Big bundle of experimental jazz and improv albums arrived from the Finnish label TUM Records on 13 October 2011. All these releases are very well produced records and are smartly attired in colourful triple-gatefold digipaks with generous booklets of notes and photos and abstract painting cover artworks. Olavi Trio & Friends features the trombone...
Toil and Trouble Hubble Drums (NORTHERN SPY NS 015) by Hubble is mostly the work of Ben Greenberg expressing himself freely with impressive guitar licks and overdubs, arriving at some mutated form of Terry Riley repeated loop sections, filtered through dirty amplifiers and a rock-music mentality. If Sonic Youth hadn’t fallen under the spell...
The Sound Projector Radio Show Friday 27th January 2012 Guest appearance from Tim Abbott Crystal Hell Pool, ‘Life In Silence’ From Domain, USA DEBACLE RECORDS DBL066 CD (2011) Heroin In Tahiti, ‘Spaghetti Wasteland’ From Death Surf, ITALY BORING MACHINES BM036LP (2011) Nick Pynn, ‘Friends In Comedy’ From Talktapes, UK ROUNDHILL MUSIC RHLCD011 CD (2011)...
A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld (CARRIER RECORDS 012) would be a useful manual for any human being, in particular Orpheus when he made his fated voyage through the dead zone, and of course Dante in his classical take on the numerous tortured souls he expected to find writhing in Sinnersville, even...
The Sound Projector Radio Show Friday 20th January 2012 Anders Hana, ‘Iskoras’ From Dead Clubbing, NORWAY DRID MACHINE RECORDS DMR2 LP (2011) Strongly Imploded, ‘Signs of liberation for Wandering souls’ From Twilight of Broken Machines, USA EH?58 CD (2011) No UFOs, ‘Evidence / Century Park’ From Soft Coast, AUSTRIA SPECTRUM SPOOLS SP 011 CD...
The Dutch multi-media talent Lukas Simonis teamed up with Candlesnuffer in 2011, and they did tour for a time in the summer of last year. In October they also sent us a copy of Nature Stands Aside (HELLOS SQUARE RECORDINGS CUBE046 / Z6 RECORDS Z6009060300), where the two of them meld and clash their...
People think I’m insane More from the Pilgrim Talk label sent to us in late October. The Pilgrims there just keep on coming up with surprises, just after one was tempted to tag them as a strictly “art” label. Back Magic are a duo of young men from Illinois including the prolific Nick Hoffmann...
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