Furthernoise issue June 2010
For your reading and listening pleasure, we have a hefty issue loaded with features and reviews on a diverse range of international noise makers. Our audio player is once again replenished with new sounds, so turn up the volume and enjoy !
“Something New: Moritz von Oswald Trio” (feature)
Vertical Ascent sees Moritz von Oswald return to the fray to conspire with fellow tech-vets, Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer. A hybrid of techno, dub and Fourth World fusion, the timbral density, low- and high-end science, and a certain recursion are remotely familiar from of old, with something new coming from a live performance element.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=335
feature by Alan Lockett
“Something Old: Monolake, Fluxion” (feature)
The 15th year of Monolake was inaugurated with Silence. Robert Henke’s latest evidences plenty still left in the creative tank. Something old, renewed. The same cannot be said for lately returned once fellow-traveller, Fluxion, whose dub and tech-house infused Perfused gives off a less than fresh aroma. Something old, alas, gone blue.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=338
feature by Alan Lockett
“21st Century Preparation Man” (review)
Eric Glick Rieman’s prepared Rhodes electric piano involves as much dismantling as insertion, with the insides spread across the performing space, not to mention electronic preparations. What sets Rieman’s music apart immediately are the mechanical noises and other native artifacts of the original instrument.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=340
review by Caleb Deupree
“Fear of Stranglers – Gail Priest” (review)
For some time now, Gail Priest has been exploring the timbre and elasticity of sound in a way that has become distinctly her own. Her new ep, Fear of Stranglers, is the next installment of this exploration, and takes her vocal and sonic manipulations to new levels of textural improvisation and processing.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=343
review by Roger Mills
“Flight of the Solstice Queens – Blue Sausage Infant” (review)
Washington DC based Blue Sausage Infant paints a dizzying array of sonic wash pulsing with color and Flight of the Solstice Queens does not fit neatly in any given sub-genre of drone, noise, or psyche rock.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=341
review by Derek Morton
“L Phantasm – Brown Wing Overdrive” (review)
New York extreme noise improvisers, Brown Wing Overdrive are back with another sonic assault with their new album L Phantasm. A “best of” collection from their haunted states circa 2006 and beyond, they describe it as a “prequel to all of BWO’s releases thus far.” Roger Mills investigates.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=342
review by Roger Mills
“Something Blue: Pop Ambient 2010″ (review)
Kompakt marks each year with an issue of drone and tone poems showcasing the best in neo-classical and ambient. Pop Ambient 2010, curated by Kompakt kommissar Wolfgang Voigt, coordinates the usual shades of blue from perennials Marsen Jules, Andrew Thomas, and Thomas Fehlmann, while Brock van Wey makes a PA debut.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=339
review by Alan Lockett
“Something Borrowed: Dettman, Van Hoesen” (review)
Berlin’s Marcel Dettmann, pre-eminent post-mnml practitioner, delivers his debut, Dettman, which, for all its veneer, is deep in debt to classic techno. Fellow-traveller Belgian producer Peter van Hoesen’s solution to “Techno: the LP Problem” is to tinker with tempo and texture, his Entropic City relieved by cranked down bpms and grit spray.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=334
review by Alan Lockett
Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise
