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

Calineczka ‎– kysztymska redux/ MVK/ Modelbau/ Depletion/ Kamil Kowalczyk/ Important Drone Records/ Invisible City Records worship

 

Sometimes personal issues lead me to mistakes while writing this blog. So, when I originally posted this new Calineczka release in late March, I forgot to include the whole material on it. I received the whole package including a stick that contains three tracks on .wav format, but I forgot to upload them all, and only posted the first track which was given through bandcamp when I bought it, due to space limitations. So, after communicating with the master himself, here's the whole thing: 12 hours of the deepest modular synth drone to listen during summer sloth. Can it get any better than this?

2020 stick on Szara Reneta. Download

PS: It can get almost at least as good as 12 hours of Calineczka pineal gland movement with the new releases on his label Important Drone Records which has just put out a tape of deep warm drones called Trans Misja by Kamil Kowalczyk, and grey industrial drone by MVK on the tape Metastabilities. Go order them right now, they're cheap and totally worth your time and money.

PS2: Speaking of MVK, there's a new release The Hidden Accord just brought out by the ever-reliable Invisible City Records as a split between MVK and Modelbau (Frans De Waard of Kapotte Muziek), featuring even more bleak concrete drone. It's a free download, are you still here?

PS3: Invisible City released at the same time a new Depletion tape (my worship of Martyn Reid's work both as Depletion and through Vampyres has been frequently expressed here). The focus here is not on concrete mixer drone, but to create a deeper more sinister sound that is more akin to Wolf Eyes and Demons. Cotard Delusion is also a free download and of course 100% guaranteed quality.

Vampyres ‎– Embers Of Destruction tape

At Easter I always like to post something slightly related to religion and something its opposite. So, the opposite this year is another release of the sublime horror drone of Vampyres of Lee Stokoe and Martyn James Reid. You probably have understood how high I hold these two guys and their day projects (Culver and Depletion) so you know that you should expect top-notch modular synth drone terror. 2019 tape on Invisible City Records.

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Several Wives - Sulking Now

 

Fucking blood-chilling avant-drone. Must hear. Coronavirus is creeping and you are walking all alone in the abandoned city. Name-your-price download and tape on the always excellent Invisible City Records.

Calineczka - On The Nuclear Physical Stability of the Uranium Minerals

More excellent hypnotic modular synth drone by the Polish Calineczka working on the edges of minimalism. Download it for free on the always awesome Invisible City Records bandcamp, which released it on tape in 2019.

Mudguts - Sabrina Fourtyfives tape

Yet another collaborative project of Lee Stokoe (Culver), in which he is joined by Scott McKeating of Black Leather Cop and Bells Hill Records. Aside from the expected dense deep drone that only Stokoe can deliver, there's some melancholy misery, especially in the last track "Pretty Slipping," which evokes a feeling of urban loneliness and of feeling lost in the maze of grey concrete and mobile phone screens. In fact as I now listen to it and feel extremely tired and sleepy it creates a very hopeless feeling that reminds me of the most emotionally unbearable track I've heard, Coil's "Halliwell Hammers." 2016 tape on Invisible City Records.

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TQ #15 & #16 & Ivan The Tolerable sampler cd & various links

The two most recent issues of TQ have been among my favorite ones; after a few issues having attained a more retrospective approach on John Peel, kraut rock and TQ's compilation, these two are back packed with interviews and reviews of new underground music that I've been psyched to discover.

#15 sets off with a review of Craig Johnson, head of Invisible City Records and guy behind Death In Scarsdale. ICR from Gateshead is one of the best drone/noise labels around, having released amazing tapes by Witchblood, Culver, Vampyres, Liminal Haze, Posset, Skull Mask, Stuart Chalmers, and many others, and Death In Scarsdale is an exciting new-ish drone project added to the hotbed of drone activities that are so eminent in Gateshead. I've just seen that Depletion has released a new tape on it and I'm listeing to it right now, and it sounds so good.

A second very enlightening interview/feature is that of Luxury Bucket label, whose owner Lewis Duffy also plays as Shit Creek. Thanks to this feature I discovered Ivonne Van Cleef, a psychedelic western/cabaret/twang/surf solo playing woman from California, who has consistently released a number of awesome tapes that need a lot of attention, plus some good stuff by Shit Creek, mainly this live recording based around violin loops that blew my mind and I had on repeat for several days straight.

There's also an interview with weirdo experimental electronic project Ivan The Tolerable, combined with a "best of" cd containing 22 songs of his. Ivan The Tolerable is a versatile music project focusing mainly on synth-based psychedelic compositions that doesn't sound too far away from mid-80s to mid-90s Coil, but doesn't shy away from featuring more rock-sounding or weirdo synth-pop tunes. I've uploaded the cd for you and you can listen to it here.



Current issue #16 came with two cds; the first is Velvet Teeth by Chlorine, which features experimental electronics ranging from hypnagogic mystery to chewed-up techno, and I recommend listening; the other is Halo Dragonfly's Ticking Clock, which features sample and dictaphone manipulations and throat splurge similar to Posset and Yol; the person/group is inclined to banging stuff like Posset does, and I think that this is a great likening for a new artist. Xqui is being interviewed, talking about his radical recording techniques (check out his recent releases Heterogeneous and Starchild), along with Liquid Library label from Bristol, which had released an exciting tape by Bristol local improvised jazz punk outfit Iceman Furniss that I really loved, plus a sleep-compelling drone epic by Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony, Vorre. But the most revealing thing in this issue was the short review of A-Sun Amissa's Ceremony In the Stillness, a band I knew nothing of which plays something like the correct rock version of Bohren & Der Club Of Gore (fuck Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble), that is massive, towering, monumental drone jazz rock, and now I need to look them up closely. Plus, there's a review of Charlie Ulyatt's forthcoming cello album, about which TQ subscribers are offered a discount. Charlie has been covered on this blog, so you know he's good.

Visit TQ's blog for more info and the necessary subscriptions.