The Sound Projector Radio Show 25th February 2011 USAISAMONSTER, ‘Four More Years’ From R.I.P., USA NORTHERN-SPY NSCD001 CD (2010) Marisa Anderson, ‘Drop Down’ From The Golden Hour, USA MISSISSIPPI RECORDS NO NUMBER CD (2010) Olekranon, ‘bilal’ From {bilal}, USA HOUSEPIG HPIG-029 / INAM RECORDS NO NUMBER CD (2010) Huib Emmer, ‘Zombie Dance’ From Green...
Another subdued outing from Ignaz Schick, this time performing with Dawid Szczesny on Live in Geneva (ZAREK 14). Schick provides mostly physical objects (turntables, bowed things, percussion) and Szczesny the electronic dimension with his laptop software synth. Mostly rather smooth and droney textures will await you here, though they do manage some abrasive moments....
Outstanding free jazz and improvised composition on Universal Sounds (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-0453) from tenorman Odean Pope and a fabulous small group which somehow manages to include Marshall Allen from the Arkestra on his alto and electronic wind instrument. When you’ve got three drummers (Warren Smith, Craig McIver and Jim Hamilton) on board then you...
From Mind Twisting Records in Poland we received this far-out album of improvised gut-wrenching doomy-drone-jazz, which appealed to me instantly. Pitz are a seven-piece combo who use a combination of brass instruments, woodwinds, guitar and electronics on Motety I Jutrznia (NO NUMBER) to produce an exquisitely turgid dirge-like racket, where the intertwining layers writhe...
The Sound Projector Radio Show 18th February 2011 Food Brain, ‘Clock’ From Social Gathering, original issue Japan Polydor MP2100 (1971) Hiro Yanagida, ‘Running Shirts’ Long’ From Milk Time, original issue Liberty LPC-8037 (1970) Strawberry Path, ‘Woman Called Yellow Z’ From When The Raven Has Come to the Earth, original issue Nippon Phonograph (1971) Magical...
Another enjoyable set of sprawling drone and percussion music from the cosmic trippy psych-improvising trio Tetragrammaton, whose Point Of Convergence (UTECH RECORDS URCD032 / SHOKYO ONTEI 5) album just seems to keep on spinning into oblivion with its lengthy tracks that just won’t quit. I get the impression this threesome could keep on churning...
American composer Alvin Curran never ceases to astound me with his accomplishments…some people would have been contented with just being a member of a seminal improvising group in the 1960s (MEV), but in recent years he’s continued to create strong and unusual works, such as the very distinctive Maritime Rites, a set of radio...
Here’s two splendid releases of contemporary minimalist sound-art. The cassette comes from the American micro label Winds Measure Recordings in Brooklyn. Small scale they may be, but their ambitions are as big as the Flatiron building on Fifth Avenue, and they are releasing things that Peggy Guggenheim would have gladly embraced with her spindly,...
The Golden Hour (MISSISSIPPI RECORDS) is a fine solo guitar record from Marisa Anderson strumming her way from Portland Oregon. As you know we were very impressed last year with Ava Mendoza’s solo guitar LP, and while Anderson is likewise influenced by American folk and blues styles (one of her tunes references Blind Willie...
Late December 2010 we took in another package of eruptions from Filthy Turd, the English art-monster who continues to unleash his particularly peculiar foul brand of harsh noise. Two cassettes which slithered out of the envelope demonstrate just what this man can do with his own voice and two greasy microphones in his hands,...
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