Category: AVANT-GARDE
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V/A – My World Is Upside Down LP + 7” (PDV Records)
My World Is Upside Down is a soundtrack for a documentary movie directed by Petra Seliškar. The movie has been entirely inspired by songs, poems, work, and life of Frane Milčinski – Ježek, a multidisciplinary artist mainly known for his work as a writer, actor, comedian, and performer. His courage to criticize even the unnoticeable…
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Rovar17 & Xpldnglke – Miracles Of Orbanistan (Unsigned Records)
Miracles Of Orbanistan are reflecting the contemporary political climate in Hungary which has been disguised by the veil of autocratic democracy, mainly because of the extreme policies of Hungarian prime minister. However, this material indicates the Hungarian political condition through the album title, while the compositions are obtaining other, more abstract themes. Both projects are…
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Nundata – Fecal Poppies
Nundata is widely recognized in harsh noise circles for his incredibly distinctive energetic performances and despite being sporadically active, this avant-garde project already has over 80 albums, collaborations and split releases since 2009. He collaborated and has done split releases with notable acts such as Jarboe, Justin Mark Lloyd, Ecoute La Merde, LordxGonzo, Aggression Sonore,…
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Mimika Orchestra – Divinities Of The Earth And The Waters DLP (PDV Records)
Divinities Of The Earth And The Waters is a secondary full-length album by unique international phenomena called Mimika Orchestra. The orchestra was found in 2010. by Mak Murtić, Croatian saxophonist and composer who lives in Zagreb and this distinctive group includes dozen of experienced musicians who mastered their craft in a wide array of various…
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The Stone Tapes – Revolutions In The Head CD (Attenuation Circuit)
Revolution In The Head is a highly anticipated album by The Stone Tapes, a supergroup constituted of dAS and Ninah Pixie (Big City Orchestra), Edward Ka-Spel and Philip Knight (The Legendary Pink Dots), and Frans de Waard (Kapotte Musik, Beequeen, Goem). These profoundly skilled artists have applied numerous distinguishing technics and procedures to the sound,…
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Tech Riders – In The Sky CD (Attenuation Circuit)
Tech Riders is an interesting experimental project comprised of Sindre Bjerga (Norway) and Frans De Vaard (Netherlands) who determined to join forces during their tour throughout Germany and Netherlands. It seemed like an excellent idea and truthfully, Tech Riders articulate like a charm essentially because of the creativity, experience, abilities, and effort both aforementioned artists…
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Torshanyio – Psalmii Regelui Vid / The King Davoid’s Psalms
Torshanyio is a collaboration project between Călin Torsan and Alexandru Hegyesi, two very creative artists who are living 541 kilometers far away from each other, but the distance however it’s not a barrier for them at all, resulting it in a wide specter of improvisations between them and various of guest musicians who also collaborated…
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Shanyio – Hedera Helix (Hiss And Groove)
Shanyio is no stranger to Thoughts Words Action blog. We had a chance to review his previous brilliant work called C and this time Shanyio is pushing borders with another great tape called Hedera Helix. Alexandru once again gathered a lot of great musicians to contribute on his latest piece of art, so this time…
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Martwa Natura / Schmitt – Solecka – Stadlmeier – II (Attenuation Circuit)
If you like some dark ambient sounds in the morning as I do, then you’ll love this split. Martwa Natura teamed up with Emerge and it resulted in more than half of an hour of very good sound experimentations full of strange sounding vocals distorted by a delay and echo effects, weird background ambiance and…
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Shanyio – C (Hiss And Groove)
First of all, this cassette is not a joke at all. It contains some of the best recorded and produced samples of the various musical instruments characteristic for eastern Europe. Alexandru Hegyes knew all the potential of all of these instruments while he performed and recorded them at different locations such as Berlin, Timisoara, Tormac,…
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Consume And Expire / Sexy Crocodile For Dinner And Diva Caramella – Split Tape (Attenuation Circuit)
This time we are dealing with a bit more noisy material than before and this split is right up my alley from the very beginning. Harsh at the one point, but still listenable, it’s even suitable for the listeners who are not so much into harsh noise. Consume And Expire is a duo consisting of…
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Suspicion Breeds Confidence – Tand CD (Attenuation Circuit)
Suspicion Breeds Confidence is a German electronic music project consisting of Tobias Schmitt while Tomislav Bucalic and Aidan Mark appear repeatedly on the recordings and participate in the live performances. They derived their name from one of the totalitarian slogans from Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil. Suspicion Breeds Confidence is one of the longstanding German projects…
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