Time flies. I had the pleasure of meeting Karl Blake during the Sol Invictus West Coast tour of 2000. He was certainly decent, and played fine, but it’s really a shame neither he nor his work with Shock Headed Peters has been given a proper retrospective. A proper label should collect his works and remaster them, as the music still holds up nicely.
Experimental Music
[Music] New Drone & Darkwave from Koyl, Cloaca, & Premature Burial on Silber
From our friend Brian John Mitchell at Silber Media – the company has some great new releases on the way:
Hello,
Hope everyone is doing well. Life is good here at Silber even if I am struggling to get everything to happen in a timely manner. The hurricane that came through & flooded a lot of communities around me had no effect here in the new Silberia. The power didn’t even go out, but then walking around the neighborhood I saw an oak that feel splitting a neighbors house in two, so I count my blessings that things are so good for me. My little drone cub just turned one & in good health & spirits & that she vacuums up all my spare time is something I don’t mind. Silber has always been about family to me anyhow & it’s interesting how huge of a percentage of Silber artist. So anyway on with what’s up lately including three new 5in5 EPs.
Koyl comes to Silber with five songs in five minutes, one about each finger. But are the fingers originally on one hand or are they fingers from dead men stitched together to tell tales of angst & woe? No matter, now they all are part of the one & making incredible soundscapes with a guitar & lapsteel.
- Buy or listen on Silber: http://www.silbermedia.com/5in5/koyl-fingerprints.shtml
- Buy or listen on Bandcamp: https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/Fingerprints
- Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/0RGPOSGY42MBliHNbjjJt2
Joshua Heinrich (Fornever/Black Wedding) returns to Silber for a 5in5 EP with his Premature Burial project. Mixing industrial & ambient elements, f/a/c/t/i/o/n/s paints a portrait of the current political climate of divisiveness & corruption. The bureaucracy is spreading like a Kafka novel. Listen to Premature Burial while you’re on hold for hours.
- Buy or listen on Silber: http://www.silbermedia.com/5in5/PrematureBurial-factions.shtml
- Buy or listen on Bandcamp: https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/factions
- Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/71nRox49Xq7Xr09ixIiPN5
Cloaca has offered up five minute long aggressive ambient drones created with pedals & a mixing board. Numbing & overwhelming like the chemicals in your IV before brain surgery….
Buy or listen on Silber: http://www.silbermedia.com/5in5/cloaca-almsgiver.shtml
Buy or listen on Bandcamp: https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/Almsgiver
Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/3LFDxh9rqp5nv8HpXCDVbK
Something went weird recently where some of the Silber Spotify playlists went private, but I fixed it & you can check them out here:
Last Ten Releases – https://play.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/4nuz7tocaNt9OkFetPsHhG
Entire 5in5 Series – https://play.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/7ge7yufxSf6IR9Tpu7YIgh
Entire Silber Catalog – https://play.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/27NjmkRh1NqqDYIf64Fmp1
New Releases coming soon from Ms, Fullness Off Lack, Jon Dawson, Moodring, Hotel Hotel, Lum, DR, Remora, Small Life Form, Magnetic Ghost & before you know it Christmas EPs from Electric Bird Noise, Yellow6, Remora, Small Life Form, Baptizer, & more. A batch of comics about Robert E Howard coming soon (all drawn, just need to set them up to print). & of course inevitably a new QRD.
Thanks for your interest & support & spread the word about the new releases if you can & if you want to be taken off the mailing list just let me know.
Hrt
Brian John Mitchell
www.silbermedia.com
https://www.facebook.com/silbermedia
http://twitter.com/silberspy
https://play.spotify.com/user/silberspy
[Music] Uncompromising Instant composing solo set and ensemble set
Many thanks to our friend Raoul van der Weide, who let us know about this upcoming event at the Huis de Pinto!
