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are sounds of a quite different character generated with electronic feedback loops. The underlying radio signal may sometimes be heard emerging from the dense processed sound.” [Matt Rogalsky] * RORIKAT – Oki Oki CD (Horus CyclicDaemon HCD 5, 2002) € 13.00 „Aus Nord-Siberien habe ich, glaube ich, noch nie eine CD in den Händen gehalten, geschweige denn rezensiert. Es gibt halt immer ein erstes Mal und ich muss sagen, dieses erste Mal gefällt mir! Ausgefallenen Musik machen die beiden Russen da, hauptsächlich elektronisch, aber mit einigen akustischen Instrumenten und einer großen Portion Einfallsreichtum und Experimentierfreude. Die Musik zu beschreiben fällt nicht ganz leicht: ein wenig Ambient, eine gute Portion Psychedelik und Post-Rock, verhallte Akustik-Gitarren treffen auf Kling- Klang-Elektronik, Drones und gelegentlich weibliche Vocal-Schnipsel. Eine nicht wirklich düstere Mischung, vielmehr kindlich verspielte Musik, mal völlig abstrakt, mal fast tanzbar; immer aber sehr originell. Eine wirklich tolle Mischung, die das Duo JULICA RORICA und EUGENE T da geschaffen haben; Abgeschiedenheit scheint sich doch gelegentlich auszuzahlen. Diese CD klingt auf eine nicht leicht definierbare Weise "nordisch", hier muss man ja fast sagen "sibirisch". Vielleicht macht es zu einem guten Teil der tendenziell helle, klare und obertonreiche, differenzierte Klang der Musik, der an weite Landschaften, klare Luft und kalte Sonnentage erinnert; auf jeden Fall eine Art Klang, der mir sehr zusagt. Wem ein Großteil der "üblichen" IDM-Glitch-Musik zu seicht, der "normale" Post-Rock zu schwülstig, "konventioneller" Ambient zu ernst und wem die sogenannte "experimentelle" Musik zu verkopft ist, all jenen und noch vielen mehr, sei "Uki Uki" ("Liebe") wärmstens ans Herz gelegt. Zusammen mit der äußerst geschmackvollen Gestaltung im (in der auf 500 Exemplare limitierten Erstauflage) weißen Klapp-Digipak mit sibirischen Fotos eine rundum gelungene Veröffentlichung. Musik für einen kalten Sommer. Wirklich sehr schön!“ [P.E. / BLACK magazine] “Russian duo consisting of Eugene & Julica make spacey, abstract instrumentals. Heavily delayed guitar strumming, accompanied by various random sounds and minimal hand drum percussion. Light & airy ambient guitars with subtle rhythms. Very relaxing yet propagates passion. A strange odd ditty, acoustic guitars, tiny cutesy little lead synth and sometimes an itty bitty Power Puff girl vocal. Gurgles, burps and blips. It's great to hear synths playing nice with guitars. The definition of quirky this is. Indescribable stylistically. More strangeness, more quality, more inventiveness. Very unique sound! A bit like David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" (Low). Beautiful noise. Fascinating cinematigraphic, chaotic dream of drones and distortions with ambient, multidimensional, psychedelic, ironic, and hypnotic guitars. All friends of electronics will be pleased by this amazing dada-like music from the very north of Siberia...” [label info] * SACHER-PELZ – Mutation for a Continuity 4 x CD-Box (EES’T / Alga Marghen MART001/4, 2002) [ed. of 480] € 45.00 Prä-MB Projekt mit Material von 1979 & 1980 !! Wiederveröffentlichung von vier raren Cassetten. We got some absolute last copies of this box! "Very few are aware of the beginning of Maurizio Bianchi's adventures? Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project, under the name Sacher-pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment -- the endurance of M.B. had started. During the following few months four C60 magnetic tapes were created 'Cainus' (August/September 1979), 'Venus' (October/November 1979), 'Cease to Exist' (December 1979/January 1980) and 'Velours' (February/March 1980), a couple of copies for friends, never getting an official distribution. Surely a very private moment but still the first and only production at that time in Italy to go beyond the TG movement, the direct reference. Ees'T records got into possession of the original masters and decided this was the right moment to let those obscure sonorities see the night light. The tapes were remastered for a more powerful digital sound featured in this four CD boxset including the original graphics and liner notes as well as a new visionary essay, written expressly for this edition. After a long research in the archives spread around the Italian territories a few more documents were found (the original presentation text titled 'Sacher-pelz: mutation for a continuity', a collage titled 'Pure art for crime people', more graphics and reviews) and they are also included here. Edition of 480 copies." [label info] * SCHLOSS TEGAL – The Myth of Meat CD (Waystyx Records WR07, 2006) [ed. of 330 copies] € 13.00 Very uncompromising & sinister new release of the US Industrial-group about torture and tortured flesh & cannibalism. A mixture of field recordings, found sounds, electronics...eerie & organic sounding noises, “something” is living inside these sounds… “limited to 330 copies edition, absolutely new material. great design, heavy paper case + booklet” [label info] * SILK SAW – Prestation mCD (Waystyx Records WR 23, 2006) [lim.100 special art cover) € 22.50 Collector’s item on WAYSTYX, this fabric pressed mini-CD in art-cover with 5 tracks and a playtime around 20 minutes. * Niko SKORPIO – Escape from Heaven CD (Some Place Else, SPECD06036, 2006) € 13.00 Überraschendes neues Album von NIKO SKORPIO, der sich allen Einordnungsversuchen weiterhin erfolgreich entzieht: Schizophrenes Stimmengemurmel, Mantra-Drones, plötzlich Metal-Riffs & Beats, cooler Sprechgesang, Hypno-Loops, faraway-Sphären, orientale Melodien, digitale Verfremdungen, jedes Stück hier ist anders als der Vorgänger, eine Mischung aus dark ambient industrial, doommetal, und experimentellem ambient, abgründig as hell !! “Curious as always, I wanted to hear the new Niko Skorpio record, but I thought it would have been better in the hands of Niels Mark Pedersen, our fellow Vital Weekly reviewer for the more dark and rhythmic music. But always check out yourself, and you may have guessed right: I like it. I expected some doom and gloom along the lines of Cold Meat Industry and yes, there are a couple of tracks that could have been easily made by, say, In Slaughter Natives, throughout this album there is a strong and healthy sense of experimentalism. Niko Skorpio, the man in disguise behind the Some Place Else label, has a vast catalogue of works that go back to the late nineties, but in his musical approach he harks back further, at least on this album. He states that his album can be described as 'industrial music' standing in the traditions of Throbbing Gristle, Coil or Psychic TV. But Niko Skorpio plays his version of industrial music with digital means. Just like his big examples, Skorpio doesn't play 'just' noise, there are also moments in which things are quiet and introspective, such as in the intense opening piece 'Dawn: The Gathering Of Vultures'. Some rhythm plays a role, and things start to sound militant and upright. Skorpio has made a richly varied album of various moods and styles that makes however a solid and unified impression. A great album of turning an 'old' style into something 'new' and with an own signature.” [Fdw / Vital Weekly] * SOLA TRANSLATIO – Enigma CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL034, 2006) € 13.50 SOLA TRANSLATIO ist das Gemeinschaftsprojekt von ALIO DIE und OPIUM und dies ist das dritte Album. Das besondere an ENIGMA liegt in der Verwendung mysteriöser konkreter Field Recordings, die die instrumentell-fliessenden Sounds umgarnen und umranden... viele handgespielte Instrumente wurden aufgenommen, wie Zither & Flöten, Pianotunes…zusammen mit der Artwork hat das einen mystischen Touch und verbreitet eine besinnliche, sehr unaufdringliche Stimmung…is it the mind-space or the space-mind?? “The third awaited cd by Opium and Alio Die is finally out! rich of ambient textures that bring to lose themselves into different labyrinth's peregrinations, and to bathe the borders in flowing abyss.. eight imaginary landscapes wavering between the earth and the cosmos, sometimes returning on the dark atmosphere of the first album, but with a little acoustic element more clear..” [label info] * SORIAH – Chao Organica in A Minor CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records mt105, 2006) € 13.00 Kontemplation pur von diesem obskuren Künstler ! Orgel-Oberton- Drones und gutturale Gesänge, esoterisch & spirituell, aufgenommen in einer Kirche in Portland. “Like a bolt from the blue, the saccharine rich organ drone sets the supper for this winding piece of esoterica. Take equal parts Messiaen organ atones and the beguiling, echoed baritone moans of a disembodied spirit (with just a dash of pungent myrrh pouring over a cup of the very thickest Turkish coffee) and the environs of Soriah are partially breached. This magnificent choral suite for antique church organ is paired with a second vocal suite for Tuvan throat singing. The bone trembling multi-timbres of Soriah's commanding throat singing crack open and become a cathedral as the rumbling is pulled through a wash of electronic effects. Of chaos is a new religion erected. Soriah's crushing passion play becomes a bombastic bodhisattva that leaves all average messiahs staying indoors for the second coming. Also sprach Soriah! For fans of drone, Mirror, Coleclough, Af Ursin and avant-garde that stands the test of time. From out of the fir-lined mists of the Pacific Northwest's primordial musical soup is spawned the singular performance and sound sculptor Soriah. Spilling initially from a rock and roll womb, but building on years of intensive studies in Tuvan throat singing and classical Indian raga chanting, Soriah both subverts and elevates tradition by weaving the
