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helhesten
Acousmatic / Tape music / Experimental / Post punk



Glasgow
United Kingdom

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Member Since7/10/2006
Band MembersHannah: clarinet, saxophone
Greg: violin, viola, percussion, guitar, zither
Ben: vocals, tapes





Friendly hands: Kelly, Ben M, Rob, Pascal.
Influences
Record LabelPsykick Dancehall, Rayon, Chironex, U!TR
Type of LabelUnsigned


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Sound:
A Day-Moth Cling on
Chironex OUT NOW!



Helhesten/Darkness in Concrete split on Rayon
Spring 2009


Tour recordings from a five-headed Helhesten featuring Kelly and Pascal from Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides. On the other side is a collaboration recorded in a Dijon warehouse on the same tour, in Spring 2007, between Hannah Ellul (clarinet), Kelly-Jayne Jones (flute) and Rob Lye from Chora (soprano sax).

"There is a great joining of free-folk and fire music that elevates this act above the crowd. There is also some challenging moments that take all you might to digest, as one might do whilst cowering frightened to a Prurient record. Often the percussion notches into an intricate rhythm that rescues the din, and allows for an anchor of focus. This is a massive set, that one can return to again and again. Great stuff...
At times [Darkness in Concrete] feels like a dawn chorus, veering from over-excited twittering that leap like frightened sparrows under the menace of some large shadowed prey. The scaling of notes in small pockets of action reduces in intensity as the exploration thickens. Self reflective solo expeditions quiver with a disobedience that simmers with taut fervour as duets fleetingly find common ground."
Peter Taylor, Foxy Digitalis


Graphical House on Blackest Rainbow
Spring 2009

"Factoring in aspects of drone, sound poetry, small instrument improvisation and free jazz, the group work pointillist levitations that would strip the whole Double Leopards/Taj Mahal Travellers stormcloud style of its aura of fug, replacing it with a sum of electro-acoustic sound events that are as individually detailed as they are overtly group-minded. The violin and reed work feels particularly lucid and Anglo-drone focussed. Seems like a buncha next generation UK style has come of age of late and this is another one to add to the pot."
Volcanic Tongue


Dithyramb on Upset the Rhythm
August 2008


Long-awaited split 12" with Chops in rather smashing purple & white vinyl.
Helhesten's side-long "Dithyramb" is a rumble/ramble through a sonic landscape of screams, twitterings and rustles. Rarely staying in one place and clearly sensitive to their surroundings - ...both city and countryside are reflected in their music - they know how to pace themselves."
Wire review January 2009 here.


Past releases

The Dance & Spasm of the Snake in Trance; collaboration with Chora on cassette on Lotus Birth.
"Sultry stratospheric vibrations rock this one skyward... the process of the improvisation becomes a joy to experience... Hannah Ellul's clarinet tracing the most translucent ribbons of sublime threat over Ben Knight's increasingly urgent vocalisations as he struggles to understand his own body in the flux of sound and colour... the effect is fearful, itchy, worried, and makes for wonderfully uncomfortable listening. At one point what sounds like a saw cuts into the totality, not long before Knight's vocal wrenches transport the music by pained gasps into a mesmerising intensity, the almost horrific momentum lurching forward with sarcastic glee until the sides crack and the flesh falls out, a sickening spectacle. Ace."
From the review on Foxy Digitalis.


'Only the Sun of Folk Songs Visits Your Grave', on Paris based Cook an Egg. It's one of our collaborative outings featuring Kelly Jayne Jones & Pascal Nichols (Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides), and Lye AND Morris from Chora.
"vagrant sounds launching through both ether and mud...free jazz and European improv roots."
Foxy Digitalis




'Helhesten', on Barcelona's joyous noise makers Discos Compulsivos/LUV LUV.
"reflects the chaotic, gritty, south-of-the-Thames feel I remember coupled with an insane Boredoms-style anything-can-happen free-jazz attitude"
according to Funeral Pudding.

