Category: EXPERIMENTAL
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Chen / Pitcher / Van Nort – One History of Troy LP (Attenuation Circuit)
One History Of Troy is a collaborative full-length record by free improvisation trio comprised of Jonathan Chen, Jefferson Pitcher, and Doug van Nort. However, don’t be misled by the album title, because this trio relates to the town of Troy, located in New York, not the ancient Bronze Age city of Troy. This particular location…
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Emerge – Materia CD (Attenuation Circuit)
Emerge is a widely known ambient / drone act from Augsburg, Germany. Emerge is operated by Sascha Stadlmeier, a very prolific multidisciplinary artist who also runs Attenuation Circuit, a brilliant avant-garde record label with dozen of exceptional artists on its roster. I’ve encountered his live performances a couple of times and with great assurance, I…
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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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ABOP – Delta LP (PDV Records)
ABOP is a live electro band coming from Zagreb, Croatia. Instead of being attracted by the uniformity of DJ sets on the worldwide electro scene, this electro entity operates as a well-coordinated band in such an uncharacteristic form. The centerpiece of their sound circulates around a singular drumset shared by two drummers who made a…
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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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The World/Inferno Friendship Society – All Borders Are Porous To Cats LP (Alternative Tentacles)
The world would be such a boring place without entertainful music of The World/Inferno Friendship Society. Their vicious crossovers comprised of punk rock, soul, klezmer, gypsy etno music, flamenco, disco, twist, and even jazz music are far beyond its time mainly because of the skillful musicianship of all the involved musicians who were or they’re…
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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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Hadals – The Dog (Nailbat Tapes)
Chaos is, by it’s definition, a state of things in which chance is supreme, especially in the confused unorganized state of primordial matter before the creation of distinct forms such as cosmos or the inherent unpredictability in the behavior of a complex natural system (such as the atmosphere, boiling water or the beating heart). However,…
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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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