Saturday, 21 March 2015
Crustacés # 6 la révolution est en pleurs - Oscar Martin & Anton Mobin (cassette)
Here`s the latest
release from Crustacés tapes. And what an amazing release this is!!! I like
noise but I definitely prefer anything remotely or highly experimental. I mean
normality is so damned boring these days folks. Our sonic menu consists
of:
1 – ekstra 1 –
nappa delta deneb (6.36 minutes) = really lo-fi experimental, almost
electroacoustic music going into ambient noise territory, great
stuff.
2 – ekstra 2 –
albireo eta zeta mu (17.05 minutes) = weird lo-fi / noise samples colliding
altogether, thus creating a psychotronic / psychedelic journey in the land of
electroacoustic / experimental music. I just love this piece, it`s slowly
transforming, mutating, evolving into something totally out there. I`ve been
listening to this cassette over and over. I`ve heard something similar a long
time ago. Really obscure music reference here folks!!! This sounds a lot like
`Deconstruct: encryptec esoterica `tape, which was released by Xcreteria, circa
1994. This tape is not for sale so send these nice folks something, a gift, some
freebies, anything. It`s worth it. This I command!!! Contact here :
Crustacés
Tapes
4555 rue
Pontiac
Montréal
Québec
Canada
H2J
2T2
Hiroshima Yeah! # 129 (February 2015) (zine)
The latest issue
of my favorite 8.5 by 11 inches cut and paste, black and white, monthly zine
(six pages long this time around). On the front page we open things up with
poetry `hungry as winter `. I enjoy reading Mark Rithchie`s poems,
subtle, slightly dark / melancholic / foreboding perhaps, always short and
sweet. Here`s a couple of examples:
Not a
Haiku
Snow falling
outside
Cosy
pub.
We stay
inside.
And
Text message
sent just after phoning in sick
The sun has come
out
And I feel light
as a feather.
Man, now I`m
getting thirsty here. There`s the usual monthly contributors like Gary
Simmons (the great rock `n `roll tolchock & aggravation
all over = texting madness), and A Willshaw (Doctor Thornaby
chapter 7). Next we`re treated with some DVD, book and music reviews.
There`s a nice, sad, violent, lovely short story by senior Mark Ritchie `the
lantern `. It would make a nice short drama / film noir movie. One last
thing I have to mention, There`s this weird, psychedelic, single panel
comic-strip done by Dr Adolf Steg which nearly me nightmares. It`s a mix
of old underground comix and DIY punk art, slightly disturbing. I LIKE IT! I
LIKE I(T! I LIKE! More information here: http://www.batcow.co.uk/steg/contact.htm
Contact:
Mark Ritchie
94 Main
Street
Forth
Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK
Sunday, 15 March 2015
Drawing of the day
I found this in a binder among various unfinished poems. Primitive art for a winter day...
She Destroys Hope & Henry C.Rial & Dr. Noisem & Gooze: tripping unto sounds ov color part 4 (CD-R)
A four way noise split courtesy of Pennsylvanian
Hypnocenter records. We start with She Destroys Hope (a
noise project from Germany) who delivers two harsh wall of noise tracks (been
there heard that). Henry C. Rial does three tracks of… I have no idea.
They can`t play on my CD player (and also on my computer). Your guess is good as
mine (it`s probably noise). And now the standout tracks, the piece de
resistance, the material which took my head off, which blew me away ad
infinitum, are:
Dr.Noisem: skalierungsfaktor (10.12 minutes) =
minimal low-fi rumblings mixed with extremely low-fi noise bytes. Simply
amazing, this one`s going straight in my mp3 player. I wanna listen to this
while going to work.
Gooze: in one ear out of the other (7.41 minutes)
= minimal noise mixed with static, acoustic guitar, ambient noise, and synth (or
toy piano, or accordion, I`m not sure here). The end result is a subtle joyride
through the land of ambient noise, a surreal tapestry of low-fi noisy
minimalism. Nice.
Malevolent Alien Being & Sleep Column: two ways of pain part 22 (CD-R)
This split CD-R was released on Shit Noise
Records on July 31st, 2013. It reads on the
catalogue `SNR#582 `, which means they have released more than five
hundred CD`s of noise oriented material. They`ve released a lot of stuff and are still active
nowadays. Maybe I could send them a Flesh For Frank demo, just in case.
We start this album with:
1 – Malevolent Human Being: diabolical
experiments on humans (13.12 minutes) = a grinding, relentless wall of static.
2- Malevolent Human Being: anal probe (17.36
minutes) = a grating / grinding / scratching harsh like hell total wall of
noise. Someone / something`s probing me and I don`t like it.
3 – Sleep Column: lanes of iron dreams (30,04
minutes) = a long track of repetitive low-fi distortion. At times it almost
sounds like ambient noise. The most, dare I say meditative piece on this album.
Well I just did.
Hiroshima Yeah! # 119 (January 2015) (zine)
Came home last
night so damned tired. Lo and behold there`s a parcel from good ole Mark
Ritchie in me mailbox. Well go ahead make my day (copyright Dirty Harry,
baby). HY! is a 8.5 by 11 inches cut and paste, black and white, monthly
six pager zine. The cover star of this issue is Jenny Lewis (Rilo
Kiley, The Postal Service, The Watson Twins, Jenny and
Johnny). We begin with poems from `the metropolis of
discontent`. My favorite poems this time around are:
Rarely
Happy
I am rarely
happy,
But your
presence
Fills me with
light,
Always.
