The Wondrous Journey Through The Catacombs Of Life
2009 release ** "The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge (2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism, absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical considerations in terms of the composition.Linking to…
Guitar Granulizer
2004 release ** "53 minutes, 50 tracks. 50 improvisations on electric guitar's samples, one minute each, with no cuts, overdubs, sequencing etc. Artur Nowak: guitar, computer. Recorded January-March 2003 in Katowice. Play in random order. Cover art by The Tag Artist, a Reaktor instrument designed by Chris List. Intended to push the envelope of computer music towards unconstrained expression of free improvisation. Liquid soundscapes of gentle, ambient drones, impossible solos and layers of melodi…
Monolake
2005 release ** "The nearly seventy-minute live recording documents the ambient collaboration of Origami Galaktika with the Berlin project I:Wound and a lesser-known Norwegian, calling himself Inderst Elia. The basis of the sound skeleton is made up of psychoactive drones, which are then supplemented by a wide range of differently modulated rhythmic sequences and especially the most diverse field-recordings - human voices, the noise of city streets, sounds from nature, but also the growl of car …
Sampo Distortion
2010 release ** Harsh-noise metal-junk project from Russia/Poland.
Solo: Observed
1989 release ** "Stefanie Schwedes began her artistic career in the 1980s with the Becker Lehnhoff music project. Sound installations were created using tape recordings and later digital sampling. The artist has developed this basic working method further and transferred it to the image. She explores human-nature relationships in photography, drawings, spatial and sound installations."
Love's Song (Limbo)
Love’s Song (Limbo) is a collaborative LP from artists Reece Cox and Liza Lacroix. This 10 track LP is a release version of a 90 minute soundtrack composed by Cox for the occasion of two solo exhibitions by Lacroix in 2024 - the first at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany and the second opening shortly after at Magenta Plains, NY. In each exhibition the piece was installed within a locked closet and played at high volume as if emanating from the stereo of an inconsiderate neighbor, acting as an inte…
Crepuscular Elixirs
Tip! After releases on Ginjoha, Ikuisuus, Mappa and Nonlocal Research such as Collision and Coalescence and Squirlich Stroll, the German/Finnish duo composed by Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) teams up with Artetetra, bringing to light a new sonic wizardry. It has been six years since Grykë Pyje (forest ravine in Albanian) stretched out their high sensitivity feelers for the first time into the greatest of outdoors to bring us fascinating, multilayered soundscapes and intro…
Parasite
2009 release ** "The works of Antanas Kučinskas collected on the album "Parasite" are based on the method of re-composition, i.e. processing material with a strong historical and stylistic identity using techniques that are completely "alien" to him. I am talking in particular about sampling, loops and scratches, which make up the aesthetics that Kučinskas himself called "parasitic music". I am an omnivorous parasite: my works feed on existing music and develop at its expense until the complete …
Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2
2004 release ** "This is a compilation from the French label Mechanoise Labs and, as it says in the subtitle, it’s ‘an international gathering of extreme electronics’. These extreme electronics are often presented in a noise form, but it’s not only about that. Some of the tracks, by Cutman (from France), Control (from USA) and others, are like a harsher noisy side of (post)industrial. Sometimes there’s use of talking samples or the noise atmosphere is building up with voice shouting in Cutman’s …
Into The Void
2005 release ** "Into the Void is a reflection upon the history and the recent changes in the Krakovian neighborhood of Kazimierz. The center of this meditation is the seemingly contradictory development of the last few years, which shows the attempts to re-animate Jewish culture. This piece is an attempt to reverse the seasons from summer to winter in the 700-year-old Jewish district of Krakow. What struck Meissner at first sight, was the glaring contrast between the rich, the rise of the mater…
Decay And Demoralization
2005 release ** "MAAAA's "Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and…
Nowhere Campfire Tapes
2005 release ** "Third release under the pseudonym Punck for Adriano Zanni, an artist active in the Italian electroacoustic scene since the first half of the 90s. After his debut "Mu", released in 2002 on cd-r support, follows the 3-inch "A Movie Without Images" on the Ctrl+Alt+Canc label, a small netlabel founded by Zanni himself and dedicated to the diffusion of experimental sounds that, among other things, also includes in its catalog Ovo di Bruno Dorella and Sinistri. "Nowhere Campfire Tapes…
White Zombie
2016 release ** "Paul Roland’s obsession with the 1931 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi, a true cult of voodoo cinema, led him in the 90s to write the basis of what should have been the film’s soundtrack, rewritten by Roland. It was mostly instrumental music, with songs and choirs that depicted the slavery of these men reduced by the mad scientist to zombies, automatons to increase the workforce in the factories. A rather current theme, outside of metaphor… Talking about it one evening at…
Breathing
1996 release ** "In deference to this age of “environmental consciousness”, “Breathing”, says the insert, is “recycled and/or scavenged” pieces that once inhabited another form. The composer is Al Margolis, who appears on electronics, tapes, effects, piano, sampled flute, vocals, wind, cello and strings. He is joined by didjeridu, oboe and organ. The album beds itself in deep wind or breath like sounds, with an electronic, industrial, and dark edge."
Sierść
2007 release ** "Ben Zeen's music is a combination of an analog modular synthesizer, controlled by Theremin antennas and a ribbon controller, laptops as a source of deconstructed, destroyed, processed loops and samples of various origins and used simultaneously as an effects center for other, external sound sources, prepared instruments and field recordings. The laptops are equipped with numerous controllers - knobs, touch, light."
X
2016 release ** ""X" as the unknown, "X" as a reference to time. "X" as a definite position between possibility and contingency. The album X by the Swiss band Strøm works with remix as a method, explores the potential of the origin. Or the result's? The work on the concept album started with an improvised piece by Gaudenz Badrutt (analog synthesizer) and Christian Müller (contra bass clarinet and live effects). In a process of intense live sampling by Badrutt and Müller the starting material was…
The Laughing Torso
2008 release ** "Splendid debut of Testing Vault, project of dANi/Alvo, already active as a collaborator in other releases of the Italian industrial undergrowth, and produced by our own Final Muzik. The Laughing Torso makes no secret of its influences, above all the primordial industrial of the 80s in its less aggressive and more meditative expressions, those closest to certain ritual music accompanied by the use of the voice in the form of recitations / spoken word, but also the more shady Coil…