Split (as On Fire) on Curor Recordings with the magnificent CHORA.
"On fire... really do it for me here, particularly with the sheer transgressive weirdness and lovely melodic freaksome moments of the penultimate track on the disc - the changes of pace and undulations of vocal and instrumental action give it by turns an addictive despondency and a weird cultic charm."
From the review on Foxy Digitalis.

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Other helhesten-related activities (click names for links):

Towering Breaker - tape speeek with Ben and Jack

UBOAT - Duo made up of Ben and Pascal utilising strange vocal huffs, plus Pascal's found object scatter-percussion. 'Condor Song' is out now on Chocolate Monk.

Psykick Dancehall Recordings - Our label. First release a handmade 4 disc set - with a book of full-colour artwork - featuring Blood Stereo, Partwildhorsesmane..., Usurper, Nackt Insecten and more. Now sold out - but go and have a look, instalment 2 is due this September. A new Towering Breaker LP also due very soon!



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Nov 2 2009 7:57 PM

Cam Deas

Cam Deas



Nov 2 2009 7:57 PM




THIS FRIDAY IN SHEFFIELD AT THE SHAKESPEARE

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS
CAM DEAS
BASTET (HUNTER GRACCHUS/PART WILD HORSES)

£5 ADV/6 OTD
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Oct 28 2009 7:32 PM

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Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Oct 21 2009 8:49 PM

Beach Fuzz - untitled c54 tape (ROWF 17)

Ltd to 70 copies

Out now

This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.

Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

£4 (UK)

£5 (Europe)

£6 (USA/Canada/R.o.W.)

Annabelle

Annabelle Ringen



Oct 19 2009 3:46 PM

Ty for friendship :)
" keep those tunes runing "

Greetings from Norway
HUGS @>- ANNABELLE -<@

Usurper

Usurper



Oct 19 2009 9:41 AM

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it takes the collective muscle of WINNERS DON'T SHIVER and GIANT TANK to slop up this much experimental weird-ass sound.....

ELI KESZLER
Rhode Island USA solo drummerboy/ alemaster who happily mashes grains from the collected public houses of ecstatic free jazz, modern weirdo composition, no wave blunders and blootered gamelan using an array of gongs, bells, bowed percussives and amplification to brew his own tenacious improv tipple. Jandek, Greg Kelley, Steve Pyne and more have all propped up his bar to slurp that "straight from the barrel taste".

RETAIL UNIT
1990s throwback Sandy Milroy plays some archaic noises using ambidextrous minidisc technique he honed in days before he met them Muscletusk 21st Century boys.

BRITTLE HAMMER FOUR
Two parts Usurper sparsecore brothers + one part Peeesseye yodelling traps-man + one part Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer= all parts WRONG!!!

SCRIM
His 'n' hers hiss 'n' hum piss 'n' moan duo wash muddy tones 'n' drones through low-ends 'n' lugs to leave yon mind swamped in free music's murk 'n' mire.

SAT 24TH OCT 2009
A Secret Location In Edinburgh's Old Town
(e-mail gianttank@hotmail.com for further details!).
doors= 7:30pm. cost= £5.
there shouild be beers for sale, but ye can also BRING YR OWN BEVVY!!!

Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Oct 8 2009 6:14 PM

Bridget Hayden CDR (ROWF16) out now

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

Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

£5.99 (UK)

£6.99 (Europe)

£7.99 (USA/Canada/R.o.W.)

La Crisálida Records

La Crisálida Records



Sep 24 2009 12:16 AM

Hola,

 

MENTAT - AMARILLO ABISAL (2 LP): NUEVO DISCO A LA VENTA!!!

 

¡Saludos!

Ya está disponible nuestro primer 2LP Amarillo abisal (2009) (56 min.) editado por La crisálida records. Los discos contienen las canciones Abisal, Crisálida, Lo irrevocable, El cielo se cierra, Un paisaje (en amarillo) y Vestigios de una derrota. Cuesta 12 €+ Gastos de envio. Disponemos de 525 copias.

