förövrigt tycker jag att...

Sara Hanssons "El diablo blanco" i senaste Galago är bland det bästa jag läst på länge!!!

Läs här: http://hejasara.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-diablo-blanco.html

Lite skriverier om Ondo och Yrsel

Crucial Blast skriver om Ondo - "Sol"

"Finding Ondo's releases hasn't been easy. I've been keeping an eye out for more of the band's limited discs after hearing their excellent offerings on the splits with Nekrasov and Austrasian Goat, but so far the only thing I've managed to pick up for C-Blast is this limited edition disc from 2010 that features one thirty-three minute track of lush chthonic ambience. It's pretty great, too. Ondo creates an immersive world of sinister ambient sound, a finely crafted mix of churning abyssal dronescapes and layers of digital glitchery, the sprawling piece moving through fields of metallic chiming and vast oceanic drift, vaguely defined electronic melodies spiraling through the ether. There are swells of rumbling machine noise and nebulous feedback, fragments of backwards sound and looped noise constantly breaking the surface, the tone shifting from dreamlike and surreal to menacing over the course of the disc as eerie music-box melodies and sheets of metallic whirr trail over gusts of dank subterranean air. Crashing metal and clanking rhythms echo in the distance, the industrial rumblings cut with high-pitched electronic scrapes and random computer noises. At times, this is comparable to Troum at their absolute darkest, but when Sol reaches the last ten minutes of the track, it becomes much darker and heavier, the clanking industrial rhythms and noises in the distance becoming more prominent, and a creepy minor key melody takes form, playing out over increasing layers of dark orchestral sound over the dimly lit world of machinery and raging black oceans, birdsong and the cawing of crows, rattling chains and crackling fires, closing with a twilight haze of industrial ambience.
Limited to one hundred copies, and packaged in a full-color folder sleeve."

och Norman Records skriver om Yrsel - "Sacrifice"...

"Do you like dark ambient droney type stuff? Well, you’ve come to the right place then, haven’t you? This one here’s got people from Ondo and The Austrasian Goat making ominous rumbles that sound like they should be on Utech. Weighty low- and mid-end drones that slowly melt into your subconscious and make you feel like you’re a character in some bleak futuristic sci-fi movie and you’re hiding out in an abandoned landfill site trying to figure out how to kill all the malfunctioning kill-bots before they destroy mankind forever. On the second side it gets a bit more melodic than the fairly flat first side, but this is still bleak and slow-moving stuff for people who want something dark to immerse themselves in when they’re alone at home late at night with their thoughts and they need something suitably creepy and sinister. Expertly crafted feel-bad music."

Bra skivor släppta 2011

Wilco - "The Whole Love"
Grouper - "AIA:Alien Observer" & "AIA:Dream Loss"
Mogwai - "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will"
Earth - "Angels of Darkness, demons of light"
Despise You / Agoraphopic Nosebleed - "And On and On..." (framför allt Despise You's sida)
Sonic Youth - "Simon Werner A Disparu"
Trap Them - "Darker Handcraft"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Replica"
The Sea and Cake - "The Moonlight Butterfly"
Tim Hecker - "Ravedeath, 1972"
All Pigs Must Die - "God is War"
Kurt Vile - "Smoke Ring For MY Halo"
No Joy - "Ghost Blonde"

Besvikelser:
Low - C'mon (bra skiva men knappast i klass med t.ex "The things we lost in the fire" och "Secret name")
Thurston Moore - "Demolished Thougts" (också helt okej men jag hade förväntat mig mer)
Atlas Sound - "Parallax" (samma här, ok men ändå en besvikelse)

Ondo på P3

I lördags spelade radioprogrammet P3 Rock en Ondo-låt.
Lyssna här (00:52:55)

Hepp!

Foxy Digitalis recenserar Nekrasov/Ondo

Riktigt trevlig recension av Nekrasov/Ondo LP:n. Betyg 9 av 10!

