CLEAR WATER (BAISHUI) - 'Time' CD (Midnight Productions / Oro Prod)
(2008) This work is about the artist's hometown - a small town in the Chinese province of Sichuan... about the memorial arch, which has stood erect for hundreds of years... the bright moonlight on the small bridge over the flowing stream... the cherry blossoms and wild flowers... the elders with their soft voices and laughing faces. 40 minutes of simple and honourable township ballads and folksongs, which have been handed down for generations. An absolutely stunning release, presented in an 8-panel matt digipak with booklet, insert and dried flowers. Like a strange Chinese version of Sturmpercht? All text in Chinese. Ltd x 500.
EXPERIMENTS IN DARKNESS - 'From The Heart' CD (Midnight Productions)
(2008) Experiments in Darkness (Piette / Dead Man's Hill) presents it's 2nd release. On this album you can hear the soundtrack of a man who became more and more introvert against the entire world. A man who got buried under so many problems and sorrows, with no single place where he can lose his grief. And this entire expression of sorrow is accompanied by a background of oppressive neoclassical music. A must have for people who can find (and cure) themselves into music which represents total sorrow and neo-romanticism. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
(2008) The debut album from this Neoclassical / folk project from Beijing, China. "I left my heart in the fairyland. Only took the earthly body through the ordinary. Hoping the silence forest can give me a peaceful moment. It allows me to feel and touch my soul. Pouring the stream deeply in my heart,with the playing of my guitar, but it destroyed by the paleness and bloodiness earth". Quiet and beautiful music. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
JASON CRUMER - 'Ottoman Black' CD (Hospital Productions)
(2008) "Ottoman Black" is an album of midnight drones and true noise. Using powerfully clear electronics as a base for declarative noise bursts, Crumer manipulates the sounds with a resounding animosity. In the vein of Pedestrian Deposit and Air Conditioning, Crumer yields his mean streak to an array of silences over the course of the album. The theme here is personal relations; tracks like "Betrayal After Betrayal" have a conversational quality, both the screams and the muffles, the physicality. "Where Were You" is an actionist-influenced piece of torture. There's nothing not painful here, especially the quiet; the peaks are almost a relief. Ottoman Black is a stern and unforgiving universe. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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THE RITA & WILT - 'Werewolf In The Black Space' CD (Cipher Productions)
Reissue of a limited cassette (Ltd x 10 copies, The Institute For Organic Conversations), with a bonus previously unreleased track and new artwork. This tantalising meeting of the minds maintains the roughly-sawn quality of the original. With such disparate takes on their craft, it's no surprise this CD finds both Wilt and The Rita dragging each other's imposing form into new areas; approached either as a re-imagining and re-contextualising of The Rita, or a brutish noise immersion for Wilt, 'Werewolf In The Black Space' surpasses any obvious confrontation for six moody, bloody, invasive and violent tracks of inspired texturising and midnight stalk which will appeal to those interested in either project's output. Ltd x 500 copies.
