24.6. v Chapeau Rouge

http://www.last.fm/event/1032715

Sink - Process (Kult of Nihilow/Kaos Kontrol, 2008)



The Kult Of Nihilow website has this to say about Sink's The Process: "This is not a sludge record. This is not a drone record. This is not an experimental record." Which is not actually true, since it's actually an awesome mix of all three. More accurately, it's not an average sludge record, or a typical drone record, and isn't like most experimental music, but that's precisely what makes it so appealing.
Sink are from Finland and have shared a split with aQ faves, UK dronelords Marzuraan, and they traffic in a sound that is both crushingly slow, blindingly heavy, as well as mysteriously dark and droney, but just like anything, it's what you do with all that stuff that matters. Anyone can tune down and play an E chord for 10 minutes. But not anyone can make it sound like angels singing.
On their split with Marzuraan, we described their sound as "a swirling, sludgy wall of hissing fuzzed out blackened ultra noise, harsh and horrific", but there's nothing like that here. The Process is much more musical, and more measured, for a band who is typically defined as a sludge band, they spend much of their time unfurling dark muted shimmery dronescapes, hushed whispery smears of barely audible thrum. And even when they are dropping some serious sludge, it's not really sludgey, the guitars are thick and corrosive, but glimmering and crystalline, rife with haunting chords, the vocals deep monk like chants. The opener here is the perfect example, it sounds like Tibetan monks fronting a doom band, only the doom is strangely melodic, and hauntingly cinematic. Halfway through the track fades into some dark chiming ambience, all muted and blurred, before the crushing doomic blows begin to rain down again, those vocals returning to underpin everything with their thick rumbling whir (sounding quite a bit like Tuvan throat singing). It's a pity the track is only 11 minutes long. We could have gone for twice that! At least.
The second track is all soaring Sunroof! like streaks of sound and strummed acoustic guitars, sounding like a noisier doomier Kiss The Anus, but all washed out and smeared into bleary shoegazey drifts, reminding us of a way more abstract Nadja or Angelic Process actually.
Strangely enough, almost the whole rest of the record is devoid of any hint of sludge or doom, instead exploring longform guitar drones, super minimal sinewave skree, gentle dreamlike ambience, rumbling cavernous dronemusic, until finally, the not at all appropriately titled final song "The Silence", which is anything but silent, four minutes of murky corrosive drift, but like the opener, rife with mysterious melody, disembodied vocals, glimmering chordal blur, all spread out into a thick sluggish doom-ic haze, that seems to blot out the sun, bathing everything in a burnished blood red glow.

http://rapidshare.com/files/222820565/sink_-_the_process.rar

Ovskum - -- (Raging Bloodlust, 2008)



While we wait patiently for the long awaited first proper lp release (reissuing some of the previous cassettes) from Italy's obscure black metallers Ovskum, coming soon on the newly launched Obscure Origins label, we're graced, or cursed perhaps by what is essentially a new full length from these masters of mysterious blackened mood music. Four tracks, nearly 40 minutes, of a sound that really can hardly be compared to any other black metal groups. A gorgeously blackened languid doom, abject and miserable and suicidal, but also hauntingly pretty, the guitars clean, seemingly floating over a bed of buzz, tangled minor key melodies, the drums a barely there pound, the whole sound so weary and woozy, the vocals appropriately anguished and howled, but way back in the mix, it's the guitars that weave the magic here, lots of harmonics, spare almost post rock guitar lines, the sound not so much loping as sort of slowed down and dragging, like listening to Make A Change Kill Yourself, with someone pressing the finger down on the vinyl, lethargic and warbly, black, and sorrowful, and haunting and almost otherworldly. A bit like a less distinctly doomy Skepticism, or maybe like a black metal Mazzy Star or something. That same sort of gauzy shoegazey quality, but not the way most bands use that quality to get all blissy, Ovskum take that sound somewhere much more abstract and dark, a truly creepy, haunting, mopey blackened slowcore. So fucking great.

