Rolling Noise 2009

No rolling thread for this and there should be so that I don't have to miss a single great slab of feedback this year.

Speaking of which, did anyone hear this Heavy Afternoon Buzz thing Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) released last year. I got a download of it and holy shit does it blow his two official releases out of the water.

Noise stuff got assimilated into the psych/drone/freak thread last year, fwiw, but I don't recall if anyone got to talking about power electronics or whatever - it's all good by my reckoning

^ diagram A last saturday ^

on tour now with shallow waters

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/40/l_76a507dfb9314c5c867da21dbaa09e91.jpg

Can't say I agree with the Heavy Afternoon Buzz opinion. Eric Copeland rules but those two pieces just meander. No way it beats his official shit respectfully.

SRSLY?

But hey...let's talk about the new Emeralds. So good.

Yeah seriously. Maybe I'll revisit it? Hermaphrodite is fucking great! Did I spell that right?

Meander is a weird word to use, they plough straight forward, its a wonder they don't keep going forever, its like they're burning a hole to eternity! I really like the hiphoppiness of trashcan though yeah hermaphrodite is really beautiful. At the time I heard it I was having a weird phase of recording loads of shit on a minidisc which is how he made it, but my stuff always just sounded like... shit recorded on a minidisc.

You know a limited meander. Haha, I don't know. Yeah, I guess meander is a strange choice considering I think those two songs don't go anywhere. I'll listen again tonight.

Dirty/Birdies:

http://www.myspace.com/cobragroup

I was just thinking that we needed a thread like this! Thank u.

Not exactly noise or anything, but enjoying this Meczup guy. Sorta noisy ambient tape music in an IDM vein. Funny how this sorta stuff is starting to seem listenable again to me.

new Wolf Eyes out on Hospital

i also love Jason Crumer's latest album...and what else is new...tell me about it

Dilloway and Young both did excellent solo performances on their recent tour. Nate Young artfully tweaking and mending the tape players with little screwdrivers throughout.

Still need to get the latest Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase. Not sure about much else.

yeah saw them in Antwerp, Dilloway was awesome as EVER. I did find Young's performance a bit tepid. Stoner noise in full effect

Anyone else keeping up with the Merzbow series on Important Records, 13 Japanese Birds? It's really great stuff, lots of free jazz-sounding drums, varied analog textures and tones, static, white noise. Really really interesting to my ears, some of the best work he's done over the past 2-3 years or so.

New Bastard Noise album on Gravity is prolly my fave noise this year so far. Unless you count the Jana Winderen, which is maybe more "sound design"

Is this thread is strictly a power noise thing?

I like the stuff bein discussed here, glad the thread exists.

I mean is it strictly that, or is it just like the uglier end of the Drone/Freak thread? Sorry if I'm being a robot, I more or less get it by what's been discussed, just kinda ... am feeling like a robot I guess, lol.

Doesn't have to be uglier. Or even less hippy. Just noise. And there's even further overlap with Scott's new noisy/rad/atonal thread

speaking of which, i can't wait to write about the Rice Corpse album I got. on Dual Plover. Rice Corpse is two Chinese musicians on drums and piano and Aussie Lucas Abela. Lucas, if you've never heard him, plays an amplified shard of glass with his mouth. the album is nuts. like free jazz improv + bloody glass noise. partially funded by the Australian government, god bless them.

also gonna be writing about the new album that Jeff Surak sent me. Under his Violet name. *Violet - Violet Ray Gas And The Playback Singers*. just beautiful stuff. switches back and forth from drone/ambient to more straightforward noise. i love it. on Jeff's Zeromoon label.

I interviewed Lucas ages ago and he told me about his upcoming trip to China to do the Rice Corpse thing (pretty sure this is what he was talking about) - sounded great, might have to hit him up for a copy

can't believe the dude is still playing the glass. he must be starting to look like Jigsaw from the Punisher comics.

