★Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
the silver chair
A stunning collection of Sunday morning sleep-in destroying, home-recorded gems from the younger staff members of the C/Psi/P empire . Features Caspar Kneale's legendary ‘Feather Duster' lathe cut 7" (recorded at the age of 4), Winter Kneale's hobbli…
majestic header
Killer new disc from the extended Kneale clan, with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel/Black Boned Angel et al) joined by his children for a heavy run-through of aleatoric punk strategy, enveloping hand-scrawled drones and Kosmiche brut. Somewhere…
btwxt/bdvld
Three-way post-Velvets dream-weapon conceptions by a troupe of New Zealand’s heaviest thinkers: Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel/Black Boned Angel, James Kirk of Sandoz Lab Technicians and Kim Pieters of Flies Inside The Sun. Totally gripping …
myriapod
There's nothing quite like a wig out in Dads shed after a delightful family meal listening to a nice Hijokaidan album. Am I bringing my kids up wrong? Perhaps I should have sent them to work at the coalmine when I had the chance? The latest 'beautifu…
lora draws blood
Latest blast of abstract sounds from the murky and mysterious musical world of Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, this one from UK dronelord Culver, who tries his hand, according to the blurb on the website, at some atmospheric ambient 'metal', there's even a…
I Will Soothe My Eye To Feast It With A Sight Of Beauty
After releases on Kraak and Imvated (or Bread and Animals, Dutch Beer, Cauliflower Dreams or whatever Lieven decides to call it) Ignatz put out this rand new release on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. Dense clouds of chirping crickets and tangled birdsong …
Two4dancin
Now this was a bit of a surprise. Especially coming from Simon Wickham-Smith, although by now we should maybe expect the unexpected from W-S. One single seventy five minute track, an endlessly looped tripped out hip hop beat, with stuttery vocal samp…
Application Antartica download form
‘Application Antarctica...'s sister release, performing a function akin to an exclamation mark at the end of Stephen Clovers brilliance. The routine transfer of electrons from wire to amplifier (resulting in tiny pulses of air that can only be detect…
Everything’s fifteen
When it comes to the psychic transportation of a live audience through mere vibrations of air molecules, nobody in the whole ‘New Zealand Freenoise Thing' comes within spitting distance of Sandoz Lab Technicians... and this beautiful live show (recor…
On
Remember when punk was dangerous? Nah... me neither. But hey, I read Black Flags 'Get In The Van' and it sounded cool... and it sounded really, really dangerous. Enter On... a full throttle blur of utterly wasted heaviness clinging to a two-chord, dr…
Outer dark
Filthy, ragged, drone-damage from the mastermind behind the insanely credible Pseudoarcana label, and recently crowned third member of Black Boned Angel. Crackle and smoldering fuzz turn over and over on itself at ever more terrifying pace until eve…
Hung
Hooray! Boy am I happy to be putting this cracker out. Recorded live, without the cumbersome weight of newfangled techniques such as 'overdubs' (gee-whiz!) which may seem a little commonplace for you hip-to-be-square cats until you realise that the g…
Birchville Cat Motel . Bruce Russell
1: Recorded live at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. Overdubbed at C/Psi/P, Lower Hutt. 2, 3: Postal exchange recorded in Lyttleton and Lower Hutt. 4: Live collaboration recorded at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. 5: Postal exchange recorded live in Chris…
30th december 2004
New York is pretty different from Lower Hutt. In a lot of ways. But that doesn't mean New York is BAD... its just 'different', y'know? I was down the Lower East Side recently with the guy from Sonic Youth. He was as cool as he looked in Rip It Up ma…
Three sparkling echoes
Doomy, magisterial drone works, xylophone tones dragged behind trucks ploughing straight through mountains of mud and some classically wasted drum/horizontal blades nod-out ritual ala Outside The Dream Syndicate from this inspired hook-up that pairs …
Chi vampires
Unleash the bats! Taking yet another quantum-physics-defying leap towards the pulsing, stereophonic ‘om', Birchville Cat Motel reaches out for the moon once more from his precarious ladder of pins. Aided by a reflection-destroying sense of... er... '…
Butta daze
Revolving feverishly around their own dark-matter, escaping Armpits unbelievable gravitational pull borders on the mathematically-impossible. Utterly impenetrable 'songs' coupled to unfathomable blankness (sometimes I swear they've packed up and gon…
Road is open life
Oh yippee... another demo to listen to. I have to confess that listening to music can be a chore sometimes. After a hard evening on the 8-track all I can usually bare to put in my ears is the easy-listening pleasures of Judas Priests greatest hits. H…