For a more subdued take on electronica, there’s the new release You Can’t Get There From Here (MONOTYPE REC MONO038) from Scanner and David Rothenberg, where the laptop music of Robin Rimbaud meets the clarinet playing of Rothenberg; the album is a species of spindly lounge-jazz riffs, accompanied by filtered and pulsating loops in a vaguely art-gallery ambient setting. The combinations of sounds are pleasing, but I feel the performances don’t really develop, and each piece stands in one place like a sort of hologram artwork, sparkling briefly and saying little. I want to persevere with this one however, as David Rothenberg seems a very genuine and inventive polymath sort of chap, a nature-studying academic who integrates his ideas about birdsong with his clarinet playing.

From Holland, a tremendous team-up of two maverick eccentrics Adam Bohman and If, Bwana. Long have I admired their many manifestations and issuances, but I didn’t appreciate they were old friends since the 1980s. This session from the summer of 2010 sees them producing many a churning morass of grinding, scraping and vaguely spring-loaded tootling grumblement and moanage, presumably generated from multiple desktops and tables loaded with an array of non-musical devices; the very title, Adhesives And Grout (BROMBRON 18), shows they’re able to poke fun at their DIY and garden-shed approach to improvisation for this release. They also perform a few tracks of concrete poetry, in some cases apparently just plucking found words and phrases out of the local shopping paper and transforming their utter banality into sheer magic, by overlapping the dialogue and through the combination of their distinctive speaking voices: Bohman as plummy as a Christmas duff packed with raisins, Al Margolis withering everything in sight with his acidic sardonic whine. Lads, Bob Cobbing is smiling down at you from his corner of Heaven where he’s just opened an infinite version of Better Books. And just look at those track titles – ‘Rhubarbian Ruminations’ is the most perfect two-word description of the whole album, redolent of a secret allotment or orchard where the very fruits and vegetables are conducive to metaphysical contemplation. And who wouldn’t want to be a member of their ‘Pudding Club’? Let’s hope this is the start of a new musical genre…Groutrock!

Labyrinthe (BRUIT CLAIR BC05) appears to be the debut release from Emmanuelle Gibello, a Sorbonne graduate from Paris who has done some live performances with electronics and multi-media settings. Her approach to the field recording genre is highly imaginative and these four cuts (two of them quite lengthy and indeed very labyrinthine) will reward many further spins. Subtle and underplayed, her sources are I suspect not intended to be decoded or identified, so much as used as triggers for personal resonances and internal fictions; she admits to being inspired by literature and science fiction. It’s about time someone started putting field recordings to some compositional use, instead of inviting us to simply contemplate the immersive joys of nature for a change. Extremely “sensible”, in the French meaning of that word, these compositions have many hidden corner and still waters running deep…if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphors. Check back in a few years and we may be looking at a worthy successor to Lionel Marchetti. And if you buy one of these 300 numbered copies, you’ll have her autograph in your collection. Roll them bones!

This is the 19th issue of The Sound Projector Music Magazine. Published late 2010 for the year 2011. It’s 190 pages long and contains all your favourite record and CD review sections, plus the following features:

• Long interviews with Mattin, The Inecto School, and Blue Sausage Infant
• Short interviews with Ashley Paul, Burning Star Core, Ros Bobos, Franck Vigroux, Annalogue, Greg Headley, Hate-Male, Paul Baran, Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn
• Rotary Rogues – a round-up of new releases on cassette
• A free cover-mount CD from Sound On Probation records

Contributing writers: Jennifer Hor, Richard Rees Jones, Michael Tau, Andy Wilson, and Ed Pinsent
Contributing visual artists: Rachel Dano, Michael T. Bullock, guido huebner, Gayle Paul

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Table of Contents

Section I: International Surveys

• American Underground
• The Nordic Realms (Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Finland)
• All French Contemporary
• English Underground
• Chinese Experimental Music
• Indonesian Garage Rock

Section II: Evil Noise and Rock

• Atoms of Pure Noise
• Nightmares and Penumbra
• Stoner and Doom
• For Noise’s Sake
• Black Metal
• Primitive Electronix

Section III: Interviews and Mini-Interviews

• Mattin
• The Inecto School
• Blue Sausage Infant
• Ros Bobos
• Ashley Paul
• Franck Vigroux
• Greg Headley
• Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn
• Hate-Male
• D’Incise
• Annalogue
• Paul Baran
• Burning Star Core

Section IV: Art Music

• In The Art Gallery
• The Phantom of Liberty
• Tape Maschines Maken Klang
• Modern Minimalists
• Jazz
• Field Recordings
• The Utter Freakdom
• Sombre Patchworks by Richard Rees Jones

Section IVA: Formats

• Rotary Rogues!
• Three-inch CDs

Section V: Melodic

• The Crackling Esther
• Guitar Musics
• The Droning Ones
• Laptop Music
• Reboant Clamour by Michael Tau
• Avant Rock
• The Discurator’s Den
• Songs
• …and The Lamenting Octopus

Two variant editions

This is the first issue of the magazine to be produced via a print-on-demand service www.lulu.com. Because of the cover-mount CD, there are two editions available. They have slightly different cover designs. Otherwise there is no difference between the content. There will be 500 copies of the CD-version available, whereas the lulu edition will remain available for longer. Also, with lulu you have the option of downloading a (cheaper) digital copy rather than ordering a print copy.

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Alphabetical List of Artists Reviewed

