Praxinoscope
Praxinoscope is a new project which sees the duo Roberto Opalio (one-half of My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (close collaborator of the Italian space-brothers). While in the debut album as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost (out in early September 2005 on Time-Lag Records) Ramona will focus on her Japanese vocals alongside both brothers' acoustic tunes, here she plays little Japanese percussions and wind chimes, creating a resonant texture over Roberto's alien wordless vocals and space elect…
Tagliare
Veterans of the Italian experimental scene, Le Forbici di Manitu celebrate in their own peculiar way twenty years of underground activism through an album recorded live in their cellar, offering new arrangements, essential and direct, of (nearly) all the songs in their back repertory, appeared from 1983 until today on a dozen of different releases (cds, compilations, rare cassettes and singles). Laying aside for this time conceptual electronics, noise-oriented audiogames and imaginary soundtrack…
Cool Crap
"Cool crap" is an impressive, highly infectious, catchy and totally twisted electroclash debut album from JUDAH: cold and analogue minimal electronics plus really toxic and vicious vocal parts!!! An incredible collision between the savage electronic world of early SUICIDE and obscure industrial music à la NOVEMBER NOVELET...!!! Exciting, savage, wild... With a disturbing werewolf artcover.
Judah
The second full-length from Judah who have been described as the Italian Suicide. Indeed, cold and analogue minimal electronics with really toxic and vicious vocal parts. An incredible collision between the rock'n'roll mood of the sixties and the savage punk electronic world of early Suicide.
We Could For Hours
We Could For Hours is instability. It represents the will to open the gates of unknown. It is the dark, whispered sounds and hidden truths. Chaos. And now here it starts, everything takes form, sensations rise, objects acquire colours, distorted vision but still a vision of reality. Everything dances and follows the rhythm of music, an unknown tribal dance. Silence. Sounds follow themselves but always hidden in a veil of mistery, words are mute, everything is listening attentively to the enchant…
The First Born
The First Born is (quite aptly) the first collaboration between Fabio Orsi (more than a recurring name in the In A Silent Place catalogue) and Mamuthones - better known to friends and family as Alessio Gastaldello and founding member and drummer of Jennifer Gentle, the Italian psych band signed to Sub Pop Records. After six years with the Jennifers, Alessio split amicably in late 2006 and reinvented himself as Mamuthones, a one-man project delving into primitive percussive jamming and equally pr…
Sound Postcards
Sound Postcards is a sound representation of determinated time-space, of its moods and atmospheres, it's a sort of soundpostcard in which the artists portray a familiar and hypothetical landscape. The listener is induced to ''identify'' the represented subjects through interpretative processes which directly compare sound suggestions with subjective/collective imagination. A semanthic game of mirrors reflecting forms in perpetual transition between auditive dimension and symbolic/mnemonic one. "…
The Wild Light Of The Moon
The new Fabio Orsi's "The Wild Light of the Moon" is really good album--one continuous 35-minute piece that ebbs and flows nicely.
Audio For Lovers
Fabio Orsi (collaborator on last year's 'Wildflower's under the sofa') returns with a double disc effort that is at once a highly satisfying 2 hour entry in the ambient genre. Although LVD's catalog often leans toward noiser, less melodic works, Audio for lovers shows both the same modernistic and minimal sensibilities that we've heard from Fabio in the past, while also drawing on the earlier, atmospheric work by Eno, which is to say that the album does precisely what most of us would like out o…
Fula Fula Fular
Wow! The brand new album by R.U.N.I. out in January 2008, 10" vynil version only, with a free CDr inside with same music as the 10" and videos. We've been waiting for 4 years for a new exploit of their crazy odd electronic rock'n'roll nowave funky dance whatever. Here it is
miastenia
And so it is that Ovo's debut for Load records is no less obtuse. While not earth-shatteringly so, it's comfortably alien in a way that the first time you heard the Residents. If anything, the duo slog bubbling servings of noise-rock that vacillate from what's often more "metal" than most metal proper, to what sounds like freer, open-field improv that somehow never loses sight of the underlying song. The caustic grind of "Anime Morte" and "Coco" recall first-album Carcass, only played with a jus…
From the Desert Came Saltwater
Italian-born multi-instrumentalist and architect, Nicola Ratti, presents his debut for Anticipate. Nicola's music can best be described as warm, subtractive rock, whereby he reduces guitar figures and piano passages into quiet explorations of the hidden corners of an otherwise familiar sound. Guitars twang with slight and spacious percussion and softly hushed (occasional) vocals and atmospheric twinkles congeal into a carefully-composed re-imagining of music. In terms of situating this album in …
Dimethyl Atonal Calcine
RESTOCKED, Last copies of this private edition, available from february 2006 and sold at concerts, two unreleased tracks with a distinctive noise feel
Oleo Strut
This series is done by small (80mm) CD packed in an envelope-style cardboard. Amazing release
I could go on singing
After experiencing the straight-edge hardcore scene, he began exploring the many realms of noise. He played his "destructive" djing within the group/label/collective Sonic Belligeranza. Rocchetti is now working on the composition of cinematic musical landscapes with the aid of old rare records, dusty analogue instruments as source material (old radios, customized turntables, grammophones...).
Bias!
Bias! is a new duo by Xabier Iriondo and Olivier Manchion. A first recording is now released, it's the 8th release of the WallaceMailSeries. Inside you'll find acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, baritone, table guitar, organ, harmonium, zither, harmonica, mouth organ, scacciapensieri, maracas, voices, tapes, electronic treatments. Recorded, arranged and mixed between february 2004 and May 2005 at Zulogorria (Milan) and Sunbeep. Contributions by Cristian Calcagnile (percussions) and Paolo Ca…
Polvere
Xabier iriondo and mattia Coletti. Polvere by some means is the avant/kraut folk project of this couple of musicians and beside the experimental/post-psychedelic characteristics of the cd it shows their melodical/acoustic virtues.
EAReNOW
The invitation to open the windows is a tribute to the inclusive approach of much of the avant-garde of the last century, starting from Satie's Furniture Music, through Russolo's Art of Noises, up to Cage 4'33". Manifesto/container of the project, battimenti di scrittura mista [Mixed Handwriting] sums up the concepts developed in the whole work. Melody and noise, micro-pauses and temperament, suspension and rhythm alternate in a kaleidoscope of colours gradually enriching as it…
In attesa, nel labirinto
One of their best releases so far - "Gruppo ormai storico che si avvicina a un nobile, quanto discreto, ventennale e che ha alle spalle un'assidua militanza tra le fila dell'industrial più sotterraneo, soprattutto in tempi come gli anni '80 in cui certi generi erano relegati a qualcosa di più marginale della semplice nicchia, i Tasaday si richiamano con questo loro ultimo lavoro In attesa, nel labirinto al …