen des Tiers begeben müssen, sondern dank der more listenable after the challenging intro. The often dry sounds (dry as Compilation ,Need For A Crossing - A New New Zealand Vol.1" die in untreated) are combined with long silences, with, at times, sudden neue Generation der neuseeländischen Szene im heimischen blasts of concrete noise. Most of the used sounds seem to have their Wohnzimmer/Auto/Club genießen können. Am Anfang heizen origin in noise (musique concret) rather than a musical source. Despite BIRCHVILLE CAT MODEL mit ihrem Hybriden aus CALE, CONRAD the many hands at the wheel of this album, the results are strangely und SABBATH ein, dicht gefolgt von den sanfteren Tönen von STEFAN coherent, which is a complement to those involved. In total 10 tracks NEVILLE. LEIGHTON CRAIG und GFRENZY kommen auf einen are indexed, even though it's hard to tell where one ends and the other schnellen Drink ins Haus, während GREG MALCOLM mit seinem rohen one begins. IMCA is probably best enjoyed in one long listening session Americana drei Gitarren auf einmal spielt - er benutzt seine Füße! in the right frame of mind. The final 2 tracks, which make up for the final ANTONY MILTON geht // "New New Zealand, Vol. 1". Trapped in 30 minutes of this CD, feature side A and B from the Midas cassette splendid isolation on the verdant backside of the planet the NZ scene version with contributions from John Hudak. Here the sound is more has evolved into as vivd & unique a beast as any you're likely to hear. traditional industrial if you like, with rhythms and a bit of a Nurse With Thanks to recent expeditions, you can now enjoy its multifarious tweets Wound touch. Not bad at all. This is an important archive release of an & warbles for yourself. Feat. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, STEFAN album made by adventurous musicians who actually live up to their NEVILLE, LEIGHTON CRAIG, GFRENZY, GREG MALCOLM, name. Like back in 1991, I'm not sure if it's musically a classic, but I am ANTONY MILTON, PETER WRIGHT. Exquisitely packaged with a 24 very happy to have this in my collection." [Freek Kinkelaar, Vital page book." [label info] Weekly] * OEC 100 / THE OLD EUROPA CAFE 7 x CD-BOX (Old Europa * INCENDIUM II. A LABEL COMPILATION OF LOKI AND POWER & Cafe OEC 100, 2008) € 35.00 STEEL CD (LOKI Foundation loki46, 2008) € 3.00 OLD EUROPA CAFE fing wie einige andere heute noch existierende Der ideale Startpunkt für Dark Ambient & Experimental Esoteric- Experimental-Labels (z.B. ANT-ZEN, KORM PLASTICS) in den 80er Interessierte, diese Cheapo Label-Compilation des Leipziger Verlags. Jahren als Cassetten-Label an, um später auch Vinyl & CDs "The second part of the LOKI label compilation with tracks from the herauszugeben... Nun gibt es das Label von Mastermind RODOLFO most LOKI/Power And Steel releases of the last years. Feat. PROTTI bereits seit 25 Jahren, und das wird mit dieser irren CIRCULAR, FJERNLYS, INADE, HERBST9, PREDOMINANCE, FIRST Compilation eindrucksvoll zum Ausdruck gebracht. 101 Stücke von LAW, LAND:FIRE, IONOSPHERE, HERBST9 vs. Z'EV, VESTIGIAL, Gruppen, Musikern & Projekten die irgendwie mit OLD EUROPA CAFE PENJAGA INSAF and EX.ORDER." [label info] in Verbindung standen oder stehen sind hier verewigt, und das Thema soll sein: EUROPA. Von Post-Industrial über Harsh Noise, Dark * MUZYKA VOLN CD (Zhelezobeton / Muzyka Voln MV-I, Ambient und Neo-Folk, das Spektrum des Labels reicht sehr weit, die 2008) [lim. 500] € 13.00 Wurzeln liegen aber ganz klar in geräuschvollen Industrialsounds.. Hochklassige Bestandsaufnahme der sehr aktiven russischen Teilnehmer u.a.: BAD SECTOR, BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS, Experimental Drone-Szene, alle Aufnahmen stammen von 2005-2007. DEUTSCH NEPAL, KALLABRIS, MOLJEBKA PVLSE, RAPOON, 12 Projekte stellen sich hier vor, wobei einige dem geneigten Drone CHRISTIAN RENOU (BRUME), S.Q.E., TAM QUAM TABULA RASA, Rec.