AAN, 12
Abdelnour, Christine Sehnaoui, 16
Abortion Eve, 141
Abrams, Muhal Richard, 119
Acre, 116
Actress, 58
Age Of Disinformation, 6
Akiyama, Tetuzi, 104, 105, 115
Ala Muerte, 147
Allbee, Liz, 130
Alva Noto, 151
Amaranthine Trampler, 42
Ametsub, 158
An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008, 25
Ancestors, 175
André, Thomas, 127
Annalogue, 84
Anonymeye, 168
Arcana Coelestia, 50
Armpit, 178
Art Giraffefungal, 58
Ash Pool, 50
Aubry, Gilles, 123
Audiokonstrukte, 158
Aumgn, 160
Aun, 166
Aus, 184
Author & Punisher, 35
Bailey, Banks, 166
Baktruppen, 134
Balestrazzi, Simon, 99
Baran, Paul, 86
Barrikad, 142, 148
Barsotti, Steve, 184
Bass Communion, 147
Battus, Pascal, 16
Behrens, Marc, 124
Beins, Burkhard, 113
Belfi, Andrea, 107
Bergman, Borah, 119
Bettis, Chuck, 152
Bible, Jeremy, 128
Bigot, Fred, 57
Bisio, Michael, 120
Blessure Grave, 41
Blue Sausage Infant, 72
Body, The, 41
Bolaños, César, 93
Bondi, Max, 147
Borghi, Andrea, 37
Borisov, Alexei, 156
Brassier, Ray, 102
Breschand, Hélène, 17
Brophy, Philip, 154
Buckner, Thomas, 118
Bullock, Michael T. , 113
Burning Star Core, 88
Burzum, 48
Butcher, John, 101, 104
Büttner, Gregory, 147
Byrne, Andrew, 100
Cadaver Eyes, 45
Cardinal, 138
Carey, Jeff, 156
Cascone, Kim, 128
Cau-Cational Betreet, 23
Celestiial, 43
Chabala, Barry, 143
Chartier, Richard, 127
Chatham, Rhys, 176
Chen, Audrey, 104
Chugga, 140
Cindytalk, 170
City Surgical, 154
Clicks And Cuts Five, 158
Clutter, 147
Cold Cave, 8
ColdWorld, 49
Collins, Nicolas, 90
Connelly, Chris, 136
Cooper, Mike, 174
Cosi, Valerio, 174
Cosmic Serpent, The, 140
Cousins Of Reggae, 46
Cranc, 107
Cremaster, 103
Creshevsky, Noah, 94
Crothers, Connie, 120
Crowned In Earth, 49
D’Incise, 82
Dara Puspita, 27
Dauby, Yannick, 125
Davies, Rhodri, 101
Dead Gum, 142
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, 144
Deadnotes, The,183
Decimation Blvd, 148
Decoy, 103
Delplanque, Mathias, 157
Denis, Javier, 108
Desmarchlier, Nicolas, 17
Diatribes, 82
Dirac, 170
Dodge, Charles, 98
Dokaka, 130
Dolphins Into The Future, 165
Doneda, Michel, 15, 17
Donzel-Garagand, Bernard, 109
dsic, 59
Duchesses, 43
Ducktails, 160
Ea, 44
Eagle Twin, 41
Eastley, Max, 93, 99
Eckhardt, Julie, 114
Eleh, 165
Emeralds, 153
Equus, 110
Ergo, 119
eRikm, 15, 155
Evol, 170
Eyes Like Saucers, 12
Family Elan, The, 22
Far Out, 177
Fast ‘N’ Bulbous, 163
Fenn O’Berg, 167
Filthy Smear, 141
Filthy Turd, 139, 143
Floyd, JB, 118
Forsyth, Chris, 159
Foust!, 153
Franchini, Enzo, 174
Frawley, Joe, 111
Freiband, 147
Fröberg, Dan, 11
Frozen Geese, 141
Fundamental Form, 106
Fvrtvr, 35
Gainsbourg, Charlotte, 185
García, Miguel A., 148
Gauguet, Bertrand, 103
Gersh, Geoff, 171
Gibson, Laura, 173
Giffoni, Carlos, 29
Gilbert, Bruce, 151
Girouard, Olivier, 137
Gnaw Their Tongues, 50
Golden Serenades,12
Gough, Helena, 98
Government Alpha, 148
Graveland, 52
Green Monster Big Band, The, 117
Grenager, Lene, 107
Grody, Danny-Paul, 173
Grüsel, Hans, 104
Guionnet, Jean-Luc, 16, 102
Gutbucket, 179
Guy, Barry, 82
Hamilton Yarns, 20
Hamilton, Paul, 144
Hamilton, Tom, 121
Hari Hardman, 60, 142
Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia, 172
Hate-Male, 81
Hautzinger, Franz, 103, 104
Havohej, 53
Headley, Greg, 79
Hearts Of Palm, 4
Heavy Winged, 4
Henry, Jason, 128
Hewick, Kevin, 136
Hideki, Kato, 105
Higashi, Yôko, 111, 112
Ho, Fred, 117
Holloway, Ian, 166, 168
Holterbach, Manu, 114
Horist, Bill, 159
Houle, Viviane, 138
Human Quena Orchestra, The, 37
Hybernation, 148
If, Bwana, 110
Illusion Of Safety, 33
Inclusion Principle, 112
Inhabitants, 175
Iron Fist Of The Sun, 37
irr.app. (ext.), 111
Ischio Romantico, 129
Islaja, 9
Jabladav, 54
Jaumet, Etienne, 182
Joe Frawley Ensemble, 111
Johnson, Tom, 121
Joinedbywire, 22
Joynes, C, 19
Julius, Rolf, 95
Jute Gyte, 55
K11, 36
Kabelbrand, 150
Kassap, Sylvain, 17
Khamsa Khala, 183
King, Dean, 116
Kiva, 106
KK / KK, 139
Knispel, Joel, 108
Knott, Dave, 160
Kocher, Jonas, 182
Koes Plus, 27
Kommissar Hjuler, 129
Kosemura, Akira, 172
Kuwayama, Kiyoharu, 128
Kwang, Goh Lee, 96
Kyriakides, Yannis, 97
La Casa, Eric, 126
Lafkas, Andrew, 113
Lateef, Yusef, 118
Lauten, Elodie, 92
Lawson, Robert, 109
Lehn, Thomas, 103
Leonardson, Eric, 184
Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn, 80
Lethe, 171
Lovely Little Girls, 133
Machinefabriek, 107
Maeder, Marcus, 148
Maiden Voyage, 42
Mama Bär, 129
Many Arms, 147
Marchetti, Lionel, 109, 111, 112
Marhaug, Lasse, 10, 140
Marsh, George, 118
Marshall, Ingram, 96
Masaoka, Miya, 104
Mastodon, 44
Mattin, 102
Mays, The, 58
McHugh, Jonathan, 172
McHugh, Mike, 141
Meat Sweats, 142
Meelkop, Roel, 174
Mem1, 154
Menche, Daniel, 125, 140
Mendoza, Ava, 162
Mister Fuckhead, 142
Mitchell, Roscoe, 119
Mitsuru, Tabata, 161
Mizutani, Kiyoshi, 128
Monarch, 55
MONE¥I$GOD, 45
Montgomery, Gen Ken, 91, 98, 144
Moreland, Mark, 144
Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation,
The, 38
mudboy, 7
Müller, Günter, 105
Mushi Mushi, 20
Musiikkivyöry, 14
Myo, 156
Nagai, Kenta, 104
Nakamura, Toshimaru, 105, 115
Nalle, 186
Naphtali, Dafna, 152
Nasehi, Roshi, 186
NDE, 51
Necks, The, 106
Nehil, Seth, 125
Nels Cline Singers, 120
Niblock, Phill, 95
Nickname: Rebel, 172
Nihilist Assault Group, 144
Nilsen, BJ, 123
Nitowksi, 22
Noetinger, Jérôme, 15
Noish, 60
Nosova, Olga, 156
Noveller, 5
Null, KK, 32
Ó Ceallaigh, Duncan, 147
O Yuki Conjugate, 157
Obst, Marcus. 126
Oceans Of Silver & Blood, 166
Offset Needle Radius, 172
Okura, Masahiro, 104
Olekranon, 177, 178
Olive, Tim, 102
Olla, Alessandro, 99
Oneohtrix Point Never, 151, 156
Onodera, Yui, 116
Oranssi Pazuzu, 51
Pain Jerk, 31
Pandiscordian Necrogenesis, 51
Pantha du Prince, 152
Pars Radio, 186
parvo art, 147
Pastor, Stefano, 119
Paul, Ashley, 77
Peeesseye, 3
Pekler, Andrew, 97
People Like Us, 21
Perrier, Laurent, 18
Phillips, Dave, 131
Phillips, Tomas, 116
Physical Demon, 32
Pickle Factory, The, 5
Pier, 46
Pisaro, Michael, 143
Pivixki, 176
Plonk, 46
Poldr, 139
Pollard, Hoarcio, 23
Positive Catastrophe, 120
Pylône, 17
Pynn, Nick, 20
RaM, 141
Ramirez, Richard, 31
Ramleh, 30
Rashomon, 182
Rational Academy, The, 137
Ratkje, Maja S.K., 10
Ratti, Nicola, 137
Rdeca Raketa, 173
Reber, Tobias, 126
Renderers, The, 185
Ritualistic School of Errors, 133
RM74, 35
Robert Lawson Unit, 108
Rollerball, 179
Ros Bobos, 176
Rose, Ethan, 173
Rosenfeld, Marina, 100
Rostad, Nils, 10
Rothkamm, 155
ROVA, 120
Rudolph, Adam, 118
Rushford, James, 171
Schnitzler, Conrad, 91
Sciajno, Domenico, 115
Scissor Lock, 184
Seattle Phonographers Union, 125
Sehnsucht, 33
Seijiro, Murayama, 102
September Collective, 184
Servile Sect, 145
Sharp, Elliott, 107
Shield Your Eyes, 21
Shift, 31
Shimada, Hideaki, 128
Shoemaker, Matt, 168
Sister Iodine, 15
Six Idealists for Ideal Ten, 143
Skif++, 169
SLW, 105
Solstafir, 53
Spiracle, 115
Sprenger, Konrad, 36
Squim, 128
St Just Vigilantes, The, 185
St-Onge, Alexandre, 97
Storm of Light, A, 42
Sujo, 148, 166
Syndicat, Le, 57
Talia, Joe, 171
Talibam!, 3
Tamaru, 116
Tea & Toast Band, 21
Team Sports, 144
Tenney, James, 99
Terminal Lovers, 5
Terminals, The, 178
Thaw, 144
Tietchens, Asmus, 171
TL0741, 155
Toral, Rafael, 95
Torturing Nurse, 32
Toulemonde, Olivier, 17
Truth About Frank, The, 60
Tsukimono, 11
Ulaan Khol, 161
Ulher, Birgit, 147
Unami, Taku, 169
Unfolk, 136
UnicaZürn, 34
Uns, 39
Upsilon Acrux, 179
Ural Umbo, 34
Urbanfailure Gross, The, 59
Utarm, 54
Vázquez, Durán, 127
Velvet Cacoon, 49
Vertonen, 38
Vigroux, Franck, 18, 78
Vipcancro, 23
ViV, 22
Viva Negativa! A Tribute to The New Blockaders Vol 1, 32
Vomm, 143
Vowinckel, Antje, 170
Wastell, Mark, 172
Wesseltoft, John, 139
Wet Hair, 6
When Bitter Spring Sleeps, 52
Whitman, Keith Fullerton, 145
Whourkr, 44
Wicked King Wicker, 48
Wicked Rot, 46
Wiese, John, 31, 32
Winderen, Jana, 124
Wobbly, 21
Wodensthrone, 53
Wooden Veil, 164
Wounded Kings, The, 180
Wretched Worst, 46
Xasthur, 54
Xedh, 60
xNoBBQx, 46
Xulsigiae, 140
XXXXX, 169
Yanagisawa, Eisuke, 127
Yellow Swans, 4, 7
Young, Roland P., 164
Z’EV, 99
Zanési, Christian, 174
Zanzibar Snails, 6
Zoo, 180
Zu, 177

