AARON DILLOWAY & C. SPENCER YEH - 'The Squid' CD (Hanson Records)
Reissue of the 2007 LP (Hanson Records). Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes) & C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) recorded live to 4-track cassette in the summer of 2006 in Ann Arbor. Dilloway uses tape loops, tape delay, bowed tape and vocals and Yeh uses violin, voice and electronics. Heavy, psychedelic, noisy and expansive. This CD version includes a bonus track collage of the 3 tracks from the duo's out of print False Speech cassette. Digipak.
2009 CD reissue of (ex-Wolf Eyes) Aaron Dilloway's "Chain Shot" LP (2007). 'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work" (Ear Conditioned Nightmare). Contains a 28 minute bonus track. Digipak.
The second in the series of super-limited 10”s from cincinnati’s basement noise terrorist C. Spencer Yeh. Where "Amelia" showed Yeh’s sensitive side, "WSBC/SSS" goes straight for the jugular with pure distorted punk noise, all rampant high end and a growling analogue core. However what sets Yeh away from so many of his contemporaries is that beneath all the hellish distortion and crushing doom is a sense of harmony and pastoral perfection. It’s not often in noise music that you get this kind of intense-yet-measured collision, but Yeh manages to pull it off magnificently resulting in a 10” which crosses genre boundaries in the most punk-rock fashion imaginable. Features special exclusive artwork from Wolf Eyes’ John Olson!
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DREAMCATCHER - 'Prom Night / Eyes Of Leatherface' LP (.ANGLE.REC.)
Dreamcatcher's hot-wired, saturated and hypnotic sound layers, as well as strings and splatters of sonic mess and Power Electronics / old-school / new school aesthetics, have earned them a devoted following in Montreal and beyond. Originally released on cassette in very limited editions on the American Tapes label (run by Wolf Eyes’ John Olson) and Nautical Almanac's Heresee label respectively, "Prom Night " and "Eyes Of Leatherface " are archived here for a larger audience and for posterity. Includes material from their first recorded sessions, and ranks among the favourites of the duo. Without a doubt one of the sickest, most twisted and noisiest releases from ANGLE.REC. so far! Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies on180g clear vinyl in a stickered sleeve. Canadian import.
HAIR POLICE - 'The Empty Quarter' CD (Harbinger Sound)
Recorded in spring 2007 by Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes), Trevor Tremaine (Death Unit) and Robert Beaty (Burning Star Core). No drums. All electronics. Wave after wave after wave of fractalized & harsh electronics with Gristle-esque walls of sound and normality-disrupting electronic oscillations. For fans of Wolf Eyes, and early Black Dice. Digipak. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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RAKHIM - 'Crimson Umbrella' CD (20 Buck Spin)
"What if Z’EV had written the intro to Darkthrone’s “Blaze In The Northern Sky?". With that question in mind Finland’s Rakhim unearth "Crimson Umbrella"; a two-track fit of kraut-noise psychosis, schizophrenic percussive clatter and layers of effects and over-processed vocal chants and screams. The nightmarish deconstruction of the 2 lengthy tracks bare only trace elements of main members Krypt and Rudimentor’s day jobs in Circle and Pharaoh Overlord, with Rakhim indulging in sonic terror too far gone for the aforementioned bands. Although the album’s title makes reference to L.A.’s great Jesters Of Destiny, Rakhim would more aptly call to mind Wolf Eyes filtered through a lengthy Faust tape jam. Best experienced through headphones at appropriately ear-bleeding volume. Silver on black digifile.
Wolf Eyes embellish the cover of the 7th edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla, and are also interviewed along with Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Yellow Swans, KK Null, Burning Star Core, Æethenor and Made Out Of Babies. Issue 7 also features a rather good article on the influential Sub Pop label, and includes the usual vast array of music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #17 Magazine
Portland act Grails are the cover band for the final Rock-A-Rolla issue of 2008. #17 also features interviews with Hair Police, Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes), Deerhoof, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Porn, MoHa!, Helms Alee, Mustard Gas & Roses (M.G.R.), Akimbo, Zach Hill, and a Q&A with Ten East. This month's Label Focus is on Southern Records. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
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THE HATERS - 'Further' CD (Transparency)
Founded by Survival Research Lab's GX Jupitter-Larsen in 1979, The Haters are regarded as America's premier noise act. They won Best Electronic Experimental Artist in the 2005 LA Weekly music awards. These are brand new studio recordings, two "extra noisy" tracks totaling over an hour. "A lot of what people think is Noise is not. The only true Noise bands I can think of are TNB and The Haters and stuff like that because it has no human element to it whatsoever". (John Olsen / Wolf Eyes).
