Sorry, Swan Fungus super-fan Bennett, you were saying something about the Packers? I couldn't hear you over the sound of my Giants shredding your cheese-heads. Or was it the hush of the crowd at Lambeau. Oh well, whatever. It was one of those two things. You have to admit, the Giants played pretty solid football [...]
Loplop è il nome con cui il pittore surrealista Max Ernst chiamava il proprio alter ego pennuto, l'uomo-uccello che fa capolino all'interno di tanti suoi dipinti. Da sempre affine ad ogni forma di espressione in opposition (il suo stesso monicker deriva da un'opera di Kurt Shwitters ), il terrorista sonoro Merzbow ha scelto di intitolare proprio Lop Lop l'ultima fatica, in uscita il 3 Dicembre per Rustblade . Attivo fin dal 1979, Masami Akita ha contribuito a gettare le fondamenta del noise moderno, teorizzando un'estetica sonora estremamente [...]
"ALRIGHT...straight from some foreign country...MASONNNAAA!" With that, "A Serious Night Of Noise" begins. "Serious Night" is a compilation out on Statutory Tape, a sub-label of Massachusetts noise & experimental label RRRecords . Recorded live at the now-defunct Mama Kin Music Hall (named after Aerosmith's song of the same name by the band) 14 October 1996, the 2-cassette box set release has a pretty heavy set of contributers. Masonna, "Untitled (A1)" Masonna shares the A-side with Emil Beaulieau, aka Ron Lessard (founder of RRRecords), with a Beaulieau track and a [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Afuche, CHEER-ACCIDENT, Flogging Molly, Leftover Cuties, Soema Montenegro, My Morning Jacket and Richard Pinhas & Merzbow. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Sons da Casa #09 by Sonsmusica on Mixcloud Setlist: Ron Geesin/Roger Waters .Our Song. Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come .Night Of The Pigs. The Black Angels .Ronettes. Boris With Merzbow .Jane. Sonic Youth .Theme de Laetitia. Leigh, Geoff .April Snow. Nurse With Wound .April Snow. Origami Emergencyka .Space Friends. [...]
The below video collects the entirety of Napalm Death's seminal debut, Scum, and plays all the songs at once, right on top of one another. I saw it first at Invisible Oranges, where Cosmo Lee asserts that Napalm Death are now "semi-polished," but that "the mashup has a strange beauty." I don't mind telling, you, [...]
Despite the fact that Klatter comes off as a fairly low-key album for fans of either Boris or Merzbow, it is also a surprisingly rich one. There are many things that one expects when going into a release headed up by Boris and Merzbow, two of the most heralded and famous experimental names making music coming out of Japan. "Difficult", sure. "Noisy", absolutely. But...mellow? Really? Klatter, the new-but-old release from the ever difficult to pin down Boris and the sometimes too easy to pin down Merzbow was recorded in 2004, slated for release (but ultimately cancelled) in [...]
Justin Stivers has been super busy working on the Brain-Cave Festival (this Saturday @ Shea Stadium ), so Justin Gonzales of Pet Ghost Project sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? a: The first line of Facet Squared by Fugazi is always in my head. I love that album In On The Kill Taker . [...]
Boris' sixth collaboration with Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), entitled Klatter , was released last month as a limited edition vinyl pressing (ltd to 1,000 copies) on the Japanese label Daymare Recordings . This recording dates back to 2004 and this disc was apparently planned for release in 2007 through Troubleman Unlimited (with the rumored title of "Mellow Peak"). The five track disc contains re-recordings of two tracks from Boris' 2003 CD Akuma no Uta - "Akuma no Uta" and "Naki Kyoku" – a Jane cover (German prog/kraut-rock band) along with two previously unheard tracks. [...]
MP3: Boris with Merzbow - Akuma No Uta Four years later, the Boris / Merzbow collaboration originally known as "Mellow Peak" has been released. Two new songs, a Jane cover and two versions of tracks from Akuma No Uta, the track here is the title from that. Heavy.
One of the strongest figures in the history of Japanese noise music, and noise music internationally, is doing a special performance tonight in D.C. Masami Akita, stage name Merzbow, will play at La Maison Française with French guitarist and electronic rock musician Richard Pinhas. Merzbow's musical activity is one of exponential growth. Cuneiform Records , a Silver Spring record label that hosts an impressive assortment of local and international artists, calls Merzbow's career prolific, noting that he's released more than 250 albums. He's also executed unique collaborations with a handful of Japanese noise and rock bands. (His joint project [...]
A week of Pavement, four Ra Ra Riot shows and those aren't even the highlights for each night of the week! This is some week for live music fans in New York! I hope you have some earplugs and some room on your credit cards for all these shows! What will you be seeing??? Monday:... Read More
Liens et news de la semaine #24 Chaque jeudi, une sélection de ce qu'il ne fallait pas louper ces 7 derniers jours Rammellzee, que je découvre un peu trop tard, est décédé http://is.gd/damNq Björk travaille avec les Dirty Projectors, Olafur Arnarls et Antony http://is.gd/darus P4K va lancer Altered Zones, un collectif de blogs-défricheurs http://bit.ly/aXC1R8 "Echoes", nouvel extrait du prochain album des Klaxons http://is.gd/daozj [...]
It's sick and deadly the way Hiro Noodles shifts time, patching everything back together after having ripped it to shreds.
Merzbannon - "Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In" - Tizona Records This time my Album of the Week (#11, but who's counting?) is a face-razing record by Racebannon + Merzbow = Merzbannon (at least that's how I like to present the collaboration), a remix of Satan's Kickin Yr Dick In that takes the original blast point and makes a Hiroshima hole [...]
I once read an essay from Japanese noise artist Merzbow where he said noise is the pornography of music. I happen to agree. You wouldn't show friends your noise music collection just like you wouldn't show them your porn collection.With bands like Sunn O))) and Health getting immense amounts of press across the blogosphere, experimental and adventurous music is becoming more popular. However,
No offense, but does anyone else find it hard to trust metal websites whose titles don't include the actual word "metal?" Take AOL's Noisecreep. To me "noise" is what fills Merzbow's fifteen yearly albums; "creep" is a moanthem by poutypants Radiohead. But only petty jerks care about names (cough). Plus, Noisecreep scribe Carlos Ramirez is [...]
Otomo Yoshihide @ Turntable Music Night 6, Mart 2009 Turntable Music Night 6: Otomo Yoshihide from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo. Merzbow @ Experimenta Club Festival 2007 Merzbow @ Experimentaclub 07 from mediateletipos on Vimeo.
these ten songs. these ten songs are all perfect tumours and broken-teeth smiles and drunkdrunk women in shortshort skirts. they're like getting ripped and taking off all your clothes and running running running; listening, it's cracking an egg and finding a chicken fetus. it's blood and vomit and spunk and piss and shit. it's the sky falling. it's a house on fire with the family inside. it's the best worst orgasm of your goddam life. it's the sun the moon the earth. it's everything horrible and glorious [...]
The notion of a remix album is a strange one. First of all, what purpose do they serve - to provide intriguing reinterpretations of their catalog, or to throw a bone to fans hungry for a new album? Secondly, are remixes to be judged on their own merits as songs, or do they need to [...]
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