PINTOTONICS n+1 edition October 10th 2016
HUIS DE PINTO
St Antoniebreestraat 69
1011 HB AMSTERDAM
www.huisdepinto.nl
020-3700210 > reservatons20:00 doors open
20:30 start solo set
23;00 end of eveningEntrance 10 + 7 (studenst/cjp)
SET 1 SOLO
RAOUL VAN DER WEIDE/Contrabass, Crackle Box, Sound Objects
Facebook & www.raoulvanderweide.nlSET 2 ENSEMBLE
Mask QuartetAda Rave/tenor sax & clarinet & toys
Mette Rasmussen/alto sax
Susana Santos Silva/trumpet
Kaja Draksler/piano
www.bimhuis.nl/agenda/octoberThis unique quartet assembles richly talented young european woman improvisers.
Ada, Mette, Susana and Kaja will perform also at the BIMhuis October Meeting festival on 7, 8 and 9 October playing in different
combinations with a bunch of other young and creative Europena impovisers.
[Music] John Zorn – Nosferatu: The Stalking
[Music] Destruktionsanstalt – Swedenborg
Though it must amuse my confessors to no end, I grew up enjoying the bleakest of sounds in early Industrial music and the black ambient music which followed about a decade or so later. The best of the lot seem to be growing out of the calm climes of Scandinavia, and the best of that lot is coming, these days, from Denmark. Per Najbjerg Odderskov, known by aliases like Destruktionsanstalt, Liller_Per, God Cancer, Left Hand Of God, Lidane Livering, and The G.R Orchestra, has a long, storied history in the saga of black ambient music.
As Destruktionsanstalt, Per graces us with one of the most beautifully bleak compositions I’ve heard in quite some time. In a scene where children think they’re being cute by inverting a cross (sorry, St. Andrew beat you to that one) and turning on a vacuum cleaner, and then having the nerve to try to sell this to an unsuspecting sucker, it is good to hear a master craftsman carve the equivalent of a Caravaggio out of pure black matter.
Going through the tracks, one can feel a lot of heavy vibes, deep emotion, and perhaps despair. This isn’t meant to make the CD sound like a gruesome experience, however – far from it, in fact. There’s a beauty even in the darkest of music, as the act of composition itself is a life-bringing experience. The packaging for this CD is also quite exquisite, done more to look like a book or a piece of art rather than a mere jewel-case.
For connoisseurs of black ambient, it’s quite an honor to present to you a crowning jewel for your collection.
[Music] Abul Mogard – Staring At The Sweeps Of The Desert
Abul Mogard is a Serbian composer and former steel mill worker whose work I came across three or so years ago. Understated but powerful stuff.
[Music] Disemballerina – Poison Gown
‘Poison Gown‘ is a release which came to me via my inbox, and I find it to be a wonderful stroke of luck that Myles Donovan and his bandmates in Disemballerina decided to ask me for a review.
The release sets itself quite favorable with bands who do this type of gothic/classical hybrid. The tracks tend to be dark but delicate, and, should the band decide to aim their focus in this direction, they could produce a perfect soundtrack to any Tim Burton movie.
[Music] Bettina feat. Márk Szöke and Thomas Gerendás - Clinical Feelings EP
Imagine a Japanese Tina Turner clone singing on top of a muffled, claustrophobia-inducing drum & bass track upholding a 60s soul groove. This is the glorious mess Thomas Gerendás and his collaborators have made.
[Music] THE POST-DECADENT SINGERS by THE POST-DECADENT SINGERS
I don’t know what is going on in France that is drawing in such amazing talent from outside her borders (it’s probably the incredibly good quality of local performers who are developing massive catalogs and worldwide respect for their bodies of work), but the country is seeing a small explosion of creativity. One case-in-point is the Mexican guitarist Hector Javier Ayala. He has begun releasing some incredible CDs recently (his newest will be reviewed here soon, but this particular album was done in collaboration with drummer Cedric Lemaire. The recordings are sparse, but gel together quite nicely. A lot of the material reminded be of Derek Bailey and is free improvisations with percussionists around the world.
[Music] Sonar – Black Light
Cuneiform Records can do no wrong to these ears. Sonar are a band out of Switzerland who produced a tight, punchy post-rock that made for enjoyable evening listening.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 