1. Surplus People, ‘Forests Without Name’
   From Sork, SWEDEN SURPLUS RECORDINGS NO NUMBER CD (2011)
2. Tom Cadillac, ‘Puppet Fan’
   From Rocket Tales, NEW ZEALAND TARUJA RECORDS TRUJ 011 CDR (2011)
3. Mika Vainio, ”Mining’
   From Life (…It Eats You Up), AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO 124 CD (2011)
4. Hallowed Circuit, ‘Romans’
   From Dead Planet Transmission, USA INAM RECORDS 669 CDR (2011)
5. K2, ‘Izanagi-mix’
   From Maaaa / K2 – Split, POLAND TRIANGLE TR-47 CD (2011)
6. I Am A Vowel, ‘Scarlette V2′
   From Body Curves, SWEDEN FANG BOMB FB017 7″ SINGLE (2011)
7. Peter Evans and Nate Wooley, (Track 03)
   From Amplified Trumpets, USA CARRIER RECORDS 010 CD (2011)
8. The New Blockaders with John Weise and G X Jupitter-Larsen, ‘RIP’
   From Rip Off, USA HELICOPTER H60 7″ SINGLE (2011)
9. Mario De Vega, (Track 02)
   From Live At Next Festival, USA ACHEULIAN HANDAXE AHA 1001 CD (2011)
10. John Butcher and Gino Robair, ‘Knabble’
    From Apophenia, USA RASTASCAN BRD 065 CD (2011)
11. dsic, ‘Boredom of Mind’
    From Boredom, UK LF RECORDS LF022 CDR (2011)
12. Adam Bohman and If, Bwana, ‘Pudding Club I’
    From Adhesives And Grout, NETHERLANDS BROMBRON 18 CD (2011)
13. Non-Ferric Memories, extract from Live At Joey’s Basement, UK LF RECORDS LF018 CDR (2011)
14. Dream Weapon Ritual, ‘Big Hungry Birds’
    From Another View, ITALY MAGICK WITH TEARS MWT 04 CD (2011)

Apologies – I miscredited the K2 track to MAAAA on the air.

French duo Melmac have been recording for about 12 years, and Le Désert Avance (RONDA RND 15) is their latest release after a four-year break. The Reverter brothers draw influence and inspiration from minimalist, Ambient music and electronic Krautrock, and there is much weight and forethought in their grimly advancing electronic tones. The record may start off as something recognisably in a “dark ambient” mode, but soon becomes something much less familiar, winding its way across cryptic, blank landscapes of indiscernible noise and subtle, layered bleakness. The intoning voices (performed by Ogrob from Sun Plexus) on the title track are especially chilling, like a sort of minimalist variant on the sound poetry of François Dufrene. All is draped with an aura of disquiet and anguish; recommended for fans of Étant Donnés and Asmus Tietchens.