avant-garde into the ancient. Whether backed by hand percussion, or accompanying himself on organ, or with electronics, or wailing a cappella, a thick, echoing, thaumaturgic atmosphere is carved out of the thin, vibrating air that rushes between vocal chords. Performance is an integral part of Soriah's Choa-sphere. Concerts played in haunted tunnels, from trees, in the desert, in churches and other far-flung venues are more the rule than the exception. Elaborate costumes, often incorporating authentic head-dresses and other tribal garments and totems, are another hallmark. The costumes are worn partly in beatific reverence and partly for the sake of how they move. Soriah's grounding in the study of butoh, yoga and other physically based rituals completes the circle of the experimental shaman; a circle which will continue to propagate as the only constant with Soriah is change. After numerous home and hand made releases Soriah is finally poised to light out into the world at large through his first recording on Beta-lactam Ring Records.” [label press release] * STAHLWERK 9 – 1905 CD (Achtung Baby ABCD007, 2006) € 14.00 “These recordings from 2005 celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first russian revolution. Slow collages of long symphonic samples and orchestral movements, creating a grievous and anxious atmosphere: commonly speaking, it can be compared to those dark postindustrial soundscapes known from works of Turbund Sturmwerk, Inade, Toroidh, A Challenge Of Honour, Predominance and alikes. One of the points of references is the famous movie "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) by Sergei M. Eisenstein, which can be a good visual following for the album - on the dark-ambient background, there are various russian choir singing, including well-known songs like "Warszawianka" and "Internationale".“ [Dmitry Vasiliev IEM magazine] * SUKORA – Snowdrop CD (Waystyx Records WR20, 2006) [lim. 100] € 16.00 SUKORA is a japanese minmal / concept-artist and on this CD you CAN find exactly what the title suggest: The un/sound of snowdrops! Comes in a special-paper cover, lim. 100, fabric-pressed CD. * TAYLOR, SCOTT / SR MEIXNER - Please keep clear at all times (Entr'acte 34, 2006) [ed. of 300] € 13.00 Sehr spannendes elektro-akustisches Werk von (ex-CONTRASTATE) STEPHEN MEIXNER und SCOTT TAYLOR, insgesamt sehr dunkel & einnehmend, aber mit vielen Mikrodetails und Spannungsbögen. Tip ! ”A collaborative album between Scott Taylor, whose previous releases can be found on the Sijis, Touch, and Con-V labels, and srmeixner, once a member of the influential UK group Contrastate. 'Please keep clear at all times' consists of three tracks, combining Musique Concrète, field recordings, and other source material (the piano of Kenneth Kirschner and recordings by M.A. Tolosa on Kirschner Wind, and vocals by Jonathan Grieve on The Sound of X) into dramatic soundscapes. The latter track, composed by an additive process of file exchange, is a radical re-working of a live srmeixner concert recording made by Scott Taylor.” [label info] „If I understood things well, Scott Taylor and Srmeixner didn't actually work together, even when both are based in London (I think), but exchanged sound files. Scott Taylor has had some great releases on Sijis and con-V, dealing with many subtle layered field recordings and Srmeixner was once a member of Contrastate, but started a new life behind the computer. On the first piece, 'Kirschner Wind' they also used the always decaying piano sounds by Kenneth Kirschner and rain recordings by M.A. Tolosa. An empty piece of music, but with a strong, haunting character. 'Nothing Falls Into Place' is a pure field recordings piece, more Taylor than Srmeixner, me thinks, of layered sounds that form a deep drone, with some looser textured sounds on top. 'The Sound Of X' is a rework by Taylor of Srmeixner concert that involves also Jonathan Grieve on vocals (he was the other member of Contrastate), but it's reworked to such an extent that the vocals can no longer be recognized. It's a digital drone rework of mid-frequency sounds that sound like sea waves. All three tracks are great pieces of haunting, cinematographic field recordings and careful electronic treatments. Great stuff.