-Hörer bereits bekannt sein dürften. Ein paar Eindrücke: TROUM / ASIA NOVA / VOICE OF EYE, VOX POPULI,.. etc. etc. .. KSHATRIY: das Eröffnungsstück, kaum zu durchschauender "This compilation was planed during 2007 for the 25th OEC "mysterious drone", neuer Name für uns, Entdeckung! anniversary. For celebrate the label and all the work done over all those CLOSING THE ETERNITY: Bemerkenswert der Einsatz von years 101 artists / groups / projects which was / are / will be involved Instrumenten & field recordings. Ein Hyper-Resonanzraum öffnet sich.. with OEC was invited to submit an unreleased or anyway re-worked / HUM: schöner Titel "Halo Magnetica"; metallisch - magnetisch - sirrend exclusive track devoted to the theme : - minimal, ein einziges auf- und abschwellen von extremst amorphen Europa ! Klangwolken, die doch voller Details sind. Europe : from Portugal to Russia NECROPOLIS: superdunkel & tief dröhnend, irgendwo sind Harmonien, Europe : his history sehr surreal, ausserweltlich, sehr schön. Europe : his culture Wer sich dem rauschig-tieffrequenten Sphären-Drone annähern will, Europe : his cities findet mit MUZYKA VOLN einen idealen Einstiegspunkt. Für Fans der Europe : his beauty russischen Szene sollte sie eh obligatorisch sein, wurden doch alle …. At last, a true Old Europe Cafe soundtrack .... Stücke exklusiv aufgenommen. Tracklisting / in Alfabetical Order :

115 1. A Challenge of Honour - Iberia 80. Simulacrum – Naturatum EU 2. Aesthetic Meat Front – Twilight in Berlin 81. Sleeping Pictures – Kiss the Dirt 3. Ain Soph – Tra le Rovine 82. Slogun - Palma:1986-2002 4. Albireon – Un Cavallo Senza Nome (Sonne Hagal’s Italian covered 83. Space Alliance – Abduction of Europa track) 84. Spiritual Front – Funeral Blues 5. Alessandro Pacciani – The Colour of the Human Ashes 85. TAC - Sixth From Jupiter 6. All My Faith Lost … - Septembre 1871 86. Tam Quam Tabula Rasa – New Ropes Suffocate my Hopes 7. Argine – Risveglio (Rendhagyò Olasz Dallam) 8. Artefactum – The Night Waltz in Vienna 87. Tears of Othila – Up our Banners ! (Special Old Europa version) 9. Asianova – Trieste 88. Teatro Satanico – Veneto Industrial in Europa 10. Astro - Old European Son 89. The Lindberg Baby – No Promises 11. Autopsia & K.Rossmann – Fragment II 90. The Soil Bleed Black - Thou Art Mine 12. Bad Sector – Old Europa On Air 91. Thomas Nola et Son Orchestre – Mother’s Ruin 13. Beyond Sensory Experience - Fadren 92. Tribe of a Circle - Demokratür - Final Act 14. Black Sun Productions – Gegen Verfuehrung / Grande Inno di 93. Troum / Asianova / Voice of Eye – Dream for a New Europa (Re- Ringraziamento Entry Edit) 15. Bleiburg – Europaean Heartbeat 94. Ventral Metaphor – Lost in Pordenone 16. Camerata Mediolanense - Guillotine 95. Vestigial – Substorm’s Curtains 17. Circus Joy – Signora Europa 96. Voice of Eye – Inside the Breath of the Adriatic 18. Claustrum – Penitential 97. Vox Populi! – Soft entrance to nature’s camino de luz 19. Cristian Renou – U-Rop Impress (heavy version) 98. Wermut – Maladia Europa II 20. Cropcircle – The Balkan Doll will never Grow 99. Wertham – Which Way Western Man 21. D.B.P.I.T. – Lili Marlene 100. Wheian – Europa 22. David E. Williams – Erlkönig 101. XX Century Zorro – Phelin Phelix 23. Dawn & Dusk Entwined – Occident Cover art-work features reproductions of oil paintings by : Mass Inc. 24. Dead Man’s Hill - Parc Abbey / The Heverlee Lakes As you can see this will be a true Mammoth compilation ! 25. Deutsch Nepal – The Lonely Comming Down We didn't put limits to the sound stiles , so here you can really hear all 26. Discordance – Jokela, Finland the sounds 27. Division S – Further Knowledge of the Industrial sub-culture featured on OEC ! 28. Dogs Hate Monet - In This Dream A BIG document on OEC work ... 29. Dream Weapon Ritual – excerpt from The Mysteries Of E A BIG thank you to all the artists who was walking with OEC !!! 30. Egida Aurea – L’Ardente Fiaccola della ragione A BIG thank you to all who was supporting OEC for such a long time !!!" 