“Assemble. Age!” (MUTABLE MUSIC 17540-2) is the title of the new release by If, Bwana. As a motto that phrase might just sum up his musical career since 1984. I have no idea what I mean by that, unless I’m thinking about Al Margolis’s skills as a composer who splices tape, and it’s that facet of his art which is showcased here, as he rejigs and refits pieces of live recordings of singers, classical musicians, and fellow experimenters, compressing them into weird time-lapse movies. On the second track he creates a multi-headed version of Lisa Barnard Kelley, creating thereby a female hydra which sings, mutters, wails, giggles, tells stories and holds an argument with itself all at the same time. On ‘Death to the 8 Notes’, he makes a grisly soup of slow and turgid music, using voices, trombone, flute, synth and computer processing; in slow motion, this protean monster changes into surprising and unexpected shapes. There’s no denying the skills of the players involved (including the great Tom Hamilton), but without Al’s brilliant layerings and juxtapositions I wonder if they could have arrived at a musical collaborative statement quite as utterly strange and alien as this creepy funereal crawl. Not a comfortable listen, but the times we live in call for invidious and subtle monstrosities like this that might help to bring us to our senses.

Eco D’Alberi are an Italian free jazz combo, evidence of the free improv and jazz activity that has apparently been burgeoning in that part of Europe since the mid-1990s. Here they are recorded live on their self-titled CD (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-4054) performing in New York, Pisa and Zurich at various festivals in recent years. Ken Waxman’s liner notes point out that these Italians took their name from a short story by Henry Dumas, the Afro-American poet, writer and political activist who was heavily influenced by free jazz and moved in Sun Ra’s personal orbit during the 1960s. Eco D’Aberi’s music may not be as radical as this name-checking might suggest, but Edoardo Marraffa is the first tenorman I’ve heard who audibly plays with an Italian accent; he may keep trying to find his way back into his Ornette and Coltrane records, yet his speedy phrases still come out slicked-up with olive oil. This I regard as evidence of his distinctive voice. Pianist Alberto Braida has been paying close attention to Cecil Taylor performances from the 1980s, but this Juilliard-flavoured dimension is another aspect that works in the group’s favour. When the quartet are not taking everything head-on like an impending car collision at high speed (such as on ‘Up Toward The Sun’), they are capable of following a curlicued path around an ornate cement garden with as many quasi-classical twists and turns as an Italian operetta.

Is it just my imagination, or are a lot of people doing the “live music plus field recordings” thing lately? That’s pretty much what greets your listening flaps when you spin Subterranean Sky (AURAL TERRAINS TRRN0412) by Thanos Chrysakis, where his mixing desk purrs like an enormous seal on the rocks as it quietly accepts multiple layers of his “composed and de-composed” sounds between its hungry tusks. Actually the live music elements here aren’t as widespread as I first thought; he adds his own metal percussion thranngs to the equation on but two occasions, and is joined by a clarinet and guitar player for one track, plus a viola on the closing piece. Now that I succumb to the magnetic pull of this disk a little more, gotta confess there’s a faintly compelling undertow to some of these wispy highly-processed drones. Born in Athens, Thanos currently resides in London.

Born some ten years earlier than his compatriot above, not that age matters, is Dimitri Voudouris who is fact South African but was born in Greece. Pogus has assembled a handy collection of this self-taught electro-acoustic composer, and AΛO=Φ/ UVIVI / 1:Θφ4 / ONTA (POGUS PRODUCTIONS P21056-2) displays an impressive range of avant-techniques and methodologies – computer-assisted composition, graphical scores, treated voices, loudspeaker set-ups, and an interactive troupe of robots on the astonishing 25-minute composition which opens the record. Voudouris provides concise notes in the booklet, and a cursory skim reveals he is brimming with strong ideas about language, emotion, psychology, and contemporary society. Unsettling, uncomfortable music with a rigorous core of steely intellect; what with the alienised processed voices and the general sense of malaise abiding here, I would guess that label boss Al Margolis recognises a kindred spirit and some musical parallels akin to his own If, Bwana endeavours. Very good!

Another record which, tonight at least, is managing to exert its mesmerising force through ebb and flow and minimal radiating throbbage is Erosions (AURAL TERRAINS TRRN0413) by Lutnahimat. This is a one-man project by Ian S. of London who, with the minimal music and minimal information available about his life, preoccupations and intentions, manages to project an image of staring-eyed hermitry and dedicated study to his craft, which I like. Quickly growing bored with conventional instrumentation and compositional methods, he has devised his own electronic music instruments whose inner workings are known only to him. Though he’s not in the same league as David Tudor with his vibrating boxes (and who is?), Lutnahimat’s 20-minute ‘Snow in Hadal Zone’ here is one of the most affectingly ‘blank’ examples of this genre of music that has crossed our desk for some time. Even recent submissions from Raster-Noton seems positively raucous in comparison with this laid-back, evilly-humming introverted rattlesnake of electric drone. Field recordings from India and Africa feature elsewhere on the record, but so far for me nothing licks the intensity of ‘Snow’, conveying the effects of bad drugs and being stranded by bad weather inside a dingy bedsit with a gas fire for company. A nice mysterious item; I must check and see if I was ever sent any of his previous releases on Entr’Acte.

The Green Man whistles as
he drinks your blood

Invasive workers drill metal holes in your very acoustical ribcage

Doorways click open with provision of a digital passkey

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Published November 2009
180 pages
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Scott Ryser / The Units

“Music is one of the few things that gives me hope that we are not a doomed species … and that we can do something together besides hunt like a pack of wolves.”

C Joynes

“English folk music is full of great tunes, and it has the strangest songs I’ve heard. Songs seem to have a mystical intent where events are unfolding just as they should, for some pre-ordained and unavoidable reason, but the listener can’t grasp what that reason is.”

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Other notable peaks this issue:

• A new compilation album for download! The second in a series of unique TSP-branded internet-only music releases. Each issue of the magazine has a sticker with your download voucher. Visit the website link as indicated to download English Wildlife, a new compilation of UK underground music featuring Adam Lygo, Bela Emerson with John Wills, E.M.B., dsic, annalogue, Tea & Toast Band, Susan Matthews, 55 blues, Hari Hardman, Lanterns and Jupiterdogs. This offer only available to purchasers of TSP 18.
• Vinyl Viands. “The six tracks, bearing evocative titles which seem to have been derived from common activities on the factory floor rather than the cloistered chambers of the music school, all blend seamlessly together to make an exciting and dynamic racket spread over both sides of this pulsating purple-vinyl pressing.” And another 12 pages in like manner…



• Tremendous visual art from three new contributors. guido huebner, who is also Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, provides numerous examples of dark and disturbing ‘insomniac drawings’. “In b/w they look rather fearfull without the cokurs? Changes a lot.” Andrew Hannah provides some unsettling collages. Also drawings from Zven Balslev, Danish artist, printmaker, LP cover artist and operator of the bizarre SMITTEKILDE record label; anla courtis, the Argentinean primitive-futurist; and Rik Rawling with some dazzling Luciferian linework.



