Fear and Loading On this day to agitate your molecules in time with the slow crawl of the universe, tune in to Yannick Franck‘s Memorabilia (SILKEN TOFU STX.15). Fine construction of ambient music in the noire-mode from this Belgian sound artist who wallows freely in the inexplicable ambiguities of life. For him, all mysteries...
If you want to sharpen your wits with some good old-fashioned astringent modernism, the double CD On Tour (MUTABLE MUSIC 17544-2) by Ostravská Banda ought to be poured into your daily tub like a pouch of bath salts. This ensemble went on a tour of Europe in 2010 and took with them a strong...
Under Japanese Influence Expo 70 are Justin Wright and Matt Hill. On Blackout (DEBACLE RECORDS DBL054) they play a couple of half-hour cosmic improvisations using guitar, moog, Korg, drum machine and bass guitar, doing it live in parts of New York while they sat on the floor wreathed in a crepuscular haze. Pretty good...
Renewable Sources Energy (BIOMETRAX BIOM01) is the promise of Biomass, a Californian project put together by Walter Ovtha Woodz, and the title of a CD he released in September 2011. Tangible releases like this are probably just the tip of the biomedical iceberg; Biomass is more of an immersive experiment of sorts, involving meditation...
A Deep Freeze Mouse Kayaka is the London-based electronic destructo merchant Kaya Kamijo. We last heard from her in June with One Man’s Hands, and now here be Operation Deep Freeze (MANTILE RECORDS #021), a CDR set which may or may not have been produced as a tour-only item. Actually she’s not so much...
The Undersea World of Phlebas the Phoenician I’ve recently found the “September” bag of CDs, although there’s still a sizeable bunch of releases from the summer of 2011 not yet fully unwrapped. First today is a fine art piece of business from two Italian composers, Fabio Selvafiorita and Valerio Tricoli. For Death By Water...
Utamaro’s Blues French improviser Michel Henritzi continues his forays into oriental-tinged string music on Kyoto No Tsuki & Dyin’ Shadows (DYIN’ GHOST 03), a record informed as much by the soul of early blues musicians as it is by the player’s understanding of contemporary (especially Japanese) improvised music. Playing mostly electric or acoustic guitars,...
We last noted Zavoloka in 2005 with a release of hers on the Ukrainian Nexsound label. Here she is again with Vedana (KVITNU 16), an impressive collection of well-polished electroacoustic music which has taken about two years of hard graft on her part to execute, involving research, live performance, studio work in Cracow, and...
Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams, UK Editions EG EGED30 / USA EGS 301 (1981) First released on Obscure Records in 1978 and then on Editions EG in 1981, this debut album for Harold Budd is a beautiful and meditative work. The music is usually labelled as ambient but it’s a mixture of instruments,...
Arrived 10 May 2011 from New York City: The Paranoid Critical Revolution with Euphobia (SYSTEMS NEUTRALIZERS 02). Guess what? Glenn Branca has a record label and this is its second release, an essential heft of avant-dissonant guitar rock music hauled off by Reg Bloor and Libby Fab. Bloor plays all the guitar, did the...
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