Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Fearthainne – Self Titled
This self titled album is Fearthainne debut album & it offers up two disc & over two hours worth of earthy, primal & emotional raw forest folk. The four piece project features two members of Ambient/ folk Black Metal project Fauna; & though Fearthainne are purely acoustic based project this does sometimes have the barren & angered spirit of black metal raising in it’s veins.

Blood Fountains – Floods
‘Floods’ is the last in a series of albums on the Utech label that are adorned with the dark, surreal artwork of Stephen Kasner, sleeve artist of choice for many of today’s so-called avant-metal musicians. But, unlike all other releases in the series (that includes work by Skullflower, Justin Broadrick and Runhild Gammelsæter) the sound here has also been recorded and mixed by the artist alongside a handful of select associates with the aim of translating paintings into musical concepts.

The Rita – The Voyage Of The Decima MAS
‘The Voyage Of The Decima MAS’ sees The Rita return to the Troniks/Pacrec label which released such landmark & genre classic Rita/HNW recordings as: ‘Thousands Of Dead Gods’ , ‘Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence’ & ‘Total Slitting Of Throats’- but this is far from simply another HNW record or a retread of The Rita’s past work.

Remlap & Werewolf Jerusalem – Collaboration
On offer here is 60 minutes worth of violent & at times darkly atmospheric HWN collaboration between Werewolf Jerusalem(Richard Ramirez‘s most know & prolific project) & Remlap(the harsh wall noise project of Canadian Jake Vida who also runs Pointless Blank records).

Gordon Grdinia’s East Van Strings – The Breathing of Statues
There’s been so much experimental, digital, post-this and post-that stuff entering my ears lately that a disc of music as it might be performed live (gasp) by real people (double gasp) is as refreshing as a hike in the country after years of city asphalt. Such music is far from dead, but I fear it’s been shoved so far into the margins that it has become as much of a niche as, oh, Merzbow.

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