31. Folkstorm - United under a black sun of utmost splendour [label info] 32. Foreign Trade – With You 33. Foresta di Ferro – Europe Greets the Storm * PERSIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC. Yesterday and Today 1966-2006 34. Furvus – Evropa do-CD (Sub Rosa SR277, 2008) € 16.50 35. Gerechtigkeits Liga – Controlled Europe The works of ALIREZA MASHAYEKHI and ATA EBTEKAR, especially 36. Grey Wolves – Decapitation Zone (Euro Carve Up) the MASHAVEKHI recordings (1966-1979) are very nice, sounds similar 37. GX Jupitter-Larsen – Norge Om Polybølge to some mysterious Drone recordings of our current times... ATA 38. H.E.R.R. – A Newer Rome (2007 Version) EBTEKAR uses more obvious electronic / synethetic sounds, but keeps 39. Horologium – European Macht Muzik an oriental flair to it. Quite amazing stuff. 40. Hybryds – Resistance (Old Europa Mix) with samplefood by Wejdas "From Alireza Mashayekhi to Ata Ebtekar/Sote, the quantum leap of the 41. 40.Jerome Deppe and Gentlemen Oscura – Song for Nero very unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till 42. K. Meizter – Prypiat today. Two Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral 43. Kallabris – Holzweg , Scherzo for Scandinavian wood winds and structures to create something radically new, who travel around the tape manipulation world to finally live and work in their country - two vivid creators through 44. Kenji Siratori – Crusade 2007 the hazards of History." [label info] 45. Knifeladder – Warsaw , 4pm 46. Lark Blames – Small Cars * RUNEOLOGY 3 CD (Rune Grammofon RCDS3, 2007) € 10.00 47. Lonsai Maikov & Dissonant Elephant – Occident : 111 "This is the third volume in Rune Grammofon's Runeology series, which 48. Lt. Caramel – Estación de Princípe Pío covers stunning highlights of recent and forthcoming releases from 49. Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte- White Jazz (Excelsior Cafe 2007 and 2008. This low-priced sampler is comprised of 12 tracks from Version) Arve Henriksen, Susanna, Opsvik & Jennings, Food, Supersilent, 50. Malato – EU Ultralyd, Shining, Alog, Scorch Trio, Humcrush, Ole-Henrik Moe and 51. Mauro Guazzotti – Clockwork Europe MoHa!. Rune Grammofon is truly dedicated to the development of 52. Moljebka Pulse – Avra young Norwegian talent within the areas of electronica, improvisation, 53. Musterion – Underneath Stockholm ambient, free music and most things in-between and beyond. A scene 54. MZ.412 - Overthrowing European Christianity that is getting the international recognition it deserves. This is the same 55. Naevus – The Petty Task tracklisting as the recent CD that was given away to all subscribers of 56. Nazi UFO Commander – Flying Dutchman The Wire with issue #283, September 2007, but with a different sleeve. 57. Ninth Desert – Oscript Please note that this does not come in a digipak, but in a slim sleeve as 58. Njurmannen - Music for an erotic TV show with previous editions of Runeology." [label notes] 59. Nocturne – Old Nocturne Cafe 60. Nordvargr - Facing the ghost of the past * TABLE FOR SIX: ALL QUIET? # 2 CD (EE Tapes EE11, 2007) 61. Northgate – Brief [lim. 300] € 13.00 62. Ô Paradis – Contigo Auch nach dem Umstieg auf CD-Veröffentlichungen bleibt EE Tapes 63. Organisation Toth – Follow the L.ight O.V. .E.uropa aus Belgien einer der besten Adressen für Kompilationen mit 64. Pacific 231 – Mezquita Newcomern und interessanten Acts aus dem weiten Feld der 65. Peter Andresson – Kitchenscape elektronischen & "ambienten" Sounderzeugung. Die zweite Ausgabe 66. Post Contemporary Corporation – Il Martirio di Wagner (live attack !) der TABLE FOR SIX - Reihe beschert uns wieder sehr lange und 67. Rapoon – We Whisper Revolutions in the Cafe’s of Europe ausufernde Tracks von 6 Projekten / Komponisten, die überwiegend 68. Richard Ramirez – The Colours of Dark Clouds over Italy weniger bekannt sein