Mario Diaz de Leon, Hypnos, Shinkoyo, CD SHIN040 (2012) Third solo album for this musician / composer and apparently a major departure from previous work which was a mix of electro-acoustic instrumentation and power electronics, “Hypnos” is a wonderfully delirious and immersive work done entirely with electric guitars and synthesisers. This could very well...
Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic blues that I usually expect from the PSF Records guy, Miminokoto’s “Hitoyogiri” maintains Japanese psych-guitar rock’s strangle-hold on my fragile psyche. Generally the music on this CD is melancholy and wistful, or at the very least has a dark,...
We received a generous bundle of recent releases from Gill Arnò in Brooklyn which arrived 20 December 2011, representing output from his Unframed Recordings label. Among the audio items is Nervatura / U (UNFRAMED UF/U006) released by Arnò himself, and it comprises three pieces he realised at Campo in Chicago, wrapped in a sizeable...
A Blanket In My Muesli Here’s some unusual acoustic experimental music made by the German foursome of Quadrat:sch, deliberately emulating the traditional instrumentation of 18th century Alpine chamber folk with their set-up on Stubenmusic (COL LEGNO WWE 2CD 20305). Using hammered dulcimer, zither, guitar and double bass, the quartet turn in 12 short-to-medium pieces...
The Sound Projector Radio Show Friday 11 May 2012 Swell Maps, ‘Dresden Style’ (1980) From Train Out Of It, UK THE GREY AREA CD MAPS 3 (1991) Dr Mix & The Remix, ‘No Fun’ (1979) From 1979-1982, FRANCE BONDAGE RECORDS ABCD 041 CD (1989) 1/2 Japanese, ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ From 1/2 Gentlemen /...
Francisco López and Xabier Erkizia, Elektra Bidasoa, Ferns Recordings, CD ferns_stem_02 (2011) Environmental field recording expert Francisco López teams up with Xabier Erkizia to go a-sailing down the Bidasoa river in the Basque country to capture the sounds of hydroelectric power plants and then independently convert these recordings into two sets of abstract experimental musique...
Zsolt Sores Ahad, Ahad’s Master’s Garden III (2007-2009): The Harmonian Blues (Music for Film, Theatre and Dance), Fourth Dimension, FD2CD76 (2011) This is a very beguiling double set of psychedelic electroacoustic folk by Budapest-based multi-instrumentalist Zsolt Sores Ahad and his band. In the manner of gypsies the musicians wander high and low through different...
The Doozer, Great Explorers, United Kingdom, Pickled Egg, EGG76CD (2010) A very pleasant psych-pop amble through his home town of Cambridge in the UK this recording seems to be for The Doozer, to judge by descriptions on the Pickled Egg Records’ website. The doozy one sings and plays all instruments (guitars, keyboards, percussion) save...
Purge the Weevil from Yer Midst by Hum Of Gnats (STRUNGAPHONE SPR01) is one of two gloriously impossible and wonderful records sent to me in December 2011 by Ezio Piermattei from Pescara in Italy. I hope to extend my writing keyboard in the direction of the second one in due course. Today I hold...
Arrived 20 December 2011, another envelope from the Helsinki jazz label TUM that impressed us quite favourably in January. Juhani Aaltonen and Heikki Sarmanto are two big names in the Finland jazz world and have been playing together since 1964. Conversations (TUM CD 024-2) is a two-disc set of saxophone and piano improvisations from...
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