Jeph Jerman - Soundhouse 2 (AARC, 2003)

1 Untitled (13:18)
2 Untitled (28:36)
3 Untitled (0:09)
4 Untitled (0:08)
5 Untitled (0:13)
6 Untitled (0:06)
7 Untitled (0:18)
8 Untitled (0:13)
9 Untitled (0:43)
10 Untitled (24:42)

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Wilt - White Chrysalis In Blue (Mystery Sea, 2002)

1 Submerge (6:23)
2 Dim (7:22)
3 Pierce (7:55)
4 Oxidize (4:03)
5 Collapse (5:44)
6 Evolution To The Main Sequence (4:12)
7 Evolution On The Main Sequence (3:08)
8 Evolution Off The Main Sequence (6:39)
9 Evolution To The End (3:12)
10 Zero Transformation (3:16)
11 Infinite Matter Defined (2:35)
12 A Beginnings End (4:09)

James Keeler (Wilt) beaucoup moins lourd et bruyant que pour d'autres réalisations laisse place à des rêveries marines, musique organique, sombre et profonde....

WILT (James P. Keeler's main musical vehicle) is a name currently on everybody's lips in the field of experimental/dark ambient noise...
From project to project, sound sources may vary greatly, moulded by a concept or a prevailing mood, but there's always some common denominator & unique stamp.
For MYSTERY SEA, WILT has dived into its quietest realms so far, offering a textured snaking audio-exploration of low submerged plateaux, a flow of muffled clanks and ghostly resonances...
.white chrysalis in blue. is the soundtrack to a desolate laguna under an orange pale light, a dark pool of decomposed thoughts bathed with silvery-moon reflections, a path to oblivion...
along this rolling , breathing shapeless sea & deep below, .white chrysalis in blue. unfurls revealing subtle minimal evolving tones, composing the colours of a solemn drowned dream...
Mystery Sea

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Maeror Tri - Mind Reversal (Blade Records, 1993 (2000 reissue))

1 The Subjective Mind (18:25)
2 Sempiterna Memoria (9:33)
3 Big City Breathing (14:57)
4 The Awake Of Light (3:37)
5 Fountain Of Your Self (5:17)
6 Dusa (6:44)

no need for a review...

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Bass Communion - Vajrayana / Aum Shinrikyo (Klanggalerie, 2004)

A Vajrayana (6:46)
B Aum Shinrikyo (6:33)

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Le Jazz Non (A Compilation Of Nineties NZ Noise) (Corpus Hermeticum, 1996)

1 Gate To Kiss The Wall (3:46)
2 Rain Invisible (4:43)
3 Witcyst Witcyst Play Piano Is Spirit (4:22)
4 Thela Look Out! The Fucking Hot Jet (3:24)
5 Sandoz Lab Technicians It's All Just (3:33)
6 Empirical Howsomever (5:24)
7 Omit The Encompassing (4:28)
8 RST Event [Edit] (6:17)
9 Doramaar Acidez Max 0'4° (4:38)
10 Lame & Sorry Minus Eleven (8:01)
11 A Handful Of Dust The Kaballah Of The Horse Pegasus (4:25)
12 Surface Of The Earth 4:02 (4:16)

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The North Sea - Clean White Beds (Period Tapes, 2008)

A World Of Waitresses (14:46)
B Best Of The Child-Bearing Years (14:30)

A drone sensation swelling from the cold waters of Brad Rose.
Period Tapes

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Birchville Cat Motel - Creeping Frost Onset (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2002)

1 Creeping Frost Onset (54:18)

Quand Campbell Kneale aidé de deux membres de sa famille se met aux toy instruments...

We at AQ have long been fans of Campbell Kneale and his project Birchville Cat Motel who along with the Dead C, Omit, Gate and a handful of others have helped to define one of the richest free-rock-noise-drone scenes in the world. For years Kneale has been releasing cds, lps and cassettes (most of them quite limited) of noisy electronic soundscapes and gorgeous organic drones. So when we discovered Kneale also ran a label, we figured it was definitely worth checking out. And how right we were. Not only is all of the music on Celebrate Psi Phenomena amazing, but the packaging is perfectly and stunningly designed as well (quite nice considering this is a cd-r label. See our crappy cd-r packaging rants in the last three or four lists) with each cd in a plastic sleeve nestled between two sheets of old fashioned textured wallpaper, printed, and sealed with a gold star.
Another slab of prime drone from CPP main man Campbell Kneale, this time enlisting the help of two Kneale family members and utilising oscillators, turntables, clarinet, violin, motorized acoustic guitar, bowed roof (!) and various toy instruments. Starting with a dog whistle range sine wave that wavers and flutters on its way to your eardrum, it's soon joined by complementary (but no less piercing) harmonics as well as a barely audible low end pulse. You gotta be patient with this one. After about ten minutes, the high end shimmer becomes the foundation for a cacophony of clang and strum and feedback and clatter eventually breaking down into what sounds like a primitive preschool free jazz jam session. Toy pianos, caveman percussion, with spurts of beeping and squeaking and lots of noodling that eventually works its way back up to a shrieking, skronky free jazz drone ending in a meditative jazzy free rock shimmer...Nice.
Aquarius Records

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Birchville Cat Motel - September (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2002)

1 September (59:03)

Japanese tour CDr, limited to 100 copies.

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Taiga Remains - Unfamiliar Sphere, Thin As Light (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2007)

1 Upon Reflection On Thing Language (Live) (8:36)
2 Blown Ash Firmament (8:14)
3 On Waves, This Traverse (10:17)
4 Endless Collapse (Live) (9:01)

Drones allant de la stridulation d'insectes à la guitare acoustique...

Fabulous concentric circles have been emanating out from Alex Cobbs own splosh in the pond for quite some time now. Judge, jury, and executioner of the rather good Student of Decay label and his own smokin' box of audio-tricks, Taiga Remains, have seen the good Mr Cobb accepted into many a loving home... and rightly so. In spite of the all-acoustic nature of this latest instalment of greatness, 'Unfamiliar Sphere...' may be one of the most electrifying releases to wrap itself in the magic Celebrate Psi Phenomenon wallpaper. Oceans and oceans of shimmer. An engrossing musical sensation very much akin swimming in a lake of luke warm brass. Or being chained to a mile-high gong. Awesome in every respect.
Celebrate Psi Phenomenon

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Taiga Remains - Fairing's Chapel (Digitalis, 2009)

1 Fairing's Chapel (17:56)

Only available with the first 100 copies of Wax Canopy CD.

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Light Of Shipwreck - Through The Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea (Waterscape Records, 2007)

1 Through The Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea (21:29)

Ben Fleury-Steiner pour un drone marin aux accents post rock, noisy et krautrock...

Light of Shipwreck is the Sideproject of the very prolific Ben Fleury-Steiner who is also the Man behind the Gears of Sand Label. "Through The Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea" is a 21min strong Drone-Metal Piece. Crushing Doom Riffs mixed with strong Percussion to achieve a kind of "Oceanic" feeling. Gentle Waves of Reverb and Distortion clash against Cliffs of soft and beautiful Ambient Soundscapes. This is what makes Light of Shipwreck so unique. Not just for Fans of Ambient Metal. Even Fans of Krautrock could enjoy this Journey into the Abyss of the great wide Ocean.
Waterscape Records

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Maeror Tri - Saltatrix (Drone Records, 1993)

A Saltatrix (4:49)
B1 Third Sound (5:04)
B2 These Tears Will Crystalize (4:13)

The first reference published by the label of Stefan Knappe (Maeror Tri, Troum)...

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Jonathan Coleclough & Lethe - Long Heat (Second Part) (ICR, 2005)

1 Long Heat (Second Part) (38:14)

Comes with the 250 first copies of Long Heat....

