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D!O!D!O!D!
Fantastic album of pure guitar and drums brutality (and the first non-Japanese release for PSF in several years) from the greatest noise musician in China, Li Jianhong. Long resident in Hangzhou, Li has released several records on his own 2pi label, including solo noise work for TV monitors and an album by his avant-rock unit Second Skin. He also curates the annual 2pi noise festival in Hangzhou. He played in at the Nuit Blanche festival in Paris in 2004, and this will be his second non-Chinese …
Absolute noise ensemble
Francisco López's Absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: Alain Wergifosse, Albert Mestre, Antón Ignorant, Carlos Medina, César Góngora, Christian Dergarabedian, Daniel Menche, Ferrán Fages, Francisco López, Games Addiction, Ilios, Io casino, Joe Colley, Jorge Haro, Koji Asano, Masami Akita, Mego laptop orchestra, Michael Gendreau, Michael Northam, Oren Ambarchi, Philippe Faujas, Roc Jiménez, Ruben García, Russell Haswell, Shunichiro Okada, Víctor Nubla, Zbigniew Karkowski, Zipperspy, Alan Co…
Coyote's call
Way-above-average improv from Japan. Electric strings (guitars?), saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease frommeditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter. Sax player Yoshinori Yanagawa plays with the same sort of depth and passion as Albert Ayler-no fakin, no academic rendering. But hes only part of a much larger whole. The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology. Strange (not wei…
Searching & moving
33rpm, marbled off-white vinyl, in PVC wallet with insert. Hand-numbered limited edition of 100. Recorded at Studio Styrka, Johannishus 1989-1991. This is a release of analog sound experiments from old Sweden circa from electronic drone/noise masters Joachim Nordwall and Jan Svensson. Alvars Orkester was formed in 1987 in Johannishus, a small village in the southeast of Sweden by a group of young boys interested in the mysteries of psychic sickness, mental institutions, the industrial music cult…
Metacompound
Metacompound is the first full length studio album from ANP in 19 years. Lavish metallic ink on vellum packaging by ANP fan and Sunn O))) member Stephen O'Malley. .ANP was formed in 1984 by KK Null & Seijiro Murayama. In 1987 ANP broke up. 17 years later they reformed for some live performances and released the singular Live In Japan on Important Records. Metacompound, their first studio recordings in over 19 years, is as undescibable as Live In Japan was. Combining free jazz, heavy rock, indust…
ANP
ANP (Absolut Null Punkt) was originally formed in 1984 by KK.Null (before he started his progressive hardcore rock trio Zeni Geva) and Seijiro Murayama (founding drummer of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha). Live In Japan was recorded at dates between December and February 2003 in Osaka as well as Tokyo. The live setting is a perfect showcase for ANP's diverse inspirations and unique approach to creating music. An echoing chamber of stark,pummeling fusion is created by combining strong elements of free…