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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Sodomy From Beyond - (2019) Agony Mask CS

Contradiction Tapes ‎– 065

Swallowing Bile - (2013) 9648 CS

Sonic Torture ‎– none

Swallowing Bile - (2013) Geoffrey CS

Supremacy Temple ‎– 005 

Swallowing Bile - (2016) Strung Up CS

Finders ‎– 002 

Varg - (2019) Sky City A Weak Heart To Break (Spit) 12''

Northern Electronics ‎– 058 

The New Sadism - (1984) Breather's Penis Age CS

Not On Label ‎– none

Keiji Haino - (2019) Sumac- Even For Just The Briefest Moment / Keep Charging This Expiation Plug In To Making It Slightly Better CD

Post-metal sludge avantgarde powerhouse SUMAC around Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom) follow up their collaboration with legendary Japanese guitarist and singer/performer Keiji Haino on Thrill Jockey (American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You are too Hideous to Look at Face on) with another monolith - heavy and experimental at the same time
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Keiji Haino – Guitar, Voice, Flute, Taepyeongso
Aaron Turner – Guitar
Nick Yacyshyn – Drums
Brian Cook – Bass

TITLES AND LYRICS BY KEIJI HAINO.
TITLE TRANSLATION BY ALAN CUMMINGS.

RECORDED BY SOH KI MOON AT FEVER, TOKYO, JULY 3 2017.
MIXED BY RANDALL DUNN AT AVAST, SEATTLE, DECEMBER 2018.
MASTERED BY JAMES PLOTKIN, BETHLEHEM, DECEMBER 2018.
EXTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKI MATSUSHIMA.
INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAZUYUKI FUNAKI.
ARTWORK/DESIGN BY A. TURNER.

THANK YOU: SOH KI MOON, RANDALL DUNN, HIROMI KUDO,
TADASHI HAMADA, JAMES PLOTKIN, RYO KURAMOTO,
TAKESHI, KONSTANTIN, TROST. 

Trost Records ‎– 183 

Sissy Spacek & Smegma - (2019) Ballast CD

Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others form the current third phase Smegma. Personnel of this album, “Ballast”, consists of this line-up plus Charlie Mumma, a member of Sissy Spacek since 2008.

The source material of “Ballast” was recorded at home and on the Los Angeles radio station Dublab, but what we hear is not exactly Smegma and Sissy Spacek performing together as a live group. Wiese’s production of the recording is a kind of un-doing of the live group playing, forging it into a new collage of sound. It reminds us of genome editing which results in diversity, and sometimes in mutation, of organisms.

The title of the album, “Ballast”, refers to a weight on a ship which improves it’s stability, but it is also a term for an electrical component that regulates electricity so as to not destroy the other components. It’s double meaning fits between the cover art and the collage process which is constantly partitioning and interrupting the elements of sound.

Helicopter ‎– 088

Гликодин SS & .brokenchelust - (2017) 私が苦しむ大好き Split CD

 Not On Label ‎– none

잠비나이 - (2019) ONDA

When the three founders of Jambinai decided to, “communicate with the ordinary person who doesn't listen to Korean traditional music,” few outsiders anticipated an extra-ordinary fusion with metal, post-rock and noise. “Most people expect Asian traditional music to make something smooth for yoga or meditation,” says band spokesman Lee Il-woo. “We wanted to break all of that.”
Even fewer would have predicted that the likes of Jambinai would play the 2018 Winter Olympic Games closing ceremony in the city of Pyeongchang, accompanied by a troupe of geomungo (Korean zither) players - an audio-visual spectacle that such an occasion demanded. Now comes ONDA, their spectacular new album on Bella Union.
Says Lee, “Onda means ‘come’ in Korean. The title track has the lyric, ‘At the end of your darkness, pain will turn into the shining stars and it’s going to come to you.’ I want to cheer people up when they hear that track. Onda also means ‘wave’ in Spanish, and I also want to say the third big wave of Jambinai is coming!”
The first big wave arrived in 2010 after traditional music students Lee (guitar and piri, a bamboo oboe), Kim Bo-mi (the bow-stringed haegum) and Sim Eun-young (geomungo) joined forces and released the Jambinai EP. The trio’s debut album Différance won Best Crossover Album at the 2013 Korean Music Awards, triggering several overseas tours and the second wave of Jambinai - an international deal with Bella Union and a second album, A Hermitage. At the time, Lee cited the influence of bands like Metallica, Mogwai and Sigur Rös, but such was the trio’s energy levels, they seemed to draw more on thunderstorms, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, blizzards and desert winds – a force of nature more than a band.
It’s hard to believe but ONDA is even more dynamic and rhythmic, with the permanent addition of Jaehyuk Choi (drums) and B.K Yu (bass), fixtures of Jambinai’s live band since 2017. The way the quintet “sticks together like gears of a clock or machine,” says Lee, is celebrated on ‘Square Wave’, a breathtaking example of Jambinai’s ability to alternate between ambient serenity and molten ferocity.
‘Square Wave’ is also one of several ONDA cuts to feature vocals. “Voice and lyrics have strong energy, they can touch someone's heart directly more than instruments,” Lee explains. “Also, most people don’t know Korean, so they hear our voices as sound rather than meaning. We needed more sounds on this album.”
Not that the instrumental tracks are any less momentous. Take the opening ‘Sawtooth’ (featuring Hwiseon Choi on yanggeum, a hammered dulcimer), because Lee thinks the band’s constantly shifting dynamic, “resembles the sawtooth waveform of electronic sound.”
Other ONDA song titles are similarly revealing. ‘Event Horizon’ was suggested by a Jambinai fan to represent the music’s, “strength and chaos”, though the haunting folk instrumentation is never swept aside by the energy on display. ‘Sun. Tears. Red’ is one way to describe Jambinai’s emotional as well as visceral impact, punctuated here by hollering, anguished voices. Says Lee, “I saw a documentary about Korean independence against Japanese imperialism. I wanted to express the soldiers’ fear when they greet the rising sun, preparing to battle for freedom even though they knew they were going to die that day.”
13 minutes long, ‘In The Woods’ is the album’s lengthiest epic, originally recorded for Jambiani’s 2010 EP and now rearranged for the expanded quintet, plus guest traditional singer Bora Kim. The inspiration here is environmental pollution, soundtracked by eight minutes of mournful ambience that slowly builds to a shattering climax. “The earth is in serious pain,” Lee concludes.
ONDA ends on a thematic note of drama and redemption. In ‘Small Consolation’, says Lee, “a person leads their weary body to a distant glow, which is small consolation. But when they get there, it turns into a big light, big consolation and happiness.” The closing title track comes in two parts: a calm prelude (featuring Lee on saenghwang, a tall reed mouth organ) before the euphoric main course, graced by choral grandeur. Once the music dies away, the feeling is one of blissful exhaustion.
Says Lee: “After Jambinai’s US tour of 2017, I travelled the country for a month. I was worried about my future and the music because I had quit my job for the band but we didn’t have much money and the tour was tough and tiring for everyone. But when I visited the Grand Canyon, Mother Nature cheered me up and it was felt like she was telling me, “you are doing really well. Back in Korea, I wrote more songs with confidence and happiness.” 

