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emastered, as well as the songs from their first 45rpm single originally released on Boyd Rice’s Graybeat label." [label description] "....Johanna Went use a wide range of disciplines for her performances, from collage to painting, from sewing to gluing, resulting in shows that involves sex, fluids, liquids, meat to create extreme shows of filth, repulsion and destruction. Trashiness in its most beautiful form! Set against a background of very loud noise and rhythm textures, Johanna Went's show is more a furiously energetic trance-state than the performance of rational being. The sonic background of the performances is created by two of early industrial scenes strongest artists, Z'ev and Mark Wheaton, composing sound sculptures of noise and rhythmic complexity. Musical climax comes with the third chapter "New Wave Theater". Being the harshest contribution on the DVD the track is built on buzzing drones and screeching noises. The abrasive expression are assisted by some cool drum-patterns works of Brock Wheaton (brother of Mark Wheaton), impressively following the genuine performing sickness of Johanna Went. On the performing side the video peaks with the second chapter "The Box". Combinations of wild animal video recordings and the physical performances by Johanna Went make the artist seem like part of the intuitive and instinctive wild animal life. Absolutely amazing treatments of performances and manipulated videoclips. As top of the icing comes a bonus CD including the Hyena LP as well as tracks from their first 7"-vinyl, "Slave beyond the grave". For people, wanting to know more about the earliest stages of industrial culture this DVD-pack is a gem. Also for people seeking the extreme territories of art expression, sonically as well as visually, this video is a must-have. The highest praise for Soleilmoon Recordings for bringing these visually and sonically works of art back into daylight! For further readings about Johanna Went and her art collaborations with Z'ev and Mark Wheaton, check out the book "Industrial Culture Handbook" released by RE/Search Publications back in 1983; Another informative milestone in the history of early Industrial Music culture." [NM / Vital Weekly] 4. CDs * A CROWN OF LIGHT - The Clearing CD (Eibon Records ACR064, 2006) € 13.00 A new () US-duo with a kind of post-industrialized noise-ambience, a soundtrack to a strange story which is told in the booklet, very dark & apocalyptic, chaos-magick-ambience! "..... This is her turned to stone on the shore ..... There are strange creatures out there. ..... This is her crown of light now shattered ..... Espin is one of them. A CROWN OF LIGHT (A Crown of Amaranth + Conversations About the Light) tells us his story of pain, solitude and abandonment through a complex mixture of different sound sources. ..... Blood and fire and I will grow ..... Dark ambient, concrete music, noise, hidden melodies. Espin's world is complex, and so is its soundtrack." [label info] * [AD]VANCE[D] - poem#red128dot CD (Absurd #red_dot, 2007) € 13.00 VANCE ORCHESTRA is dead, long live [AD]VANCE[D]! This is the first release of the follow-up project of the split-up VANCE ORCHESTRA, Arnhem-based musician and designer MARS F WELLINK does it now alone ! "Poem#red128dot" is dedicated to GEERT FEYTONS from NOISE-MAKER'S-FIFES, who died last year. A real sound-poem. "Vance Orchestra from Arnhem are no more, but out of his ashes new paths are chosen. Robert Deters plays around with various people from the local scene, including Machinefabriek, while Mars Wellink goes on solo. As (ad)vance(d) he now presents his first solo work, I think, for the Absurd label. It has been around in their offices for a while, but it's release comes in handy. In various cities (Arnhem, Leiden, Molovos) Mars recorded some field sounds which he knits together to a thirty six minute sound poem. Voices play a role, but more over it's here to create an atmospheric piece of music. The backdrop is a sort of ambient piece of a wall of synthesizers, but it's too angular to be a dull piece of music. On top of that hotbed, Mars lets his recordings drop in and out of the mix, bird calls, insects, people walking and talking. Over the course of the piece things move away from the ambient patterns played at the beginning and moving into the world of strict soundscaping and then spiral back into the ambient backing of the start. A highly atmospheric work that is more like a sound picture, be it of different places, of sound moving in and from various directions than a strict music piece, more like a sound environment." [FdW / Vital Weekly] * AETHENOR - Deep in Ocean sunk the lamp of light CD (VHF Records #97, 2006) € 14.00 "Debut by trio of Stephen O’Malley (Sunn0))))), Daniel O’Sullivan (Guapo), and Vincent de Roguin (Shora). Taking its title from The Iliad, the music here is deep and cosmic, completely unlike anything you’d expect from such heavyweights. More in the tradition of ‘Spiral Insana” and “Cyborg” than anything, the tracks float along in a masterful collage of activity, where careful scene changes highlight O’Sullivan’s classic but artfully placed Rhodes bombs, de Roguin’s organ, and O’Malley’s guitar. Extraordinary effort has gone into editing, mastering, and shaping these pieces – these are not tossed off improvisations or “sideproject” orphans. Housed in CD and LP jackets hand-printed by Alan Sherry/SIWA. LP was cut by John Golden, expertly pressed at RTI." [label info] * ALIO DIE & ZEIT - Raag drone theory CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL 040, 2007) € 14.00 "A new stage of the duo, after the successful Sunja - more expressively inspired by indian music: one long track completely acoustic displays a sound dialog between psaltery, zither and shruti box, brought into a contemplative space." [Project] * ALIO DIE & JAMES JOHNSON - Cube 7 - Sospensione d'Estate CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL 041, 2007) € 14.00 A very dreamlike one-tracker, created with the help of violin-player JAMES JOHNSON. Beautiful yearnful violin-sounds melt with ALIO DIEs Zither-playing, diverse object sounds and field recordings. Perfect ambient-music, emotional & with interesting effects.... "CUBE's music is designed to blur the architectural spaces that we occupy during our waking hours of the day. Whether it be an office cubical, a personal listening space or subtly defined spaces within an architectural environment. CUBE's music is music at the edge of perception, music meant to expand interior space. One long relaxing and meditative track, enriched by multilayered textures from little sounds (rattles, tubes, flutes, etc) played in the wilderness, and field recordings supported by the sophisticated and gentle sounds of electronics and treated viola. Listening at a volume slightly above the natural sound in the space that this work is being played." [label info] * ALIO DIE & LUCIANO DAINI - End of an Era CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL 042, 2007) € 14.00 "A project started slowly from reciprocal esteem from musical researches and alchemical and introspective approach to sounds. Quite a dark atmospheric album, where the obscurities give the proper preparation to some clear and intense moments." [Project] * ALOG - Amateur CD (Rune Grammofon RCD2063, 2007) € 15.00 "ALOG zählen seit 1997 zu den besten experimentellen Elektromusikern in Norwegen. Seit ihrem Debüt "Red Shift Swing" sind sie ihrem Label Rune Grammofon treu geblieben, wo die Nachfolger "Duck-Rabbit" und "Miniatures" erschienen. Letzteres gewann 2005 den norwegischen Grammy für den besten Electronica-Release. ALOG reisten für "Amateur" durch Norwegen und nahmen in Musikschulen und Musiksälen von Grundschulen auf, um den Sound eines jeden Instrumentes optimal darstellen zu können, was im Studio dann zu "Amateur" geformt wurde. Das Ziel aller Computersoftware ist es heute, den individuellen Sound eines jeden Musikers zu überdecken und alles gleich klingen zu lassen; ALOG gehen auf "Amateur" den genau entgegengesetzten Weg. // Alog are duo Espen Sommer Eide and Dag-Are Haugan, and this is their fourth full-length release for the Rune Grammofon label. Since forming in 1997, Alog have been among Norway's leading performers of experimental electronic music. They are mainstays at Rune Grammofon and have been with the label since their debut album Red Shift Swing was released in 1999. Already a mature and original collection, their sound has since been developed through their second album, Duck- Rabbit (2001), and almost perfected with their previous album Miniatures, which also won them a Norwegian Grammy for best electronica release in 2005. Some of the techniques that Alog invented for their Miniatures album have now been refined and developed on their new album, Amateur. They have increasingly worked with various acoustic instruments and in collaboration with other musicians for long recording sessions in special locations. Travelling around the west coast of Norway with Nicholas H. Møllerhaug and Nils Økland sidekick Sigbjørn Apeland, they recorded in music schools in an attempt to capture the unique sound of each selection of instruments found. Because of bad weather they could be stuck for days on islands off the wild northern coast recording themselves playing any instruments they could find and building more of their own. These sessions were subsequently worked on in the studio to bring out the unique spirit of this release, characterized by a curious and fresh approach to playing that is often lost in the process of becoming a virtuoso on a singular instrument. The word "amateur" originally denotes a person who is motivated by a passion or love for their activity. It has been the goal of Alog on this album to preserve and enhance this special energy in their
songs, and to do this they use their "augmented acoustics" technology and bring out the hidden "amateur" energy of each song." [press release] "Music by Alog have never ceased to amaze me. The duo of Espen Sommer Eide and Dag-Are Haugan have by now released a bunch of works on Melektronikk, Smalltown Supersound and En/Of, and here return with a strange CD, once again. Apparently 'it was recorded on various locations in the western and northern parts of Norway, often using instruments found or built for the sole purpose of this recording', which is something that is hard to believe. But 'these sessions were subsequently worked on in the studio to bring out the unique spirit of the 'Amateur'. In the post-production world of the studio anything is possible, I then think. To describe the music of Alog is not easy, but 'amateur' is a good description, in the most positive sense of the word. 'Childlike' and 'naive' are two others that fit the description quite well. There are hints of minimal music, microsound, folk and improvisation - and perhaps any category in between these that could be applied to the music of Alog. They play their instruments (whatever lost and found they might be) like children, not banging around but with a curious interest in seeing what a sound does. Carefully as not make too many sounds. Beautiful electronic sound scapes, with interesting electroacoustic sounds here and there. Very nice. Once again." [FdW / Vital Weekly] * AMBARCHI, OREN - Suspension CD (Touch T33.18, 2001) € 14.50 Nachpressung des 2001er Werks auf Touch! "Das neue AMBARCHI-Werk – zweite CD nach “Insulation” auf Touch. Wieder basieren alle Klänge auf Gitarrensounds.. AMBARCHI erschafft ungeheuer dichte und elegante Akustikströme, die nur noch entfernt an Gitarre erinnern, 6 Stücke voller magischer Sounds, die ein kohärentes Ganzes bilden." [Drone Rec. Info 2001] “ Oren Ambarchi is a Sydney-based musician with a longstanding interest in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He has worked with artists as diverse as Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M and Phill Niblock. Suspension is Ambarchi's second release for Touch, after Insulation [Touch # T33.16, 1999]. Although continuing his explorations of the guitar, Oren has almost completely discarded the deconstructed, fragmentary approach to composition that he employed on 1999's excellent Insulation. This disc is more akin to his remarkable Stacte series of LPs (treasure them if you have them, for they are all but gone), where compositions have the exploratory freedom, spontaneity and fluidity of improvised music, yet contain the determination, discipline and solidity of composers such as Alvin Lucier (of whom Ambarchi is an open admirer). As the title suggests, the listener is suspended in dense tonal fields or complete silence; adrift, never touching the bottom, never reaching the surface but continually held in the realm of the instant. Movement and flux contend with stasis and rigidity. Sounds continually unravel and solidify. These works are endless, eternal, never opting for obvious resolutions or easy destinations. Often beginning in abstraction, seemingly random and irregular pulses and tones coalesce and converge. All elements are part of a greater logic, which reveals itself through intense, immersive and repeated listenings.” [original press release] * AMBARCHI, OREN - In the Pendulum's Embrace CD (Touch TO:78, 2007) € 14.50 "CD - 3 tracks. 'Oren Ambarchi continues his otherworldly investigations with 'In The Pendulum's Embrace', a dark twin to his landmark 2004 album 'Grapes From The Estate' [Touch # TO:61]. Returning again to the hallowed halls of BJB Studios in Sydney, Ambarchi expands the scope and range of his unique musical language, incorporating an even broader pallette of instrumentsand sensibilities. Despite the use of glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, percussion and guitars, it's startling that the world created is still unmistakably his own, and that there is such a cohesion of vision throughout the albums's three lengthy pieces. With this record there's an even more tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; sounds as light as air mingling with wall shaking low-end. The converted already know the kind of trance-inducing euphoria of Ambarchi's music." [press release] "...The opening track "Fever, A Warm Poison" sleepwalks glacially, as per the first few sentences of this review. Ambarchi orchestrates the swell of strings, or what could be an accordion's wheeze, into this album's soundworld on the second track, "Inamorata". Utterly gentle & melancholic. As is the 17 minute finale, "Trailing Moss In Mystic Glow", which while blissfully relaxed, might be the "busiest" track of the disc on account of the presence of some quiet, spectral vocals, indistinct but still a suggestion of songiness towards the end of the piece. The guitar melodies are denser here, and there's a hint of glitch. It's gorgeous at any rate. This cd should appeal to fans of Earth's Hex, and Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, and even Boris's gentler moments, as if held under a microscope, volume hushed. Also this very list, we've reviewed the new release from another Ambarchi act, Sun. This could be that Sun album, left out to melt in the (actual) sun, to droop and drip, pooling into a limpid, low-key loveliness..." [Aquarius Records] * AMBER ASYLUM - Still Point CD (Profound Lore Records PFL- 022, 2007) € 13.00 Nach vielen Jahren ein neues Album der Band um KRIS FORCE, deren markanter Elfen-gleicher Gesang hier das Zentrum bildet für die elegischen Gothic-Folk Kompositionen mit viel Streicher-Einsatz, eher reduziert und verhalten und nur wenig "rockend", alles durchzogen von einer majestätischen Melancholie... mitunter wird das Song-Format verlassen und schwelend-ruhige instrumentelle Soundscapes erfüllen den Raum, die eine nicht weniger fragile Schönheit aufweisen... " Still Point ist die erwachsenste CD von AMBER ASYLUM, weil sie am wenigsten verspielt ist; nichts muss mehr ausprobiert werden ('Music is my evolution', KRIS FORCE). Die Stimmung, die Stimmen, die Instrumente, alles ist perfekt positioniert, es konnte nichts anders werden an diesem Album. Wundervoll depressive Kammermusik für die kommenden Monate." [Michael We / nonpop.de] "One of the most respected, legendary, and influential acts that have emerged from the neoclassical/gothic/ambient/and post-rock alternative scene, AMBER ASYLUM have once again delicately peered through the cascading light with their long-awaited full-length, the band’s first observation since 2000. Band leader KRIS FORCE was an integral part of NEUROSIS, appearing on the majority of their releases, and has played and collaborated with such legendary acts as SWANS and JARBOE. Features members that have been involved with such Bay Area luminaries as WEAKLING, ASUNDER, THE GAULT, HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, and LUDICRA." [label info] AMM - Live at the Roundhouse CD (Anomalous Records ICES 01, 2004) € 12.00 “The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES '72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey 'Job' Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with the influential Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from more than 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound -- specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. This first CD in a series documenting the festival features the complete concert given by legendary free improvising group AMM. Represented here by Eddie Prevost and Lou Gare, they offer up powerful explosions of saxophone and drums punctuated with their famous AMM silences. This is the first time this material is available, aside from two short excerpts were published as the only 7" release on Evan Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus Records (and a very rare and desirable record that has become)." [press release] BACK IN STOCK! * ANDERSSON, PETER - Music for Film and Exhibition do-CD (Yantra Atmospheres YA-2007-09-2, 2007) € 16.00 Diese do-CD dokumentiert die Versuche von PETER ANDERSSON aka RAISON D'ETRE sich im Filmmusik- & Kunstbetrieb zu etablieren... Das Material klingt wie ein Querschnitt seines Schaffens, insgesamt meist dronig & Soundscape-mässig experimentell, orchestral & ruhig.. "Peter Andersson from the Cold Meat Industry act raison d’être now presents his sound work for film and exhibition, spanning through the years 1999 to 2006. Peter has been working on several film and exhibition projects, some of these projects never went to final completion but the music was composed in almost all the cases. Music for Film and Exhibition presents a broad spectrum of the sounds and music capabilities of Peter Andersson and those familiar with any of his different music projects including raison dêtre, Necrophorus, Atomine Elektrine, Bocksholm etc… will most probably enjoy this double album very much." [label info] * ANGELS OF LIGHT - We are Him CD (Young God Records YGCD35, 2007) € 14.50 Das fünfte Album von MICHAEL GIRA und seiner "family", kraftvollrepetitiver, ums grosse Ganze kreisender Trance-Rock & Folk. "As harrowing and depressive yet magical and luminous as ever, Michael Gira returns with his fourth proper Angels Of Light record, We Are Him. Recorded with his buddies the Akron Family, the overall feeling of this record is hypnotic and repetitive... It's tough for us to write an objective review, we're basically really big Michael Gira fans and have dug most everything he's done. He always manages to get awesome musicians, and his records sound really great, always. That being said, We Are Him is definitely different from
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