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Habsyll – MMVIII
Habsyll are a doomed drone collective and this is their extremely weighted, crushing and horrifying début album which spews forth tow painful, long and skull grindingly heavy tracks of that recall the long form doom tortures of the likes of Moss and at times Khanate; through MMVIII is very much it’s own slice of total stream rolling pained doom.

Tiziano Milani – Im Innersten
Tiziano Milani is an Italian based experimental artists who mixers together sound art, ambience & drone textures, improv, electro acoustics, and slight noise tendencies into long shifting, dreamy and varied long form sound paintings that as he calls acoustic architecture.

Merzbow – Camouflage
Camouflage finds Merzbow in a more psychedelic noise sound mode, offering up three lengthy tracks of kaleidoscopic, shifting and multi-coloured noise matter to pummel, boil and expand your mind with.

The Thirteenth Assembly – (un)sentimental
The Thirteenth Assembly are a jazz collective who take in influences of funk, modern classic, avant metallic riff chug and all manner of genre hints to make a very vibrate, atmospheric and varied album.

Brothman,Pyle & Mckinlay – Self Titled
This little self titled release finds Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinaly (otherwise know as the Starving Weirdos) taking the work of Arcata, California resident and respected jazz pianist Darius Brotman and chop it up into eerier, chilling, discordant and filmatic shapes.

Japanther – Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt
Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt is a very bizarre split between dumb ‘n’ bubblegum art skate punk and lengthy, surreal and plan odd spoken word texts over strange stripped electro beat work-out, odd field recording ‘n’ samples mix and match.

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The Skull Defekts – The Temple
The Temple sees The Skull Defekts refocusing their droning, hypnotic, often weighty and noisy sound into more muscular and tribal rhythmic noise rock form that’s laced with occultic undertones and dense creative flare; with a liberal use of vocals and a high dependence on doomed metallic meets punked riff matter.

Mathias Delplanque – L’Inondation
Music for installations is not seldomly more experience rather than music. Listened with full attention it might appear a bit dull, but as an ambiance—a mood—it can work quite well.

Merzbow – Eucalypse
Eucalypse sees Merzbow weaving in a more atmospheric and at times melodic guitar lines and noise textures into his dense noise sound. All to make an album that feels like mixture of the noise cinematics of 07’s Coma Berenices & the emotionally singed guitar and noise scapeing of 06’s Minazo Vol 1

Brethren of The free Spirit – The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb
Brethren of The free Spirit are the duo of guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem.The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb is the projects second album of sublime, earthy and beautiful collection of folk/ classical stringed tracks that are both hypnotic in the repetition and atmospheric and melodic in there flow.

Death InJune – Live in Italy 1999 plus(Dvd)
Live in Italy 1999 plus is an highly enjoyable, wonderful performed and filmed hour long concert recorded at the Tpo in Bologna on the 29th of May 1999. The concert takes in the electronic, sampled and big percussive sound of Death in June, as well as the tight yet melodic neo- folk acoustic side of the project too.

Noism – ±
When it comes to ‘extreme music‘, the Japanese seem to have cornered the market for years. The emancipation of noisemaking has made it possible to make noise an international sport, but still there’s plenty of intense stuff coming from under the rising sun.

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Essence Music Releases

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MERZBOW
Camouflage

Limited hand-painted, rubber stamped and hand assembled boxset housing the standard edition, cards with psychedelic collages by Masami Akita, a DTS 5.1 version of the album on CDR and, holding the whole set, a painted/stamped fabric bellyband.

MUSLIMGAUZE
Armsbazzar

Investigating selected recordings from the intense period comprised between 1994 and 1997, Armsbazzar brings back together the mighty Hebron Massacre and Gulf Between Us out-of-print singles accompanied by unreleased tracks from the same era! Bryn Jones‘ music will always live in our hearts and minds.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.
41st Century Splendid Man Returns

One of the most absolute beautiful recordings from The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. combo now available on CD! A transcendental psych drone masterpice loaded with motorik movements, interstellar signals, ghostly female voices and free guitars bursts.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO
Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno

The scent of sulphur fills the air and brings on the Japanese psychedelic inferno! Fuzz blasted, ultra riffing, hypnotic guitar chaos and krautrock-influenced experimentalisms meet mantric acid folk and eastern drones from below. A supreme dark slab of punishing psych from the outer cosmos!

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Pumice – Quo
Having been very much taken by Pumice’s last album Pebbles with its barely holding together mix of punky avant guitars, haphazard folk and outside Pop. I was eager to hear Quo and I‘ll have to say I’m hooked once more to this.

Richard Pinhas Merzbow – Keio Line
Both Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Richard Pinhas (Heldon founder) have worked together with many musicians. These couplings don’t always work out to be more than the sum of both, sadly it even can work out less interesting than the solo-efforts of either.

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Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger at REDCAT

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Reed and Krieger play LA’s REDCAT:

October 2-3, 2008

Unclassified: Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger
World Premiere

“[Lou Reed] has gotten so far beyond us that he has come around to meet us from the other side.” Spin

Rock music icon Lou Reed and sonic experimentalist Ulrich Krieger take the stage together for the first time to improvise music and make soundscapes. The pair use guitars, saxophones and an array of electronic treatments to venture into deep acoustic space, drawing on new music, free jazz, avant-rock, noise and ambient in a set of intense conceptual pieces and intuitive improvisations. The artists first met in 2002 for the premiere of Krieger’s transcription and arrangement of Metal Machine Music — Reed’s seminal guitar feedback epic — for the chamber orchestra Zeitkratzer. More recently, Reed has been touring a new stage version of his 1973 rock oratorio Berlin, a work that was the subject of the stunning concert film by Julian Schnabel released this summer. Krieger, who has collaborated with artists from Reed and Lee Ranaldo to Phill Niblock and Merzbow, has been a member of CalArts‘ music faculty since last fall.

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Merzbow – Dolphin Sonar
Dolphin Sonar sees Merzbow returning with another animal rights protest album this time it’s against the horrific and appalling annual slaughter of 2’500 dolphins in Taiji Japan. With Merzbow offering up three searing yet inventive tracks of pulsing electro and guitar noise mayhem, that flits with rhythmic elements and musically touches.

Various Artists – Zelphabet Volume D
The excellent Zelphabet series returns for its forth volume in the proposed 26 volume series and once more it’s another enjoyable collection of experimental and noise matter with this time around only three tracks on offer with one each from Damion Romero, Daniel Menche & Dave Phillips.

Acid Mother Temple & The Cosmic Inferno – Hotter Than Inferno- Live In Sapporo 2008
Hot than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitar’s singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm.

Two Dead Sluts,One Good Fuck – Self Titled

With a name like Two Dead Sluts, One Good Fuck you certainly know your not in for something comfy, calming or nice and this is certainly is not any of those things. This self titled 12 inch album Literally pukes out in sleazy ‘n’ dense fashion a mixture of feedback shorts, brooding/ sinister synth discharge, pummelling noise textures and ranted ‘n’ muffled vocals into your mind.

Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – A Line: Align
Dead Letters Spell out dead words make very stripped and quiet ambient collage music, but here they seem to strip their sound down even further than any of their other work I’ve heard in the past. These are sonics for silent rooms or late at night which even at high volume make little impact.

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