============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 455 ------------ week 53 ------------ MAD EP - EATING MOVIES (CD by Ad Noiseam) CURTIS CHIP - EATING PASTE (CD by Ad Noiseam) BEEQUEEN - THE BODY SHOP (CD by Important Records) AGF/DELAY - EXPLODE (CD by AGF Proucktion) BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - CHI VAMPIRES (CD by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) LU - B-INTERRAIL (CD by Small Voices) KINETIX - SELECTED E_MISSIONS (CD by Small Voices) ERIK LEVANDER - TONAD (CD by Neon Records) T.A.C. - SPLINTERED (CD by Small Voices) A.M. SALAD - LO-FI FOR HI-FI (CD by Sunship Records) E.W. HAGSTROM - EMIL & FRIENDS (CDR by Sunship Records) JUDAH - COOL CRAP (CD by Small Voices) STYLUS - EISTEDDFOD (CD by Irrational Arts) Y CREATE - MADADAYO (CD by EE Tapes) DEEP - SLEEP606 (BPN-MIX) (8" by Dhyana Records) DRONAEMENT - PHONORECORD (8" by Dhyana Records) DOGHOUSE - 8"EP (8" by Dhyana Records) LDS RELATIONSHIPS (CDR compilation by Entr'acte) SUDDEN INFANT - <- LOOK LEFT (3"CDR by Entr'acte) FOR THE ATTENTION OF - LIVE RECORDINGS 2003 (CDR by Entr'acte) FILTER FEEDER - FEEDING GRENZY (CDR by Entr'acte) MUZICK OUT OF OPEN WINDOWS (CDR by Field Muzick) DRONAEMENT - FIELDS 1 (CDR by Field Muzick) MAD EP - EATING MOVIES (CD by Ad Noiseam) CURTIS CHIP - EATING PASTE (CD by Ad Noiseam) Ad Noiseam from Berlin always takes me by surprise. Many of the artists they deal with are new names for me, and the music they release are usually far from my daily intake. I have no idea about the history of Mad E.P., aka Matthew Peters, but the release 'Eating Movies' is a fairly interesting release. Down tempo, chopped up hip hop rhythms prevail here, with usual interceptions of scratched vinyl and (unfortunally) some raps, which are never well spend on me. But as the album progresses, the things gets instrumental and bass and drum sounds more heavy weight. Deep stuff. As said this is not music I play a lot, but every once in a while such a thing is actually more than nice. Likewise Curtis Chip is somebody new to me too. His 'Eating Paste' 12" was released in 2003 on Zod Records and now comes on this CD re-issue including a whole bunch of remixes. His music is a totally fucked up, 8 bit electro breakcore style. It was hard to hear any difference between the Curtis Chip material and the remixes by such like as BinRay, Eight Frozen Modules, Enduser, Xanopticon, Larvae, Ove Naxx and Tarmvred. Everything comes by in great speed, and in a totally broken up style. This is certainly no music to relax by as it left me breathless once it was over. A bit too wild me for me, but hey I'm just getting old, I guess. Of the two, Mad EP worked just better I guess. (FdW) Address: http://www.adnoiseam.net BEEQUEEN - THE BODY SHOP (CD by Important Records) Beequeen needs no introduction to those who read these virtual pages regularly. In the course of time Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard have evolved from a noisy drone band to something that could almost be called a popgroup. With this CD they emphasize their wish to create music that makes a connection to their early work an mainstream pop music. With eleven tracks and a duration of almost 37 minutes, it's pretty clear that endless drone stuff is out of the question. Instead we find concise songs, well crafted and quite to the point. Don't think there's no drone stuff however: it's there, but just as long as needed to mark other aspects that are important to the music. And that is exactly the great strength of this album: it combines a lot of different flavours or genres into a seamless whole, with plenty of attention to details, without which this would not have worked at all. Although this disc contains eleven songs I have no favorites: the whole album counts and is basically one work in eleven parts. From beginning to end there is a continuous flow that works very well; just the right amount of dreamy melodies and surprising weird sounds. Beequeen seems to be developing in exactly the right direction. A note for the fans: the guitars are there and the synths as well and also the voices (mainly female, mind you) and even a bicycle (Kraftwerk still rules...). A beautiful record, to put it simply. (MR) Address: http://www.importantrecords.com AGF/DELAY - EXPLODE (CD by AGF Proucktion) This is debut album of two artists of contemporary experimental music scene that means something on it today. Vladislav Delay is known by his solo albums as well as his duby house alias Luomo. He also works under name Uusitalo. AGF is Antye Greie-Fuchs, artist, musician, poet. or shortly, poem producer, working with Laub as well as solo. They had couple collaborations by now on music and art, but this is their first album produced together. It is released on her new label, AGF Producktion, platform for releasing AGF's solo releases as well as collaborations with other artists. This record is dedicated to nature. Clean lakes, wide land of simplicity and reduced consuming terror. In one moment they decided to isolate their selves in north Finland, place where everything is clean, place of solitude and silence, where one can hear, see and feel more. Far away from civilization, contemporary struggles of urban environments, communications and even electricity they made this record during summer 2004. And whole album breathes with cleanliness. It is pure, simple and calm. Completely natural. Free of all stressing moments and things that stress us in modern society. Lyrics are short and endlessly simple characteristic for previous AGF poetic work with a place leaved for errors and improvisation. But they are telling exactly what they need to. They are expressions of ordinary every day things, inspired by books, movies, traveling, daily news. occupied with world, nature, global politics. telling that there is something above dirty consumer society. Music is simple too. Broken beats and strong deep bass are interweaving with totally minimalistic melody. Deepness and hard bass comes from Delays production and minimal broken rhythm programming comes from AGF' s discreet approach. So at the end it seems that this whole collaboration release is pure combination of AGF's and Delay's previous music tendencies of course combined into new sound and with new direction inspired with their present conditions. With all this above everything is explained about the facts of the release. But you will need to listen to it so you can feel the calming effect of pure unspoiled nature. Its good that there are still such pure parts in the world, despite unfortunately everything is going down with uncontrolled development. (TD) Address: http://www.agfproducktion.com BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - CHI VAMPIRES (CD by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Chi Vampires is a new album from the fertile mind of Campbell Kneale (who is Birchville Cat Motel). This release also co-incides with his upcoming tour of the US. 4 very lengthy tracks make up the album, the first of which is called "Blonde Moth Burial". It starts out with a swirling organ before some distant drums enter and then an epileptic saxophone emerges beneath the drones. As the title suggests this does have a bit of a funeral feel to it, but its more like a celebration of life than a funeral dirge. There is a light peeking out of the sadness. "Buckling Metal Snowflakes" is of a similar nature at first, but throughout its 28 minutes there are subtle changes. Again some swirling organs and odd noises moving in and out, then the song builds and builds and finally dissolves into some gorgeous violins, both dissonant and musical. Sounds at times like My Bloody Valentine's song "Glider" filtered through some burning Irish landscape. Some slithering hisses pan left and right, as the violins give way to delicate feedback and low end growl. This song is majestic, and spooky. It also makes up roughly half of the entire album. Kneale could have easily released this one song as a mini-album and left me wanting more, more and more. So with songs 3 and 4 he does exactly that. "Cold Herds Travel" is radio static and quiet pulses, and more of the same organ. A large and beautiful chord is played by adding one note at a time and a weeping violin saws out an anti-melody. Maybe its a little like Alan Licht circa Rabbi Sky. Kneale's song titles conjure up stirring images for me, and I envision sad nomads traipsing across a frozen tundra. Last on the album is the title track "Chi Vampire". A small drone begins pulsing while a melody is plucked out on a piano. Things are procceeding in the usual fashion for a BCM song and then a full band enters! Heavy guitars, and pounding drums. Things just ascend from there with the guitars growing and growling louder and the drums pounding harder. Think Sunn 0))) circa "White 2" meets Flying Saucer Attack but 1000 times more psychedelic! I'm not sure of the "official" release date but this is my pick for 2004's album of the year. (CJ) Address: http://www.cpsip.co.nz LU - B-INTERRAIL (CD by Small Voices) LU is one Gianluca Porcu from Italy and I have absolutely no idea about his background. But on his CD he samples the shit out of a small ensemble (flute, clarinet, saxophone, piano, guitar) which he