If Django Reinhardt played improvised this is what it would sound like. An avant-garde improvised - but also "structured" - string quartet with guitar destroying everything. 2009 cd on Konnex Records.
Bulletproof Socks
Noise, drone, punk, mostly 7" and tapes. No racists allowed!
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Dom Minasi String Quartet – Dissonance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Monday, June 13, 2022
Phill Niblock – Music By Phill Niblock
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Bandcamp Friday recommendations
As it is obvious, I have next to no time for uploads these days, but I thought it would be good to make some bandcamp recommendations for this month's fee-waive Friday, so there we go.
Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens - An Alpine Drama (Moonside Tapes) - link
Alternating between heavy freezing ambient and weird electroacoustic stuff.
Diurnal Burdens & Matt Atkins - Idle Magnetism (Courier) - link
Hypnotic improv and tape splurge.
Territorial Gobbing & Diurnal Burdens (Czaszka) - link
You now know what to expect
Liminal Haze - 4 (Important Drone Records) - link
Diurnal Burdens/Death In Scarsdale/Rovellasca collaboration, deep modular ambient immersion
Liminal Haze - 5 (Park 70) - link
Even more of that
Rovellasca - The Fissure of Rolando (Park 70) - link
Drone distortion, not too different from Culver.
Rovellasca - Rhizomes (Modern Tapes) - link
Somber synth drone and tape hiss.
While we are on the subject, check MVK - Hic Svnt Monstra (deep drone, link) and Jonathan Deasy - Taiga (modular non-movement, link) from Invisible City Records, run by Craig Johnson (Liminal Haze, Rovellasca, Death In Scarsdale), and Papal Bull - Let's Call it Fun Time (casio noise/joy from Posset and Roman Nose, link) and the three WICKED blank tape compilations (here, here and here) by Steep Gloss, run by Ross-Scott Buccleuch of Diurnal Burdens/Liminal Haze). This treasure is for free so you can just support these superb guys.
Golden Vomit - Beyond All Reason (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) - link
Haare side project, same amounts of psychedelic evil space rituals
Pat Moonchy - Wintersun (link) and Wintermoon (link)
Somewhere between deep listening and witches dancing in the forest
Boban Ristevski & Calineczka - Breathe (Important Drone Records) - link
Wow, pineal gland moving modular drone just took a turn towards the epic
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The Cooking Errchestra – Live At ICC 2-20-2000
Epic one-off collaboration between Masaya Nakahara of Violent Onsen Geisha/Hair Stylistics, Shusaku Hariya of Computer Soup and some other people, playing a great mix of free jazz, musique concrete, fried electronics and some AMAZING Gerogerigegege-like sex moans near the end! 2000 cd on Cha-Bashira.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Monday, October 4, 2021
Million Brazilians – Poderoso Monicato
At this point, MB had already started shifting into the sprawling psych/free jazz/ambient fourth world primitive cannibal spaceship that they now are, and this one is really a recording you can get lost in. 2015 LP on Psychic Sounds.
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Million Brazilians – Cult Music Of Ajitz
This is the first full-length LP of MB, and I like it more than Hideous Visions. It has a much more rudimentary and lo-fi sound, based almost exclusively on various percussions that border on gamelan accompanied by wind instruments and it has a cryptic cannibal ritual atmosphere. 2010 LP on Psychic Sounds.