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Emilio Subira
2008-11-21 12:54:00 Pertaining to the art group ?000SICK Estudio?, founded in 2000 with the artist and musician Rafael Jurado, resides and works in Seville (Spain).Each human mind guards a back door in the deepst of its unfathomable mistery. All these doors open into the same dark and quiet back alley; previous to culture and even to ourselves, only self intuition sometimes gives us indications of its existence.Emilio Subira´s work is focused on the intuitive translation of the multiplicity that characterizes the reality in plastical terms from the perspective of a viewer plunged into ostracism, working like a satirical and critical filter. Links;Emilio SubiraEmilio Subira @ MySpaceCheck the Slide-Show from Emilio Subira Full Screen
Pocahaunted
2008-11-21 12:53:00 There's a working theory out there about Pocahaunted: either every record they've released is a concept album, or none of them are. There's good proof to support both camps. The truth, of course, might lie somewhere in between the two (if that's possible -- which it probably isn't), but Island Diamonds makes a stronger case for the former. The ladies' longstanding studio union with Eagle Rock guru Bobb Bruno has explored an array of terrains in the past, but their partnership on Diamonds transformed Pocahaunted into a way weirder, doper, and dancier creature than ever before, inspired in equal parts by Manda's obsession with Max Romeo tropical soul and bad acid jazz and Bethany's abiding love of mainstream rap and the Cocteau Twins (that sounds like it'd be a nightmare, right?). Naturally, the results don't really resemble any of the influences they may have attempted to channel during these sessions, but so what? Low-lidded drum machine beats, sparse guitar chimes, and th... More About: Music
Nebula
2008-11-21 12:51:00 Peel Sessions; Culled from 2 John Peel sessions and a Radio One Rick Show session recorded between 2002-2004. Featuring the line up that record the first 2 classic Nebula albums "To the Center" & "Charged" , these recordings demonstrate why Nebula were regarded as pioneers of the late90's/00's stoner rock scene.Los Angeles based trio **'Nebula'** , comprised of Eddie Glass (Guitar/Vocals), English geezer Tom Davies (Bass/Vocals) & Rob Oswald (Drums). ........It all started when Eddie Glass & Neil Blender were making weird 4 track music ,,Alien Workshops' first video.... Eddie then went on to drum for **'Olivelawn'** ........ later Eddie played lead guitar with **'Fu Manchu'** , writing some of the songs and playing lead guitar on the first three albums.^....... **In 1997 Eddie Glass and Ruben Romano started** Nebula**.......... Guitars, Drums, Moogs, Sitars, psychedelics electric guitars,shredding drums... ***Nebula.*** Tom Davies crossed the Atlantic in the summer of 2004 ... More About: Music
Tribute to Syd Barrett
2008-11-19 17:28:00 It didn?t take long for a tribute album to surface following the death of Pink Floyd mastermind Syd Barrett . The groovy part is Like Black Holes in the Sky: The Tribute to Syd Barrett avoids gimmickry with an all-underground roster of metal, prog and sludge bands.Syd Barrett?s spacegrassy Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a building block for future stoner, doom and tech metal practitioners. As testimony to the Pink Floyd album?s pioneering spirit, Like Black Holes in the Sky: The Tribute to Syd Barrett hoists six Piper cuts in addition to seven of Barrett?s solo tunes, largely represented by The Madcap Laughs.Instead of obvious candidates like Queens of the Stone Age on this thing, you get Jesu, Yakuza, Intronaut, Zodiak, Stinking Lizaveta, Unearthly Trance and Kylesa as well as the mighty Pentagram, all likely nominees to do Syd Barrett?s frequently off-kilter music justice.Jarboe and Giant Squid capture the sheer lunacy of Barrett?s quizzical music on ?Late Night? and ?Octopus? respe... More About: Music
Circle
2008-11-19 17:27:00 Circle: No beginning and no end, and when you think you?ve come upon the conclusion you?re back at the start. Perhaps this describes Circle?s compositional work ethic more than anything. Circle is a west coast rock band, the west coast of Finland, that is. They live in a city called Pori, further north than the capital, Helsinki, and Stockholm, Sweden to the east. With a large student population, and its own jazz festival, Pori also is home to Finland?s most visible underground rock band, Circle.Their latest in a long line of innovative recordings, Hollywood, lists them as a "new exciting band from Finland." To most people, this is true enough, but to those paying attention, Circle has been making some of the most original modern rock music since the beginning of the ?90s. Formed by bassist/guitarist/vocalist/creative wildman Jussi Lehtisalo, the group has been on an endless journey of musical exploration since they began. Besides being consummate players, the band are avid music co... More About: Music , Circle
