Radio Black Forest Woodland Gathering

Beautiful poster for an awesome gig coming up in Cumbria, the Radio Black Forest Woodland Gathering. Facebook page HERE

STREAM: Ghosting Season - Far End Of The Graveyard EP

Gavin Miller and Tom Ragsdale have unveiled their first EP as Ghosting Season on their Soundcloud.

After several atmospheric and tantalising teaser videos they have popped open the sonic airlock to reveal the four track Far End Of The Graveyard and it is more than worth the wait. The opening track is a slowly spiralling space walk of a stunner, similar in ambiance to Holy Other, if not pace; Ghosting Season build up to a headier, all consuming rush, equal in textural and sophisticated detail but less sensual, bringing the cosmic techno over from their Worriedaboutsatan days (especially the teutonic pulses of Pissing About and All Things But You Are Silent), remoulding it into a version significantly different enough for them to decide it needed a new name - whether that is discernible to us mere mortals is irrelevant, Satan decreed it so, and thus Season is born.

Exercise has a tangible Demdike Stare influence in the pan-enthno-tribalism of the beats, an unchartable but distinct primitivism contrasting with the ominous waves of electronic humming that loom up over them, not as claustrophobically dark and oppressive as the depths of the Demdike Tryptich albums dredged but an equal in form and slow burning intensity.

The third track is a reflexive cooling off session of liquid tones, gases turning to vapour turning to water, crystallizing, solidifying and crashing as solid mineral into the atmopshere of the finale Far End Of The Graveyard.  The impact on the surface of the track causing seismic beats and bass drops to rupture the senses in an airless slow-motion sequence of events that will have you rapt to the climax.

Stream the full ep from their Soundcloud before the EP is released on 4-track CD and 5-track digital on June 20th.  The digital version's extra track will be an exclusive remix of Far End Of The Graveyard by Sam Willis of Walls and Snoretex.

There will be a convening of occult and cosmic oriented electronica and ephemera later this week as Ghosting Season play with Demdike Stare in London at the Lexington on 17th June: Facebook event HERE

And finally, there is a great enlightening interview with the duo over on Sonic Router: HERE

PREVIEW: DEMDIKE STARE @ THE OUTER CHURCH

Couldn't be more excited for a gig than this - Demdike Stare at The Outer Church, in Brighton, this Tursday!!!

Here's the preview post from the OC Blog. All their words, not mine:

 

 

For its February 2011 edition, The Outer Church is proud to present a live performance from Manchester's occult cratediggers Demdike Stare. Miles Whittaker (MLZ/Pendle Coven) and Sean Canty (Finders Keepers) alchemise elements of techno, dub, drone, early electronics, astral jazz and non-western musics into a haunting and elusive whole, shaded by the pair's profound appreciation of vintage horror cinema. In keeping with the air of supernatural intrigue surrounding the project, its name derives from the pseudonym of Elizabeth Southern, one of the individuals accused during the witch trials which took place at Pendle Hill, Lancashire in 1612.

Following their 2009 debut, Symbiosis, Demdike Stare's acclaimed 2010 trilogy of vinyl-only albums - Forest Of Evil, Liberation Through Hearing and Voices Of Dust - has recently been compiled by Modern Love Records into a covetable 3CD set with an extra 40 minutes of bonus material.

Supported by their own visuals, the duo are a formidable live proposition. As they told FACT magazine last year: “We like to incorporate all of our identity with the live set, so we have visuals that are chosen for each section of the show, and we use records to mix live over our own music to add another layer. We like to improvise as much as possible – this can also be dictated by the atmosphere of the venue and crowd too, which all becomes part of the show."

This edition of The Outer Church - and all editions henceforth - is dedicated to the memory of Trish Keenan.

Sea Monsters starts tonight - Stream the beasts now!

One Inch Badge Records massive five-day Brighton-band extravaganza SEA MONSTERS kicks off tonight at the Albert!! I'll see you there tomorrow and Friday, but tonight I'll be playing this to ready my head - the Sea Monsters compilation album. Available from next week on CD, stream it all now!

PREVIEW: Alchemy @ Palihouse, Hollywood (Tonight!!!)

Here's a last minute preview for all my Californian readers. Alchemy is a multimedia night of occult ghost drone drag and witch house related performance put on by my good friend and able master of ceremonies Clint Catalyst. This is the second event he has put on, the first getting the dance club pick of the week in LA Weekly, and all for free too - Cosmotropia creating visual carnage, Robert Disaro doing his thing and Zoetica Ebb telling fetishitic stories of her life over the top. Sounds like an interesting event, as out of the ordinary as you should expect from a genre of music as multifarious as the wytch hauze.

STREAM: Esben & The Witch - Violet Cries

Brighton's black fairy tale post-rock troubadors Esben & The Witch release their debut record Violet Cries at the end of this month through Matador, and they have made it available for streaming in it's entirety, and allowed everyone to host it on their sites. So nice! (They are, all indeed, very nice people as this will attest).  They are also incredibly talented and have produced a record so tangibly otherworldly, mediaeval and ornate that it seems as if it has been crafted in some darkly romantic tryst between the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christen Andersen. Not easily ascribable to any one genre the songs flit through ideas like shadows through forests, castign shapes upon the bark and your wide eyes, leaving lasting impressions upon the mind with space for you to fill in some interpretations of your own.

There are also two remixes available to download - those shadows having been interpreted thusly by two excellent revisionaries - the worriedaboutsatan one will be on repeat for me for a while, I can feel it:

Marching Song - Snorkel Remix

Skeleton Swoon - worriedaboutsatan Remix

Beautiful stuff.

And yet on they still come, with offerings for your senses: they have served you up this video to Warpath, in anticipation of the physical release,which you can feast your ears and eyes on here:

They're playing the Pavillion Theatre, Brighton on 1st February, with plenty other dates around the UK and Europe  - see HERE for details.

PREVIEW: Outer Church - Psychedelic Campfire Tales (Thursday, 13th January)

Thursday 13th January

Komedia Brighton

7pm

£4 on the portal

The Outer Church lurches into 2011 with what promises to be a truly immersive audiovisual experience.

The OC is proud to present two films by American director Graham Reznick in association with Aphasia Films/Glass Eye Pix. I Can See You (95 minutes) is a psychedelic campfire tale acclaimed by The New York Times as an “elusive, experimental scare flick [heralding] a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness” while futuristic 3D short The Viewer (15 minutes) is “a telepathic interrogation experienced from the perspective of a suspected murderer.” Anaglyph glasses will be provided for the latter screening.

The uncanny atmosphere will be further compounded by live sets from The Haxan Cloak and The Larsen Effect.  The Haxan Cloak is multi-instrumentalist Bobby Krlic, who employs a variety of textures to erect dense scuttling fields of sonic malevolence and has released records on Aurora Borealis - a label that houses several otherworldy metal/noise/ambient crossover illuminati like Burial Hex, Zola Jesus and Wraiths. 

Here's a real short blast of a video that drops you right into the headspace, albeit in a harsh full light:

The Larsen Effect is the solo project (and first ever live outing in this incarnation) for guitarist Leee Nite, veteran of the psychick wars and such esteemed outfits as Skree, Thor’s Helmet, ManTouch and Morgen Und Nite. Visuals for The Larsen Effect will be provided by acclaimed videowitch Jade Boyd.

Here's some taught electrical storm chasing from that Larsen Effect for you:

Turn up early or you WILL miss something!

PREVIEW: The Outer Church w/ Position Normal & Hong Kong In The 60's

Wire magazine (and PlanB before it folded) metal/noise writer Joseph Stannard has a DJ/live band night at the Komedia in Brighton called The Outer Church.  Looks like it will be a pretty incredible night of hauntological dial twiddling.  From the blog:

The December 8th edition will witness the return of Position Normal (whose set a few months back at the Penthouse was so tremendous, I decided to invite him back for more) and the OC debut of London/Cambridge beauties and stars of the Ghost Box 7" Study Series, Hong Kong In The 60s (whose fantastic new EP you can download for free here). In addition, there will be filmic curiosities and perhaps the odd bit of spinning from myself and the marvellous Kemper Norton, whose DJ set last time was a thing of macabre beauty. Incidentally, you can download a brand new Kemper Norton EP, again for free, here.


Here's a couple of videos to feat your eyes on in anticipation:


Hong Kong In The 60's



Position Normal

PREVIEW: Torche, Dopefight & Jovian @ The Prince Albert, Friday 26th

This Friday Brighton's Prince Albert hosts one of the heaviest gigs to the city will have seen for a long time as Florida's swampy sludge rockers Torche roll up and set about decimating amps and ears.  Support comes from two of Brighton's, if not the UK's most absorbing downtuned bands; stoned doom wizards Dopefight, who Lurker described as "without doubt a band whose potency lies in their uncanny ability to write some of the greatest sludge riffs I have ever heard." and the crawl-tempoed trance inducing Jovian. Jovian are like some Brighton supergroup consisting of, but not limited to, people who do or have once played in bands such as End the Agony, Terminal Outputs, Cat on Form, Charlottefield, Plague Sermon, Falling Boy and Davidd Winter.

