The News from Neptune Following in a haphazard American tradition of home-made instruments and objects that are half-sculptures are Neptune, who have been in existence for about 17 years and have over two dozen releases to their credit, yet Silent Partner (NORTHERN SPY NS013) is the first thing I ever heard from this highly...
This concludes our round-up of many of the vinyl seven-inches to have reached us in 2011. I Am A Vowel is the Parisian artist Nelly Larguier, and her Body Curves EP (FANG BOMB FB077) is a superb item released on the Swedish label Fang Bomb. This label has been home to some intense Swedish...
This continues our round-up of many of the vinyl seven-inches to have reached us in 2011. A pleasure to hear from the Spleen Coffin label in Baltimore, and I say that on the strength of one 12-inch release from Decapitated Hed, whose evil approach to experimental Techno music won me over in a matter...
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...
Univrs. (RASTER NOTON R-N 133) by Alva Noto is a record which I would like to think celebrates the joys of typesetting – Univers is everyone’s favourite font – but in fact it’s a follow-on from a previous release Unitxt, and has something do with the properties of a universal language. Given Carsten Nicolai’s...
The Buddhas of Moscow We’ve had this Phurpha item on a promo CD since about June this year and then recently we were sent a vinyl edition of same (which remains sealed at time of writing). Trowo Phurnag Ceremony (IDEOLOGIC ORGAN / EDITIONS MEGO SOMA 001) is a double LP by a group of...
That’s the colour of my room The proud boast of Richard Kamerman is I Stayed in the Apartment for Thirty-Two Days without Leaving (COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS CFYRF02). To express the degrees of cabin fever, loneliness and internalised urban angst that transpired across his frame, he delivers himself of precisely twenty minutes of digital...
Warm Digits are a whole-hearted “retro” duo from Newcastle, producing a lively and hugely entertaining form of melodic Krautrocky-beat combo music on Keep Warm…With The Warm Digits (DISTRACTION RECORDS DIST22CD), and as their name suggests they reintroduce heat, passion and friendliness to the area of digital music, which may be in danger of growing...
Easterndaze (AUDIOTONG NO NUMBER) is a useful compilation of music from the “Eastern European Sonic Underground” from 2010, an area of music which represents quite a gap in my knowledge, in spite of Zeromoon’s excellent efforts to expose a lot of music from that region. Countries represented include Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and...
Enigma of the day is Noise Without Tears (PILGRIM TALK PT12), a recording of extremely minimal dimensions recorded at Loop Line in Tokyo. Japanese players Utah Kawasaki and Takahiro Kawaguchi joined up with American Nick Hoffman for this 2010 event. What ends up on the recording is mostly not much more than an ambient...
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