Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2011

I want to hear that Skull Defekts joint. I'm kinda surprised how much stuff comes out on Thrill Jockey(and Kranky) these days that are things I'd be into. If you woulda told me that 10 years ago, I'd have thought you were nuts.

i know you guys were talking about the Psychic Paramount album a while ago but it's so fucking good. like right in my wheelhouse.

yeah it's rad! it's funny, when the "post-rock" thing was big in the late 90s i couldn't really stand most of it -- but you introduce a some psychedelia into the mix and it's like my favorite thing.

I'm kind of worried about the next Blues Control album to be honest...hopefully it was not lightning in a bottle

well considering the s/t album and Puff are also great, i'd say they've "got it"

feeling the Eternal Tapestry album-- definitely slowed down, very pretty at times

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QWKJJ2DFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Loving this...

Konx-Om-Pax – Light In Extension [Display Copy]

http://boomkat.com/cds/378948-konx-om-pax-light-in-extension

It usualy takes me a little while to enjoy some of this stuff, but I'm hooked right off the bat here. Really enjoying the Peaking Lights album on Not Not Fun its got to be the best release I've heard from NNF in a while not that I've heard them all like...

How about some Ekoplekz: http://electronicexplorations.org/the-show/146-ekoplekz/ He's got a new tape out on Mordant Music right now and its sounding fresh. Loved his 12" on Punch Drunk last year. Anyone else feeling it?

The new Peaking Lights is on constant rotation. That and the new Lumerians. Have you heard this yet? http://verma.bandcamp.com/

thanks for the Verma tip, this is kicking ass.

Did a search and it looks like last year's Big Blood album, Dead Songs, didn't get a mention in last year's thread (I'm just getting around to hearing it myself) so I'll call your attention to it now. It's their first "proper" full-length after a long series of self-released cdrs and it's magnificent. If you don't know, Big Blood is Caleb and Colleen from Cerberus Shoal (and many related projects) and they kick ass.

Here's a fan made video for "Dead Song" (probably NSFW - boobies are bared):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWs3MFoXjik

I saw Woodsman last night. Drumming was absolutely top notch, tho guitar was a lil lackluster. Two dudes and no bass player, and it was just a lot of drone w/ spacey effects.

The taller guitar player was a real nice dude tho.. conversationally, I just asked how much their LPs were going for and he goes $12.50. I wasn't planning on buying one but I go "Bummer, I only $5" (I really only do) and dude hooks me up anyway. It's pretty rad so far, playing it as I type this.

I wrote about Eternal Tapestry's new one in a bit more depth here

my pals nick and ted at feeding tube records have some hotttt shows coming up if you are in the area or vicinity of northampton, mass this spring:

Mar 19th - Silk Flowers, Clinical Piss, more tba.....
Mar 25th - Dust Savior, Home Body, Cinnamon Urns
Mar 26th day - Brown Bird, Tiger Saw (3pm day time show!)
...Mar 26th nite - Slasher Risk, Dead Line Connector. "Reduce, Re-use, Repeat As Necessary":new paintings and Sculptures by Mike Barrett. Art opening 7-9, music after
Mar 29th - Andrew Coltrane, Tar Pit, Diagram A, Noise Nomads
Apr 2nd - Wet Hair, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Sore Eros
Apr 4th - MV/EE with Mick Flower and Willie Lane
April 7th - Michael Morley/C. Spencer Yeh/Meg Clixby, Dredd Foole/Chris Corsano, Dylan Nyoukis/Angela Sawyer/Id M Theft Able, Matt Krefting
Apr 13th - Dolphins Into The Future, Floris Van Hoof, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Mushmouth
Jun 14th - U.S. Girls, Noveller, Ruth Garbus
Jun 26th - Jabon (Scott Colburn)
June 30th - Sediment Club, Orie Mars Orie See More

Jabon!!! He hasn't played under that name in years iirc

i think i saw him play a house show under that name a month or so ago.

Oh - I guess if figures more in 'garage' genre (what is the current 'garage' thread on ilx?) - but I'm pretty stoked to be seeing Ty Segall tonight in Chicago ... 'Melted' was one of my fave releases last year ...

there's this

Rolling punk / non-indie underground / pitchfork GTFO thread 2011

You can stream the entire new Rene Hell here:

http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/03/15/test-pressing-stream-rene-hells-first-two-proper-full-lengths-the-terminal-symphony-and-porcelain-opera/

only my first listen but I think that I prefer the last rene hell album to this one. mellower but also more scattershot and surprising. but wow, the closer on the new one is gorgeous. very nice slow-mo strings action. riyl stars of the lid.

