Memorial Service
In 2019, we received and heard and very much enjoyed the unique Orféon Gagarin album, originally made by Miguel A. Ruíz in 1986 and released as a cassette on his Toracic Tapes label. The Spanish label...
View ArticlePar-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres: an ambitious and highly individual...
Crépuscule d’Hiver, Par-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres, France, Les Acteurs De l’Ombre Productions, AO-121 CD digipak / cassette / 12″ vinyl (2020) A very curious yet highly individual work of...
View ArticleThe Great Invisibles
This record with cover art of many power sockets conceals a fine slab of French noise/improvisation, from the team-up of Quentin Rollet with Romain Perrot, who recorded L’Impatience Des Invisibles...
View ArticleHoumeissa: a soundtrack of electronic desert folk for a computer game or an...
Hama, Houmeissa, United States, Sahel Sounds, SS-049 vinyl LP (2019) While looking up information on Mamman Sani Abdulaye on Sahel Sounds for my review of his album “La Musique Electronique du Niger”,...
View ArticleMeeting of the Manticores
Improviser Jean-Marc Foussat has been appearing in these pages on a regular basis, sometimes solo or in groups, often presenting excellent releases on his own Fou Records label. Today’s double disc set...
View ArticleGlass Tears
Here’s a team-up of two important French experimenters, Pascal Comelade and Marc Hurtado. Their album Larme Secrete (KLANGGALERIE gg334) is a delight, entertaining and accessible, while still stamped...
View ArticleEsse Est Percipi: to perceive is to believe in post-black metal / blackgaze...
Autumn Nostalgie, Esse Est Percipi, Japan, MAA Productions, MAA042 CD (2020) Black metal has more than its fair share of the harshest, ugliest and most depressing and unbearable music ever made but...
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Collecting Reverberations
Another two releases from the Canadian Small Scale Records label, once again sent to us by the good graces of Raphael Foisy of Montreal. Last heard from this intriguing micro-label with its free jazz...
View ArticleImpedance: an album of instrumental electronic music defying categorisation
Alina Kalancea, Impedance, United States, Important Records, IMPREC 491 CD / vinyl (2021) Here comes an album of entirely instrumental music performed on Buchla synthesisers (named after Don Buchla, an...
View ArticleSolar Prominence in the Mountains
Strom | Morts are nothing to do with strøm, the latter being the Swiss duo of Gaudenz Badrutt and Christian Müller who create very good severe electronic blat in an improvisation context. As it...
View ArticleDer Grosse Preis: a lush and polished debut of synthpop and sparkling digital...
Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge, Der Grosse Preis, Germany, Bureau B, vinyl LP BB 359 (2020) Its English-language translation being “The Grand Prize”, this full-length debut from Berlin duo Neuzeitliche...
View ArticleInformation Overload Unit: seminal early 1980s work of noise and industrial...
SPK, Information Overload Unit, United Kingdom, Side Effects Records, ser01 vinyl LP (1981) Lord a’mercy … it’s been 40 years since this album was first unleashed upon unwary listeners by the...
View ArticleI Remember You (Original Sound Track): a funereal set of dark ambient mood...
I Remember You (Original Sound Track), United Kingdom, Cold Spring Records, CSR287CD digipak (2020) The official soundtrack to the 2017 Icelandic murder mystery / horror film of the same name,...
View ArticleCross-Pollination Syndrome
Roel Meelkop is a Dutch hero of sound art who I find it convenient to put in a Netherlandish seraglio with Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders, Frans de Waard and Machinefabriek. Indeed we last heard from...
View ArticleOptisonic Debris
A pleasure to hear from Thomas Dimuzio, the uncategorisable American composer and sound artist who has been flourishing since the late 1980s. We very much enjoyed his solo album Headlock, released in...
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The Intrapreneurs
Some items from the Polish Zoharum label, all arrived 19th October 2020. NOR_POL is a collaborative effort between Norwegian player Jorgen Knudsen with Polish fellow Lukasz Sazlankiewicz. The latter...
View ArticleThe Power of a Signal
Excellent set of well-crafted ambient hazoid music with field recordings and shortwave radio samples from Aperus...this is Brian McWilliams from Santa Fe in New Mexico, and Archaic Signal (GEOPHONIC...
View ArticleFulgor Renegrido: an unusual and striking fusion of atmospheric black metal...
Aume, Fulgor Renegrido, United Kingdom, Ancient Entity Records, AER023 cassette (2021) Based in Coquimbo, in north-central Chile, Aume is a solo atmospheric black metal / dungeon synth / Andean folk...
View ArticleEnd of Forever: the stoner / doom / retro-Seventies psych rock experiment...
Samsara Blues Experiment, End of Forever, Germany, Electric Magic Records, EMCD 009 digipak (2020) / catalogue number unknown vinyl LP (2021) About the time this album was released (November 2020), the...
View ArticleDy’th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath: an extreme and eccentric black /...
Esoctrilihum, Dy’th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, IVR156 CD A5-digipak / 2 x 12″ vinyl LP (2021) Even if Asthâghul, the man behind blackened death metal project...
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