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 Seattle label Debacle Records kindly continues to keep us updated with creamy emissions from its bulging horn of plenty. I know I’m at least a dozen releases behind and I can’t keep up with their schedule, but here are two items from July this year. Karnak Temples has three long tracks of deep...
John Butcher and Gino Robair combine personalities and styles to abrasive effect on Apophenia (RASTASCAN BRD 065), the former with his saxophones, sometimes playing them in “motorised” mode, and the latter with his “energised surfaces”. Know what you mean, Gino…my surfaces are already getting energised just by coming into tactile contact with these non-specific,...
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...
One hour of dank and clammy Swedish drone from Keränen, who spends the entire disc describing the lurid lighting effects of the Moon Over Torrelorca (LJUD & BILD PRODUCTION LBP002). The grey cover image entirely reflects the nature of the music, a charcoal drawing which in its semi-abstract way conjures up a black moon...
Another piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the It’s War Boys label has been reissued in the form of Color Him Coma (PD 27) by Gus Coma, in a double CD reissue package from Paradigm Discs. This UK post-punk freakoid label was, for a brief period in the 1980s, the home to some of...
Put four Europeans together in a room and one way or another they’ll soon concoct a rich brew of instrumental lager-beer. This is the lesson learned from The Red Giant Meets The White Dwarf (BORING MACHINES BM026), a collaboration between Philippe Petit and Chapter 24, a trio of Greek players who took their name...
Here’s a substantial chunk of gritty digital minimalism executed by a couple of respected European maestros Tomas Korber and Gert-Jan Prins…RI 1.5442 (CAVITY CD 03) is a single piece 74 minutes in length, and it’s a real endurance test of anti-personnel crackling and fizzing malarkey, bomber aircraft on a sinister mission twinned with the...
Five items from the Polish record label MonotypeRec., which arrived on 12 October 2010 in the TSP wicker basket. Three examples of art music, and two examples of post-rock modernism on their new sub-label, Cat Sun. Brasil And The Gallowbrothers Band have I think come our way before with their 2004 CD for Last...
Cellist Erik Friedlander has turned in some fine examples of contemporary small-group jazz in recent years. 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (SKIPSTONE RECORDS SR 006) is another sort of proposition, 50 very short pieces of chamber-jazz, compressed into groups which last around 4-5 minutes each, and performed with the help of four other talented...
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