• Unframed Recordings: read about these impressive marginal art-gallery releases with beautiful letterpress covers, plus a mini-interview with Gill Arno. “Perhaps we all share an understanding of music as a component of a larger sensorial universe lying behind the bare musical fact.”
• Michel Henritzi has released many new records of his mournful guitar work. We heard them all. “Each performed note and sound, however grotesque it may be in shape, is uttered with deliberation and stands out starkly in a backdrop of near-vacancy.”



• Adam Lygo has been making surreal guitar noise records for over ten years. We heard some of them. “The music is completely abstract noise, but largely not too violent in tone; these tunes send you mad in other ways, cutting off the air supply to the brain, hammering down your resistance with insistent repeats.”
• Book reviews: Jennifer Hor casts an eye over a new survey of Australian experimental music, while Harley Richardson dissects a book about members of The Fall and questions the meaning of radical politics in music made since the 1960s. “Look beyond the scope of this book to today’s emptied out politics, and we can see that this anti-democratic sentiment now informs much of public policy and what passes for radical thinking…”
  



• Regular review sections include: BLACK METAL, FIELD RECORDINGS, ATOMS OF PURE NOISE, TAPE MASCHINES MAKEN KLANG, IN THE ART GALLERY, ACOUSTIC AND FOLK, WEIRD AND NIGHTMARISH, USA UNDERGROUND, STONER AND DOOM, THE DRONING ONES, THE CRACKLING ESTHER, GUITAR MUSIC, THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY, SONGS, and THE LAMENTING OCTOPUS.

The magazine whose pages glow
with hidden symbols!

Your Sound Projector team this ish:

Ed Pinsent, Jennifer Hor, Aaron Robertson, Richard Rees Jones, Rik Rawling and Harley Richardson.

And here’s a full alphabetical list of artists whose records you will find in the pages of The Sound Projector 18th. Regular readers of the blog will once again notice that some of these records have already been noted in our ‘new arrivals’ section throughout 2008 and 2009, but rest assured that the pages of the magazine contain completely new (and more detailed) reviews.

55Blues, 87 Central, A Middle Sex, Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., The Advisory Circle, AER, Ilyas Ahmed, Tetuzi Akiyama, Ala Muerte, Altar Of Flies, Altar of Plagues, Alva Noto, Maryanne Amacher, Oren Ambarchi, Angel, Anika, Animus, Anwech, Apse, Artificial Memory Trace, Astral Social Club, Astro Black, Atavist, Felicia Atkinson, ATOM TM, Ättestupa, Autopsia

Bad Statistics, Derek Bailey, Aidan Baker, Bardoseneticcube, Baseline, Sean Baxter, Mick Beck, John Berndt, Tony Bevan, Black Boned Angel, Black Flowers, Black Lodge Ensemble, Black To Comm, Mark Blitzstein, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Ursula Bogner, Bernard Bonnier, Borg, Ned Bouhalassa, Matthew Bourne, Johann Bourquenez, BRAAZ, Martin Brandlmayr, Broken Arm Trio, Brown Wing Overdrive, Bronnt Industries Kapital, Brown Sierra, David Brown, Burning Star Core, Barry Burns, Paul Burwell, John Butcher

Lucia Capece, Cardboard Sax, Chapters, Xavier Charles, Loren Chasse, Rhys Chatham, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Antoine Chessex, Circle of Ouroborus, CjC, Climax Golden Twins, Cobra//Group, Dennis Cooper, Stephen Cornford, Alan Courtis, Noah Creshevsky

Werner Dafeldecker, Darsombra, Das Syntetische Mischgewebe, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Deadwood, Del Sol String Quartet, Jacques Demierre, Diatribes, Arrington de Dionyso, Peter Doggett, Dredd Foole, Dried Up Corpse, dsic

E.M.B., Echtra, John Edwards, Bruce Eisenbeil, él-g, Embers, Emeralds, Bela Emerson, Empire Auriga, English Heretic, Lawrence English, Vincent Epplay, Ergo Phizmiz

Ferran Fages, Fall of the Grey-Winged One, JW Farquhar, Fauna, Fen, Christian Fennesz, Nestor Figueras, Flaskavsae, Food Brain, Forerunners, Chris Forsyth, Josephine Foster, Robin Fox, Joe Frawley, Reinhold Friedl, Erik Friedlander, Bruce Friedman

Bernhard Gál, Miguel A. Garcia, Richard Garet, Carlos Giffoni, Ginger Leigh, The Glass Bees, The Golden Sores, Good Noise Bad Noise, Grand Erector, Grasslung, Hildur Gudnadóttir, The Guilty C.

Keiji Haino, Tom Hamilton, Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet, Harappian Night Recordings, Charles Hayward, Hear, Hearts Of Palm, Hecker, Tim Hecker, Michel Henritzi, Jean-Luc Hérelle, Paul Hession, Hobo Sonn, Hollowbody, Human Being, Human Greed

ibitsu, Idea Fire Company, If, Bwana, Ignatz, Masayuki Imanishi, Invisible Bees, Shin’ichi Isohata, ist

Jack Shirt, Garnett James, Jasper TX, Philip Jeck, The Joe Frawley Ensemble, Seth Josel, Josetxo Grieta, Nana April Jun, Junko, Jupiterdogs

Kacheltisch, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Greg Kelley, Eli Keszler, Kikuri, Andrew King, Kinit Her, Andrey Kiritchencko, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kobi, Korperschwache, KRK, KTL

L’Acephale, Lanterns, Elodie Lauten, Lazarus Blackstar, Legendary Pink Dots, Thomas Lehn, Lemur, Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn, Leverton Fox, Levitts, Light Shall Prevail, Liturgy, Locrian, Loosers, Francisco López, Adam Lygo

Pierre Yves Macé, Yoshio Machida, The Magic I.D., Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Male, Malkuth, Charles Matthews, McCloud, Dean McPhee, Menace Ruine, Daniel Menche, Sergio Merce, Merzbow, Meti Bhuvah, Ian Middleton, MIJ, Mikroknytes, Rob Millis, Tabata Mitsuru, Mogwai, Gen Ken Montgomery, Moon, Aaron Moore, MSBR, Muarena Helena, mudboy, Wolfgang Müller, Gordon Mumma, Brendan Murray, Music For One, Musica Elettronica Viva, Mute Socialite

Nadja, The Naked Future, Naked On The Vague, Takefumi Naoshima, Necro Deathmort, Nekrasov, Nekros Manteia, The New Blockaders, Carsten Nicolai, BJ Nilsen, Steve Noble, Nole Pastique, The North Sea, Michael Northam, Noteherder, Noveller, NTHnthsthSTH, Victor Nubla

O.S.T., Jim O’Rourke, Ocean Sounds, Masahiko Okura, Olekranon, The One Ensemble Orchestra, Orfeo 5, Fabio Orsi, Our Love Will Destroy The World, Owl Xounds

Daniel Padden, Charlemagne Palestine, Agnès Palier, Panopticon, Paranoid Foundation, Evan Parker, Anthony Pateras, PBK, People Like Us, Perlonex, Pål Asle Pettersen, Phantom Limb & Earth’s Hypnagogia, Phosphor, Pimmon, Richard Pinhas, Larry Polansky, Andrea Polli, Erica Pomerance, Gert-Jan Prins,
Procer Veneficus, Prurient, Pulse Emitter, Pyha