Atavist / Nadja
2008-11-19 17:26:00 Points at Infinity is the second collaboration between the UK?s most infamous doom/sludge metal band, Atavist, and the most prolific and respected act in experimental/drone/doom/ambient music today, Nadja .The first collaboration, titled 12012291920/1414101 and released last year through Invada Records (owned by Portishead main songwriter Geoff Barrow), was merely an experiment?one that was actually initiated by Profound Lore Records. This second collaboration presents a sound picture with significantly more substance and depth; while still experimental in nature, Points at Infinity exemplifies growth and expansion by both of these enigmatic bands.PRAISE FOR 12012291920/1414101:?This collaboration between the UK?s Atavist and Canadian doom mongers Nadja is a rare old treat. Across two lengthy pieces, the bands square up to deliver a disc?s worth of bottom-heavy sludge and floating drones. Far from being a cold-hearted excursion into dark metal, the resultant pieces are a surprisingly... More About: Music
Black Time
2008-11-17 17:19:00 London's Black Time have carved a hefty reputation for themselves over the past few years through scattered tours across Europe and the US, numerous limited-edition 7-inch records, two dense yet danceable long-player albums, and a manifesto that, among other things, espouses "fuck and rage" and the "heavy vampire sound." Double Negative is the latest full-length in the Black Time canon. Fans of the band's previous output will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear the fractured, art-damaged scree of their singles forged with the trebly garage punk of their two albums. The trio of Lemmy Caution, Janie Too Bad, and Mr. Stix outdo themselves here and turn in the most fully realized Black Time release to date. If you've been aching for Messthetics and Back From The Grave compilations, then look no further. Double Negative is the absinthe you've been wanting to drink. Known for their propensity for all things black, Black Time carries their theme of bleak darkness to th... More About: Music
Les Anges
2008-11-17 17:18:00 Les Anges raised from the ashes of Hulk & Fifty Foot Combo , two well known, much loved rock'n roll bands from Belgium. Having previously been regulars of the Dutch, Belgian, French and German rock scene, the four members of Les Anges have been tearing up the scene since forming in January 2007, having played hundreds venues across Europe. With the release of their first album "A Deep Grave as a Shelter" in April 2007, Les Anges have since graced stages at festivals such as Dour and have shared the stage with bands such as the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Dandy Warhols and The Egales of Death Metal. With the sexy sounds of Sandra's keyboards, the charisma & charm of Renaud's guitar rocking, the hot & heavy bass lines of Matthieu and the 70's rythmic beating of Giacomo's drums all makes for a rock'n roll orgasm. Staying true to their rock roots, their live performances are high energy, electric, charismatic and definantly not to be missed. Look out for Les Anges first album... More About: Music
Zak Riles
2008-11-16 12:19:00 Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites.Like his band Grails, Zak Riles solo work is an elaborate mansion built of inspiration but with so much strength and originality that it stands firmly on its own. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar,Deuter, Popol Vuh and the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the likes of Grails & James Blackshaw.Info stolen from; Important Records Links;Zak Riles - Zak RilesZak Riles @ MySpaceGrailsImportant RecordsNorman Records More About: Music
Gown
2008-11-15 10:45:00 Released january 28, 2008. gown (aka andrew macgregor and otherwise known as one-half of the bark haze with thurston moore) moved from western wassachusetts to nova scotia in mid-2007. before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old mass times. with that goal in mind, gown went into the studio with the sunburned hand of the man gang (represented this time out by john moloney, sarah o'shea, ron schneiderman and taylor richardson) to melt some audio consoles. for the maples represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it's some massive stuff. sunburned's thick funk presents the perfect background for gown's shredding guitar-play. extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "bending close." click HERE for a downloadable preview, "taylor's jam."as per the three lobed standard, for the maples is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. it is housed within silkscreened jackets (screen work by alan sherry / SIWA) bearing new artwork by g... More About: Music , Gown
Karl Persson
2008-11-15 10:34:00 My intellect doesn?t come into play when I am channeling something subconsciously. There is plenty of time for interpretation after a painting is finished. Whenever I look at my finished paintings it is like analysing a dream ? deciphering my personal symbolic language. Although there is obviously some calculated thought behind things like compositional aesthetics, I still try to keep these decisions relatively instinctive. I find this approach far more fulfilling than when I have injected some preconceived concept into an image, which has often consequently become either stale or too obvious. Links;Karl PerssonKarl Persson @ MySpaceCheck the Karl Persson Slide Show
Eighteen Wheels Burning
2008-11-14 13:01:00 For those missing The Want, Eighteen Wheels Burning might be just what you need. After all, Eighteen Wheels Burning has Jeff Mackey and Adam Valk, the bassist and guitarst (respectively) from that classic underground band. You won?t get an exact replica of The Want?s Zeppelin-like rock, but Eighteen Wheels Burning follow the same rough template ? classic rock revisited."ArzgarthInfo stolen from; Arzgarth Stonerrock.com "Bringing the power trio into the 21st century, Eighteen Wheels Burning rolls over you like a ten ton rig! Tripped out guitars, a pounding rhythm section, sonic vocals and featuring ex-members of The Want (Southern Lord), "Tweak'd Out, Strung Up & Redlined" is set to establish Eighteen Wheels Burning as one of the premier bands on the stoner rock scene."Links;Eighteen Wheels Burning - Tweak'd Out Strung Up & RedlinedEighteen Wheels Burning @ MySpaceEighteen Wheels BurningMeteorCityAllThatIsHeavy More About: Music
Suishou No Fune
2008-11-13 17:26:00 New album "Where The Spirits Are" of Suishou no Fune by label Holy Mountain of American San Francisco started sale now.Suishou no Fune's excellent new album, "Where the Spirits Are," will also be in stores on March 28, 2006. They are yet another astonishing example of Tokyo's rich tradition of producing dark, avant-garde psychedelic rock groups.Holy MountainFormed in 1999 as a duo of female guitarist Pirako Kurenai and male guitarist Kageo, Suishou no Fune have been making some of the most charmingly chaotic dream music coming out of Japan. Their sound contains subcutaneous elements of no-wave energy mixed with psychedelic rock a la early Fushitsusha or Kousokuya. Other songs approach balladry with oddly beautiful twinned vocals and distorted guitars. They have performed around Tokyo with a list of people who could succinctly be described as everybody and were even invited to play Scotland's Weekend festival in 2005.Midheaven U.S.ABrand new album from the best post Fushitsusha/Ra... More About: Music
Robert Morris
2008-11-12 20:11:00 Robert Morris has a bachelor's degree in fine art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Since 1998, he's made New York City his home. He has built a reputation of creating stunning imagery through a variety of media including ink, scratchboard, airbrush, sculpture, photography, music, web sites, print design, motion graphics, 3D, video, and digital compositing. His work generally has a darker edge to it, and pushes the limits of what is possible with any given medium. Since working as a full-time freelance compositor, his work has been highly praised in publications such as Fangoria, Creativity, Digit, and Cthulhu Sex Magazine. During his career, Robert has had the pleasure of working closely with talent such as Android Lust, The Birthday Massacre, Kittie, and Dan Ouellette.Robert has a passion for subway decay, the smell of burning electricity, fall evenings in the city, good white wine, soft black puppies, medical illustrations, slow foreign films, natural history museums... More About: Robert
Hebosagil
2008-11-12 17:36:00 Armed with ruthless determination, nihilistic wit and a bunch of super-sludgy gargantuan grooves, Hebosagil is up to set the world in flames.Around these parts we tend to quote press statements/torrent of words to point fingers and piss reality based A.I.D.S all over them. Or simply because we cannot think up a proper intro, as is the case here. I still piss on you, but this time not the assertion, a snappy snippet, believe it or not, giving you, the potential listener, a rather excellent impression of what to expect.Quite impressive, I know, and likewise so is the fact that ?Colossal? is named so for a reason, a title not pulled out of an ass for a change. At first, however, that being before I adjusted the bass, it was all too colossal, coming across as a distorted mess made for the sake of melting amps and setting speakers on fire.A bit of fiddling and a couple of listens later and I have more or less fallen in love with the album and its massive grooves interlaced with tons of f... More About: Music
Expo '70 / Be Invisible Now!