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THE SKULL DEFEKTS - 'The Black Hand' LP (Riot Season)
'The Black Hand' is the first part of a trilogy on black vinyl investigating the power of deep drone and extreme sound and the beast that is creativity and sound. The Skull Defekts was formed by Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall in early 2005 (the only members on this recording, normally a quartet). They have since collaborated with Damo Suzuki, Wolf Eyes, C.M. Von Hausswolff and Lasse Marhaug. Ltd x 500 copies with stunning black on black artwork by Fredrik Söderberg.
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VA - 'Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. III: USA' 2 x CD (Important Records)
Volume III in a series of artists’ tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by: Aaron Dilloway, Alan Courtis, AMK, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Broken Penis Orchestra, Carlos Giffoni, Controlled Bleeding, Damien Romero, Daniel Menche, Emil Beaulieau, Ideal Fire Company, Jason Kahn, Jim O'Rourke, John Wiese, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lockweld, Macronympha, Michael Northam, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, The Haters, Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes and Z'EV.
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WICKED KING WICKER - 'Borne Black' CD (WKW)
"Those who worship at the altar of all that is slow and low and heavy and sludgey and doomy and droney, you must now bow before a new lord, the duo from New York known simply as Wicked King Wicker. After three records, each heavier than the last, comes Borne Black, a sprawling black sun explosion of creepy crawly riffage, lumbering lugubrious tempos, tarpit sludge, and spaced out abstract buzz and shimmer, if you fancy Moss, Bunkur, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, SUNNO))), Wolf Eyes, Khanate, Skullflower, Human Quena Orchestra, Monarch, Corrupted, Otesanek, Habsyll, and all the various other denizens of the inky black dronedirgedoom underworld, and have yet to hear WKW, you are in for a treat. (Aquarius). Ltd x 999 copies.
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WICKED KING WICKER - 'Wicked King Wicker' CD (Noiseville)
This is the debut CD from Wicked King Wicker, one of the most brutal doom drone bands out there today. "A serious new contender for sure in the ever expanding world of crushing slow motion ultra doom-dirge-dronemusick. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, SUNN O))), Skullflower, Khanate, Wolf Eyes, Bunkur, etc. Any of those names get your blood boiling, then WKW just might be your favorite new band.... pounding abstract percussion, all draped over near static whitenoise buzz, weird krauty grooves, woozy metallic crawls, pulsing metallic ambience, and heavy heavy hypnotic dirgedoomdronemusick" (Aquarius). Ltd x 1000.
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WOLF EYES - 'Black Wing Over The Sand' CD (iDEAL Recordings / Kning Disk)
"Black Wing Over The Sand" is one long session, that from the very first beginning lays bare the roots of Wolf Eyes: here is an evident presence of the industrial music of the early 1980s with bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi and Gary Mundy’s cassette label Broken Flag. Instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise Wolf Eyes are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence. With oscillating movements, Wolf Eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in. Electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm. Ltd x 2000 copies.
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WOLF EYES With JOHN WIESE - 'Collection' CD (Hanson Records)
A collection of the Wolf Eyes with John Wiese 7" plus two EPs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese and finally available all together! "Combined into one ugly genetic mishap and flesh hacked covered package by Aaron Dilloway's Hanson label, this is a disintegrated release full of blossoming black sounds... The sheer breadth of textures and styles that they have used is nothing short of astounding... Scattered between exploring inner worlds and blowing-out corneas through riotous frequency changes, this is the place where digits are bent from their 0 and 1 roots into self-adapting cyborg sinews. Elements like stuck groove bell work, tape machine cloud cover and delicate looped horns seem like perfectly constructed movements, musical conclusions of thirty minutes of sweaty improv work". (Brainwashed)