dürften und eher aus dem Drone / Ambient- 69. Roma Amor – Der Treue Husar Bereich stammen: OBJEKT4 aus Schweden (wieder sehr gut!), 70. Runes Order – In the Endless Regions of Europa (Hate IV) LUTNAHIMAT aus England, ANDREA MARUTTI (aus Italien, auch als 71. S.Q.E. – Shards AMON aktiv), JUNE 11 aus Belgien, LAURENT PERRIER (aus 72. Sacher Pelz – Pchearsezl Frankreich), BRIAN LAVELLE aus Schottland. Präsentiert werden 73. Sala Delle Colonne – Scilla e Cariddi verschiedene Varianten von glitch & digi-drones bis hin zu archaisch 74. Second Amendment – The Stranger grummelnden earthquake-sounds... 75. Seelenblut – Sudden Light "...Of course those six artists, who presents tracks in this disk not as 76. Seelenlicht – Return to Summerisle famous in their genres as Eno, or Bad Sector, or Troum. But they have 77. Selfishadows – Poison created a high-quality sound and many-sided mood in this compilation. 78. Shining Vriel – Of Coin + Ruin Their tracks don’t break whole work but each has own face and own 79. Siegmar Fricke - Euroceutik 2007 conception. I want to recommend this disk for those listeners who want

116 to acquaint with modern ambient in all its variety; ‘Table For Six: All * ANTIBOTHIS - OCCULTURAL ANTHOLOGY VOL 1 BOOK & CD Quiet? #2’ is a great starting point for this." [Heathen Harvest] (Thisco, 2008) € 15.00 First issue of a new book-series with the approach of forming "a * THE INFORMATION APOCALYPSE COMPILATION CD collection of book anthologies featuring texts, interviews showcasing a (Annihilvs.001, 2001) € 13.00 variety of ideas that are genuine alternative to the dogma of conformity." Label-Compilation des ANNIHILVS-Verlags, der von Lee M. Bartow aka Comes with compilation CD with material by a.o. RAPOON, JARBOE, NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES betrieben wird -> NETHERWORLD, VON MAGNET, CLAIR OBSCUR, WILDSHORES, hervorragendes Material aus dem "apocalyptic Industrial", "dark / noise ANDREY KIRITCHENKO, PLANETADOL, english language drone"- und pulsierende "harsh electro"-Bereichen, natürlich mit N.C.C., "Book anthology + cd compilation, Volume 1: sowie GRUNTSPLATTER, NOTHING, JARL, LAND:FIRE, CONTROL, Featuring texts by : Gx Jupitter - Larsen, Kenji Siratori, Corrupt.org, CONVERTER, WILT, TARMVRED, etc.. Pentti Linkola, Iona Miller, Socialfiction, Jorge Mantas, Edgar Franco, Wulf Zendik, Adel Souto, Sztuka Fabryka, Denny Sargent, Ordo THE TONE OF THE UNIVERSE (= THE TONE OF THE EARTH) do- Antichristianus Illuminati, Alex Birch. Along with the book a spoken word CD (Pseudo Arcana PACD64/65, 2005) € 16.00 / oral cut up cd compilation will be available with artists like : Jarboe, Ausufernde Neuseeland-Compilation zum Thema “Grundton des Fernando Ribeiro ( Moonspell ), Kenji Siratori, Phil Von ( Von Magnet ), Universums” ! Nachdem man herausfand, dass ein weit entfernter Christophe Demarthe ( Clair Obscur), Rasal.asad, Euthymia, Galaxien-Haufen namens „PERSEUS“ einen Drone in B-Moll abstrahlt, Wildshores, Andrey Kiritchenko, Netherworld, Rapoon, Planetaldol, liess es sich das NZ – Label PSEUDO ARCANA nicht nehmen, zu einer Thermidor, Structura, Martin A. Smith, Alex Tiuniaev." [label info] Compilation mit Cover-Versionen dieses „Ur-Drones“ einzuladen.... so versammeln sich hier 18 Stücke aus der Neo-Psych / Guitar-Drone / * ANTIBOTHIS - OCCULTURAL ANTHOLOGY VOL 2 BOOK & CD Experimental-Szene v.a. Neuseelands und Australiens, die (Thisco, 2008) € 15.00 bekanntesten hier dürften VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, Spread the Thisease! Second issue in this highly interested book/CD- BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN und vielleicht noch series for outsider/ esoteric culture & music; texts by ANDREW MC die 1/3 OCTAVE BAND und PETER WRIGHT sein, aber es gibt auch KENZIE (HAFLER TRIO)!, AESTHETIC MEAT FRONT, BOYD RICE viele schöne Stücke von unbekannteren Acts zu entdecken - (interview), etc... with articles like "The Wandering Sufi", "Avant- Akustikklampfen, Obertöne, Orgel-Drones, minimale Klangwellen, Terrorism", "Psychopathy", "The Pornography of Words"; etc.. on the subliminale Effekte.... sehr psyched-out, a real cosmic space disc O YUKI CONJUGATE (new track!), CONTROLLED BLEEDING, experience !! HYBRYDS, ORRYELLE, etc.. 144 pages, highly recommended, comes “This compilation arose out of an online discussion about the news that with button! astromoners have discovered a galaxy - far far away - that is resonating "We are proud to announce that the ANTIBOTHIS book anthology in a steady B flat drone. Due to this drones inaudibility (not only is it volume 2 is already available, this time including Erik Davis with a remote but it is also something like 50 octaves below an audible pitch...) text/interview with the infamous onthological anarchist Hakim Bey. it was decided that a compilation of 'cover versions' was in order. Interviews with Boyd Rice, Antero Alli, Orryelle, Aesthetic Meat Front That is not to however imply that the tone b flat is neccesarily present in along with texts from Carl Abrahamsson ( Cotton Ferox, ex: all of these trks... Featuring: Blithe Sons- 'Map of Dusk'. Peter Wright- WhiteStains ), Chad Hensley ( editor of Esoterra Magazine ), Vadge 'Haboob'. Keijo- 'Stellar Wind'. Eugene Carhesio & Leighton Craig- Moore, Vincent Alexzànder, Stefan Szczelkun. Andrew Mckenzie from 'Untitled #14' (from the Hunter Constellation Series). CJA- 'Misty' Anla Hafler Trio, Brian Dean, and Magus Coyotel Leyba are also Courtis- 'Several Galaxies of Bb Sound-lave Playfully Roaming About'. contributors, along with tactical media collectives Center for Tactical Vibracathedral Orchestra- '3 Bb Moods'. Hands of Satisfaction- Magic and Critical Art Ensemble." [label info] 'Version 1'. A.M/Uton- 'Ground has Curve'. 'black cd' The Moglass- '05:05'. Neil Campbell- 'Bbreeeze'. Birchville Cat Motel- 'I Am But Dust'. The Skaters- 'Between Land and Cloud Galloping Through Her'. seht- 'Antarctica Download (edit)'. Of- 'The Blank Room'. 1/3 Octave BAD ALCHEMY Band- 'Dominion'. The Nether Dawn- 'Amber Eyed'. My Cat is an Alien-

'Hear the Voice of the Cosmos'.” [label description] * BAD ALCHEMY Nr. 56 (Nov. 2007) € 3.00 BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES!! "...Schlaglichter auf SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM; ASMODEUS

BOOK OF ANGELS; MASSACRE - LONELY HEARTS; OTOMO * TZOTZILES. PSALMS, STORIES AND MUSIC CD (Sub Rosa YOSHIHIDE‘S NEW JAZZ ORCHESTRA; CHEER-ACCIDENT; SR17, 1988) € 13.00 WALTER & SABRINA und das neue ODRADEK-Magazin; Label-Porträt "Continuing Sub Rosa's exploration of the undiscovered regions of GENESUNGSWERK; das Freak-Folk-Essay AUF DEM KRIEGSPFAD. world music, 'Tzotziles' concentrates on a community in Mexico of the WIE WEISS IST WEIRD AMERICA?; dazu ICH SCHWITZE BLUMEN - same name and works as a study of this group of people. The disc is LA STPO LIVE sowie RATS‘N‘ROLL - THE MOLECULES LIVE; almost like a historical aural document, something we can listen to and natürlich das POP-ANALPHABET von A BAD DIANA bis ROBERT get a real look into a community and how it works, whether it's the day WYATT; diesmal sogar 92 Seiten!" [verlagsinfo] of the dead (which is here in full) to prayers and folk music. The music itself ranges from Celtic-sounding folk to unusual tribal drumming, flute * BAD ALCHEMY Nr. 57 (Feb. 2008) € 3.00 bleats and trumpet squelches - at times sounding like a lost Rune Grammofon album! It's not going to be for everyone but if you're 87 pages / LUTZ SCHRIDDE - "SPACK", LEIF ELGGREN, "ALS DIE interested in the outer reaches of world music, music that really is alien, WELT NOCH UNTERGING - VON PUNK ZU NDW", CIRCLE live, 1000 then look no further." [Boomkat] Musiken / Reviews: ASPHODEL, DIE STADT, TOUCH, TZADIK, RUNE GRAMMOFON, LAST VISIBLE DOG, etc. etc.... deutsche Sprach! Old issues are now downloadable at the website !

