Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2011

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.

This Woven Music record by Shinji Masuko (from the Boredoms) is real blissed out and very psychedelic.
Sort of reminds me of Super Roots 5 in it's approach, but the results are more serene and meditative instead of just completely overpowering.

get yer freak on tomorrow night:

Tomorrow nite at Elevens (140 pleasant street northampton)

Demolished Thoughts
(t. moore, j. moloney, k. wood)

TARP

Horsebladder

dj sets by Bill Nace, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky

music will start at 10 15

see you there

Anyone heard the new Mountains album yet? I've heard just one track - sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche. Either way it sounds good and I'm excited to hear the whole thing.

sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche

sounds like the trajectory of pretty much every 'post rock' or 'psych drone' band right now. Who woulda guessed it - John Carpenter, noise dood legend?

sounds like the trajectory of pretty much every 'post rock' or 'psych drone' band right now.

True. I would be mildly disappointed that they're jumping on the bandwagon, except that I'm really into that particular bandwagon at the moment.

new sea and cake album has total chillwave moments on it.

sorta.

I'm really into that particular bandwagon at the moment.

^_^

Anyone heard the new Mountains album yet? I've heard just one track - sounds like they've ditched the Stars of the Lid guitar ambient thing and opted for synths/kosmiche. Either way it sounds good and I'm excited to hear the whole thing.

this is otm, i thought it was kinda zzzzz though. not bad, just not exceptional. but i need to listen again. i was in 90 degree texas sun about 20 miles/4 hours into a run when i played it before. not exactly ideal.

Loving the Great Society Mind Destroyers cassette:

http://gsmd.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-smoke

Divinorum is available for free download.

just got word of a Sun Araw + Eternal Tapestry collaboration, psyched

Huh. Etap dudes sat in with Sun Araw at the house here a couple months back. Went pretty good.

Oh wait, no. High Wolf. Nmind.

The friendship of Eternal Tapestry and Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones goes back to the Not Not Fun curated Neon Commune Fest, January 2007 at the much loved, and missed, Echo Curio in Eagle Rock, LA. Eternal Tapestry shared the second night's bill with Cameron's old band Magic Lantern (Barn Owl and Pocahaunted rounded out the night's festivities!), and the two psych crews hit it off immediately. LA shows were played together every time Eternal Tapestry made it south. Fast forward to Austin, TX for SXSW 2010 when Eternal Tapestry shared a bizarre afternoon parking lot gig with Sun Araw. The Tapestry had a live broadcast in-studio session lined up on KVRX student radio that night, and in true Tapestry fashion they invited their buddy Cameron to join in.

The session took place in a large TV studio on the UT campus, with the band setting up in a big circle. The line-up was Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman on guitars, Jed Bindeman on drums, Ryan Carlile on tenor sax, Yoni Kifle on bass, and Cameron Stallones on keyboard and trademark flute. After a brief discussion of mood, the six musicians improvised together for 45 minutes continuously. The music is heard as played that evening - no overdubs, and only a few edits to create a four section suite for the LP release. The piece is titled Night Gallery, in homage to the surreal early 1970's TV show produced by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. It was this program that the six musicians fell asleep to, and woke up with, during their five day stay in Austin.

the UT campus: breeding ground for the no-wave bands of the future.

egg eggs in the store the other night. rare video footage of me on ilx while they play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKDHlpq4vXs&feature=youtu.be

Just wanted to say, in this thread, that the Follakzoid ep on Sacred Bones is pretty great. Neu! and stuff.

I loved Pulse Emitter's Spiritual Vistas but his new one (Forest, Mountain, Valley) on Tranquility Tapes is something else...

http://soundcloud.com/darylgroetsch

omg that totally reminds me -

http://www.hos.com/#about

they still exist!

Yeah, the new pulse emitter tape is really something. Was listening to an older cd-r and it was pleasant but the difference between that an the newer material is pretty night and day. Excess fat has been trimmed, the tempos have slowed, and it all just feels much less improvised and I couldn't be happier
. Every sound just where it should be.

http://soundcloud.com/le-revelateur/arco-naturale

not 2011 but the Riley-isms of Le Révélateur are hitting my psychedelic sweet-spot at the moment.

anyone heard of a group called 'paperhead' from nashville? very 60s sound with some really nice organ/synth

Yeah I've been digging their lp a lot lately..

Their debut didn't ring my bell as much as I thought it would, but still pretty good.

Promoters in this town need their heads banging together imo:

> julian cope tue 18th oct concorde £19.00
> bardo pond tue 18th oct hector’s house £ 9.50
> circle tue 18th oct green door store £8.50

yeah didn't the clean play at the free butt for 4 quid just last year? whats gone wrong?