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Maja Ratkje - Crepuscular Hour part 1

As we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.

“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system” .

Charged by this outlook, Gnod’s new album, ‘ Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record  rmly entrenched in the psychic terrain of 2017.

“On the surface it could almost seem like there’s no political art movement out there to oppose what’s happening, but there is - we know there is” adds the band’s Paddy Shine. “Maybe that movement is struggling to  nd its voice as a cohesive whole right now but that will change. It has to change.”

Fuelled by their militant drive and unyielding ardour, ‘Just Say No...’ refracts Gnod’s harsh and repetitive riff-driven rancour through a psychotropic haze of dubbed-out abstraction, with Paddy’s incendiary vocal delivery to the fore. ,‘Just Say No... sounds like a record only Gnod could make - a band  ercely independent, never comfortable in one place artistically for any duration of time, always with their co-ordinates set on uncharted territory and the next challenge ahead, and delivering a monument of ire and iconoclasm.

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JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE

Stick In The Wheel

GNOD - Stick In The Wheel

Holotype Editions was founded as a means of bringing out music by some of the most unique and peculiar artists of the last decades. What could be more fitting for the imprint’s seventh release, than the duo of cult artist Ghédalia Tazartès and multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Maya Dunietz.
Recorded live at Cafe Oto, in December 2013, Schulevy Maker documents the duo’s first live appearance. An amalgam of bizarre samples, concrete sounds, live piano and bells, juxtaposed with the otherworldly voices of Dunietz and Tazartès. At times light and humorous, at others dark and ritualistic, Schulevy Maker can hardly be labeled or tagged. The album title refers to Shoemaker-Levy 9, a disrupted comet that collided with Jupiter in July 1994. Tazartès and Dunietz freely reassembled the syllables of the comet’s name, coming up with this obscure title.
A truly life-affirming record, by two artists defying categorization, Schulevy Maker comes in a limited edition of 300 copies, pressed on black vinyl with a beautiful cover designed by We Are Still Bold and Beautiful.
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Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London - December 2nd, 2013 by James Dunn Mixed by Daniel Meir
Mastered by Nikos Lavdas at Kiwi, Athens, 2017
Design by We Are Still Bold and Beautiful
Special thanks to:
Ilan Volkov, Stephen O'Malley, Hamish Dunbar, John Chantler, Noam Inbar

SCHULEVY MAKER

Ghedalia Tazartes + Maya Dunietz - Schulevy Maker (excerpts)

L.A. Witch
"L.A. Witch" CD/LP/DIG
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Release Date: September 8, 2017
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
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L.A. Witch

Kill My Baby Tonight

Couloir Gang / Zuur Kool

Label / Suara Papua
Ref / SUAP 8

2017
Ravi Shardja : Bass, scratch synth, transverse flute, lap steel guitar, tapes, voice.
&
Jean-Marcel Busson : Rythm boxes, Synthesizers, hand-made electronics, elecrtic guitar, voice.

All tracks composed, played, and mixed by Couloir Gang

Recorded by Xavier Roux between 2014 and 2016 at Satante, Brussels, and Papua Barat, Montreuil.

Mastering and cut by Fred Alstadt

Art cover, typography and printed by M.U.R.R, at Pantin.

With help of Attila Tralala

only 300 copies

Zuur Kool

Zuur Kool Promo Side B

Thought Forms - Only Hollow

Irma

Gnoomes – Xmas Decay

Methods of Dreaming, a new album by Hawksmoor (aka musician James McKeown) is 'a guidebook for achieving expansion of consciousness, cerebral escape & transcendence' created from Moogs, soft synths, tape loops & processed guitar, with live bass providing rhythmic pulses.

Released via digital download and on limited hand numbered cassette via Spun Out Of Control. Head to www.spunoutofcontrol.com to order

GNOD - Stick In The Wheel

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