The publication formerly known as Grim Humour. 52 A4 pages devoted to interviews with Michael Gira / THE ANGELS OF LIGHT, Frans de Waard, Anthony di Franco / NOVATRON (also of RAMLEH, SKULLFLOWER) and Roger Doyle; a little fiction; the second helping of Amongst The Dust (feature on psychedelic / rock / exotica etc. obscurities) and an extensive reviews section (covering experimental / post-industrial / avant-garde / electronica etc. music, books & films). Recommended.
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DEL - 'Projectionist Please Focus' CD (OHM)
(2000) This is a collection of Norwegian improv noise collective DEL's live performances between 1998 and 2000. The seven man unit seems to use all manner of junk, and drums, guitars etc and created vaguely rhythmic experiments, that often combine to create sounds that can be gentle and excellent drifting ambience, or even gel to create SKULLFLOWER / RAMLEH workouts. Remixes from Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre (both members of Jazkamer / Jazzkammer) and Jon Birger Wormdahl (KA).
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HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE - 'Volume 1' CD (DroneDisco)
(2006) Five tracks, totaling approx 50 minutes, by the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph), collaborating with C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two of Hair Police). Originally released as a tour merch item, this edited and re-sequenced edition begins with an appropriate invocation and from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. The ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic / instinctual spasm. Packaged in a square DVD case with inserts and 1 of 5 badges.
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HOTOTOGISU & PRURIENT - 'Snail On A Razor' CD (Hospital Productions)
(2006) Live 'in person' collaboration of mid-ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from Matthew Bower (Total, Skullflower, Ramleh, Pure, Sunroof! etc) Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zäimph etc.) and Dominick Fernow (Vegas Martyrs, Nihilist Assault Group, Ash Pool etc).
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RAMLEH - 'Too Many Miles' CD (Dirter Promotions)
Project of Philip Best (Whitehouse) and Gary Mundy (Toll, ex-Skullflower). This is the eagerly awaited CD collection of all the long unavailable Ramleh singles (1990-1995). While they were originally grouped as a noise band with contemporaries such as Whitehouse, Ramleh have migrated over the years to be considered one of the leading exponents of UK "noise rock" (similar to Skullflower etc). Many of these tracks originally only saw a very limited release. Features artwork from Philip Best’s personal collection and is presented in a glossy digipak. Ltd x 1000. Rare and long out of print!
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SKULLFLOWER - 'IIIrd Gatekeeper' CD (Crucial Blast)
Reissue of Skullflowers 1992 album 'IIIrd Gatekeeper' (originally on Justin Broadrick's Headdirt label), featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Anthony DiFranco. This is Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. A skulldozing dose of post-industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh. Gatefold digifile (retaining much of the original artwork), with new liner notes and a complete remastering.
ZAIMPH - 'Sexual Infinity' CD (Hospital Productions)
Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu) on her first proper solo full length. "Sexual Infinty" stands refreshingly organised into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes, entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. comparisons to early 80s power electronics and industrial acts as Uncommunity, Mauthausen Orchestra and Ramleh reside in the underbelly of Zaïmph's ability to generate ominous, gritty, and doom laden atmospheres, cloaked in a thick lush drone. what begins with raw ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital gripping electronic tension.
(2000) This is a collection of Norwegian improv noise collective DEL's live performances between 1998 and 2000. The seven man unit seems to use all manner of junk, and drums, guitars etc and created vaguely rhythmic experiments, that often combine to create sounds that can be gentle and excellent drifting ambience, or even gel to create SKULLFLOWER / RAMLEH workouts. Remixes from Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre (both members of Jazkamer / Jazzkammer) and Jon Birger Wormdahl (KA).
