Sutekh Hexen / BLSPHM Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories – SRUIN037, Bestiarie – VOLXVII Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition, Reissue, Purple Country: USA & Europe Released: 04 Aug 2017 Style: Noise, Black Metal
This is Bestiarie Vol. XVIII
The infamous cassette from 2014 printed in only 50 copies now assumes its final and ultimate form.
Heavy black cardstock sleeves letterpressed with silver inks one by one by hand by Demian Johnston of BLSPHM himself, encasing a standard 45 RPM purple vinyl or extremely limited black vinyl + letterpressed OBI strip.
Artwork by Steven Wilson Layout by Kevin Gan Yuen Mastered by James Plotkin
Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside Label: Cold Spring – CSR243CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 25 Sep 2017 Style: Drone, Experimental, Dark Ambient
The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness…
Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen.
Common Eider, King Eider is headed by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, legendary aQuarius boss).
Cages – Folding Space Label:Cold Spring Catalog: CSR121CD Format:CD, Album Style: Post Rock, Experimental
There is nothing fun or pedestrian about dreams that are uncompromising to the point of reality. The shaking notes that make up “Folding Space” were recorded by two people holed up in their whole respective imaginations of visions of loops, layers and pleading lyrics. It is stubborn but not ugly, nearly one hour of music set in studios buried by blizzards of the American Great Lakes region.
Cages is Nola Ranallo and David Bailey.
They practiced, moved apart, relayed tapes through the mail, revised the entire damned thing, and then rejoined to capture every last seizure on this record. They sought sounds from the same dreams that give fools belief and colorfully punctuate the nights of the sanest.
There are elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses and catchphrases of the most collected and consumed art form. And, then, you’ll find a song radiating another thing entirely. Live, the duo transfers their forged and found music into a very personal presentation that soars above the casually talking show-goers, the poor man’s jazz bands, and the art house showboats.
Patrons and fellow musicians are pulled in; sounds are pushed out but never apart. “Folding Space” is a foot to the honest and hard road, which can quickly cut away the uncurious and reward the rest like the tapes listened to repeatedly in the fevers of your youth. Please mull and judge, and add to the tops or bottoms of the lists you think necessary. And know the visions backing this elaborate music were recorded and are performed for a primary reason: to exist freely.“
Justin Kern (Sept. 24, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.) High quality artwork with gold print.
