Wednesday 30 November 2016
Mon amour
Ah le contact humain
Quand on se prend par la main
Ton corps chaud contre le mien
Quand tu me jettes un regard langoureux
Quand tu te noies dans mes yeux bleus
Je suis à la fois comblé et heureux
Fier d`être ton homme, ton amoureux
Quand je te caresse le cou
Tu déposes délicatement ta main sur mes genoux
Toi et moi collé-collé
Sur l`édredon ou l`oreiller
Pour l`éternité
Nous sommes tous les deux des artistes
Ensemble notre vie n`est jamais triste
Nous vivons au diapason
De nos émotions et de notre passion
Un maelstrom, un tourbillon
De créativité
D`inventivité
Sur un fond de tendresse
De caresse
De sourires
De fous rires
J`ai jamais rencontré aucune femme comme toi
En l`amour tu m`as redonnée foi
Impossible de se quereller
On n`a jamais peur d`en discuter
On va finir par en rigoler
Ça va se terminer avec un doux baiser
À toi mon amour
De tous les jours
Pour toujours…
Friday 25 November 2016
Various – chill out (CD)
I got this as a gift
from an old friend of mine (thanks Alex). Appearances are often deceiving. With
a name like chill out you`re expecting ambient groves, maybe some light
techno perhaps. Not. You will hear music from the likes of Airlock, Pomassi,
Aube, Panacea, Bannlust, FMSSJL, DJ Pure, Alois
Huber, I-F, Epy, Fennesz, Ryoji Ikeda and Otraslab.
You will hear a good dose on non-commercial music styles: minimal drones,
ambient noise, slowly moving / mutating high pitch tones (with some beats near
the end), gabber noise (an aggression of tightly sequenced noisy sounds),
experimental alien noise, drone + lo-fi samples + rhythmic elements (meditative
music) , lo-fi experimental noise manipulations, minimal ambience, minimal drum
& bass, noisy electronics and slowly shifting minimal drones. An amazing
compilation of great sounds. More info here: http://www.sabotage.at/
Boy + Girl – facsimile face paint (CD)
Another trade item. By
+ Girl are a noisegrind band formed in 2005 (they disbanded mid-2011, and
reformed mid-2012). This CD came in 2008, on `The Saint Petersburg Institute
of noise `record label (s.p.i.n.). The album is short in
length (8 tracks = 20.08 minutes). I`m impressed this band blends noise,
electronics, industrial and abstract electronics perfectly. It sounds like an
unlikely jam session between Nitzer Ebb, Bourbonese Qualk with
some glimpses of Merzbow here and there. Interesting. I like this
recording a lot. Standout tracks of the moment are
1 – Untitled
(3.18) = a subtle collision of lo-fi grating / grinding frequencies (could
noise be relaxing? It sure sounds like it).
2 – Untitled (4.02)
= industrial noise drones with beats (strangely meditative to say the least).
An album of pure INM (intelligent noise music).
Hiroshima Yeah! # 140 – October 2016 (zine)
On the front cover
there`s a picture of David Crosby (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
need I say more). Then we`re greeted with poetry and `the disappearing
dreams of yesterday `. My favorite pieces of the moment are:
Others
There are others
Like me.
I see them
In the pubs,
Sitting alone,
Shunning contact,
Serious expressions
On their faces,
Poisoned
By the laughter.
And
The smaller
The more people you
know,
The smaller a place becomes.
Which is not always a
good thing.
Man I love this stuff
good old Bukowski would be proud. Next in line we`re treated with `13.billion
years of hell `. Gary Simmons writes his own music reviews. Kudos to
Sonic Youth – spinhead sessions` LP (good stuff). There`s also some
book, music and DVD reviews. Mark Ritchie writes `steak and chips
` (a nicely warped short story). We conclude things with a nice selection of
black & white sketchbook drawings. You want some come get some just about
here: donbirnam@hotmail.com
Hiroshima Yeah! # 139 – September 2016 (zine)
I got sick during my yearly three-
week vacation. I was out for five weeks and just came back home recently. I`m
terribly late in my mail and email. I found in my mailbox a parcel from Mark
Ritchie. Hiroshima Yeah! Is one of my favorites black &
white, cut & paste, photocopied monthly five pager zines out there. Along
with Node Pajomo that`s why I keep doing this. They both inspire me. Now
we begin with the cover star Robert Morley (a British actor 1908-1992).
Then we have poetry `a barman who always understands`. Standout
poems this time around are:
Customer service
She throws me my ticket and change,
Doesn`t smile or look at me,
Continues talking to her workmate,
The whole time.
And I wonder, is this the
Excellent customer service skills`
You hear so much about
In the job ads?
And
Simpler, better
The libraries are so much quieter
When the computers don`t work,
Reminding me of a simpler,
Better world.
Simply amazing. There`s some music
and book reviews. We have a couple of contributions from the likes of Gary
Simmons (a monthly, schizophrenic, out there column) and Doctor Thornaby
(a strange monthly epic serial). We end this zine with a short story `Numbers`,
from Mark Ritchie. Contact: donbirnam@hotmail.com
Sunday 13 November 2016
Brutal Pasture – acupuncture (CD)
I got this one as a trade. There`s no email, no contact address,
no website, no information. Nada. I do a little research. Turns out this is one
of the numerous projects from Dylan Hauser (Hell Garbage). The
album consists of one long untitled track (34.27 minutes). It`s an evolving
piece of lo-fi experimental noise with some nice grinding / grating going on
(noise drones anyone?). This track is relaxing (for me) and has some meditative
qualities. Good background noise music. I`m lucky to own this. Check it out; http://www.ishitnoise.com/wiki/index.php?title=HELL_GARBAGE
Lustmord – the monstrous soul (CD)
This is Lustmord`s fifth album, it came out on side
effect in 1992. I got this CD as a gift. Which is a good thing because this
album`s sold-out. There`s five tracks in here (53.54 minutes). I recommend
hearing this with headphones on and with the volume full blast. It is a scary,
bumpy ride, but well worth the effort. Recommended for fans of the late and
great H P Lovecraft (if you`re into movies such as The Exorcist
and Rosemary`s baby you will dig this). Here`s a brief rundown.
1 – Ixaxaar (5.07) = a voice sample `it is the night
of the demon` keeps repeating itself while something sonically dark lurks
in the background, it approaches slowly, getting closer, even closer, when it`s
about to materialize, the track ends.
2 – Primordial atom (25.23) = lo-fi drones + dark
atmospherics = something ominous and sinister is feeling my heart and soul. An
unholy but epic joyride and we`re not done yet.
3 – Protoplasmic reversion (5.55) = looped incantation / chants + processed gong sound bytes + minimal drones + found sounds + the demon is coming, ahhhhhhhhh = scary as hell.
3 – Protoplasmic reversion (5.55) = looped incantation / chants + processed gong sound bytes + minimal drones + found sounds + the demon is coming, ahhhhhhhhh = scary as hell.
4 – The daathian doorway (6.38) = rhythmic noise + dark
drones + ambient noise / ambient darkwave = a nightmarish vision of the soul.
5 – The fourth and final key (11.05) = lo-fi rhythmic
noise + highly processed Gregorian chants + industrial and ambient darkwave =
defines the word creepy. An amazing album, recommended if you find it.
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