John Cage, Suffocation, Glen Branca, power tools, Brian Eno, Obituary, Stockhausen, broken records, sirens, empty buildings, television static, Throbbing Gristle, air through vents, mouth breathers, field recordings.
“…ritual exploration locked in a landscape of left-handed black urbanity…. the sound of jackals seeking prey in abandoned malls. Locrian’s vision is an internalised one, a view that’s expressed through ferocious volume with a finger than remains on the trigger guard.”
(Scott McKeating, Rock-a-rolla)
“Looming monoliths of distorted synthesizer erode in slow motion while a brittle, hazy guitar line wavers slowly back and forth like a rusty weathervane creaking in the wind. And then: the voices. Disembodied howls rising from the devil’s asshole.”
(J. Niimi, Chicago Reader)
“Like a raven perched on an electrical transformer, Locrian summon elemental human dread, the type hinted at in medieval passion plays and Shakespearean dramatic interludes, but do so electrically, without the pretense of ancient wisdom or nostalgia-laden "spectral folk."
(Chris Sienko, Gapers Block)
"[Locrian] spoon through the night mounted upon a guitar or a synth… the sonic textures are closer to rock (maybe born amidst the debris of a party Killing Joke had just left).”
(Byron Coley, The Wire)
"Sometimes musicians experiment for the sake of experimenting, and sometimes they experiment because they’re trying to find an alien beauty they can’t get to any other way….[LOCRIAN] sculpt eerily gorgeous noise from an impressive array of materials…Their unwieldy heap of gear makes for an awkward-looking stage show, but the sounds they coax out of it are ineffably graceful.”
(Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader)
“…raw electronics and mistreated guitar that knows when it’s time to roar, and time to just menace.”
(Creaig Dunton, Brainwashed.com)
"...delay-heavy guitars and voices wailing inconsolably at the foot of an unscalable wall of fuzzy drone...Foisy and Hannum know exactly what they're doing. The way they manage to sustain interest over fifteen or more minutes without ever moving away from an eternally gloomy minor home base, with guitars drifting across the grey sky like black clouds, is truly impressive."
(Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic)
Hello all, this will be our final release of 2009, and a great way to end the year... Pinklogik asked 10 artists and friends to remix her entire "Learning To Trust Higher Frequencies" album and what an eclectic and stunningly produced work this is. Each track has its own feel, thanks to the diverse range of artists involved in the project. A shimmering journey through ambient colours, broken beats, sweet melodies, a little bit of quantum physics, and is one hell of a trip....
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Also from S27...
[S27-030] MIN-Y-LLAN : Dark Days (Downtempo, Ambient)
We are fast approaching the last days of 2009, so what better way to celebrate than this release from Welshman "Min-Y-Llan" who offers us this collection of atmospheric ambient pieces, the melodies within are dark and cavernous, being the perfect listening for the walk home on a frozen winters evening. Each track has a very melancholic feel as if looking towards a future that isn't as bright as we hope for, but nevertheless are powerless to escape. Free download!
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
By the way, Joe over at Small Doses sent me a copy of Drenched Lands. Absolutely brilliant. I am going to give it a good, thorough review for my magazine, and I will send it along your way when it is out. If you ever feel interested in working with Haute Magie, the door is far wide open.
HM002 - Torturing Nurse - fist a sickle / destruction output c15 cassette - $6 Cathartic and brutally harsh. Analogue noise done right Limited to 50 copies with inserts
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HM001 - Zebulon Kosted - Novaya Zemlya c45 cassette - $6 A truly incapacitating black noise masterpiece; sounds from the snow capped mountains and barren caves of Montana Limited to 53 copies on various coloured tapes with inserts
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