recorded himself. These samples are mixed with electronica, female voices, Marcel Duchamp cut up and a soft tone touch of glitchy sounds. The label tries to sell this as 'the missing link between Fennesz and The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but it's much closer to the latter than to the first. There is for sure a very sunny Mediterranean feel about this music and that makes the listener happy. The 'Inter Rail 5' track with the Duchamp cut-ups is a bit darker, but sometimes it rains in Italy too. Rather than the former missing link, Lu links pop music to modern classical music, more Micheal Nyman or Gavin Bryars if you catch my drift. If it wasn't almost 2005 and if it wasn't so cheery, this could have easily been released on Obscure Records in the seventies. (FdW) Address: http://www.smallvoices.it KINETIX - SELECTED E_MISSIONS (CD by Small Voices) The music of Gianluca Becuzzi, aka Kinetix was reviewed before, even when that was sometime ago (Vital Weekly 339 and 353). Back then things weren't that clear, but it turns out now that Becuzzi was the responsible man for all four CDRs reviewed back then. 'Selected E_missions' is not a new work, but rather a best of of the previous releases from 2002 (and reviewed back then) but then on a real CD. His previous releases had two main things: the microsound like sound and more uptempo minimal techno. For his selection of best tracks it seemed him best, and rightly so, to choose for one of the two styles and take the best pieces. He choose the microsound like pieces, meaning processed sine waves, rhythmical crackles and such like. Kinetix plays all of this on a considerable low volume, still higher in volume of course than say the average Francisco Lopez, but making the thing into a more ambient sort of release. Kinetix does a fine job at that, but it's nothing spectacular. Like this there are many others in this already crowded field. (FdW) Address: http://www.smallvoices.it ERIK LEVANDER - TONAD (CD by Neon Records) The Neon Gallery in Brösarp, Sweden, is one that has quite a lot of attention for experimental music, such as installations, concerts and workshops. They have released a 12" by Jim O'Rourke and now picked up, through one of their workshops, the work of Erik Levander. He is 23 and now lives in Copenhagen to study architecture. His musical background is quite diverse, such as playing in a hot latino band aswell as gloomy postrock. It's kinda hard not to think of Oval when hearing the seven pieces on this disc. The rhythmical and melodical glitches which form the raw material out of which this CD, remind strongely of the work of Oval and to lesser extent of Fennesz. But there are some differences, such as the pretty straight forward rhythms in 'Drömmen Om Köpmaskinernas Gemenskap' or the fuzzy shoegazing sound of 'Strimlar Alla Spår'. This makes the work of Erik Levander not an exact copy of the masters, but he succesfully finds his own way around, incorporating his own musical preferences to the known matter. So, while not an entirely new and fresh work, it provides an unexpected angle. (FdW) Address: http://www.neongallery.nu T.A.C. - SPLINTERED (CD by Small Voices) Just like last week's Klimperei, TAC is a band that has been around for ages, with their first release from 1982, but whose work I never really encountered, maybe except for some compilation appearance here and there. Somewhere in the back of my head it said that TAC was a bit more experimental than something such as Ain Soph or Sigillum S, but I am not right. The band consists of Monica Serra (vocals, treatments), Simon Balestrazzi (electronics, guitar, psaltery) and Corrado Loi (bass, guitar, electronics). I would have to do a bit of guessing, but at least half the tracks on their new CD, the fourteen release since 1982, are made by improvising in the studio and making a mix out of that. These pieces are a bit of mishmash, spielerei and unfortunally not very interesting. The other tracks are more worked out, showing influences of techno on one hand and more psychedelic music on the other. 