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sábado, 25 de agosto de 2007

Tarentel - Ghetto Beats Under The Surface Of The Sun

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Sello: Music Fellowship/Temporary Residence
Estilo: Post-rock, Psych-rock, Experimental, Ambient, Drone
Para fans de: Labradford, GY!BE, Landing, Tim Hecker, The Dead Texan, Esmerine, Vibracathedral Orchestra...

Tracklist
DISC ONE:
1. Everybody Fucks With Somebody
2. All Things Vibrations
3. Dreamtigers
4. Ghost Trees
5. Le Trash Can
6. Ghetto Ghosts
7. Sun Place
8. Donkey-Bunny
9. Tied To A Tree In A Jungle Of Mystery
10. Cosmic Dust

DISC TWO:
1. Stellar Envelope
2. A Crystal The Size Of Our Moon In The Heart Of A Pulsating White Dwarf
3. Mirrors, Gardens
4. As Quiet As Silentifically Possible
5. Warm Glass
6. Fever Sleep
7. Sleep Map
8. Whistle In The Wires
9. Somebody Fucks With Everybody
10. Where Time Forgot
11. Isalais Delay
12. You Do This. I'll Do That.
13. Lake Light

Tarentel fueron a finales del siglo pasado uno de los principales grupos que dinamitaron la escena rock en lo que se dio por llamar post-rock (junto a Mogwai, GY!BE, DMST, EITS...). El calificativo ya había sido usado antes pero con la llegada de estas bandas su popularidad aumentó exponencialmente. Desde From Bone To Satellite (Temporary Residence, 1999) y a diferencia de otras bandas no han parado de evolucionar y experimentar. Las claves en la última etapa de su evolución han sido la incorporación de Jim Redd (Sonna, Lazarus) a la batería que ha cambiado por completo la forma de componer de la banda, se puede apreciar desde el sobresaliente We Move Through Weather (Temporary Residence, 2004) y la construcción de un estudio propio que les proporciona mayor libertad a la hora de componer y grabar. Si a esto unimos que Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (guitarra) dirige Root Strata no es de extrañar la evolución de la banda en los últimos años con un ritmo de ediciones imparable y una mayor tendencia hacia la experimentación y la improvisación.

Este descomunal Ghetto Beats Under The Surface Of The Sun con sus cuatro volumenes en vinilo ahora reeditados en un 2xCD por Temporary Residence, confirman la evolución. Aquí el principal protagonista es el ritmo, hipnótico, cortante, denso, demencial por momentos. Las capas de beats y baterías superpuestas son protagonistas de los mejores cortes: All Things Vibrations con su comienzo frenético es un buen ejemplo de lo que nos encontaremos, las trepidantes percusiones dan paso en los últimos minutos a un tranquilo paisaje ambiental construido por guitarras, violín y drones espectrales. En el siguinte LP Sun Place brilla con luz propia, una jam de percusiones hipnóticas casi infinita con guitarras intuitivas, sonidos y efectos espe(a)ciales que entran y salen y que se acaba delizando hacia un oscuro espacio de distorsión. Espeluznante! Al igual que la otra pieza larga del 2º LP Tied to tree in a jungle of mystery, dónde la electrónica -cercana a Tim Hecker- tiene una mayor presencia que se acentúa en los siguientes volúmenes. El festín sigue, la experimentación continúa, a medio camino de todo en una fusión imposible de Can, Neu!, This Heat y No Neck Blues Band pero con su propia personalidad, la banda de San Francisco vuelve a expandir las fronteras del rock con su mejor y más completo trabajo hasta la fecha. En noviembre podremos disfrutar de sus improvisaciones en el Tanned Tin.

Extraido de andtheworldsmileswithyou.

Immediately following the release of their acclaimed 2004 album, We Move Through Weather, Tarentel built on their forward momentum by recording another several hours worth of material, its fate to be determined at a later date. Tarentel don't follow up their albums so much as follow through them. To that end, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun is more of an exploded view of the world the band has built and un-built for over a decade, each track acting as a map to an increasingly cosmic landscape. Originally released as a limited edition series of vinyl albums, Ghetto Beats is collected here on two CDs - a full two and a half hours of music. It is a sun-baked cluster of ragged rhythms, splintered sound and scorched shimmer. The production is a caustic mix of hi- and lo-fi, creating a strange sense of timelessness, like discovering a black and white photograph of the future. Available in a numbered, limited edition quadruple gatefold jacket, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun is a widescreen projection of unspeakable charm and unlikely beauty. (Temporary Residence)

viernes, 24 de agosto de 2007

The Holy See - Fucking Physics

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Sello: Foxglove
Estilo: Drone, Noise, Experimental
Para fans de: Tarentel, Axolotl, Mouthus, Burning Star Core...

