#sound collage

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Croatian Amor’s The World

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THE BODY TRAIL ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER [AGAIN, SEPT 2023]

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Deceit, This Heat (1981)

In two-and-a-bit records, This Heat contributed an astonishing amount to the histories of both rock and experimental music. Deceit saw the group more roundly attempt accessibility, though in actuality they simply more directly communicated their own anxieties. As such, not only is Deceit as agile a rock record as anything, prone to total and confounding transformation, but, in its jittery disquiet and thorough unease, it’s an unnervingly effective, angsty critical document of Cold War propaganda and 1980s consumerism, too.

Pick: ‘Paper Hats’

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Last release of this 2023: "Ritual de Brujería (EP)": LISTEN FREE DOWNLOAD FROM 5 ALTERNATIVE LINKS: - https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-de-brujer-a-ep-2023 - https://archive.org/details/ritual-brujeria-humanfobia-ep-2023 - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Humanfobia/ritual-de-brujer-i-a-ep - https://hearthis.at/humanfobia/set/2023-ritual-de-brujeria-ep/ - https://internetdaemon.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-de-brujer-a-ep [Vaporgoth, witchy electronic, dark dreamcore experimental] Enjoy it!!

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Tracklist:

WAX/TAPE 5 • !¡! find the answer ¡!¡ • EARDRUM • STICKY HELIX • HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE • WDFLYA • unending thoughts of everything and everyone • no longer • ¿?¿ floating point ?¿? • ↱MEMORIEs of friends, • memorieS OF PAIN,↲ • memories of no one. • Thank You, For The Octopus • HEARTEATER

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Metal Preyers - Shadow Swamps (Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2022)

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Matana Roberts — Coin Coin, Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)

Photo by Anna Niedermeier

This is the fifth album of a projected 12 in Matana Roberts’s Coin Coin series, named after a slave, later activist, Marie Thérèse Coincoin. As with previous volumes, Coincoin’s biography intermingles with folk tales, slave stories and songs, and discussions of the rich, often tragic, history of African Americans. Another element of the Coin Coin series is the relationship between past and present. In this case, the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the present mirrors the story of an illegal and fatal abortion conducted on one of Roberts’s ancestors. In the notes, she says,"I wanted to talk about this issue, but in a way where she gets some sense of liberation.” Rather than being shamed, as so many women currently are in the wake of the SCOTUS decision, in the lyrics Robert’s relative is described as, “electric, alive, spirited, fire, and free.”

Roberts is a versatile artist, a saxophonist and composer who not only works in musical contexts but in theater, fine arts, and poetry. The spoken word portions of Coin, Coin Chapter Five are performed by Roberts and poet Gitnajali Jain. The balance of spoken word and music is well-conceived. The music itself is performed by a host of prominent musicians and produced by Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio). Roberts covers a number of instruments in addition to saxophone, Darius Jones plays alto saxophone, Matt Lavelle, clarinet and trumpet, Mazz Swift, violin, Stuart Bogie, clarinet and bass clarinet, and Mike Pride and Ryan Sawyer play drums and percussion. Pretty much all the performers play tin whistles and sing.

Free jazz is an important component of Robert’s music-making, and it is here in abundance on “Different Rings,” “Shake My Bones,”  and “Predestined Confessions.” The arrangements of these complex pieces are well wrought throughout. “A Caged Dance,” trades a gorgeous post-bop solo with dissonant interjections, providing a polystylistic framework. This is not unique to “A Caged Dance.” A number of pieces combine different idioms. Malone’s synthesizer and Pride and Sawyer’s rockist drumming move the piece outside the jazz tradition. The chorused vocals that sing rounds and the children’s folk song, “All the Pretty Horses,” create some of the most memorable music on the album.

The closing track, “Ain’t I … Your mystery is our history,” with its plethora of tin whistles and jangly percussion, recalls both avant-classical and African music. It is significant that Roberts returns to a bespoke instrumentation and non-Western sound world to send the piece home. Less than halfway through, the Coin Coin series is engaging and ever new. Seven more installments: one is eager to hear what is next.

Christian Carey

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Rinus Van ALEBEEK

"Don't talk at the Disco / Elvis, ein Volk"

(cassette. [self-released]. 2021? / rec. 2014/16) [NL]

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Just uploaded:

In this space 5 tape recorders are placed - each play a tape with sounds from the archives of Les Horribles Travailleurs. A space can be redefined. A presence can be realised. A fusion of sound and space.

9 oct 2023 Les Horribles Travailleurs

De ouwe van GInkel

Nieuwe Kade 2, Arnhem

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Pariah’s Here From Where We Are

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PLASTIC ANTIQUE ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER [AGAIN, SEPT 2023]

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Tying into the Runway video I recently posted: the Teddyblimp audio, a collage I made a long time ago.

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Tracklist:

Outside • Superman That • SS San Francisco • Footwork In A Forest Fire • Ground Zero • Smoke Don't Clear • Top Picks For You • Wild Wild West • Postpostpartum • Knees • Bye Storm

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Bonnie Baxter - Nocturnal Emissions from: Bonnie Baxter - Axis (Hausu Mountain, 2019)