 Bella Union ‎– 916

扎克 - (2019) Orchestral Tape Studies

Orchestral Tape Studies is a compilation arranged and produced by healing sound propagandist, 扎克. OTS is a group of richly layered movements of fragmented orchestral loops, paying homage to minimalist symphonic composers and orchestras. 扎克 incorporates field recordings and faint drone billows to accompany these selected samples of orchestral loops. With an emphasis on tone and recurrent murmurs, these four arrangements offer 32 minutes of delicate repetition, reticent sound treatments, and subtle manipulations. 

100% of all digital proceeds will be donated to the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra towards a Student Scholarship. The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra (MYO) is a youth and family development program of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The program focuses on developing life skills through the rehearsal and performance of music and is designed to use the life skills learned through music instruction to engage youth in activities that discourage at-risk behaviors and keep them committed to staying in school.
Past Inside the Present ‎– 019

Pool Of Light - (2019) 壤 Soil CDr

WV Sorcerer Productions ‎– 032

Pool Of Light - (2018) 景 CDr

Pool of light is drone/psychedelic project by Anton Bogdanov, a Siberia-born musician currently residing in China. His music is mostly focused on subconsciousness material, tranquility states and search for inner awareness. The project has huge part of improvisational , cosmic and folk-drone element, basing his live performances on loops and long drones.
 ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ ‎– 112

光淵 Pool Of Light - 淵 Abyss CDr

Pool of light is drone/psychedelic project by Anton Bogdanov, a Siberia-born musician currently residing in China. His music is mostly focused on subconsciousness material, tranquility states and search for inner awareness. The project has huge part of improvisational , cosmic and folk-drone element, basing his live performances on loops and long drones.
ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ ‎– 113

光淵 Pool Of Light - (2018) 薹 Terrace CS

Pool of light is drone/psychedelic project by Anton Bogdanov, a Siberia-born musician currently residing in China. His music is mostly focused on subconsciousness material, tranquility states and search for inner awareness. The project has huge part of improvisational , cosmic and folk-drone element, basing his live performances on loops and long drones.
Pyramid Blood Recordings ‎– 009

非常階段 × Sissy Spacek - (2019) Entropic

On the verge of their 40th and in the midst of their 20th anniversaries, respectively, Hijokaidan and Sissy Spacek merge in Tokyo for their first collaboration, featuring Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa, Charlie Mumma, Futoshi Okano, Tentenko (guest), and John Wiese.

Hijokaidan formed in 1979, marking the first wave of groups in Japan exploring extreme noise. Sissy Spacek formed in 1999, often playing in large ensembles of players, and frequently exploring grindcore as a base for creating extreme music, often while eschewing the notion of music altogether.

During Sissy Spacek’s 20th anniversary tour in Japan, the recordings of “Amok Time” and “Seven Directions” were made with Hijokaidan in collaboration. While Hijokaidan’s sound has been described as a continuous climax of your entire progressive rock collection, Sissy Spacek’s “Twenty-Five Fragments” is a sequence of peak chaos from their 2018 tour, recorded on walkman for maximum effect.

 Helicopter ‎– 087

Atrax Morgue - (2016) Atrax Morgue's Mörder Machine 3xCD, CS & DVD

CD1 Happy Birthdeath  FLAC
CD2 Deathshow  FLAC
CD3 Reel I  FLAC
CS Reel II  FLAC