2008-11-11 17:58:00 Latest from Aquarius Records faves Expo '70, masters of modern krautdrone, every record another chapter in their expanding sonic history of the universe, a tale in sound, of suns and planets, of drifting in space, of galaxies expanding, of stars dying, of black holes, and endless expanses, of timelessness and infinity.Two tracks, each a slow building epic, the first rife with deep chordal swells, simple strummed acoustic guitars, crumbling distorted leads, mournful melancholy melodies, distant streaks of feedback, abstract whir and deep minimal rumble, a gorgeous slab of outer space drone folk, like a more spaced out kraut version of Kiss The Anus, or like a new weird America Santana fused with Hawkwind at their most acoustic and blissed out. The second track is a much dronier affair, a spaced out soundscape of rumbling, buzzing, shimmering synths, layered and textured, rhythmic and hypnotic. Like Tangerine Dream or Popol Vuh, but much darker and buzzier, but just as blissy and spa... More About: Music , Invisible
Nachtmystium
2008-11-10 18:11:00 Man, if Instinct: Decay blew your mind this new offering by Chicago?s finest will absolutely shatter your brain into tiny little microscopic pieces. It is that good and much more. Like many intrepid artists with a cracked open mind before him, leadman Blake Judd had already been messing about with psychedelics in Instinct: Decay. He added the sounds to an already charged up and loaded gamut of guitars, frosty vocals and battalion drums ending up with one of the most unique sounding and potent experimental black metal records ever. In Assassins, Judd, banks on it (psychedelics) even more. Evidently, Blake was aware that in order to take Nachtmystium to the next level he could not rely only on his talent alone. So he?s knocked on all the right doors, recruited Tony Laureano (Angelcorpse, Nile Dimmu Borgir) to play the drums and then enlisted knob twiddling master Parker Sanford (minsk, Yakuza, Rwake, Pelican) to not only produce Assassins but to participate creatively and join the ... More About: Music
Danava
2008-11-09 12:50:00 Because they're on Kemado-- or, rather, because Kemado is forever linked to the Invaders comp that crystallized the hipster metal thing in 2006-- it's tough to talk about Danava without tossing around comparisons to the Swords and Saviours of the world. Certainly, there was enough Blue Cheer riffing and 1960s gloom on the band's self-titled debut to cast them as convincing nu-stoner attachés. But when their beefier brethren straight-copped Tony Iommi doom and dingy Horsemen thrash, these Portland space cadets were accentuating druggy astro-rock with slightly more obscure cues. Think Hawkwind instead of High on Fire, Magma rather than Maiden.But the wire-crossing of prog, glam, and academic metal only worked in spells in '06. They peaked early on the UFO dragstrip ride of Invaders stand-out "By the Mark", but Danava never really found a comfortable or convincing step afterwards. No-frills freakouts seemed a bit too dead-eyed, the big art-psych foibles seemed unsure, and the in-be... More About: Music
Rwake
2008-11-08 13:02:00 Rwake-- pronounced most commonly as "wake"-- are a quickly ascending, badass modern doom crew from Little Rock, Arkansas. "Modern" being the operative word: They may be warmly relaxing in chthonic, sludgy sounds but what wrestles in the plastic grooves of their fourth full-length, Voices of Omens, is nothing less than ingenious, forward-thinking metal.It'd be lazy to call them doom; that they are, but their nimble-fingered heaviness reveals something far from one-dimensional-- definitely not your typical "tune down to B, drone 'til you're free" doom conformists. The attack is three-pronged: One part south of the Mason-Dixon sludge à la bands like EyeHateGod and Crowbar; one part bleak and epic soundscaping in line with mid-period Neurosis and Mastodon's arching fretboard calisthenics; and one part classic funereal doom in homage to the mighty Sabbath-revisionists Trouble and the underground snail crawl brutality of Grief. To assist the ominousness of the adroit dual guitars, hau... More About: Music
The Glasspack
2008-11-08 12:37:00 The Glasspack are Brett Holsclaw - Drums, Zach Dorsett - Bass, Andy Garrett - Guitar, and Dave Johnson - Vocals & Guitar and Murphy - Security. Their place of habitation is Louisville KY; their music is hard & fast, loud & powerful. It is created and performed with passion and is filled with a raw energy that makes them stand out just as much as other bands who are ranked in this genre of music.I can hear an influence that sways towards early 70's Heavy Metal like Uriah Heap & Judas Priest, maybe Black Sabbath in certain songs, and I also can hear slight hints of later era bands such as Motorhead possibly, and in a way Monster Magnet could be mentioned. However after all these possibilities the bottom line is 'The Glasspack have a sound and style all of their own'. A sound that enfolds around you as you listen to it making you realise that there are still bands out there that can actually play Shit Kicking Heavy Rock and do it justice. The Glasspack to me are one of these bands.T... More About: Music
The Sword
