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From Musique Machine:

Vomir – Maniac
‘Maniac’ is Vomir’s Harsh Noise wall tribute to the ultra sleazy and violent 1980’s US slasher of the same name which followed the exploits of fictional new York serial killer Frank Zito. This CDR consists of a single forty six minute ‘wall’ of crude, crass and nasty HNW matter that fits perfectly the nihilistic and sleazy feel of the film.

The Rita and Alo Girl – Collaboration
This collaboration brings together Canadian based noise project The Rita, whose one of the orignators of the HNW sound. And Italian harsh noise/HNW artist Alo Girl,whose one of the more recent innovators of the HNW form. On offer here are two sides of 12 inch vinyl which each offer up a fourteen minute long track of thick, deep and impenetrable ‘wall’ of noise.

Emit – The Dark Bleeding Gods
‘The Dark Bleeding Gods’ is the second collection of rare & out of print tracks from the now defunct avant grade, darkly nasty and deranged Uk Black metal project Emit which morphed into the safer sounding,Mediaeval soaked, discordant guitar and organ high project Hammemit.

Naked Girl Killed In The Park – Night Prowl Anthems
This wonderfully named project is an Giallo obsessed HNW collaboration between Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus, Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, ect) and Thomas Mortigan(RU-486, Black Leather Jesus, black metal band Octagon and onwer/runner of Destructive Industries label). Night Prowl Anthems is the projects third release, and it features four mainly short(by HNW standards) and moorish Harsh Noise Wall and static textured tracks.

Efterklang – Performing Parades(CD+DVD)
“My frustration is that there are no frustrations,” remarks Efterklang’s Casper Clausen on the ‘behind the scenes’ documentary accompanying this live CD and DVD of the group performing their critically-acclaimed 2007 album, ‘Parades’, in collaboration with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. This comment neatly summarises the main issue with the music on both the original album and this new version: by lacking in frustration, it also lacks degrees of contrast in tension and release, the type that can incite drama and stimulate through counterpointing conformity with deviance, cleanliness with dirt or the intellect with the visceral. The compositions on ‘Parades’ have plenty of the former but too little of the latter, and being originally written for orchestral accompaniment, its rearrangement is no different.

From Music and More:

FRIDAY, JUNE 04, 2010
Odean Pope – Odeans List (In + Out Records, 2010)

THURSDAY, JUNE 03, 2010
Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi Recordings, 2010)

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