Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:27 CET:

RELIGIOUS KNIVES "The Door":

With The Door, Religious Knives have not only found those bygone days, but broken them apart. There are bookmarks to be found here, pages creased in well-worn chapters. But make no mistake - theirs is a sound tied to the here and now, a summer record for those dread days when the heat holds low and skin sticks to cheap car seats and old patio furniture. These six songs are brighter, sharper than anything that has come before, locking in tight on jugular rhythms. It's the score for disappearing neighborhoods and crumbling buildings, a hope of holding onto the past as those around us move fast to forget it. It is scent as sound, the stench of smog and sickly smoke spiraling towards the sky. It is Brooklyn, July of 2008. The sun has left us in the East, disappearing somewhere behind Jersey, leaving our borough to find the pulse of another night deep with the city's streets.

Samples:
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/multimedia/downstairs_clip.mp3
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/multimedia/basement_clip.mp3
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/multimedia/decisions_clip.mp3

Order: www.ecstaticpeace.com

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Sunday, November 16, 2008, 10:51 CET:

Utech Records presents SUM OF R:

Switzerland’s Sum of R is Reto Mäder (RM74) and Christoph Hess and Roger Ziegler (Herpes Ö Deluxe) constructing/deconstructing sound in ways that infest and cloud the interior of the mind. The implements: electronics, bass guitar, piano, drums, harmonium and Lenco turntables. The science: deep pulsations, organic drones, melodic feedback accompaniment, vinyl loops, analog sound sources, reversed audio, haunting vocal treatments. The sum: a living, breathing organism that sustains varied levels of function without ever losing its holistic unity. Photography by Rik Garrett.

Samples:
http://utechrecords.com/MP3/025_5.mp3
http://utechrecords.com/MP3/025_7.mp3

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008, 18:22 CET:

BODUF SONGS "The Strait Gait (Latitudes Series):

"I first became acquainted with Boduf Songs when I starting working at Southern. I remember being handed a bunch of new releases to familiarise myself with, The The Lion Devours The Sun was one of them and it blew me away. Soon after hearing that I bought the self-titled release, and knew that I had been exposed to something exceptional. Kranky describe Mat Sweet aka Boduf Songs as possessing alchemical powers based on his ability to take various musical instruments and transform their sound to create something deeply original, something that is not simply 'singer-songwriter' or 'folk'. It is the sonic detail enriching every song that I find most striking about Sweet's music. After releasing two astounding records, I wanted to hear more of what Boduf Songs had to offer and felt that offering the opportunity to record a Latitudes session would be a great way to stimulate Mat Sweet's idiosyncratic style.

The result is two outstanding tracks, the first one 'Please Extract My Teeth With Your Rustiest Pliers (For Redemptive)' sounds like it could have been used as the soundtrack to a 1970s horror film, with timely splashing cymbals, scratchy guitar sounds and deep thunderous drones. The second track 'That Angel Was Fucking Piss' is quintessential Boduf, with brooding vocals, the crisp plucking of the acoustic guitar and every detail of every chord transition captured. Both songs are rich in timbre, creating an intense atmosphere for the listener to be well and truly absorbed. Prepare to be consumed by Boduf Songs."
- Lauren Barley. Southern Records. April 2008

Tracklisting:
01. Please Extract My Teeth With Your Rustiest Pliers (For Redemptive)
02. That Angel Was Fucking Piss

2 tracks, 22 minutes. Artwork designed by Mat Sweet himself. Ltd to 1000 copies.

www.southern.net

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Friday, October 31, 2008, 22:40 CET:

AIDAN BAKER "Letters" LP:

After the Drone Records 7" and his collab with Tim Hecker, this is his very first solo 12" vinyl. Another one should see the light soon on Equation Records, but seems that letters "won" the race.

180g black vinyl, full color cover, 400 copies.

Sample:
http://www.myownsalvation.com/songs/aidan%20baker%20letters%20sample.mp3

Label: www.bassesfrequences.org

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 20:23 CET:

ZAK RILES (of GRAILS):

Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites.
Like his band Grails, Zak Riles solo work is an elaborate mansion built of inspiration but with so much strength and originality that it stands firmly on its own. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh and the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the likes of Grails & James Blackshaw.

