Olekranon, ‘Sight Unseen’ From Cohesion, USA INAM RECORDS 21 CD (2007) Nuit Noire, ‘Enfant Spectre’ From Infantile Espieglery, UK TODESTRIEB RECORDS TTR012 CD (2006) Menace Ruine, ‘Dove Instinct’ From Cult of Ruins, CANADA ALIEN8 RECORDINGS ALIENDCD75 (2008) Autopsia, ‘Funeral Music II’ From The Berlin Requiem, ITALY OLD EUROPA CAFE OECD 084 CD (2006)...
David Thomas and assembled company of talent performed Bring Me The Head of Ubu Roi at the South Bank last night (24th April 2008), the first of two such performances. It’s a multi-media experience, offering a semi-theatrical version of the famous Alfred Jarry play along with live music by Pere Ubu, and back-projected animations...
This bundle of blessingness comes from Jesse Paul Miller, the Seattle-based artist whom we interviewed in issue 11. Everything you see is a CDR packaged by his own artisan’s mitts into little xeroxed packages and plastic wallets. The main event is called Reconstructed Optigan Disc, a very limited (10 copies) CDR mounted on top...
Henry Cow, ‘Teenbeat Reprise’ (1973) From Leg End, UK RER MEGACORP ReR HC1 CD (1998) Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser, ‘Roy Rogers’ From Who Needs Enemies?, USA METALANGUAGE RECORDS ML-123 LP (1983) Fred Frith, ‘The As Usual Dance towards the other flight to what is not, part 3′ From Step Across the Border, UK...
A fine bewildering package sent from Allon of Entr’Acte, a UK record label named after the famous Surrealist movie by René Clair and which it looks like might be devoted to the choicest cuts in avant sound-art dronery and electronic buzz-swarm attack. The owner clearly has in his possession a heat-sealing device of some...
Three new pieces of beautiful music from the estimable John Clyde-Evans, also known in recent years as Tirath Singh Nirmala. The LP with the tree trunk and other woodland imagery on the back is a record he made under his Nirmala name with Richard Youngs, which maximises the loud and powerful violin droning for...
Flaming Fire, ‘The Stars that Burn’ From When The High Bell Rings, USA SILLY BIRD RECORDS SBCD11 CD (2007) The Hospitals, ‘Moving/Shaking’ From I’ve Visited the Island of Jocks and Jazz, USA LOAD RECORDS LOAD 071 LP (2005) Breast Fed Yak, ‘Infant Shakes’ From Space is No Place compilation, USA PSYCH-O-PATH RECORDS CDPSP-5 CD...
Always nice to showcase an attractive vinyl package as best we may….beautiful and striking screenprinted sleeve art on this one, resembling a dust jacket for a mystery novel published in the 1930s, executed with panache by one of the performers on the LP. This is the second release on Anna Tjan’s Dancing Wayang Records...
Following a friendly greeting from label owner Simon Reynell, the entire catalogue of his label Another Timbre is now in my hands. These are eight CDs of what promise to be cutting-edge examples of quiet, minimal and reduced improvised music. A relatively new venture, yet already the label has a clear identity in terms...
My Solid Ground, ‘Handful of Grass’ From My Solid Ground, original issue BACILLUS 6494 008 (1971) Virgin’s Dream, ‘The Gallant Knight’ (1971) From The X-Tapes, PRIVATE PRESS CD (2003) Ihre Kinder, ‘Kennst du Den Mann’ From Werdohl, original issue KUCKKUCK 2375 013 (1971) Tomorrow’s Gift, ‘Allerheiligen’ From Goodbye Future, original issue AAMOK 28515 (1973)...
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