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Merzbow & Christoph Heemann - Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The Abyss (Streamline, 1993)

1 Tunneling (18:21)
2 Mandala (9:48)
3 Eagle (4:44)
4 Sleeper (1:24)
5 Doorstep (6:56)

Raw sound material (1987) provided by Masami Akita (Merzbow).
Processing, added sounds and mix by Christoph Heemann. (1988-93)

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Kiyoshi Mizutani - Waterscape (E(r)ostrate, 1997)

1 Magnetism (7:59)
2 Discharge (7:58)
3 Glass Of Water (8:03)
4 A Swing (8:01)
5 Waterfall (8:03)
6 Damp Cloth (8:02)
7 Feed Back (8:02)

Consists of each pair of materials.
1. Magnetism of motor and rubber.
2. Discharge of fluorescent light and harp.
3. Rasping chain and tuning fork.
4. Cork and glass.
5. Waterfall and steel pipe.
6. Sliding door and wet towel.
7. Drone noise and a tap water.

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Darren Tate - Nonsense For The Cat (Fungal, 2003)

1 Untitled (35:52)
2 Untitled (10:06)

Premier disque de Darren Tate sous son propre nom...

First release of Darren Tate under his own name...

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Ultrasound - Encomium (Mystery Sea, 2002)

1 A Drop Becomes The Ocean, Ocean Becomes The Drop
2 Enigmatic Curves Of The Dutch Night
3 Past Life Experience
4 Maybe I Will Know By Sound And Taste
5 Lo.8
6 Vertical Cravings
7 Convexing Concave
8 Lisa, Play
9 Ne Pour Meme

Ce rip est enregistré comme un seul morceau mais l'album en compte neuf qui fonctionne comme un seul, sublime voyage atmosphérique à la guitare....

Ultrasound's core are Rfovetz & Kirk Laktas.
Together they outline a rippling tapestry of subliminal & hypnagogic sounds,
one of the most beautiful haunting drone music to be heard today...
In this they share more than common ground with STARS OF THE LID
of whom Kirk Laktas has been a former member...
The material featured on .encomium. has been recorded at various moments between 1996 & 1998...specifically collected for MYSTERY SEA,
all pieces have carefully been chosen to form a flowing construction...
Overall, the resulting "Ocean of sound" is warm, shrouding, deeply immersing,
shaping up a language of new perceptions...
.encomium. unfolds at the pace of quiet glistening waves,
spreading their "dewdrop-particles" into the listener's mind, making him reach a state of subdued dazzle...
A drop falls with a slight resonant echo as in a ceremonial of infinite reflections & overlapping circles, paving the way for a sharper insight...
Mystery Sea

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Captan, obvio - Wachu Min (self release, 2008)

1.Bajaron de todos lados. Ju sed guat???/ Guelcome tu dis guorld.

2.Revolution of de tortels ( a las puertas del imperio)
3.Caligueva!
4.Black cat blus
5.Uno que les duela
6.Espeis reis estartop
7.De lo anterior salió algo/// All the meat you´ll ever need

Reçu un mail hier de / Received a mail yesterday from Mario:

To make a long story short we are from Caracas Venezuela; were there is close to a none existing underground and alternative scene.
That` s why we are aiming for recognition out side the country.

We recorded the album ourself in a single day in august of 2008. No overdubs, no do overs. No lyrics just pure experimental free form rock.

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Kiyoshi Mizutani - Yokosawa-iri (CMR, 2002)

1 Woods In The Wind (8:11)
2 Japanese White Eye (4:02)
3 Dropping Male Flower (6:42)
4 Money Offering Box At A Shrine, Electric Saw (3:19)
5 Field (Rice Terrace) In Rain (4:29)
6 Small Pond (4:50)
7 Temple's Gong, Japanese Green Pigeon (4:12)
8 Field (Rice Terrace) In Rain (3:41)
9 Schlegel's Green Tree Frog (4:29)
10 Siberian Meadow Bunting (3:15)
11 Fall Of Rocks, Streams (9:00)
12 Knock Of Rocks (6:20)

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Bunker Archeology (Noise Museum, 1996)

1 Vance Orchestra Reinforced Landscape (10:12)
2 Myase Myélome (8:41)
3 Telepherique Abbunkern (8:29)
4 Soldnergeist Zeitsturm (6:59)
5 Daniel Menche Here Is A Proof That You Are Not A Ghost (14:34)
6 Voice Of Eye Nest (6:31)
7 In Between Noise I, Rain (Vienna) Window (7:46)
8 Ultra Milkmaids Byojorcklos (8:02)

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