2008-11-07 13:10:00 Hell to the Fuckin? to the Yeah: Two years on from the blistering Age Of Winters, Austin?s finest riff merchants return, hoisting a bejeweled goblet in salute to the fighting mastery of a long-lost race. (Since I can?t find any reference to Hyperzephyrians in my Oxford Encyclopedia Of Archaeology, we?re gonna assume they?ve only ever existed in singer/guitarist JD Cronise?s fevered brain. They sound like they were utterly badass, just the same.) People love to compare these cats to Black Sabbath, but ?Fire Lances? is more like early Metallica, what with the barked vocals, the choppy-yet-precise rhythm guitars and an impeccably lean song arrangement that somehow squeezes seven minutes? worth of full metal jack-off into a mere three and a half. Throw in some Maiden-style harmony leads, a gong, and at least one lyrical reference to wizards, and you?ve basically got yerself the feel-good hit of the week. Raise your fist and yell.Info stolen from; Paper Thin Walls Links;The Sword - Fire ... More About: Music
Negura Bunget
2008-11-06 17:33:00 Negurã Bunget's fourth full-length album is one I've awaited with a certain degree of apprehension. Having brought their unique brand of raw yet complex, melodic and spritual black metal to its zenith in the year 2000 with _Maiastru Sfetnic_, they then started to pull in several directions, integrating progressive and neo-folk touches with varying degrees of success. While 2003's _'n Crugu Bradului_ maintained the band's level of excellence, it did contain seemingly interminable ambient passages in its last movement. The _Inarborat Kosmos_ EP released last year went even further down that path, with some pretty awful vocal experimentation to boot.Although some evolution is necessary in all bands (except Darkthrone, where it is most unwelcome), I did find myself wishing the band would play to its strengths a little more. In Negurã Bunget's case I'm referring to the galloping blasts, the multilinear guitar fuzz and the howling vocals that mesh perfectly into grand crescendos ot... More About: Music
James Siena
2008-11-05 18:10:00 James Siena (b. 1957, California) received his BFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1979. Siena's work has been featured in of over 55 group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. The recipient of multiple honors and awards, James Siena has been awarded The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (1994), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1999), and an award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2000). Siena lectures and teaches at numerous institutions throughout the United States, including the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (1999, 2002); Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2000); School of Visual Arts, New York (2003); San Francisco Art Institute (2003); and the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH (2004.)Siena's work can be found in several public collections including: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum of Fine Art, Bo... More About: James
The Winchester Club
2008-11-05 17:37:00 Like a record store bulk-buying Napalm Death?s ?You Suffer? single (the shortest ?song? ever, clocking in at 1.36 seconds) the intitial reaction upon entering into The Winchester Club ?s ?Brittania Triumphant? may be one of feeling slightly short changed.Fear not though, for though it may consist of merely three tracks (Segments, for post-rock purists), luckily this album clocks in at around an hour long. A sprawling, instrumental, post-rock skyscraper that took seven years to make (the length of most scenester bands? careers), it saw The Club take in field recordings and sonic wig-out?s which could make most Shoegazer?s tremble. Laced with eerie, spoken-word snapshots they also partake in rolling out the sly trickery of making difficult structures and layers sound completely effortless. Low-slung riffs and relentless, downbeat drums soon pervade into trance-enducing, anti-pop territory . Think Godspeed You! Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth filming Mogwai in a dimly lit tower bloc... More About: Music
Greg Weeks
2008-11-04 17:01:00 Greg Weeks is the producer of (and co-songwriter and musician in) Philadelphia psych folk outfit Espers, and is due to release his brand new solo album "The Hive" on Wichita Recordings.In Greg's words"Frustrated with new methods and mindset in recording technology I threw up my hands and built my own analog recording studio. My last album, Blood Is Trouble (as well as the first Espers record) was recorded on a 1?2" 8 track machine. Eventually I was able to upgrade to an MCI 2" machine and professional recording console which have allowed for better sound quality and greater experimentation. Having a home studio has allowed me to record and produce albums at a comfortable pace consistent with my own levels of inspiration.Key to the album's sound was the acquisition of a vintage Mellotron keyboard. The Mellotron is doubtless my spirit animal in instrument form and is certainly one of the main inspirations behind The Hive. No other instrument conveys the characteristics of hive insec... More About: Music , Greg
Methadrone