Samples:
http://importantrecords.com/sounds/213_riles_silkrd.wav
http://importantrecords.com/sounds/213_before.wav
http://importantrecords.com/sounds/213_pacific.wav

Order: www.importantrecords.com

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 20:20 CET:

SKULLFLOWER "Circulus Vitiosus Deus" 3xCD Box Set:

Skullflower return in the form of a hand decorated card box (done lovingly by Bower himself) with 18 different inserts featuring original artwork and 3 CD's in silver inked black wallets. Limited to 300 copies. Essential Skullflower Horror.

"Leitmotivs and keys get twisted and mangled and return with the dread anticipation of Nietzsches eternal recurrence in a cycle of upheavals and lacerations, beginning and ending interwoven in an occult pantheistic tapestry that posits a gateway from the rational universe of gods creation into universe b, for spirits that can tune to the bleak, gorgeous vision sf has been channeling since tribulation. Comes in a cardboard box with silver foil blocked slipcases featuring sigils/glyphs/runes that are both symbols and aspects of the working, and 15 visual fragments that can be arranged in conjunction with the sounds to make spells, koans, traps, resonances to help bring about the sacred alignments that the music aims toward.... indeed a valuable tool for dark meditation, and lefthand tantra".
- Matthew Bower.

LIMITED TO 300 COPIES ONLY!

Available here: www.turgid-animal.co.uk

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Saturday, October 25, 2008, 10:34 CET:

SKULLFLOWER "Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver":

We’ve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on ONE solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, there’s the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiate with Bower’s iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, it’s still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood... finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform: abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the body’s unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500.

Order: www.notnotfun.com/presents/present.html

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 16:01 CET:

KK Null "Oxygen Flash":

After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, KK Null has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo and collaborative recordings. Oxygen Flash explores the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described 'cosmic noise maximal/minimalism'.

Sample:
http://www.southern.net/southern/band/NULLK/sounds/NEU61-08-08.mp3

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Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:56 CET:

VALERIO COSI "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock":

Valerio Cosi may be young at only 22, but his talent is undeniable. He may be mostly known for his exquisite saxophone playing, but this Italian wunderkind doesn’t stop there. Cosi composes strings of magic using all sorts of instrumentation and production tricks. "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" marks the first CD release in Cosi’s ever-expanding discography, and he saved the best for this, his most widely-available release to date.

"Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" is a monster. Clocking in at nearly an hour in length, this kraut-infused ride takes Cosi's modus operandi of juxtaposing multitudes of ideas that generally seem at odds and pushes it to its outer limits. Using techniques and ideas often found in contemporary free-jazz, but blurring them and whitewashing them with buckets of noise and Eastern-inspired rhythms, it is clear Valerio is on a mission. His music is the spaced-out reincarnations of the ghosts of giants. It is an arsenal of unique sonic phrasings built to bend your mind.

This is Valerio Cosi at his peak as a performer, young as he is. "Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock" is his finest hour, his opus.

Limited to 500 copies.
Special edition limited to 100 copies

Sample:
www.digitalisindustries.com/valerio_cosi-a_new_vipassana.mp3

Order:
www.digitalisindustries.com

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Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:50 CET:

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE "At the Foot of Nameless Roads":

By now, just about everyone is familiar with the mighty Starving Weirdos and their otherworldly junkyard drones. Last year the world was introduced to another band of mystics from the Weirdos camp called RV Paintings. One of the constant threads from both of those bands is the inimitable Brian Pyle. Ensemble Economique is Pyle’s debut foray into the solo forest. "At the Foot of Nameless Roads" is a masterpiece of an album, filled to the brim with cacophonous melodies, meditative auditory chants, & hypnotic shambolic rhythms. If you love the Weirdos, you will be all over this.

"At the Foot of Nameless Roads" is one hell of a first statement. Pyle has concocted an absolute gem. This is dense music that begs for deeper inspection. Each space, each note carefully chosen and etched into glass. Ensemble Economqiue is music for the darkest nights, the pinkest mornings, and everything in between. This is vivid, haunting music that leaves a trail of gold in its wake.

Limited to 500 copies. Artwork by Tarentel's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Special edition limited to 100 copies

Samples:
www.digitalisindustries.com/ensemble_economique-light_reflects_as_seagulls_dive.mp3
www.digitalisindustries.com/ensemble_economique-your_dream_was_mine.mp3

Order:
www.digitalisindustries.com

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