12/27/2009

End of year list - 2009



30 albums which made my year brighter & darker:


LEYLAND KIRBY - 'SADLY, THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS' TRILOGY (History Always Favours the Winners)

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Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (Type)
Elm - Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)
Gnaw their tongues - All the dread magnificence of perversity (At war with false noise)
Expo 70 - White Ohms (Peasant Magik)
William Basinski - 92982 (2062)
Locrian - Drenched Lands (At war with false noise)
Cold Cave - Love comes close (Matador)
Svarte Greiner - Kappe (Miasmah)

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Ben Frost - By the throat (Bedroom Community)
Mika Vainio - Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black telephone of matter (Touch)
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Chord - Flora (Neurot)
Jason Crumer - Walk with me (Misanthrophic Agenda)
Current 93 - Aleph at hallucinatory mountain (Coptic Cat)
Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
Animal Hospital - Memory (Barge)
Peter Wright - Snow Blind/ An angel fell where the kestrel hover (Install/Spekk)
Benjamin Finger - Woods of Broccoli (How is Annie)
Last days - The Safety of North (n5MD)
Saito Koji - Beautiful (Semlabel)
Æthenor - Faking Gold and Murder (VHF)
Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
Dälek - Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
Pyramids with Nadja (Hydra Head)
Wolves in the throne room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Shall I download a black hole and offer it to you (Blast First Petite)
36 - Hypersona (3six Recordings)



Some favourite labels of the year: Phantom Channel, Type, Kranky, Hospital Productions, Neurot, Miasmah, Ipecac, At war with false noise, Monorail Trespassing, Digitalis

Klang vol. 138 [27.12.2009] : Darker years to come



1) Steve Gunn - Mustapha's Exit / Boerum Place (Three Lobed Recordings, 2009)
2) Evan Caminiti - Midnight's Road / Psychic Mud Shrine (Digitalis, 2009)
3) Sean McCann - Branch Chambers pt.1 / A wind in their way (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)
4) Locrian - Obsolete elegy in cast concrete / Drenched Lands (At war with false noise, 2009)
5) Wolves in the throne room - Wanderer above the sea of fog / Black Cascade (Southern Lord, 2009)
6) Jack Rose - Cross the north fork / The Black Dirt Sessions (Three Lobed Recordings, 2009)
7) Coil- Tainted Love / Scatology (Force and Form,1984)


Artwork: 1989 New years card from Coil

12/20/2009

Klang vol. 137 [20.12.2009] : Doomed


1) Pyramids with Nadja - Sound of ice and grass / Pyramids with Nadja (Hydra Head, 2009)
2) Isis - False Light / Live 5: 07.23.06 (Hydra Head, 2009)
3) Locrian - Greyfield Shrines / Drenched Lands (At war with false noise, 2009)


Link for last week's show: http://rapidshare.com/files/320711554/Klang0612.mp3.html

12/13/2009

Klang vol. 136 [13.12.2009] : Maze of Scars


1) Xasthur - Maze of Oppression / All Reflections Drained (Hydra Head, 2009)
2) Shrinebuilder - Pyramide of the moon / Shrinebuilder (Neurot, 2009)
3) Xela - I drowned her in a dreamless sleep / Tsuki no seika: Vol 1 (Root Strata, 2009)
4) Tephra - Through our veins / Tephra (Riptide, 2005)
5) Zelienople - Water Saw / Give it up (Type, 2009)
6) Zelienople - All i want is calm / Give it up (Type, 2009)
7) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Firewater / Out of noise (Rhythm Republic, 2009)
8) Xasthur - Achieve Emptiness Part II / All Reflections Drained (Hydra Head, 2009)


Background music: Grouper - Pale through / Tsuki no seika: Vol 1 (Root Strata, 2009)


Halls and walls of consequence deem endless,
where hope is the art of lying to yourself.

You're a lost fucking cause in a vicious circle of endless rape.

