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Monthly Archives: April 2020

Noisepoetnobody – new piece “Amid The Swirling” commissioned by the Wayward Music Series

April 28, 2020 by Joy Von Spain
 Amid The Swirling is a new work by noisepoetnobody (Casey Chittenden Jones) on analog modular synthesizer, hollow log with springs, resonant copper, and processed field recordings, also featuring liquids field recording by Briana Jones.
Listen HERE…
 
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present ten concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (which sits on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish people): contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
 
With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series has moved from the concert hall to the living room. In place of their usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of previously unreleased material. Noisepoetnobody has been a regular contributing artist to the series for over a decade, and for this new work he strove to re-create some of the natural reverb and atmosphere found in the performance space.

REVIEW: Grill – LIGHT (1994) grind/industrial/experimental

April 26, 2020 by Joy Von Spain

Grill: LIGHT

Release date: 1994

Label: PDCD

Country: Germany

 

An overlooked and truly obscure piece of work, Grill’s debut, titled “Light”, may be one of the rarest heavy industrial albums ever made. Grill effectively masters a particular musical domain with a stripped-down industrial and slow grindcore soaked sound akin to early Godflesh, early Pitch-Shifter, Dead World and Cable Regime among others. Consisting of two German grinders, Steph Andre on guitar and Pascal Derek playing additional guitar as well as drum machine programming, Light churns out 8 tracks of propulsive mechanical and bass heavy “Grindustrial” music. This album was there only full length, recorded at Studio XL near Worcester and Rot Germany between January 1992 and June 1993.

 

The band’s noted influences are diverse, including musicians from the industrial and rock realms as well as early hip-hop acts. Influences ranging from Godflesh, Knox and Grabage Collector to Eric B & Rakim as well as Hiphoprisy have been cited. The last section of the 8th track is repeated 22 times to drill in the album’s repetitious feel.

 

Militant, desolate and stripped down, the dueling guitars and mechanical rhythms feel like the soundtrack to a war-torn climate. More subdued and sparse at some moments like ceasefire in between active battle, and chaotic at others like being in the midst of a machine and weapon fueled collision of violence. Though it may be too avant-garde for the taste of some various “metal” genre fans, lovers of heavy industrial music owe it to themselves to acquire this rare album.

 

-A.D. Carter

you can find this release on discogs

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