Dasein – РОА : Live In Yaroslavl Label: Ufa Muzak – UFA 46 Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Russia Released: 2011 Style: Drone, Noise, Ambient
This disc contains the full live-set of the Moscow based project «Dasein» on April 15th, 2011 in Yaroslavl, Russia. This is best cold white noise, a powerful and furious flow. «Bayonets into the ground!»
Controlled Death / Mayuko Hino – Split (Vinyl, Picture Disc) Label: Cold Spring – CSR291P Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Country: UK Released: 26 Mar 2021 Style: Noise, Industrial
Two giants of the Japanese Noise scene present exclusive material on a special limited vinyl release.
Controlled Death is the nom de plume of Maso Yamazaki (MASONNA), who unleashed his claustrophobic Death Industrial / Blackened Electronics debut for Cold Spring last autumn (the sold out split LP with Rudolf Eb.er). «Devil’s Sacrifice» (in 6 parts) continues Maso’s obsession with heavy, Korg MS-20 drones. Deranged vocals choked under impenetrable, blood-soaked atmospheres of doom, death and decay, saturated with washes of anxiety, paranoia and alienation.
Mayuko Hino, ‘Queen Of Japanese Noise’, delivers two lengthy tracks. While the first track is filled with feverish, dense noise and swathes of savage electronics, the second, mind-melting electronic piece (reminiscent of her debut album ‘Lunisolar’ for Cold Spring) descends into a diseased, suffocating maelstrom, finishing on the verge of psychosis. In addition to self-made instruments, Mayuko plays noise with her six-theremin oscillators (in bright pink) – the one and only in the world, specially made by Ryo Araishi (a.k.a. ichion). Mayuko is most well-known for forming C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) in 1990, together with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai and Ryuichi Nagakubo.
Picture disc LP. Ltd x 400 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.
Umpio is the solo project of the Finnish sound explorer Pentti Dassum, a member of numerous bands with incredible stylistic coverage from noise-grind (Romutus) to challenging electroacoustic experiments (SM/DP) and unpredictable brutal noise performed on self-built metal objects.
However there’s no junk noise this time – «Insektio» is made from massive oscillations, electronic microsounds and tape manipulations. Like a heavy trip into nature, listen with one ear to the ground, how all the insects work, how temperature shifts affect the resonance of the planet, and how civilizations crumble away as only the frogs and moss will survive…
Gudelnaya Polyana – Solar Systo Togathering 2020 Label: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-LXXXV Format: 3 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Partially Mixed Country: Russia Released: 31 May 2021 Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient, Noise
Here we have a three-hour long compilation of live recordings, made in September 2020 at Gudelnaya Polyana (Russian for “droning glade”) – the experimental stage of the Solar Systo Togathering festival. The concept of Gudelnaya Polyana is total drone, infinitely diverse, but united in its essence. Every year in any weather dozens of musicians gather in the woods of the Leningrad region to take part in this ritual action, keeping themselves warm with bonfires, hot pu-er tea and kilowatts of sound.
In 2020, we were lucky to record the performances of most artists, and many of them agreed to provide fragments of these recordings for a commemorative compilation. The unity and diversity of droning sound is fully represented here since the festival gathers musicians from different fields: ambient, drone, noise, electronic, academic, and even the ensemble of 12-year-old experimenters made their contribution.
The first disc gently immerses us in the forest thicket, swamps and electrified fogs; the second takes us further into the labyrinths of sound experiments and unlikely consonances; the third begins with the piercing clarity of dawn, which gives way to a calm daytime mood, followed by the coming of night – the deep darkness thickens, we’re riding electromagnetic waves and trying to look beyond human existence…
In order to recapture the atmosphere more precisely, the tracks of 28 artists are smoothly rendered in three hour-long mixes. The artists taking part in this compilation are: AIKO ONLINE feat. KIKIMOTA & ANTON SONDA-JUNGLOV, ANDREW SPRRW & NIKA, AU, DRONE LIBERATION FRONT, EGREGOROS, EVERGREEN DJ, JAGATH, JAM DAZAN, KONTAKT S INOPLANETYANAMI ETO MUZYKA, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, LUNAR ABYSS, MIRA DREVO, NOISES OF RUSSIA, PETER THEREMIN, PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING, SACHA RUSH & INSPECTR, SIX DEAD BULGARIANS, SOILCULT, SONOZERO, SVETLO111, SYMPHOCAT, TILE~SHORE, TIM SIX, TREMORKIKIMOR, TRETIY MIR, TUHJADES MAADES, W I I, WALDGRENZE.
When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter – When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter Label: Status Prod. – SP 09 CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Russia Released: 10 Nov 2018 Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Drone, Noise
The deaf darkness of the chthonic forest gives birth to hitherto unseen monsters and their moans, like dead leaves, are carried by the wind between the skeletons of trees, as ancient as the Earth itself. Lost souls sigh, wheeze,howl, revealing their essence , when the Moon is in her second quarter… Status Prod. presents new CD – album of the anonymous ritual ambient / death industrial project When the Moon is in her second quarter “Like dead leaves”. Two nameless hymns–rituals are dedicated to the memory of Yevgeniy Yufit, the founder of the genre Necrorealism in cinema, painting and literature. The record features guest appearance of Ord Err (ORD). The album was released in 200 hand-numbered copies, and is a pennant made of brown designer cardboard with PAINT-IT-BLACK DESIGN, applied by silk-screen printing on it, in silver color.
Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr. FORMAT
A5 Format
Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 90 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
Limited edition of 300 copies in a glossy full-colour Digipak.
A new album by Merzbow. The name “Hanakisasage” means very rare trees which exist only few in Japan. 2 tracks of noise ambient/rhythm recorded in Tokyo during 2014-2016 and musically follow in the tendency of his recent works like ‘Kakapo’. 55 minutes of pure untamed energy and sonic insight into Masami Akita’s world. A 300-CD edition in a glossy full-colour Digipak
Merzbow – ((VIBRA)) MMVII Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 141 CD / 2nd Edition Format: CD, Album, Enhanced, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: Jun 6, 2019 Style: Noise
CD Enhanced / Audio + Video / Edition CD Mailer (Laminated Cardboard)
FULL VIDEO included ONLY in the «physical version»( format CD Enhanced / Audio + Video )
Merzbow Live, 07/03/2007 at the OCCC (October Center for Contemporary Culture, València, Spain) within the series of concerts of Sound Art and Experimental Music ((VIBRA)).
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
Column One / Idpa / Mz.412 – Live Action / Voodoo Bumble Bee Label: Tourette Records – tourette 012 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: Apr 2010 Style: Noise, Experimental, Industrial
Numbered edition of 412 copies. Sleeve states 2009, but the record was released in 2010. Title is misspelled on the spine. Side B recorded live at Collapse festival, Rostock, Germany 19.08.2000. Reworked in Berlin, 2009. Track B1 is a locked groove; the given track time on the sleeve represents the length of time the track is intended to be played. Share
Venta Protesix + Jugendwerkhof – Sterilitätszelotismus Label: New Approach Records – NAR31 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: Portugal Released: 15 Jul 2022 Style: Noise
Just before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, Italian Noise project Venta Protesix and German Harsh Noise duo Jugendwerkhof joined forces and recorded «Sterilitätszelotismus» a collaboration focused the obsessive cleaning behavior.