Does anyone know of any good blogs (preferably with .rar links) for this kinda stuff?

Here you go...

http://nonotfunnotno.blogspot.com/

http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/

http://averagemusicblog.blogspot.com/

http://sunflowerchakramilk.blogspot.com/

http://wehavenozen.blogspot.com/

I kiss you!

You're welcome. If you hit up the other blogs that these link to then you'll no doubt discover plenty more of a similar ilk.

yeah, I'm in the middle of that, seems like I haven't heard any knew noise stuff properly in so long, I was hoping this thread would get more conversation than it has until now, so don't be shy and educate me and I'll try and post any gems I manage to turn up myself.

this may be slightly off-topic as it's mostly older material:

http://433rpm.blogspot.com/

lots of cassettes, noise-y, but other stuff too.

http://noisenoisenoise.wordpress.com/

some stuff here

http://illwiththecomposition.blogspot.com/2009/07/ill-qa-jason-crumer.html

an interview with jason crumer, who is awesome

Best moment on any Noise release I have heard this year: The moment on Weed Me (Zack Stenger), when the sound of a REALLY FUCKING LOUD dialup connection pulls away to reveal a gently strumming guitar. I assume this is a hacked radio, some really striking bits in it and there's this thrilling feeling that they're all completely by chance! Nice, totes check out The One Day I Forgot to Bring My Blade, lots of nice squiggly hacked power electronics btw.

Been neglecting this thread, also been neglecting Hospital Productions, got reminded reading a review for the new Wolf Eyes, which I have yet to hear btw, but Grey Wolves - Catholic Priests Fuck Children is an A+ album title IMO and the album itself is faintly ridiculous fuzz, kinda nice, like the sound of a hangover a little.

Anyone got any tips for something like Yellow Swans - At All Ends btw?

What are people's least favorite trends/clichés in noise shows/records right now?

lying on the ground with pedals

No melody.

Pocohaunted.

someone did a 2cd ethnic acid anthology, that being difranco from skullflower and ax. and ax - nova feedback is totally amazing, also.

isn't the A band back together? or just reissueing stuff?

not sure that the A Band ever actually disbanded, just had different lineups w/out Youngs, Campbell etc - the most recent release i know of collects a couple of previously unreleased live shows from back in the day

acc. wikipedia Years active 1990–1994; 2007–present

They did a show a few weeks back in London. Couldn't make it, unfortunately.

Campbell sent me a few tapes with all those recordings a coupla years back, would love to see them one day

anyone listened to the new Wolf Eyes a lot yet? i haven't even unwrapped my copy yet, will have to do that this weekend but would love to hear some comments

I've listened to it once. A lot of clean, sorta decipherable lyrics this time around which I'm honestly not really feeling. Seems to lack the tension/release and natural ebb and flow that Human Animal and Burned Mind had which is kind of disappointing too. On first listen, I'd definitely rank it below those last two "big" releases. I'm looking forward to giving it some more time though.

hmm i would love a River Slaughter type release again though, which was kind of an awesome flowy thing

i thought they were doing that sorta thing live this time

steal money from your mom's purse and buy this asap. just soooooo rad. four discs of radness.

http://www.dicksondee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/SR265.jpg

that does look good, scott, but for those who are cash-poor at the moment but want to hear some of these sounds, i highly recommend a visit to this page on ubu.com . only 10 artists, i know, but they really are the cream of the chinese experimental crop.

scott, serendipity: i was given that 4 disc to review today. can't wait to dive in....after reading allthe liner notes, i am certain that my pleasure is guaranteed.

Is Torturing Nurse on that?

i would kill to be sent cds if all i had to do was write about them but i'm a horrible writer so they'd probably make me pay to do it anyway.

My local record store doesn't carry many new noise releases. Could you all recommend some good places I could go to / websites I could use to buy quality physical copies of new noise music, preferably CD's?

steal money from your mom's purse and buy this asap. just soooooo rad. four discs of radness.