'Blue Mutation' could have been easily a Legendary Pink Dots on a less creative day. The use of violin on this piece was quite nice though. For someone like me who doesn't know their backcatalogue very well it is hard to say wether this is a stunning new direction or more of the same. The tracks that sound like they have been worked on sound pretty much ok, but some of the others could have been left out. It would have made a stronger album for sure. (FdW) Address: http://www.smallvoices.it A.M. SALAD - LO-FI FOR HI-FI (CD by Sunship Records) E.W. HAGSTROM - EMIL & FRIENDS (CDR by Sunship Records) Behind A.M. Salad is one Keith Childress of Algebraissiere. Apperentely he has released four cassettes on EF Tapes before in the early to mid nineties and this CD is a kind of compilation of the best moments on those tapes. A.M. Salad uses a wide array of tools to produce sound. That includes old records, defective devices from thrift stores, an old organ, walkie talkies, toys and sounds from the office, kitchen, bathroom and garage. And probably much more, but basically anything that produces sound. Or rather: that produces noise. The result is a seventy minute collage of noise, but one of a much more interesting kind. A.M. Salad has of course it's loud noisy moments but also finds room for tunes that are less noisy and more contemplative (of course it doesn't become ambient music, but still). In there the damaged, crackles vinyl grooves are being picked up by contactmicrophones and surface noise becomes a groove in itself. Maybe at seventy minutes this is a bit too much and some of the tracks are certainly too long, but the nice moments outlast the weaker brothers. Emil Hagstrom is one of the older statesmen of noise, mainly known for his work with Cock ESP, but also as Wrong and Origami Genitalia. On his 'Emil & Friends' release he works with ten friends from the noise scene, such as John Wiese, Ovo, Mike Shiflet, Prairepusher, Panicsville and more. Noise noise noise around the the clock here, but the good thing is that Hagstrom keep his tracks short and to the point. The crashing of metal, feedback, howls and earpiercing noise, they are all there of course but it is served in a well-balanced dose. If Cock ESP is your thing than so should this solo release by Hagstrom warm your hearth on a cold winterday. (FdW) Address: http://www.freenoise.org/sun JUDAH - COOL CRAP (CD by Small Voices) It is not easy to play 'Cool Crap', the debut album of the Italian band Judah, and not think of Suicide, the band (not the act of commiting). The similarities are pretty strong. An ongoing sequencer tune, a simple rhythmbox and even the vocals sound like that of Alan Vega. It could be an album of Suicide, but the tracks aren't unfortunally as good as some of the Suicide pieces (who too had tracks that I didn't like). The main difference between Judah and Suicide is that Judah doesn't have any real uptempo pieces. So no 'Ghost Rider', 'Rocket USA' or 'Franky Teardrop' to be found here. Does that mean I dislike this album? Not really. It has some nice moments for sure and I like the really copycats anyway. Still a 6 out of 10 rating here. (FdW) Address: http://www.smallvoices.it STYLUS - EISTEDDFOD (CD by Irrational Arts) Although Stylus have been around since 1997, and I heard bits here and there, 'Eisteddfod' is the first full CD that I heard from him, as Stylus is Dafydd Morgan. This is his sixth full length release. The music on this release is based on a concert Stylus did in August 2002 iat the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Pembrokeshire, but not the actually recording. The first six tracks were recorded at the rehearsals, the seventh track is a reworking of the last track from the concert and the last three were recprded at a radiostation. Stylus plays moody and psychedelic music with a strong experimental edge to it. Regular instruments such as piano and guitar are set against analogue synths and field recordings (probably made at the National Eisteddfod), which add a the psychedelic touch. On "Wooden Milk Part 4', drummachines make their entrance. In this track, with choir like voices, it is where Stylus goes a bit too much into the areas of gothic like music, but it's made up by the other tracks which are more experimental. Stylus has a varied sound and moods and atmospheres on this disc are many and therefore it's quite a nice work. It made me curious about the previous works (which are on Ochre Records, in case you didn't know). (FdW) Address: http://www.irrational-arts.co.uk Y CREATE - MADADAYO (CD by EE Tapes) So you probably ask: Y Create? I didn't ask this question, as I knew Y Create was the solo project by one Hessel Veldman, from IJmuiden, The Netherlands. In the days when I was a little boy, he was the main man for experimental and electronic in The Netherlands and he ran Exart Tapes, worked with Willem de Ridder in FNTC (with a release on Staalplaat) and contributed a track to the very first cassette I released (also as Y Create, but with Gert-Jan Prins on percussion. With Prins he also was in a band called Gorgonzola Legs. Somewhere in the earlyb nineties I lost contact with him and he went on to do other