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House of Prog – Controlled Bleeding “Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps” (2016)
US band CONTROLLED BLEEDING has been a feature of the US music scene for more than three decades, and especially in the first 20 or so years of their existence they were a prolific band on most levels. For the past decade or so they have been relatively quiet though, but they have now marked…
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Emerging Indie Bands – Chvad SB “Phenomenalism, Cartesian Doubt and Bomb #20” (2016)
The US experimental-music creator Chvad SB was introduced a couple of years ago. His latest release Phenomenalism, Cartesian Doubt and Bomb #20 (available on bandcamp), although only a one track single is best heard when you have plenty of time to wrap yourself in the contusions as it lasts for over seventy three minutes. Created…
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Avant Music News – Chvad SB “Phenomenalism, Cartesian Doubt and Bomb #20” (2016)
Some of the systems art of the late 1960s and early 1970s—for example, Sol LeWitt’s modular lattice sculptures or Mel Bochner’s number grids—embodied a certain regularity of form. A systematic regularity, one might say. A basic element might be repeated at constant intervals or an input sequence subjected to a defined operation. By contrast, some…
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Chain D.L.K. – Chvad SB “Phenomenalism, Cartesian Doubt and Bomb #20” (2016)
Despite album artwork that seems to channel Heath Robinson, or Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s HG Wells illustrations, sonically this experimental album is firmly routed in the 1950’s, citing the 1956 soundtrack to “Forbidden Planet” as an influence and sounding very akin to early BBC Radiophonic Workshop pieces. The single 73-minute piece is programmed, in the sense…
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Side-line Magazine, Paul Lemos Interview, Controlled Bleeding (2016)
Controlled Bleeding interview: ‘It was hard finding my bearings after losing my two long time collaborators’. The fine Toronto-based label Artoffact Records is not only reissuing a significant portion of the Controlled Bleeding catalogue (check here for more info on which titles), they also will release the first proper complete studio album by Controlled Bleeding…
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Pitchfork – Controlled Bleeding “Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps” (2016)
Perennial Long Island noise-rockers return with their first album in 14 years, as detailed and cacophonous as they’ve always been. Since their 1983 debut Knees and Bones, the Long Island-based Controlled Bleeding’s 30-plus albums have spanned a dizzying array of genres including noise, industrial, no wave, prog, psych, dub, and jazz (just to name a…