Unstriged Guitar & Cymbals
For over a decade Alan Courtis has been producing extreme music in Argentina as a solo artist and with the now defunct Reynols. Unstriged Guitar & cymbals is no different. This is massive sound.
What We Did In The Afternoons
Terrific reissue for one the best synth band from the Down Under..."The Systematics were a band from Australia. They existed for four years, from 1978 to 1982. They released 3 records: The "Pulp Baby" 7" on the Australian label Doublethink, a 12" EP called "Rural" and a 7" EP called "Fat Cows Go Down An Eastern Beach" on the Australian label M Squared. The music of The Systematics is unique. It comes from the grey area somewhere between No Wave, Post Punk, Minimal Electronics and Pseudo Pop Musi…
Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse And Other Songs
CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpentine swirls of snake charmer melody & reverberating steel string shimmer. Raw & lo-fi for sure, but so darkly emotional, & dreamily hypnotic.
A Nice Place To Leave
John Hegre is one half of norwegian improv duo Jazzkammer (Smalltown Supersound, Rune Grammofon) w/ Lasse Marhaug and Bergen's pop sensation Kaptein Kaliber (Telle). While he has released a massive amount of music with the latter two projects and as a member of Der Brief "A Nice Place To Leave" could be considered his solo debut (though he has released a few solo tracks on a project CD w/ Marhaug and Supersilent's Helge Sten). "A Nice Place To Leave" is music beyond improvisation, composition, g…
Black To Comm
Limited edition of 250 copies! Debut release by this new computer music artist from Hamburg, Germany. An exciting mixture of dark, slowly evolving drones, beautifully distorted melodies, obscure hard rock sampling meets raw data manipulation, digital noise and computer improvisations. A wonderful and disturbing record! On this release Black to Comm works with MP3-sampling, Photoshop composition and broken software. Clear Vinyl.
Dishoek
Just before we started to miss Guido Möbius he surprises us with “Dishoek”, his second album, recorded for Hamburg’s Dekorder label. Again featuring a conglomeration of acoustic and electrical instruments (guitar, bass, violin, cornet drums, synthesizer, clarinet among other things.) and a variety of guests, so that one hardly dares to call it a solo album. Still everything is magically held together by one single person. Melodies and noises, styles and individual characteristics, intelligence a…
Rückwärts Backwards
Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. "Rückwärts Backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown Hamburg and his childhood home in the Black Forest located in the south of Germany. With a background in many musical styles (from Psychedelia to pure Computer Music) BTC's music is never easy to pin down. This album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field rec…
Hevoset
Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LP’s on De…
Straight Edge XXS
Limited edition of 500 copies. Straight Edge XXS denotes something of a creative departure for Finnish artist Uton, who abandons scratchy lo-fi drone exercises in favour of conjuring the sounds of India in a series of short pieces that tap into the kinds of instrumentation and rhythms of the subcontinent's various sounds. It's hard to discern what's field recording and what's regular instrumentation on this record: the whole thing sounds like some anonymous archive of alien psychedelia and outsi…
Pause For The Jet
Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's …
Pause For The Jet
Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's …
Fractal Hair Geometry
The Dekorder label's boss Marc Richter is at the creative heart of Black To Comm, and he's certainly putting himself about a bit these days: there are new albums in the works for Digitalis, and in collaboration with Boomkat barnacle, John Xela, but before all that, we've got Fractal Hair Geometry to contend with, and it's a mightily entertaining three-quarter hours of adventurous and unusual drone studies. Richter combines wordless vocals and miscellaneous electronics with Casio and Farfisa orga…
Stillborn Plague Angels
The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats "METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal" not "METAL... as in, has the surface qualities of Metallica"... step back you fucking freaks. Although the broken bricks of BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, 'Stillborn Plague Angels' represents the first fully formed sentence in a new chapter of Cam…
Plays invasion of the body snatchers
One-sided release. Michigan heavy domestic-electronic couple Dead Machines always create records that confuse and intrigue. They are the forefathers of broken gear, appliance, wind instrument basement jamming and have their niche dug deep. 'Invasion' exists on the borders of existence- room ambiance is present, but the sounds are totally alien. Twisting mixer feedback and found sound source into a twisted collage of life outside the 'Pod': harsh and awakening, but at times giving way to the tran…
How do siamese twins arrange their love lives?
Recorded at Ashtray Navigation's basement in Leeds - November 2007 Phil Todd, Melanie Delaney, Bill Kouligas, Christelle Gauldi. Total lo-fi psychedelic sound. Classic UK underground filth. Limited to 300 copies.
Conference of the Aquarians
Brand new, this makes some very pleasing nods to Henry Cow/Fred Frith & a few others; but these are take off points only. Ultimately the album explores a broad swath of musical possibilities, & certainly the release goes a long way in establishing Cosi as someone to pay close attention to.
Acre Loss
Acre Loss is a collaborative project which brings together musician Mark Templeton and filmmaker aAron Munson to create ten musical compositions accompanied by ten short films. Guitar, banjo and a host of sounds from both home and outdoor-based field recordings dominate the musical aspect of Acre Loss while Munson's use of Super 8 and 16mm film with overtly modern cinematic processes find the best of different times and technologies. Folk-leaning, yet wholly otherwise-sounding melodies aurally e…
II
All heavy with warmth & mystery, Ulaan Khol returns with another round of vertical incantations aimed at the heavens. As Ulaan Khol, STEVEN R. SMITH (Hala Strana, Thuja, Mirza) creates dense tapestries that revel in the eternal & infinite. The bursts of tones & grip on formal structures can compare to the best of Hototogisu or Handful of Dust, though filtered through an ample dose of Ash Ra Tempel. Supreme while discreet, these songs carry a sense of unnerving calm & optimistic gloom, often with…
Curse of Midnight Mary
Recorded between his eight volume "Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations" LP series & the folk albums he would make w/ Tom Hanford & Kath Bloom, these 9 pieces meld those distinct forms. Singing in a trance like moan, he reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on his acoustic guitar w/ flashes of melodic hooks & a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs & other world spirituals.
For The Whole World To See
Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers. The Hackneys were first influenced by soul & funk music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stooges. Inspired by The Who, Alice Cooper & Led Zeppelin; the brothers finally see their first full length release, remastered & ready for the world to hear.