You've raped yourself in front of the mirrors I held before you
running from a future and leaving a maze of scars

11/29/2009

Klang vol. 134 [29.11.2009]: Silent City

1) Keijo - Got to go / Here they come (Reverb Worship, 2009)
2) Inverz - New found lands, new found cities / Slow (Phantom Channel, 2009)
3) Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider - Silent City / Silent City (World Village, 2009)

Background music: Inverz - Slow / Slow (Phantom Channel, 2009)

link for last week's show: http://rapidshare.com/files/314012685/klang221109.mp3.html

11/19/2009

Klang vol. 133 [22.11.2009]: Shock Therapy


1) Mika Vainio - Teutons / Vandal EP (Raster-Noton, 2009)
2) Cold Cave - Now that i'm in the future / Death comes close EP (Matador, 2009)
3) Bugskull - Remarkably human - Communication (Digitalis, 2009)
4) Bugskull - Squeeky bagpipe - Communication (Digitalis, 2009)
5) Bugskull - Exposed wires - Communication (Digitalis, 2009)
6) Tonstartssbandth - Haughty Deb / Dick nights (Dœs Are, 2009)
7) Tonstartssbandth - Subtropic Glem Rock / Dick nights (Dœs Are)
8) Justice Yeldham - March of the bodypumpers
9) Test Dept.& The South Wales Striking Miners Choir - Shockwork / Shoulder to shoulder (Ministry of Power, 1985)
10)Test Dept.& The South Wales Striking Miners Choir - Fuel to fight /Shoulder to shoulder
(Ministry of Power, 1985)

Background music: Bugskull - Communication / Communication (Digitalis, 2009)

Justice Yeldham And The Dynamic Ribbon Device - Birthdays Album Cover

http://rapidshare.com/files/320482138/Klang151109.mp3.html

11/14/2009

Klang vol. 132 [15.11.2009]: Rewind


1) Black to Comm - Void / Alphabet 1968 (Type, 2009)
2) Black to Comm - Houdini Rites / Alphabet 1968 (Type, 2009)
3) Peter Wright - River Lea Time Lapse / An angel fell where the kestrel hover (Spekk, 2009)
4) Peter Wright - Lavender Buzz / An angel fell where the kestrel hover (Spekk, 2009)
5) Peter Wright - Fell asleep here / An angel fell where the kestrel hover (Spekk, 2009)
6) Black to Comm - Forst / Alphabet 1968 (Type, 2009)
7) Expo 70 - Mother universe birthed her last cosmos (excerpt) (Universal Tongue, 2009)
8) Remora - Misdirection / Derivative (Silber, 2009)
9) Remora - All our times have come / Derivative (Silber, 2009)

Background music: Black to Comm - Hotel Freund / Alphabet 1968 (Type, 2009)
Black to Comm album cover

Link for 08.11.2009: http://rapidshare.com/files/307569897/Klang081109.mp3.html

11/08/2009

Klang vol. 131 [01.11.2009]: Shell of a man forgotten his human form again





1) Sir Richard Bishop - Taqasim for Omar / The Freak of Araby (Drag City, 2009)
2) Elm - Nemcatacoa / Nemcatacoa (Digitalis, 2009)
3) Gnaw their tongues - i hear only the clanking of the scythe (Burning World/Crucial Blast, 2009)
4) Gnaw their tongues - The stench of dead horses on my breath and the vile of existence in my hands (Burning World/Crucial Blast, 2009)
5) Elm - Silver dust in moonlight / Nemcatacoa (Digitalis, 2009)
6) Elm - Deep Mirage / Nemcatacoa (Digitalis, 2009)
7) Rosetta - Deneb / The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss, 2005)
8) Rosetta - Au pays natal / The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss/Crucial Blast, 2005)