2008-11-03 16:59:00 Methadrone is New Jersey-based Craig Pillard, and Sterility is his third album recorded under that name. Sterility brings us eight exquisite examples of the grungy and oppressive bass-heavy dronescapes, augmented by acoustic guitar and vocal elements, that Pillard has made the trademark of Methadrone. Never has doom and darkess been encapsulated so appealingly.Foreshadow ProductionsThe name Methadrone has been lurking around the periphery of my awareness for quite some while now, but this is the first time I have encountered their music. Being naturally attracted to the darker, dronier, ambient end of the spectrum, this shoehorns itself quite easily into that category, and appeals to me on so many levels. The music is anything but sterile. For starters, there?s the inherent simplicity: it?s not complex music when broken down into its constituent parts, but in combination equals something deep and shiver-inducing. Indeed, I would even go so far as to characterize this as symphonic, ... More About: Music
La Otracina
2008-11-02 09:30:00 La Otricina are a Brooklyn three piece who formed in 2003 and in the short time since have released an amazing number of CD-R discs on drummer/vocalist Adam Kriney?s own Colour Sound Recordings. Their full-length debut, 2007?s ?Total Eclipse Of The One?, appeared on the Holy Mountain label, while this year?s model, ?The Risk Of Gravitation?, is a return to the CD-R/CSR format. Part Comets On Fire, part early Hawkwind, and part Guru Guru-style krautrock, this limited edition disc is 32 minutes of spaced out psychedelic fuzz-rock.Opening track ?Walking With The Wild Walkers? is a suitably noisy way of setting the scene, sounding like a UFO landing on your corrugated iron roof. The alien gatecrashers inside are ready to party all night, mess with you head, and raid your beer fridge, while belting out tracks with titles like ?Incendiary Mind Delay ? and ?Behind The Ocular Curtain?. Evan Sobel?s humungous bass consistently refuses to take a back seat on ?Raze The Sky?, which features occ... More About: Music
Sabazius
2008-11-02 09:25:00 Sabazius formed in June 2006, with the intention of writing and recording Doom music. We released our self-titled debut album on 23/3/08 as a free download. Links to download the album are in our blog. The album is around 2 ½ hours in length, and consists of four tracks: Occult, Death's Eternal Sleep, Terror Is Thy Name, and XXIII. Our latest release is a song entitled ?The Song of Los?, which was exclusively recorded for the free Droning Earth XIII compilation. The links for this free download can be found in our blog too. We have other releases due out later on in 2008 through HeadToAvoid Recordings and Dead Pilot Records, and we are currently writing material for our second album. Sabazius was described on www.lastfm.de as: ?A really sick sounding act from the UK. Dirty production, no songs under 20 minutes in length, they sound like Electric Wizard on valium at times, they also succeed in making most Funeral Doom bands sound like Pig Destroyer in comparison. One of the penultim... More About: Music
Frank Lobdell
2008-10-31 19:17:00 Frank Lobdell is widely recognized as one of the premier post-war American abstract painters and a major player in American Abstract Expressionism. Despite considerable recognition in San Francisco and New York, Lobdell remains something of an enigma. He is known for working with a "monastic commitment" to the principles of creative intuition. Lobdell has always sought privacy, telling an interviewer in 1960, "being anonymous is really the best condition to be able to create."In more than 50 years of gallery and museum exhibits in San Francisco and New York, Lobdell has continually pushed his work, reinventing and recycling the ideas behind his imagery, keeping to his tenet that "the purpose of painting is always to go beyond what can be said in words".Lobdell has also long been admired by other artists for his figure drawings. In quality and freshness, Lobdell's drawings are considered by curators and critics to be the equal of those by his illustrious drawing companion, Richard D... More About: Frank
Sun Araw
More articles from this author:2008-10-31 16:51:00 The Phynx is an album that revels in a sense of mystery and imagination, from the cover picture of a blindfolded person sitting in a library ? what good are books if you can?t see? ? to the deliberately sparse information provided with the CD-R. Nothing more than the four song titles is offered to go on, but thankfully there are other sources of information that tell us that this is the debut solo outing of Cameron Stallones, guitarist for Magic Lantern.That band?s hypnotic repetition is echoed to some extent here. But where the full band has an approach, not surprisingly, rooted in some form of rock, Sun Araw takes on the goal of mesmerism in a more free-form way. More like drone?n?roll, these four songs bring to mind Total and Skullflower, with an obscurantist ritualism driving them all.Two 16-minute pieces bookend the set, with the shorter, more fully-formed songs sandwiched in-between. Like swampy rituals played out on a scuzzy factory floor, there?s a determined combination of ... More About: Music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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