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Wondering what to expect from this weekend’s special live collaboration between Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald and Francesco Tristano? Try a seamless blend of twitchy techno, jilted jazz and piano progressions that hint at neo-classical movements and house music, as heard in the trio’s set at Versus 2.0 last year…
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The Artist/Album: Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound, The Iron Soul of Nothing (Ideologic Organ, 2011)
A Short Review: Like a fog slowly wrapping its tendrils around a slow-moving car, Nurse With Wound’s surgically enhanced version of Sunn O)))’s ØØ Void record takes its sweet time building a creeping, pervasive sense of dread before bursting into flames three tracks, and more than 35 minutes, in. Scream/Goatsnake vocalist Pete Stahl also enters the proceedings around this point, muttering something about “ash on the trees” as om-chanting monks close a circle around him and the ravaged riffs of Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley.
A masterful piece of macerated minimalism, rounded out by brief, cloud-parting glimpses of hope.
Since his U.S. tour is set to wind down this Sunday at Le Bain in New York, we asked Beni to give us a quick tour of his record crate with an exclusive house mix. Here’s what he came up with…
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Here’s a seemingly endless DJ set that’ll help you ease into the weekend: a five-parter from Prins Thomas, captured at Sur Bar in Kagoshima, Japan. Anyone want to help us decode all the rare disco records and locked grooves within?
Not content with simply offering a live album from their recent not-quite-a-reunion shows, Swans have printed up 1,000 woodblock-sheathed copies of their new double disc We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun In Our Head as part of a Kickstarter-like project for the band’s next studio album, The Seer.
Here’s an abridged breakdown, straight from the mouth of Michael Gira himself:
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The Artist/Album: Cut Hands, Afro Noise (Very Friendly, 2011)
A Short Review: By largely sidsteeping the nihilistic noise and wry serial killer references that Whitehouse is notorious for, William Bennett’s Cut Hands project delivers on the hypnotic and heavy promise of his self-proclaimed “Afro noise” aesthetics. So while “Stabbers Conspiracy” and “Who No Know Go Knows” relish ravenous polyrhythms in the most visceral manner possible, things get downright ambient on “++++ (Four Crosses)” and “Rain Washes Away Every Thing,” cleansing one’s sonic palette until the mercury and chalkboard scrapings settle in.
While it’s nearly impossible to make sense of all the music that floods our mailbox, inbox, and various Web browsers every day—not to mention the shelves at self-titled’s favorite record stores—we’re constantly looking for artists who make us stop what we’re doing and actually listen. Here’s one of them…
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Yep, more Tri Angle love. oOoOO’s Our Love Is Hurting Us EP hits shops on April 10th.
Whether we’re talking about the Haxan Cloak, Vessel or the oOoOO EP that was just revealed yesterday, it seems like a week can’t go by without a new signing or release announcement from Tri Angle Records. We can’t complain, though; not with a growing roster that’s this consistent, right down to the Evian Christ mixtape that dropped today. A collection of high-quality antidotes to the YouTube rips that have been floating around, it arrives with the promise of a proper Tri Angle release later this year and a live appearance at the label’s London showcase this Saturday at Hackney Downs Studios, featuring Balam Acab, oOoOO, Holy Other, and DJ sets from the Haxan Cloak and the xx’s Romy Madley-Croft.
Stream/download all eight tracks—produced by a 22-year-old Brit named Joshua Leary, in case you’re curious—below…
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The Artist/Album: Lawrence English, The Peregrine (Experimedia, 2011)
A Short Review: We haven’t read the bird-watching J.A. Baker book that Lawrence English’s latest solo LP is based on, but judging by the producer’s sweeping, painterly ambient pieces, it must be the one of the deepest, darkest nature narratives ever written. Or are the very least, a slow-burning survey of what it’s like out there in the wild, whether you’re hovering above it all ever so peacefully or in the very heat of the hunt.
Available At: Experimedia
Watch a video from this album below…
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