Gate - My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart
Recorded in 1997 and 1998, around the same time that the Dead C. were recording Tusk and their self-titled double CD epic. Released as a double CD by Hell's Half Halo in 2000. Read more...
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Recorded in 1997 and 1998, around the same time that the Dead C. were recording Tusk and their self-titled double CD epic. Released as a double CD by Hell's Half Halo in 2000. Read more...
Gate is usually the name that the Dead C's Michael Morley uses for some of his solo endeavors. For these live performances from Boston and New York City, he was joined by Lee Ranaldo (of Text of Light) and harpist Zeena Parkins. Released by Poon Village in 1994 as a CD in a very cool silk screened sleeve. Read more...
An obscure (and scarce) CDR from 2003, released by a short-lived French label called Naninani Recordings.
An early title by the magnificent Blake Edwards/Vertonen, released as a CDR by Self Abuse sub-label Solipsism in 1999. Includes this dryly hilarious misdirection in the liner notes: Tracks 7-9 previously recorded as the "3 Hits From Hell" 7" on Plan 9 (first pressing of 10,000 copies in April 1981 ; second pressing of 800 copies in spring 1986) ; original track titles were "London Dungeon", "Horror Hotel" & "Ghouls Night Out".
Very quiet album from 1996, released as a CD on Bernhard Gunter's trente oiseaux label. Turn the volume way up and you'll hear plenty of threatening action lurking below the threshold, Read more...
Same line-up that recorded A Death Never to Be Complete, but very different from that album's ecstasy overload. Unrelentingly tense. Read more...
Energetic dumb noise from 2005, released as a CDR by Audiobot back when that label was churning out albums by anyone and everyone. The sound of shirtless, sweaty twenty-somethings rocking tables full of pedals in some college-town basement. Read more...
It sure is! Haino and Ozawa with drummer Jun Kosugi (of Shizuka), four songs of black-hole psychedelia. Another album from Fushisusha's inexplicable run of major-label CDs from the late 1990s.
How's this to start 2022 with a big screeching bang? By all indications, this nascent trip around the sun will be just as shit as all the previous ones have been. Let's drown our sorrows in feedback with an absolute classic compilation from 1992. This is the fifth (duh) and final entry in the Dry Lungs series, as compiled by Paul Lemos (of Controlled Bleeding, Skin Chamber, Fat Hacker) starting in 1985. The first 3 volumes were LPs, then the 4th was released as both an LP and a CD (such was the market in the early 90s, I suppose) and this last one spans two packed CDs. Both the husband and I clearly recall our first encounter with this monster. It was an affordable introduction to names that everyone knows now, but were relatively unknown then: Masonna, Violent Onsen Geisha, Trance, Arcane Device, Hijokaidan, Cranioclast, Un Drame Musical Instantane, Etant Donnes, Carl Stone, Incapacitants, PGR, Desaccord Majeure, Solmania... plus Controlled Bleeding in their many guises and solo tracks by all three members. It's really one of the best noise compilations ever produced, made even better by its inclusion of sounds that aren't strictly "noise" but are definitely related.