Bleak Bliss

Brume - Anthology Box

A massive, 13-CD boxset of outsider musique concrete by autodidact Christian Renou, compiling his earliest unreleased bloops from 1979, plus a few out-of-print cassettes and CDRs dusted off and brought back to life. This hefty thing was released in an edition of just 100 copies by the Russian label Waystyx, which specialized in creative handmade and odd-size packaging.

1 - Accident du Chasse

2 - "I'm... I Come... I Was..."

5 - Electrocoagulation Tapes

6 - Les Victimes Sont Dangereuses

8 - Lost in Karrack

9 - Early Tracks

10 - Live With or Without an Audience

11 - In Death We Trust! (Extract) & Program T.4 (Extract)

12 - Drug (Revised)

13 - The Prehistoric Tapes

Moongang - s/t

The untitled debut CDR by Moongang, aka Steve Gunn of GHQ, originally self-published in an edition of 100 copies.

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Actual Infinity

C44 on Ulcer House from 1990.

For much of the 80's, Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ was a member of Merzbow with Masami Akita. He began recording on his own from 1989. Although his later work saw him manipulating field recordings of the environment and ecology around him, these early tapes find him utilising found sound, feedback and electronics.

Actual Infinity

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Cemetery

C36 on Ulcer House from 1991.

Cemetery

K.Mizutani - Inferior's Betrayal

C66 from Kiyoshi Mizutani on his own Ulcer House label from 1994.

Inferior's Betrayal

Astral Social Club‎ - Wheezy Paradise

C44 released on Andrew Paine's Sonic Oyster Cassettes in 2011 in an edition of 50.

This documents a live set at the Northumberland Arms in Newcastle on the 14th of May 2010.

Astral Social Club is the work of wonderful Neil Campbell who amongst many things was a member of the equally wonderful Vibracathedral Orchestra. Vibra are playing live again (in the Yorkshire area) so maybe we will be lucky enough to get a full-blown resurrection (a while ago, Neil told me that Mick Flower was even playing occasionally).

Neil has some great new releases for sale so snap them up! You can always go here as well!

Wheezy Paradise

Astral Social Club‎ - Smashed Tractor

3" CDr released on Journal Of The Belgae Folk Club in 2010.

Smashed Tractor

Astral Social Club‎ - Metal Oblation

CDr released on Matthew Shaw's Apollolaan Recordings in 2010.

You should also go and check out the Texlahoma bandcamp site where you will find a wealth of music including Matthew's solo work.

Metal Oblation

Makoto Kawabata - 5: Feedback

Everybody say Thank You to Spirito Bono! He's given us the missing disc!!!

Self-released CDr from 2010.

"Given away at the gig "Kawabata Makoto x Smith Kinendo vol.5" (or available for order directly from the artist)."

5: Feedback

Kakera - 02.10.03.

My first posts are all from a long-gone label from Nagoya called Pale-Disc, which was run by a guy called Kuwayama Kiyoharu who would go on to make some glorious din under the name Lethe. This EP, published in some tiny edition in 2003, is one of only a couple ever released by Kakera (the other, as yet unheard by me, was a split tape with the great Mo*te). Some versions came with the same material on a lathe-cut 8" record, because... well, doesn't all music sound better on an 8" lathe-cut record? Right. While you discuss/compare/contrast the merits etc of mono clear plastic vs shiny plastic, you can enjoy listening to the full-fidelity CDR version.

Kakera - 02-10-03

Narita Mamoru - Music for Butoh Dance Improvisation

This CDR from 2001, also published by Pale-Disc, was the first of only a handful of albums recorded by Narita Mamoru within the past decade+. Sparse chiming bells, acoustic clatter, and plaintive string(s) in discreet/economic doses.

Narita Manoru - Music for Butoh Dance Improvisation

Minotaure - 98/3/21

From way back in 1998, firmly within the era when CDRs were still the pariah of noise self-publishing, this album was very first release on Pale-Disc. This raw scrape/squelch was created by the duo of Kiyoharu Kuwayama and Okazaki Toyohiro on guitar, metal, cymbals, and the ubiquitous "electronics". It owes a debt to the cracked improvisation of Voice Crack, Gert-Jan Prins, that sort of thing, but the unpolished/volatile atmosphere links it to sub-underground noise as well.

Minotaure - 98-3-21

The Heads & The Big Naturals - Rituals From The Heads & The Big Naturals, Volume One

CDr released on Rooster Rock in 2007 in an edition of 100.

Bristol's The Heads always offer the finest stoned, psyched and psychedelic headrush you can imagine. On these three discs, they are joined by Gareth Turner and deliver bigstyle!

Rituals 1

The Heads & The Big Naturals - Rituals From The Heads & The Big Naturals, Volume Two

CDr on Rooster Rock from 2007. There were 100 originally with another 30 repressed for an Austrian festival in 2011.

Rituals 2

The Heads & The Big Naturals - Rituals From The Heads & The Big Naturals, Volume Three

CDr from 2010, released in an edition of 100 (with an additional 25 which were for sale at a gig a year later) on The Heads' own Rooster Rock label.

Rituals 3

White Hills / The Heads - Collisions V.1

Massive meeting of Wah Wahs on another great split LP on Rocket Recordings from 2009.

I was going to post the second Collisions LP (the split between Oneida and Mugstar) but it's still for sale. You really should go and pick it up while it's still around!

Collisions V.1

Gnod / $&$ - Collisions 03

Gnod and Shit And Shine need no introduction on here!

Great split LP on Rocket Recordings from this time last year.

Collisions 03

Twice As Bleak ... Double The Bliss

Great news people!

A good friend is joining me up here in this cockamamie venture!

Very good times ahead!!!

Makoto Kawabata‎ - 1: Glissando Guitar

Obviously, this is the God Head guitarist who features in the various incarnations of Acid Mothers Temple and collaborates freely with like-minded savants.

Eagle-eyed (and disappointed) people will have noticed that I don't have 5: Feedback. Please, if anybody out there has this...share it with us!

On related news...AMT are just embarking on a new European / UK tour so get yourself there if you can!

This is another self-released CDr from 2010.

"Given away at the gig "Kawabata Makoto × Smith Kinendo vol.1" (or available for order direct from the artist)."

*In a tedious fashion for us all...most of the MK disappeared from the host server ... as of 18:47 of 04/10 they are back up ... *

1: Glissando Guitar

Makoto Kawabata‎ - 2: Drone

Self-released CDr from 2010.

"Given away at the gig "Kawabata Makoto × Smith Kinendo vol.2" (or available for order direct from the artist)."

2: Drone

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We have had to change file hosts many times since we started in 2009.

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