Vampyres ‎– Mina, Lucy And Me

 

Vampyres continue their giallo horror ambient descent but with a heavy bass drone for some change! 2020 tape on Inverted Inhumation.

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Maurizio Bianchi - The Sacral Inhabitat

 

A question to other bloggers: with the new blogger.com interface do you have problems uploading pictures? It takes me a long time to do it, and if I put the posts in draft mode they are frequently lost.

New MB cd is celebrating 40 years of noise creations. The sound is quite subdued here and it takes effort to recognize them. It sounds a lot like a palimpsest of noises (some of them sound quite old school actually!) and I somehow get a Residents feeling here.... 2020 cd on 4ib Records.

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Controlled Death / Rudolf Eb.er ‎– Death Ceremonies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Say no words. 2020 LP on Cold Spring.

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Bandcamp fee-waive Friday recommendations: Ron Morelli, Anna von Hausswolff, Stephan Thelen, strom|morts, Lucy Railton

 It's yet another bandcamp monthly fee-waive Friday. Family, studies, and trying to survive in a dangerous and covid-infested working environment takes up all of my time, which means very little energy and mood for writing up posts, so here's a little something of things I have managed to hear a little bit that deserve to be supported financially. Oh yeah, and you fascist covid denier who is going to come here and spread your worthless conspiracy theories, this time you are going to be deleted. Fuck off.

My new favorite sleep-inducing noise piece is Betting on Death by Ron Morelli on Hospital Productions. It's the sound of the long, deep and tortuous crash of stock markets as expressed through droning analog modular synths and toxic industrial darkness. Among the contenders for album of the year.

Anna von Hausswolff never ceases to make excellent music and with her new album All Thoughts Fly on Southern Lord she returns to her basics, which is making funereal pipe organ epics. Sure I miss her voice and her latest Swans-like influences but this is exceptional. 

I haven't heard Stephan Thelen before but I just saw he's composed violin pieces performed by Kronos Quartet and a Polish female string quarter called Al Pari Quarter in this album called World Dialogue on Rare Noise. The track played by Kronos Quartet called "Circular Lines" is an intense 13/4 chopping marching violin epic and the track by Al Pari is of equal dramatic anxiety (there are two other tracks but this is a pre-order). I'm going to order this because it sounds really nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

strom|morts is a Swiss drone group consisting of Didier Severin (singer of one of my all-time favorite math/sludge/experimental hardcore groups Knut) and members of Abraham. They play massive tectonic drone both with rock instruments and modular synths. They have a new song called "Sixteen Warehouses," which is for free, as most of their stuff on bandcamp, but you can support them anyway. 

Finally, Lucy Railton has posted a recording of Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus from Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps played in a church by cello and organ, with sounds of a kid crying. The sound is primitive and deep and utterly dark. It's for free and money goes to refugee aid. Depressing but stunning.

Nurse With Wound ‎– Shipwreck Radio

The ice-cold sounds made by Nurse With Wound during their residency at a radio in the Arctic Lofoten Islands. Included are the Final Broadcasts and Gulls Just Wanns Have Fun bonus cds.

Shipwreck Radio Volume One (Seven Sonic Structures From Utvaer)
Volume Two (Eight Enigmatic Episodes From Utvær)
Shipwreck Radio - Final Broadcasts
Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun

Various ‎– Sage Rage

Live gig recorded in Gateshead in 2007 featuring Jazzfinger, Marzuraan, Monoblock, Byron Coley/Alex Neilson, Culver and Noisebastard. 2007 cdr on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Little Skull - Collected 7"s

A collection featuring (oh surprise) Little Skull's five 7"s released betweeen 2003 and 2007. There isn't any info in the booklet (just a cryptic note by Dean Brown asking you to give him 10 bucks for another 7" to make up for lost communication) about the order of songs, and the tracks themselves are not separated, so you get one track for each 7", so let's hope that they are at least in chronological order. This is the beginning of Little Skull, so the sound is somewhat cruder, with less acoustic parts and more percussive/accordion driven ritual drone folk at play, but still very evocative and mystical. 2008 cdr on PseudoArcana.

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