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Dead Neanderthals –Dolphin (self-release) This New Year's Eve release saw 2016 out with a bang, or rather a BLUURRRRRRTTTT. Dolphin's midnight fireworks display is a continuous display of extreme grind-honk road-work explosions. The sax whirs like a lawnmower in desperate combat with a drummer utilisating every pan in the kitchen by means of a controlled localised earthquake.… Continue reading Reviewed: Dead Neanderthals / Kay Hill / Ashtray Navigations
Grapefruits began this night of warped and dark electronics with a set comprising cello, synth and drums in a union of fierce and frantic improvised abrasion.
Sophie Cooper is the subject of this inaugural feature in a new series at Ears for Eyes: Fallout Shelter Disks. Those participating choose six albums/EPs/singles/mixtapes, one book, and one luxury item to take down into an atomic fallout shelter come the end of the world. Sophie performs solo under her own name and has appeared… Continue reading Fallout Shelter Disks: Sophie Cooper, Giving Rock ‘n’ Roll to Everyone
Credit: James Vaughan X-Ray Delta One under a Creative Commons license Ears For Eyes seeks applicants for a regular feature entitled Fallout Shelter Disks. You, as an individual, duo, 27-piece free-jazz orchestra, occult entity or sentient computer virus, will select six albums/songs/EPs, a book and a luxury item to take down into your bunker should the… Continue reading Fallout Shelter Disks: an announcement
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=604275352/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=1910657462/transparent=true/Echoing bloop-fugue drift album ‘Bloodhounds’ is the debut long-form release from Paul Snowdon in the guise of shuffling synthotist Time Attendant. It follows several excellent EPs for More than Human and Exotic Pylon records.Atmospheric and evocative of experiences you haven’t had, it is steeped in the weird and uncanny. The music is deeply odd, but… Continue reading Time Attendant – Bloodhounds (Exotic Pylon)
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=89591685/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=3904670242/transparent=true/‘Mantra Gora’ is the second in Linear Obsessional’s series of duo improvisations and this time around features Tasos Stamou (prepared zither, cassette loops, digital horn, test generator) and Adrian Northover (alto and soprano saxophones). The sound is spectral and oddly peripheral, like something not fully graspable, music as fleeting corner-of-the-ear sense impression. Full of sax… Continue reading Tasos Stamou and Adrian Northover – Mantra Gora (Linear Obsessional)
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2164522781/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=3838981391/transparent=true/‘bracket bracket bracket’ is a succinct EP full of ideas from the hands and minds of Tapiwa Svosve (alto saxophone, cassette player) and Julian Chalabi (guitar). ‘Stendreck’ finds burring saxophone lapping against fluctuating tape echo and boat motor noise; the two elements playing coincidentally rather than in sympathy, each chasing its own tail in isolation;… Continue reading Tapiwa Svosve and Julian Chalabi – bracket bracket bracket (Raw Tonk)
This set of eight improvisations from Neil Metcalfe (flute) and Daniel Thompson (guitar) is conversational and sparsely lyrical, an affable communion rather than a locking of horns; each player deeply attuned to the actions of the other. Metcalfe for the most part draws fluid mercurial lines, often dissipating into dots of delicately suspended ellipses that… Continue reading Neil Metcalfe and Daniel Thompson – Eight Improvisations (Creative Sources Recordings)
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2937920292/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=2273305054/transparent=true/For fans of no-fi lurking tape-weirdness, this should be investigated at the earliest opportunity. Herhalen’s ‘Bourgeois Kerb Stomp’ release is a three-way split shared by Splashy the Blame-Shifter, Lenina, and Ship Canal. In ‘Petrol Station Homophobe’ Splashy the Blame-Shifter scrapes up tape murk and drags it over smashed dirty heads, plaintive piano notes ringing out… Continue reading Various artists – Bourgeois Kerb Stomp (Herhalen)
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