” This evolution of music is parallel to the multiplication of machines, which everywhere are collaborating with man. Not only amid the clamor of the metropolis, but also in the countryside, which until yesterday was normally silent, in our time the machine has created such a variety and such combinations of noises that pure sound, in its slightness and monotony, no longer arouses any feeling.”
– The Art of Noises, Luigi Russolo
Filed under Avant-Garde, Drone, Experimental, Field Recordings, Harsh Noise, Industrial, Noise, Non Music, Rhythmic Noise, Soundscape, Vivenza
Oh right, I’m supposed to write stuff here, sorry ’bout that, been a bit lazy lately.
I had a conversation recently with a friend about band names, and we got on to the topic of the frequent usage by bands of “exotic” letters, like, Ö, Æ, and Ø. A lot of bands use them liberally, and often use them to replace letter like, A , E, O, making their names quite fun to say using the correct pronunciation. All of these “exotic” letter come from the Scandinavian alphabet, however, a specific letter has been left in the dark and there is almost no bands that use this letter in their name; Å.
I like the letter “å”, it’s very aesthetically beautiful, the sharp geometric lines of the “A” with the perfect halo crowning it. Very nice! It also has many different meanings to it, just the letter alone. It can be an exasperation of ultimate pleasure, or of defeat and hopelessness. Beautiful and meaningful, why haven’t more bands used it?
Well, I know of a label, and also a band, both called Åderlåtning, which is Swedish for bloodletting. The label is Swedish and focusing on obscure, small editions of experimental tape music, and they are great! I recommend you give them a gander here! The band is a dark ambient/industrial act which I haven’t listened to any extended period, but they were pretty alright I seem to recall.
A while back I came across a video on YouTube of a live recording of a one man project called simply Å. It was pretty standard HN stuff with a good sound to them. But I didn’t find much information on them and I have since lost the video and trying to find it again seems pretty futile… Also I think they were from Italy. Flash forward to last week and the Lithuanian label Terror got a 7″ split in their distro, and what do you know, one of the two artists featured on the vinyl was named, simply, Å. Needless to say, I immediately ordered a copy!
I did some research(checked Discogs) and found that this Å is a HNW from France, and has been quite productive on a couple of labels. The most frequent being the French AnarchoFreaksProduction. This split I got was released by AnarchoFreaksProduction and Underground Pollution Records, and also features Ecoute la Merde, another quite prolific HN artist.
Both tracks are straight up harsh noise walls with little variation, Ecoute la Merde being the most sonicly diverse. This is not very nice music, but boy is it powerful! It feels quite weird trying to describe and compare HNW records, since they all, for the most part, are so similar to their sound, but if you know what harsh noise wall is you already know what you are getting into. All in all, solid HNW by good artist, and if anyone has a spare copy of any Å albums out there, I’d be happy to take care of them!
Discogs/AnarchoFreaksProduction/Underground Pollution Records
Filed under Å, Ecoute la Merde
Sorry ’bout the glare on the case…
I was planing on writing something about the new cassettes I got from the Baba Vanga label but I just got a new batch of cassettes with the latest Anatomiteatern cassette, and I just had to talk about it now! It has been a long while since I heard a pure harsh noise cassette this good, aside from Sluice Room but that was a CD so it doesn’t count, and from Sweden no less! It just tickeled all the right spots for me and allow me to indulge myself for a bit.
Filed under Anatomiteatern, Experimental, Harsh Noise, Lo-FI, Noise, Non Music, Power Electronics, Swedish, Uncategorized
Alright, enough with the self-loathing dark ambient emo stuff, time to go back to the stuff that made me start this “review site” in the first place; some good ol’ fashioned harsh noise!
Filed under Electronic, Harsh Noise, Noise, Non Music, Power Electronics, Sluice Room
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Ah, it’s nice to see that there still is a lot of bedroom recordings happening, even amongst the drone proprietors. Besides the Internet, I can’t think of any good venue for new aspiering dark ambient artist to get some publicity, aside from getting swiped up by some big label or being featured on some project. And perhaps once in a blue moon, someone, somewhere in a shady bar is having a unofficial dark ambient show.
Filed under Akasha, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Drone, Electronic, Minimalistic, Non Music, Soundscape
Here, have some wall noise for the weekend!
Filed under Drone, Noise, Vomir, Wall noise
Prurient’s side on the split consists of one short, quite calm, instrumental song and a harsher song with screetching sounds and some wierd drums and cymbals accompanied with Dominic Ferrnow’s screams(with lyrics!).
Kites’ side is a bit more melodic than the A side, and utilizes more samples and have a more refined sound to it,I you can say that… It is still great and great example that noise doesn’t always have to be a wall of feedback and painful screeches.
The overall feel in this album is great an the both sides compliments each other and is a great listen!
Kites – The Hidden Family
A1: The Hidden Family
A2: Screw Style
A3: All the Jesus Shit
A4: Tears of the Youth
A5: Footsteps on the Path, Animals in the Trees
Prurient – +White+
B1: I Lay Down On The Ground In The Woods And Fell Asleep (Instrumental)
B2: Spanish Moss
Filed under Avant-Garde, Electronic, Experimental, Glitch, Kites, Noise, Non Music, Prurient
The myth, the legend, the one and only, David Tibet.
One of the biggest cult artist to emerge from the project Psycic TV in the early 80’s in London. David Tibet is one productive and masterfull neo-folk artists, and has collaborated whith numerous musicians and artists over the æons. Among them; Boyd Rice, Death In June, John Balance, HÖH and Thomas Ligotti.
Dogs Blood Rising is one of the earliest works of David Tibet and one of the darkest, industrial, and experimental albums he has made. It features Steven Stapleton on mixing.
The album starts with a coir chanting Christus over and over to set the mood and fades into the next track Falling Back in Fields of Rape. This is a excellent track featuring many different vocals and a quite uncofortable topic… It is a 14-minute epic with distorted background sounds and guitars, and a very iundustrialized sounding drum, pounding. It all leads up to a crescendo with a quite uncomfortable screeaching sound and ends quite abruptly, which can be quite anoying, only to start over with a soft choir and a female singer backed by the drum. It all ends with David Tibet chanting and a return of the screeaching sound.
The album is very ambient sounding with no real distinguisable instruments and formula, but the tracks flow together and still feels like a comprehensive journey. The lyrics is filled with religious and esoteric themes, as is usual wtih David Tibet.
If you never heard Current 93 before and are into industrial/ambient/experimental music, this is a good album to start with and a great album too! And if you already know about Current 93, why don’t you already own it?
1. Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)
2. Falling Back in Fields of Rape
3. From Broken Cross, Locusts
4. Raio No Terrasu(Jesus Wept)
5. St. Peters Keys All Bloody
SixSixSix: SickSickSick
Filed under Avant-Garde, Current 93, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Folk, Neo-Folk, Non Music
Private Time is the feeling of beeing all alone at home, with nothing to do, except for playing with the noise generator, sound system, and a microphone.
The most prominent sound is Jessica humming tunes, backed only with destroyed and overmixed sounds. I love the track Lonely at Night which feature what sounds like someone touching the unplugged speaker cable, throughout the track, while Jessica humms different scales into a badly mixed microphone.
This album was one of the first noise albums I have heard and I instantly fell in love with the absolutely spot on feeling from the album. Imagine yourself laying on the bed or chouch, on a saturday, with absolutely no plans for the day and feeling like doing absolutely nothing productive all day, and just laying back with a tape recorder and playing with your voice and unplugged speakers. Sheer genius from Jessica’s mind!
A1. Pt. 1
A2. Lonely at Night
A3. Bottomless Pit of my Heart
B1. Just Once Can Be Too Much
B2. Please Come Back From the Moon
B3. Pt. 2
Filed under Ambient, Avant-Garde, Drone, Electronic, Experimental, Female Fronted, Glitch, Jessica Rylan, Melodic, Minimalistic, Noise, Non Music, Vocal
Today we will celebrate women with a compilation of female experimental music artists, from the net label Electro Rucini. The album is calm and relaxing with some marvelous songs that are very poetic and soulful. The track Shadow by Belgian Dominica Eyckmans is fantastic and the song Pureza (Hilário Gonçalves) by Z.O.T.E., a ambient, noise, industrial project by Amber Dolly and Risco Corrosivo, is very beautiful.
This a wonderful album and you should deffinetly give it a listen if you want something calm and experimental!
Filed under Ambient, Avant-Garde, Electronic, Experimental, Female Fronted, Les Femmes Experimentelles, Melodic, Noise, Non Music
I am everything and no one
We feel nothing and are nothing
Traveling elitists, rejecting weakness
We stand alone, pride does not die
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole law
NO NSBM on this site! May Belial have his way with them in the pits of Hell!
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