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Crippled Rosebud Binding Music Fellowship LPDOUBLCRIP 2xLP £15.99 Much anticipated hook-up between these three trans-Atlantic monsters. One-side each and then a third monster inter-band jam. Leopards side is a classic haunt, with wraiths of hovering drone peaking in eye-rolling vocal confusion, while the Mouthus track is a fabulous punk trouncing of fuzz-impacted guitar and clattering electrified skin. Sunroof! jams are the real highlight though, especially the doofily-named “Cortez Tha Killa” that features Matthew Bower on repeat-riff nirvana while Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra lets his wrist fly with some of the most insane and righteously piloted post-Young acid delirium of anyone’s career. Too fucking much. Final big-band side presents a beautiful void of spooked eternity, with shadow forms moving in and out of earshot like so much hallucinatory cumulus. Comes in a full-colour gatefold sleeve, already sold-out at source, so move it. |
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Strands Formerly Braided Music Fellowship MF-015 CD £7.99 New split CD from these three avant-folk units, with the Spiderwebs duo of Tom Carter and Sandy Ewen casting shadows of sculpted E-bow, Mike Tamburo and Matthew McDowell navigate electric-acoustic space and the always-killing Keenan Lawler plays hypnotic steel string Americana beamed straight from his own personal universe. |
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Monolith: Jupiter Music Fellowship MF-39 One-Sided Pic Disc LP + CD £14.99 Wild pairing of two improvised/destructo units – Bark Haze (aka Andrew MacGregor of Gown and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth) and Traum (Ben Hall of Graveyards and Zac Davis of Lambsbread). The deal is that both groups contribute a bunch of tracks without hearing what the other has done and then both recordings are cut onto the same side of an LP on top of each other. With each group hard-panned to the left and right channels you have the option of either listening to one of the performances by adjusting your stereo panning or leaving it right in the middle and hearing both groups simultaneously. The Bark Haze tracks – including a title, “Lou Reed Is A Creep”, lifted straight from The Dictators – are some of their most minimal drone-based moves, with thrumming electric guitar submerged in feedback and low-end violence. The Traum pieces are more spacious post Bailey/Oxley styled improvisations that veer into the more barbarous early Royal Trux style. Played together it makes for the kind of delirious headclash of Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz recording, with players seemingly responding to each other across time and space and the whole thing building to a beautifully confusing knot. Excellent. Bonus CD makes for a handy way of checking out the individual tracks for when you’re too wasted to pan. Edition of 500 copies, one-time only pressing. |
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The Islamic Bomb Music Fellowship MF-41 LP £15.99 New album from Seattle resident Reita Piecuch who builds massive fuzz-saturated keyboard/radio/tape/piano assemblages that dissolve into wraiths of melancholic tone with all of the revenant force of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops or Matthew Bower’s Sunroof/Hototogisu. Dialing In have had a previous CD on Campbell Kneale’s Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and have collaborated with Herb Diamante (aka John Godbert of Vibracathedral Orchestra). Here she brings her ecstasy sound to overloaded loops of street noise, warped third world melodies, and twisted modal constructs assembled from nothing but lapping waves of fuzz, shortwave tones and murky F/X. The Islamic Bomb is constructed around field recordings made during a trip to Pakistan, cutting up calls to prayer and 78s of popular music with harmonium and piano. Jade green vinyl, edition of 500 copies. |