Richard Ramirez, Rapoon, Raxinasky, Rehab, Peter Rehberg, Rice Corpse, Arnaud Riviére, RMSonce, David Rosenboom, Sebastien Roux, Rozenhall, Ruby Ruby Ruby, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Russian Tsarlag

Safe, Satori, Scarcity Of Tanks, Marcus
Schmickler, Conrad Schnitzler, Tom James Scott, Sewer Election, Shelf Life, Matt Shoemaker, Dave Simpson, Sissy Spacek, Skozey Fetisch, The Skull Defekts, Skullflower, Alex Mein Smith, Snake Figures Arkestra, snd, Alan Sondheim, Starving Weirdos, Paddy Steer, Joel Stern, Stilluppsteya, Strotter Inst., Fredy Studer, Taku Sugimoto, Sujo, Uncle Woody Sullender, Sum Of R, Sun Ra, Ronnie Sundin, The Surly Bonds of Earth, Per Svensson

TANKJ, Tarab, Teho Teardo, Temperatures, Tenniscoats, Tetragrammaton, Terre Thaemlitz, Tibetan Red, ting ting jahe, TL0741, David Toop, Olivier Toulemonde, Towering Breaker, Trio Sowari, Toshiya Tsunoda

Unseen, Masayoshi Urabe, Urbsounds Collective

Mika Vainio, Velnias, Mark Vernon, Franck Vigroux, Violet, Vomir, Vopat

Yoshi Wada, Nancy Wallace, Zach Wallace, Wasteland Jazz Unit, John Watermann, Chris Watson, Weavels, Benjamin Wetherill, Simon Whetham, Wicked King Wicker, Wicked Witch, John Wiese, Alan Wilkinson, Julian Williams, Jana Winderen, Jozef Van Wissem, Wold, Wolves in the Throne Room, Wondrous Horse, World Sanguine Report

Xela, Xivic, XX Committee

Ed Yazijian, Amy Yoshida, Otomo Yoshihide, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura, Nate Young

Zanzibar Snails, Jason Zeh, Zeitkratzer, John Zorn

Ready to Buy?

1. A.M. Salad, ‘Tasty Treat (Pork Chopette)’
   From Lo-Fi for Hi-Fi, USA SUNSHIP RECORDS SUN 51 CD (2004)
2. Frank Rothkamm, ‘Arppegiator’
   From Moers Works, RUSSIA MONOCHROME VISION MV10 CD (2006)
3. Philip Jeck, ’1986 (Frank was 70 Years Old)’
   From Surf, UK TOUCH TO:36 CD (1999)
4. David Shea, ‘Shock Corridor (Medley)’ (extract)
   From Shock Corridor, JAPAN AVANT AVAN 013 CD (1992)
5. Daphne Oram, ‘Bird Of Parallax’ (1972)
   From Oramics, UK PARADIGM DISCS PD 21 2 x CD (2007)
6. Lieutenant Caramel, ‘Expectation et Banquet’ (from Odyssée du Lt Caramel) (1985)
   From Early Tape Works, RUSSIA MONOCHROME VISION MV08 2 x CD (2006)
7. The Loop Orchestra, ‘Son Of Overtly Orchestral’
   From Not Overtly Orchestral, GERMAN QUECKSILBER 5 CD (2004)
8. Al Margolis / If, Bwana, ‘Cicada #5: Version Bohman’
   From Rex Xhu Ping, USA POGUS PRODUCTIONS P21038-2 CD (2005)
9. Michael Prime, ‘Timeslips’
   From Aquifers, USA RRRECORDS RRR-CD-09 (1993)

1. Terminal Lovers, ‘Ion Gate’
   From As Eyes Burn Clean, USA PUBLIC GUILT PG018 LP (2009)
2. Shield Your Eyes, ‘Oranges’
   From Shield Em, UK GRAVID HANDS GRVH003 CD (2009)
3. Dokaka, ‘HA TA GLI LA TO’
   From Human Interface, AUSTRALIA DUAL PLOVER ATR-001 CD (2009)
4. Maja S.K. Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug, ‘Complaints Won’t Help’
   From Music For Gardening, NORWAY PICA DISK PICA009 CD (2009)
5. Duck Tails, ‘Rhubarb Girl’
   From Backyard, SWEDEN RELEASE THE BATS RTB #48 CD (2009)
6. Wet Hair, ‘Radio Machines / Gold Chains’
   From Dream, SWEDEN RELEASE THE BATS RTB #47 CD (2009)
7. ViV, ‘Two Hoots’
   From Sea Shells Listening, UK PEBBLE O2 CD (2009)
8. The Mays, ‘EENOONNO’
   From Know Fi, USA GIGANTE SOUND GIGA019 CD (2009)
9. Cindytalk,’Of Ghosts and Buildings’
   From The Crackle of my Soul, AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO 097 CD (2009)
10. Russell Haswell, ‘Summerhill Force from Inside Gibson’s Cave’
    From Wild Tracks, AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO 099 CD (2009)
11. Wooden Veil, ‘Bird Shaped’
    From Wooden Veil, GERMANY DEKORDER 035 CD (2009)
12. UnicaZürn, ‘The Temporal Bends’ (extract)
    From Temporal Bends, UK uZu MUSIC UZ01CD (2009)
13. If, Bwana, ‘Treinta, Juan’
    From 31, USA GD STEREO GD021 CD (2009)
14. Yôko Higashi and Lionel Marchetti, ‘Pétrole 42′
    From Okura 72°N 42°E, POLAND MUSICA GENERA G005 CD (2009)
15. Oneohtrix Point Never, ‘Format & Journey North’
    From Rifts, USA NO FUNPRODUCTIONS 2 x CD (2009)

Also from New York, Gilles Aubry is the latest contributor to the winds measure recordings label with his s6t8r (WMR 16), three pieces of minimal sound art derived from field recordings made in Berlin. As with Margolis, the transformative process allows for results that are both beautiful and horrifying, as if all humanity had been bled from a street-ful of active and happy Germans, resulting in a collection of grey, mottled statues who bleed black tar from their empty eyes. If you want to feel like the only person alive as you wander through a monochrome version of a de Chirico landscape not knowing what surreal threats await you, this record is just the medicine you require. The embossed cover art on this release is very suggestive of rusted sheet metal, as if the process of decay had somehow managed to migrate onto paper instead.

Kim Cascone‘s anti-musical celestial forces (STÖRUNG str006) is presented to us primarily as a field recording record, but in fact Cascone is supplementing this 30-minute set of low-level VLF recordings and location-recordings fetched from America and Europe with various minimal narrative elements, including actors who add spoken word, a numbers station voice, and Mike Rooke who most intriguingly plays a ‘mad scientist’. Plus there’s a musical dimension with the ‘cello gauze’ (?) of Claire Singer. In all this is a puzzling and mysterious piece of radiophonic drama whose meaning is far from clear. It does a lot to align itself with the proclaimed intentions borrowed from American avant-garde cinema, referring obliquely to the works of Brakhage and Hollis Frampton.

