Johann Wlight - rayth

 

Early Johann Wlight release, which, as with most of his releases, typically goes between the hesychastic/sacred and the abrasive/ominous. 2001 cdr on Sunny Days Out.

https://mega.nz/file/qcVXyAyQ#UoxKdpmgCEdiCPZPMSfYTvKkhYADfaYmdsLm8yqgTHI

Relay For Death - Anxiety Of The Eye

 

And this is their other recording of 2016, made up of manipulated field recordings of the Death Valley. Sounds of insects blend with ominous drones in a way that wouldn't be out of place with the best of Tribes Of Neurot (remember Adaptation and Survival) and even Robert Rich minus the new age elements. 2016 tape on No Rent Records.

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Relay For Death - Natural Incapacity

 

The Spikula sisters are responsible for two of the most gruesome and bleak death industrial recordings of the previous decade, Birth of an Older Much Uglier Christ and They're Heating Up The Ovens, Get the Fuck Out Now. After about six or seven years and out of the blue they made two new recordings, which I only caught wind of in 2020. This is a double cd made of processed field recordings of sound pollution in California, and is definitely worthy of some of Maurizio Bianchi's more industrial wall-ish recordings. More than two hours of industrial deafening nothingness. 2016 2 X cd on Helen Scarsdale Agency.

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The Gerogerigegege & Sedem Minút Strachu - Kebab Kaaos/Monolith Dance split 7''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last Juntaro released in 2020 is yet another split with Slovak noisecore fiends Sedem Minút Strachu, in which he offers an abrasive repetitive unintelligible spoken word field recording, whereas 7MS a pogo-inducing d-beat/grindcore/noisecore party anthem with vomiting vocals in the style of Last Days Of Humanity. 2020 7" on K.A.Z.

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Eric Lunde - Suites For Solo Analog Cassette Recorder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every night I have trouble sleeping due to stress and lots of obligations and this is the only thing that helps me drift into sleep. It's the sound of mechanical nothingness, as the guy just put recorded the sound of deck players recording themselves in their built-in mics. 2002 self-released 2 x cdr.

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End of year boredom list part III

Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now (Bloxham Tapes) - Download

Viola and harmonium-driven folk drones by a great artist.

The Gerogerigegege - decrescendo - review and link here

Haare - Brain (Aussaat) - Download

One of the most far out Haare works in recent memory.

Current 93 - If a Star Turns Into Ashes - review and link here

The Necks - Three - link here

Elodie - Le Nid D'Ivoire - link here

Calineczka - kysztymska - link here

Controlled Death - EVERYTHING - links here

Merula - Sleep (must listen) - review and link here

... and some things to look forward in 2021:

Xqui - Ambient (preorder here): sounds like Xqui's most levitating material since his early Dragon and EPs.

Burial - Chemz/Dolphins (preorder here): seems like Burial tends release one very immersive ambient recording and then one completely danceable haze techno every time.

○ [blank tape compilation vol. 2] (Steep Gloss): blank tape nothingness shaped into sound

End of year boredom list part II

Angelo Vicente Jr & Calineczka ‎– Life Is Nothing But A Sexually Transmitted Terminal Disease (Steep Gloss) - Download

The sounds of a nuclear reactor. Magnificent industrially-laden modular drone.

Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower (Kranky) - Download

Beautiful ethereal ambient pop.

Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly (Southern Lord) - Download

Pipe organ was the name of the game for 2020, but Anna von Hausswolff has been doing this for years now, right?

Gloriæ Dei Cantores conducted by Richard K. Pugsley - Stabat Mater: Choral Works by Arvo Pärt (Naxos) - Download

Ι always try to keep track of new Arvo Pärt interpretations. This choir has a less bombastic approach than Vox Clamantis and they represent a more subdued and perhaps more "tintinnabuli" take on the master's choral works.

  

Burial + Four Tet + Thom Yorke ‎– Her Revolution / His Rope (XL Recordings) - Download

As low-key and dub-influenced as it can get, hazy memories of something lost.

 

Chris Abrahams - Appearance (Room40)- Download

The Necks' pianist on a solo album of classically-influenced slow movements. Among the five best albums of last year.

