Announcing a new cassette from the Helen Scarsdale Agency
Himukalt • Conditions of Acrimony
so says Lily Vice: "This IS a killer psychoacoustic industrial debut from this female act. Highly recommended!"
the press release:
Somewhere in the American Southwest may lie a pile of fetid cassettes, the scope and breadth of which might very well match that of the experiments with tape and electronics from Rozz Williams and Chuck Collison. In her terse exchanges with us, she once alluded to a past set of recordings without divulging them; and so for now we have this prolonged electrical cramp that marks the first published recording of Himukalt. The given name we know is Ester Kärkkäinen, and that's pretty much about her beyond the Nevada return address. This enigma is fitting for her work. exhaustive, claustrophobic, and cryptic, these lacerated (de)compositions address collapsed psychological states that dislocate the body, the self, and the spirit into horror, fear, doubt, hostility. Such have marked the acme for the most virulent strains of power electronics and industrial decay (e.g. Puce Mary, Anenzephalia, Maurizio Bianchi, Maria Zerfall, etc.), and this -- hopefully the first of many transmissions from Himukalt -- stands shoulder to shoulder next to those giants.
http://www.helenscarsdale.com/published/himukalt-conditions.htmthis is also available at Aquarius Records in San Francisco for $7.98
http://aquariusrecords.org/other like-minded titles, recently added to the catalogue at Aquarius:
Knækkede Stemmer // Andet Portræt (Lust Vessel) cassette $21.00
Neto // Énumération De Zamvoli / Mouille Rêve De Caravoli (Lust Vessel) cassette $21.00
Mauthausen Orchestra // First Essay (Urashima) 4cd $55.00
Leif Elggren // Das Baank (Fragment Factory) lp $21.00
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words // No Words (Cloister) lp $21.00
Anemone Tube // Golden Temple (Black Horizons) cassette $8.98
Actuary / Gnaw Their Tongues // split (Black Horizons) lp $17.98
etc.
