Arabian Horses

Arabian Horses
Fatayri
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Check out these two ultra stoked dudes - another of Russia's low-slung noise drone troupe, along with AWOTT from yesterday and the rest of the emergent bands drawing dense tracts of trancendent dissonance out of their amps of on the east side of Europe. This is Arabian Horses, this is their album Fatayri and it's a good one, they've got every reason to be so happy with themselves.  This free download album is a slow moving, sinister and deliberate blend of motorik pulse and industrial clanking; distorted fuzz creeps along these tracks with a kind of dread purpose, flashes of tempo raising drumming bursting out over them to drive on the sense of momentum, breaking up the spiralling drone and keeping things interesting.

Asian Women on the Telephone

Eastern Europe seems to be producing some pretty fine guitar music of late - not including various kinds of metal, which this wide area consistently excels at - but recently there has been a lot of shoegaze, drone, post rock, witch house; bands like The Moglass, Arabian Horses, Love Cult, PinkShinyUltraBlast, Twilight Owls, and of course Prague's AMDISCS label who I have a pathalogical need to mention at least once a week.  Add to that, this band.

Asian Women on the Telephone is a Moscow-based junkyard art punk improv noise outfit whose self-styled 'purist Dada' experimentalism is very Throbbing Gristle in feel, if not exactly sound - a shifting clanking, urban dronescape, channelled thorugh multiple pedal manipulation with all sorts of bizarre vocals shreiked, hissed, and cackled at intervals through some of the tracks. Their Bandcamp site has three albums up for free download; two from earlier this year and one from last year.  All excellent, involving single minded entities that have a sense of multi-minded purpose:

Chelsea Grandpa
Holotropic Break
AWOTT III




They also have a split casette out on Full of Nothing records with Arabian Horses, available to order HERE

Beginning as a duo in 2007 AWOTT is now a five-piece incarnation, donning constumes, masks and involving all sorts of industrial and psychedelic paraphelia in their stage shows, which in this video makes for a menacing, unpredictable and unclassifiable experience: