Kramer, ‘Ball Five’ From The Guilt Trip, USA SHIMMY-DISC sh-055 2 x CD (1992) When People Were Shorter and Lived Near The Water, ‘Up All Night’ From Bill Kennedy’s Showtime, USA SHIMMY DISC 64 CD (1993) MX-80 Sound, ‘Fender Bender’ (1980) From Das Love Boat, USA a&r/ENT CD027 CD (1990) Big Stick, ‘Bumblebee’ From...
Very Friendly #1 is a comic book and record package from Komplott, written and drawn by Ronnie Sundin. Regular readers will know we have a lot of time for this self-effacing Swedish composer, having interviewed him in a previous issue and noting his oneiric, dreamlike (and sometimes very quiet) records with great interest. I...
Herewith some recent releases by past masters of noise which may help to lighten your mood at this most oppressive of times. John Wiese recorded Circle Snare (NO FUN PRODUCTIONS NFP-49) during a recent European tour and now shares with us the compressed and/or edited results as a half-hour powerpack of slicery and fragmentation....
Noveller is Sarah Lipstate, a Brooklyn-based film-maker. She’s recorded three tracks of music for Carlos Giffoni’s No Fun Productions label, now issued as Paint On The Shadows (NFP-47), a beautiful piece of 12-inch vinyl which spins at 45 and contains three sumptuous, beautiful works. ‘St. Powers’ on the A side may just scoop the...
Rapoon is Robin Storey. At one time we used to enjoy a cornucopia of his releases through Staalplaat in The Netherlands, all of them dense, mystical, ethnic-inspired ambient fog-ups, replete with interesting samples and heavily-buried voices murmuring within colourful shrouds of slow music. For Dark Rivers (LENS RECORDS LENS0102), none of the above skills...
Organum, ‘Lamentations’ From Veil of Tears, UK MATCHLESS RECORDINGS MRCD24 CD (1994) Neil Campbell, ‘Monument Irvine’ From These Premises Are No Longer Bugged, USA FUSETRON FUSE 021 / GIARDIA GRD 018 LP (1997) Rapoon, ‘Particle Dome’ From Dark Rivers, USA LENS RECORDS LENS0102 CD (2009) Black To Comm, ‘Pill Drop Geisha’ From Wir Können...
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