Wisdom tooth : Poco

John Andrews serves up a five song
ep he recorded alone in Mexico,
the Trenton New Jersey songwriter
blends ukulele tones and other instruments
to put together his wide open sound,

john's brew of styles encompasses
the innocence of 1930s and 20s cartoons,
and the moor modern sounds of the outsider
folk music of Peter Grudzien and jandek,

track one is a charming introduction,
that runs the length of its 12 seconds
and than begins again for another
12 seconds like an outro to the intro,
it sets up the kind of flippant and cheeky
nature of the album,

track two "girls will be girls"
with its repeating lines
"girls will be girls and get drunk on the ocean"
is probably my favorite,
it highlights his impeccable knack
for fragmentary melodies,
melodies that cant be called faultless,
but still you wouldn't have them any other way,
its pure pop, but yet its esoteric and
and creative,

track four "no beso" stars off with
some ambient sounds, it brings the game of
curling to mind, the sounds of clacking and sliding
it turns into a ukulele and vocal track
which only last for a minuet and a half,


the only thing wrong with this
album is that its too short,

it was a free download from
wisdom tooths myspace,
but you can also order his full lenght
cassette on Minneapolis label Room tapes,








it comes with a bunch of nice photos
from his travels in mexico that you can
check out with the download!

Aosuke : Monotone Spirits

Ulf Schütte is responsible for half the good
music that comes out of Hamburg Germany, along
side his friend and Datashock collaborator
Pascal Hector who runs Meudiademorte records,
releasing delicious sound explorations
on his tape label Tape Tektoniks,
putting out stuff ranging from Datashock, James Fella
Pulse Emitter and even Hamilton Ontario's Fossils,
he and pascal have been supporting
each other sense Ulf contacted Meudiademorte to put out
a project that would soon turn into Aosuke, leading to
the birth of Tape Tektoniks for more Aosuke and friends
releases,


while Ulf is not busy with his solo effort
Shivers, he and Tobert Knopp produce beautiful
guitar oriented ambient sound scapes,
the progression of sound is not unlike a gentle
Animal collective or Panda Bear release
but with out any mania or drums, in fact there are
no beats on this album at all, but with a rang of ticks
chirps and clacks covering the tracks,
you don't miss any kind of drum section,
on the contrary it would take the sound in a more
electronica direction, which i think would spoil
the kind of ambient folk aspects of the recording,


track one "at the shore" starts with little
electric chirrup's and a cymbal flourish,
a repeating guitar phrase dominates the track,
its clear and comforting like a string of words,
an agitated vocal of "oh oh ho ah ah ah" takes
attention away from the chirps and guitar
at the half point, its this kind of blending
and overlapping that makes the album stand out,
its is perfectly mixed with out any part or section
in particular getting the snub,

song three the title track "monotone spirits"
is a beautiful mix of bug songs and guitar tone,
plus a debilitated and haunting vocal,
coming off as almost a sample or guest spot,


the last song on the four track LP
"ant architecture" is more angled
toward noise like the quiet perspectives of
glitchy grindcore stuff, the lenient sounds right
before it gets chaotic,


this is the same fundamental ambient bliss
made popular by Black dice, heavy tapes,
animal collective projects and the like....

i highly recommend this release to anyone who
likes music basically, it was released on vinyl
on Meudiademorte and sub released on audiolith
on CD,



http://www.myspace.com/aosuke
http://www.myspace.com/meudiademorte
http://www.myspace.com/tapetektoniks


related projects to check out

http://www.myspace.com/urshivering
http://www.myspace.com/tobertknopp
http://www.myspace.com/conescones
http://www.myspace.com/datashock
http://www.myspace.com/turbostaat

