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Lament Configuration - Digging In The Alley (DTA Records)
4 tracks of pounding power noise that also incorporate lush, haunting pads and textures. Powerful and well-done.
(3" CD-R, $6.00, on sale, last copy)
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[ rhythmic noise ]
[mp3 ]
Lamps Leaking Dead Flies - Your Hand is Twisting Fires (Mile 329)
Arrhythmic beats, chaotic yet coherent structures, bursts of melody and much more from a surprising member of Mile 329's roster. Abstract music with a soul.
(CD-R in polybag w/ sticker, out of stock)
Le Vieux Thorax / Giscard le Survivant - self-titled (Ragondins Mondains)
Split release featuring 6 tracks from each project. Surf punk, TV jingles from the 70's, psychedelic electronics, cut-ups and collages are some of the ingredients in this genre-defying sampling fest. Think Mr Bungle meets Nurse With Wound in a bistro, and you're halfway there.
(pro-printed CD-R, $7.00, on sale)
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[ collage ] [ plunderphonics ]
Light of Shipwreck - From The Idle Cylinders (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man band operated by Ben Fleury-Steiner, a Deleware-based drone artist and owner of the excellent Gears of Sand Recordings imprint, which has released discs from some of our favorite ambient/drone/drift artists including Encomiast, Cordell Klier, and Aidan Baker. It was actually through Aidan Baker that we found out about Ben's Light Of Shipwreck project; knowing that we're fanatics for "heavy ambient" sound, Light Of Shipwreck was recommended as something we should check out. At first expecting something more along the lines of the kind of floating ambient rumble that marks so much of my favorite Baker solo stuff, I was pleasantly surprised by how percussive the tracks I heard online from LOS were, the dense, ominous feedback drones and heavy rumbling ur-riffs floating freely over a mechanistic tribal-rhythm freakout. We ended up getting in touch with Ben from Light Of Shipwreck and it turned out that he had a nearly hour-long disc that he wanted to have released through our Crucial Bliss imprint, and here we are: a three-track full length of rich, crushing power-ambient, titled From The Idle Cylinders, a reference to the American Objectivist poet George Oppen whose work is a consistent influence on Light Of Shipwreck's imagery, with huge slabs of resonant sheet metal shimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedback and reverberating guitar drone, and surges of droning tribal Krautrock percussion floating along with distorted ambient doom power chords and washed out vocal cord bliss, each track running upwards of 20 minutes in length. A totally breathtaking piece of music, like Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Can, and Earth swirled together into an austere, hypnotizing heavy-trance masterpiece. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, $10.00)
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Loss - A Letter That Will Never be Sent (Inner Demons)
Stunning debut release from this New York based project. Powerful, raging and emotional material that's a bastardized breed of the best elements of power electronics, death industrial and rhythmic noise. Mastered at Misanthrope Studios.
(3" CD-R in a red velveteen pouch with a 1" black button, out of stock)
Luasa Raelon - Into The Void (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Finally, after a pronounced delay, we're presenting the latest in grim, Cthulhian ambient death from David Reed, the man behind the Snip-Snip CD-R label and the ice-drones of Envenomist. With Luasa Raelon, Reed uses deep-frozen synthesizers and electronics to construct pitch-black sonic sculptures that evoke lost cities carved from obsidian whose masterless machines have been left to grind on into eternity, or descents into stygian pits whose bottoms cannot be gauged. Into The Void is the newest masterwork from Reed, recorded in 2006 and presented here as a five-chapter narrative that chronicles a doomed space exploration, where all that is left are the faint transmissions of apocalyptic dread drifting back at us through time. Beyond ominous, and gorgeously eerie, Reed continues to craft some of the blackest, heaviest drift this side of Gruntsplatter, Troum, Lull, Yen Pox, Melek-Tha, Lustmord, and Megaptera. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, $10.00)
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[ dark ambient ]
Lvnvs - Lvnvs (Old Europa Cafe)
Rumbling old-school industrial from members of Italian projects Teatro Satanico and DSIP. This CD-R gathers a selection from two tape releases put out in 1993 and 1996 on OEC. Some of it has a certain vibe not too dissimilar from Le Syndicat. Pro-printed CD-R + booklet + inlay.
(CD-R, jewel case, 10.00 € - to be repriced in USD)
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Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte / Profile - La Dalia Nera (Sin Organisation)
Split release by Italian martini-guzzlers Profile and M.M.M., whose recent albums on Old Europa Cafe are definitely worth seeking out. Dedicated to James Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia", this release is a great mix of loungy crime jazz / film noir soundtracks with modern dark ambient sensibilities, conjuring up images of dames in nylon stockings flirting with shady PI's in smoke-filled cocktail bars. Fun stuff as always.
(Pro-printed CD-R, oversized A5 color sleeve, 11.00 € - to be repriced in USD)
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Mattias Frisk - En Dag I Väntan På Livet (Self-released)
Mattias Frisk is a graphic artist whose collaboration with fellow Swedes Altar of Flies and Gjalp was released not too long ago on Nil By Mouth. This 29-min debut solo release is a wonderfully strange collage of sputtering noise, acoustic pop music and bird songs. Overall, this is an imaginative piece of work that definitely warrants keeping an eye out his future releases. The presentation is equally unusual, as the CD-R comes inside a sealed envelope addressed to Mattias Frisk with a hand-written letter in Swedish and a color insert.
(CD-R in sealed envelope, $10.00)
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Mattias Frisk - Ett Liv I Väntan På Döden (Self-released)
Second part of what is announced as a trilogy of releases by Swedish artist Mattias Frisk, whose eerie and colorful paintings and collages are just as attention-worthy as his musical output.
Exploring the themes of "time, death and apathy", this second chapter shifts to slower and more dispiriting sounds, with gloomy piano melodies and ghostly drones pierced by brittle noise shards. Solemn and somber like it should be, this definitely comes highly recommended. Packaged like the first volume in an envelope with a hand-written letter in Swedish.
(CD-R in envelope, $10.00)
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[ collage ] [ experimental ] [ noise ]
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