New Arrivals 289: Absurd Exposition, Discreet Music, Drone Records, Erstwhile Records, Korm Plastics, Urashima and more
AE93: Cathar Perfect – Existence CS
An aural procession through the rolling solitary wilds of eastern shores.
Edition of 53 tapes, pro-dubbed. Sample at absurdexposition.bandcamp.com
AE94: Svartvit / awenydd CS
The Netherlands’ strongest heavy electronics projects joining forces, each offering relatively looser side-long tracks that lean more directly into harsh noise territory.
Edition of 103 tapes, pro-dubbed and housed in reversible foldout covers under j-card transparencies. No digital.
AE95: A Fail Association – Mirror | Meditation CS
At first it’s: What’s that? A lengthy R&B(?) sample on a decayed loop? Okay. This initial calmness is not something one would typically expect to hear on what is assumed to be a blistering harsh noise tape. Then, suddenly, it’s: A-ha, there it is. Sucked right into the wailing mess while the speakers play ping-pong with your dome. The sounds pile on like a raging storm in the sea. Colossal sounds like if whale calls matched the size and mammoth weight of the creatures. Like goliaths locked in battle. Waves crashing folkloric titans. Heavy, crushing, shrieking, crashing, breaking, bellowing. The personalized note within the j-card of the original private edition advises me to “play loud while breathing slowly”. Interesting words to follow, as the louder things get the harder it is to refrain oneself from entering into the thrashing with fists in the air, chairs to the ground, tables overturned, ready to do damage. And that’s only the first track. There are another 45 minutes to go. What a tape! AFA’s track on the RRR “Texas” compilation hits a sweet spot for me in terms of favourites, but “Mirror | Meditation” may very well be a crowning achievement for the project. And yet there it lay in a criminally limited edition of 15. The B-side is less of a titanic barroom brawl, but no less caustic. Broken up into four tracks that often lean into wall territory for several moments at a time (apt for the “Meditation” side of things), the ever-exploratory dynamism of the project is still maintained. This tape gives a lot in its ~61-minute runtime, and it’s heavy stuff all around. It was a determined find if you could. Something to be held onto it if you managed to obtain. Proudly out now in a more widely-available edition.
AE95. Edition of 103 tapes, pro-dubbed. No digital.
All three tapes available via screamandwrithe.com, the artists and other distributors soon.
Fowl / Skin / Zach Rowden / NYON photos from Friday’s show. Shadow Pattern performed in the dark.
Next up: Primitive Isolation Tactics will be playing with Worth, Pain Appendix, Jute, Taskmater and Frederick Maheux on May 23 at Batesmotel in Montreal.
Advanced tickets are now available for Initial Shock III!
Upcoming Events
6/13 – JHK / Valise / VOSP / Universal Cell Unlock (Error 403)
6/24 – Anju Singh: A Page of Madness (La Sala Rossa)
7/5-7/6 – Initial Shock III (La Sotterenea / P’Tit Ours)
New Arrivals
Absurd Exposition
- A Fail Association – Mirror | Meditation CS
- Cathar Perfect – Existence CS
- Svartvit / awenydd CS
Discreet Music
- Arv & Miljö LP
- Enhet För Fri Musik – Låt Oss Vada Genom All Ängslan Tillsammans LP
Drone Records
- Joe Colley – Acting As If 10”
Erstwhile Records
- Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet – Photographs 2CD
- Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet – The Breadwinner CD
- Keith Rowe / Graham Lambkin – Making A CD
- Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma II 2CD
- Kevin Drumm / Jason Lescalleet – Busman’s Holiday CD
- Kevin Drumm / Jason Lescalleet – The Abyss 2CD
- Lasse Marhaug / Jérôme Noetinger – Top CD
Korm Plastics
- America’s Greatest Noise! Book
- Just Glittering/Idwal Fisher: Complete Editions Book
Urashima
- Atrax Morgue – Mechanic Asphyxia LP
- Atrax Morgue – Negative Frequencies LP
- Dead Body Love / Atrax Morgue LP
- Incapacitants – Feedback Of N.M.S. 2LP
- Incapacitants – Repo LP
- Jason Crumer – Ottoman Black LP
- K2 – Burst After Burst (Early Recordings 1990-1996) 6CD Wooden Box
- Kranivm – Post Fata Resurgam 2CD
- Masonna – maso+onna=masonna LP
- Merzbow – Cloud Cock OO Grand 2LP
- Merzbow – Collection 001-010 10LP Wooden Box
- Merzbow – Mercurated 2LP
- Merzbow – Oersted 2LP
- The Rita – The Nylons Of Laura Antonelli 4CD Wooden Box
various
- Rear Window – A Nice Place To Visit CS
- Windscour – Live New York Montreal MMXXIV CS
- Windscour – Throes CS
- Zach Rowden – Limit Experience LP
Second Hand Arrivals
N/A
Upcoming Events
Playlist
Be Here To Love Me (Brown, 2004), Dragged Across Concrete (Zahler, 2018), Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007)
