Posts Tagged ‘drone’

Album of the day: Messages – After Before

Posted on Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Messages’ Taketo Shimada and Tres Warren have been playing together since 2006, exploring contemporary variations on the Drone formula pioneered by La Monte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music, Yoshi Wada and other Fluxus tone-worshippers. Shimada himself has some apparent connections to Manhattan’s avant forefathers, working with figures such as Henry Flynt and Alison Knowles.

Existing primarily as a live act over the years, Shimada and Warren (who is also a member of Psychic Ills) have jammed in lofts and at art shows around NYC, sculpting debilitating sound pieces from guitar, electronics and classical Indian instruments.

The focus for Messages’ debut, After Before, seeks to further elaborate on the more traditional side of minimalist drone music — a noble departure from the zonked pedal-fests that litter today’s experimental underground. Recorded in one session last August by Mitch Rackin, After Before consists of three jams, each named after the unique instrument used during the track: “Shruti Box,” “Tambura,” and “Ukelin.” They’re also accompanied by Spencer Herbst on percussion, who threads a tranquil pulse beneath the duo’s tones. The dynamic between the trio feels loose and elastic, lending the record an organic air.

Continue reading: Dusted Reviews: Messages – After Before.

Messages – “Tambura” (After Before)

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Album of the day: Nadja – Under The Jaguar Sun

Posted on Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Praise for Nadja’s Under The Jaguar Sun from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  Now on vinyl, the recent double album from prolific drone doom duo Nadja, each disc a whole record unto itself one crushing and heavy, the other blissed out and shimmery, but both records meant to be played together ...read more

Album of the day: Burning Star Core – Papercuts Theater

Posted on Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Praise for Burning Star Core’s Papercuts Theater from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: A new Burning Star Core record, but not exactly a NEW record, more like a NEW record made out of OLD records, as in 4 loooong tracks, assembled and edited from 66 live recordings from the years 1997-2008. ...read more

Album of the day: Black Boned Angel – The Witch Must Be Killed (vinyl)

Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010

Praise for Black Boned Angel‘s The Witch Must Be Killed from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Latest slab of sprawling outsider minimal ambient sludge doom drone from this (now) duo, fronted by none other than Campbell Kneale, he of Birchville Cat Motel and Our Love Will Destroy The World, but as ...read more

Aderlating: New EP Available For Download

Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Aderlating, the drone / horror soundtrack / noise sibling of Gnaw Their Tongues has made his new EP available for download. Dying of the Light is the follow up to Aderlating’s split CD-R with Defiler and you can check that out at the link below: Download: Dying of the Light ...read more

Album of the day: Necro Deathmort – This Beat Is Necrotronic

Posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Cyclic Defrost: Necro Deathmort are a London duo comprised of Matthew Rozeik and AJ Cookson, and this debut album release on Distraction This Beat Is Necrotronic apparently their first ‘proper’ record easily represents one of the most intriguing and unexpected genre collisions I’ve encountered over the past ...read more

Album of the day: Expo 70 – Sonic Messenger

Posted on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Lovingly stolen from SanFrancisco’s Aquarius Records: More epic and dense heart-of-the-sun blissed out heavy space drones from Expo 70. And the thing is, we’re running out of superlatives, we can only gush so much before we run out of new things to say, which is especially difficult when every record ...read more

Album of the day: Bong – Gilgamesh Lives

Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Lovingly stolen from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: The last missive from these drugged out UK doomlords, the criminally way-too-limited double cd-r Bethmoora, disappeared before most folks could grab one. Rumors of a repress have been going around, and we’ll of course grab as many as we can get when and ...read more

We Want Your Top 10 Albums Of The Decade

Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Update:  The votes are in, the points have been awarded and the math has been done. More than 150 of you have taken the time to forward your Top 10 list for the Roadburn Album of the Decade. Continue Reading (please note: the comment box down below is closed!) As ...read more

Album of the day: Opium Warlords – Live at Colonia Dignidad

Posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Aversionline.com: Live at Colonia Dignidad is the monstrous 77-minute debut album from the unusually peculiar Finnish act Opium Warlords, whose lone member, as far as I can tell, is Sami Albert Hynninen (who’s been in a shitload of other bands, though the only one I’ve ever heard ...read more

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