ALDO BECCA [2011] WHNZ:30:DYSTO

Aldo Becca - Dysto

I can't say much about this work because I think it has nothing to do with words. I think that it really proclaims something contrary to the narrative field. This work tries to handle with some emergent and, I suppose dangerous things and objects. It can lead you to places where you'll simply forget that you can speak. Well, maybe it can't. Paralyzing strings smell with mist, guitar sounds cause air vibrations, crackled electronics reveal abstract signs and images around you.
Really confusing work. Take your stand.
You can listen and download the whole thing at WHNZ blog.

JD EMMANUEL - Ancient Minimal Meditations LP - Aguirre 2011

JD EMMANUEL - Ancient Minimal Meditations LP

This LP record is a re-issue of JD's cassette released an AMM.
What can I say? This is classic. Thin gracefully convoluted needles smoothly pierce the skin and inject some sweet mixture made of ripe aglint synth berries. The sound approaches slowly and in cold blood. However there is still a hint of a feeling gnawing at the back of my mind - why can't I predict the very next move? Incredibly thoughtful, pragmatic and at the same time elusive work.
Wanna become invisible? Grab this record from Aguirre.

Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant - split 12'' - Bathetic records 2011

Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant - split 12''

I have to admit that there are a few labels that I love most. And Bathetic is one of them for sure. I really love everything they do, each release, each new tape or record, each cover art. Their recent output - slit 12inch between Bitchin' Bajas and Faceplant is not an exemption. Each project delivers quite a different sound but both manage to converge to the similar conceptual lim. Bitchin' Bajas appear here as masters of fresh synth opuses. Deep engaging waves blow up stifling room and precipitate mind mutations. Faceplant (Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights) presents two fantastic orchestic songs. Both tracks drive me crazy: beatiful drums, juicy bass, unostentatious synth - everything is in right place and in right proportions. Really perfect release.
Absolute glee! One of the best records in 2011 so far.
Buy from Bathetic.

STAG HARE "Spirit Canoes" CD - Hands in the dark 2011

STAG HARE "Spirit Canoes" CD

Anticipating a vinyl release on Inner Islands we have now an opportunity to check out four new songs by amazing Stag Hare released on CD by Hand in the dark records. Hippie-style meditations open up with all their friendly atmosphere welcoming everyone to join the airy round dances. Lovely percussion, sheer blithesome guitars, transparent vocals and everlasting sounds of nature make their job and and make one forget oneself completely. Lovely, lovely work!
Buy from Hands in the dark.

The Philly Crawlers – Ethnic Pants - Already dead tapes and records 2011

The Philly Crawlers – Ethnic Pants CS

Ha, this is perfect. Howling guitars, summertime vocals, lo-fi confused drums and beautiful climactic synth unite under this caressing forgiving sky and make you send unfettered smiles to people around. And not because it's hilarious - it's not! - but because it's life-asserting, yeah. Music like this proclaims that everything is possible simply because one always gets what ane really wants like a stalker near the golden sphere. Music like this proclaims that one more attempt is always worth trying. Music like this -  proclaims.
Music like this tells you, See you tomorrow.
grab a cassette from Already dead tapes. 

Stellar Om Source, LRJ Martens & Ada Van Hoorenbeke – Aguirre records 2011

I want to thank Pieter for sending me 4 recent records released on his amazing label Aguirre records.

Stellar Om Source - Heartlands Suite LP

If I am not mistaken, this LP is a re-issue of a CD released some time ago by another one of my favorite labels Ruralfaune.  9 tracks - 9 pure synth compositions. Each following opus seems like a logical continuation of the previous one.  I’ve even got a feeling that it would be right if the album would somehow start over again after the last track has ended.  There is an obvious idea of loopback action stated in this work. Adroitly enweaved sound shows beautiful evenness and certain thaumaturgics usual for foundational stories.  Great stuff!

  

LRJ Martens & Ada Van Hoorenbeke - Eternal Landscapes LP

This record consists of two long pieces and reminds me of Takeshi Kitano films. Atavistic abstract flows collide with sounds of nature and create a substitutable reality of slow distilled  country-life. Mix of folklore and floristic ideas inaugurates a Young Conjurer of waterfalls and mountain-picks who controls tendinous substance of any relation. The sound perfectly describes a monotonous work or, even better, a process of telling beads. Very intense, tapping music.

Buy both LPs from Aguirre records. 

Jurgen Muller - Science Of The Sea LP - Digitalis 2011

Jurgen Muller - Science Of The Sea LP

This fantastic record was waiting for me too long.. At long last I've uploaded it into my player yesterday. And now I understand that I have to write about it, I have to talk to someone about it, I need to listen to someone talking about it. But there is only silence in my head, the silence that stops when I push the Start button again. It's too beautiful to call it beauty. It's too preterhuman to describe it in words. Just listen to it, OK?
You can get it from Digitalis' distributors and I think you can find a download link somewhere in the Web.