Avant Music News

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Samuel Sighicelli – Caravaggio (2005)
Kronos Quartet – Kevin Volans – Hunting: Gathering (2005)
Miriodor – Avanti! (2009)
Univers Zero – Clivages (2010)
Radio Massacre International – Time and Motion (2010)
Algernon – Ghost Surveillance (2010)
Gato Libre – Shiro (2010)
Rick Jensen Quartet – Night Shelter (2010)

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From Musique Machine:

Fukte – ??????? [
'??????? [Siberia]‘ finds Italian based HNW project Fukte offering up a single one hour long track of walled noise, thats made purportedly from unedited digital recordings of a plane flight over Siberia using digital recorder with stereo microphone.

Iron Curtain – Wall ‘n’ Brick
‘Wall ‘n’ Brick’ offers up 10 tracks of short HNW making- the idea behind the album is that each track is a brick in a huge wall of sound i.e. the whole album is seen as a wall. It’s an interesting concept, though for me it’s more than a little underwelming.

Watch Me When I Kill – Primal Impulse
Watch Me When I kill is one of the lesser know Richard Ramirez(Werewolf Jerusalem, An Innocent young throat Cutter, Black Leather Jesus,ect) projects. It’s been in existence since 2008 putting out six release thus far, the project also features Ella Einsmire(ex Anal Drill, S.S. Electronics, E.E.E). Primal Impulse is a enjoyable, thick & often jitter bound slice HNW making with some neat and at times amusing Giallo film samples interlaced through-out the tracks just under half an hour runtime.

Andrea Marutti / Tommaso Cosco – Turra
The mysterious Archiaro is to be found in Catanzaro of Southern Italy – Tommaso Cosco describes it as “a countryplace where memory and becoming merge in a present full of inspired consciousness”. Occasionally it seems to be used as a low key venue for friends to perform experimental, ambient works in a natural setting – something that Andrea Marutti, head of Milan’s Afe Records, took advantage of in 2007 when he incorporated some of Tommaso’s ideas into a solo live performance that was released by Nextera the following year as ‘The Subliminal Relation Between Planets’.

Wicked King Wicker – God Is Busy… Save Yourself
‘God Is Busy… Save Yourself’ is a truly suffocating, crushing & black as night excise in sludge infected & barbwire noise ripped doom metal. This truly is one of the thickest, nastiest sounding doom records I’ve ever come across- that is best approached only if you enjoy both doom & all out noise mix.