5. BOOKS / MAGS / SOUNDART * BAD ALCHEMY Nr. 58 (May 2008) € 3.00 87 pages, handy A5-format / THINKING PLAGUE, THE REMOTE ANTIBOTHIS VIEWERS, NISENNENMONDAI, tons of reviews from releases of e.g. "ANTIBOTHIS is a collection of book anthologies featuring texts, ABSURD, A.I.C., DRONE, EMPREINTES DIGITALES, interviews showcasing a variety of ideas that are a genuine alternative HINTERZIMMER, LAST VISIBLE DOG, EDITIONS MEGO, PUBLIC to the dogma of conformity, the commitment to disconnect the cables of EYESORE, RASTER-NOTON, RER MEGACORP, RUNE corporhate coolonization, disinverting cultural reality through the GRAMMOFON, WACHSENDER PROZESS, .. deutsche Sprach! Old dissemination and dispersion of alternatives vortices of information and issues are now downloadable at the website ! infinite chaotic propaganda, speculation, simulation, stimulation, to revolutionize the dynamics of life in a total process of cultural * BAD ALCHEMY Nr. 59 (August 2008) € 3.00 transformation, empowered by will, reclaiming our guts and revolt in the 87 Seiten, A5-Format: /"Hmmm Dämon - Bidner & Martinek, Meese & name of imagination in opposition to a toxic life of low awareness, herd Feuerstein (Dämonologische und ludologische Überlegungen); Martin mentality and programmed though, infecting human minds and alter Bladhs Theater der Grausamkeit; Joyful Noise - Taktlos 2008 (von GZ); their behaviour. Antibothis are the antibodies of corporhate 25 Jahre 'Musique Action' (von Bernd Weber); Party Intellectuals - monocooltures." Ceramic Dog live; A Potent Brew - Sean Noonan's Brewed By Noon; If

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117 feat. very interesting & extensive interview with MARTIN BLADH from Mandible Chatter, Magic Carpathians, John Duncan, Timothy Renner, IRM (in english) ! Robin Storey of Rapoon, Terrastock 4, Greg Weeks, Jim White interviewed by Jesse Poe, Pickled Egg Records, Jim Woodring * Martyn BATES - A Map of the Stars in Summer interviewed by Sasa Rakezik, Alan Jenkins of Deep Freeze Mice among many other things, and lots of reviews and much more. BOOK & CD (Moments, 2008) € 26.00 The CD includes material by: Magical Power Mako, Abunai!, Glen "A Map Of The Stars In Summer: Johnson, Es, Tanakh, Magic Carpathians, Dipsomaniacs, Kiila, The the newest book of Martyn Bates. Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Jamboree, Missy Roback, Greg 120 pages across seven chapters, including selected Lyrics of Weeks, The Thurston Lava Tube, Ring, Jeffrey Lewis, Tim Bowness, Eyeless In Gaza, and more." [release note] solo and other collaborative works. The book will include a CD with five new recordings by Martyn Bates DREAM MAGAZINE No. 3 (Dream Mag, 2003) € 11.00 + 1 brand new EYELESS IN GAZA song! "96 page magazine & CD. 2003. Featuring: Aquarium Poppers, Best A snapshot. A narrative. A chronicle. Kept Secret cassette label, Bingo Trappers, Peter Blegvad's "The A Map Of The Stars In Summer collects together mostly previously Pedestrian", Sämi Sänpäkkilä, Terrastock 5, Robert Creeley, unpublished Martyn Bates & Eyeless In Gaza lyrics, spanning the Dipsomaniacs, Green Pajamas, the Witch Hazel Sound, the Iditarod, region of some 25 years. Vashti Bunyan, Sand Pebbles, Phosphene, mail art, record reviews, … Jeffrey Lewis, Cerberus Shoal, Peter Scion, cartoonist Mack White, A Map Of The Stars In Summer unveils the amazing cohesion of a Mats Gustafsson's Unkown Classics, Ultrasound, UFOs, and more. skin deep universe, offering us a unique retrospect look upon it, CD includes: Jonathan Richman, Jeff Kelly, the Witch Hazel