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...
Small Cruel Party at the Zoo An unsettling item of ambiguous electronic music is Soft Zoo (FIRST FOLD RECORDS FOLDCD011), a record credited to A Small Party Of Pressure, a cabal of mummers which includes the massed talents of Justin Wiggan, Mark Vernon, Anders Gjerde, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Lois Laplace. Some of these...
Under Japanese Influence Expo 70 are Justin Wright and Matt Hill. On Blackout (DEBACLE RECORDS DBL054) they play a couple of half-hour cosmic improvisations using guitar, moog, Korg, drum machine and bass guitar, doing it live in parts of New York while they sat on the floor wreathed in a crepuscular haze. Pretty good...
Renewable Sources Energy (BIOMETRAX BIOM01) is the promise of Biomass, a Californian project put together by Walter Ovtha Woodz, and the title of a CD he released in September 2011. Tangible releases like this are probably just the tip of the biomedical iceberg; Biomass is more of an immersive experiment of sorts, involving meditation...
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...
From June this year, we find the Brighton-based label Slightly Off Kilter releasing these poetry records. All four of these poetry releases are distinctive and truly experimental items, evidence of vital and exciting talents at work; and I should have written this post sooner as two of them are already sold out by now....
We last noted Zavoloka in 2005 with a release of hers on the Ukrainian Nexsound label. Here she is again with Vedana (KVITNU 16), an impressive collection of well-polished electroacoustic music which has taken about two years of hard graft on her part to execute, involving research, live performance, studio work in Cracow, and...
Arrived 10 May 2011 from New York City: The Paranoid Critical Revolution with Euphobia (SYSTEMS NEUTRALIZERS 02). Guess what? Glenn Branca has a record label and this is its second release, an essential heft of avant-dissonant guitar rock music hauled off by Reg Bloor and Libby Fab. Bloor plays all the guitar, did the...
Arrived 12 May 2011: Necro Deathmort with their Music Of Bleak Origin (DISTRACTION RECORDS DIST24); last heard from Newcastle duo Rozeik and Cookson in 2009, and what they create is a vaguely sinister form of electronic instrumental music laced with many beats and great attention paid to detailed, richly-encrusted synthetic drones. This polished, blackened...
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