Some fine cassettes pulled out the boxes of late. Dead Girl’s Party is a Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company) side project where he teams up with Matt Krefting, who I think has occasionally played in live IFCO lineups. The Things I’ve Lost (ENTR’ACTE 106) combines droning synths, electronics, radio waves and guitar with vocal...
From April 12, received a bundle of items from Foredoom Productions, the first four numbers in the catalogue of this London-based small-run cassette and CDR label. Phalanx gives us FFF333 (FD001), on which he uses synth and voice in a set of “structured improvisations through time-based systems”. Two sides of looped and throbbing electronics...
From Fang Bomb in Sweden (arrived late January 2011) we have a double-cassette box by Neghantil called 1990-1996 (FANG BOMB FB015), presented in a rather stern and foreboding package; flip the lid from the box and you have a set of 6-by-6 art prints suggesting various uncertain and paranoid mental states using collage, xerox...
Cold, isn’t it? Now’s the time for some lovely warming cassettes which are the auditory equivalent of a hot casserole or soup, as opposed to the frigid sterility of an icy compact disc. From the Republic of Karelia in Russia we got these two tapes from Ivan and Anya released on their micro-label Full...
Here’s two splendid releases of contemporary minimalist sound-art. The cassette comes from the American micro label Winds Measure Recordings in Brooklyn. Small scale they may be, but their ambitions are as big as the Flatiron building on Fifth Avenue, and they are releasing things that Peggy Guggenheim would have gladly embraced with her spindly,...
Late December 2010 we took in another package of eruptions from Filthy Turd, the English art-monster who continues to unleash his particularly peculiar foul brand of harsh noise. Two cassettes which slithered out of the envelope demonstrate just what this man can do with his own voice and two greasy microphones in his hands,...
We received this splendidly packaged cassette box set from Andy Ortmann in July 2010, I think at the instigation of Richard Rupenus. Ortmann’s work is known to us as one half of Recorder Out Of Tune (with John Wiese), and he’s also owner-operator of the Nihilist Records label in Chicago. New Directions In Experimental...
Bumper package sent in from Fritz Welch, the American player in Pee-Ess-Eye, who happens to have moved to Glasgow just now. “Hope you enjoy this bombardment of crap!” he scrawls cheerfully on his enclosed yellow Post-It notes…matter of fact most of the information you might need about these little stinkers comes direct from the...
Algernon are a five-piece contemporary prog-jazz-rock fusion outfit based in Chicago, and Ghost Surveillance (CUNEIFORM RECORDS RUNE 297) is their third album. With oodles of guitars, keyboards, vibes and proficient drumming on offer, they turn in some very decent instrumental pieces which, although a little too slick and polished for me, do have the...
Michael Tee used to run the M Squared label in 1979, a home to many good things experimental and synth-based in Australia in the 1980s. A five-LP retrospective of that label’s endeavours was issued last year by Vinyl On Demand which probably hoovers up a lot of the good stuff from the time. As...
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