From Musique Machine:
Alo Girl – Gently Before She Dies
This C30 tape from always rewarding and distinctive Italian HNW act Alo Girl takes its name from 1972 Sergio Martino directed Giallo moive (original titled “ Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave” ) which featured Edwige Fenech as the young, beautiful, and self-confident niece of burned out writer & possible killer Luigi Pistilli. The tape features on the cover a still from the movie of Ms Fenech holding a black cat to her naked body.Vorg & Kaffehitler – Self Titled Split
This split c90 tape offers up a length forty five track a piece from two HNW scene newcomers in the form of Vorg & Kaffehitler who both come from the city of Jonkoping in Smaland, Sweden- which is the ninth most populated city in Sweden.Architeuthis Rex – Dark as the Sea
When a band jams in free rhythm with lots of effects pedals, feedback and guitar noise and makes a big soupy, messy drone out of it, I usually call it ‘psychedelic krautrock’ in honor of those groups from the 70’s that first put this sort of sound on record.Somnivore – Clergy of Oneiros
Dictionary time. Somnivore: eater of sleep, if my Latin is correct. And Oneiros—one of the sons of Night in Greek mythology. Sounds to me like we’re in for a tolling, rumbling, cavernous excursion into Lustmørd territory, and we are. But a clone this isn’t: like all good records, the stamp of an individual creator can be heard on each track and in every aspect of the recording. Imagine—or maybe better to say recall—the music that resonates in your inner ear right after you’ve floated up from sleep.TIM the Band – Thank You Roland
Oddly TIM the Band features no one called Tim(or Roland, for that matter!), but instead it features two San Franciscan gentleman who offer up some nice sometimes spaced-out & mellow, to rapidly honked and often electronic loop improvised sax playing.Is – Pressure Vessel
“Pressure Vessel” finds Chicago based HNW/ Harsh noise project Is creating a single, highly tense and violent thirty five minute track that utilizers only the sounds of the carbonation of water.Ïîòåðÿííàÿ Ãîðëà – Self Titled
Ïîòåðÿííàÿ Ãîðëà (Lost Necks) is a brutal & brain roasting HNW collaboration between Sarajevo Neven Misaljevich(of Smrznik and one of the minds behind the excellent Zvukovina label) and Russian based Alexander Kibanov (from Äåíü Ðàñïëàòû, and many other projects and labels such as Mind Noise Disintegration).An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter – The Killer Wore Gloves
“The Killer Wore Gloves” is a 2008 release from this Giallo influenced HNW project, which featured the projects original line-up in the form of Richard Ramirez (of Black Leather Jesus ,Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, ect) & Isabella K (formally of Anal Drill, ERK64, High Heel Maniac, Limacon, Manplug) who left the HNW scene altogether in 2009.Halo Manash – Taiwaskivi(Cd & DVD)
“Taiwaskivi” is the 8th release from ritual ambient project Halo Manash, and it’s also the most recent release on the excellent occult ambient & mysterious Finnish label /collective Aural Hypnox.Francisco López – Untitled (2006-2007)
Francisco López uses sound in a holistic way to reward attentive listeners. Adopting Pierre Schaeffer’s attitude to sound as having the ability to recontextualise the world as we know it, his objets sonore – or aural pictures – explore the sum of an environment and the sound-making elements that inhabit it when divorced from the other four senses. This forms a proposal for the listener to contemplate outside of language, a freedom so rarely offered by the 24/7 loquacity of the modern age.Churner – Florescent Bondage
“Florescent Bondage” finds creative US noise project Churner creating some of his most conventional harmonic and at times approachable work to date. With the album offering up seven very different and inventive takes on noise with elements of distortion buried synth pop and sound tracking elements appearing along the way.
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