Bleak Bliss

Jazzfinger

It is with honour and wonder that we offer up the majesty of Newcastle's mighty drone-noise-dream-scuzz-improv legends (drum-roll please) Jazzfinger. If ever a band's 'sound' was simultaneously hauntingly pastoral yet at the same time grindingly industrial then it would be Jazzfinger. You need Jazzfinger in your life, even if you don't know it yet! Buy everything you can find. Without hesitation, the people who hold the world together. Feel their power, and be comforted.

2001 - Orrin Deforest & Jazzfinger- Split (lp) [traqueto]
2003 - Jazzfinger & A Way - EP [mallard lake]
2005 - Jazzfinger - Live @ Barden's Room 2, London (05 Aug 2005) 2005 - Jazzfinger - Live @ The Sage, Gateshead, UK (22 May 2005)
2005 - Jazzfinger - This Small Space Where The Salt Glitters (12'') [classic english womb]
2005 - Jazzfinger - Ugly For A Living [gold soundz]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Autumn Engines [rebis]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Iron Age Credentials [spirit of orr]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Los Band Magicos [low point]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Slowed By The Grace Of Water [alcoholic necrolepsy]
2006 - Jazzfinger - The Glass Key [classic english womb]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Winter's Shadow Between Two Worlds [curor recordings]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Listen And Vanish [cut hands]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Low Level Cloud Fucker [chondritic sound]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Orange Sauce (8'' lathe) [altvinyl]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Tour Of The Moors Volume 1 (C60) [heavy tapes]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Wixxon Flag Bearer [dnt records]
2007 - Jazzfinger & Lanterns - Untitled (C60) [sick head]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Grief To Grind The Fire [blackest rainbow]
2008 - Jazzfinger - King Murnam (cass) [jk tapes]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Mole And The Morning Dew (lp) [spirit of orr]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Self Titled (7'') [short forest]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Wooden Women Will (C60) [middle james co]
2008 - Jazzfinger and Culver & Fordell Research Unit - Split - (lp) [blackest rainbow]
2009 - Jazzfinger - Live @ Cafe OTO, London (02.05.09)
2010 - Jazzfinger - Gates Of Failure (C60) [gods of tundra]

Fossils

Fossils are a rarity in any music scene: staggeringly prolific artists who, by and large, fail to produce subpar music. They're not devoid of ideas, either. From the typical grating metal clangor, lurking murky subterranean drones and psychedelic spiraling voids to super fried, paint-splattered jams that sound like they were born out of junkyards and garbage cans and every sort of droning instrument ever made. Every Fossils release I own sounds distinct. There are two split releases with Sick Llama in J's earlier Llama post. Also, don't have release info for the Blue Tape, I think it's a tape that is...erm...blue. Dive in.......

2005 - Fossils - Fossils (C60) [fag tapes]
2006 - Altar Of Flies & Fossils - Split [hästen & korset]
2006 - Fossils - A Green Ha [middle james co]
2006 - Fossils - Code White [middle james co]
2006 - Fossils - Empty Can Blues (C30) [midori records]
2006 - Fossils - Fossils [fag tapes]
2006 - Fossils - Infected Tissue [maggotapes]
2007 - Fossils - All the Homicides (C30) [jk tapes]
2007 - Fossils - Dug (cass) [middle james co]
2007 - Fossils - Fly By Night (s-sided cass) [ley line magnetic tapes]
2007 - Fossils - Morbid Chicken [middle james co]
2007 - Fossils - The Dehumanization Of Art (C90) [knife in the toaster]
2007 - Fossils - Uhl [cut hands]
2007 - Fossils & Head Boggle & Sick Llama - Brain Mash Potatoes [fag tapes]
2008 - Fossils - Dagobah [knife in the toaster]
2008 - Fossils - Super Silver Fossils (C30) [middle james co]
2008 - Fossils & Sick Llama - Split (lp) [no label]
2008 - Mike Khoury and Derek Rogers & Fossils - Terror Tapes Vol. 35 [middle james co]
2008 - Sick Llama & Fossils - Split (lp) [no label]
2009 - Fossils - Deep Sea Fossils (2xC30) [middle james co]

Fossils - Blue Tape

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)

Luasa Raelon / Envenomist

In the words of the man himself..."David Reed has been producing heavy electronic music under various monikers since the year 2000. He currently records under three active solo projects, luasa raelon, brittle foundries and envenomist. Envenomist is sourced solely using synthesisers to produce a minimal industrial ambience heavily influenced by 80's Industrial acts and the European synth scene of the 70's. Luasa Raelon is a far-ranging death industrial/dark ambient project dealing with narrative themes and using whatever materials are at hand for sound and textures to create the requisite material. Brittle Foundries began as music concrete/academic project but has journeyed into territories of desolation and despair while retaining a subtle beauty. Also active in Nightmares with Jon Canady and Mark Solotroff. Past work with Starlight Fleecing, Rocco DiPietro, Larry Marotta, the Avant Collective, Jason Zeh, and Mike Shiflet."

All of this is OOP...David runs his own label (Snip-Snip Records) and you can buy the releases still available here and check out the latest news here . David has said he will give me a list of his personal favourite works/tracks to post as a compilation type thing. I have loads that is still in print (and therefore can't post) so have heard nearly everything...it would make for some fantastic listening!

Gotta admit I've never heard Brittle Foundries...or seen any for that matter...

Finally...SS Envenomind is a 3-way collab between the guys behind Spine Scavanger, Envenomist and Hive Mind, btw...

Luasa Raelon

2001 - Luasa Raelon - Combustion [snip-snip]
2001 - Luasa Raelon - Detonator (cass) [hmw distribution]
2003 - Luasa Raelon - The Erebus And The Terror [brise-cul records]
2004 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon & Redrot - Industrial Isolation (tour cdr) [chondritic sound]
2004 - Luasa Raelon - Avarice [i.n.k. recordings]
2004 - Luasa Raelon - Necronautical Mariner [chondritic sound]
2004 - Luasa Raelon & The Cherry Point - Split (C20) [troniks]
2005 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon - Alabaster Catacombs [chondritic sound]
2005 - Luasa Raelon - Cephalomancy [snip-snip]
2005 - Luasa Raelon And Hive Mind - Sea-Level Transmission [chondritic sound]
2007 - Hum Of The Druid & Luasa Raelon - Screaming Biology_Oceanic [audiobot]
2007 - Luasa Raelon - Into The Void [crucial bliss]

Envenomist

200# - Envenomist - Scorpian Gears [snip-snip]
2005 - Wapstan & Envenomist - Split [brise-cul records]
2006 - Envenomist - Delving Glacial [gameboy records]
2007 - Envemonist - Black Bile (C30) [twonicorn]
2007 - Envenomist - Beholder [chondritic sound]
2007 - Envenomist - Weighted Ghost (C30) [snip-snip]
2007 - Pulse Emitter & Envenomist - Split (C45) [black horizons]
2008 - Envenomist - Divine Intervention (C30) [husk records]
2009 - Envenomist & Hive Mind - Initiation Into Nothingness (C40) [chondritic sound]

SS Envenomind

2008 - SS Envenomind - Untitled (C30) [tusco embassy]

QCS_020 Out Now!

QCS_020-Hal Hutchinson: Severed 3"CDr, edition of 11 copies
Second killer Hal Hutchinson releases on Quagga, expect 3 tracks of majestic dark ambient and crushing drone.
Spray-painted CDr comes in a hand-made cardboard sleeve packaged in a black velvet pouch
£3.50 (UK/Europe)
£4.50 (Worldwide)

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