more found pics

This time around I scanned a couple of pictures that where lying there (I can' t remember where I got them). Enjoy!

Just me and ma dog baby...

Old school indeed

Don Haugen – angels with black wings CD-R)

Don Haugen hails from Eugene, Oregon, USA. I got a small parcel containing various trading goodies including this album. Upon the first listen I was pleasantly surprised. This is almost relaxing music. There`s four long tracks in here (total running time = 75.30 minutes, damn!!!). This is low-fi ,drony,  almost chill-out material. Every track evolves slowly, moves slowly, and slowly drifts like a subtle assemblage. It sounds like a mix between field recordings, ambient noise and ambient darkwave. A  peaceful, almost meditative mood, with a highly desolate atmosphere included. Feels like it`s  late at night and I`m caught inside a lifeless, empty factory. I`m slowly agonizing, my soul is freezing, will someone please help me. Feed me more, indeed. More information here:

http://www.obfuscatedrecords.com/ob/

feel free to also check out:

http://www.humanmonster.com/

https://www.facebook.com/don.haugen

http://www.seasonalaffect.com/

art is everywhere part 9

I recently received a small parcel containing a cassette and some zine, courtesy of Kurt Beaulieu himself. I will eventually review his tape, but first things first the art. Enjoy the show!!!

He also does his own little blog here:
http://sabineetsesamies2.blogspot.ca/
More information and downloads regarding his solo music/experimental noise project (Painful Defecation):
http://painfuldefecation.bandcamp.com/

art is everywhere part 8

I got this amazing piece of mail art the other day. It looks great. So I had to scan it and share it with the whole wide world. Here goes:
Do you prefer this side?

Or maybe this side?

Who knows for sure...

Trotsky`s Watercooler – gas money (CD-R)

Trotsky`s Watercooler is the solo noise project of mister Dan Reaves, from Orlando, Florida, USA. I like this album, it`s not harsh noise. It`s even relaxing at times. There`s six tracks and a grand total of 52.07 minutes of experimental noise. And here`s what it looks like:

1- is this thing on: low-fi frequencies (almost ambient noise) + various banging & grating = bringing me down the road to hell.

2- Mount Fuji eruption 1707: random percussions + banging + harsh distortion  (there`s something dark running in the background too).

3- happy birthday, your dying: percussions mixed with weird frequencies, providing almost musical qualities = noise techno maybe? Feels like slowed down and toned down and stoner version of  Pan Sonic..

4- for granpaw meeker (live at Austins, Winter Haven, Florida):  short light distortion \ frequency burst + grating \ scratching in the background = noise which melts in your mind not in your mouth.

5- untitled – untitled larvae cerebrum: there`s some type of dark synth line colliding with various noisy doodads = definitely meditative material here.

6- caetera desunt (rest is lost): a mashup \ a mix of various noisy stuff (distortion, phasers, what the fuck) = a chaotic infernal joyride indeed. I can`t wait to hear some more. More information here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trotskys-Watercooler/154854337868626

he`s soundcloud friendly too:

https://soundcloud.com/trotskys-watercooler

more postcards galore

Here's some scans of various postcard that where lying around here. There's lots of cool eye candy material indeed. Enjoy the show!!!

Two for the boys ;-)

For the Killing Joke fans out there...

9-Way Split (CD-R)

9-Way Split (CD-R)

I recently received a small parcel containing assorted weirdness like color collages, some CD-R`s, one DVD, a couple of good old analog tapes and some flyers. This album features nine noise \ shitnoise bands \ solo artist (limited edition of thirty copies, definitely rare material). I really enjoyed this release a lot. It doesn`t sound like your typical harsh wall of noise attack at all. Every one has a different style. Here`s a brief of what it sounds like:

1- Robert Deathrago – brutal head: processed voice \ mumblings (about tight asses & in the mood for some ass = various sexual nonsense) mixed with toy guitar and \ or electric guitar (sounds like a weird stop motion  atmospheric porn flick from the seventies).    

2- Dolan Hose – I`m finna: somebody`s pretending to sing here + light noisy chunky bits = sweet.

3- Dangerous Noise Tornado – noise assault: a mix of various chaotic low-fi metal \ plastic banging which creates a meditative mood and \ or feeling to this piece.

4- Crapshack – untitled: various loose, improvised metal grating & banging (I just love that stuff).

5- Kakapo- flounshit: various samples & field recordings & alien unrecognizable noise of unknown origin (sounds like a horror movie soundtrack indeed).

