Nadja - Thaumoradiance / Desire in Uneasiness / The Bungled & the Botched [2008]

Canadian band Nadja played at the well-known Roadburn festival recently. I was not able to see them there, but fortunately founder Aidan Baker found some time to answer a few questions, while on the road between shows in eastern Canada. We were curious what it was like to work with a real drummer instead of a drumcomputer, and how to describe Nadja’s music the best.

You recently released a new album, ‘Desire In Uneasiness’, the first to be recorded with a live drummer. Is this a unique project, or will Nadja be a trio from now on?
This was a unique project, yes, but that doesn’t mean we might not be a trio at some point…

What made you decide to work with a drummer for this record?
We wanted to try something different, something with a more organic feel that’s difficult to capture with electronic drums.

You worked with Jakob Thiesen on this record. I read that the two of you have collaborated before in Whisper Room. Still, I think not many people will know who he is, can you tell us a bit about him?
I have performed with Jakob many times, both as a duo and with our trio Whisper Room – we have a collaborative record recently released on Waterscape Records called ‘A Bout de Souffle’. He has played drums with a few other groups, as well as recording more electronic/techno-based music under his own name. (Aidan at this point refers to Jakob's page from Discogs, which may give some more info on his work.

Does this mean that you will now do Nadja-shows with him?
Probably not, but it’s always a possibility.

It seems that using a drum computer has not prevented you from making music that has a very improvised feel. It does make it a bit harder to just try things in the studio. Can you tell us how a Nadja recording session used to be, and if it was different with a real drummer?
When we recorded with Jakob, we improvised/jammed and then took the recordings and edited and re-worked them, essentially building the songs that ended up on the album from the improvised raw material. Other albums have been recorded similarly, although we generally start with a very basic drumtrack and chord progression and then improvise over top of that, adding layers and textures until the song is ‘finished’.

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The Bungled & the Botched [2008]

Desire in Uneasiness [2008] (part1/part2)

Thaumoradiance [2008]

nadja - roadburn 2008

Sunn O))) - Dømkirke [2008]

Along with close contemporaries Earth and Boris, Sunn O))) have become flag bearers for the doom-metal avant-garde, pushing the genre to new experimental boundaries with each full-length album. While they may have just lovingly mimicked Earth’s early drones with their first set of releases, Sunn O))) quickly evolved into a innovative force of their own right, pushing out heady, slow-as-molasses jams of impenetrable darkness. The chilling spoken word intro of White 1 or the pseudo-black metal wraiths on Black One demonstrated the cloaked duo’s capacity for creating exciting and terrifying masterpieces that were as unique as they were heavy.

Dømkirke carries on with the proud tradition, bringing the distinguished drone masters and their special guests to an ancient Danish cathedral where their compositions could be given a full atmospheric treatment. From what I understand, this was recorded live, giving the album raw power and urgency - a strange word to use given the band’s snail-like pace. The majority of this album moves away from the groaning and drawn-out riffs of the past, opting instead for dense, dark ambient pieces. That being said, the album is still bass-laden and unbelievably heavy, its just more focused on atmospheric drones rather than lumbering guitar work. Vocal contributions from black metal artist Attila Csihar are spine-chilling, as his dark, operatic chants echo like the rites of some ritualistic cult-figure. The later half of the album has him more restrained, offering distant and indistinguishable shrieks and rasps to hover over the searing drones.

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Dømkirke [2008]

Berlin, Volksbühne 2006 - Part 2

Polmo Polpo

Alien8 Recordings and its sub-label Substractif will release the debut full-length, “The Science of Breath”, by Toronto producer Sandro Perri, a.k.a. Polmo Polpo, who blends deep, murky techno with rich layers of feedback and densely orchestrated melodies. Recently the artist has enjoyed an explosion in popularity, thanks in part to a number of opening performances for Do Make Say Think, Pan Sonic and Oval.

