Clash, Faust, no-wave and tribalistic from the outset, a hint of London’s anarchic 80’s..chanted distorted vocals…in French? The drumming (esp on on track 4 ‘Full Automation Now Achieved’) is a bit too spacious at times like not enough people joining…
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Brothers Yemen: Xonfononconconcon
Excellent title! Nicely wrapped in some weird industrial perforated coloured card with a sticker ‘I was very good when I had my hearing test’. I traded this for a Fusion CD-r with them at a recent gig at the Cricketers…
Bill Thompson: Tripartite Collision (State Sanctioned Recordings SSRCD002 – ltd.200)
Second great release from home grown label belonging to Rob Hart aka Eaten By Children. Scotland based Thompson has been involved in ‘sonic art’ for ten years and has seen the inside of the BBC, Resonance FM and various. Here…
Blood and Bone Orchestra. Live 17 Jan 2005 (CD – Carbon Records CR114)
Although now a couple of years old I wanted to mention this here for a couple of reasons. First is that it comes bolted to a piece of wood. Brilliantly novel, a nice shiny wingnut holding the CD to a…
Brian Locke Ensemble – Rêve (Yellocello) Release date 22.10.07
Released to coincide with a full premiere concert at the home of the London Symphony Orchestra, St. Luke’s, Brian Lock has launched on a terrific new avenue to his already rampant repertoire. An internationally renowned film and media composer and…
Honey Ride Me a Goat / Mothguts. Split 12″ Red Vinyl. (Kitchen Dweller KD02) Ltd.300
Kent based free-jazz-heavy-as-shit bulldozer trio hit the right wrong notes again with this split with NY based Mothguts. Tasty red vinyl in a sleeve that will make you puke until you realise it’s a scene from any ordinary market or…
The Hop Frog Kollectiv: Refrigerator Mothers – ‘Ghosts of a Primitive World’ CD-R (URCKarmRecordings)
A joy to receive stuff like this through the post, while I’m sat here pretending I’m a big label boss what attracted me to this was the beautiful CD-R cover, a wrapping of ‘Chinese Ghost Money’, and the sticker ‘midi-eatern…
Phil Hargreaves & Glenn Weyant – ‘Friday Morning Everywhere’ CD (whi 006)
‘Recorded in Tuscon, Arizona and Liverpool, England from 2005 – 2007 using the postal service. Phil and Glenn have never met, although they are not unattractive people’ it says inside. Phil is a well established improv artist, has worked with…
The Abbeydale Picture House
The Abbeydale Picture House is a landmark on the southern approach into the City of Sheffield. For over 80 years this magnificent 1920’s ‘Picture Palace’ entertained generations of cinema and theatre audiences, with silent movies, cine-variety shows and wide-screen spectaculars…
Charlie Collins
Charlie Collins – vibraphone, waterphone, lamellaphones (mbira, kalimba, karimba, marimbula), darabuka, metal percussion, flute. Background in performance/improvisation and poetry/jazz led to involvement in the nascent 1970’s industrial scene. Founder member of ClockDVA and The Box, recording for cult labels Industrial,…