Mamacita! That looks so tempting.

(Tell the multinational corporations to stop outsourcing experimental music.)

xp to kshighway

uh, forced exposure or somewhere, a lot of labels, esp. noise labels are kinda like boutique things where you can buy online direct, feel like more music is going back that way so its the route I prefer to go. try out troubleman, holy mountain i suppose are two of the big ones that are good for the online, load is mail order i think and I don't know how the hell you're supposed to buy stuff off hospital productions but they release a lot of super awesome stuff and I wld recommend them, but maybe sample first, they tend to be a bit on the heavy side. Uh, No Fun as well are great and Carlos Giffoni who is head of the label releases his stuff through them, his last album Adult Life was great and he gives me a major boner but, I'm not majorly knowledgable on this so someone else could prolly give u better advice

Thanks, I know, right?: I'm going to check out some online noise labels. :-)

I don't have the money for that whole Chinese Experimental box, but iTunes has the individual tracks for sale. I got the D!O!D!O!D, Li Jianhong, and Sun Dawei tracks. Love the first two; the Sun Dawei is nice but not totally my thing. Any standout tracks anyone could recommend me?

I haven't heard anything off it yet but a friend recommended checking out torturing nurse

speaking of chinese noise, rice corpse's mrs rice is A++++++

also the fma has two mrs rice outtakes available for download, "no penis" and "the imperial family reigns supreme pizza"

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/RiceCorpse/Mrs_Rice/

yeah! i love it. this is my best of the year list so far. some things belong on this thread and some don't:

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Subarachnoid Space - Eight Bells

Rice Corpse - Mrs. Rice Corpse

William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio

Violet - Violet Ray Gas And The Playback Singers

Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity

Sperm Whales/Color Rabbit - Split CD

Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy

Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music - Ornamentalism

Overmars - Born Again (American release/reissue)

Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bar - Asylum Lunaticum

Frank Vigroux & Matthew Bourne - Call Me Madame (Good News From Wonderland)

Vagusnerve - Lo Pan

Kreng - L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - UTP_

An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008

Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge

Gog - Mist From The Random More

Tim Olive - The Specialist

I was pleased to learn the name rice corpse comes from the chinese character for "shit", which is apparently a combination of the characters for rice and corpse

speaking of china again, check out the song "space decay" by the chinese group White. blixa produced their new album in berlin. wanna hear it. love this track:

http://www.myspace.com/whitebeijing

loving that white song

good blog imo:

http://goodnoisycore.blogspot.com/

I guess maybe not noise per se but fuk the newest Ben Frost album is awesome

Agreed. Scary stuff - there's bits that sound like something EVIL is trying to escape from your speakers. Seems pretty noisy to me.

ha that one freaked me out a bit tbh. but i guess that's good.

2 mins into Híbakúsja :D

favourite track of the yr i think. fukn dense

great show the other night at my store! in the basement. check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AN70-LCHeU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWwo1xYXHs8

scott! after watching those videos I went to ur shop's utube page, u have fucking amazing shows there!

golden serenades - hammond pops

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/3975557760_f9d06cdee4.jpg

good noisy noise from norway. i dig it. here's one of those distro/catalog blurbs about it:

John Hegre - electronics, Jørgen Træen - electronics, Sigbjørn Apeland - electronics. "After hard and insisting work to revitalise the art of instrument bashing Golden Serenades has turned towards newer hunting grounds: the Organ. The queen of instruments - or more specifically the instrument as it sounds in the hands of organ master Sigbjørn Apeland - is the starting point for GS´s sonic experiments on "Hammond Pops". The result is a drone piece of highest quality. Slowly deveolping, massive sound breaking in and out of the source material from the organ. Always moving towards the next peak, always pushing for a new colour in a sea of noise. This album ensures an intense sonic experience, delivered by some of the best ears in Norway."