Issue 18 was published just over two weeks ago. Already we have a few snippets of news to pass on. C Joynes reports that his interview “looks and reads great”, but also noticed that a few paragraphs had somehow dropped out from the printed page. For the sake of completeness, I’ve added them to...
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Hands (CONCRETE DISC 0902) is the work of Malaysian sound artist and installation creator, Goh Lee Kwang, a release on the Herbal International label with a stunning foldout colour sleeve painted by Melissa Lin. On the disk we have nine very strong pieces of bizarre electronic music, swooping and flying every which way with...
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Nihilist Assault Group (GNARLED FOREST GF29) is a cassette from a noise supergroup of sorts, featuring Richard Rupenus (The New Blockaders), Michael Gillham and Mark Durgan (Putrefier) from the UK wing, while Stan Reed and Wm Rage (Blue Sabbath Black Cheer) represent the American strand of this aggressive genre. While the track titles offer...
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The Sound Projector Radio Show 27th November 2009 Terminal Lovers, ‘Ion Gate’ From As Eyes Burn Clean, USA PUBLIC GUILT PG018 LP (2009) Shield Your Eyes, ‘Oranges’ From Shield Em, UK GRAVID HANDS GRVH003 CD (2009) Dokaka, ‘HA TA GLI LA TO’ From Human Interface, AUSTRALIA DUAL PLOVER ATR-001 CD (2009) Maja S.K. Ratkje...
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Nice item here from two of my favourite New Yorkers…Al Margolis is If, Bwana who gives us 31 (GD 021), a selection of five recent electro-acoustic compositions, and Geoff Dugan is the owner of the GD Stereo label which has been home to some truly wonderful sound art, field recordings, performed music and generally...
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Most excellent noise from Norway by Golden Serenades, a project now ten years old featuring the great John Hegre of Jazzkammer fame (also Noxagt and Rehab, friend of Lasse Marhaug), Jorge Træen and Sigbjørn Apeland. On Hammond Pops (+3DB 005), they introduce a Hammond organ into their chaotic, destructive and ferociously roaring sonic atrocities,...
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American crusader of loon-boon cut-up mayhem Ros Bobos returns with his release for this year, Mandatory Astral Projections (NO NUMBER CD). This fine digipack release is decorated with four of the composer’s unsettling collage artworks, making odd juxtapositions of imagery that parallel the compositions on the record. 11 cuts of quietly subversive tape-collaging confusion...
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The UK electronic noise-abraso warrior Russell Haswell has made a highly uncharacteristic record called Wild Tracks (EDITIONS MEGO eMEGO 099), which compiles an assortment of recordings which are emphatically non-digital in origin. Some were intended for cinema projects and other multi-media experiences. Judging from a fairly superficial skim, there seem to be three distinct...
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These are three tempting reissue items from the UK Righteous label, which arrived here around August this year…they feature original sleeve art (back and front) reproduced in virtually unadulterated form, scholarly notes from Dave Henderson of Mojo magazine, and I think they are distributed by Cherry Red in the UK. All for sale on...
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Two items from Intransitive Recordings in the US. Lethe is the Japanese charred ghoul Kuwayama Kiyoharu, offering us a couple of recordings made in a disused grain warehouse in Nagoya on his Catastrophe Point #5 (INT034). Sure enough, his activities mean that we get a resulting record full of odd tuneless creaks, groans and...
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