Bleak Bliss: March 2010

New CDr out on Quagga Curious Sounds!

QCS_021-Utnapishtim / Bruital Orgasme: "The Breathing" Split CDr, edition of 15 copies
Hypnotic, beautiful and captivating mixture of noise, drone and experimental music between these two talented projects.
Spraypainted CDr comes in a PVC slip case with handmade artwork also included is an A4 information sheet/poster and multi coloured feathers packaged in a blue and white striped paper bag

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Steel Hook Prostheses

Gotta admit, SHP were a new one to me. J sent me a sneaky request from his current sabbatical (he's doing a short prison sentence for interfering with farm animals btw).

Expect power electronics with a dark ambient/death industrial twist...

All gone by request. SHP material is going to be officially distributed digitally. Check here.

Heavy Winged

Heavy Winged regularly lock into relentless motorik grooves, super repetitive, the guitar slowly building momentum, with sheets of high end, streaks of feedback and a wall of buzz lifting you ever higher. Imagine a deranged lysergic-fuelled scientist taking a lost Fushitsusha jam and slowing it down in the lab to examine it more closely...a time lapse film of a 'psych jam' captured in the wild. For most of their releases, the trio set up in a room and play. Totally improvised and recorded to 4 track. Wildly ecstatic...and the "song" only finishes when it feels right for it to finish.

The Wire reckoned one release sounded like "...a vast blank wall of a monolithic windowless tower block, seemingly featureless from a distance, but so rough up close that it tears skin from flesh and flesh from bone." Fair enough, I reckon, if you like that kind of effusive review! This ain't Explosions In The Sky! This is some serious psychedelic heaviness, blissfully blown out and weirdly hypnotic.

I've followed this band for a few years now. Even so, I nip to the shops to find out they've sneaked out another ridiculously limited release...and it's sold out! The last 4 of the posts have no release date or label info...any help out there?

2006 - Heavy Winged - A Serpent's Lust [foxglove]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Echoes Of Silence [deep water acres]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Hunting The Moon [ruralfaune]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Taking The Veil [students of decay]
2007 - Ashtray Navigations & Cold Solemn Rites In The Sun & Heavy Winged - Split [ruralfaune]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Blacc Stork [students of decay]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Enough Rope [cut hands]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Feel Inside [archive]
2007 - Heavy Winged - On The Marble Cliffs [trensmat]
2007 - Heavy Winged - The Very Eye Of The Night [whistle along records]
2007 - Heavy Winged - We Grow (lp) [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Blues Control - Split (7'') [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Taiga Remains - Split (lp) [not not fun records]
2008 - Heavy Winged - A Blanket Of Ash [no label]
2008 - Heavy Winged - Alive In My Mouth [three lobed recordings]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Shaking, Waking (lp) [aurora borealis]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Spreading Center [release the bats records]
2009 - Heavy Winged & Inca Ore - Ring Mining (lp) [not not fun records]
2009 - Windy & Carl and Heavy Winged - Monolith Earth [music fellowship]

Heavy Winged - 1st
Heavy Winged - Katrina
Heavy Winged - Mojito
Heavy Winged - Split Lip

Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet

There are very few bands who truly baffle. Who confuse and confound, both musically and conceptually. Sure, plenty of bands are weird, or strange, or hard to describe. Some might even be described as fucked up or damaged, but very very few truly baffle. Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet is most definitely one of those bafflingly confusional elite. . .Hans Grüsel and his Kränkenkabinet create a bizarre cacophony of sound. Theatrical, dramatic, noisy for sure, but weirdly melodic and playful and more than anything, confounding. A brain melting chunk of avant "what-the-fuck?" Weird and wonderfully damaged. It's not so much like staring into a funhouse mirror, it's more like smashing your head against it over and over and over until it shatters and you can finally see and hear exactly what strange things exist on the other side.

Had to remove some, sorry.

2001 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Das Boot [no label]
2002 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Ein Haunted Sommerplatz [no label]
2006 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Live On WFMU (04-11-06)