Arrington De Dionyso : I See Beyond the Black Sun

this wasn't quite what i expected from the short
pants clad boisterous front man of RELIJUN,
its a vary calming and relaxing span of throaty nose rock
made with home made effects and instruments,


this seems like a kind of rough draft,
like an unfinished book, not that it doesn't
stand on its own or entertain, but it comes
off as less of a side project and more of a
meditation or wandering, and in so is more
self important than the including and anarchistic
nature of his other work,

track three features a snare drum being played
simple by the vibrations of the singer,
like a snake tamer enticing and playing with
danger, maybe this is a story as well,
some kind of pied piper tale of an oncoming disaster,
its an undirected tribal opus that plays out like
a silent film with out subtitles,

the whole album feels like sessions and the flow is very
natural, with background noises from the studio and such,
the force and vigor of the horn/throat singing style,
is one to be admired, many vocalist and artist like to
play around with these types of Indian and raga influenced
nose and throat chants, and the actual sound you get,
its hard to diversify with it being a specific sound,
but he some how rises above the trappings of the contrived,


the last track one the album (an 18 minuet meanderthal)
almost sound like a remix,
it features a chorus of night bugs and creatures,
singing softly, and the horn singing is less
in your face and more modulated,

the 10 tracks all feature the same horn/throat singing and
all follow the same themes directly or indirectly,
it is an enjoyable study, and perfectly atmospheric,
not a party album but something worth checking out,

its available now for pre-order and will
be released December 9th,

this is out on the legendary K records,
support em and get your pre-orders in now



the album features some of Arrington's original art,
an abstract expression of the female form,
like a gender version of the scatter brush in photoshop
scattering the simplistic yet capturing woman's form repeating
over the water colored canvas,

Boy+Girl : Cavity, Orbit, Sword!

Jacksonville Florida based Boy + Girl
is the sound formation of the man that is A G Davis,
it serves as a audio outlet for the overall mission and art of
all his work, his albums play out similarly
to his progressive writing style, his works read as
sporadic word association that remains coherent and exciting,
the music could work as a companion to his words, going
in and out on tangents and returning to the same manic themes,


when i examined the packaging for this and other
B+G releases, i was put off by the instrument list
(drum machine, synth, samplers etc) and i figured i had
yet another poor and unimaginative electronica release,
but i was mistaken, Davis builds such a gigantic
wall of unbridled sound textures, that its neither
here nor there what tools are used, the samples
add the same sarcastic and sardonic atmosphere
that Tlasila offer up, that same brief and repeating
blueprint like a cd being fast forwarded,

the album has 12 tracks which weave in and out of each other,
the whole album is best played as one continuing piece,
track one features a section of glitched drum machine destruction and
skipping vocal screams, this section is repeated
through out the cd and ties the whole album together,


the album sounds and looks fabulous,
it was released on Belgium label Smeraldina-Rima,
they do beautiful cd-r releases with
packaging made to look like vinyl 45s,

this is fucking grinding glitchy hardcore noise
that is still intuitive and melodic,
akin to Sissy Spacek and others,
a great release!





the packaging is like i said, a piece of
cardboard the size of a 45 sleeve,
it has a gorgeous drawing by wouter vanhaelemeesch,
http://www.myspace.com/utopianethiopian


S-R003
CDR (ltd 60)

Reveurs/Sunken Landscapes split 3"

OK so we have a split between Reveurs and sunken landscapes,
its five tracks divided in three and two, reveurs takes three and sunken takes two,
there is nothing good i can say about the way this split opens,
the first track hurts to listen to,
the only way to explain it is if you ever had a room mate
who was always playing Metallica riffs badly on his ibanez,
well run him and the whole room through a reverb pedal and you have reveurs,
i wont go into the rest of reveurs side of the split
cause im not interested in hating on them/him/her????
but i have nothing constructive to say about it either,

sunken landscapes on the other hand saves the release
with his two tracks lake of bones and smoke signals,
i love pretty much everything sunken landscapes touches,
sunken landscapes is Andy summers from long beach California,

lake of bones begins with haunting pre neck
guitar harmonics and a quiet layer of ambient delay,
it later introduces a guitar loop that makes
the guitar sound more like a computer or a keyboard,
with its fast ending and quick in succession notes,
its beautiful and well rounded,
the perfect mix of guitar tones
and scratchy tape or pedal malfunctions,


smoke signals
is a noisy barrage of plane engine static
with a continuing guitar loop reminiscent
of the progression from lake of bones,
it also features a voice looping behind the noise
its hard to make out but it sounds like some kind of speech,

i strongly suggest getting your hands on any releases Andy has available,
he releases shit almost exclusively with Nihil underground,
and all his shit is dope!

