Category: .reviews.
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African Paper – Controlled Bleeding “Perversions of the Aging Savant” (2015, split)
Vergangenes Jahr konnte man auf der Facebook-Seite Controlled Bleedings einen Post von Paul Lemos lesen, in dem dieser das Ende der Band verkündete, zu frustriert schien er darüber zu sein, dass das Publikum die vielen musikalischen Ha(c)kenschläge nicht (mehr) mitzumachen schien. Kurz darauf verschwand dieser Post wieder und nun melden sich Controlled Bleeding mit einer…
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Distortioni – Controlled Bleeding “Perversions of the Aging Savant” (2015, split)
“Perversions of the Aging Savant” è un’opera atipica, qualcosa che supera il concetto stesso di split album, inteso come semplice progetto parallelo, per proporre un doppio viaggio all’interno di una dimensione sonica oscura e connotata da una forte densità onirica. Il tempo del disco è il terreno su cui si gioca il dualismo tra gli…
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Stormbringer – Controlled Bleeding “Perversions of the Aging Savant” (2015, split)
Split Alben haben seit jeher einen eher schlechten Ruf. Zu oft wird die Resterampe der beteiligten Bands geplündert und ein eher halbherziges Produkt auf den Markt geworfen, was kein Mensch benötigt. Von einer echten Zusammenarbeit der beteiligten Bands ganz zu schweigen. Umso spannender war die Ankündigung, dass die US-amerikanischen Noise-Pioniere CONTROLLED BLEEDING mit den italienischen…
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Avant Music News – Chvad SB “Crickets Were the Compass”
An album cover displaying a drawing of a little pooch looking lost and worried in a post-nuclear landscape (by cartoonist Richard Sala) sets you up for a bad time from the get-go. And Crickets Were the Compass does indeed open by howling like an air raid siren, with lone guitar notes seeking somewhere to flee. His liner notes however…
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Soundprojector, The – Chvad SB “Crickets Were the Compass” (2014)
Some strangely affecting moments on Chvad SB’s Crickets Were The Compass (SILBER RECORDS NO NUMBER). This American experimental droner has been active for over 20 years with his band and solo work. Here he works against the trend towards “lushness” in ambient electronica, and his empty-stage pulsations and eerie bleak tones hint at inner darkness…
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Soundblab – Chvad SB “Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree” (2015)
Chvad SB’s latest is five tracks in five minutes and it’s flat out not as good or interesting as 2014’s Cricket’s Were the Compass. ‘Followed By One’ has a lonely, lost, open feel; ‘Untouchable One’ throbs with sinister, alien intrigue; ‘Four’ is a dark, backwards ocean; ‘Three’ holds a sense of vague menace, like a deserted truck stop at four in the morning; and…