Artwork by Markus Putze



When God's work of creating has ceased; when the heavens have
disappeared and the stars are quenched; when spirits rise from
their retreats and wander in the depths with sighs and groans;
then, what unpicturable delight for thee! Then shalt thou sit on
the eternal thrones of heaven and of hell--shalt overthrow the
planets, stars, and worlds--shalt loose thy steed in fields of
emeralds and diamonds--shalt make his litter of the wings torn
from the angels,--shalt cover him with the robe of righteousness!
Thy saddle shall be broidered with the stars of the empyrean,--and
then thou wilt destroy it! After thou hast annihilated everything,
--when naught remains but empty space,--thy coffin shattered and
thine arrows broken, then make thyself a crown of stone from
heaven's highest mount, and cast thyself into the abyss of oblivion.
Thy fall may last a million aeons, but thou shalt die at last.
Because the world must end; all, all must die,--except Satan!
Immortal more than God! I live to bring chaos into other worlds!


from 'The Dance of Death'(1838), Gustave Flaubert

(samples from the poem featured in Gnaw Their Tongues track 'The stench of dead horses on my breath and the vile of existence in my hands')



link for last week's show: http://rapidshare.com/files/300979004/klang0111.mp3.html

11/01/2009

Klang downloadable. Finally!

Another change for the new season. After 2,5 years of laziness Klang is finally in download-format. I'm gonna upload every show the next week after the broadcast. Please send me a message if there's any problem by downloading. (klangkomplex@gmail.com or chat-box)


Yeni sezonda yeni bir değişiklik daha... 2,5 yıllık tembelliğin ardından nihayet Klang'ı indirilebilir formatta bulabileceksiniz. Her programın linkini yayın tarihinin 1 hafta sonrasında sitede yayınlayacağım. İndirmeyle ilgili herhangi bir sorun yaşarsanız lütfen haberdar edin. (klangkomplex@gmail.com ya da chat-box üzerinden)

Time change or time to change

Starting with this Sunday Klang will be broadcasted every Sunday night at 01:00. (Not at 23:00 as usual) Which means 'harder, heavier, bloodier'.

Yeni yayın dönemiyle birlikte Klang artık her Pazar gecesi 23:00 yerine 01:00'da yayında olacak. Daha sert ve daha ağır seslerle...

Klang vol. 130 [01.11.2009]




1) Sutcliffe Jügend - When Pornography is no longer enough / When pornography is no longer enough (Death Factory, 1998)
2)Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. / Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. (Some Bizarre, 1983)
3) Steven R. Smith - Distance and passing / Cities (Immune, 2009)
4) Steven R. Smith - The Road / Cities (Immune, 2009)
5) Ben Frost - Killshot / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)
6) Ben Frost - Through the glass of the roof / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)
7) Ben Frost - Through the roof of your mouth / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)
8) Ben Frost - Through the mouth of your eye / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)
9) Wolf Eyes - Cellar / Always Wrong (Hospital Productions, 2009)
10) Ulaan Khol - II,4 / II (Soft Abuse, 2008)
11) Ben Frost - Híbakúsja / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)

Background music: Ben Frost - Leo needs a new pair of shoes / By the Throat (Bedroom Community, 2009)


Drawings by Oswald Tschirtner


Link for vol. 127 : http://rapidshare.com/files/301100474/Klang_25.11.09.mp3.html

10/11/2009

Klang vol. 128 [11.10.2009]: Listen to the screams coming out of my wounds


1) Jesu - Morning Light / Opiate Sun (Caldo Verde, 2009)
2) Valborg - Occult Fog / Glorification of Pain (Vendlus, 2009)
3) Overmars - Born again (Appease Me, 2007 / Crucial Blast, 2009)