Here's some clips to get you in the mood.

Torche - Healer




Dopefight - Babygoatsick




Jovian - Live @ The Cowley Club

GuMMy†Be▲R! - EP Teaser Trailer

Incredible scenes!

GuMMy†Be▲R! announces a November release date for his self-titled ep with the first of several teasers lined up to ramp up the sordid anticipation.

He has four eps all available for fre downlaod from himself that contain some genuinely disturbing work and marry black humour to the darkest and most deeply dragged of all forms of witch house.  

Inauspicious
Hands Hold
Für diejenigen die mit Messern 
3-Track Promo

 Hugely looking forward to this release - Just listen to the snippet of music in this clip and try stopping your appetite turn whetted.

 

Scene Not Herd Noise on Noise All-dayer

Massive total repost for this jaw-dropping mind-blowing freakfest happening in London this Saturday

Scene Not Herd is proud to present the Noise on Noise All-dayer: a ten hour spectacular featuring the best new bands the UK has to offer. This tirade of awesome musicality will be accompanied by an archive film mash-up of video-art oddity; regular art oddity; fabulous arty zines; and a wonderful agglomeration of delicious merchandise.

Advance Tickets: £7.50 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86453
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125583207483417

The Others Warehouse, 6-8 Manor Road London N16 5SA
http://www.theothers.uk.com/

\\\\\DRUM EYES/////
A collective arranged around the Shigeru Ishihara (better known as DJ Scotch Egg) and E-Da (Ex-Boredoms drummer), Drum Eyes combine dueling drums, cornets and game boys to form a devastating live show.
With their debut album released on 9 August, anticipation for the record is feverish after the band blew away audiences countrywide with their insatiable, mind expanding live performances. Drum Eyes are a band who are impossible to pigeonhole in any category other than fantastic. (Last FM)
www.myspace.com/drumeyes

\\\\\SCREAMING TEA PARTY/////
STP is more than just a band, it’s an orgy of clashing and crashing, of sounds and cultures colliding like a beer-soaked bodyslam. Your hosts flip from swirling, fairground folk to ferocious riffing like it’s no big thing. (NME)
www.myspace.com/screamingteaparty

\\\\\TEETH OF THE SEA/////
Teeth of the Sea create a turbulent, fiery and atmospheric instrumental brew that encompasses searing cosmic psychedelia, melodramatic giallo soundscapes, mariachi melancholia and kraut-tinged droning occultism. (recordstore.co.uk)
www.myspace.com/thewrongjaws

\\\\\GUM TAKES TOOTH/////
Gum Takes Tooth is a single-headed beast with two bodies: a duo of Thomas Fuglesang on live trap drums, physically wired into home grown electronic instruments, bare circuit boards, tweaked, moulded and mangled in real-time by Jussi Brightmore (Infants). Frequent double drum live action with second kit from Valentina Magaletti ($hit & $hine) Always a totally live symbiosis of unique and manually manipulated home grown electronics driven by a dense and expansive percussion attack; NO GUITARS, BASS, KEYBOARDS, BACKING TRACKS OR LAPTOPS FEATURE IN GUM TAKES TOOTH (www.copsandrobbers.net)
www.myspace.com/gumtakestooth

\\\\\COLD PUMAS/////
These tropical punks create a vicious, infectious sonic snarl. This is day-glo, psychedelic flower-punk, all tribal beats and off kilter harmonies. Imagine Shellac with a sense of fun and you’re nearly there. Cold Pumas are neither subtle nor clever and it works just fine. (TLOBF)
www.myspace.com/coldpumas

\\\\\RICA MINAMI/////
Rica Minami is a singer songwriter based in London from Japan. She playing piano like a cat tapping the keys and she sing like a innocent child. her amazing band members are from Wales and Italy. This mixed cultural band makes contemporary cinematic pop song with floating female vocal. (Green Man Festival)
www.myspace.com/ricaminami

\\\\\LOVESICK TEENAGERS/////
Lovesick Teenagers specialise in scuzzy, floaty , sweet, romantic, dreamy, lucid pop. Once of our favourite finds of the moment so catch them before everyone else realises how good they are.
www.myspace.com/lovesickteenagers

Dirty Bingo (DJ)- www.myspace.com/dirtybingo
The 405 (DJ - http://www.thefourohfive.com/
Scene Not Herd (DJ)- www.myspace.com/scenenotherdevents

NFR DJ set at Oneohtrix Point Never!!

