This pile of putrid vomit and vile spew arrived mid-December from Vomir, the French Harsh Noise Wall King, in a large envelope which I can’t help but think of as a Barf Bag. ‘Finally a pack full of the latest releases,’ he writes in the enclosed letter, anticipating my joyous reception of this jiffy-bag...
Among all the prevailing efforts to reissue just about anything that moved from the international post-punk home-made cassette and DIY era, it’s a pleasure to find this astonishing curio from Mika Taanila who, in 1980-1981, did his bit for the Finnish underground, recording cassettes under the guise of Musiikkivyöry (literally, ‘music avalanche’). A disaffected...
From Paris, we received a CD from the French combo P.H.O.B.O.S. who make a decent attempt at realising a studio record that is intended to appeal to an audience of frowning grim-faced listeners besotted with noise, black metal, industrial and doom. The resultant Anœdipal (MEGATON MASS PRODUCTS PIKADON001CD) is not too bad, belting us...
The Russian Waystyx label has sent another four releases all graced with their stand-out packaging, which takes hand-made CD wallets to a level of quality and imagination which few have surpassed. RLW has put out Herzbluntanteil I.K.K. IV (WAYSTYX 47), which is another instalment in his ongoing project to remix and reshape a popular...
Remarkably loud and forceful minimalist electronic tones from Acre on his Isolationist (ISOUNDERSCORE ) CD. Aaron Davis from Portland regards this as his most ambitious work, produced after a few years spent issuing very limited releases for CDR and tape labels; indeed a couple of tracks here were issued last year by the label...
Cremaster once again offer us the finest in Spanish minimal improvised noise, this time using feedback, pickups and something akin to a prepared guitar on Noranta Graus A L’Esquerra (MONOTYPE RECORDS mono 026). The duo of Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro have impressed us in the past with their all-acoustic records of rumbling...
Floating Signal (TICONZERO TCZ012-1) sees the combined efforts of Simon Balestrazzi, Max Eastley, Alessandro Olla and Z’EV making much scrapey and exciting textural noise in various locations in Italy, including in the crypt of St Domenico Church in Cagliari. The two Italians are using laptops and amplified objects, while Eastley deploys his famous Arc...
The Sound Projector Radio Show 11th December 2009 With guest Harley Richardson Ennio Morricone, ‘Studi Per un Finale (Secondo)’ From Happening: Acid Sides of the Maestro, ITALY EL RECORDS ACMEM58 CD (UNKNOWN) ‘Spazio 1999′ ‘Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri’ From Crime and Dissonance, USA IPECAC RECORDINGS IPC66 2 x CD (2005) ‘Forza...
The Ultramarine Records label used to be based in Brooklyn, now it’s in Italy, but its New York allegiances are still somewhat in evidence…pleased to receive four vinyl items which represents almost their entire output to date. Ninni Morgia Control Unit (UM005) is a double LP by this Brooklyn guitarist who teams up with...
The podcasts for two November radio shows, Subdued Hymns and Jiffing Rots, are now available for listening. Sorry for the delay on this, but many thanks to the hard-working crew at Resonance for rescuing the shows from the digital archive.
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