Hungarian Ákos Garai sent us a copy of Til Ødslig Horisont in 2005, one of the most extreme examples of baffling minimalism I’d heard up to that point at least. Nice to see him make a return with Pilis, (3L001) the debut release on the 3LEAVES label and in an edition of 150 CDR copies. While his previous release was all-electronic (as I recall it), Pilis is a collection of field recordings of water streams around the ‘sacred place’ he has discovered outside the city of Budapest. The intention here is to share his contemplative thoughts and feelings as he made his personal odyssey around the idyllic area, never straying far from the stream of clear water. The resulting tapes were modified with computer treatments as he composed the piece, an experience which allowed him to relive the enjoyable hiking experience. His highly personal and spiritual observations about the environment have been layered into the work, resulting in a very open-ended piece of inquisitory art.

Terminal Lovers spring out of Cleveland with a very convincing set of murky avant-rock in the shape of As Eyes Burn Clean (PUBLIC GUILT PG018). Led by Dave Cintron, the band includes players scaped from numerous other band projects, such as Keelhaul, Midnight, Lung, Darvocets, Dimbulb and many others, including the very fine Scarcity Of Tanks. I find it fascinating how many contemporary American underground bands are rediscovering their country’s rich heritage of late-psychedelic rock, but doing it by way of Krautrock and throwing in other influences from post-punk experimental bands. Terminal Lovers add a knowing, semi-literary touch of surrealism into their lyrics, which we are told are intended to emulate the effects of the cinema of Jodorowsky. Whether you accept any of this rich cultural cross-fertilisation or not, there’s no denying this stoned-out groovester of a record rocks like a greasy acid-fried demon. This combo have swallowed their influences whole like an enormous whale filling up on plankton and krill, and in only a few years have honed their ensemble sound to fatal perfection. Released on 24th this month as a limited press LP pressed in yellow and black swirling vinyl. A delirious slab to charm your fitful dreams at night.

Tatlin’s Tower is making a new Broadcast

Its digital inhabitants are failing to co-operate

Why Fear the Machiavellian developments?

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We pour forth The Sound Projector’s
17th Issue
Published November 2008
172 pages
Cover price £7
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Interviews with:

• Sharron Kraus – UK songstress. Acoustic singer-songwriter influenced by UK and Appalachian folk music. Associated with ‘dark folk’.
• Gen Ken Montgomery – the New York City soundart genius describes his brief summer show in London, exhibits his postcard-objects, and reveals a long-standing devotion to the music of Sparks.
• Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – mystical Swedish sound-artist Thomas Ekelund, describing his unusual rituals and also contributing some fine collage images.

Other highlights this issue:

• A free album by mudboy which you can download! That’s right – the first in a series (we hope) of unique TSP-branded internet-only music releases. With each issue of the magazine, a postcard is attached inside. On said postcard is a unique code which constitutes your download voucher. Visit the website link as indicated and you can download the free mudboy album in mp3 format, and thus hear him playing live on the pipe organ. This offer only available to purchasers of TSP 17. Don’t blame us if you don’t have Broadband!
• Lightmusic. Reviews of DVDs, art-movies, experimental works and visual accompaniments to music and sound. This time including a look at the famous 1970s UK structural-materialist film-maker Guy Sherwin.
• Guilty Pleasures. In this incisive essay, Harley Richardson dissects the self-deluding thought processes at work behind this London club and CD reissue phenomenon that makes ironic heroes out of Leo Sayer, Paper Lace and Gilbert O’Sullivan.
• Vinyl Viands continues its survey of the format which was supposed to have died and vanished long ago, yet here we are swarming with enough psychedelic cover art to wallpaper the entirety of Cairo’s museum of the ashcan. Bend your teeth against these blackberry-flavoured Fruit Pastilles!
• Needless to remark The Sound Projector continues to swear its dark allegiance to the BLACK METAL hordes, with ten pulsating pages of quivering BM reviews penned from the hand of Australian writer Jennifer Hor.
• American artist Cybele Collins has submitted some excellent drawings this issue. She’s from Rhode Island, the hotbed of creative endeavour that brought us Lightning Bolt, Geoff Mullen, and the Kramer’s Ergot books.
• Also another interesting page features Australian Surf Music records reissued by a Japanese label. They were all used as soundtracks for little-known and little-seen movies on the art of hanging ten. From the 1960s and 1970s. We call this little section “Tales from the Tube” in honour of a comic book by Rick Griffin (US underground comix artist who also surfed).
• And there’s some great developments in acoustic folk music, including not only records by Sharron Kraus but also the amazing C. Joynes, Directing Hand, Robbie Basho and Cath & Phil Tyler.
• Regular review sections include: FIELD RECORDINGS, ATOMS OF PURE NOISE, TAPE MASCHINES MAKEN KLANG, IN THE ART GALLERY, ENGLISH MUSIC, NIGHTMARES AND PENUMBRA, USA UNDERGROUND, STONER AND DOOM, THE NORDIC REALMS, ALL FRENCH, THE DRONING ONES, THE CRACKLING ESTHER, GUITAR MUSIC, THE UTTER FREAKDOM, THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY, ROCK, quiet music, SONGS, and – erm …maybe even more.

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Pourquoi? See the writings of Andre Breton on Surrealism. Death sells. The front cover not only uses the word ‘death’, but contains at least one subliminal skull image and a hideous melting face image too. The cover also uses the word ‘free’. These are proven to be the two most successful marketing devices known to the advertising world. We’ll see if this strategy boosts sales. But we also know that intelligent Sound Projector readers are not easy to manipulate.

Your Sound Projector team this ish:
Ed Pinsent, Jennifer Hor, Aaron Robertson, Richard Rees Jones and Harley Richardson.

And here’s a full alphabetical list of artists whose records you will find in the pages of The Sound Projector 17th. Regular readers of the blog will notice that some of these records have already been noted in our ‘new arrivals’ section throughout 2008, but rest assured that the pages of the magazine contain completely new (and more detailed) reviews.