Sound, the showing its new shades ... and, beyond the immanent Mystery, we can Iditarod, Goblin Market, Glen Johnson, the Sand Pebbles, Phosphene, once again brush the phantasy of reading through the artist's mind. Peter Scion, Ultrasound, Suzanne, Matt Everett & Fern Knight, Here, words exist for themselves, for what they convey, what they Aquarium Poppers, Kid Icarus, Nick Bensen, and the Slow Poisoners." betray, and also for what they cannot tell ... a thin thread to an agitated [release notes] Subconscious, a Babelesque edifice open to manifold interpretations - seeds to fire the imagination, the truth of a moment, all the emotional DREAM MAGAZINE No. 4 (Dream Mag, 2004) € 11.00 ambivalence ... perhaps even prayers for a better Self. Words of "112 page mag/CD. 2004. Featuring: Ai Phoenix, Cul de Sac, Volcano elevation, words of redemption to curse the inevitable fall ... undeniable the Bear, Terry Riley, Gary Snyder, Little Wings, Last Visible Dog words of Love, also - these transporting odes are our own mirrors, Records, Pop-Off Tuesday, Marianne Nowottny, Donovan's Brain, reflections of our own distress, uncommunicable desires, purest Richard Davies, Black Forest/Black Sea, Fursaxa, Bernard Stollman of emotions ... snatches of dreams ever recomposing our reality. ESP-Disk, dream cartoonist Rick Veitch, Strata East Records by Kevin … Moist, Magic Pillows, Lumeny, Jandek on Corwood, Jewelled Antler Hear the melody, and breathe gently in … its stars & summer are yours Records, the photographs of Hank Meals, Jesse Poe of Tanakh, Matt ... Valentine, the Kitchen Cynics, Pothole Skinny, and more reviews than [extracts from a Daniel Crokaert presentation] ever. CD includes: mv & ee, Pop-Off Tuesday, Tanakh, Barbara Manning & the Go-Luckys!, Cerberus Shoal, the Kitchen Cynics, Tim Mungenast, Pat Orchard, Cul de Sac, Little Wings, Magic Pillows, Ai Phoenix, Marianne Nowottny, and Pothole Skinny." [release notes]

BLACK MAGAZIN: Gothic & beyond.. DREAM MAGAZINE No. 5 (Dream Mag, 2005) € 11.00 "128 pages mag & CD. 2005 (arrived 6/3/05). Featuring: Robert Wyatt & * BLACK MAGAZIN Nr. 46 (Frühjahr 2007) € 3.50 Alfreda Benge, Bipolaroid, Crashing Dreams, Elf Power, Terry Riley Pt. German mag (A4, 84 pages) with articles about ALL SIDES, ANDREW 2, Marissa Nadler, Ghost, Rick Griffin, Sun City Girls, Testbild!, Tom LILES, DEUTSCH NEPAL, EARTH, JESSICA BAILIFF, ROBERT ANTON Rapp of Pearls Before Swine, Gary Panter, Kemialliset Ystävät, the WILSON, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, GRAILS, and many more from Lost Domain, Mushroom, Eclipse Records, Mats Gustafsson of the the more gothic & neo-folk areas... auf deutsch ! Broken Face, and a big batch of Mats' reviews, and a section of artwork * BLACK MAGAZIN Nr. 47 (Herbst 2007) € 3.50 from the late lamented Broken Face, 13 Nightmares by Lee Jackson, German mag (A4, 84 pages) with articles about ANTLERS MULM, CARLA Trunk Records, John Trubee, Verdure, Julia Vorontsova, photos by BOZULICH, CYCLOBE, FOVEA HEX, OM, SCORN, SPRUNG AUS DEN Nicholas Lawrus, LOTS of reviews and more. CD includes exclusive WOLKEN, TREUE UM TREUE, WGT 2007, MASCHINENFEST 2007, material from: Piano Magic, the Lost Domain, Verdure, Mushroom, reviews, and many more from the more gothic & neo-folk areas... Bipolaroid, Volcano the Bear, Jack Rose, Testbild!, AqPop, Julia Deutsche Teutonic Sprach mainly !! Vorontsova, as well as an out of print John Trubee instrumental and Bob Moss doing the previously unrecorded Tom Rapp song "Every * BLACK MAGAZIN Nr. 48 (Herbst 2008) € 3.50 Change is