COURTIS/MOORE NEW LP 'BROKEBOX JUKE' OUT NOW ON NO-FI...............................
A REVIEW FROM FOXY DIGITALIS................................................
If only all postal collaborations sounded as alive as this one, Anla Courtis (Reynols) and Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear) have put together beautifully organic effort for NO-FI. The most important characteristic of the album is the scintilla of sunlight-drifting dust that settles over Brokebox Juke, the kind of barely there unifier that makes this LP seem like a real-time recording. From the fly-tipping pastoral charm of “One” to the duo-do-four-piece krautypsych of “Seven” Courtis/Moore have created finely-formed and textured arrangements across the record. Junk grooves, trumpet parts and acoustic guitar notes are layered like cross-fire breezed melodies from open studio windows looking out on city streets and open fields, this manages to be one of the most engaging, and naturalistic collaborations in recent years – and these guys didn’t even meet! Imagine one piece of gatefolded vinyl that is the summation of everything the Last Visible Dog label has ever promised to deliver. This is it....................................... 9/10 -- Scott McKeating
Aaron Moore plays music with instruments and devices. He is a founding member of Volcano The Bear and his other current musical projects include Amolvacy, Textile Orchestra, FreeTime & Wizards of Oi. Other projects have included Dragon Or Emperor, Songs Of Norway, The Blue Prostitutes & Guignol. Aaron has collaborated/performed with Jeremy Barnes, Alan Courtis, Arnaud Riviere, Alexander Bellenger, Dan Warburton, Tom Recchion, Steve Mackay, Andrew Liles, Paul Dunmall, Mark Sanders, Michael Snow, Mats Gustaffson, Boredoms, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Jamie Smith, Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra, Francesco Paladino, Trevor Lines, Tony Bianco, Per Gisle Galaen, Sindre Bjerga, Jonas Qvale, Thurston Lava Tube & Marcus Cummins as well as paying his dues in The Nightingales.
Aaron has also had the honour of being a drum leader in Boredoms 77 Boadrum in Brooklyn and this years 88 Boadrum in Los Angeles.
Born in Market Harborough, England he now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Amolvacy in New York
Hi, If you live in New York or the surroundings you can help the French band Jack Dupon by contacting Dave Roberge from Transit Music Group. Here to comment : www.myspace.com/transitmusicgroup Here for an e-mail : transitmusic2@aol.com And tell him, Yes we want Jack Dupon for a United-States-Tour in 2010. Thanks and greetings from France......
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
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Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
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xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...
A strange, emotive and very unique live recording of Thanatoloop, who is also part of Un Festín Sagital. This songs came from two shows, one is the funerART drone/doom fest, and the other the electro/acoustic Retrofuturistic fest. Close to what? Simon Finn, Fad Gadget, Current 93, Edward Ka-Spel, the more toxic Violeta Parra, Alvarius B, Nick Cave, TG, Residents, Coil, Electrodomesticos (early), Leonard Cohen, etc... dark, but not without humour and groooove.
Some of the wildest bands of this times, like a satanic Velvet Underground breaking your nerves with agressive mantras, and violent voices and noises above a solid rythmic base. One of the most powerful, intense and dark rock bands of this last years. Highly Recommended.
........Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
........Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
Templo Sagital is VERY proud to release one of the wildest and powerful rock bands of this times:
Ripped Krampus - Warm direlict
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Some of the wildest bands of this times, like a satanic Velvet Underground breaking your nerves with agressive mantras, and violent voices and noises above a solid rythmic base. One of the most powerful, intense and dark rock bands of this last years. Highly Recommended.
En mi pais pocos estan interesados en ser editados por el Tempo Sagital, pero eso no ocurre en otros pueblos... ¡Y Ripped Krampus es una banda que produce espasmos dionisiacos poder editar!... Una banda de salvaje Rock! Oscura, violenta, libre e intensa! Un apocalipsis sonoro inaudito.
