Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Die Rache - Nur



Cassette, C50
Label : Toracic Tapes, Spain, 1988
Ripped by Shane English (Youtube channel : heliae)


Tracklist :

A1. Es Geht Immer (10:51)
A2. Magazin (3:45)
A3. Traumland (12:59)
B1. Test Ende (10:18)
B2. Nur Zu (1:55)
B3. Neon (3:47)
B4. Horn (7:03)


Friday, June 24, 2022

Janus - Anima Mundi



Cassette, C60
Label : Self-released, Germany, 1986
Ripped by Shane English (Youtube channel : heliae)


Almost a decade earlier, thanks to a rip from Carlo (one of the contributors to this blog), I posted an excellent cassette by Janus, a German duo formed by the brothers Ulrich and Andreas Demgen. Since then, I wanted to discover their first tape which was not available anywhere. Thanks to Shane, here it is now, and it was worth the wait. On this tape, the Demgen brothers are accompanied by Rose Kasseckert and Will-I Stasch of Cthulhu Records fame.


Tracklist :

A1. Santiago (5:45)
A2. Karma (5:25)
A3. Homo-Morbid (6:12)
A4. Gulltoss (9:26)
A5. Abdrushin (3:51)
B1. Pizarro (6:31)
B2. Demimonde (6:37)
B3. Johann S. (3:35)
B4. Via Mala (4:40)
B5. Anima-Mundi (7:26)


Friday, June 17, 2022

Aos Crowley - The Divine Invasion



Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#172], Ivory Coast, 2022


The Divine Invasion is a work of dreams turned real by Aos Crowley. Inspired at times by Phillip K Dick's book of the same name, waking and sleeping dreams, conversations after midnight with interesting people, and the period between 2000-2003 where Aos had episodes of sleepwalking long distances at night with eyes open, miles and miles in the city, in darkness, with all of the beauty and terror, often ending up at the beach or surrounded by buildings and people who seemed as ghosts... often ending up miles away from home in enlightened bewilderment.


Tracklist :

1. Sungrinder (3:46)
2. Macho (1:19)
3. Crescendo (3:56)
4. Curses (2:18)
5. Trident (1:54)
6. Meditation (5:38)
7. Godz (2:10)
8. Ghostland (2:58)
9. Deliverance (0:58)
10. Underground Water (4:39)
11. Wall of Sleep (2:29)
12. Sobbing (1:28)


Friday, June 10, 2022

Aos Crowley - Colored Vapors Saturate My Dreams



Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#171], Ivory Coast, 2022


Aos Crowley is one of the primary projects of composer and sound designer Matt Dean. His other projects are Chromasonic, Violent Sleepwalker, and Slo Virus.
Matt has been a musician for more than 45 years and has produced work in a variety of formats and styles, including film scores and game sound design for Sony Playstation.
The Aos Crowley project focuses on the things that come past the wall of sleep into the waking world, where dreams and nightmares transgress and are transduced into sound.
This album is an anthology of Aos Crowley's work, and about two thirds of the album have never been previously released.


Tracklist :

1. Vapors (5:42)
2. Beneath The Canopy (4:27)
3. ER Pulse (3:24)
4. In The Tunnel (4:40)
5. Pr0un39e (5:04)
6. Almost Transparent Blue (Hokusai #5) (5:24)
7. Distant Drop Blue Alcools (4:19)
8. Improv With A Sad Factory (7:04)
9. Snow Queen (16:30)
10. Hexennacht (10:24)
11. Opal In The Rain (3:24)
12. Pumping Station #13 (6:12)
13. Purple Driving To A Wall Of Fuschia (3:00)
14. Pyanoo (4:38)
15. Elementals (18:34)
16. The Forest Of Missing Dreams (3:39)
17. Symbiosis #13 (12:34)
18. Unsilent City Rain (17:57)
19. Eat It Now (1:36)
20. Spirits Flying At Dusk (2:16)


Friday, June 3, 2022

Guru Bobol - Esogriphe



Audiofiles
Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#170], Ivory Coast, 2022


At the end of the 80's, Gregoire Charbey exchanges tapes as a hometaper in high school, in a spirit of tinkering with organs, toys and delay pedals, under the name of SPIRITUS NAEVUS, then through the micro label EXPREL, in the early 90's. The sound is already experimental, soaring, made of layers, oscillations, textures. Spiritus Naevus participates in many compilations and some concerts. At the same time as music projects for short films, documentaries and shows, and inconclusive experiments in purely digital universes, the interest for gliding, slow and dark music is reborn with GURU BOBOL. It's a return to analog sounds, to free experimentation, to improvisation, a more assumed music, without intermediary and very little mastering. The sound sources are recorded on a 4-track cassette, in mono output like the amp on which everything comes out. The use of looper allows to include acoustic sounds, the superimposed layers of voices humanizing the electronics by haunting murmurs. The names of the pieces evoke, in fictitious vernacular, places, people, sensations. These onomatopoeic sonorities resulting from random combinations leave the music without objective explanation, without common reference point. The visuals that accompany the music are mainly borrowed from a parallel plastic work, made of mud, dry grass and sand.
ESOGRIPHE is composed of 7 tracks in direct take, improvisational pieces cut in a fat and abundant raw material, but which knows neither beginning nor end. The arrangement of the tracks between them tries to organize an intelligible journey, despite the flow, the accidents and the oscillations.


Tracklist :

1. gangre (7:52)
2. esogriphe (10:37)
3. arconthe (10:56)
4. podrome (6:32)
5. anterme (13:33)
6. urcline (17:52)
7. sertille (6:02)