BLOOD RHYTHMS featuring Wyatt Howland, Arvo Zylo - Upheaval

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Three releases on other labels.  I'm just trying to support.  Sound samples are here: http://nopartofit.blogspot.com/



Split tape: These just happen to be coming out around the same time:  I did a split with Critter Piss featuring even more versions of Upheaval.  My side is pretty harsh material, with heavy machine loops and extreme layering.  This is a c60 with printed labels, and cover art by yours truly.  CP has a deceptive name, but his work sways around the hardened veins of dark ambient, of the inspired horror soundtrack by-way-of-noise variety.  A bonus piece of information:  I was sent   a bunch of unreleased tracks and was given the liberty to choose my favorites of this artist's material for the split.  I aim to please, and I wouldn't steer you wrong.  It is limited to 30 copies on Ka-Rye-Eye Tapes.  As I write this, I'm told that many of the copies are dubbed and labelled, but the printing of the covers isn't quite sorted out.  I don't expect these copies to be around for long, so feel free to secure yours now. Contact kretapes at gmail.







pro CDR from Blood Rhythms titled "Skin Flint".  This time it's Arvo Zylo & gritty industrial noise filth veteran Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft, SK SK, Blackfire, Dead Peasant Insurance), high speed drunk-driving with no headlights.  Car alarms going off everywhere.  Leaning on the horn and accelerating instead of stopping at stop signs.   Two lengthy tracks (and a 19 minute "bonus track") of the dark, rhythmic, and heavy variety.  Recorded/improvised live together at SKSK studio in Cleveland, and refined/assembled/edited/revised by Arvo Zylo several times.  Most of the editing was done to keep the overall outcome minimal and to-the-point, but I still ended up layering the hell out of some areas.  The title track was originally 62 minutes long.  Approx/ 52 minutes running time total. Listen loud or not at all!  Contact   kretapes at gmail.



The Upheaval cassette is now available from Tymbal Tapes.  At this time, it looks like 6 copies are left.  It looks and sounds great in person, and comes with a download code. http://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/


Arvo Zylo's work is often the product of literal years of toil, the potent result of countless hours refining, perfecting, and focusing wild energies. Projects like his "333" and "Assembly" feel more like they've been finished in a metal refinery than a mastering house, their labyrinthine vertical layers chosen and fixed in place with firm force.

These Upheaval versions, each created in a single sitting from one block of material, act as industrial etudes, a peek behind the curtain at Zylo's unique approach to sound, space, and the art of the edit. Enjoy these fluid sessions of extemporaneous work from a master aural sculptor.

Keep up with Arvo Zylo at: nopartofit.blogspot.com




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Blood Rhythms "Assembly" LP is just about sold out from NO PART OF IT HQ here.  There are two copies with covers by Ron Lessard, and that's it.  However, there are some copies that have arrived at Crucial Blast Shop by now.  They may not be on their website yet, but these are the final copies with my covers and the extra 12" anti record, and the only remaining copies you can buy online.  I have never sold a copy of my handmade covers online, only by money order, so this is the only chance left. There is no skimping either, these copies are made with razor blades, plexi glass, sheet metal, sand paper, and everything else .  Feel free to inquire with these fine establishments.

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SKIN FLINT and ASSEMBLY reviewed in THE ANSWER IS IN THE BEAT

A couple months ago, I got an unexpected package in the mail from Chicago. Attached to it was an '80s issue of Rolling Stone with Huey Lewis on the cover, which is too darn awesome. I didn't keep it, because really what am I going to do with it, but I should've at least snapped a photo, but I don't remember to do things like that. But anyway, there were a bunch of cool CD-r's in it, and a tape I haven't gotten around to listening to yet, and this LP. The record doesn't have a cover, but it was packaged in this custom cardboard sleeve (and I didn't realize there was a record in it at first and almost threw it out, I just thought it was weird that it was so heavy). The record was apparently recorded in an inactive meat locker with 3 mini disc recorders (a dead format recording in a dead space which used to hold dead animals). The record is "playable at all speeds", but the A-side is 45 and the B-side is 33. "Coarse Land" on the A-side is a dirty, gray drone made of rusty horns, and it sounds even more like death at 33. The second side, "Cutter Magnolias", is disturbing in a different way. Really abrasive horns which sound like they're covered in gunpowder and the musicians are blowing their brains out. Then eventually these horns get cut into samples, and are looped into repetitive, ever-building patterns, until they're all squonking in unison. Then it just keeps getting heavier and more punishing. At some points it feels like the record's skipping, but then it changes and you realized how hard your head's just been played. And then I think it actually does end in a locked groove. Definitely the most hypnotic free jazz/noise record I've ever heard.

Blood Rhythms: Skin Flint CDr
Blood Rhythms: Skin Flint CDr
The other Blood Rhythms release was the Skin Flint CDr, which features project founder Arvo Zylo (who sent me the package) along with Wyatt Howland, aka Skin Graft. The opening title track is a 22-mintue excerpt of an hour-long improv session, and it's constant in-the-red bleeding-ears harsh noise, but it feels like there's some really blown out melodies buried underneath. Am I just imagining things? It sounds like there's something trying to break out from all the nullifying static. Is there any escape from noise? "Melt Compartment" starts with a fast pattering rhythm which turns into wet splattering which then somehow turns into an even faster, pulled-apart rhythm. Eventually this all gets swallowed by a pulsating vessel of noise. "Zippers With Eyes" (the unedited version of a track which appeared in shortened form on a split tape) starts with another static-y rhythm, the type Alec Empire might've started a track with back in the day. The rhythm splashes with echo between the speakers, and of course it gets built up with distortion, eventually being fashioned into some sort of mutating audio fireball. And then later the beat picks up and gets even more DHR-sounding, turning into some sort of hell-dungeon gabber. Finally it all falls dead on the floor and it takes a good minute or so for my consciousness to re-adjust.