We have another special DJ set coming up at The Penthouse for the night that Oneohtrix Point Never and Tomutonttu play - we have been invited to do this because he is playing which we're pretty psyched about - thanks Freebutt guys!  We'll be playing some suitable accompaniment to the tone of the night – although regular readers of our blog will know how far we like to stretch our interpretation of ‘suitable’!

NFR/SwännS))) DJ Set @ Oneohtrix Point Never

I've been confirmed as DJ for the Penthouse, above the Freebutt for the night that Oneohtrix Point Never plays.  Will be me and Chris, so it will effectively be a SwännS))) DJ set.  Since we consider this an awesomely special event, we'll probably be recording some special SwännS))) track for the night to play upstairs and will be doing a bit of live action jiggery fuck-aboutery in a psychedelic decks 'n'n fx style. Sort of.  It will be a pretty special event, but we promise it will be totally listenable.

Thursday 27th May
Oneohtrix Point Never with Tomottontu
Penthouse DJs - Me(atbreak) & Chris

Projections Play Live!

The poster says it all. You've been waiting a long time to get to see Projections again, even if you didn't realise it. A much more exciting band that BRS....in our webworthless opinion.

PREVIEW: Aaron Dilloway, Smack Music 7, Slow Listener, Hobo Sonn

Aaron Dilloway, Smack Music 7, Slow Listener, Hobo Sonn
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Upstairs @ the Caroline of Brunswick

Dilloway, former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes and Hanson Records labelman has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous group's headbanging onslaughts. His last gig in Brighton at the Freebutt was an arresting slow motion earthquake of a show that built in watery vortexes of sound that sucked light, air and tiem from the room. His recent "Chain Shot" is more a sound collage than anything, and while it is a heaping glob of muddled debris, it is also a highly controlled one. Looping samples on top of samples, Dilloway builds a slowly encroaching beast before slowly disintegrating it, bone by bone. This is some highly textural and immediately emotive soundscape work that demands to be experienced in the flesh.

here's a very short sharp shock of him at Colour Out Of Space last year:




Three solo supports from Brighton's own gunge tank of feral atmospherics:

Smack Music 7's self-described 'Glamtronics'is the elegant and refined solo outfit of Polly Shang/Blood Stereo lady Karen Constance. Reigning in the tape terror and replacing it with a lost in the jungle lushness. Still creepy.

Slow Listener is a blurry, zoned out vista of of degraded beauty, crumbling ivy torn walls of organ drones, gently shifting fuzz, crackle and hiss. Sink into this and come out feelign vital.

Hobo Sonn is Ian FK Murphy. A meaty broth of bedroom concrete, electronic blurb and lo-fi tape mangled sine wave drone. Suck it up.


Lynx:

www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Dilloway
www.myspace.com/smackmusic7
www.myspace.com/slowlistener
www.myspace.com/h0b0s0nn

PREVIEW: Plurals @ the Fairtrade Gallery

We found this gig through the music of Ecka Liena, whose Orb Night track is a shimmering, twinkling, glittering 20 minute trip out to the stars and back. The work of one Daniel W J Mackenzie - who also plays in Plurals, hence the preview - pools the immersive atmospheres and haunting tranquility of artists like Stars of The Lid, Tim Hecker and adds a little edge of disturbing cosmic horror in a similar vein to Ben Frost. Beautifully awesome. You can download the full album from his Myspace page for free, so we hope he's not going to mind our gushing over this track and give it to you here.


Download: Orb Night


Dan and a friend came up to NFR on Thursday and handed us another beautiful Ecka Liena album (Drones Between Homes) and a Dead Pilot Records sampler CD tied up with string. Every track on the Dead Pilot CD is worth your time and it covers a range of rugged terrain between ambient, eerie atmos and out to hardcore and deep double bass drum violence. Quite a trip.


So this gig looks pretty ace. Weirding Vessel we know and love (and there's a download at the bottom here for you) but the othes are all new to us and we like the style. Anything with Drone and Experimental in the tagline is alright with us.



Lynx:

Ecka Liena - www.myspace.com/kitearc
Winter In Montreal - myspace.com/winterinmontreal
Plurals - myspace.com/thetrueplurals
Weirding Vessel - Live at the Westhill Hall earlier this year for you!
Dead Pilot Records - Myspace

PREVIEW: Colour Out Of Space

The line-up has been announced for this year's Colour Out Of Space festival. which hits town on October 30th to November 1st. It will be the fourth COOS to be unleashed upon Brighton - and the world - being, as it is, a three day festival of global masterminds and new hands from across the freakscene spectrum of concrete poetry, DIY electronics, improvised un-tethered sound experimentation, textile noise, out-jazz, and more. These event's always reset my ways of thinking and approaches to sound design, then by the end of them I'm a scrambled mess.

