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… Read More Emerge – Materia CD (Attenuation Circuit)
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,… Read More Nundata – Fecal Poppies
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,… Read More The Stone Tapes – Revolutions In The Head 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… Read More Tech Riders – In The Sky CD (Attenuation Circuit)
Eric Terino is a multidisciplinary artist, essentially perceived as a writer and composer, who shapeshifts the boundaries of modern melodic ambient pop music. His brand new album, “Champagne and Childhood Hunger”, is his most advanced. This second full-length contribution to his discography remits enormous servings of emotion, bittersweet melancholy, and rhythmless ambiance crammed with some… Read More Eric Tеrino – Champagne And Childhood Hunger LP (1365 First Studios)
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… Read More Torshanyio – Psalmii Regelui Vid / The King Davoid’s Psalms
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… Read More Shanyio – Hedera Helix (Hiss And Groove)
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… Read More Martwa Natura / Schmitt – Solecka – Stadlmeier – II (Attenuation Circuit)
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,… Read More Shanyio – C (Hiss And Groove)
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… Read More Consume And Expire / Sexy Crocodile For Dinner And Diva Caramella – Split Tape (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… Read More Suspicion Breeds Confidence – Tand CD (Attenuation Circuit)
This release includes two live recordings of H. Lillmeyer and Sascha Stadlmeier, both recorded in Augsburg during 2015. and in 2016. The first one is recorded at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst Im Glaspalast and the second one is recorded at Die Ganze Bäckerei, so you’ll get two recording sessions at the price of one,… Read More Lillmeyer / Stadlmeier – Zwie-Spalt CD (Attuenation Circuit)
