PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[ANDROPHILIA]

" make PE disturbing again "

[pentd]

(uh, apparently no overdubs? Really?)

hey... i never do *traditional* overdubs as in "listening to the previous take while adding the next" -- but i combine things, of course. they might be months apart. i aint no 8legged oktopus.. now back to topic:

TAD "god's balls" + "salt lick"

[Scat-O-Logy]

Valerio Tricoli: Vixit (secondsleep) Sick day today (which always makes me nervous to take even when I truly need it) so I'm trying to clear away some of the flu feelings and anxiety with back to back listening. First up on deck is Vixit, apperantly this LP is edited down from a larger audio piece that was played at Lampo in Chicago and based somewhat on the sound machines of Luigi Rusollo. The A side starts with a very organic crackle and manipulated sounds of water, soon giving way to a outerworldly drone that comes rising up and is punctuated by loud airplane drones panning back and forth, the impact of the sound and mastering are staggering...quiets into what could be rain falling or audio fragments sprinkled in that kind of way, wind chimes and distant trains (none of which are likely what they seem or sound) giving way to a massive drone dripping with acoustic sounds from an unknown room, the tapes begins to speed up and slow down turning into a lush electric haze...B side starts of with a creaking drone that seems to rock back and forth, wet sounds decaying underneath. The  sounds of a broken music box seem to take shape, fragments of everyday reality are mixed with beautiful electronics who's subtle rings consume whole rooms before finding the closet think to an identifiable "rhythm", it won't last though and soon morphs again into ghostly moans before flickering to silence. This entire record has a hauntingly sad yet beautiful quality to it. Tricoli is able to project into the future while having one foot firmly planted in the musique concrete of the past. One of the finest relases of 2016.

Everything I'm a sucker for with only a couple exceptions, damn...Johann, please link me to where I can purchase or check this out further, excellent review!

One of best LPs of 2016!

[Baglady]

FACIALMESS / HERMIT - Split C60 (Recalcitrant Noise, 1997)
Nice looking tape. Transparent grip tape covering the case, j-card in vellum paper...
Facialmess is really on fire on this one. Not as cutup as the other stuff I've heard from him (haven't heard much), but rather free-flowing. I kinda picture Pain Jerk and Incapacitants merged into one single person when I hear this. Speed, intensely sputtering synths, lots of crunch and effective use of vocals and samples to top it off. Tight as hell, yet still swinging. As noted above, I don't have much Facialmess in my shelves. Recommendations are welcome!
Hermit is quite the opposite when it comes to pace and temper. A track in four parts ("a noise adaptation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons" according to the j-card), all somewhat similar except for the last part. Restrained pulsating rumblings and drones. Not anywhere near the ecstacy of Facialmess, but then that wasn't Hermit's intention I suppose. Good stuff, and well needed after the wrestling match on speed that is side A.

[collapsedhole]

^ damn, my copy doesn't have transparent grip tape on the case, i bet that looks sweet!  but i concur - facialmess really nailing it on that release

[Potier]

Valerio Tricoli: Vixit (secondsleep) Sick day today (which always makes me nervous to take even when I truly need it) so I'm trying to clear away some of the flu feelings and anxiety with back to back listening. First up on deck is Vixit, apperantly this LP is edited down from a larger audio piece that was played at Lampo in Chicago and based somewhat on the sound machines of Luigi Rusollo. The A side starts with a very organic crackle and manipulated sounds of water, soon giving way to a outerworldly drone that comes rising up and is punctuated by loud airplane drones panning back and forth, the impact of the sound and mastering are staggering...quiets into what could be rain falling or audio fragments sprinkled in that kind of way, wind chimes and distant trains (none of which are likely what they seem or sound) giving way to a massive drone dripping with acoustic sounds from an unknown room, the tapes begins to speed up and slow down turning into a lush electric haze...B side starts of with a creaking drone that seems to rock back and forth, wet sounds decaying underneath. The  sounds of a broken music box seem to take shape, fragments of everyday reality are mixed with beautiful electronics who's subtle rings consume whole rooms before finding the closet think to an identifiable "rhythm", it won't last though and soon morphs again into ghostly moans before flickering to silence. This entire record has a hauntingly sad yet beautiful quality to it. Tricoli is able to project into the future while having one foot firmly planted in the musique concrete of the past. One of the finest relases of 2016.