things. But he's back, with Y Create and his old passion for radio plays. The recordings on 'Madadayo' were recorded between 1979 and 2002 and remixed in 2002-2003 for this release. Y Create uses the full eighty minutes a CD can offer to play his music, but with only eight tracks, you can imagine they are lenghty affairs. Y Create's pieces usually start out with a piece of drones, with lots of small variations in the EQ-ing, and percussion comes in. The percussive bits move around constantly in the background, being fed through an enormous amount of delay and reverb lines and in some case even develop into a banging rhythm with hints of techno. All of these eight pieces have a great ambient feel to them, but Y Create is pushing the boundaries a little bit more and things are just a bit more adventurous here. Great come-back album. (FdW) Address: http://www.eetapes.be DEEP - SLEEP606 (BPN-MIX) (8" by Dhyana Records) DRONAEMENT - PHONORECORD (8" by Dhyana Records) DOGHOUSE - 8"EP (8" by Dhyana Records) A while ago we reviewed the first two releases in a series of 8 times 8 inch records (see Vital Weekly 412) and now the series continues with the next three. The first is by Deep, who had previous releases on Dhyana Records. Their 8" record has two tracks of just bass guitars, eight to be precise, spread out over the eight tracks of the recording device. It deals with sleepless nights and I am not surprised. The heavy distorted bass sounds doesn't lull the listener to sleep, but sounds like someone taking too much speed and frantically playing the bass. A pretty lo-fi recordings affair going on here. More interesting is the 'Phonorecord' by Dronaement, which is a hommage to the vinylrecord (funny of course to release it on a lathe cut, since that is alike vinyl, but it's not vinyl). Droaement uses records by Ravi Shankar, DJ Spooky and RRR-500 lockgroove record on an experimental phonedevice, taping the sounds with contactmicrophones and making an interesting sound collage out of that. On the b-side is 'Digital Grain', taking the sounds from the other side into the digital domain and making it into an even more dense sort of pieces, consisting of many layers. However the soundquality on this side is not as good as on the other side. I don't know that much about Doghouse, except that he is from Vienna. His record is not exactely 8 minutes per side, like the others were so far. Doghouse plays around with techno rhythms, but in all three tracks he is not playing the 'right' sort of techno thing, rather it sounds like an attempt to make this kind of techno music, but with far more limited means. It's ok, but not really super good. The best track is '42', with a sparse piano loop and click rhythm. (FdW) Address: http://www.dhyanarecords.com LDS RELATIONSHIPS (CDR compilation by Entr'acte) SUDDEN INFANT - <- LOOK LEFT (3"CDR by Entr'acte) FOR THE ATTENTION OF - LIVE RECORDINGS 2003 (CDR by Entr'acte) FILTER FEEDER - FEEDING GRENZY (CDR by Entr'acte) This is a new UK label who claim to have not a specific musical agenda 'other than to release new and challenging music of quality in fine handmade packages', the latter being handmade digipacks. The first release is a remix album of a much older release of Entr'acte, which was reviewed in Vital Weekly 189. The album by Luxury Discreet Surroundings was, if I remember well, pretty noisy but dealing with environmental recordings and a quite interesting approach to noise. The remixes are done by heavyweight noise artists such as Peter Rehberg & Kevin Drumm, Christoph de Babalon, Column One, Dave Philips, Kouhei & Imany, Errorsmith and Sudden Infant. They all take the material into an even more extreme area, either by sampling, additions of extra synthesized sound or by means of computer manipulation. Some of the pieces are rhythmical such as Sudden Infant, Blackjewishgays Presents Something J or the toally fucked up drum & bass from Christoph de Babalon. P_Audio stays close to the original. It turned out to be quite an interesting compilation, not for the weak of heart, but certainly nice remixes for sure. Sudden Infant, aka Joke Lanz from Switzerland, is quite active with his concerts (as sometimes noted in the announcement section of Vital Weekly) and the recordings on his 3"CDR releases were made during his recent stay London. Maybe because of his long career, Sudden Infant is for me one of the few really interesting noise artists. His music is a combination of turntablism, voice/spoken word/mouth and musique concrete frenzy. Sometimes this is really loud and obnoxious as in 'You Trendy C***', but in 'Tasty Whitechapel Geezer' he has some