noise and weird

The 1990s were a fascinating moment for music and new idioms of experimental music began to bubble in the underground. While often belonging to highly localized scenes and thus overlooked by a broad listenership in the moment, many of these gestures have proven to be profoundly important and influential and have left an indelible mark on the musical landscapes that have followed in their wake. Particularly notable among others C.C.C.C.'s first album ,Cosmic Coincidence Control Center, that sprang from Japanese noise scene, during what can be considered the "golden age of noise".
The Japanese noise act C.C.C.C. was formed in 1989 by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Japanese bondage film star Mayuko Hino and was active until 1998. On their first work , recorded at Telecom Studio in Higashi-Nakano, Tokyo on 1991 and released by Hasegawa’s own label Endorphine Factory  in CD format on 1992, there are four members; each playing a different instrument, to create their own unique sound.  Hiroshi Hasegawa  and Fumio Kosakai on electronics and synths, Ryuichi Nagakubo on bass and Mayuko Hino on vocals and metal percussion working together make for a diverse project that goes a way beyond the standard "electronic roar" that most noise artists rely on. The result is a startlingly visionary body of sound that stretches across this vinyl reissue, gathering intricate, noise ambiances and captured sonic fragments, deftly manipulated and infiltrated by electronic pulses and various other interventions, toward an immersive and cohesive sonic environment, that drowns the ear in sheets of detail. Bordering on an ecstatic sonic assault of the highest order, the work’s movements range from incredible arrangements of electronic noise and tonality to a stunning effort of synth, all constructed with an incredible sense of immediacy and physicality, making the album easily one of the most noteworthy and incredible recordings from C.C.C.C.
With Hidenobu Kaneda’s pictures from the photo session used for the original CD artwork  and Akifumi Nakajima's original notes on layout, Urashima created the perfect replica of the original artwork for the vinyl version; while the audio for vinyl master was taken from the original DAT audio and shared on a 12 inch and a 7 inch in a limited edition in just 299 copies. Some exclusive inserts and posters complete the reissue of this absolute gem from the vaults of '90s noise music and certainly  one of the most beautiful noise records any of us is likely to encounter all year: bristles with energy, physicality, and immediacy, representing a highwater mark from one of the most important noise collectives of the last 30 years. It isn't to be missed, and is bound to fly off the shelves.
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C.C.C.C. - Reticular Formation (from Cosmic Coincidence Control Center)

Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna , of course, is one of most prolific, adventurous, and respected noise artists, making dozens of releases on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette, presenting them in very limited editions, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflecting his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static. From noise lines, to minimal, warbling  expanses, to the ambiences and schizoid thinking effects, it’s a journey into a versatile mind who we clearly never heard enough from.
Released by Coquette on cassette in 1995 in just 15 copies with handmade covers, composed of different materials and inserted in transparent envelopes, the album Hate features one of Masonna’s most exciting and extraordinary work.  By deploying stripped down microphone-and-scream foundations, Masonna’s ingenious sonic palette and his unerring sense of rage are cast in thrilling, clear-eyed relief. The use of pedals and effects overwhelms the vocalizations that are practically not heard and creates an irresistible tension, layering a dazzling array of rich sonic colors, hard fragments, and unsettling timbres over the sort of taut psychedelic feedback used in Kosmische Musik and the echo of Tangerine Dream 's masterpiece Zeit ring out in the grooves of the double vinyl reissue. The polarities are pronounced and brilliantly assembled, injecting even the most rough brushwork with an inescapable air of suspense; it’s a real gem, deftly balancing harsh noise and otherworldly effects.
A towering holy grail of Japan noise music, Urashima is proud to present the first ever vinyl reissue of Masonna’s astoundingly ambitious and very ultra limited cassette, Hate, in one stunning gatefold cover double LP, in a limited edition in just 299 copies. Among the most ferocious and rare cassette from the artist discography, finally entering the light of day on vinyl analogue support. Grab a copy while you can. There aren’t many, and they’re not going to sit around for long.
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Masonna - Hate Part 2 Excerpt (from Hate)

This was originally issued in a pic disc LP boxset in an edition of 250 as part of the Prints of Darkness exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers. This exhibition is still touring and LPs can be purchased from Edinburgh Printmakers.

"People Like Us illuminates this dark visual ride with ‘This Is Light Music’, an exclusive full-length picture-disc album in a limited edition of only 250. This record is available as part of a lavish limited edition boxed-set publication which houses the record and a pull-out poster in a gatefold sleeve, and includes essays by People Like Us and co-curator Norman Shaw. This publication is on sale throughout the exhibition, together with specially commissioned t-shirts and badges by the participating artists."

People Like Us - This Is Light Music - "Lavender White"

carved yourself into the wall

“The ceiling doesn’t know it’s being watched by so many liquid-sick eyes”

Cult duo VACUUM turn their gaze from the mechanical to the mortal with their second single ‘I’ll Call You’, which explores Western end-of-life rituals.

Cavernous soundscapes are cut razor-sharp and met with Andrea Blake (ASPS/CHROME DOME) and Jenny Branagan’s (NUN) dual deadpan recitations, reminiscent of early Anne Clark. An ominous sub-bass sets the tone while the squeak of a rubber sole on waxed hospital floors is dressed in an echo of New Wave delay. Empty platitudes are uttered down the phone line - diegetic and delivered like an infernal Shangri-las. The anticipation of a flatline extracts the sacred from the mundane – the Temenos of a waiting room, the Oracle of the Yellow Pages and an Ambrosia of instant coffee.

The album VACUUM S/T will be out Feb 18th 2022
credits
released November 25, 2021
Recorded by Josh Wells (Naarm Melbourne) and mastered by Enyang Urbik (Berlin).

Cover Photograph by Nicole Reed
Design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative

VACUUM - I´LL CALL YOU

Threadless balustrades
Awaited the sense of courtesy

Lifetime of longing
Noiselessly we rhymed

Under the light of a yellow lamp
Partial shade - semblance relevance

Smitten with one another, slow down
Let us breath a syllable
Alternatively - to time

Undertone to clamour
Sweaty smell of nearness

Heat of passion - portents persuaded
& Dimly-starred highway dispersed.

Dunya - Continuous Cities

☁️

Soft Pastel Tongue

Track list:
Modeste - Reverence
Precipitation - Falling
EVITCELES - Нелюбов
FH HF - 13 Syrupy Rings In The Glass Shield
Eyyes - Omma
Glyn Maier - Arranges & Processes excerpt
Anasisana - Stay (ft. Zhe Pechorin)
bad lsd trips - Lavadora Levitando
Nils Quak - Ghosts Walk Among Us
Night Foundation - Sonder
El Fugue - Fulcanelli
doris dana - t.s. eliot in marseille intermezzo
Geklaper - Ordonnance
doris dana - lullabye
Little Annie meets Night Foundation - Inertia dub

Noir Age on Internet Public Radio - March edition

Last suffering

"Laminar Flow" is the opening track of "Palimpsest", the debut album of the trio Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov due via Amek Collective on July 4 on tape & digital. Mastered by Marius Costache (Studio 148). Artwork by Silvana Ilieva.

On July 1 Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov will be playing КРИК 07 Festival in Museum for Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia. RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/850408722586430/

Palimpsest

Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov - Laminar Flow

DJ Ginseng

Insect zombie queen

Naked baboon psycho trill

Freezeray freedom

TL024 Endometrium Cuntplow

the victim of Cthulhu is brain-crushed; brains are crushed and Cthulhu will not humbly despise. bless, Cthulhu, with thy favor yuggoth, and let the walls of r'lyeh be built.


C.C.C.C. - Reticular Formation (from Cosmic Coincidence Control Center)

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