Great to hear from Ryoji Ikeda again, whose ultra-minimal electronic abstractions were such a feature of the 1990s for me. He doesn’t appear to have varied his practice much on Test Pattern (RASTER NOTON R-N 093), which so far exhibits the usual enjoyable features I know and love so well – grids, patterns, sharply-defined...
Four marginal CDRs from the Finnish label Harha-askel will intrigue the questing mind. Talugung (ie Canadian genius Ryan Waldron) expresses clearly the feelings of living Under Humid Light (HA-5) with 11 instrumentals of strange exotic drone, plucked and percussive sounds. Sing With Me (HA-4) is a compilation of unusual music made with human voices...
Continuing our occasional forays into avant-garde film, may we thoroughly recommend this new DVD box set of the works of Guy Sherwin. Optical Sound Films 1971-2007 (LUX) contains a good run (maybe his entire ouevre) of the “classic” 1970s films, plus later reworkings of same films into ‘more complex projections’. There’s also an excellent...
Vomir is Romain Perrot, the French nabob of harsh noise wall. Claustration (ATWAR023) is a six-CDR set presented in a DVD box with hinged components and each disc decorated with images of death (skulls and a gibbet being the most prominent). Plus you get a free button decorated with another skull and further inserts...
Sun Ra, non-stop selections from Live at the Horseshoe Tavern Toronto 1978, USA TRANSPARENCY RECORDS 0310 9 x CDR The Sound Projector radio show, originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM
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