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Quote from: Borellus on March 17, 2010, 09:03:10 PM
Golden Geissel - Die Herrin Und Ihr Sklave tape (Ultimately harsh and powerful guitar noise. Recommended!)
Which reminds me... Recommended guitar noise?
I'll say few things. When I first heard like
Jojo Hiroshige 1st solo album style, I could appreciate his utmost harshness of string abuse. It wouldn't be about effects. It wouldn't be about "heaviness". No drone. No heavy jams. No down tuned blurry junk. It would be plain no-bullshit guitar abuse. Mic'ed straight close-up from amp speaker in studio conditions, creating sharp and unsaturated sound. It would be just utmost anti-music / noise. Lacking the artistic developments or specialities. Good tracks with shouting vocals perhaps even better. It would be the "man & guitar" music of my taste! Even if I have no idea what he was saying in lyrics.
Then, even before that,
SOLMANIA, Psycledelic was the first contact with band, and even if album has weaknesses, it perhaps stands out better than some of Solmania's later works, where two guitarists line-up simply malforms the noise through too many effects into pretty regular harsh noise, where qualities of guitar itself is pretty minimal. They work more as visual effect (seen them once live).
Perhaps opposite happened to
DEISEL GUITARS, which dropped the full of noise and the 2nd member, and transformed into feedback drone as
Diesel Guitar. Duo was good, solo was even better. Not exactly noise anymore, but perfection in minimalist drone.
That leads to
KK NULL, which is probably discussed elsewhere. His best guitarworks in field of drone sounds stand the test of time among the best of genre.
TRANCE from USA didn't do much for me with his guitar works. Pretty ok, but most definately in shadow of legendary japanese. Jim O'Rouke? Can't even remember his solo works. Viper tape from macro side project, pretty bad. Haino? Well, some decent too. List could of course continue long beyond the obvious ones, but I'm wondering, that names thrown here, date back to 70's, 80's and 90's. When I think of the whole last decade, where is the STRONG guitar noise? I don't want to hear some indie fart. I mean, when I first heard for example Thurston Moore's CD on RRR's PURE CD's, I felt like being ripped off. Well, I could perhaps tolerate it now better than 15 years ago, but then it sounded like some of the modern day stoner jams sound to me. Someone plugs on guitar, has couple pedals or not. Hits recorder of lo-fi tape recorder and captures some improvisation with no beginning and no end. Just documenting some dull session rather than actually doing proper release. With sounds that are not interesting, which "anyone could do" (hah). Those bands listed above, are stuff that pretty much nobody can replicate. All they have, is the worlds most successful instrument on modern ages, and perhaps few effects, and still, from 6 strings and amp, those guys could pull out something of interest. So, guitars noisers of last decade that people felt that wasn't good because they were your friends, but because material was something that felt exceptionally well done.
I'd look for something perhaps closer to Golden Geissel tape. Extremely distorted and heavy sounds, what could be compared to Solmania, Mortal Vision and the above mentioned ones. Meaning: noise and feedback. If it's about lo-fi indie music leftovers, be clear about that in recommendation.
