Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2012

new Alexander Tucker, Third Mouth, on Thrill Jockey, blowing me away right now. Keep flipping it over and over. Fourth listen today. Gamechanger, methinks!

need to check that guy out, where to start? into the new luke younger / helm thing, good for creeping yourself out at 2am

oh i love him!

dorwytch is really good and there's lots of his stuff on spotify
esp recommended if you like wyatty singing

old fog is good too

creepy and enjoyable listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOv74VaFReI

White Manna album is excellent, kinda reminds me the Original Sins or someone

Crackle Box, start with the new one, but all of his albums are excellent. This new one has some heavy Depeche Mode vibes...in a good way. Really, really great album.

thought of this thread http://www.facebook.com/notes/bill-orcutt/chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-east-coast-us-tour-dates/397182903664099

Wasn't sure whether to drop this in the rolling noise thread or this one, but this thread seems to get more traffic. You can find the discography of blackened noise/drone horrors Locrian for "pay what you want" download at bandcamp now: http://locrian.bandcamp.com/album/the-crystal-world

Hey who wants to do a quick blues Control s/d or rundown itt? I want to get into them and I think I'm gonna try Puff but I don't quite know what to expect. Any recommendations?

^^ 'puff' it's amazing - prob my favourite and definitely a good starting point. then you might go for 'local flavor' and from then on dig deeper with the self-titled and 'a full tank', maybe. the split with heavy winged is also good, iirc. collaboration with laraaji from last year was algo interesting, even if it veers a little bit closer to the new-agey vibes of the latter.

btw, any one heard 'valley tangents'?

Rather.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/valley-tangents-mw0002364694

Thanks! :D

saw the dreebs the other night, they're like 10 shimmering seconds of an SY noise break on loop. wasn't sure whether they should go here or rolling punk or rolling noise. the records and youtubes don't do justice to their live show which is a soakbath of ecstatic sound. their videos are kind of lol williamsburg, but if you get a chance to see 'em live you should.

new Alexander Tucker, Third Mouth, on Thrill Jockey, blowing me away right now. Keep flipping it over and over. Fourth listen today. Gamechanger, methinks!

Nice! There hasn't been a lot of fanfare for such a good album, or at least I haven't noticed any until this thread.

i love it! i listened to it most recently as i was driving through an extremely lush green rural area and it was heavenly.

yeah it's gorgeous

just ordered the new sylvester anfang. which one of theirs is meant to be the err... groovier one?

you mean of the most recent releases? which one did you get?
are there song titles or jam 1, jam 2, etc?

i have the former, WANT the latter!

this one http://www.discogs.com/Sylvester-Anfang-II-Perzische-Tapijten/master/424839

that's the one i got. it's great -- very groovy, but slow groovy

you a london person? they're playing oto with helm next week

nope, chicago :(

i got imported anfang

Just listened to Etherik by Sylvester Anfang and am psyched enough to want all his albums.

Dunno if this is quite the right place for the following enticing Forced Exposure update, but seems close enough:
OREN AMBARCHI: Sagittarian Domain CD (EMEGO 144CD) : OUT 08/28/2012 "For anyone who still associates Oren Ambarchi exclusively with the clipped, bass-heavy tones of solo electric guitar works such as Suspension (TO 033.18CD), this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album-length piece might seem to come out of nowhere. However, listeners who have followed the breadth of his work for the last few years (solo and in projects with collaborators from Jim O'Rourke to Stephen O'Malley and Keith Rowe to Keiji Haino) will have noted how Ambarchi has allowed increasingly clear traces of his enthusiasms as a music listener (for classic rock, minimal techno and '70s fusion, among other areas) to surface in his performances and recordings, all the time filtering them through his signature long-form structures and psychoacoustic sonics. Recorded in a single inspired studio session, Sagittarian Domain displaces Ambarchi's trademark guitar sound from the center of the mix, its presence felt only as an occasional ghostly, reverberated shimmer. Endlessly pulsating guitar and bass lines sit alongside electronic percussion and thundering motorik drumming (familiar from his work with Keiji Haino) at the core of the piece, locking into a voodoo groove, like Faust covering a '70s cop show theme. The work is founded on hypnotic almost-repetition, the accents of the drum hits and interlocking bass and guitar lines shifting almost imperceptibly back and forwards over the beat as they undergo gradual transformations of timbre. Cut-up and phase-shifted strings enter around the half-way mark like an abstracted memory of the Eastern-tinged fusion of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's classic Visions of the Emerald Beyond, before returning for an extended, stark yet affecting come-down coda, equal parts Gavin Bryars and Purple Rain. While Sagittarian Domain contains traces of a diversity of influences, it mines all of them to uncover something that is clearly an extension of Ambarchi's own investigations up to this point, exhibiting the same care for micro-detail and surrender to the physicality of sound that are present in all of his work, extending them in new ways to repetition, pulse and rhythm." --Francis Plagne; Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2012.
http://www.orenambarchi.com/

Samples sound pretty cool, though the drum sound is shitty.

Whoa, that's very exciting.