Artwork by Alexandra Hopf




BORN AGAIN

I’m looking at my wounds and draw them aside.
Wider. Deeper.
My hand’s plunged inside, twisting the knife.
Seeing the plague’s face taking shape doesn’t scare me anymore.
Seeing the plague coming out of my wounds liberates me.
I’m close to dying a thousand times
But this time I allowed myself to cry.
Rivers of salt to feel lighter than a feather.
Why the contact with the ground should be painful if I know I’m falling ?
Arms in a cross, ready to absorb the shock.
I just know I can’t go lower.
There is no under.
Just me, myself and I.
And the will to stay or to climb.
Light is brighter from the dark
And I want to kiss the sun.
Not to drown in what’s supposed to make me breathe.
I, born again.
Listen to the screams coming out of my wounds, free from the plague.
Listen to the screams coming out of the hole, holding the sound of joy and pleasure.
Listen to my screams announcing the birth of a new man.
I, born again.
Until the bell tolls, nothing’s finished, nothing’s done.
Until the bell tolls, I am immortal.

10/03/2009

Klang vol. 127 [04.10.2009] : From substance to silence



1) Pelican - An inch above the sand / What we all come to need (Southern Lord, 2009)
2) Nadja - Green&Cold / Belles Bêtes (Beta-Lactam Ring, 2009)
3) Thomas Köner - 33° 31' N 36° 19' E Hour Six / La Barca (Fario, 2009)
4) Thomas Köner - 30° 3' N 31° 14' E Hour Eight / La Barca (Fario, 2009)
5) Talvihorros - Death of a dream / Some ambulance (Benbecula, 2009)
6) Talvihorros - Hope/Again/Sleep / Some ambulance (Benbecula, 2009)
7) Thomas Köner - 31° 46' N 35° 13' E Hour Ten / La Barca (Fario, 2009)
8) Minsk - Requem from Substance to Silence / With echoes in the movement of stone (Relapse, 2009)

Drawing by Luis Vidal
www.luisvidalweb.com

9/27/2009

Klang vol. 126 [27.09.2009]: Blackout



1) Fuck Buttons - Rough Steez / Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)
2) Rameses III - The Kindness in Letting Go / I could not love you more (Type, 2009)
3) Hush Arbors - So they say / Yankee Reality (Ecstatic Peace, 2009)
4) Wereju - Not who i thought you were / Fairtytale Ending (Reverb Worship, 2009)
5) Year of no light (with Fear Falls Burning) - Les Mains De L'empereur & The Golden Horn Of The Moon / Live at roadburn (Roadburn Records, 2009)

Newspaper Blackout Poems by Austin Kleon
www.austinkleon.com




9/17/2009

Klang vol. 125 [20.09.2009]: Might hurt a bit



1) Dialing in - We burn our stillborns / The Islamic Bomb (Music Fellowship, 2009)
2) Dialing in - Griselda plans her revenges / The Islamic Bomb (Music Fellowship, 2009)
3) Austere - This Dreadful Emptiness / To lay like old ashes (Eisenwald Toschmiede)
4) Ekca Liena - Strange Dusk / Orb Night (Phantom Channel, 2009)
5) Cult of Luna - Back to chapel town / Somewhere long the highway (Earache, 2006)
6) Cult of Luna - Finland / Somewhere along the highway (Earache, 2006)

Artwork: 'The Islamic Bomb' album cover



The album name 'The Islamic Bomb' reminded me of a very meaningful and courageus short film by Sean Penn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8LfW1N7rQ&feature=PlayList&p=4837044D2BA542A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54

9/12/2009

Klang vol. 124 [13.09.2009]: it'll swallow you whole.


