The Tree in the Quadtych From Sheffield here’s Cameron Deas, another guitar-playing acoustic Englishman worthy to hold his head alongside C. Joynes, with his Quadtych (PRESENT TIME EXERCISES PTECD1) CD which he kindly sent us some months ago released on his own label Present Time Exercises. This is a single work in four parts...
From April 2011, a recent piece of Hari Hardman Produkt is a cassette tape wrapped in a band of emery paper. Yooch. Not one for sensitive fingertips, and a nod to a nihilistic cultural strategy used knowingly for an LP by Durutti Column (LP wrapped in sandpaper) whose designers copied it from a Situationist...
One hour of dank and clammy Swedish drone from Keränen, who spends the entire disc describing the lurid lighting effects of the Moon Over Torrelorca (LJUD & BILD PRODUCTION LBP002). The grey cover image entirely reflects the nature of the music, a charcoal drawing which in its semi-abstract way conjures up a black moon...
Dave Schmidt’s Sulatron Records label has moved out of Austria and gone back to Germany, and from that address two recent releases winged like hot oatcakes into my awaiting mouthpiece. Tracker are a trio from somewhere in the Tyrolean range, who made quite a stir with their 2009 EP and have now had a...
Fine album by Trawler Bycatch, a rubberised trio of greasy hotheads from Portland Oregon. Schlep’m (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-4050) exhibits the outlandish guitar-bass-drum chops of these freakster humps in ways we haven’t heard since the glory days of Sun City Girls and their early LPs on Abduction. What I like is the way they’re not...
Jüppala Kääpiö take us on a Sporing Promenade (OMNIMEMENTO OM01), a very sylvian-pastoral escapade where the watercolour-styled music is a series of meandering acoustic twitters, drones and peeps, surrounded at all times by forest-like atmospheres and evocative sound effects. The singing voices which wail and hum in airy tones as though wafted into our...
Installation Recordings (1973-2008) (PD 26) is a superb collection of the gallery sound-art installations of Max Eastley out now on Paradigm Discs, and all credit to the label for producing such a high-quality collection of this somewhat neglected UK artist. Over two discs, we hear just a man can do with blocks of wood,...
Very happy to receive three excellent discs from Hospital Productions, the NYC label and record store run by Prurient, and home to much that is good in the areas of extreme noise, Black Metal, and dark experimentation. Burning Star Core always gets unreserved recommendation from this magazine, and Inside The Shadow (HOS-212) is a...
Richard and Linda Thompson, ‘When I Get to the Border’ (1974) From I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (remastered), UK UNIVERSAL ISLAND RECORDS IMCD 304 CD (2004) The Pentangle, ‘Once I Had A Sweetheart’ (1969) From Basket of Light, UK TRANSATLANTIC RECORDS TRS 114 LP Fairport Convention, ‘Nottamun Town’ (1969) From What...
Semimuumio, ‘Polygamia’ From Vamos, FINLAND LAL LAL LAL #36 CD (2007) Fricara Pacchu, ‘Winter Ambulance’ From Midnight Pyre, FINLAND LAL LAL LAL #39 CD (2007) Avarus, ‘Hiri Ja Käki Ja Karhu Löylyttelee’ From ruskeatimantti, USA TUMULT TM 319 2 x CD (2005) The Free Players, ‘Humble Steps’ From The Free Players, USA LAST VISIBLE...
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