This is the second release we've listed from The Holy See, the ferocious Tarentel side project featuring two members of that ambient bliss rock ensemble. But you won't find any ambience here, or rock for that matter, but plenty of bliss, that is if your idea of bliss is blown out white hot slabs of coruscating feedback and dense squalls of shimmering guitar skree. Which if you're anything like us, most certainly is!
The opener is just that, a 25 minute ur-drone, massive and throbbing and pulsing, it's like 100 Skullflowers and 100 Sunroof!'s all playing at top volume through the same amplifier. Beautifully distorted and in the red, overblown melodies swallowed whole by thick sheets of metallic shimmer, everything cracking and crumbling before your very eyes, a soothing sonic shower, like dunking your head into a pool of molten sound.
The brief two minute blast of the second track is more of the same, a lightning bolt of grinding blown out electronic buzz, but it's the last track where everything changes.
The corrosive skree of the first track is dialed back a bit, so it's more of a low level sea of glitches and grinding malfunctioning electronics, but beneath, is a strangely serene soundscape, gentle melancholy melodies hover and drift, a warm and languorous shimmer wrapped in dense swirls of fuzzy sonic psychout, eventually building to a fever pitch, but managing to not become 'noisier' just more dense and intense.

jueves, 23 de agosto de 2007

Astral Social Club - Neon Pibroch

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Sello: Important
Estilo: Drone, Psych-rock, Experimental
Para fans de: Burning Star Core, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flower/Corsano Duo, Axolotl, Ashtray Navigations

Tracklist
Tripel Foment
Neon Pibroch
The Big Spree

Astral Social Club is the pseudonym of one Neil Campbell, a man whose involvement in the UK's experimental music scene has been well documented. Through his work with the Vibracathedral Orchestra and the Sunroof! guise he has consistently amazed and enthralled listeners, not only bringing together a huge legion of fans but also managing to influence countless young acts. This latest work sees the astral traveler moving into further realms and finally putting a capital 'c' on club, bringing in 4/4 beats into the psychedelic fold for a change. You think I'm kidding, I can tell, but I'm being deadly serious, pitted head-on against the shimmering beauty of Campbell's synthesized pads and patented drones are pounding warehouse beats, the sort of beats you'd expect to hear at some disused Birmingham lock-up, not in the recorded output a man best known for making jams that out-psych Sunburned Hand of the Man. It's no bad thing though, and as you can probably imagine this ain't your ordinary dance music as Campbell uses the teutonic beats to inform the path of the devastating drones and noise that grows around them. Elsewhere on the album we are treated to two long-form and more typical pieces of blissful dream-drone, but my money's on the first track. Excellent stuff.

lunes, 20 de agosto de 2007

Tarentel: Home Ruckus Double Sided Double Air

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Sello: Type
Estilo: Post-rock, Experimental, Psychedelic, Drone, Ambient
Para fans de: Landing, Labradford, Eluvium, The Dead Texan, Stars Of The Lid...

‘Home Ruckus : Double-Sided Air’ is the latest emission from San Francisco’s shape-shifting Post Post Rockers Tarentel and is one of their most thoughtful moments to date. With references to the clattering percussion of Chris Corsano, the droning ambience of Mirror or Stars of the Lid and the almost spiritual improv of Sunburned Hand of the Man the band have totally sidestepped their previous sound and found a fresh and desperately involving voice. Made up of two tracks, both part of one all-encompassing whole these are home-recorded gems, improvised without being directionless and experimental without losing sight of the fact that people might want to listen to the music. Strictly limited to 500 copies, this is the perfect follow-up to the band’s long-sold out Home Ruckus LP on the Root Strata label, and is sure to be snapped up by eager fans very quickly. Cosmic!

V/A - Bound With Skin

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Sello: Skulls Of Heaven
Estilo: Psych-Folk, Psych-Rock, Experimental, Drone

Tracklisting:

1-1 Tomutonttu Samman Aikaan Toisaalla (9:58)
1-2 Skaters, The .:-:-:. (10:56)
1-3 Ashtray Navigations The Winking Halogen Devil/Lazy Screens/Bunnys With Bullets In Their Mouthes (13:26)
1-4 Zodiac Mountain Hinge Hex (8:33)
1-5 Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice, The Djin Rummy: The Poetry Of Lunacy (7:35)
2-1 Pengo Moats (9:22)
2-2 Maths Balance Volumes Elegy For Breeze Von Goodyear/The Gravediggers Dance (8:20)
2-3 Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood <<.!.>> (12:08)
2-4 White Dog (2) Answers Never Questioned (9:20)
2-5 Armpit Grunge King (9:25)
3-1 Fursaxa & Zaïmph Sword Forest (11:54)
3-2 Axolotl Anola (For ERA) (8:01)
3-3 Astral Social Club Uroo Uroo Uroo (11:00)
3-4 Excepter Cruel Sensation (5:41)
3-5 PW Best Sundogs (13:33)
4-1 Uton Universumista Soremenpaihin (8:07)
4-2 Watersports Elemog (5:07)
4-3 Anla Courtis A-642170/43 (8:09)
4-4 Pan To Scratch The Southern Gate (10:04)
4-5 Taikuri Tali Kello Rittui (7:09)
5-1 Wolfskull Builder (9:33)
5-2 United Bible Studies The Black Lighthouse (11:33)
5-3 Kyrgyz Ghosts Of The Winter Run (12:14)
5-4 Navy Black Kids Are The New Pets (5:20)
5-5 Clixcx Ygrycsil (11:16)

