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From Bagatellen:

Ronnie Sundin — Seven Year Silence (Fangbomb)

Based in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmo, trained artist and DIY noisenik, Ronnie Sundin, was given the sobriquet of “Sweden’s most silent man” on the basis of his two previous releases – Morphei on the label Hapna in 2002, and later Hägring on the experimental noise label, Antifrost. In each of these releases, Sundin was [...]

Tarab — Take all the ships from the harbour, and sail them straight into hell.

Oscillation, metal scraping on metal, dragged, large space, little sounds, pushing and pulling, drawing sounds from a well, giving way to a larger atmosphere, looks upwards, the movements made in the space, following ears and eyes, sense of touch, crunching and crackling, ebbs and flows, capturing dead industry, utilising abnormal machinery, thousands of automatons, mechanical [...]

From Sonomu:

Sussan Deyhim, Out of Faze (Venus Rising)
One has to wonder what got in the way of this album´s release, since it was recorded a full fourteen years ago and seems more potently commercial than any of Sussan Deyhim´s brilliant subsequent work. I am not on strong footing about this history of Out of Faze. What I have been able to… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 05:41, 09 Aug 2009

M. Templeton & aA. Munson, Acre Loss (CD & DVD Anticipate)
Acre Loss is a a true audio-visual collaboration. Mark Templeton has long been active on the Edmonton music scene and accrued much praise for his 2007 solo album “Standing on a Hummingbird”. aAron Munson (yes, that´s how he spells it) is an Edmonton-based short-film producer whose work is both… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 05:42, 08 Aug 2009

Jan-M. Iversen, Articulating Ideas (TibProd)
“[T]he nicest and most pleasant noise-band in the world”, Jan-M. Iversen characterizes his duo Bjerga/Iversen. Issuing a kind of greatest hits collection after only four years of actitivity may seem a tad presumptuous, like an eighteen-year-old runway model publishing her autobiography, but seeing… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 10:14, 05 Aug 2009