( para gente que le gusta Neurosis, Today is the day, Type O Negative, Meatjack , Damad etc..)

 

www.myspace/mentatrock

gracias por agregarnos

un saludo crisálido

 

HI!

 

MENTAT - AMARILLO ABISAL (2 LP): OUT NOW!!!

 

Greetings!

 

Our first 2 LP Amarillo Abisal (2009) (56 min.) is now available. It has been released by La crisálida records. It contains the songs Abisal, Crisálida, Lo irrevocable, El cielo se cierra, Un paisaje (en amarillo) and Vestigios de una derrota. Price: 12 € + Shipping cost.

We have 525 copies

( for people who likes Neurosis, Today is the day, Type O Negative, Meatjack , Damad etc..)

 

www.myspace/mentatrock

All the Best

La Crisálida Records

DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA

DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA



Sep 21 2009 5:27 PM

institute gig nov 18th
HORSE GIVES BIRTH TO FLY

HORSE GIVES BIRTH TO FLY



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Broken Ear

Broken Ear



Sep 16 2009 9:47 PM

Broken Ear is an online radio station, streamable online and playing wild and wonderful tunes for the more discerning music listener. This episode features an interview with Tim from Part Chimp! Check it out here:

Broken Ear

Broken Ear



Aug 25 2009 8:30 AM

Hey! Broken Ear is an ONLINE radio show dedicated to outsider and
alternative music. You can listen to it anytime, anywhere as long as
your on the 'net (which you must be now...) heres the link to the
latest show:



http://radiomagnetic.com/main-features/epsode-5-feat-holy-mountain/
sop

sop



Aug 23 2009 1:32 PM

ALT. READING FEST:::::::::COME!COME!COME!
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AND SUNDAY::::::::::
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pins and needles



Aug 7 2009 11:08 PM

Lanterns

Lanterns



Aug 6 2009 11:20 PM


Dolphins in the Future (BE) - Sounds for seafaring dreamers
Motherfuckin (FR) - Psychedelic freaknoise primitivism
Floris van Hoof (BE) - Two tape players and a microphone
Pascal Nichols - Wild Horse drumming
Chora - Glorious clatter and resonating strings
Nackt Insecten - He travels the spaceways
Lanterns - Fuzzed up space float

Fri 21st of August at the 13th Note, Glasgow.
£5. Early 8PM doors, first band on shortly thereafter.

IAIN CAMPBELL

IAIN CAMPBELL



Aug 6 2009 2:21 PM

SAT 15th AUGUST - 10PM
USURPER & FRITZ WELCH/CR:ACC ENSEMBLE/PYRAMIDION/SCRIM
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FILMS BY JOHN MORAN & ELAINE KORDYS
St. Stephens, Edinburgh - BYOB - pay what you can

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Aug 4 2009 8:24 AM



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+ THE A BAND + SPOONO + CAM DEAS


TICKETS

Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Aug 3 2009 10:04 PM

The Radiation Line

The Radiation Line



Aug 3 2009 10:03 PM

oi oi!
nalle

nalle



Jul 24 2009 11:26 AM


Lanterns

Lanterns



Jul 23 2009 3:11 PM



A Wake - Primal guitar wailing from the Mancunians behind Golden Lab Records.

Mid Leopard Violet Prism - Smeared Insect Campaign

Blue Sabbath Black Fiji - Earth shattering guitar noise duo

Sexy Entourage - Telepathic drums/guitar combo

Julien Serve

Julien Serve



Jul 20 2009 8:44 AM

thanXXX
P O O T

P O O T



Jul 12 2009 8:30 PM


yo!!! are there any of the pdh disc sets left?? i gots some monies!! x
TRYGGHET

TRYGGHET



Jul 12 2009 8:30 PM


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Jul 12 2009 8:30 PM

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