1) OM - Cremation Ghat I / God is Good (Drag City, 2009)
2) OM - Meditation is the practice of death / God is Good (Drag City, 2009)
3) Evangelista - You are jaguar / Price of truth (Constellation, 2009)
4) Evangelista - Slayer / Price of truth (Constellation ,2009)
5) Baroness - The Sweetest Curse / Blue Record (Relapse, 2009)
6) Rambutan - Middle Altar / Blue Infinity (Stunned, 2009)
7) Heavy Winged - Transparent Vapor / Shaking, Waking (Aurora Borealis)


All excerpts taken from Nate Powell graphic novel 'Swallow me Whole'





9/05/2009

Klang vol. 123 [06.09.2009] : The Road



1)Sparklehorse + Fennesz - Goodnight Sweetheart / In the Fishtank 15
2)Sparklehorse + Fennesz - If my heart / In the Fishtank 15
3)Vic Chesnutt - Coward / At the cut (Constellation, 2009)
4)Vic Chesnutt - Philip Guston / At the cut (Consellation, 2009)
5)Sharon van Etten - Consolation Prize / Because i was in love (Language of stone, 2009)
6)Sharon van Etten - For You / Because i was in love (Language of stone, 2009)
7)Noveller - Telecin / Paint on the shadows (No Fun, 2009)
8)Noveller - Salt on sand / Paint on the shadows (No Fun, 2009)
9)Ian Williams - No more shall we roam / Bible Black Heart (Adventure Club, 2009)
10) Jim O' Rourke - The Visitor (after min. 25) (Drag City, 2009)


First photo (Americana Photography) by Denise Tarantino (www.dentinophoto.com)
Second (New York 2001, Ground Zero) by James Nachtwey (www.jamesnachtwey.com)



"The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anynymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell. The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes. Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.

...

Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."

from 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy

8/26/2009

Klang vol. 122 [30.08.2009] : This is not about everything



1) Blues Control - Good Morning / Local Flavor (Siltbreeze, 2009)
2) William Fowler Collins - Grave Robbing in Texas / Perdition Hill Radio (Type, 2009)
3) Tulasi - Untitled 2 / Huomen Tuone (Troglosound, 2009)
4) Tulasi - Untitled 7 / Huomen Tuone (Troglosound, 2009)
5) Yellow Swans with John Wiese - Evicted CDR / Portable Duns (Helicopter, 2009)
6) Yellow Swans with John Wiese - Disco Girlfriend / Portable Duns (Helicopter, 2009)
7) Robedoor - Magic Tar Pit Ride / Exorcist Blues (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)

Artworks by Liz Harris (a.k.a. Grouper)
(Second one for the 'Portable Duns' cover)




A Vast Confusion


Long long I lay in the sands

Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a vast muttering
a swelling stuttering
in ocean's speakers
world's voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked echoing
a shocking shouting
of all life's voices lost in night
And the tape of it
someow running backwards now
through the Moog Synthesizer of time
Chaos unscrambled
back to the first
harmonies
And the first light


poem by Lawrance Ferlinghetti

8/23/2009

Klang vol. 121 [23.08.2009] : Above the humdrum noise that consumes the air


1) Pefkin - Third Part / Zugunruhe (Sound&Fury, 2009)
2) Pefkin - Ancient wings from the printing store / Zugunruhe (Sound&Fury, 2009)
3) Danny Nordbury - This night is for you and for me / Light in august (Lacies, 2009)
4) Redjetson - Questions i don't want to ask / Other Arms (Gizeh, 2009)
5) Bloody Panda - Gold / Summon (Profound Lore, 2009)
6) Nurse with wound - The Golden Age of Telekinesis / The Surveillance Lounge (United Dirter, 2009)

Artwork by Roberto Kusterie



TEMPEST
Edwin Torres
We will storm our planes on you.
—Osama bin Laden


everyone will feel better
hearing what you are saying
since what you are saying
no one told you to say
everyone will feel better
hearing what you are saying
since what you are saying
no one told you to say

a number of people
have gathered and stopped
for whatever it takes
to say what you say
a number of people
have gathered and stopped
for whatever it takes
to say what you say

something is happening
that hasn't been seen
making what happens
the opposite of seeing
something is happening
that hasn't been seen
making what happens
the opposite of seeing

saying what there is
in a time like now
means never knowing time
if time can be right
saying what there is
in a time like now
means never knowing time
if time can be right

it is your job
to witness your world
to tell who will listen
so they listen like you
it is your job
to witness your world
to tell who will listen
so they listen like you


we will storm you with words
you will have an entire ocean
we will make you our raindrop
you will have no umbrella
we will teach you our water
you will drown in our words
we will give you an ocean
you will swim in our wash
we will make you our rain
you will have no umbrella
we will water your ocean
you will drown in our words
we will swim in your storm
you will rain in our ocean
we will teach you our water
you will drown in our words

