(Siro028) – Sven Meyer – Arnold`s place (mp3)

Sirona is an underground netlabel based in France. Active since march 2011, Sirona was established to promote and release wide ranges of electronically developed music from artist all around the world. They release various music styles: electronica, IDM, techno, hardcore, drum & bass, glitch, minimal, dub, acid, breakbeat, beakcore, drone, industrial, experimental, trip-hop, hip-hop, new-wave, soundscape, ambient, noise, ambient darkwave, ambient noise, nu jazz, etc, etc… This is their 28^th release. I never heard of Sven Meyer before. He is an experimental electronic musician from Nurnberg (Germany). You can find more information on his Soundcloud page:       

http://soundcloud.com/sven-meyer

I like this is short & sweet mini album (4songs = 28.57 minutes). This is electronic music the songs offer a potent mix of minimal techno with some amazing ambient moments. Not to be redundant here but I definitely recommend it. Yes it`s that good. Get it here: https://archive.org/details/siro028SvenMeyer-ArnoldsPlace

More info here: http://www.sirona-records.com/

Négligé – Electronic Underwear – prenatal inferno (CD)

This one was lying on my pile of stuff to review (which is always getting bigger). Négligé - electronic Underwear are a German experimental synth project based in Munich. The lineup on this album features Gunther Schroth, Karl F Gerber and Wolfgang Foag. They used various synthesizers, percussion computer, breath controller, samplers, and sequencers. This is indeed a strange recording. The music goes into various directions: non-linear electronic music, light noise + minimal electronics, synth + percussive moments / elements, lo-fi noise experimentations, minimal, but still highly experimental electronic music. What I found particularly impressive the whole album was recorded live without overdubs. It doesn`t sound improvised at all. The music sounds like old Cluster mixed with The Forbidden Planet soundtrack.  A nice and long album (9 tracks = 64.15 minutes), released in 1991 on Archegon.More information here: http://www.archegon.de/ARCHEGON/archegon.html

Kite Screams # 2, 2015 (zine)

KS is a half-size, black & white, cut & paste 12 pages long zine. The zine concentrates on material from Reality Impaired Distro (Stan Boman`s DIY record label). There`s a plethora of contact addresses for more zines, record labels bands and artists. The easily offended will hate this zine. Personally, I like it. This zine covers a lot of DIY / underground music styles like: experimental, dark ambient, death metal, trash metal, punk and noise. What you find offensive, I find attractive. My only gripe? No internet address whatsoever, this one`s for the truly underground. In order to contact them, you have to write a letter. I know, the pain, no email, no Paypal, no texting your stupid phone / smart phone doesn`t cover this type of territory. A letter? You mean paper & pen & envelope & some stamps? That`s exactly what I mean. Contact: 

Stan Boman

P.O.BOX 521582

Salt Lake City

UT

84152

USA

He`s also part of this acoustic, lo-fi, parody / retardcore punk band `Vaginal Discharge`.

art is everywhere part - 36

More lowbrow madness from one of our favorite artists ' THE HADDOCK"

The Haddock
2760 Willamette street # 205
Eugene
OR
97405
USA

Julien Rochedreaux (various zines)

I found his address in the last Node Pajomo zine. I wanted to contact him for a long time but lacked time or was too lazy probably. I was also curious because he writes his zine in French (ma langue fatale / natale i.e. my native language). I wrote him a letter, a couple of Mastock newsletters and some of my crazy drawings inside (in case he wanted to publish them). I got this cool parcel full of homemade and handwritten zines, which are:

Mine De Rien #6 & # 9: mini zines (8 pages long) with some drawings, some collages and a good quantity of psychedelic / psychotronic / punk at times poetry.

 Uchronique de disques # 3: a mini, mini music zine (16 pages this time around), full of reviews. He mentions Suicidal Tendencies & The Cramps. THE CRAMPS BABY! Gimme a bottle of white wine, a beer and some pork chops. Damned straight!

Uchronz # (your guess is as good as mine here): a sixteen page long mini music zine with some drawings, collages and more reviews. I never heard of the Jesus Skins Nazareth, a catholic skinhead band. I though I heard it all, anyone remembers The Hot Buttered Elves? A band doing satanic Christmas music. The more you learn new things, the more you read, the more you realize you don`t know shit. Vous pouvez communiquer avec Julien ici:

Julien Rochedreaux

Baixada Del Moli 39

AD500

Andorra

Arnoume – serpent hissing (mini CD)

Arnoume is the solo project of Albertus Vorkt, from Mexico. This mini CD was released on Reality Impaired, so I was expecting two things: retardcore (à la Sockeye, Cauliflower Ass & Bob, Vaginal Discharge), or weird sonic / noise experimentations. To be honest, I`m totally wrong here folks. I plead guilty your honor. The mini CD consists of one (8.44 minutes) short piece. This single track is a dark slab of menacing, dark, evil electronic music featuring: synth, drones, percussions and slightly altered voice samples. It would make the perfect soundtrack for the movie `La Casa 3`aka Ghosthouse (1988). Yes it`s that creepy i.e. good. Contact: 

Reality Impaired

P.O.BOX 521582

Salt Lake City

Utah

84152

USA

Post Prandials - flight (CD)

Post Prandials are an improvisational / experimental loose collective from Brooklyn, New York, USA.  The lineup on this album is made of: Bob Aaron (plastic flute, synthesizer), Michael Curran (synthesizer, accordion), Keith Nicolay (electric guitar, percussion table, apple), Wendy Leeds (vocals), Ted Goldberg (guitar, synthesizer, recorder, percussion table), John Burgos (synthesizer), and Ed Rollin (oboe, soap box, bird calls, mouth, Brazilian whistles, ocarina, synthesizer, real-time sonic treatments). This is a long album (8 tracks = 68 minutes). The whole album definitely sounds improvised i.e. randomly constructed / organized psychedelic / psychotronic sonic chaos with a singer going into opera / 4AD territory. Those are jam sessions of utter cacophony. On a positive note, it`s not harsh noise, that`s for sure. It definitely sounds like some lo-fi noodlings mixed with psychedelic sounds from the sixties (old Pink Floyd anyone?). To quote Paul Ellering `when my boys are good, they`re good, but when they`re bad, they`re really bad`. Fans of Hal McGee will like it. Hey, to each his own.