"The unforgettable offerings from Peasant Magik are coming to an end as the label is closing its final chapter. What a great final chapter it is! It is one that is good to the very last period. You can think of this great split between two great dark noise acts as that period to conclude the narrative of PM’s history. This split has apparently been in the works for three years now and is a wonderful triumph in itself, but is a great way to honor the legacy of an amazing label.

The first side belongs to the likes of Nekrasov. He does two things and does them very well. First, he does some pretty ridiculously fast psychotic black metal jams that are some of the most ferocious, teeth-baring, tear your face off kind of tracks that could ever be produced. Second, he does some very black drone rumbles that seek to explore the void of your soul and expose the sunless blackness within. If you’re a bigger fan of his metal work then this won’t be up your alley. However, if you like his dark ambient stuff then it’s your lucky day! This is nineteen minutes of some pretty brooding stuff that will drag you down kicking and screaming into the deepest nether regions of our existence where there’s no light, no oxygen, no god. It is a confining, heavy, and suffocating experience. It makes me think of my final destination, yours too: a tight box in the ground. It’s like the outside sounds that you would hear if you still had a working brain that could process what it hears. Like the outer sounds of an airplane flying overhead, the rain that beats down, the wind that gusts over top, the footsteps that tramp over you, and the funeral fuss of those who will soon be your next door neighbor in the plot beside you. Serious stuff. Totally fitting for personal moments of isolation, depression, and the rollercoaster ride of fear and apathy.

The flip side comes from the likes of Ondo. Honestly, I had never heard of this artist before, but I’m surprised how they could be kept a secret. Killer sounds! It’s an extreme soundtrack of menace, desolation, and despair via tangled strings, intensely slicing and deeply penetrating droning loops, and industrial rustlings. A refreshing disclosure of an artist’s internal struggle. Three tracks that just nail it. They successfully accomplish their mission of fear and dread with the precision of a scalpel as opposed to Nekrasov’s messy and over concerted chainsaw approach. Yet, both artists are incredible and are mutually complementary to one another. I might venture to say that Ondo is a bit more gloom and doom than Nekrasov. Nekrasov is slightly drier in his approach to cloaking the tracks in bleakness, whereas Ondo is heavier handed in its black noise and horror approach. Very strong, very calculated, very anchored.

An essential chunk of wax for the coming dark days of winter. This is especially the case since the price has dropped to an irresistible $8 postage paid, due to the closing of the PM store. Go check out the store and pick up not only some great aural devastation but also some great visuals. I recognize one of the designs from Nekrasov on the glossy insert with his trademark complex and highly engineered graphics that almost look like a blueprint for an elaborate trap. Not to mention the vinyl is thick. I was surprised how weighty it felt. Don’t miss this!"

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=18567

OMG Vinyl om Nekrasov/Ondo splitten

"Since it started, Sal Giorgi’s Peasant Magik label has been an amazing source for dark experimental music, often bringing attention to some of the scene’s most underrated acts. We were sad to hear that Sal will soon be closing up shop, his label will be greatly missed. It’s fitting that one of their last releases is the giant split from Nekrasov and Ondo, a record they’ve been working on for three years. Nekrasov’s half is a side-long helping of tumultuous, unsettling drone, the stuff nightmares are made of. On the flip, Ondo brings three tracks of pure blacked tones, as dark as it gets. If there’s ever been a label worth supporting, PM is it, especially on their way out the door."

http://www.omgvinyl.com/2011/07/14/nekrasov-ondo-split-lp/

jojo, nu händer det grejer

Snart!

Snart dags för släpp av Ondo/Nekrasov LP:n. Om jag inte minns helt fel så var det tänkt att den skulle släppas redan under 2009 men av många anledningar blev allt uppskjutet. Amerikanska hedersknyffel-bolaget Peasant Magik släpper den. Limiterad till 300 ex. 180 grams vinyl med urtjusigt omslag gjort av Industrie Chimère Noire. Jag är väldigt nöjd med min sida av LP:n (trots att låtarna som sagt har några år på nacken) och Nekrasov är precis lika bra som alltid.

Ute om en vecka eller två. Mer info senare.