Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day If I was hearing Broken Heart Collector (DISCORPORATE RECORDS DISREC18) in February or March instead of in the bleak midwinter, I’m fairly sure it would instil certain bittersweet emotions of love and longing. As song lyrics, track titles and images make clear, Broken Heart Collector see love as an...
Heartbreak Hotel Revisited The guitarist Loren Connors is here with the Haunted House band on which he’s joined by singer Suzanne Langille (a long-term collaborator of his), plus additional guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. Blue Ghost Blues (NORTHERN SPY NSCD 012) happens to be their second album as a band after one...
Dan Melchior is an English singer-songwriter based in New York, and his Catbirds and Cardinals (NORTHERN SPY NSCD011) was recorded in North Carolina and is credited to Dan Melchior und Das Menace. It’s a fine piece of idiosyncratic songcraft and raucous music, based around heavy reverbed guitar, simple beat-combo percussion (played quite loudly), and...
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 Italian free-abstract-guitarist Elia Casu sent us a nice bundle of items in June 2011. Here is another one from that envelope. With the percussionist Paolo Sanna, Elia forms the duo Kado and here they are playing Live @ Area Sismica (IMPROVVISATORE INVOLONTARIO 0022) on a date from January 2010. Elia amplifies and prepares...
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...
Pilesar Please Me Radio Friendly (PUBLIC EYESORE PE112) is an energetic set of crazy songs delivered roughly in the lo-fi, unkempt and noisy post-new wave Dinosaur Jr / Sebadoh style from Pilesar, an American confluence of talents which clusters around the pale thin body of Jason Mullinax, who wrote all the songs, plays most...
Always Prepared for Action Few have worked as hard as German composer and musician Reinhold Friedl to re-energise and update 20th century avant-garde music, most notably with his exciting Zeitrkratzer ensemble pieces. Here he is doing it solo on Inside Piano (ZEITKRATZER RECORDINGS ZKR 0013), an abundant double-disc set of his own piano compositions...
Imperious Wrecks This double-CD by Vrakets Position (VRAKGODS 001) arrived late April 2011. It’s two guys from Sweden who make one heck of a deuced fine 100% improvised din using just guitars and synths, maybe some effects pedals, a rhythm box…veering somewhere along the slopes of avant-rock, free noise and even freer improvisation, the...
The Krautrock Sensation EP (CRUSTACEAN 07) by Vibravoid is in fact a 7″ vinyl item, although my promo CD just contains two tracks from its generous contents. Vibravoid are a Düsseldorf band who turn in an enthused and near-perfect copy of Can’s ‘Mother Sky’ on one side, and a raucous rocked-up version of ‘Eye...
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