6- Brutal Pasture- live at lake mirror: harsh metal banging & low-fi noise sources = ouch me balls!!!

7- Frank Goshit – things; there`s some sparrow samples and lots of low-fi noodlings in the background near ambient noise material.

8- Chicken Thomas – harsh chicken shit noise wall with a fan: that`s  exactly what it is (enough said).

9- Susan Smith – chien: a male vox keeps repeating the word `chien` (dog in english) ad infinitum with some bell sounds mied for good measure = ritual music with dark undertones. (Lady Anthropophagus Unincorporated 2012)

Defiance Of Gothic Nirvana X Issue 34 (zine)

I got this one form the man himself Jeremy Bequette (an anti-technology, kinda weird but decent guy from the deep bowels of the underground). This is a 8.5 by 11 inches black and white, cut and paste zine. There`s a lot of shit happening inside those twenty pages. Let`s see, there`s some DVD reviews, a couple of gross porn pictures ( he probably likes them too), some, offensively funny music reviews (hey, I have a sick sense of humor, leave me alone and blame it on society), including Minimal Frank`s `wrecking havoc`cd, now that`s what I`m talking about. Next there`s some weird ass shorties like: sad decline of me \ brain power zero (gives you an idea of his mental state at the present time, shouldn`t have read it), trapped in east St.Louis (that`s funny indeed), polish Hitler fag, my first gig (nice), Dave Chapman tribute (good tribute), what the fuck is wrong with me \ no more women (and I taught I was a sick puppy, buddy you need serious help here), and finally, slave day \ turtle \ my cute cock (don`t want to know). I recommend this to folks which are open minded and not easily offended. Don`t forget that Jeremy is also `Satan`s God`( solo experimental masturbatory bass incantations and invocations, damn straight).

Jeremy Bequette

P.O. BOX 190, 

Belleville,

Illinois, 

USA,

62222

Hiroshima Yeah! #99 (May 2013) (zine)

Another fine  8.5 by 11 inches black and white, cut and paste, four pager publication. We have on the front page Mark`s amazingly realistic, sarcastic and melancholic  poetry i.e observations of daily life indeed.  Then there`s Gary Simmons ongoing serial about life in jail (1.5 years behind bars…). He should write a book about it too. Yes it`s that good. Next there`s some music, concerts and DVD reviews. Mark seems to enjoy Vic  Chesnutt`s music. I never heard about him before, think I`ll do some serious music investigation here. We close this little zine with `holiday  season `a short story courtesy of Mark Ritchie himself. A kinda weird ditty but then again this is Hiroshima Yeah! Not the New-Yorker. So sit down in your favorite chair, have a cold beer \ cider and enjoy the ride folks!!!                          

Contact here:

Mark Rithchie, 

94 Main Sreet, 

Forth, 

Lanarkshire,

ML11 8AB, 

UK.                          

Hiroshima Yeah! #98 (April 2013) (zine)

HY is a 8.5 by 11 inches black and white, cut and paste, five pages zine. I just can`t believe that Mark Ritchie publishes his zine every month. His poems are short and sweet. My favorite one is `pricks`. I can sorth of relate to that because I worked for nearly two years for a telemarketing company. Here`s what it sounds like:

Pricks

Working in a call centre

Sometimes makes you feel

Like a jaded old prostitute

You just get sick of dealing with

An endless succession of pricks

Beautiful ain`t it? Then we have 1.5 years behind bars (Gary Simmons writes about life in the inside i.e. in jail = wry observations indeed), some concerts & music reviews (including Minimal Frank`s – wrecking havoc CD, and how cool is that). There`s some DVD and also a book review as well. I highly recommend this small lil zine, damn straight brothers and sisters. Contact here:

Mark Rithchie, 

94 Main Sreet, 

Forth, 

Lanarkshire, 

ML11 8AB, 

UK.                           

GAR issue # 104

 The other day I received a parcel from Ross Priddle (here's his physical address: #402, 734 - 2nd Ave. NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 0E3, Canada). He gave me a copy of his incredible mail art zine: GAR# 104. I love this small zine so I couldn' t help myself and I decided to scan it so the whole wide world could enjoy this. Here goes, enjoy the show!!!

And look who's on the back cover. Good old me. Kinda nice, eh? Indeed brothers and sisters.

  

 You can also check out his blog here:
http://bentspoon.blogspot.ca/


And, as a trade, I sent Ross one of me little original drawings. Here's what it looks like: