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Desolation Beauty Violence
Born in New Zealand, currently residing in London England, Peter Wright has spent the past decade or more producing limited release recordings of drift-guitar space walks of mesmerising beauty. Desolation Beauty Violence is his third CD release proper, after Distant Bombs (Last Visible Dog, 2004), and Yellow Horizon (Pseudoarcana, 2005). Recorded in London, spring 2003 along with Yellow Horizon, Desolation Beauty Violence is a very personal take on environment and landscape. Peter Wright uses a …
With the Antithetical Self
"With the antithetical self" consists of improvisational pieces completed between winter 2008 and spring 2009.
I would sit quietly in an empty room daily and calibrate myself to all noises surrounding. from there a single tone would be introduced, which i would listen to for fifteen or twenty minutes before joining in. on some days, listening was enough. at other times, i would hear a song within the tone and mimic it, bringing it out into existence and layer it from there with additional instru…
Reversed Dreams of this Nature
"Truly an "underground" project, Fougou (pronounced "foo-goo") is a new venture by Brian Lavelle and Matthew Shaw which takes its starting point in the mysterious prehistory of Cornwall in the southwest of the British Isles, in particular that areas's enigmatic subterranean chambers known as fougous. Credible theories have proposed that the purpose of these chambers was ritualistic - as portals to elsewhere. The music of Fougou flows from that idea and is inspired also by the writings of British…
Orla
A.M is Antony Milton, once again stripping back to just his initials for a noise/sound based record. The concept for this album is a pretty simple one, Milton received an Orla chord organ (an instrument that pretty much begs to be used for drones) as a present from a friend and decided to use it as the primary source material for this album. You might be tempted to think Antony has gone and sabotaged himself by chaining himself to such an instrument for an entire album but, through some skilful …
Cosmic Continuum
Elektronavn AKA Magnus Olsen Majmon is a Danish sound sculptor that shapes a claustrophobic, almost physical experience with haunting drones constructed from an arsenal of instruments such as clarinet, distorted voice, guitar, organ, flute, gong, harp, field recordings and percussion. The music is pretty much impossible to lump into any particular genre but there is a significant folk vibe that runs through a lot of the music, even the more experimental and psychedelic parts. This might have som…
Grass Openings
After numerous CDs, CDRs, cassettes and LPs, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood have established themselves as one of the many lights in modern improvised outsider music. Their latest offering, ‘Grass Openings’ sees them continue down this winding path of intoxicated trance derangement. Drawing heavily from psychedelic, jazz and weirdo traditions to create a unique form of mutant sound.
Non Euclidean Elucidation of Shamanic Ecstasies
Winnowed from the polymath, alchemist, “the man who could walk through in-between positionsâ€Â, arch Black Duke of Maknovischina, peripatetic flux ingester haji gutterpup Ustad’s Almanac, his scribblings and tapes spanning 31 yrs, “Non-Euclidean Elucidation Of Shamanic Ecstacies†was hastily transcribed and assembled sixty nadis travel west of Sahiwal by an assemblage of Vamachara hounds and the Abdals of Rum wearing black mantles and animal hides over their shoulders with…
stots
2005 release ** "The music contained in this awesome CD could be defined as an outsider's version of electro-acoustic composition, using improvisation & field recordings as the main material to build the pieces with. The point of departure for making the whole song cycle was the conscious misunderstanding of language; coming from the idea that you can never say exactly the same thing in a different language (so 'i love you' means something else then 'je t'aime'). 'Stots' and all the song title…
universonbangorfeo
2004 release ** "Nippon & the Symbol’s record “Universonbangaorfeo” comes at the end of two years of live concerts and performances of the band. Nippon & the Symbol is a band playing music and readings. Tales and novels on this record are from three great italian authors: Italo Calvino, Dino Buzzati and Dino Campana. The band introduces an imaginary travel with Calvino, from life’s beginning to the end of the universe, passing through the rise and fall of dinosaurs and the myth of Orfeus and Eur…
Memphis
The recordings were done at 2 seperate gigs at Photospace Gallery in Wellington, NZ. I exhibited at the gallery twice and we began performing there quite often (the owner even played drums for my group The Rick Jensen Trio). Nova Scotia played a number of times there as the environment was particularly suited to us, outside was the main street in Wellington, where everyone would go drinking at night. It was all nightclubs and bars, buskers and drunk people. When we performed we'd open the window…
why use a proxy
2009 release ** Strongly Imploded is the supergroup composed by part of One Starving Day (Beta-Lactam Ring) A Spirale (Fratto9/ Deserted Factory) and Weltraum (Lona e Toxo Records), a blend of electro-acoustic, free improvisation and elements from heavy sounding music styles such as noise, hardcore and power electronics, that results in improvised /new obscure music. "In their radical improvisations they mix sources of acoustic and electronic origin. In the quiet and open passages their music f…
Salt Of The Sun
2007 release “New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed’s long-suffering amp in the final seconds of ‘Black Angel’s Death Song’ extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak.”
Music Is The Music Language
In the Spring months of 2005 Ben Reynolds began taking yet more jabs from mankind’s collective unconscious and turning them into sounds that love being in your ears. They have since been collected under the title ‘Music Is The Music Language’ and kindly unleashed by new Finnish label Ikuisuus. This is the first CD release from Ben after a torrent of CDRs bearing his name came flowing from various corners of the globe throughout 2004/2005. The sounds contained within the present release were moul…
Bright Future
In 2003 IOIOI had the chance to see a film by Kyoshi Kurosawa - Bright Future - that really shocked her. She started to wonder obsessively about Ike vs Matte film's theme (what is the right way towards the future?) and she tried to write something about that. She played each instrument by herself and she recorded all the stuff through the microphone of her laptop. She composes one-shot songs (a kind of low-fi impro and brico pop songs!), she doesn't care too much about sounds, shapes and genres.…
Airland - Studie I
Airland is an electronic music suite freely inspired by, and dedicated to, the studies on the graphical representation of air by Bruno Munari. A skilled ambient and a maniacal care of the sound.
Hasardi
For their second official CD release (after a handful of cassettes and CD-Rs) this Helsinki quintet of horns, guitars, drums, and vocals forsake any sense of live atmosphere by mashing four years of recordings into a disorienting, rude collage of over the top takes on multiple forms of extreme music. More early 90s, Bad Vugum-damaged rock than 00s Fonal psych-folk, Hasardi is a tangent of the punk/hardcore continuum that veers wildly and often into free jazz, noise and just general weirdness. Ha…
The Secret of the Dancing Snow
Another voyage into the inky blackness with the cosmos-loving Italians and another gem. MCIAA have gone from making dronescapes that were merely beautiful to listen to (merely!) to vast vistas of sound that seem to exert an almost gravitational pull into their depths. This opens with Roberto Opalio's parched vocal trances and the calming ching of Oriental bells and builds into a soporific sea of echoing guitar notes with bells rippling through it like a warm wind. For some reason, the line from …
Tone Redust
2006 release ** "There are a lot of spontaneous and “fortuitous” sounds from casual urban life in that music on the face of it. But it is impossible to be sure that these sounds are on the background of other elements or these sounds serve themselves as a background for something main… There are also some naive and unaffected chords played on acoustic guitar as well as some clinking and iridescent synth waves & gentle drones. Generally speaking, any tunes, any beats. But, on the whole the struct…
Escaping From Color (Rapoon Recomposed & Remixed)
2008 release ** Cardboard sleeve. The conception, the idea, realisation and sound sources of this CD are all based on original sound material (loops and sounds) from Rapoon’s “Tribal Sci Fi”. Featuring: Francisco Lopez, Tv Pow, Machinefabriek, Troum, Steve Roden, Jorge Castro, Paulo Raposo, Aidan Baker, Anla Courtis, Gert-Jan Prins, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Mike Shiflet, Family Underground, Ronnie Sundin, Cisfinitum & Rapoon.
LAB@RES - RESampler Volume Due
A workshop-compilation of previously unpublished pieces composed by various RES artists. [halo XVI] - black santos [jupiter high prophet low mix]; [l’imbroglio] - nerocielo, [mu] - les miroirs ternis; [sticking drops] - acier; [max waves] - neu-neutral; [book of qi] - hemophant; [joachim thomas] - abused violin #2: chapter 2; [michele palmieri] - post meridiem; [gabriele bruzzolo] - quello che è strano, via; [from outer space] - f..rr..e.