Quote from: absurdexposition on August 24, 2017, 05:43:24 AM
Bastard Noise & Outermost - Cauldron of Fire 7" (2000, DP)
Eric Wood has stated that this collaboration is his personal favourite BN release. Perhaps rightfully so, but at 45RPM it's all over so quickly there's hardly time to grasp anything. The noise 7" is a strange beast.
Don't remember well how that was, but this:
Outermost / Bastard Noise – Studies Of Space And Sorrow 7" New 2017 collaboration, and it I just last week wrote to Wood to express my view that this must be best BN stuff in recent years. It's not that it would be something dramatically different. We have the trademark bastard noise oscillations etc, but Outermost electronics are dirtier and there is some effect/processing on vocal sound too, not just slight reverb. Small details - but within noise, those are what matter! 4 tracks. Goes very fast, but nothing prevents few more spins of both sides!
JENNIFER WOLSKI tapeMSNP
One of rare cases when tape was damaged. Or lets say - not damaged, but almost. I started to listen this old MSNP tape that been sitting on shelves for years. Started to wonder should it sound like *this*. Not brutal harsh noise, but sort of tape manipulation. And next thing I realise tape deck has swalloved 1 meter of magnetic tape inside. Curiously nothing was wrinkled. Just carefully rewinding all back in to realize that from seam of magnetic tape & "lead tape", glue had dried. Opening tape, little operation and tape works great. ALL ON RED - ALL THE TIME, total harsh noise wall blasting. On the end of B-side you start to get little more nyance and changes. It ain't just grain and crackles, but heavy assault of noise. Stability and restless crunchy heaviness sets it right there on great side of harsh noise wall.
MACRONYMPHA "Beneath Hidden Tokyo" tapeMother Savage
Later days Stell editions. Perhaps not as elegent with the computer type, but I can't complain when I'm assualted with 60 minutes of solid Macronympha noise. Surprise is that this has quite a lot of rhythm. Occasional Vivenza-type factory sound looping, but also even techno beats viciously overdriven to tape.
MACRONYMPHA "Session II" tapeMother Savage
Less interesting tape. Not bad, but it's what it is: Slightly distant sounding session of guitars, metal junk and overall noise havoc, being brutalized at rehearsal room. Not really about editing or having the known MSNP crunchy heaviness. It's not bad, but there are countless better Macro tapes to listen instead.
HUMAN SKIN LANTERNS "Skin Stripperess" tapeMSNP
Taint + Macronympha. Could you go wrong? No. Looks and sounds brutal and merciless harsh noise. Violent, dark and oppressive spoken word pieces are included within harsh noise what has no "joyfulness" of the Japanese noise, only deranged and grim american violence. Excellent.
BRUME "The Sun" tape
Old Europa Cafe
I like a lot old Brume stuff. It's band many should know, but it's very very rarely I find myself talking to someone who appreciates Brume or hunts for some old tapes of his. This one, industrial beats and ritualistic chanting and vocal drones. Brutally overdriven, all-on-red to tape, layers saturated, nicely melting together. Including live material from 1988, which blends well next to studio works.
HANDS TO "Eurean recant" tapeBBP
Hands to is often so bleak and so minimal, that it's hard to really start going into detail what just happened. It's his older stuff, from 1990. Shorter pieces, less about unprocessed field recordings. More about actualling "doing things". J-card says all was recorded with borrowed gear. I suspect it could be one noteworthy element. Experimenting with unfamiliar gear to get something unexpected done?