loops of him breathing going and other more vocals stuff, which sound very poetic. Mixing in street sounds from London, this is a great, furious noise party. Most surprising track here of course is a 'cover' of Cabaret Voltaire's oldie 'Nag Nag Nag'. For The Attention Of is a new name for me. They are from France but are now based in London. The three tracks on their CDR were recorded live 'on K7 in London, 2003', but if they wouldn't have told you so, then you wouldn't know. The quality of the recordings (and probably the remastering) is excellent. The music of For The Attention Of is best described as ambient, incorporating, I assume, field recordings and synthesizer (either real ones or software versions). However this is a bit further away than the ambient of say Vidna Obmana or anything on the Hypnos catalogue, because it's much darker in terms of processing sounds. Maybe the first track is a bit long for what it does, but overall it's a pretty interesting ambient work of a darker nature. Also new to me is Filter Feeder and 'Feeding Frenzy is a collection [...] around a theme of media distortion and propaganda, largely in reaction to coverage of the build-up to and eventual war in Iraq'. That's handy to know, since I couldn't tell after the first time of hearing this. The eleven, lenghty tracks are built around rhythms (which sound like preset rhythms of cheap machines) and spoken word samples, that aren't easy to understand. A couple of tracks are alright, but eleven is a bit too much to digest at once. The ideas per track are simply not interesting enough to hold my attention throughout each track, let alone the whole thing. The shortest release is by Ze, who had 'a misunderstanding of an idea for a Laura Branigan cover version'. Stupid as I am (or should that be 'remotely away from popmusic') I didn't know who she was nor could I hum one of her tunes, so 'Self Control/Death Drive' don't mean a thing to me in terms of covers. 'Self Control' is a nice slow electro tune with vocoder vocals and 'Death Drive' is a more uptempo instrumental song of electro-nature, and both are quite nice indeed. (FdW) Address: MUZICK OUT OF OPEN WINDOWS (CDR by Field Muzick) DRONAEMENT - FIELDS 1 (CDR by Field Muzick) More Dronaement is to be found on Dronaement's new label Field Muzick. The labels kicks of with two releases. The first is a compilation with actually a simple but effective theme. Open the window, record the daily sounds and add music to those daily sounds. Or adding daily sounds to music. The music is by such people as Dronaement, Sebastian Roux, Logoplasm, The Infant Cycle, Alio Die, Andrea Marutti and Deep - all people with some name recognition in the scene of CDRs. What is noteworthy on this compilation is that the field recordings are in good balance with the music. We hear birdcalls, children playing but they are all embedded in a set of synthesizer passages or computer processing. The whole thing consists of music that a strong ambient character, with nice atmospheric tunes. Frz w/Imagho step out with a piece of guitar strumming, but this doesn't break the nice flow. Highlights are the deep sounds of Sebastian Roux and the Ora like piece of Alio Die. The other new release is by Dronaement (of course I should say) and on two tracks he is helped by the ever so active Aidan Baker and Andrea Marutti. Like on most of his previous releases, Dronaement plays ambient/drone music, could of course hardly be anything else, I think. Using a wide array of analogue synths and of course field recordings, Dronaement comes with a darker version of ambient music with a bigger sensibility for the experimental side of ambient music. On 'Anduasende' he gets a bit of inspiration it seems from early nineties Asmus Tietchens and Werkbund. The influence of the latter becomes apparent in tracks like 'Field Map 1' and 'Field Map 2'. It seems to me that with this release the music of Dronaement is even more sophistacted than before and therefore a major step ahead. (FdW) Address: http://www.fieldmuzick.com correction: it seems that in some mail and in our website archive in Vital Weekly 453 it says only Yvan instead of Yvan as it should be. Don't know why that is... 1. From: "Adrian Klumpes" Triosk, from Sydney Australia, who have releases on Leaf (Moment Returns, 2004) and ~scape (1+3+1, 2003), will be touring Europe/UK in April 2005 and are seeking invitations to play at established venues/nights. Express your interest to either info@triosk.com or adrianklumpes@optusnet.com.au >>>> -- Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. 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