Node Pajomo # 21 (zine)

When mister PJM told everyone, he was going to stop writing Node Pajomo and call it quits. It broke my heart. He made me discover some amazing people via his zine; Malok, The Haddock, Hiroshima Yeah! & Les carnets de Rastapopoulos (with the expensive and nearly obsolete postal service). Lo and behold, I get a small package with a rebooted Node Pajomo. This issue is a half size, black & white, cut & paste 20 pager. There`s a good deal of zines (44) and some music reviews (10). We have a give-aways contest for US residents only (too bad if you ask me). We end this with mail art listings, tape traders, zine seeking submissions and postcard exchange. In case you`d like to have a copy of Node Pajomo send this fine gentleman well-hidden cash, some stamps, a trade, something for God sakes. Well don`t just stand there, go for it;

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Jerry Snell – cash (CD)

A couple of years ago I bought in a second hand record store Jerry Snell`s first album ` life in the suicide riots`. The CD freaked me out combining free improvisation with elements of jazz, avant-garde, electronic with some spoken word, intense / insane ramblings. I never heard anything like this before. Then six months later, I discover Steven Jesse Bernstein. Back to our story. It`s a warm Sunday afternoon. I`m in a second hand record store browsing through the cheapy bin section. The bin was full of CD`s for a dollar or 2. Most of the times it`s crammed with crap, except at the bottom of the bin I find this Jerry Snell album titled `cash`. I didn`t know he released more than one CD (3 albums in fact). I buy it, go back home fix myself a coffee, sit down and away we go. WOW! This is a different listening experience. The music is a mix of pop rock, folk, rock and psychedelic bluesy numbers. Feels like a three-way jam session with Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. There`s a couple of songs that sounds totally out there schizophrenic / insane / claustrophobic anthems. If anyone remembers `shake dog shake` (The cure – The top album) and `21^st century schizoid man ` (from King Crimson – in the court of the crimson king album) then you know what I mean here.

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Yen Pox – blood music (CD)

Second album from this American ambient darkwave duo of Michael J. V. Hensley (Blood Box, Hollow Earth) and Steven Hall (Gorehallreider, Veil Of Secrecy, Used). Blood music came out in 1995 on Malignant records with a limited print run (it`s sold-out unfortunately). This is a nice and long (6 tracks = 70.01 minutes) recording. I was doing music cleaning and I rediscovered this CD laying around in a box full of trading items. Last time I heard this was more than seven years or so I think. I`m sitting here listening to this. I keep thinking to myself how creepy this feels. Now I remember what ambient darkwave is all about. The `music `is a sonic stew / mix of ominous lo-fi, dark soundscapes, short noise bursts, blurry voice samples (or highly processed), drones, bleak atmospheres, ambient noise, and watery minimal ambience. All the songs are slowly and subtly moving, evolving, mutating. A slow, relentless attack of the senses. The whole listening experience is creepier, scarier with headphones. You`re alone at night, stuck inside an abandoned warehouse, you`re feeling like someone / something is watching you. You hear some type of movement in the darkness. It`s getting near. It`s too dark to see anything. You can feel it slowly approaching. Coming near you. You can smell it`s foul breath behind you. The mere stench. You slowly turn around and… AAHHHHHHHHHH!  A soundtrack of decay, desolation i.e. the end of the world. Simply great. There`s a blood music 2CD re-issue available here: http://www.malignantrecords.com/releases/3177

Hank Williams – 20 of hank Williams greatest hits (CD)

I got this as a gift from my favorite Floridian country boy Eric T. When it comes to country / western my knowledge / interest is limited. I like the classics like Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. I also like more `heavy `oriented country i.e. cowpunk like The Blasters, Violent Femmes and Jason & The Scorchers. Hank Williams (1923 – 1953) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. You will hear 20 amazing songs, like; your cheatin`heart, move it on over, I`m so lonesome I could cry, rambling `man, my heart would know, kaw-liga, cold cold heart, lovesick blues, honky Tonk blues, honky Tonkin`, there`ll be no teardrops tonight, jambalaya (on the Bayou), hey good lookin, window shopping,  I can`t help it (if i`m still in love with you), half as much, why don`t you love me, you win again, baby we`re really in love and take these chains from my heart. Hank`s music mixes elements of country, western, folk, blues, honky-tonk, gospel and rockabilly. The second track `move it on over ` mixes blues with rockabilly it sounds like another band who was a precursor of rock `n`roll Bill Haley and his comets. It`s a shame he died so young. After hearing a lot of noise and bizarre alien ambient music this album is a welcome (and peaceful break) for my poor ears.

Various – night passage demixed (CD)

This CD came out in 1996 on Dorobo. Dorobo was a post-industrial record label formerly run by Darrin Verhagen between 1992 up until 2004. Darrin has a solo music project named Shinjuku Thief. Four artists demix and edit with respect Alan Lamb`s `night passage` album. Here`s a brief rundown.

1 – Ryoji Ikeda – # 13 (8.02) = a lo-fi exorcist / exercise of droning ambient noise minimalism.

2 – Thomas Koner – kyros (9.54) = a stripped-down, more minimal (if possible) version. Feels like walking naked on a snowstorm while the wind slowly freezes your heart and soul.

3 - Lustmord – fragmented (19.13) = high impact drones + hazy, creepy dark atmospheres / ambience = sounds like and out-take from `the monstrous soul `album.

4 – Bernhard Gunther – untitled 1 / 96 (20.19) = starts-off with subtle lo-fi grinding ambient noise drones and moves slowly into nothingness i.e. barely audible frequencies (you need some high quality sub-woofers here folks). An impressive collection of demixes. My personal award goes to Lustmord. Never though the sound of the wind could be so damned scary at times. Highly recommended.