Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Wilt – Cemetery Road / Dead Electroniks
This double disc set celebrates the tenth anniversary of American act Wilt who have over the last ten years brewed up a deep & dark decaying Americana lined mixture of: dark drone matter, downturned post rock weaved with country & folk touches, murky electrionca and windswept ‘n’ creaking cinematics that bring to mind all the sinister & dark connors of the great US of A.

The Skull Defekts + The Sons Of God – Received In Studio Dental, Gothenburg
‘Received In Studio Dental, Gothenburg’ is a very tense, brooding & at times intense mixture of: scuttling, twitching & uneasy improv. And drifting to pressing drone throbs ‘n’ dips to more suffocating noise drone hovers later on in the piece. This collaboration brings together Swedish drone & ritual rock makers The Skull Defekts & two piece performance/noise project The Sons Of God.

Namazu Dantai – Black Lily In A White Pond
‘Black Lily In A White Pond’ is the first release from German based noise maker Sascha Mandler’s new HNW project Namazu Dantai. Mandler’s also in the excellent, but brain screwing noise meets shaman music project Izanami’s Labour Pains.

Encomiast / The Copper Thieves – 139 Nevada
139 Nevada, Central City, Colorado has been the address of the Belvidere Theatre since it opened in 1875. Claims that it’s haunted attracted local musicians Ross Hagen and Neville Harson to make some recordings inside the building, hoping to reveal electronic voice phenomena, perhaps left behind by previous artistes. Unfortunately, the ghosts refused to perform but the combination of an old grand piano resting on the stage and a charged atmosphere prompted further recordings of improvisations with assorted musicians, whose manipulated results occupy the two disks in this set.

Sado-Mania – Permission
The Sado-Mania project brings together Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem, An Innocent young throat Cutter, Black Leather Jesus,ect) and Maria Velasquez(Tissa Mawartyassari, Death Carries A Cane, Devil Times Five, Sado-Mania, Torso Law). This project takes it’s name & much of it’s sleeve imagery from Jess Franco’s sleazy women in Prison movie of the same name from 1981. This C30 tape offers up two fairly unchanging yet rewarding sides of HNW matter.