Trying to describe the sound of Polmo Polpo is not an easy task. The marriage of deep rhythms with shifting waves of melody and sometimes brutal white noise is certainly not a commonly used formula. This music is beyond catchy, the sound of the slide guitar shifting in and out of Gas-style minimalism gives the music a driving force that so much of the genre lacks.

alien8recordings
sandroperri web site

Like Hearts Swelling [2003]

The Science of Breath [2002]

Sandro Perri - Changes - @ Music Hall Portsmouth

Erik Amlee: Afternoon Dream [2006]

A split release with Mandragora Records.

Afternoon Dream is the debut solo CD release of Paradise Camp 23 director Erik Amlee. His previous solo sitar cd-r releases have garnered much acclaim in many quarters. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis declared “Amlee's skill is apparent. This piece delicately unfolds like a linear dream about the sun's daily movement in the sky.
With little more than a hint of delay to push the movement along, Amlee's playing is like a slow waltz at the moment the last rays of dusk are extinguished. It is simple, beautiful, and timeless.”

On this release Amlee adds acoustic guitar to the proceedings, to wonderful effect. Afternoon Dream is a masterful combination of trance inducing solo sitar work and pellucid acoustic guitar pieces, with a subversive loop or two thrown in to ensure that listeners don’t merely
drift away completely into a blissful sonic netherworld.


BIO:

A figure in the underground experimental psychedelic music scene since the Eighties, Erik Amlee has performed in a variety of groups and settings exploring the outer fringes of sonic possibilities. Last year the release of his two solo sitar cd-rs brought him to the attention of a whole new group
of listeners.

Besides running the Mandragora imprint, Amlee is also responsible for Weirdsville web radio – bringing ten channels of adventurous sounds for your listening pleasure.


PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY:

Sitar Vol. 2 - Erik Amlee (2006)
Sitar - Erik Amlee (2005)
The Grassy Knoll - Paradise Camp 23 (2005)
Solitaire - Paradise Camp 23 (2002)
Chaotika - Voodoo Mechanics (1997)
The Acid King - Crackhouse (1990)

All Releases on Mandragora.

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Erik Amlee: Afternoon Dream [2006]

Erik Amlee: Afternoon Dream

Pocahaunted x 4

2/24/08

Start it off. So- it’s been a while, but we’re still the same ol’ G’s. Some stuff that has recently gone down: got kicked out of a party for being too mellow, priceline purchase from JFK to BOREbank, Sopranos for ever, Little Mermaid back bends, Halloween hall of fame with Thurst, “flossy flossy”, 21 years of age, and other pricelessnesses. On the real- we just finished our Woodsist LP for Jeremy Earl. Also done with the DUB (album). Also finished the Weird Forest album, and our side for the Bored Fortress 7” club. Busy at work on an Excite Bike tape and more t-shirts for your hot bodies. Trying to go to the East Coast and Europe, at the same time. Trying. Current favs and inspirations; live pukers sets, paul m. contos, ugly boots, fur coats, pigs in a blanket, jamba juice has a juicer, hi (high), billy joel in orange county.

myspace
notnotfun.com/pocahaunted

Warpaint / Made by Mermaids
[Pocahaunted / Orphan Fairytale] Split 2008

Peyote Road [2008]

Beast That You Are [2008]

Mirror Mics [2008]

Pocahaunted - 2008-02-09, Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Zaimph

Sera la distancia que se mide entre hondas ambientales, minimalistas, al explorar en su guitarra ruidosa, sera tonal experimental que mueve sus figuras en constante equalizador vibratorio, un solo color se comunica al eléctrico panel de posibilidades aun incubo. Con la mirada perdida se presentan amplios cambios estáticos que el concepto que tienes de la música se destape, emotivas piezas lineales desifrandas por la máquina, solo en completa igualdad equilibrio se deben seguir los pasos por los terrenos barro Zaimph.

