FRANS DE WAARD - 'Vijf Profielen' CD (Alluvial Recordings)
(2007) In November 2005, Frans de Waard (Beequeen) spent a week recording and composing on location in the small Dutch town of Vlissingen. A Marine shipyard is located in the centre of the town, but has closed due to regeneration of the area. As part of an exhibition '[Mijn] Domein', Frans De Waard was asked to reflect on this transition. He recorded the remaining activities in the building, where so called 'profiles' are made for use in shipbuilding. In this musical piece things move from hectic and busy (in the first profile) to emptiness (in the fifth profile), although it's one piece. Using mainly recordings made on site of elevators, metal cutting and room ambience, this piece is a strong work of field recordings with minor electronic processing.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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NICK CASTRO & THE YOUNG ELDERS - 'Come Into Our House' CD (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Gracefully immersing 60's/70's UK acid balladry with Middle eastern traditional music and communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. The Young Elders is a truly stellar cast of musicians who played in folk and avantrock ensembles like Current 93 (Joolie Woods), In Gowan Ring (B'Eirth), Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki's Network. A mixture of folk ballads, psychedelic folk rock, Middle eastern traditional music and Neofolk. The result being astonishing, challenging and utterly psychedelic. A modern Acid Folk masterpiece! Beautifully presented in a 6-panel digipak with gold print.
OMEI - 'When All Your Ghosts Are Tired' CD (Ninth Circle Music / Misanthrope Studio)
Omei expresses itself through the idea of "one thought for a thousand years." The same memory played over and over. The mind to the grindstone with nothing ahead but hours and hours of empty slow time. Two long pieces of grinding, sometimes turbulent minimalist drone and industrial from this SICKNESS side-project. Features contributions from James Keeler (WILT) and Joe Colley (CRAWL UNIT). Aggressive, negative, empty and burned. Ltd x 500 copies in slimline jewelcase.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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VA - 'Cornucopia: C. Works' 2 x CD (The Locus Of Assemblage)
"C. Works" is the result of 14 artists remixing Cornucopia's 37 minute track ".c." into their own composition. Remixers included: Omei, Needle & Sony Mao, Lasse Marhaug, Black Sand Desert, RGV, Ultra Milkmaids, David Wells, TV Pow, duul_drv, Andrew Duke, Kim Cascone, Critikal, Zanstones, & Francisco López. Double CD set packaged in a DVD case. Ltd x 500.
Omei expresses itself through the idea of "one thought for a thousand years." The same memory played over and over. The mind to the grindstone with nothing ahead but hours and hours of empty slow time. Two long pieces of grinding, sometimes turbulent minimalist drone and industrial from this SICKNESS side-project. Features contributions from James Keeler (WILT) and Joe Colley (CRAWL UNIT). Aggressive, negative, empty and burned. Ltd x 500 copies in slimline jewelcase.