Moist, oozing improv drones by the masters, with lots of organ to put us into blissful coma. 2 X tape on Blackest Rainbow.
PS: In the past couple of years, I've been working hard to finish my PhD, along with working too much and raising my son. This is not going to be a real return to posting consistently, just doing it when I have some time off.
Doesn't really have any info on who actually plays on this and I don't know if Nate Young was still a member at that point, but this quite fun wanking with dictaphones and household percussion. Posset could have recorded this. 2005 cdr on Heresee.
Aaaaand the follow-up tape after which they produced nothing more. This one sounds closer to Silvester Anfang = there's also flute wanking all around. 2005 tape on Funeral Folk.
Per & Öystein were an improv psych drone duo who also played in Silvester Anfang and Sylvester Anfang II. The music is not very different from what Silvester Anfang were doing, that is noisy underground psych, albeit in a much more abstract manner and with more use of electronics and even more lo-fi. There is a nice guitar epic chord sequence building up around 11:30 but then it stops. 2004 tape on Funeral Folk.
Greek trio playing free jazz. Agamemnon Moustakas on piano, Perseas Rizos on saxophone and Stephanos Chytiris on drums. I like this a lot because despite being sufficiently abstract and improvised it also has several quiet moments and repetitive parts. 2020 self-released cd.
The godfathers of skronky impro drone on a very heavy fuzzed-out jam. "Shribble By The Shoals And Stepping Stones" is an amazing hypnotic track. Sounds somewhat like Burzum' "Tomhet" but without the melody, just a monotonous synth drone. Really good. 2005 cdr on Gold Soundz.
In an older bandcamp Friday post I had written about Estonia's Threes And Will's Lkhumbe as an example of cannibalized psychedelia. In his most recent album Blood River Poort he collaborates with Huerequeque, also from Estonia, in a fucked-up psychedelic acid freak trip informed by Skullflower (eternally upwards guitar astrophysical jets) and also similar to Xazzaz. Seriously deranged stuff, with its concept based on the Boer Wars. Download it on Threes And Will's bandcamp or buy on Love Earth Music.
Having grown-up in a communist family, while I was a primary school kid during the early to mid 90s I used to idolize all sorts of armed struggle and especially worshipped the freedom fighter of the PLO, the IRA and the Basque fighters of ETA. So, it shouldn't be any surprise that I'll shake my ass for anything related to Basque Country music, and more if it involved the great Mattin (check some here). A relatively recent duo of his is Al Karpenter playing with Alvaro Matilla, and The Forthcoming is their new album released by ever/never records. This is hard to categorize; it has too many ideas and styles thrown in, you get improvised skronk rock not unlike The Dead C and with some surprising Scott Walker-like croons, there's psych noise, there's electronic Aphex Twin-y stuff, oooffff. Really nice album. Go over to the ever/never bandcamp and buy it.
Al Karpenter and ever/never released on the same day a collaboration album between Al Karpenter and CIA Debutante, which is equally good or even better. It possesses the same musical references as the Al Karpenter album but it has a little bit more electronic AND bluesy stuff going around. Loving this. Buy it here.
Helena Ford is a Chicago-based transgender musician whose work expands all over drone, improv, dungeon synth, dark ambient, industrial noise, electroacoustic, and microtonal deep listening ambient. Much of the themes on which she has based her music revolves around gender dysphoria, hormone replacement and psychotherapy. Really, her recordings are so multifaceted you should just devote two or three days listening to the whole shit, which is also free on her bandcamp here, but I'm just going to pick a few which really impressed the shit out of me. Also loving the corpsepaint and the Burzum-like skullcrasher bat thingy, guess Varg would be really pissed at! Links on titles. Goes without saying that this blog upholds difference and the challenge of gender/sex stereotypes along with fighting fascism, racism, capitalism, patriarchy and homophobia and is open to any non-binary/LGBTQI+-themed music that will be appealing to me.
Therapy Goals: revolving around psych/Eastern scale guitar meanderings and full-on Sunn O))) like power drone.
The Human Veil - s/t: holy fucking shit dungeon synth and organ vespers-like goodness
Examinations in Minimalism & Transgender Musicality: weird alternation between sine waves, modular drone, mellotrons and deep listening ambient
Larsen Symphonique + Organ Works: microtonal drone, organ holiness and avant-garde drone.
Elegy for 1992: bro this is soooo good. She's taken figures from John Cage's prepared piano Sonatas and added huge reverb to it.
Pieces for Electric Bass, Baritone, and Guitar: can't say how much I'm loving this, especially the second baritone track. Get it. Now. It's free.
Hemicrania: ambient noise wall discordant bliss.
Music for Bows and Rosin: this sounds quite a bit like post-reformation Skullflower, especially around the period Lee Stokoe was in. Great.
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.
You know what the deal is like now with the blog. I moved out of the house two months ago so it's been pretty hectic with moving out/moving in/arranging things etc. But now I feel much better being on my own, with just my son, my job, my phd and my internal peace to tend to. So now I feel like getting this blog working on a more regular basis, but summer boredom/sleepiness is also a factor.
This is a cd I was very deeply after for lots of years after being extremely blown away by the Destroy All Tie Fighter track on the Your Own Shadow Blocks The Light comp tape on Hyster Tapes, which I had posted on the early phase of the blog and you can listen to here. Turns out the person behind Hyster Tapes and Grey Park was a member of Destroy All Tie Fighters, which now makes more sense about the awesomeness. So, thanks to Jani from Uton for helping me locate and finally acquire this cd.
So, with Skullpture we get awesome improv electroacoustic drone that is very immersive and I wouldn't find it very far away from what Aethenor would do years later, while Destroy All Tie Fighters does three otherwordly tracks of improv drone somewhere between The Dead C and Hawkwind. Great stuff, highly recommended.
2002 cdr on Musically Incorrect Records.
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.
Amazing devotional fourth-world pagan ambient ritual similar to Vibracathedral Orchestra and Million Brazilians by this unknown Yorkshire project (though I suspect an Ashtray Navigations connection...). 2019 cd on Memoirs Of An Aesthete.
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.
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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.
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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.
One of the most "acoustic" but highly droned-out recording of Razen, featuring immersive jams with Eastern wind and string instruments. Awesome. 2013 tape on Sloow Tapes.
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The second full-length of Million Brazilians is kind of monotonous, one-sided psych-rock/free jazz improv with lots of percussion. Certainly one of their least successful efforts, but a good reader asked for it to be uploaded so there you are. 2010 LP on Psychic Sounds.
Even more pagan fourth-world mutant ambient jazzz from the witchdoctors of the wilderness of Maine. 2019 LP on Feeding Tube Records.
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