Zaimph, alias Marcia Bassett, made most of her music with a guitar, using e-bows and laying things across the string while she picked and sawed at it. She also held the microphone in her mouth for some vocals.

www.hototogisu.org


Burning Star Core + Zaimph
Live @ No Fun Fest 2007 (20-05-2007)











La nuit électrique [2007]











Mirage of the Other [2006]











Sexual Infinity [2006]











Moon's Pool [2005]












Zaimph Live In Cambridge, England

Third Troll

Hummingbird Mountain


III [2005]











Pharmacognosy [2001]











Phlebotomy [2001]












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Sunn O))) - Black One (Special Edition) [2005]

Hablar de Sunn o))) es hablar de aquello para lo que ya no se está preparado. Aquello que ha desaparecido y ha dejado de formar parte del todo, del cosmos. Y esa ausencia terrible, nos provoca una añoranza y un sufrimiento, que trasciende a lo mundano y se acontece trascendente, como la naturaleza primera, como lo perdido, como el si mismo. No se debe luchar contra el zumbido apabullante, sólo dejarse llevar por su destrucción nihilista y mecerse en la desesperación. Si el abismo es sugerido como dice Albert Ribas, por un perder pie, por una cierta falta de fundamentos de base y de argumento como si dijéramos, entonces lo es también por las imágenes de ese mismo abismo que nos provocan una caída sin límites a la falta de principios que al fin y al cabo son lo que define Albert Ribas como el síndrome del nihilismo. Pues bien, Sunn o))) son esas imágenes, ese desaliento, esa carencia, esa destrucción que proyecta las imágenes mentales que nos llevarán a la caída. ” … el ritmo, como en las ragas hindús o las improvisaciones de La Monte Young, debe surgir del mismo drone, de esos bajos tremebundos y pulsantes que un día, quien sabe, tal vez formen una alfombra de puro sonido sobre la cual los visitantes de un concierto podrán levitar (Steve O’Malley de Sunn 0)))) …” En este sentido, Sunn o))) representan el aspecto negativo del experimento, la negación per se, el caos último, y por tanto el aspecto destructor y deshumanizador. Esa búsqueda de la descontextualización, de la destrucción de todo argumento, se persigue mediante el uso de una estética no asociada todavía a una ética concreta, es decir por medio de la abstracción, pero además con el añadido violento y políticamente incorrecto del estruendo y la violencia sin argumentación ni justificantes. Del mismo modo que el “noise” persigue la descontextualización y la abstracción total de la música, por medio del uso del ruido extremo sin condicionantes éticos. Sunn o))) lo hacen con el uso del drone (sonido monótono y repetido ad nauseam) no en vano Sunn o))) conciben su espectáculo como un ritual y se visten y actúan en consecuencia. El arte debe ser trascendente, numénico. El arte debe elevar nuestro espíritu. Así pues, Sunn o))) es el caos, la destrucción … Sunn o))) es puro, limpio …

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LINK IN COMENT!!!

Black One (Special Edition) [2005]














Tracklist:
*Disc 1 (Black One)
1. Sin Nanna
2. It Took the Night to Believe
3. Cursed Realm (Of the Winterdemons)
4. Orthodox Caveman
5. CandleGoat
6. Cry for the Weeper
7. Báthory Erzsébet

*Disc 2 (Solstitium Fulminate)
1. Wind & Fog
2. Vlad Tepes

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Sunn 0))) - Berlin, Volksbühne 2006 - Part 1

Since the quality of this is that amazing ive recuttet two more clips from the sunnvseurope tour for your pleasure.
Recorded on 3th February 06

Khanate x 3

Khanate (pronounced Con-Eight) was born in Manhattan Autumn 2000 after an initial meeting between James Plotkin/Bass (OLD, Scorn, Atomsmasher, Death Ambient, Trifid Project, several releases on Kranky, Relapse, Rawkus and other labels under his own name and in collaboration with various other individuals) and Stephen O'Malley/Guitar (Thorr's Hammer, Burning Witch, Sunn O)))) administered a necessity to survive the sorely missed bleak aura of suffering evoked by the departed Burning Witch. Plotkin arranged vocal torture courtesy of Alan Dubin (ex-OLD) with whom he had been working together in the proto-dirge unit Shadowcast during 2000 (along with ex-1 drummer Jason Corely). Tim Wyskida (Manbyrd, current drummer in Blind Idiot God) blessed the group with his hammers and Khanate became solidified.