Would The Psychic Paramount's new album fit in here? It is loud, droney and mindblowing. I would imagine they do a good live show. It sounds like Ash Ra Tempel/Lightning Bolt.

^^ still need to hear this, waaaanntt

Discussion of Psychic Paramount just a little upthread. I need to buy it.

psychic paramount and liturgy albums are the big ones I'm really interested in hearing right now...maybe deerhoof vs. evil too

i've heard Liturgy and it's fucking fantastic. deerhoof album was a disappointment imo, but i've never been a huge fan

i don't think there is a rolling experimental electronic and percussion thread, but i saw Tumble tonight and they were very cool. and they are playing in boston on friday. um, if you happen to be near there for some reason...

Tumble
with Mark Cetilia

Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Boston (Chinatown)
617.435.2566
8 p.m. / $10

TUMBLE is the duo of Attila Faravelli (laptop and electronics) and Andrea Belfi (percussion and electronics) from Milan, Italy. Belfi and Faravelli create sound worlds through instant composition and improvisation. The results of this compositional process is somehow simultaneously chaotic and rational. The rhythms and textures created by drums and electroacoustic devices melt together to create volcanic movements of sound that are diffused through broken and modified speakers. Their first recording, On Tumbling, was released as a part of the 12-CD box set Musica Improvvisa on Die Schachtel this past year.

i bought their new cd and some solo stuff. the new cd is part of a box set that looks very cool. would love to hear it.

various / die schachtel - Musica Improvvisa
A unique survey of Italy's improvised music scene, this immense boxset features ten full-length discs of experimental sounds from ten different improv groups spread right across the country, plus a further DVD of visual scores from one of the bands (Xubuxue). Each CD gets its own individual sleeve, which along with a 24-page booklet and a poster slot into a sturdy cardboard holder. Sifting through this huge project would probably take over the rest of your summer, but even the most fleeting scan through the set reveals some real gems and a consistently high standard throughout (as you'll by now have come to expect from Die Schachtel). Furthermore, this is far from being a single-minded trudge through any one particular musical style. While the various components of Musica Improvvisa are united in their pursuit of extremes and the outer limits of the avant-garde, there's a great diversity to the collection; expect to encounter a wide variety of sound sources, from classical and jazz instrumentation through to computer-driven sonorities. For your reference, here's a list of the groups lined up on this fabulously exhausting boxset, in alphabetical order: A Spirale, Amp2, Amuleto, An Experiment In Navigation, Ligatura, Ossatura, Thau, Tumble, Wintermute and Xubuxue.

hey scott -- i just wanted to tell you that that was an awesome review you gave my friend Raub's album.

raub is a nice guy. i was just talking about him the other day.

or he was nice when i met him anyway. i don't really know him. he is a friend of friends and he used to live around here.

Great to see Bee Mask's 'Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico' getting a vinyl release on John Elliott from Emeralds' new Editions Mego imprint: http://www.editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools-release/SP+002

I'm way behind all you guys (maybe I should keep up with the thread) but this is really excellent. I think what sets it apart from a lot of drone/synth/whatever is the sense of narrative - rather than everything just floating in space it feels like some sort of dream travelogue.

Fabric - A Sort of Radiance is the other Spectrum Spools release so far, it's also great but closer to standard Emeralds operating procedure.

gonna be a good show at the store in april. flaming dragons and more to be announced. everyone come out to greenfield, ya hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3FrnAASFk

Fabric - A Sort of Radiance is the other Spectrum Spools release so far, it's also great but closer to standard Emeralds operating procedure.

― Getting down on fried egg (seandalai), Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:39 AM (4 days ago)

This Fabric release is phenomenal.

*******

Also, the Red Electric Rainbow album Dark Days (on Aguirre) is great sonic drone synth music. Not far off from Emeralds as well. It's definitely one of my favorite releases this year. Highly recommended.

http://www.aguirrecords.com/Shop/image/cache/data/red4%20SMALL-500x500.jpg

the Niggas With Guitars lp on Digitalis is pretty cool. Not sure about the name.

