Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Ulaan Khol – I

Steven R. Smith is Ulaan Khol, another in a series of his solo guises. He has worked extensively under his given name, as well as Hala Strana, and as a member of Thuja and Mirza. I is being billed as the first installment of the Ceremony trilogy, and it’s a stunner, I’m happy to report. I’m most familiar with Smith’s work as Hala Strana, which is multi-instrumentalist music performed at least in part within Eastern inflicted modes and scales. Hala Strana’s recordings are usually relatively lo-fi and primitive in nature, and seemingly at least partly improvised. This first Ulaan Khol album is a bit of a departure from the Eastern inflected, more folky (for lack of a better term) sounds of Hala Strana.

Starving Weirdos – Summon With Electric Sorcery
Summon with electric Sorcery finds the Starving weirdos returning with some of their darkest, unnevering and brain altering material so far. It finds them Moving on and developing their sound, but still keeping the air and sonic taste that makes them one of the most original and unclassifiable projects around today.

Aube – Imagery Resonance
This is Aube first new, original and non reconstructing of others work or collaboration in some years- made using synthesizers instead of his usual manipulated sound source. Offering an hour of new sound works in all.