(skull001) V/A - Bound with Skin ( 5 X CD compilation) {an experiment in social obfuscation and dynamic metaphysical acoustics} After three whole years of shifting plans and unusual exchanges, Skulls of Heaven is proud to finally present: Bound with Skin 5 X CD compilation. In the Summer of 2004 we started asking our favorite artists to send us some of their most challenging and unusual work, with the only guideline being that their piece had to be 6 - 13 minutes long. After all this time, we receivd many submissions, and here we have compiled the 25 best, most unsual and stimulating sounds. What results is 5 very unique and disturbing CDs, each in black slip (each with art by Shayde Sartin). Bound with cardstock obi strip and leather cord. With a balance of these humors and your good fortunes to feast here, witness our accumulation of great sonic dilemma... such as:: The spliced tribal frenzies of the Tomutonttu, raw and intimate portraits of the Skaters astral beginings, triptych portrayals of the Ashtray Navigations, a split journey backwards down the Zodiac Mountain, and fucked wwvv more than a non-horse could carry. and // Synth fried elegies from the sick as Pengo, a post apocalypse waltz with the Maths Balance Volumes, until the fried and breaking cast of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood bare down, to hear the first howling death of the White Dog, and the unhinged knighthood of the Armpit responds. while // reUniting the elemetal forces here called Zaimph and Fursaxa, Axolotl scribed sensations for era, a further triolgy from albion's Astral Social Club, the seer describes the tight rope lunacy of Exceptor, and the sounding of the great solar call by ghq and pelt veteran warrior master PW Best until // Uton opens a forth still universe, where Watersports lay bathing in soothing stasis, Anla Courtis plays a solar shaman's lullaby, courting the southern realm by the spirits of Pan to Scratch, and the earthbound mantras of Taikuri Tali where // now ends the great sonic architecture of the Wolfskull, with haunted lighthouse rituals and United Bible Studies, Kyrgyz buzzing meditations posted scripture to the silence, as silence captures Navy Black, and Clixcx revolts at their own analog prophecy. __._,_.___ Limited to 500

Kuupuu - Unilintu

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Sello: Dekorder
Estilo: Free-Folk, Avant-Folk, Psych-Folk, Drone
Para fans de: Islaja, Terracid, Thuja, Fursaxa, Kemialliset Ystävät

About half a year ago, in the exact same publication, I was raving about the first compilation LP of Kuupuu tracks that were reissued by the Dekorder label from Germany. “Unilintu” follows that compilation and revives some more (maybe even all) of the previously “lost” tracks by Jonna Karanka that she released on CD-Rs and one cassette. The 12 tracks on “Unilintu” are culled from the same releases as the ones on its predecessor “Yökehrä”. Judging from the info provided by the label, the tunes on “Unilintu” represent the more solemn side of Karanka´s output. While there is some truth to that, the overall innocence of her music evens out any uneasiness that could arise while listening to Kuupuu.

That said, pieces like “Myrskylaulu” which was taken from the most recent CD-R “Kulta Sulta” are pretty spooky. You hear some thunder in the background and Karanka´s double-tracked voice over a picked guitar melody, and the mood seems not as positive as on some of her other tracks. The same goes for the instantly following piano piece “Onnenkuelaa”. It´s a good thing that there are also tracks like the nature sound filled “Linnut”, the deeply meditative “Lintupolku” or the acapella track “Taivaankotiin” that are more soothing for the soul.

Overall, it´s impossible to say that either “Yökehrä” or “Unilintu” is the better of the two releases. Both LPs taken together can definitely considered classic releases from the Finnish underground that seems to have slown down a bit regarding the speed with which releases had been put out in 2005 and the first half of 2006. While listening to “Unilintu”, it becomes more and more obvious that those lo-fi CD-Rs and the cassette with Kuupuu tracks just had to be saved from being forgotten. The only thing that´s missing now is new material by Kuupuu. 9/10 -- Stephan Bauer (20 February, 2007)

viernes, 17 de agosto de 2007

Grouper - Tried 7"

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Sello: Type
Estilo: Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Shoegaze
Para fans de: William Basinski, Lichens, Jessica Bailiff, Charalambides

Tracklist:
Tried
Everyone in turn

In a short space of time, Portland-based Liz Harris has become the name on the lips of the underground music world having captured hearts worldwide with her distinct blend of noise, ambience and a dream-pop sensibility. She submerges her songs in a shimmering haze of hiss, looping chorals and decomposed guitar feedback, but somewhere in there you can hear the ghosts of My Bloody Valentine or possibly Slowdive. This latest 7” takes her sound one step further still; ‘Tried’ is one of the most overtly dense pieces Harris has produced to date, but flip over to ‘Everyone in Turn’ and you are treated to simply vocals and piano, a piece of music which has to be one of the most affecting Grouper tracks to date. Sounding like a lost track from beneath a 1950s pier somewhere this affirms the reason why we’re all so obsessed with Liz Harris’ unique productions – they just sound like nothing else on earth.