PSYKICK DANCEHALL RECORDINGS...
4 discs featuring
Blood Stereo
Towering Breaker
PartWildHorsesManeOnBothSides
Nackt Insecten
Helhesten
Chora
Divine Coils
Usurper.
Psykick Dancehall present music from some of the most exciting and innovative groups currently working in the UK. The bands represented here have all honed an improvisatory method based less on performance artifice and ecstatic submission than attention to a multi-faceted, reciprocal and open dynamic in which a love for original audio articulation engenders an artistry wholly connected with the “liveness” of collective improvisation, one fully engaged with the spaces between listening and spontaneous composition. The variety of approach in this collective enterprise is a testament to the fertility of the ideas being exchanged, with avant-mong practitioners Blood Stereo blurring the line between human/animal utterance and Chora revelling in the shatter of exponential resonance alongside the explicitly spatial & tonal hocquets of Parting Wild Horse’s Mane and Divine Coils, Helhesten and Towering Breaker’s beautiful loci of bodily abstraction, Nackt Insecten’s beams of cosmic beard and Usurper’s joyously luddite expedition to the limits of wilful ambiguity and the corners of improvised deconstruction. Four 3-inch cds packaged in a 7-inch slipcase with artwork from each band holds all this joy together.
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'SLATES' 12" AVAILABLE NOW from SERGENT MASSACRE:
First vinyl outing for Peckham based Chora, compiling out of print tracks from cdr albums released between 07 & 08. All the tracks were conceived in Sheffield as a trio of Ben Morris, Rob Lye and Chris Boyd at the furniture makers workshop/ Chora practise space, culled from long nights of jamming, eating house special fried rice and drinking wheat beer. The record displays the bands revolving approach to composing, improvising & recording, with sounds moving between shingled skeletal percussion & kitchen sink gamelan to electronic attack & ecstatic vocalisation.
'GOAT LINES' cdr SEVENHARES01... AVAILABLE THROUGH US:
Four tracks recorded April 08 on tour in Europe with our friends Helhesten & The Hunter Gracchus. 3 tracks recorded in collaboration with Pascal Nichols (Stuckometer, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Neon Temple…) & 1 duo jam of mainstays Rob Lye and Ben Morris. Instrumentation including: violin/ Shaahi Baaja/drums/percussion/vocals/sax:::::::www.sevenhares-chora.blogspot.com/
'A wave of releases is available for your eager ears from Peckham’s very own Chora. To begin with I’ll look at the strongest and most clear release from this junk-drone-gamelan improve unit - “Goat Lines”. The record is comprised of four tracks, each documenting a live session from French/Spanish cities. Chora’s evolving line up comprises of core members Rob Lye and Ben Morris, this time joined by Pascal Nichols, from the sublime Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. The CD is packaged with Chora’s trademark black ink illustrations. It is divided into two single folds of rich textured card, wrapping the CDR in a robust skin.
The album begins in Paris with eerie string drones contrived with loose plucks and scrapes. Immediate alien geometry is apparent through murky primal human groans; that feel like early man in puzzled communication with the monolith. The aches and scrapes loom with a wheeze that twitters with high pitched squeaks creating a theatrical foreboding. There is an underlying element of tranquillity that remains soothing beneath the din. The loose-knit improv reminds me of brothers Opalio, but we are soon directed into a surreal blues territory with patterns that remind me of Loren Connors avant-garde group work. The percussive element creeps forth with strangled dogs and jabberwocky steps.
The shortest of the quartet finishes as we arrive in Barcelona. The distance feels like a brief excursion making way as exhalation might to an impending gasp. Slow creeping fumbling like a pack of inquisitive wolves investigating abandoned instruments that lay strewn in some moonlit clearing. Violin and blissful strumming sing over Nichols kinetic percussion. Taught country and blues can be deciphered through a haze of improvised clutter. The organic nature of the performance, the intricate solos and brave juxtapositions versus sweet coherence forms some of the most rewarding sounds Chora have ever laid down. The story unfolds and enters brooding bass-leaden territory letting fear seep in with transparent fingers. There is a real horrorshow aesthetic that I’d happily compare to Dream/Aktion Unit’s frightening free-jazz.
Just northward we arrive in Bilboa. This is a very loose, percussive session, that feels like the locust buzz so pronounced on their Singing Knives record – only this time comprised of hitting instruments. Imagine the ethic of Clogs wonderful Stick Music project, projected with the audacity and playfulness of Lauhkeat Lampaat. As the rain pours down with relentless determination, and the wind howls through my frail slat-windows, I feel like this heavy bombardment of clattering instruments issues with perfect symmetry. Midway as the jumbled percussion escalates, strings are introduced like the inevitable digestion after a fearsome chewing session – I am the antelope in the gullet of the lioness.
Final destination. Full circuit. Paris Again. Slower exploration evolves over 23minutes, beginning with a strange resonance that brings to mind unusual Japanese warbling via mentalist throat-singing (i.e. Sitaar-tah!). This is a far more drone-centric effort that builds with a skewed Taj Mahal Travellers narrative. Some low bowing and high strings drill until met with soothing low tones. Screeches and lush string play (think C. Spencer Yeh) creep into action forging a solid canopy above a timid base. This develops further incorporating what sounds like howling vocals – wind caught in the hallways of antiquated dwellings.' 8/10 -- Peter Taylor (11 March, 2009)
'FROM THE SHAPE AND CONTENTS OF A SHEEPS STOMACH' cdr AVAILABLE FROM CHOCOLATE MONK:
Unveil the long pipes, shrouded in cloud comes this monster of a
disarranging dripper. I am truly all over the shop with this fucker,
hear a totally different disk everytime I spin it. So from my yellowed
note book I give you ...gamelan in the spit ward.. an unearthed
organist... tape loops chiseled from stone... an ale soaked amulet...
the warm howling of the deaf... radio broadcast of early torture
devices made from seashell... the hydrophonic tongue. But forget my
rambling, dear reader, just come smell the warm confusion of these
amazing young South Yorkshire cavemen for yrself - Dylan Nyoukis
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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