Always the best way to leave a gig.


tickets and more dtails available soon from the website:

http://colouroutofspace.org/

Colour Out Of Space
The Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK
October 30th - November 1st

> > Joseph Hammer
> > Trevor Wishart
> > Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia
> > Bill Orcutt & Paul Hession
> > Edwards/Noble/Wilksonson trio
> > Leif Elgrenn & C M Von Hausswolff
> > Sten Hanson
> > Kodama
> > Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer
> > Eli Kezler
> > Justice Yeldman
> > Heavy Seals
> > Chora
> > Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
> > Morphogenesis
> > Phil Minton & Isabelle Duthoit
> > Sunshine Variety
> > Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy
> > Nuslux
> > Tomutonttu
> > Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
> > Mechanical Children
> > HereHareHere
> > City Hands
> > Simon Whetham
> > Cotopaxi
> > UFO Antler Band
> > the Hunter Gracchus
> > Logos Women (ft Moniek Darge)
> > Buffle
> > Damion Romero
> > Audrey Chen
> > Expanded Projection by Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo
> > Experimental Film Programme
> > Panel Discussions
> > Workshops
> > & More

Oneida - TONIGHT!!!

This band should need little introduction for you buy now. The second part of their Kill Yr Parents trilogy has been eating up our stereos all month and tonight we're off to the Albert for our first dose of live Oneida action.

here's a preview for you - Ghost In The Room Live at The Market Hotel, Brooklyn. 3.22.2008 >>>

PREVIEW: Axxonn + Power Up + The Vainglories

Type PR Presents...Axxonn featuring Tom Hall and Ian Rogers, Power Up and The Vainglories.

Don't call it a comeback, and it's a gig we've been waiting for for such a long time that we weren't quite sure it would ever happen but - Power Up are playing again. Kathy Power has been contributing madd skillz to Scotch Egg's Drum Eyes troupe and Chris Up has been working on his laptop&guitar loops solo project the duo are back with a new set that is reported to sound like "A monster waking up, having breakfast, going on a rampage then falling to sleep"

That's a set we like the sound of, but there's more:

The Vainglories is Brighton based, Melbourne borne Gillian Allder, whose slowly built walls of darkening laptop cliff face are undercut by a rising tide of haunting piano leads.

Headliners Axxonn have got us intrigued and excited through their Birchville Cat Motel / Tim Hecker / Ben Frost style EP which they are giving away free from their MySpace and which you can download HERE. Cascading scenes of blurred guitar in a cacophony of sound that feels like a rainbow sawing through your cranium.


Here's some live Power Up for you to sink your frontal lobe into:

power up at spirit of gravity - brighton - june 08



Lynx:

Axxonn - www.myspace.com/axxonn1
Power Up - www.myspace.com/powerupup
The Vainglories - www.myspace.com/gilliealder
Type PR - www.myspace.com/typemusicpr

PREVIEW: Sleepy Sun, Hind Ear, Laish Quartet

Next week this hugely promising gig is being put on by our friends One Inch Badge records and features our friends Hind Ear and Laish Quartet! Needless to say, we will be there.

San Francisco sextet Sleepy Sun bring their massive waves of pastoral psych blues to the Freebutt, coming on like a warped and extra ethereal fusion of Black Mountain and Dead Meadow through the addition of soem West Coast occult cosmic heaviness this band have been rolling across the states like a Carnival, bringing the weirdness with them. Lead 7" White Dove was a bewitching foreboding of the Embrace album which we're hoping will get a complete airing on the night.

The support are two Not For Resale veterans, both having played gigs for us - In their previous Revenge of Shinobi guise Hind Ear played a trippy heady set at the Greenhouse, but now their reconfigured sound is lighter yet, more intricate and substantial at the same time with anintoxicating mix of electronics and analogue loops, beats and revebed shimmer their unique pretty pulsing flowering drum beat euphoria should lift everything intoa pre-climactic peak. Ge there even earlier to be spell bound by the Wilkommen Collective's most recent addition Laish Quartet. The band that power's the visions of Danny Green, his (not always) quartet of revolving instrumented musicians play awe inspiring folk songs that involve wry meditations on love, uplifting odes to death, deadpan humour weighed down and boued up by a weary, yet tangible sense of hope.

A mesmerising night for sure.




Lynx:

Sleepy Sun: www.myspace.com/sleepysun
Hind Ear: www.myspace.com/hindear
Laish Quartet: www.myspace.com/laishmusic
One Inch Badge Records: www.myspace.com/oibrecords
www.willkommenrecords.co.uk/