“ [Vital Weekly] * TEMPLEGARDEN’S – Velvet Steel mCD (Waystyx Records WR21, 2006) [lim. 100] € 22.50 Collector’s item! Three pieces from the german ritual ambient – group around SYNAPSCAPE- and ex ARS MORIENDI-members. Long eerie tunes & atmospheres... Fabric-pressed mCD in an edition of only 100, special artwork, three inlay cards, numbered edition. High price unavoidable, sorry ! * TERESA 11 – Smoky Heaven CD (Eibon Records TER051, 2004) € 13.00 Beeindruckende Neuentdeckung auf EIBON, diese japanische - im weitesten Sinne – Pop-Band, die einen sehr eigenständigen Stil entwickelt haben mit atmosphärisch wavigen trip-hopigen Einflüssen (manchmal etwas neo-klassisch oder auch bar-jazzig). Markanter z.T.mehrstimmiger Frauengesang vermengt mit sowohl elektronischen (rhyhtms) als auch vielen handgespielten Instrumenten, sehr komplex arrangiert, dunkel & melancholisch & leidenschaftlich, viele interessante Sounds im Klangbild, man denke an PORTISHEAD, MASSIVE ATTACK, ANTENNE... “I've never had so much trouble in simply "describing" a record, but the phenomenal japanese TERESA 11 are - truly - impossible to "frame". Mutant trip-hop meets classical music, "smoky" ambient meets Kabuki traditional rhythms.” [label description] „...Given the album’s style & sound may be somewhat focused towards more commercial oriented scenes (that are not generally associated with Eibon Records), there are numerous experimental elements at play throughout which would make this far too difficult a listen for pop music tuned ear. Teresa 11 might wear elements of their influences on their sleeve, but with some individualised quirks, have created a different and interesting album to say the least.“ [Aural Pressure] * TEXT OF LIGHT – Text of Light 3 x CD-BOX (Dirter Prod. , 2006) € 34.00 “An incredible three-CD set from TEXT OF LIGHT. This is the side project of SONIC YOUTH’s LEE RANALDO with ALAN LICHT, WILLIAM HOOKER, CHRISTIAN MARCLY, TIM BARNES, ULRICH KREIGER, and DJ OLIVE. They perform live to a backdrop of STAN BRAKHAGE films, and no two sets are ever alike. The first 1000 copies of this lavish set will be issued in a special metal box with the ToL logo imbossed on the lid as a tribute to the legendary Public Image Ltd.” [label info] * THEME – Our Angels dislocated CD (Lumberton Trading Company LUMB 003, 2006) € 13.50 RICHO JOHNSON (HUSK, SPLINTERED) is back ! Das Trio THEME besteht aus mindestens zwei Leuten der ursprünglichen SPLINTERED- Besetzung, tönt aber weit experimenteller & ambienter als man es von den eher rockigen SPLINTERED gewohnt war..... hier werden hier lichte Loop-Drones, Sitarklänge & indisch anmutende Meditations- Gesänge zu pulsierend-trancigen, organischen Soundscapes vermengt.. ihre zweite CD. ”The second album from this UK/Poland-based trio, following several years since their warmly received 'On Parallel Shores Removed' CD (Fourth Dimension/Tremor Recordings), offering a rich, organic and atmospheric tapestry of ideas that serves as a revitalised statement of intent. Combining sitars, violin drones, guitar strums, mutterings from an otherwise deserted midnight subway, electronic swirl, piano and all manner of otherworldly textures, 'Our Angels Dislocated' remains both focused and complex enough to cast new shadows with every listen. Complete with exclusive artwork by British sculptor, Mo Jupp, it fits perfectly into Lumberton Trading Company's erratic and often changeable grand design. NB: If you have already purchased the original version of this album, with the manufacturing fault (a 'jump' between tracks 2 and 3), please do not hesitate to return it to wherever you purchased it from in order to arrange our replacing it with the repressed version.” [label description] * THIS HEAT – same CD (This Is 1, 2006) € 15.50 Endlich wieder erhältlich, die erste LP (1979) der wegweisenden britischen Avantgarde-Band. Bis heute lässt sich ihr Stil nicht wirklich schubladisierend fassen, es ist halt THIS HEAT und nix anderes ! Auch in der gerade erschienenen „Out of Cold Storage“-Box enthalten! Eine bekannte Mainzer Buchreihe hat sich übrigens nach dem Intro dieser LP - TESTCARD - benannt. „Was diese so Band so ausnehmend macht und selbst unter heutigen Maßstäben so ungemindert bestechend, ist in meinen Ohren der Thrill zwischen schwebenden Momenten, in denen die Musik die Luft anzuhalten oder garottiert zu werden scheint und sich enorme Energie aufstaut, und den unglaublich intensiven Eruptionen in Gestalt des ostinaten Drummings und sich ins Gehirn fressender Loops. Dazu kommt dann noch an besonders sublimen Momenten HAYWARDs Gesang mit einem Timbre, das einem die Kehle zuschnürt durch den wehen Ton und mit heißkalter Dringlichkeit die Schädeldecke aufstemmt....“ [Bad Alchemy #51] “A landmark recording by one of most important British bands, full stop. this, their first release, tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. First, the music: without precedent, then, the musicians: all extraordinary, all uncompromisingly radical, then the way it was all put together: endlessly surprising, hammeringly intense, and the sound: hard, radical, crafted, rich, with complete control of the frequency range. Beautifully recorded, radically mixed, this was breathtakingly present. Stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn't aged. this is deep, complex work that creates its own
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