And
Fake caveman
chant
Make day go
fast,
Night go
slow.
I can relate to
those two shorties for sure. There`s also a couple of poems from the likes of
Mitch Hell and Colin Scholl. We have some music, concerts (Sun Kil
Moon & Disdain For The Ordinary) and book reviews. There`s our
usual monthly episodes of `1.5 years on probation,` (Gary Simmons
talks about life on the inside), `the birthday cards are mixed with
condolence cards and the milk was delivered in black bottles`(weird
texting from Gary Simmons), and `Doctor Thornaby chapter
6`(A Willshaw). Simon Morris writes `My guide to love, sex and
relationships`, in four
points: crushes (been
there done that), lust
(still there), thwarted desire (perhaps), love (she broke my heart some time ago there`s a black hole in my soul
which serves as a reminder). Last but not least there`s `Kate`, written by Hirohima Yeah!`s head honcho Mark Rithchie. A
strange short story about routine, alienation (in a relationship), murder /
suicide, with possible ties with paranoid schizophrenia. Hey, you have to read
this to believe it. Contact:
Mark Ritchie
94 Main
Street
Forth, Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK
Friday, 6 March 2015
Torturing Nurse & Order Disonic X Nihilist Void: tripping unto sounds ov color part 1 (CD-R)
A split noise CD-R
featuring Torturing Nurse (noise band from Shanghai, China) and Order
Disonic X Nihilist void which seems to be some soth of collaboration
between Sonic Disorder and Henry C. Rial (kiddo noiser full
of talent). Let`s start with:
1 – Torturing
Nurse: plastic recycled (28.46 minutes) = a lot of screaming mixed with some
high pitched distortion. A relentless sonic attack i.e. aural torture territory,
no doubt.
2- Order
Disonic X Nihilist delivers two tracks of God knows what. Both
`songs ` won`t play on any media at work and / or at home. But I`m pretty sure
this is noise and not pop music, ah, ah, ah.
http://pahypnocenter.bandcamp.com/
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
The O`Brien Project & Nhilistic Void & The Primal Law: : tripping unto sounds ov color part 3 (CD-R)
A threesome noise split. The
O`brien Project delivers four amazing tracks which would be something like
this:
Song#1 = low-fi noise +
percussion = dub noise anyone?
Song#2 = nearly melodic
experimental noise.
Song#3 = relaxing low-fi minimal
noise.
Song #4 = a long track (16.07
minutes) of shape shifting, always moving / evolving wall of
noise.
5 – Nihilistic Void:
19-9-14 part 1 (25.19 minutes) = another long piece of grating / grinding (like
a sharp electric razor blade which slowly cuts your head off) wall of noise.
Relentless.
6- The Primal Law: deir
ez-zor (22.14 minutes) = this is the standout track. A nice, subtle, mix of:
blurred-out / processed voice samples (recalls Schloss Tegal`s : dark
eyes track) , light synth, some percussions now and then, and minimal
noise. Good stuff.
http://pahypnocenter.bandcamp.com/
Art is everywhere part 23
This time around I have false cash (which looks damned real), a flyer, some nice homemade stamps and something for adults.
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Painful Defecation - The Christmas Album (Formerly Girls On Girls Volume 38) (MP3)
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I`ve been busy downloading a lot
of what seems like cool / interesting free mp3`s from www.archive.org
and www.bandcamp.com. I discovered a lot of recent
Painful Defecation albums. They were just waiting to be downloaded. And
you know me I`m a little excessive / compulsive person (I`m polite here ah, ah,
ah). There`s nine songs on this short album (total running time = 25.24
minutes). I`ve listened to a lot of Kurt Beaulieu (Montréal`s own)
material these last couple of years. He`s always recording something highly and
/ or remotely interesting (especially is older material). I have to say that at
the precise time I`m writing this review that this is the best Painful
Defecation album I heard so far. He offers a good variety of music / noisy
styles: ambient noise & some audio fuckeries (septic), ambient noise
with percussive element included (girls on girls), funky beats & a
plethora of found sounds / samples (girls on girls part 2), abstract
ambient noise (stylophonic, girls on girls part 6), ambient with
percussions (girls on girls part 3, girls on girls part 5,
les dommages testiculaires furent réduits au minimum), and glitch
with beats (girls on girls part 4). If you dig musically
engineered noise (which definitely doesn`t sound like your regular MSBR /
Merzbow recording) than this baby`s for you. Lots of freebies here: http://painfuldefecation.bandcamp.com/
Koobaatoo Asparagus / сжигание вертушки – Untitled (split CD-R)
A split
noise album. Koobaatoo Asparagus does a long track (37.00 minutes) of
grating high pitched fields of distortion mixed with some low-fi static which
goes into ambient noise territory. While сжигание вертушки offers two pieces
which are:
Eurodancefuckhead 1 & 2 (total running time =
42.23 minutes) = two tracks of grinding / grating / scratching wall of noise
gozungus. Recommended if you`re into bands / artists like: MSBR, NON, The
Haters, Merzbow and Knurl (who could forget Knurl? My eardrums are still
bleeding, ah, ah, ah).
http://pahypnocenter.bandcamp.com/
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