basses frequences / experimedia / distant bombs Filed under: music stuff Tagged: basses frequences , drone , experimedia , lets hide under the house until they've gone , music , noise , peter wright
It has taken longer than ever this year to get the votes in from the vast team of writers who it takes to "maintain" this "site" in this "condition". Some would say that this is no doubt due to the jaw-dropping quality of 2009's releases necessitating spectacular quantities of chin-stroking and hair-tearing. Others would [...]

yawn..... the best (in no particular order): open strings : early virtuoso recordings from the middle east (honest jons) peter wright : snow blind (install) bassholes : and without a name (columbus discount) cheater slicks : bats in the dead trees [...]

another month, another two peter wright records and another chance to dust off polyphiloprogenitive, one of my favourite words. following on from snow blind, which frankly destroys and, in comparison, has blown every other record this year out the water (or at least to the side of the overly chlorinated pool), come these two within a month of each other. firstly the bowie quoting (though should it not be bride?) bright failing star. interesting that it comes from the most instrumentally satisfying side of mr jones' [...]
Sometimes a record comes along that is just so vast in terms of its scope and ambition that it jars up my cogs and completely prevents me from listening to anything else for weeks. Such a record is Peter Wright's Snowblind. I've been a fan of Wright for some time now; both live [...]
so, buncha new stuff fresh from farfaraway new zealand this month. firstly, the terrifying realisation we might be wrong 7" on dirty knobby. which is as existentially unsettling as the title suggests. even the cover, a bleary washed out photo of an old woman nightmare, stares menacingly at me from some grim elseworld. it's a wonderfully [...]
This night in King's Cross's confusingly ennobled Cross Kings was billed as a meeting between New Zealand and UK electro-acoustic improvisation, found sound and noise artists. In case that all sounded a bit serious, the Cross Kings website advertised the event as taking place in The Jester Bar downstairs. When I descended the steps I [...]