Concrete sounds and abstract constructions, endlessly recycled and digitally treated. The new album by Asmus Tietchens, Kouhei Matsunaga and Y-Ton-G bears the idea of total remix work. Following the great tradition of mail-collaborations, this German-Japanese trio recorded this new series of experimental music studies. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.
This album is a musical extension of a soundtrack produced by Y.E.R.M.O. in collaboration with conceptual and visual artists Nadine Hilbert & Gast Bouschet for the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial (running till November 2009). The music is an invocation of the coldness and cruelty of a borderzone between two worlds and a transmutation of fear into euphoria. The album is a unique piece of immersive ritual sounds, dominated by loud, distorted guitars, hypnotic percussion and industrial drones within rain-soaked Mediterranean landscapes. Mastered by James Plotkin. Ltd x 500 copies in an ekopack.
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YAHOWHA 13 - 'I'm Gonna Take You Home' CD (Swordfish)
By 1974 psychedelia's first wave may have been on the wane, but in the garage at the Source Family's commune in California, they could not have cared less. Another amazing long-player from Father Yod's vaults, "I'm Gonna Take You Home", finds his house band, the Ya Ho Wha 13, in splendidly miasmic form improvising their way through deeply lysergic side trips that merit comparison with anything in the Can or Amon Duul catalogues. With artwork that depicts the Zeus-bearded Father Yod posing as various Tarot card icons with naked lovers, the album works both as an outrageously Aquarian time capsule and as enduring and unfettered guitar psych. Father Yod yelps and whistles sensual come-ons in what must have been his cult's answer to baby-making slow jams.
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YAHOWHA 13 - 'Penetration: An Aquarian Sypmhony' CD (Swordfish)
Easily one of YaHoWha's heaviest offerings, "Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony" is arguably revered as their best - one of the finest sacred, psychedelic death trips of all time. Djin's tripped out guitar work coupled with Zinuru's soundscapes and Father Yod's bellowing moans and chants create some of the most intensely spiritual and epic passages put to tape. Touched & tipped by higher forces you can only dream of - this contains the most intense passages created by the band Ya Ho Wa 13.
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YAHOWHA 13 - 'The Operetta' CD (Swordfish)
This album was not released during the active years of the band, but first saw the light of public day in 2005, remastered from an old cassette. Yahowha 13 created this album in a Corte Madera warehouse, just after their return from what is described as an Easter Resurrection in the Great Pyramid in Egypt. The blazing guitar rave-up/ragas, the pounding drum breakdowns, the excursions into semi abstraction which are the heart of the Yahowha 13 sound are still in effect, but here they are immersed in vortex of echo and noise. Warriors for psychic revolution, psychedelic rock adepts - one of a kind scene. Within a few months of this recording Yahowha was killed in a hang gliding accident.
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YAO 91404 D - 'LenShumZavod' CD (Freak Animal)
Surprisingly, the first CD-proper release by this obscure Russian industrial-noise unit, with several extremely limited releases in their back catalogue from as far back as 2002. This CD marks one of their biggest highlights, with crude physically crafted industrial-noise. Even if it crosses borders towards purity of harsh noise once in a while, the spirit of Soviet factory landscapes is always present. Two long tracks that develop during their playing time to different atmospheres.
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YEAR OF NO LIGHT & FEAR FALLS BURNING & NADJA / MACHU PICCHU MOTHER FUTURE - 'Untitled' LP (Music Fear Satan)
Year Of No Light offers up two new studio collaborations with Fear Falls Burning ('The Golden Horn Of The Moon') and Nadja (Les Mains De Nadja'). Machu Picchu Mother Future is the result of a 2-hour improvised studio session between Souvenir's Young America, Conifer and Lesbian, while on an east coast US tour in November 2007 "...very loosely structured and minds somewhat altered..." Those sessions birthed what is now known as 'Space Mountain Forever'. A must-have for doom-post-rock-experimental aficionados. Ltd x 500 copies on red vinyl, presented in a nice spot-varnished full-colour sleeve.
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YELLOW6 - 'When The Leaves Fall Like Snow' 2 x CD (Make Mine Music)
Yellow6 is the solo project of Jon Attwood, a guitarist based in Leicestershire, UK. Since 1995 he has been making home recordings, initially guitar drones, slowly evolving to more structured melodic music including samples, programmed beats, reverb and a large improvisational element. "When The Leaves Fall..." was recorded in Stockholm in 2007. Born out of the isolation of 6 weeks spent in a foreign city, this album is pretty minimal compared to previous releases, but not minimalist. Digifile.
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YUI ONODERA - 'Synergetics' 7" (Drone Records)
Yui Onoderais a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo, who runs his own label 'Critical Path' to find "new ways to listen to sound". On "Synergetics", he presents two tracks of very minimal and quiet oceanic drones, based on guitar and piano. The music shimmers like light-reflections on water in extreme slow motion, when single recognisable tunes appear. Music for full concentration and contemplation - almost feathery and warm. First edition of 300 copies on blue / white marbled vinyl with hand-made covers and inlay.