Here's a review:
Heavily engaged mission music from the mysterious sect of Niggas With Guitars, coming correct with a stunningly evocative debut vinyl for Digitalis. In the vein of Dylan Ettinger's 'New Age Outlaws' or Leyland Kirby's muddled memories, 'Ethnic Frenzy' is a vivid internal soundtrack for hypnagogic dreamers, warping the memes of Vangelis or Carpenter in much the same way Pat Maher's DJ YoYo Dieting did to DJ Screw or Indignant Senility to Wagner. Cruising in to the A-side we're slowly immersed in smoked-out and sludgy choral drones punctuated with fractured gasps of drum machine reminding of the 1st Chasing Voices 12", before we reach the bottom and everything becomes blissed out and stargazing with a soulful slopped and screwed ending. The second side is more unresolved, amping the drama with a weirdly affecting orchestral synth score before tipping over the edge into paranoid, muffled voices while clammy Italian horror hooks give a dank atmosphere and we're dumped from the boot to blunted back alley 808s. Check the samples for yourself, but we should stress that spending a bit of time with this record is a memorable experience.

http://zeneffects.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/nwg-dsqblg.jpeg

Really digging the new Eternal Tapestry. Those stately tempos remind me of Parson Sound/Harvester and that is a wonderful thing. Glad I ignored the coupla "meh" reviews I read and trusted youse guys.

Is Mouthus still around? I've been listening to "Slow Globes" a little lately; those guys were really onto something with that album (and "Saw a Halo")and all the sudden the deluge dried up. Cough syrup rock! Am I the only guy who feels a bit nostalgic for the psych/noise of the mid-aughts?

Excited for new Religious Knives on Sacred Bones on 4/26. Disappointed that they're not on a major label anymore.

I had a moment this weekend with the Terracid track from the Wailing Bones volume 2 cdr on Foxglove.
I got pretty burned out on mid-aughts psych drone, tbh, but everyone once in a while it can still zap me right between the eyes.

I had to google Terracid to remember that I have something by him ("Evacuation of Earth"?). I like it, though my memories of it are a bit vague. It really was easy to get burnt out on all that shit coming out on cd-r's on teeny-tiny labels back then. Reading overheated descriptions about stuff on Volcanic Tongue was when I decided to bail out.

was just the other day thinking the same thing abt mouthus (ie what happened to 'em). Saw a live a cpl of times round abt 2005/6 and they were stunning both times - within the prescribed parameters of noise-psych-rock whatevs, they were def doing something a bit different, even original

i loved the first religious knives comp but didn't really dig their subsequent alt rock moves/sounds (thought the vox were a big mistake)

this got posted in rolling punk but prolly belongs here

lew from wild america (RIP) has a new tape, its like acoustic bedroom psych, not at all what i expected but i kinda dig it

http://www.noothhing.org/

― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, March 25, 2011 4:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this one too! they're on some kinda american shoegaze tip

New Broken Water EP streaming here: http://brokenwatermusic.bandcamp.com/

And on vinyl here: http://perennialdeath.com/

Perennial have also re-pressed Whet with new artwork.

― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, March 28, 2011 10:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Just heard the word not four minutes ago that Magnog have reunited.

what the world has been waiting for...

I am the world so yes. :-D (My supposition is perhaps biased.)

i liked them enough to hold on to that double album, so that says something. my 90's collection of vinyl is very small.

oh cool i love those guys!!!

bill nace has been putting on thursday night shows in northampton and they always look really cool, but i usually never know who the hell anyone is. i'm out of it. this thursday:

EL-G
Jenny Graf Bibula
Slaughterhouse Percussion
Moon Unit

Pretty sure Moon Unit is Psychedelic Steve from Plastic Crimewave plus one.
Could be wrong.

There's a Moon Unit from Glasgow, with members of Nackt Insecten, & a release on Blackest Rainbow, but this is the kind of band name where there could be a few different ones.

iirc someone on ilm was putting out releases by the british moon unit? they're pretty good anyway.

i missed the blood stereo show on sunday. too much going on. but i did want to see that. them and thurston/bill, um, lots of other people. oh well. they are playing in albany tonight. not that that probably does anyone any good here.

Where's Ned when you need him?

Save us Neddy Fever!

Does this cover the same ground?

Rolling Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2012

lol