http://rapidshare.com/files/215393894/Ovskum-Demo_2008-Tape-2008-BERC.rar.html

James Ferraro Jarvid 9: Kava Jar Race (New Age Tapes No Cat 2xCD-R, 2009)



First limited double set in a series of three volumes self-released by James Ferraro of The Skaters documenting his exploration of inner/outer sci-fi landscapes populated by cyborg lizard deities. Kava Jar Race is a staggering two disc set subtitled: Jarva Jarva Headplug In; Finger Prints Plug Into Headstream Of Déjà vu Through The Desert Sands Of Jarvid 9 Into Time Tracks Of Red Earth Download Memory Of Fossils Underneath The Desert Sands Of Jarvid 9. Titles run through visions such as “API Uplink Sand Palace Of Déjà vu”, “The 9th Reborn Planet Of Jarvid D’Rog Nomad Race”, “Lizard Dreams Of Adobe City” and “Fingerprints Of Jarvo Sand Race”. The imagery combines weird Frank Herbert-styled desert planet vistas with the kind of ophidian power visioning of Kenneth Grant’s Nightside narratives while the sonics stretch the length of Ferraro’s career. There are aspects of Sun Ra’s keyboard/drum wall style, Balinese gamelan trances, amazing new age synth beauty ala Harmonia et al, cut-up video game sonics, mantric vocal chants, deep pools of blissful tonefloat ala Popol Vuh… but alla the music has a pronounced reptilian/lizard quality with skittering beats and some of James’s most aggressive vocals giving way to actual attempts at lizard language, combing variously carved glottal phonetics, bursts of hissy breath and even hiccupping frog patterns slowed-down to specific gravities. There are more ideas in a single track here than in the careers of most ‘drone’ groups. One of Ferraro’s most mind-bogglingly sustained transits of other states of there. Highly recommended.

http://www.mediafire.com/?n5v0nn4ytxm

http://www.mediafire.com/?gwmnnm5znyz



James Ferraro Jarvid 9: Gecko (New Age Tapes No Cat 2xCD-R, 2009)



Second limited double set in a series of three volumes self-released by James Ferraro of The Skaters documenting his exploration of inner/outer sci-fi landscapes populated by cyborg lizard deities. Gecko is a staggering two disc set with titles that run through visions such as “Origins Of Geckopia”, “Head Tenticle” (sic), “Jumping Gecko Warrior” and “Spotted Mothership”. The imagery combines weird Frank Herbert-styled desert planet vistas with the kind of ophidian power visioning of Kenneth Grant’s Nightside narratives while the sonics stretch the length of Ferraro’s career. The sounds are particular lizard-inflected with heavy vocals from James that are quite unlike any of his previous work, using atavistic regression to access visions of the reptile mind and combining obscure phonetic retorts with frog tones and pre-verbal hiccups in a way that erases most timid contemporary attempts at ‘sound poetry’. There are heavy tribal zones that feature massed vocals ascending to twin suns of tone through cultic flute/synth/hand drum ecstasy, heavy jungle exotica, gorgeous plateaus of brain stasis invaded by lucid drones, deep eternal music stylings... so much to take in here. One of Ferraro’s most mind-bogglingly sustained transits of other states of there. Highly recommended.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mgzinymdnnm

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmetj5zzjog



James Ferraro Jarvid 9: Flushpipe (New Age Tapes No Cat 2xCD-R, 2009)



