Spykes – The Deep End Test EP

Apart from putting the blog on hiatus for all this time, I also mainly abstained from looking at what other fine bloggers post, so I'm not sure if Bleak Bliss, who has been gracing us with the majority of American Tapes's catalog, has actually posted this - if they have, I'm sorry for stealing your thunder. In any case, here's John Olson doing his regular fried electronics. Track 4 is really cool evil noise. 2005 cdr on American Tapes.

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Stare Case – Two Moods For All Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just one of the absolutely best Wolf Eyes-related release. Unrelenting cryptic noise/free jazz/ambient darkness. 2012 tape & 2 X cdr on American Tapes.

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Graveyards – Unmarked Graves

 

Too damn good to be true. John Olson on sax and noise, Ben Hall on drums, Hans Buetow on cello, free jazz/noise fuckery. 2010 cdr on Editions Brokenresearch.

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Wolf Eyes / Faceneck ‎– Split 10"

2010 10" on Faceneck.

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Failing Lights / Demons / Graveyards ‎– Night Of The Lone Wolf Two

A 2007 live recording in Rochester and I love how these are three side-projects of the then-Wolf Eyes line-up (Nate Young-Demons, Mike Connely-Failing Lights, and John Olson-Graveyards) without Wolf Eyes performing. The highlights are the sinister noisebient of Demons and the dark-as-fuck free jazz/improv of Graveyards. 2007 tape on American Tapes.

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Ex-Graveyards ‎– 500 Echoes

John Olson's great free improv/minimal jazz project with Ben Hall and Hans Buetow under a slightly different moniker. Suffered reeds by Olson, drum/percussion caresses and chaos by Hall and double-bass drones by Buetow. 2007 cdr on Maim & Disfigure.

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Wolf Eyes - Undertakers Part 1 tape

Shiiit this is dark and satanic. It sounds like they've been performing a ritual on fucked up drugs. 2003 tape on Since 1972.

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Universal Eyes (Universal Indians & Wolf Eyes) ‎– Four Variations On 'Artificial Society' cd

It was sad to hear that Jim Baljo is no longer a member of Wolf Eyes; his guitar terror was a great addition in recent Wolf Eyes albums; that said, Nate Young and John Olson still keep it real as a duo. In this new shit, they work together with Universal Indians, an early 90s group that featured John Olson, Aaron Dilloway and Gretchen Gonzales-Davidson, so in fact it's like Wolf Eyes together with Dilloway again plus an associate of theirs. Here they go even deeper into jazz territory, with Olson blasting awesome sax screams all over the place. Nate Young doesn't sing at all, but he is handling awesome terrifying electronics with Gonzales-Davidson, while Dilloway evokes some awesome heavy terror drones. Great improvisational music with a nice percussion touch and generous vibes of 1970s psychedelic kosmische music; as if you expected something less than awesome by these guys. 2018 cd on Lower Floor.

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John R. Olson - Solo Horn tape

No need to mention how talented and versatile as a musician John Olson is; this tape is just additional proof to that. Here he improvises on his wind instruments, doing raw recordings, sometimes in the outdoors (you can here children, birds etc.) and covering a range of moods from free jazz to solitary Middle-Eastern styles. Great stuff as always by Sound Holes, this time on tape in 2017.

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