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#7 (march 06 - september
06)
..kalorifeur:: within the hermitage
This reminded me a lot of the amazing greek underground tape scene
of mid80s-mid 90s, when all sorts of weird, home-made avant garde
music was spread through mail. starts with "everyday" noises
and melodic synth lines and goes on smoothly and nicely, 'till the
mid of the cdr (track 4) when human howling starts (in a cheap imitation,
in my humble view, of wolf howling) and some reading which combined
to the slight cheesiness of the howl and everything completely failed
to catch me. it continues with the sound of bells and some high feedbacks
and more words. well, not bad although it failed the high expectations
of yr humble reviewer
|--cdr | released by absurd
kalorifeur@yahoo.com
..mecha/orga:: holder
Two tracks here, the first being the exact recording of mecha/orga's
holder test (a medical recording of the patient's biorhythms). a low,
whirred mechanic sound like a fart but less interesting, stayed in
my cd for 5 minutes, then i fast forwarded, the same, so off it goes
to the second track. which is the same recording but edited and -sounds
like- processed with some granular tool, having the known and completely
satisfactory mecha/orga signature. it remains very low and
rather monotonous, but not as completely un-interesting as the first
track. if you concentrate, some frequencies manage to escape the gravitational
field of boredom of all whirring mechanical noises and give some few
but hopeful signs of life and creativity before they are sucked back
in the prolongued fart of a machine with serious digestive problems.
i think when we are old, half rotten and ultimately content we will
remember all these and laugh. but not now. nice packaging, as usual
|--cdr | released by absurd
absurd@otenet.gr
..peacefeather Free
improvisation, the kind where guitars sound like tiny bells and sounds
come and go, the kind of stuff you find yourself addicted when you
first have a rehearsal place, lots of pot and a company of people
with radical ideas about music. so, this sounds like something between
sonic youth + hovercraft and the songs seem to be exceprts
of improvisation, that is, i doubt if these guys could play them again.
this lack of coherence can be a drawback, on the other hand the atmosphere
it evolves takes a dreamy, maybe moody tinge. and you end up with
a smile an evasive thought of spring in new york.
|--cdr | thomasbugaj@gmail.com
..junko&mattin:: pinknoise
You see, the backyard of my house is opposite of a school. at the
morning young brats of all ages (from 6 to 12 actually) run screaming
in the schoolyard. one of them always talks, screams etc in a particularly
irritating high-pitched, at-the-verge-of-nervous-breakdown and always
complaining voice [which in my opinion is a proof that a) the parents
of this kid are probably fucked up and b) the brat himself is gonna
grow to be fucked up as well - but]. some mornings when i do my gardening
his voice makes me absentmindedly ponder on the virtues of sterilisation
among other things.
now this 30 minutes cd starts with junko screaming some japanese
words. and you guessed it: he has very similar tone. the accompanying
noise performed by mattin starts with a whitehouse style
high frequency feedback and moves on in some modulating noises. by
the point that after 25 or so minutes a sonar mayhem is blissfully
created the guy has not yet stoped screaming. i wonder if this was
a live take or maybe they looped his voice? but i think it was a"real"
take. deary deary me.
i think i would love to see this live but (as is common in most noise
releases) i am not sure i am gonna play this often. but then again
you can call me prejudiced and you'd be right
|--cd | released by mattin
..yuria comp. A live
compilation with all 10 music projects that played in yuria festival
which is an annual athenian festival in vinyl record shop. so all
10 groups are from the avant garde scene of athens. first and last
tarck are a joke. free piece of tape have a nice melodic and somehow
catchy track which reminded me of the swiss g.las then there
are some general electronic acts which failed to really garb my attention
but bombie baumann's one did: bass and drum loops, nice,
clear sound (too much like pan sonic though). drog_A_tek
offer us the usual pice of melody, melancholy and noise improvisation,
a nice track, you feel the need to feel nostalgic even when there
is nothing to feel nostalgic for, then there is also some piano-trumpet
improvistaion by minimaximum improvisation and a wild, noise
drumming and shouting track by trypanosoma. there's also
a track by my humble self but don't expect me to review it. all in
all a worthy listening
|--cd | released by vinylmicrostore
..f.n.s I listened
to this over and over again. norwegian frenderik ness sevendal
blends acoustic and mechanical instruments like synths and guitars
and noises. when i first listened to it i thought of early psychic
tv and although i changed my mind it shares with psychic
tv the psychedelic element. the music ranges form post-folk to
the plain weird and from there on to something like post-industrial?
thing is it makes your mind float and your feelings move so yes, thumbs
up on this one
|--cdr | released through clearsnare@yahoo.com
..anti-loss A collaboration
between various people and music projects form slovenia, poland, denmark
and france. electronic noises, soundtrack like sounds (maybe also
audio parts form movies?) clicks and field recordings, interact smoothly
with each other, resulting in sometimes rhythmic or other times abstract
soundscapes.the improvised character is present but both tracks keep
their consistency along with the listener's interest. really nice
one! rel. by the new and promising polish label sqrt-label
|--mini cdr | released by sqrt-label
..vanessa van basten
Two guys from italy using guitars, electronics,bass and drum machine,
creating post-rockish soundscapes. The influence of bands like isis
or godflesh is easily noticed, still the guitar drones are
nice, the drum machine is also used good and these six songs are a
nice listen (with the only drawback, some words in italian from movie
soundtracks i guess, which in my opinion sound a bit out of place).
as i gather this is their first recordings so, i guess it sounds promising,
if nothing else
|--cdr | released through vanessavanbasten
..taku
sugimoto, yasuo totsuka, mattin:: training thoughts I put
this in the cd player in my room and sat in the living room. after
a while my housemate asks "why don't you put some music?"
i reply that i did. we eat and smoke, suddenly there is a sound.
here we go, i thought. but then again silence making this sound
almost an accident. after half an hour you start to think about
maybe a situation of extreme embarassment maybe a result of the
friction between different cultures, when 3 musicians are seated
together but none dares to really play something fearing he will
insult the others. there was some promising rumbles towards the
end though but these also proved a false alarm after 65 minutes
and an enjoyable meal the cd just ended. we had to theorise on the
unecological habbit of wasting precious recording space when so
many poor musicians can even print a 3" cd.
BUT, i am not one to give up easily. next day here i go again. this
time in my room with the volume full open. The situation is better
as once in a while you can distinguish some sounds and frequencies
but one is usually aware is the absence of them. i have no idea
how this would feel on a live performance, maybe it would be really
nice and thought provoking , but as Korzybski once stated the map
is not the territory and a live recording is not the live, so a
cd should be able to stand on its own.I am listening to this once
again as i write these lines and the only thing i listen is some
nice rhythms but it's throbbing gristle from my housemate's
room. so..
|--cd | released by mattin
..billy
bao:: r'n'r granulator 4 songs by x. ekizia, billy bao,
mattin, a.lopez, pablo reche and alan courtis.1st
song is a r'n'r mayhem, where everything is going faster and nastiest.
2nd is along the same line only that at points the whole sound is
heavily granulated sounding liek your cd has problems. these were
the two shortest tracks, mind you. third one starts with a sole
bass kick which is repeated every 2-3 seconds and gradually sounds
are filling the space in between. frequencies, mic sounds, feedbacks
and the build up comes abruptly again in the form of fast garage,
rock and roll. which dies after one minute leaving behind a nice
frequency drone which is actually the 4th track. more sounds come,
a guitar is tormented, mechanical sounds come and go, resulting
in a nice and rich music environment. sure, a strange mix but i
feel it will start growing on me. besides, uneasy sounds are always
good
|--cd | released by mattin
