Nice home-made inventive and melodic item here from Beautiful Friend, which is the English duo of Robert Horton and Les Shimmin who have been recording under this guise since 1996. Hello Rainbow Geeks (ANTI-GURU 005) is an impressive collection of songs and instrumentals where the duo play just about any instrument they can seize...
We’ve been sent quite a few saxophone-type records lately, so let’s get our lips into embouchure position and finger open those sticky valves to see what leaks out from the capacious bell… Terrific experimental sax-work from French honker Bertrand Denzler on Tenor (POTLATCH P210). These three lengthy recorded explorations of mostly one-note monotony, entitled...
The Sound Projector Radio Show 28th January 2011 She’s Too Much For My Mirror My Human Gets Me Blues Old Folks Boogie Ella Guru Dropout Boogie Ah Feel Like Ahcid Safe As Milk (Take 5) Beatle Bones and Smoking Stones Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man A Carrot is as close as a...
Aura (ETUDE 021) is an excellent process piece put together by Spaniard King of Austerity Alfredo Costa Monteiro. It’s constructed from numerous recordings of the percussion instruments of Pilar Subirá, and in making his assemblages Alfredo worked only with edited segments of tape where the “point of impact” has been removed (meaning, I suppose,...
Bumper package sent in from Fritz Welch, the American player in Pee-Ess-Eye, who happens to have moved to Glasgow just now. “Hope you enjoy this bombardment of crap!” he scrawls cheerfully on his enclosed yellow Post-It notes…matter of fact most of the information you might need about these little stinkers comes direct from the...
Some exceptionally fine modern composition from German cove Alex Nowitz, who can compose, play keyboards, and sing as well, and often does it in combination with guest ensemble performers playing their classical acoustic string and woodwind instruments. Homo Ludens (NOW-REC 001) contains three recent suites, of which the opener is quite a stately microtonal...
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The Sound Projector Radio Show 21st January 2011 Rock ‘n’ Roll Jackie and Pain Jerk, extract from ‘Love Yourself’ From Super Relaxed, UK SECOND LAYER RECORDS SLR009 CD (2010) Lorenzo Senni, ‘Pismo & PG’ From Dunno, ITALY PRESTO!? P!?014 CD (2010) Jason Robinson, ‘The Betrayal of Charon (Synchronous Aether)’ From Cerberus Reigning, USA ACCRETIONS...
Last heard from French underground proggy drummer Jean-Noël Cognard with LPs from his TANKJ project in 2009 and 2010. Well, he also lends his grasshopper-like sticks to Tribraque, another demented band of dingues featuring guitarist Jean-François Pauvros and Patrick Müller with his “electrosonics”, and on these 2009 recordings we have six untitled tracks (or...
No self-respecting Merzbow fan can afford to be without Live At The Henie Onstad Art Centre (PRISMA RECORDS CD710), assuming it’s still available – 500 copies only and seems to have been out since September 2010. This Norwegian art label invited the Titan From Japan to wield his spinning digital blades and buzzsaws for...
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