At end of January we received the new CDR from Hearts Of Palm, the beyond-underground team of noise-improvisers based in Cincinnati. ballglovemask (NO NUMBER) exists in a run of just 50 copies and was recorded by the foursome of Chamberlin, Hancock, Renschier and Wilson at a studio in 2009. Outdoing even their own past...
Gotta admit I’m developing a real soft spot for these groovy reissues of heavy jazz kitsch from the Righteous label. The latest emergence is Shock and Panic (RIGHTEOUS PSALM 23:35) by The Creed Taylor Orchestra, a CD which bundles together Shock Music in Hi-Fi with its successor album, Panic: The Son of Shock. With...
Nutloid item of the week from a UK combo called Perhaps Contraption, whose Sludge and Tripe CD is an exhausting listen of “clever” musicianship, rampant musical style-swapping, and quasi-surreal lyrics full of annoyingly cute little imagistic juxtapositions. The songs, mostly taken at 500 mph, have their lyrics half sung and half shouted in scary,...
Nicolas Collins is an American composer-performer who made his own unique brand of dangerous and menacing sample-based music in the 1980s, and is the latest to receive the luxurious archival rescue treatment from the Japanese label Em Records. Devil’s Music (EM RECORDS EM1086DCD) reissues in its entirety a 1986 LP of this name originally...
American crusader of loon-boon cut-up mayhem Ros Bobos returns with his release for this year, Mandatory Astral Projections (NO NUMBER CD). This fine digipack release is decorated with four of the composer’s unsettling collage artworks, making odd juxtapositions of imagery that parallel the compositions on the record. 11 cuts of quietly subversive tape-collaging confusion...
Morceaux de Machines, ‘Onanisme’ From Estrapade, CANADA NO TYPE IMNT 0413 CD (2004) P Miles Bryson, ‘A Touch of the Orient’ From Megalomaniac Decorator’s Quarterly, USA ILLEGAL ART 111 CD (ND) Aki Onda, ‘One Day’ From Ancient & Modern (Cassette Memories Vol 1), USA PHONOMENA AUDIO ARTS & MULTIPLES PAAM-020 CD (2003) When, ‘Heart...
a Evolution Control Committee, ‘Music for Selling’ b Orange Head, ‘Real CM deep inside your Life’ c Realistic, ‘Trademark Messaging’ From Commercial Ad Hoc, USA, ILLEGAL ART 003 CD (2000) Vitamin B12: a ‘Agent 009′ b ‘Harry’s Harmonica Hop’ c ‘Profiles and Grotesques’ d ‘Photolux’ e ‘Hunt and Peck’ f ‘Danger Incorporated’ g ‘Inspector...
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