Varghkoghargasmal - EP, split w/ October Falls, Drowned in Lakes

Three records (outa four, the demo is missing) in a single archive. Varghkoghargasmal play "wooden black metal". It's louse, lo-fi, half-improvised outsider music, sounds like jazz or surf rock sometimes. It's awesome.

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Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head

This album gave back my faith in free jazz. Mmmm. Awesome stuff.

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Skullflower - Form Destroyer

A classic album by a classic band. Tons of feedback and noise but somehow it organizes itself into a sonic entity that really just swallows you whole and doesn't let go. Whirling and swirling around, it's awesome!! Opening track "Elephant's Graveyard" give me shivers each time I hear it.
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Eat Rust - Eat Rust [promo]

The promo version (encoded at 128kbps, that is) for Eat Rust's new s/t album. 5 tracks of improvised guitar music, drone, blues, noise rock. As usual for other Eat Rust releases: more of the same, but different. For fans of Skullflower, minimalism, twisted blues, noise rock. Send any comments to kisbalim at gmail.com.
ESR might release a physical version, total DIY.
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Burning Star Core - Operator Dead...Post Abandoned

Description to come.
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Burning Star Core - The Very Heart of the World

As promised, some more Burning Star Core. This release is different. The frist two tracks are more eclectic, with occassional drumming, more varied violin-effects, sometimes in a dark ambient vein, but mostly just very psychedelic, trance-inducing. Third track "Benjamin" in more along the lines of "Amelia" and "Nyarlathotep" (mm, Lovecraft) is just a bunch of weird noises and modulated human voice.
More to come? Possibly. He has some more good stuff, from the eclectic style.

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Burning Star Core - Amelia

A guy with the name C. Spencer Yeh can't do wrong. Especially if he's working in the field of (mostly) improvised noise and is holding a violin in his hand. His musical output is impossible to keep track of. Too much releases on too much underground labels. Whatever. Let's just stick to nice and cosy tip of the iceberg here. This is a CDr/10" release, featuring three tracks, displaying mostly the minimalistic drone-electronics sound of his project (there are other sides as well, to be featured in following posts). "Supersonic Woman" is spacey ambient, "Homing Pigeon" (Worms is all I think of...) is a mish-mash of weird sounds, always reminds me of being inside a ship, by the way, all that crackling and waving and cockroaches chewing their way through the wood. Then there's the lengthy "Point of Departure etc", which is almost like a Reich composition.

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John Zorn & Fred Frith - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5

One of the best albums in Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration line. It's an insane record. Frith's prepared guitars are amazing. Sometimes it sounds like strange alien percussions. Listen, enjoy and purchase. Totally worth it.
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