Release" by permission." [release notes] German mag (A4, 84 pages) with articles about AMBER ASYLUM, BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, LLOVESPELL, JULIA KENT, NADJA, SAVAGE REPUBLIC, TONY * IKONENMAGAZIN Nr. 11 (Frühjahr 2008) € 7.00 WAKEFORD, AXON NEURON/VAGWA, CIRCULAR, etc, plus many "The thickest issue ever brings to you a special number on 'apocalpyse reviews & concert-reports, all in german language & pop': on the de Sade spectacle, apocalyptic folk - revolt, religion and renewal?, the Iron Cross a s a pop-symbol of revolt, Der Blutharsch - interview, Tesco & Genocide Organ - interview, Darkwood - interview, artist Joachim Luetke (u.a. Sopor Aeternus), Rozz Williams, Rob * DREAM MAGAZINE Zombie's Halloween, ambient musician Matthias Grassow, Sasori - LANGE bestehendes US-Magazin (wirkt vom Umfang & Format her japanese women in prison series,The Yakuza, period nude pics by eher wie ein Buch) aus Kalifornien welches v.a. die obskuren Singer & Andy Julia, Harry Kümel's surrealism and much more! In beautiful and Songwriter, Neo-Psychedelia & Wyrd Folk abdeckt, aber auch Drone & crisp black and white layout. In German language." [Verlagsinfo] experimenteller Ambient sind vertreten. Seit der Nummer 2 stets mit Bonus-CD mit vielen exklusiven Tracks! * RE/SEARCH # 6/7 : INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK (Re/Search, 1983) € 32.00 DREAM MAGAZINE No. 1 (Dream Mag, 2000) € 6.00 Die Kult-Fibel des Industrials, vielleicht das wichtigste frühe Buch über "Featuring: Peter Blegvad (and a selection of his Leviathan comic das Phänomen Industrial überhaupt. Interviews und Artikel über/mit : strips), Tim Buckley, Cake Like, Bill Fox, Holiday Flyer, Jeff Hoke of THROBBING GRISTLE, MARK PAULINE (SURVIVAL RESEARCH Guide to Lost Wonder, Terry Jones of Monty Python, David Kilgour, LABORATORIES), CABARET VOLTAIRE, NON, MONTE CAZAZZA, Barbara Manning, Piano Magic, Jonathan Richman, Sugar Plant, das SORDIDE SENTIMENTAL-Label, SPK, Z’EV, JOHANNA WENT, Townes Van Zandt, Yo La Tengo, adventures of a young shoplifter, RHYTHM & NOISE. Essentiell für jeden an Industrial Interessierten !! mysterious dance lessons, mail art, The Shoe Tree by Stepan Re-print of the classic US Industrial-Bible, edition of 1000 - hardcover Chapman, many record reviews, and much more." [release note] edition. Originally published 1983. THROBBING GRISTLE, MARK

DREAM MAGAZINE No. 2 (Dream Mag, 2002) € 11.00 PAULINE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, NON, MONTE CAZAZZA, SORDIDE "96 page mag & CD. 2002. Featuring: Abunai!, Hood, Filip Ring SENTIMENTAL, SPK, Z'EV, JOHANNA WENT, RHYTHM & NOISE. Andersen, Bid of Monochrome Set & Scarlet's Well, Peter Blegvad's 140 pages, 179 photos & illustrations short story "The Console", Tim Bowness of No Man, Holger Czukay of Can, Tony Dale of Camera Obscura Records, Magical Power Mako,

118 * ROIGK, STEFAN - Parkanlage BOOK & CD (Junge Kunst e.V. Joe McPhee, Voice Crack and Jojo Hiroshige have all made the Wolfsburg, 2006) € 10.00 pilgrimage to London, Ontario to attend the Canadian noise veterans' Catalogue with many colour-pictures of installation-works and texts in No Music nights)." [Verlagsinfo] german & english, released on the occasion of the PARKPLATZ- exhibition (Wolfsburg, Juli-September 2006) from this german soundart- artist who was once active as KENOTAPH, K:EIM & SKALP. On the CD 6. T-SHIRTS / ART-OBJECTS / OTHER 63 minutes of material with highly abstract and nice droning musique concrete. To discover! STUFF

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