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CD in oversize sleev from PseudoArcana (PA107)
A.M- 'Rag Red Reverie'. Full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Miltons A.M project. With beats! Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones and pounding beats through electric guitar lined red hot into an ancient tape recorder to produce a riff driven avant-party album... With its endless driving riffs and noise incursions ascending to ever higher levels of intensity the sudden free falls into sudden deep ambient bliss are like the first glimpses of dawn on a mountain top on acid.. And then the beats kick in again. A 'wave your arms in the air' boogie noise record? Who would have thought?
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CD in oversize sleev from PseudoArcana (PACD108)
THE BAD STATISTICS.- 'Lucky Town Gone'. On the follow up to last years debut "Static" LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante who chants and howls and grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols. If the debut LP were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of Bad Statistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, "Lucky Town Gone" is not the Business Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways lurch straight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data. Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, "Lucky Town Gone" is a collection of mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece of BAD STATISTICS further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already defined large parts of "Static". The seven tracks of "Lucky Town Gone" are again spearheaded by the abrasive, sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response to Mutante¹s contributions on "Static" was deeply divided, and the new album is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark Williams (Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass, and Johannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums and production.
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CD in handpainted Ja from PseudoArcana/Black Petal
Paper Wings.- 'Ash Field' CD. (PseudoArcana/Black Petal) Paper Wings is the electric guitar duo of Australian Anthony Guerra and New Zealander Antony Milton. Recorded in a small room on a winters day in Sydney in 2005 Paper Wings full-length debut drifts through beautiful bowed drones, tender melodic excursions and harsher sonic adventures. Four pieces that find these two guitarists at the top of their game.(Paper Wings previously appeared on the Last Visible Dog compilation 'Crows of the World (Volume 1)' with the track "Horse Lattitudes'.Reviews said:".. The real reason to pick this [compilation] up, though, is to hear Paper Wings' "Horse Lattitudes", an extended twin guitar dirge layered with whispered and wailing vocals. Beginning slowly and chaotically, it unfolds into a colossal mesh of The Velvet Underground at their most primal and Earth at 16rpm. Just when it threatens to peak, the duo fall back into another bout of feedback induced guitar meltdown, wringing every amplified note out of their instruments until the bones of the piece have been picked clean"Edwin Pouncey, The Wire"A masterclass in free improv that is even better at ear-splitting volume"Simon Lewis, Terrascope.CD in hand painted Japanese artpaper sleeve.
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LP on red vinyl from Tipped Bowler (005)
GLORY FCKN SUN.- 'Spectra'. LP (Tipped Bowler'. Limited to 300 copies this is the follow up to the book/cd on PseudoArcana. Heres what the label says: "The sky done clouded over after Glory Fckn Sun's debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. The New Zealand sorta-super group of Antony Milton , Ben Spiers, and Simon O'Rorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name Haino. Spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: Spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into Milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by O'Rorke's restless percussion. Group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than I can muster. Suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies. In an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets".
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CDR from Monstera Deliciosa (MNSTRDLCS005)
A treasure trove of reissued industrial improv/noise from Newcastle trio BrassSkulls. Features all of the material from the first and second BrassSkulls releases, as well as a bonus unreleased live set recorded at Yvonne Ruve.
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CDR from Monstera Deliciosa (MNSTRDLCS004)
The Night of Love is a collaboration between Newcastle and Brisbane sound makers. Featuring members of Crab Smasher and Taste of Teeth. http://www.myspace.com/thenightoflove
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CDR from hellosQuare (Cube013)
Two Melbournites with a past in other places (Queensland and Northern England) create electro-acoustic excursions with roots in country and folk musics as well as post-production and manipulation.
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CDR 3" from Curt (Curt003)
Split 3" between Australian and United Kingdom processed sound artists Anonymeye and Cam Deas.
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CDR + Book from PseudoArcana (PA106)
Keijo -'Carry On With Us' cdr/book.Latest missive from Finlands motorcycle crazed improvising drone shaman. 'Carry On With Us' features extended percussion rites and long sections of uber-blues guitar. In some ways this is a challenging record with Keijo veering into Jandek like atonality at times. But there are also moments of lush sublime beauty.Overall it reflects honesty and frankness. Sure signs of 'true' magic..?Packaged in a high quality 12 page book of photos and collage works by Keijo.
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LP from Release the Bats (Sweden) (RTB35)
NthNth/SthSth is the duo of myself (Antony Milton)and Jani Hirvonen (Uton) from Finland.We had a release out on C-Psi-P a few years back, as 'A.M/Uton' that was titled 'NthNth/SthSth' and have now chosen to use that title as our project name.This new LP is released by Release the Bats out of Sweden. its a beautiful object- with a front cover by Jani, and the back one by me. It has liner notes by Jon Dale.Musically it sets forth on a bed of weird psychedelic drone that morphs through entranced chanting to become a black metal rattle and then an explosive psyche out hoedown...Or something like that...This is limited to 520 copies of which I have 50.
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