During winter-spring 2001 Khanate recorded and produced their self titled debut in studio necrodrone8negatives, with final mastering by Mathias Schneeberger (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Goatsnake). The sounds can probably be described as the next step down the mentally unstable ladder from Burning Witch. Ultra gravitational hellish brooding black doom metal with inhuman vocal constructs. Well, something like that......

Shortly thereafter an agreement was drawn up between the unit and Southern Lord Recordings of Los Angeles for a 2 album contract.

A particular of Khanate is Dubin's relentless vocal assault lying somewhere in the realm of early Die Kreuzen and such venoms. A unified purpose of bottom end wave structure and sound as physical onslaught drives Khanate. Tortured cries collide with the music's low-end, gut-wrenching aggression. Each note is used to create forceful brutal impact..

A testament to Khanate's strength. Most recently Khanate had been using producer Martin Bisi's studio for rehearsals (also the rehearsal space of Blind Idiot God). Unfortunately it was lost after only two sessions after driving a fuming Bisi out of the building because of volume!

www.myspace.com/khanatefans

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Things Viral [2003]















Capture and Release [2005]















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Khanate live "German Dental Work"

Bardo Pond - Dose_ The Singles (1994-96)

Aquí he dejado un compilado de singles de los años 1994-1996, la lista es la siguiente: 1. Die Easy / Apple Eye [1994], 2. Trip Fuck / Hummingbird Mountain [1994], 3. Dragonfly / Blues Tune [1994], 4. If There's Such a Thing as Angels / New Drunks [1995], 5. You Know [1996], 6. Tests for New Swords / Good Friday [1996].
Espero comentarios!

Dose_ the singles (1994-96) :
download Part 1. download Part 2

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Terrastock 7 - BARDO POND

Fying Saucer Attack

It is a band of quality, creative of impeccable atmospheres that cross the noise of the pollution, and they go to great speed in his flying saucers, towards and cardinal downtown in they are of initiating the assault with his sonic immense pieces that flood the sky, floating in the dream the black hands of the woman shining, a waterfall of paces that are not listened ahead, the spot opens orifices to compensate the humility of a new star to which copy his functioning gives another respite and a bit more of time to the planet.

The band I form in Bristol, England in the year 1993, his founders are David Pearce and Rachel Brook who with his compositions of guitar and voice saturated create a soft and constant avant-noise of mystical sensations.

Es una banda de calidad, creadora de atmosferas impecables que atraviesan el ruido de la contaminación, y se dirigen a gran velocidad en sus platillos voladores, hacia e centro de la ciudad capital en son de iniciar el ataque con sus piezas sonicas inmensas que inundan el cielo, levitan en el sueño las plomas manos de la mujer resplandeciendo, una cascada de ritmos que no se escuchan delante, la mancha abre orificios para compensar la humildad de una nueva estrella a la cual calcar su funcionamiento da otro respiro y un poco más de tiempo al planeta.
La banda se formo en Bristol, Inglaterra en el año 1993, sus fundadores son David Pearce and Rachel Brook quienes con sus composiciones de guitarra y voz saturadas crean un avant-noise suave y constante de sensaciones misticas.

MySpace.com - Flying Saucer Attack

P.A. Blues [2003]

Mirror [1999]

New Lands [1997]

Coming Home / Hope [1997]

Flying Saucer Attack / Tele:funken "Distant Station" [1996]

Sally Free and Easy [1996]

In Search of Spaces [1996]

Chorus [1996]

Beach Red Lullaby / Second Hour [1995]

Further [1995]

Outdoor Miner / Psychic Driving [1995]

Distance [1994]

Land Beyond the Sun / Everywhere Was Everything [1994]

Rural Psychedelia [1994]

Crystal Shade / Distance [1994]

Soaring High [1993]

Wish / Oceans [1993]

About this Video :

Let's Pretend To Be Human Beings

A video completed for a 2006 college art class final, which was to be a self-portrait. A silhouette of myself keying a mystic fire in a hypnotizing loop while the title track plays in the background. At the time (Thanksgiving 2002) I was heavily influenced by Flying Saucer Attack so this music, improvized on a Four Track in one day, has some shoegazer aspirations.

The full-length version is 15 minutes but due to Youtube's time limitations I can only present the final 10 minutes.