Stuff and Things....

Okay, so first let me just get it out of the way: Last May my grandmother on my fathers side suddenly succumb to medical complications. It affected me deeply, and I hopped a plane to MS for a very dreary couple of days.....Yesterday I received a text message that my grandmother on my mothers side was in the ER with serious breathing problems. This grandmother has been in shaky to deteriorating condition for quite a while now.........Let's not have a repeat quite so fast.........

Alright, with that out of the way let's get on with it.

I finally got the last record in the mail from my recent ebay binge. It was the original 7" version of the Furze "S" record. It's not amazing, but it is good. I am glad I found it, and I only had to order it from Italy.

I ordered a couple of new records from Aquarius. Of course I waited one day debating whether or not I should be spending more money on records, so they were already sold out of the majority of things I wanted. But I'm fairly sure I was able to get this:
MINORU SATO (M/S, SASW) + ASUNA Texture In Glass Tubes And Reed Organ

Listening to the samples provided it's very hypnotically enchanting. And rightfully so when you read the description:
For the first track, five harmonic states were recorded separately, using a chord organ to cause sympathetic vibrations in glass tubes, or something like that. Regardless, the result is a dense, subtly shimmering near static drone. Five tones, each layered upon the other, woven into a reverberating tapestry of sound, a glistening dreamlike blur, very Niblock like in it's swirl of subtle overtones, the various tones beating and pulsing almost imperceptibly, 38 minutes of pure glimmering sun dappled soft static bliss.
Anywho, I'm super excited to listen to the whole record.

The ones that I didn't get to in time (ah super limited cd-r's) were from Faunasabbatha records. Both records were eerie, ambient, and swirling in thorny ambient noise.
SORC'HENN Harmonium Pieces & Dead Reveries was the first album. The webstore says, Sorc'Henn are from France, and their particular brand of heaviness, as the title of their disc suggests is all about the harmonium, the piano, and lots and lots of drones. The opening track is a thick cloud of piano overtones, lots of sustain and reverb, a single funereal chord, struck over and over and over, the tones blending into each other, the overtones building up until it's some sort of doomy sonata. And indeed the samples provided sounded something like that.

The other cd-r was WAVERLY HILLS The Nurse Aquarius says, But sonically, Waverly Hills don't so much resemble funereal doom, as they do, modern noise rock, or Japanese ultra psych. The guitars are caustic coruscating streaks of blurred buzz, unleashed in heaving waves, while much of the band's time is spent crawling doomlike through a field of sonic broken glass, the guitars spend most of their time erupting in squalls of near white noise that sound like Keiji Haino fronting the Dead C. Thick clouds of whirling buzz, deconstructed riffage, super abstract percussion, the vocals a subsonic rumble, a blurred low end gurgle (except when it's a haunting ghostlike falsetto!) underpinning the soaring and drifting slabs of buzz overhead. Imagine doom metal being pulled apart, the notes and chords and riffs being rent asunder, the resulting squall still dark and doomy, by way more tripped out and damaged. And the description does not quite do justice to the crushing wall of complex noise that the excerpts held.

At any rate there is a fifty-fifty chance that a few more copies of these will"pop-up" at Aquarius.......

Though I'm trapped in a nightmare scenario where I don't get out on the weekends until one in the AM, I was able to catch some killer djing this weekend. I caught the tail end of the insane Sorted last Friday. It was with the Wasted Youth Crew dj's who turned out to be like ten of the most respected dj's in the area.......I was able to catch two.......It was all the jams and bangers you'd expect from a night like this. It was all really tight, and the crowd was definitely feeling it.

Saturday night I was able to see the majority of the Tittsworth set at the 9:30 (where I never go...). While several dj friends of mine and I have debated his musical selection, I had a blast. Say what you will about a guy who remixes the Cars (who I love) and Milli Vanilli, but no one can argue about his proficiency. Everything was tight, calculated, and smooth. And while I would have liked to hear some gun shots, he did hit several stints of the total crunk that I am so into right now. Go figure, the twenty nine year old straight edger is one of about twenty people still dancing when they force the dj to stop at three fifteen (and yes, at that point he was playing the song from Dirty Dancing, but I think it was his way of clearing out the crowd..)

As for this week, all I have to really look forward to is the Misery Index/Time of the Wolf show on Thurs, as my weekends still are (and still will be, all the frikkin way through the very first night of "Kicks" my friend Kim and Sara's post Pow-Wow dj night of pop, garage, first wave punk, etc. And I'm pissed about missing all but the last hour of this...) still killed for nearly the rest of the month....

In the meantime just keep pushing further into 2000-hate, the year of vengeance