A very pleasant surprise is Tetragrammaton, a rocky droney free-noise trio from Tokyo which arrived from the Subvalent Records HQ. Elegy for Native Tongues (SBV001) can only be described as a sprawling mass of freely-played and unkempt wild improvised drone-noise, on which TOMO, Cal Lyall and Nobunga Ken let their long hair down and...
Here are two new releases from Inam Records, the US underground microlabel of groovy dark psychedelic guitar noise and twisted electronica. Sujo‘s three-incher (INAM RECORDS 30) includes ‘Clotted Wing’ and ‘The Dawn of Disease’, the first a shining example of overloaded and cavernous avant-guitar rock excess, the second an atmospheric exploration of bleak monotony...
The Cherry Point, ‘Fucked in the Guts’ (fade) From 2673 / The Cherry Point split, USA KITTY PLAY RECORDS NL4 CDR (2005) Ectomorti, ‘wwOLVERinepantherrrrrr’ From Battle of Primordial Energy Manifesting in Matter, USA RESIPISCENT RSPT 018 CD (2006) Mattin, ‘Desecration of Silence’ From Proletarian of Noise, JAPAN HIBARI MUSIC hibari-10 CD Yellow Swans...
It’s been a while since we heard from Lucas Abela and his Dual Plover label out of Australia, a label whose catalogue proudly includes some of the stinkiest, most unlistenable records ever made, often produced by barely-existing artistes with implausible names whose sole aim is apparently to offend, disgust and irritate. Yep, it’s fair...
Last month we received another package from Tetrix, a curious post-rock band from Alberta in Canada, which reminded us that this was the fourth time they sent something, yet I think we’ve only noticed them once in print. I saved all the packages because of their eye-catching qualities…Tetrix also tend towards hyperbole in their...
Pictured above is the full package for Plug Music Ramoon (DANCING WAYANG RECORDS 003), the new studio LP by Astral Social Club which as far as I can make out is pretty much the project of the great Neil Campbell and open-ended enough to include as members any musician he wishes to play with....
Strotter Inst. is Christoph Hess, the Swiss experimentalist whose turntable work I have heard before in 2006 on a fine 7-inch slab courtesy of US label Public Guilt. Come to that, Minenhund (HINTERZIMMER HINT 05 / PUBLIC GUILT PG017) is a joint release with said label, and it is packed with obsessional, looping noises...
Richard and Linda Thompson, ‘When I Get to the Border’ (1974) From I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (remastered), UK UNIVERSAL ISLAND RECORDS IMCD 304 CD (2004) The Pentangle, ‘Once I Had A Sweetheart’ (1969) From Basket of Light, UK TRANSATLANTIC RECORDS TRS 114 LP Fairport Convention, ‘Nottamun Town’ (1969) From What...
Recent collaborative field recording project is HB (BASKARU KARU:13), joint concocto-product of Spaniard Francisco López and Australian fellow Lawrence English. Both submitted an original recording to the melting pot, then elected to have it made into a remix – or as they would have it, a ‘mutation’ – by their mutual silent partner in...
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