Inward come these Vinyl Vaitrecemonatims, nothing stopping their flight from the pressing plants of Europe and America to line my aural throat like so many multicoloured pastilles. First we have three new platters from Germany’s Dekorder, whose owner Marc Richter is s a man who loves anything that’s crowded, maximal and thick as frozen...
Some distinctive and astonishing songs from Nalle on The Wilder Shores Of Love (ALT.VINYL RECORDS AV019). The album is built around the songs and singing of Hanna Tuulikki, who also did the basic arrangements with her Resonator guitar and building tripartite harmony vocal layers with her keening and nasal voice. The trio is completed...
From Denmark, Stormhat sends a copy of From The Moat (APPOLLOLAAN RECORDINGS APAR030), a curious solo CDR which has been made from building up layers of field recordings with “primitive instruments”, and producing some very singular sound events through subtle, organic collisions. Sun, sand, sea and windspray are not exactly prominent on these hallucinatory...
Got a great little box of powerful noise from Per Strom in Gothenburg, that Swedish burg that continues to act as a magnetic focal point for all that is righteous and heavy in the fields of nullifying, grisly-grey nouveau-industrial anti-music of blackness. As Barrikad, Strom blasts forth with three intense packets of nitro packed...
Bumper package of materials from Miguel A. García in Spain, who impressed us last ish with his “stern and severe” approach to very minimal electronic noise on Armiarmak. In this generous bundle a number of his collaborative projects and solo endeavours are represented; I made a beeline for the long package with a picture...
Today the sky be grey and overcast, yet at this time I stay indoors and listen to a brace of ingenious sound art pieces by noted Swede artist Dan Fröberg. On The Existence of Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Do Is Everything! (iDEAL RECORDINGS 096), we hear church organ music played by Mikael Wahlin and reprocessed by the composer...
Marginal UK electro-loner Hari Hardman has opted for the cassette format for Chairantus Roseus (HH021), the 21st release on his own Hari Hardman Produkts label. A C10 tape (five minutes per side) must be the shortest length of oxide you can get before you start producing an endless home-made tape loop. Almost unvarying analogue...
A pleasure to hear once again from Michael Renkel in Berlin. Can it really be over ten years since we dug the Möwen and Moos release from Activity Center, his electro-acoustic improv project duo with percussionist Burkhard Beins? The calendar cannot lie! lohn & brot (ABSINTH RECORDS 017) is the new release to issue...
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...
French electronic composer Laurent Perrier is actively involved in film-making as well as making music and sound-art, and runs the Sound On Probation label. All of these releases are characterised by a strong sense of purpose in their music, and a very polished production sound (even when the tone turns to the sinister or...
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