Three fine items from the NO-FI label in the North of England, which is emerging as an underground imprint with a strong identity and good international range of music on its small but select roster. The LP Brokebox Juke (NEU014) is a joint effort by Anla Courtis and Aaron Moore (from Volcano The Bear)....
Two choice parcels of American underground noise hath descended upon this grey isle, confirming the view that even though summertime has officially begun we are still beset with many ugly demons and unknown monsters. From Chicago, the duo known as Locrian have laid out their wares which so happen to manifest in many formats....
The New Orchestra Workshop Society of Canada has launched its own imprint, Now Orchestra Recordings, and the first five releases arrived in a handy display folder for my perusal. The Society has been going for 32 years, and it’s encouraging to see they continue to receive moneys from various Canadian art-funding bodies (unlike the...
We noted the very fine Waystyx label in Moscow last year, with a copy of a record by Illusion Of Safety, sent to us by Dan Burke himself and containing some powerfully mind-sapping throb-metallo-werks on a disk packaged inside very elegant fold-out slivers of embossed and printed cardboard. I recall thinking that if cigarettes...
Kai Mikalsen of Norway has spent three years assembling acousticks (EndofhuM-04), working under his Kobi alias, and he has invited many fellow musicians to collaborate and help shape the results. These include Michael Duch, Rie Qiao Li, Anla Courtis and the mysterious Tore Honoré Bøe – the latter a member of the Origami Arktika...
Braaz, ‘Walzenheim’ From So!, AUSTRIA ZACH RECORDS ZACH 006 CD (2009) Borg, (Track 2) From IA, USA PHASERPRONE PPR15 CD (2009) The One Ensemble Orchestra, ‘The Beacon’ From Other Thunders, UK NO-FI NEU013 CD (2009) Metalycée, ‘Satisfy My Soul’ From It is Not, AUSTRIA MOSZ 020 CD (2009) Hecker, ‘Acid In The Style Of...
One fine piece of grotesquerie is 22 Short Noise Videos, a DVD collection by Aaartfÿstte. It combines short experimental films with oddball electronic noise, often-times veering from coarse and excessive black humour to sick and dark weirdness, by way of abstract expressionist blurs – all in the space of seconds. As film-makers, they make...
Got a couple of fine cassette tapes sent to us from Ben Scott of Richmond VA. As ting ting jahe, he has been represented by the winds measure recordings label in New York, an imprint for whose ultra-quite releases we have a lot of time. These tapes are self released, but bear the same...
Pierre André Arcand, ‘idiovox’ From Erratum #4, FRANCE ERRATUM EM004 3 x CD (2004) Gordon Mumma (with Stephen Smoliar), ‘Conspiracy 8′ From Electronic Music of Theater and Public Activity, USA NEW WORLD RECORDS 80632-2 CD (2005) Phill Niblock, ‘friedl erratum mix’ From Erratum #4, op cit. Anna Lockwood and Harvey Matusow, ‘End’ (1970) From...
Micro-label Hymns operates from Gainesville in Florida, apparently specialising in process-based ambient noise music of many kinds. Give Me Static (hymn 25) is the urgent plea of Mystified, who provides ten reasonably interesting cuts of droning loop sounds, mostly quite gentle and unobtrusive, although he does manage to get briefly agitated with ‘Disappear 3′....
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