This might be a good release show w guests at least. More on Northern Spy site:

This September 2012 New York City band Zs celebrates 10 years of being a band with the release of SCORE - The complete sextet works from 2002-2007. Zs has been described with a dizzying array of musical vocabularies, and has performed alongside an equally dizzying complement of colleagues and collaborators ranging from Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P. Orridge, to Roscoe Mitchell, to Christian Wolf, not to mention hundreds of comrades from the Brooklyn DIY scene, that has been home to Zs' myriad incarnations and musical and artistic tangents. Belonging nowhere and everywhere, Zs has absorbed the editorial space of Howard Stern and Alex Ross alike. In 10 years of activity, the band has changed in countless ways without ever changing a fierce commitment to inscrutable aesthetics and execution crafted to provoke reflection and challenge assumption in the consumption of music.

The 4 disc box-set hits stores on 9/11 and pulls together all of the out of print works from the band's first 5 years of existence along with a disc of never released material. There are over four and half hours of music represented, a 20-page booklet, and four CDs in printed sleeves, all housed in a beautiful 55pt box featuring original artwork by art/design team Fredericks & Mae.

To celebrate a hugely productive decade, the band is celebrating, surrounded by band members old and new, with an epic Ten-Year Anniversary & Box Set Record Release Show Wednesday August 29th at 285 Kent in Brooklyn NY. Featured will be Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer of Zs), Hubble (featuring former Zs member Ben Greenberg), Extra Life (featuring former Zs member Charlie Looker), Wet Ink Ensemble (featuring former Zs members Alex Mincek & Ian Antonio)and the Mick Barr + Marc Edwards Duo.

To further the ever evolving nature of the group, Zs will debut new material and a new line-up at the 8/29 show. Guitarist/composer Patrick Higgins (Bachanalia, ex-Animal) and drummer Greg Fox (Guardian Alien, ex-Liturgy) have joined founding member Sam Hillmer to launch Zs into their second decade. They’ve been rehearsing in secret for months and this show is not to be missed.

hey this friday at my store. come hang out with me.

Jason Lescalleet/Greg Kelley Duo + Matt Krefting

Friday, August 17 at 8:00 PM

Location: John Doe, Jr. Used Books and Records
269 Main St., Greenfield MA

What's their music like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n738jbTd78

no where else to put it, but i just have to say that i am on a heavy heavy Richard Skelton kick, and could really listen to this music forever.

Just got the Cosmic Dead s/t cd and have been wondering if the track Black Rabbit on there has anything to do with the Skullflower track of the same title from IIIrd GAtekeeper. I think it sounds like a similar riff but Cosmic Dead's treatment is pretty different taking it on a trip for 18 minutes whereas Skullflower seem to be playing for maximum weight over 4+ minutes.

Thanks for reminding me that it is time to pull out IIIrd Gatekeeper!

Not sure what thread it fits with but the Gala Drop & Ben Chasny collab is pretty cool.

^^ it's cool, but I still find the first gala drop record the best thing they've done so far. dunno, "broda" - the track - seems kinda aimless, imho.

they've been having some chill shows up the street in new salem. enter the chill zone.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7fc6w3GxX1rtx964o1_1280.jpg

if you are into that sort of thing. and are within walking distance.

Looks like a good time

200 Years is Ben Chasny. Yeah looks like fun.

i went and saw 200 years at feeding tube a while back. probably mentioned it here. but it was toooooo late (they didn't get started until like one in the morning!!) and i was tooooooo drunk and they were so quiet. pretty though. just needed a queen size bed to crash on when they played. him + majik markers woman.

see if i had been on acid everything would have been fine!

bill orcutt and chris corsano are playing flywheel on sept. 1 and i'm interested in seeing that. maybe they will just cover harry pussy songs.

also really hope i can make it to the arthur brooks ensemble V show at the flywheel. featuring one of my fave ilxors on percussion. arthur brooks a trumpeter who played with bill dixon and all those 70's outcats. i had a great 70's album of his that i dug a bunch but i sold it to help feed my children. otherwise i would have had him sign it!

jason lescalleet and greg kelley were great last night at the store. if you get a chance check out jason's new electronic reimagining/reworking of SAF by big black. its great.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6986466502_36859ae9a5.jpg

cool--btw who's the percussionist ilxor?

tarfumes the escape goat. he's amazing. i've seen him do rhys chatham with a guitar army, play with a small group, and play solo at my store and he is always great.

and he puts out awesome solo CDs that are perfect for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdBEUUxlR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvw9sMg0Z0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcFt__NpuJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAF25L8NS28

Chris Forsyth has a new album out, Kenzo Deluxe and it is very nice.

Chris Forsyth and Koen Holtkamp are playing the same night as Glenn Jones in my little town. As it is a small town I am going to try to force these two events to happen at different times so that I can make both of them, but gonna be really pissed if I can't see both.

Chris Corsano plays solo 5 nights later, best run my town has had in a long time.

scot, did you go see p.g. six? a p.g. six solo show is not to be missed imo.

Hey Grandavis, just count your blessings you don't live in Huddersfield. The biggest small town in England and Chris Forsyth will never play here!

"Chris Forsyth and Koen Holtkamp are playing the same night as Glenn Jones in my little town"

I hope that means they have been working together again cos Early Astral was great.