Sixth A-Chronology (SUB ROSA SR290) is remarkably the sixth volume in a series of compilations called An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music to emerge from the Belgian label Sub-Rosa, home to many good art musics. “Rare and unpublished works” are featured from over 26 artistes; the label describe it as “concrete, electric, destructured...
Cellist Erik Friedlander has turned in some fine examples of contemporary small-group jazz in recent years. 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (SKIPSTONE RECORDS SR 006) is another sort of proposition, 50 very short pieces of chamber-jazz, compressed into groups which last around 4-5 minutes each, and performed with the help of four other talented...
Super Relaxed (SECOND LAYER RECORDS SLR009) is a recent release on Second Layer Records, a collaboration between Japanese noise fiend Pain Jerk and Jackie Oblivia of Smegma, the latter calling herself Rock ‘n’ Roll Jackie for this outing. Appropriately, this was one CD pressed into my clammy paw by label owner Pete Johnstone at...
PAS is the acronym for Post-Abortion Stress, not an especially savoury name for your band, but Robert L. Pepper and his constituents Amber Brien, Michael Durek and Jon “Vomit” Worthley make a very decent fist of producing collaborative electronic mélanges on Pure Energy Output Sessions (PAS RECORDS 6). They’re capable of a certain strain...
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MRI (EVEREST RECORDS ER CD 043) is a nifty piece of process-electronica produced by Patricia Bosshard and Simon Grab. All the noises we hear, which include a range of menacing pulsations and mechanical thumpings, were generated by an MRI scanner. Magnet Resonance Imaging is of course commonplace in hospitals now when they want to...
Algernon are a five-piece contemporary prog-jazz-rock fusion outfit based in Chicago, and Ghost Surveillance (CUNEIFORM RECORDS RUNE 297) is their third album. With oodles of guitars, keyboards, vibes and proficient drumming on offer, they turn in some very decent instrumental pieces which, although a little too slick and polished for me, do have the...
Just spun this delicious dose of 1950s exotica this afternoon, while dozing on the armchair and half-watching a Star Trek movie. Like many of these Righteous releases, it packs two half-hour LPs onto a single CD, but the skilled curators at work on this series do their themed pairings with considerably more care than...
@c are the duo of Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela from Portugal. On 0° to 100° (MONOCHROME VISION MV31), we hear a selection of process-based digital compositions making extensive use of world-wide location recordings (including oceans, rivers and volcanoes), played back in methodical ways and making severe and judicious use of the mixing desk....
Jüppala Kääpiö take us on a Sporing Promenade (OMNIMEMENTO OM01), a very sylvian-pastoral escapade where the watercolour-styled music is a series of meandering acoustic twitters, drones and peeps, surrounded at all times by forest-like atmospheres and evocative sound effects. The singing voices which wail and hum in airy tones as though wafted into our...
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