New honey-thick stew of electronics, phased vocals, long lines of human breath and strings tuned to the heavens from this always electrifying Finnish margin-walker, here joined by members of Vapaa. Limited.

New live working from the free NZ trio who levitated a whole bunch of beards with their last release on Metonymic. This one features Richard Whyte, Rick Jensen and Dean Brown live on 04/12/04 in Wellington, New Zealand and works blasted skeleton forms from low-level percussive shuffle, slow hurricanes of malformed tone, pitched wine glasses and saxophone squawk. Parts of this sound like a huge abandoned galleon being slowly blown to pieces by slow-motion tides. Fans of AMM, NNCK and even later Shadow Ring might well wanna smoke on these bones.

Major investigation of various occult topographical aspects of London from a duo of deep-listening Australians, Joel Stern (field recordings, manipulated objects, electronics) and Anthony Guerra (guitar and electronics). Guerra’s guitar embraces some beautifully mesmeric loops and microtone-laden bow-work while field recordings of birds and frozen autumn air situate the whole of the proceedings in some kind of reverse English capital. With titles like “Old Whitechapel Silence” this would work as the perfect zoned soundtrack to your next re-reading of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell. Recommended.

"The hyper-energetic Sam Hamilton is almost solely responsible for the currently booming Auckland experimental music scene, organising shows and festivals on what seems an almost daily basis. He is also no slouch in the performing arena himself, playing home made and/or deconstructed electronics and instruments to produce dense drones and evocative arpeggios... Chris O'Connor is for my money the most exciting and inspired drummer in New Zealand. A stalwart of the NZ improv and fire-music scenes he is also the only drummer I have ever witnessed pulling off a convincing drone performance- on drums! I could watch him play all night. 'Tidal Dee's and Harboured Dum's' is a soundtrack Hamilton and O'Connor created for the experimental feature film 'Anguish', by Tim Van Dammen. Featuring Hamilton on psyche guitar and electronics and O'Connor on drums it verges on Haino-esque territory as it takes one on a seat of the pants ride through the purplest realms of ecstatic rock." - PA

Massively damaged drums/guitar exchange from Antony Milton and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians/Gate et al). Dictaphone style fidelity masks pummelling no-count rock/roll moves that are as stupe as xNoBBQx and as fucked up as a phone-in contribution to No New York. “Debut release for this Stumps offshoot of Antony Milton (guitar) and James Kirk (drums). Extremely distorted psyche rock that sounds like members of The Dead C getting into a back alley fist fight with Mainliner outside some dodgy fishermans bar in Greenland. World weary vocals are buried somewhere in the mix below pummelling bass heavy riffage that sounds like its being sucked down into some black hole as the room mics implode. Short sharp tracks with about the same fidelity as one would expect from a circa 1980s cellphone. Gobsmacking.” – PA. Last copies.

Fantastic new album from New Zealand’s Antony Milton, part of a series of recordings made to reflect aspects of specific NZ topography. This one was recorded in Punakaiki, a small beach town on the wild and rugged South Island in 2006. Originally slated to come out on CD, this cassette release marks its first outing. Recorded over the space of one week, this is an album that really takes you *there*, combining sad elegiac drones recorded beneath open skies with oddly affecting field recordings made in the bush and on the shore and a series of hushed, fragile songs that summon the ghost of Alastair Galbraith as if it was recorded straight to Walkman by Andrew Chalk. A mesmerising set from Antony and a continuation of PA’s recent stunning form. 

New album from Anthony Milton’s Clay Man In The Well project, recorded during a series of practices for a show with the equally great Metal Rouge. Here Milton uses banjo, SK1, Monotron synth, vocals, pedals and mixer to evoke a blurry widescreen atmosphere that combines fast smears of almost orchestral detail over haunted wraithlike vocals and a constantly peaking atmosphere. Shaun describes it as having a Loveless-meets-Popol-Vuh style and that feels as close as you’re going to get to its dizzying devotional appeal. 

Cool new DVD from Pseudo Arcana that features a selection of films put together by Anthony Milton using raw footage culled from You Tube by using the search terms “historical New Zealand Super 8 film”. The resultant visuals have a distant memory vague appeal with a ton of surreal historical detail, airshows, folk festivals, landscapes... all combining in strange abstract forms while Hi-Asobi – the trio of Milton, Peter Wright and David Khan - generate power drones and eerie blues-inflected abstractions that add to overall dream/reverie feel. No region, all players compatible. Comes with a free digital download of the sonics.