Saturday 25th April 2009: made my way to the DIVUS Gallery in Shoreditch to see a performance by my good friend Scott Foust, appearing with Frans de Waard as The Tobacconists. The duo take their name from their shared enthusiasm for nicotine consumption, and in the spirit of the event I myself was pleased...
A very presentable and substantial double digipack reissue for Jim O’Rourke‘s famous laptop record I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (EDITIONS MEGO eMEGO 050 2 x CD). Originally released in 2001, this was one of many Mego releases to have slipped through my oily fingers at the time; it’s...
Nice package of goodments received from The Slightly Off Kilter Label, a Brighton-based label doing everything possible to inject healthy amounts of amplified improvised guitar noise and such into our decaying realm. Adam Lygo collaborates with Euphonious Murmur Blend for a new release called Earth (sok024) – no relation to the American guitar band...
From Frankfurt in Germany we have a curious duo trading under name of Kacheltisch, whose self-titled CDR (on BETONG TONTRÄGER 001) arrives packed in a nondescript corrugated card box stencilled with their name in a grotesque font. Their short experiments, made using controlled feedback via the no-input mixing board, are bizarre and unsettling episodes...
With co-presenter Tim Abbott Andrew Howes, ‘Lube’ From Carrion hors d’oeuvres, FRANCE COLIN JOHN RECORDS JOHNC0032 CD (2009) Benjamin Brunel, ‘Famous for Being Famous’ From Famous for Being Famous, UK NO NUMBER CD (2008) Miimo, ‘Sora Ni Tsuretette’ From Miimo 2, JAPAN AMORFON MIIMO2-2209 CD (2009) The Naked Future, ‘We Fly Beneath and Above...
One of Rhode Island’s finest solo acts, area c has surfaced with a new electronic record Charmed Birds Vs. Sorcery (STUDENTS OF DECAY SOD-18). First impressions are that he’s going for a more processed sound than I recall from his Last Visible Dog releases of a few years ago, but there’s plenty of complexity...
This Heat, ‘Sleep’ (1981) From Deceit, UK THESE RECORDS THIS 2 CD (2001) Sleep, ‘Evil Gypsy / Solomon’s Theme’ From Sleep’s Holy Mountain, UK EARACHE MOSH 79CD (1992) Ornette Coleman, ‘Sleep Talk’ From Of Human Feelings, UK ANTILLES RECORDS AN-2001 LP (1982) Raymond Scott, ‘Sleepy Time’ From Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 1, HOLLAND...
Here be this season’s fresh cargo of booty from ESP-Disk’. For Sun Ra aficionados, this new edition of Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (ESP 4054) should be esteemed a total must. It’s a document of the 1964 date at Judson Hall in New York, of which six tracks have been previously...
Jean-Luc Guionnet, ‘Unda Maris’ From Pentes, FRANCE A BRUIT SECRET 07 CD (2002) Alfred Schnittke, ‘Two Small Pieces for Organ, #1′ From RUSSIA MELODIYA SUCD 10-00066 CD (1990) Charlemagne Palestine, ‘Strumming Music’ (1987) From Godbear, NETHERLANDS BAROONI BAR019 CD (1997) Morton Feldman, ‘Principal Sound’ (1980) From Organ Music of the USA, SWEDEN BIS BIS-CD-510...
Take a gander at these…they all come from the Brooklyn-based Unframed Recordings label. As soon as I opened this box I felt we were in for some great examples from the thinner end of the sound-art wedge…what struck me was there appears to be some overlap with the Winds Measure Recordings label – some...
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