the art included with this release
is the normal Nihil one fold xerox,
its simple but works,


you can get ahold of sunken landscapes releases here
http://www.myspace.com/sunkenlandscapes
and here
http://www.myspace.com/nihilunderground

Reveurs is over and Holden is now working on this project,
http://www.myspace.com/globocide1
don't know if he has any releases out yet,
hit him up with a note,




NU015
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limited to 37
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Boar : Keeping in touch with the bridge bombers

boar serves up a great big full length heaping of facemelting harsh tones,
but with a honest helping of restraint,track one (bugs feed)
demonstrates the dynamics of the record nicely, it starts
with an earblistering attack of layered noise Static
which leads to 3 minuets of silence followed by gentle sonic waves
which surface at the four minuet mark,
the rest of the album seem to be all connected in a way,
you could listen to the whole record as one long piece
or several individual pieces, number seven is intitled Reborn
and sounds like some one is pouring water on a pit of snakes,
pissed off, wet and hissing,
the album closes with "the longhorn" it ends the opus
with a more or less gentle mixer tone,
skipping and tripping over static-y humming
it finises just as it starts to get layered leaving you wondering about the next release,
like a teaser or something,

all sounds where made by Alex Nowacki from dubuque iowa, he has been recording under the name boar for the last two years i think?, and started playing live
shows at the begining of 2008, dubuque is mostly known for its manufacturing industry so its great to hear Alex deconstructing sound like this in iowa,
for the most part boar is a cornucopia of tones and structures,
he does a great job of applying different levels
of volume and sound, for contrast and depth,
the great thing is this might not even be what he sound like next,
if you hit him up for some releases it might be something totally different,
his sound seem to be evolving even as the record progresses,
which is a good thing,

the art is horrible, ignore it, don't judge this book by the cover the work deserves listening,
the album slip looks like the 1990's videogame nation
throw up its undigested food all over a piece of glossy printer paper,
but than you might like this kind of thing who knows,
it just looks like channel flipping to me,
ill stress that it doesn't change how the record sounds though, and the record sounds good,

the inside insert is sweet though, it features Bela Lugosi's original
Count Dracula with the Boar name and myspace addresses,


this was released on California cdr label Nihil underground,
check them and boar out for new releases .........>>>
http://www.myspace.com/boarnoise
http://www.myspace.com/nihilunderground


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Battery : Selfish

the track titles suggest a primitive minimalism (arcane, crushed, spectrate, and article are the four songs included)
so i was surprised to here a verity of styles and textures to this recording, the 3" cd-r opens with crackling and fuzzy 40 second glimpse, its a hodgepodge of sounds
some with cartoon deja vu,it peters out just in the right place,
it gets you in the right mood for the second track which focuses primarily on mixer feedback crunk but with sparser trial offs, track three
is more or less the same as track two more wild feedback with lots of mixer highs and lows,
it sounds good and the tracks range from a minuet to a minuet and a half, leaving lots of room and never tries your patience,

track four introduces some scarpy vocals that turn back and fourth from sweet and mumble-y into dinosaur roars and growls,

there is a wealth of sounds and fun textures involved here,
i don't know who this recording is really, battery has no website or myspace but they are connected/released by the neat California DIY cdr label
Nihil Underground who release unboring simple noise rock,

the art is a simple one fold printout, it has a foggy image of mosaic and broken glass, with what seems to be like eastern statues and shapes,
good stuff!



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