Climax Denial - The Sorry Dream Of Being (Total Black) - Download

The aural equivalent of the limp cock of Atrax Morgue's ghost after a failed masturbation.

Cut A Lonely Figure - Rothko Horizons (Bloxham Tapes) - Download

Excellent concept by the head behind Blue Tapes, playing pipe organ to accompany famous painter landscapes, somewhere between Popol Vuh and church music.

Cut A Lonely Figure - Sugimoto Seascapes (Fractal Meat) - Download

The second installment of this project sees a combination of organ, harmonium and glockenspiel and the result is a vast expansive beautiful drone.

Thank You- Merciless Onlookers - Helen and Gavin - blue thirty-one (Blue Tapes) - Download

Third and last part is live electronics, harmonium and piano improvisations of a calming nature, with the other side of the tape being a psychedelic harmonium-driven Christmas jam by the mother of his girlfriend and her friend not much unlike Nico.

FUJI-TA - iki (Hallow Ground) - Download

Japanese guy playing a custom-built pipe organ without keyboards.

FUJI-TA - Komori (Boomkat) - Download

Incredible recording in a cave of Mount Fuji, where he plays his pipe organ accompanied by the sounds of bats.

Stuart Chalmers - The Heart Of Instinct (TQN-aut) - Download

 

Stuart Chalmers at this most new agey and percussive. Fear not, sounds like a modern Zamia Lehmanni having chewed tons of magnetic tape.

Ron Morelli - Betting On Death (Hospital Productions) - Download

 

Pure evil modular drone on the crash of stock markets.

 

Iker Ormazabal - The Oscillation (Cruel Nature) - Download

Menacing repetitive guitar drones. If Sunn O))) had ever decided to record a Black 2 this could have easily been the result.

Kali Malone - Studies For Organ (self-released) - Download

One of the best exponents of Swedish-based organ drones shares the rehearsal tapes for her magnificent 2019 The Sacrificial Code album.

Mats Erlandsson - Minnesmärke (Hallow Ground) - Download

Gimme gimme gimme a Swedish organ drone after midnight.

Miles Davis - The Lost Septet (Sleepy Night Records) - Download

1971 concert in Vienna featuring Keith Jarrett on electric piano, Gary Bartz on saxes, Michael Henderson, electric bass, Ndugu Chancler on drums with Don Alias and Mtume. Tracks from Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way and Jack Johnson in almost free jazz fashion.

Lustmord - Trinity (self-released) - Download

This album, which should have been part of Lustmord's canon, contains recordings made at the Los Alamos nuclear bombing site, and is as apocalyptic and dense as Lustmord can do. I suspect it's going to be much better than his forthcoming album containing vocals. Must hear.

Nimh + Rapoon - Post-Folk Lore Vol. 1 (Winter-Light) - Download

I've always liked Rapoon but for some reason I've only listened to very few albums. This one proves that I should have done more, as it is a mind-bending psychedelic mindfuck.

Rovellasca - Chiaroscuro (self-released) - Download

Deep drone void, and, oops, there is again a pipe organ!

Rovellasca - Delirium- Or Sonata (Crow Versus Crow) - Download

There must be something in the water of Gateshead that makes people make black hole drones; Lee Stokoe of Culver and Craig Johnson/Rovellasca/Invisible City Records have definitely drunk from this water.

Samuel Reinhard - Miniatures (Präsens Editionen)- Download

I can't really decide if the best thing here is the music - extremely quiet and heartbreaking piano ambient - or the intense tape hiss!

Several Wives - Veil on Veil - (Lost Tribe Sound) - Download

Deep cinematic ambient doom. Vibes of David Lynch, Bohren, Dirty Beaches creep in. (Check also Sulking Now here, again 2020)

 

Several Wives & Diurnal Burdens - Persuasion - Decline - (Invisible City) - Download

Heavy, throbbing concrete ambient drone.

Valentina Magaletti, Marlene Ribeiro - Due Matte (Commando Vanessa) - Download

Submerging percussion-centered psychedelic rituals on the theme of hysteria.

Werl3 - Werl3 (Midira) - Download

Continuation of Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis's ambient free jazz experiments, this time with drummer Tomas Järmyr. Check also early 2020's Invisible Cities II here.