Everything I'm a sucker for with only a couple exceptions, damn...Johann, please link me to where I can purchase or check this out further, excellent review!

One of best LPs of 2016!

Tricoli certainly delivered in 2016 - the Clonic Earth 2xLP he did for PAN is even better than Vixit in my opinion.

[magnus]

One of best LPs of 2016!

I agree as well! Brilliant record.

[david lloyd jones]

" make PE disturbing again "

agreed. an excellent follow up to their previous f&v release.

[andy vomit]

" make PE disturbing again "

got a copy of this arriving any day now (i hope), really looking forward to it..  last disc made me really uncomfortable in the best possible ways

[Deadpriest]

To live And Shave In LA:  Vedder Vedder Bed Wetter
Jesus Meat: The Stench Of Rotted Whore Cunt
Skin Crime:  Dystrophy
Meads Of Asphodel:  Sonderkommando
Black Cinema With Kenji Siratori:  Spoken Words And Broken Nerves
Bizarre Uproar: Unsafe and Insane
MDK: Pussy Morgue
Government Alpha: Impure Drought
Nicole 12:  Playground/Lolita love

[Zeno Marx]

G*Park...

several albums from the 80s and 90s.  I'd forgotten how strangely musical they can be.  Truly engaging and interesting.  An endless sound palette.  A hybrid of classic Nurse with Wound, Conrad Schnitzler minimalist synth work, and the finest electro-acoustic ideas.  Beautiful and with just the right touch of crudeness.  In the realm of Brume.

[absoluten calfeutrail]

G*Park...

I've been wanting to check out G*Park for years - could you recommend a good starting point? Cheers.

[Duncan]

G*Park...

I've been wanting to check out G*Park for years - could you recommend a good starting point? Cheers.

I've only got the CD version of Seismogramm and it's fucking excellent.  I would be interested in some recommendations of easier to find works of his as it's a sound I like an awful lot.  Very unique but totally satisfies a lot of urges one can often have for particular Concrete style sounds!  I've heard good things about the Reuters LP too and should really pick that up too.

[Zeno Marx]

G*Park...

I've been wanting to check out G*Park for years - could you recommend a good starting point? Cheers.

I've only got the CD version of Seismogramm and it's fucking excellent.  I would be interested in some recommendations of easier to find works of his as it's a sound I like an awful lot.  Very unique but totally satisfies a lot of urges one can often have for particular Concrete style sounds!  I've heard good things about the Reuters LP too and should really pick that up too.

It's unfortunate that the early cassettes reissue box was so limited and expensive.  If nothing else, maybe a web label could bandcamp release those?  Or maybe already are and I don't know about it.  Honestly, I'd recommend it all.  The older works on CD (two on Zabriskie Point and Seismogramm on Blossoming Noise) are all affordable and easy to find.  I have less experience with Reuters and Sub, and I don't think I've heard 15, Corpse, or Gour.  I liked Sub, but it didn't absorb me like the earlier works.  That would probably be different today as I'm deep in it.  G*Park can be a moody endeavor.  When it takes hold, it's an intimate, tight embrace.  When it doesn't, it can be a cold emptiness.  In the latter case, you still recognize you're listening to something special.  You just don't follow it into its hole is all.

[absoluten calfeutrail]

G*Park can be a moody endeavor.  When it takes hold, it's an intimate, tight embrace.  When it doesn't, it can be a cold emptiness.  In the latter case, you still recognize you're listening to something special.  You just don't follow it into its hole is all.

I'd totally take that gamble for the mere possibility of what you're describing. Thanks!