@c, A_Dontigny, a.P.A.t.T., Acolytes Action Squad, Sophie Agnel, Ilyas Ahmed, Ahousen, Lars Åkerlund, Akitsa, Allroh, Altar Of Flies, Oren Ambarchi, Anenzephalia, Antennacle, Apoptose, Maor Appelbaum, Aranos, ARC, Martin Archer, Ascend, Asher – Ubeboet, ASUNA, AUN, Autopsia

Mariska Baars, Bad Statistics, Bill Baird, Marc Baron, Robbie Basho, Bastard Noise, Batchas, Beequeen, Marc Behrens, Justin Bennett, Maurizio Bianchi, Billy Bao, Birchville Cat Motel, The Bird Cage Theater, The Bird Names, Kyrre Björkås, Frédéric Blondy, Blood of the Black Owl, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Bob Downes Open Music, Borg, Alexei Borisov, bran(…)pos, Brekekekexkoaxkoax, Mariola Brillowska, Duncan Bruce, Gavin Bryars, Pia Burnette, Monique Buzzarté

John Cage, Caïna, Camera Lucida, Jodi Cave, Bruno Chevillon, Chic Nerve, The Child Readers, Chop Shop, John Clyde-Evans, Comet III, Contest of Pleasures, Core of the Coalman, Corrupted, Valerio Cosi, Anla Courtis, Attila Csihar, Cucumber Farmer, Cultural Amnesia, Curia, Alvin Curran

Darsombra, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Dead Rat Orchestra, Deathspell Omega, Zerfu Demissie, Bertrand Denzler, Dial, Diapsiquir, Diatribes, Dirac C, Directing Hand, The Doozer, Double Muslims, Kevin Drumm, dsic, David Dunn, Werner Durand, Mark Durgan

Earth, Max Eastley, Ata Ebtekar, Edwige, Eldrig, Elektronavn, Endless Dismal Moan, English, Lawrence English, Ensepulchred, Cenk Ergün, erikm, Kiko C. Esseiva, Evil Moisture, Eyes Like Saucers

Ferran Fages, Farm, Faust, Morton Feldman, Fen, Leah Fenimore, Filter Feeder, Finch, Forteresse, Joe Foster, Joe Frawley, Fria Konstellationen, Fricara Pacchu, Reinhold Friedl, Ellen Fullman

Richard Garet, The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Glass Ceiling, Gnaw Their Tongues, Malcolm Goldstein, Grasslung, Gregg Yeti and The Best Lights, Growing, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Barry Guy

Haeti & CR, Hair Police, Graham Halliwell, hamaYôko, Hammerschmidt, Mary Hampton, Marina Hardy, Atsuko Hatano, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Havohej, Hearts of Palm, John Hegre, Michel Henritzi, Hevoset, Hijokaidan, Higo Hiroshi, HSDOM, Jean-Louis Huhta, Hum of the Druid

Idea Fire Company, If, Bwana, Ryoji Ikeda, Illusion Of Safety, Incapacitants

Jamka, Jazkamer, Philip Jeck, René Joly, C. Joynes, Jumalhämärä, Junko

Kallabris, Zbigniew Karkowski, Takayuki Kawabata, Keijo, Christian Kiefer, Andrey Kiritchenko,
Kiss The Anus of a Black Cat, Civyiu Kkliu, Kolkhöze Printanium, Konono No 1, George Korein,
Korperschwache, Tomasz Krakowiak, Sharron Kraus, Felix Kubin, Christina Kubisch, Kvllvllvllv

Graham Lambkin, Landing Swabs, Lanterns, Jean-François Laporte, Latitude / Longitude, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Lay All Over It, Lead Sister II, The League of Automatic Music Composers, Thomas Lehn, Jacques Lejeune, Jason Lescalleet, Alan Licht, Lillevan, Lngtché, Lonesome Jonesome, Francisco López, Sara Lowes, Lugubrum, Luie Luie, Henning Lundkvist, Ralph Lundsten

Yoshi Machida, Maniacs Dream, Manpack Variant, Marblebog, Lasse Marhaug, Peter Martin, Savatore Martirano, Miya Masaoka, Alireza Mashayekhi, Masonic Youth, Matomeri, Mattin, Chrisopher McFall, Menace Ruine, MGR, Microblind Harvestmen, Das Mineralorchester, Phil Minton, Andrea Mjös, Modern Sound Quintet, MoHa!, Mok Nok, Mono, Ilya Monosov, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Irene Moon, Andy Moor, The Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation, Mouths, Mouthus, mudboy, Jon Mueller, Tisha Mukarji, Geoff Mullen, murmer, Brendan Murray, Musti Laiton

N.E.W., Nad Spiro, Nadja, Ian Nagoski, nakaban, Toshimaru Nakamura, Nekrasov, Neptune, Nerve Net Noise, Neurobash, The New Blockaders, Anton Nikkilä, BJ Nilsen, Tirath Singh Nirmala, Njiqahdda, Atsuko Nojiri, Nos Phillipé, Alva Noto

Stephen O’Malley, Ocsid, Olekranon, Aki Onda, Original Sin

Pain Jerk, Parallel Lives, Evan Parker, Iván Patachich, The Peeesseye, Pelerine, Pentemple, Perisynti, Phantom Limb & Bison, Phog Masheen, Pig Heart Transplant, Pink Twins, Pita, Planet-Y, Pocahaunted, Zoltán Pongrácz, Fletcher Pratt, Gert-Jan Prins, Prurient, Pulga, Pure Sound, Pussy and The Muff Divers

Quest For Blood

R/S, Radio Ruido, Luasa Raelon, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Brenda Ray, José Luis Redondo, Peter Rehberg, The Remote Viewers, Revenge, Rigor Sardonicous, Stéphane Rives, RLW, Robedoor, David Rosenboom, Rothkamm, Sebastién Roux, Keith Rowe, RST, Mathieu Ruhlmann, R.Y.N.

Saralunden, Satan is my Brother, Minoru Sato, Marcus Schmickler, Semimuumio, Shepherds, Guy Sherwin, Shifts, Shit & Shine, Matt Shoemaker, Samuel Sighicelli, Lukas Simonis, Six Organs of Admittance, Skeletons Out, Julien Skrobek, The Skull Defekts, Smegma, Steven R. Smith, Sonde, Batur Sonmez, Sote, Spektr, Mary St. John, Sam Steer, Serafina Steer, Howard Stelzer, Carl Stone, Sudden Infant, Taku Sugimoto, Sujo, Sunburned, {{{Sunset}}}, Supersonic Riverside Blues, Chriss Sutherland, SYNB, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Akosh Szelevényi

Taarma, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Tamam Shud, Tea & Toast Band, Teeth Collection, Asmus Tietchens, The Tim Gaze Band, TITO, tmszkrkwk, Steven Tobin, Pau Torres, Bobb Trimble, Yagihashi Tsukasa, Tully, Cath Tyler, Phil Tyler

Ulaan Khol, Taku Unami, Unseen, Uton, UW Owl

Vapaa, Wouter Van Veldhoven, Caetano Veloso, Vestigial Limb, Vhernen, Virak, Vitsaus, Volontè, Vomir, Vopat

Yoshi Wada, Warmer Milks, Mark Wastell, Ian Watson, Ralf Wehowsky, The Weird Weeds, Wether, Whispers For Wolves, Simon Wickham-Smith, John Wiese, Trevor Wishart, Wolfmangler

XELA

Yellow Swans, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura, Richard Youngs, Sato Yukie

Z’EV, Zanzibar Snails, Zeitkratzer, Lin Zhiying, Rutger Zuydervelt

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