Third limited double set in a series of three volumes self-released by James Ferraro of The Skaters documenting his exploration of inner/outer sci-fi landscapes populated by cyborg lizard deities. Flushpipe is a staggering two disc set that features cover art showing the view down to the pyramids from a hovering UFO filled with cryogenically-preserved aliens and titles like “Skyhanger”, “Flush Stream Of Sting Ray Blue Grid” and “Anemone Motion”. The imagery combines weird Frank Herbert-styled desert planet vistas with the kind of ophidian power visioning of Kenneth Grant’s Nightside narratives while the sonics stretch the length of Ferraro’s career. The sound is James’ most convincing amalgam of classic Skaters-styled vertical ritual with murky tape psych, ecstatic new age keyboard visions and post-Multitopia future/primitive 1980s computer game reverie. There are dense fields of bell tones that sound like John Coltrane’s Ascension broadcast via a shortwave radio at the bottom of a wind tunnel, gorgeous keyboard hymnals that hover over a bunch of simple, primal patterns ala Harmonia/Cluster and heavy vocals that are quite unlike any of his previous work, combining bursts of aggression with possessed reptile tongues and oracular insect voices. One of Ferraro’s most mind-bogglingly sustained transits of other states of there. Highly recommended.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zg3ijymjruj

http://www.mediafire.com/?ouzzxxzlinn

Digitalis Limited presents... "Skull Bundle" a series of split tapes by Ajilvsga (Digitalis Limited, 2009)



http://www.discogs.com/Ajilvsga-Skull-Bundle/release/1710842

The procession was timed so that she would be left alone on the scaffold at the moment the morning star rose. When the morning star appeared, two men came from the east with flaming brands and touched her lightly in the arm pits and groins. Four other men then touched her with war clubs. The man who had captured her then ran forward with the bow from the Skull bundle and a sacred arrow and shot her through the heart while another man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle. The officiating priest then opened her breast with a flint knife and smeared his face with the blood while her captor caught the falling blood on dried meat. All the male members of the tribe then pressed forward and shot arrows into the body. They then circled the scaffold four times and dispersed.

http://zipd.de/zF16066Xk8g.rar

par fotek RUiNU a Skaters Solo Projects z XT3
http://kvu.rajce.idnes.cz/RUiNU_-_SKATERS_SOLO_PROJECTS_-_XT3_-_Praha_-_09.04.09/

Nějaké rozhovory jsem si s nimi přečetl. Osobně mám s tím jejich "světonázorem" problém. Chápu ale tvoje rozhodnutí sem politiku netahat, a tak se nechci pouštět do nějaký jalových sporů.

ADAMBERNAU: to se týká i druhého dema (btw v sestavě byl i Neige takže pozor na Alcest a Amesoeurs :-) ). Peste Noire sice nejsou ns nicméně když by si někdo angažovaný :-) přečetl rozhovory, tak asi nadšený nebude...


Nicméně jak jsem psal při založení tohoto auditka. Politiku a kádrování sem tahat nehodlám.

JONY: Opravdu velice blízko: demo "Aryan Supremacy" (2001)

btw malkuth (bm projekt lidí z no-neck blues band) mají venku také nové album (zatím jen na vinylu, cd bude během pár týdnů). vydávájí opět hospital productions

MATHEW: jinak samozřejmě všichni uvědomělí hoši a dívky to nebudou ani stahovat neb peste noire mají velmi blízko k fašismu :-)

JONY: super! zrovna dneska jsem si říkal, že znovu opráším některé starší kousky, takže tohle přišlo jako na zavolanou.)

MATHEW: to album je naprosto skvělé

rozhovor s bone awl

http://klaxonrecords.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/bone-awl-interview-with-apocryphal/#more-25

JONY: !!!

Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor (2009)

http://rs349gc.rapidshare.com/files/216660936/Peste_Noire-2009-Ballade_cuntre_lo_Anemi_francor_metalarea.org_by_Kira.rar

MATHEW: imho většina redakce je už nad věcí

ještě tracklist

TEMNOSTROM
1. Nataša se pořád neprobudila
2. Let netopýra
TECHNOSTROM
1. Rituální nastavení mikrovlnky na tři minuty
2. Ibalginea
HUSTOLES
1. Tady je Krakonošovo
2. Bechericism
ČERNOLOL
1. Tlačítko na dálkovém ovládání, které nevím, co znamená
2. Měsíc v novu
3. Měsíc znovu

JONY: lol - a poměrně mě překvapuje, že tihle black borci mají taky smysl pro humor.)