8/16/2009

Klang vol. 120 [16.09.2009] : La vida no vale nada




1) El Heath - Thee Wind, Thee / Wind, Thee Wind (Records on ribs, 2009)
2) El Heath - Wind, Thee Wind/ Wind, Thee Wind (Records on ribs, 2009)
3) El Heath - Shadows on the carpet / Reflecting (Ambient and Loop Tracks, Autumn 2006) (Phantom Channel)
4) On (Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess reworked by Deathprod) - In the forest of the night / Your naked ghost comes back at night (Type, 2009)
5) El Heath - Waves "Goodbye" ("Good Luck!" Mix) / A (Rather) dead see liner (Dead sea liner, 2008)
6) Fashion - You only left your picture / Fabrique (Arista, 1982)
7) Nadja - The sun always shines on TV (A-Ha) / When i see the sun always shines on TV (The End, 2009)
8) Cold Cave - Cebe and Me / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
9) Cold Cave - I.C.D.K. / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
10) Deerhunter - Oh, it's such a shame / Jay Reatard/Deerhunter Split (Matador, 2008)
11) Cold Cave - Heaven was full / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
12) Nadja - Needle in the hay (Elliott Smith) / When i see the sun always shines on TV (The End, 2009)




“He who thinks he is bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery, there he will see what life really is. It is a handful of dirt, a handful of dust…”

From the amazing movie 'The Limits of Control' by Jim Jarmusch



Photography by Greg Sand

8/09/2009

Klang vol. 119 [07.09.2009] : Memories blending


1) Sleeping Me - Kinski for Halloween / Lamenter (Phantom Channel, 2009)
2) Sleeping Me - Northern Pacific / Lamenter (Phantom Channel, 2009)
3) Six Organs of Admittance - Anesthesia / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
4) Pumice - The Dawn Chorus of Kina / Persevere (Soft Abuse, 2009)
5) Murcof - I.IV. / La Sangre Iluminada (2009)
6) Six Organs of Admittance - Cover your wounds with the sky / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
7) Don Peyote - Etheric Soma / Eternal Now (Don Peyote Recordings, 2009)
8) Six Organs of Admittance - Enemies before the light / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
9) Mika Vainio - Hautaa Hevosen Pää / Bury a horse's head / Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch, 2009)

Photography by Robert and Shana Parkeharrison
http://www.parkeharrison.com/

13 questions from Pauline Oliveros' Hörspiel 'Ear Piece'

1) Are you listening now?
2) Are you listening to what you are now hearing?
3) Are you hearing while you listen?
4) Are you listening while you are hearing?
5) Do you remember the last sound you heard before this question?
6) What will you hear in the near future?
7) Can you hear now and also listen to your memory of an old sound?
8) What causes you to listen?
9) Do you hear yourself in your daily life?
10) Do you have healthy ears?
11) If you could hear any sound you want, what would it be?
12) Are you listening to sounds now or just hearing them?
13) What sound is most meaningful to you?

8/02/2009

Klang vol. 118 [02.08.2009] : Difficulty in getting to heaven



1) Part Timer - Untitled 2 / Tape Recordings (Self-Released, 2009)
2) Part Timer - Untitled 5 / Tape Recordings (Self-Released, 2009)
3) Dead letters spell out dead Words - When she's gone / Fall,fall,falling (Kalligrammofon, 2007)
4) The Archivist - The End / The Archivist EP (2007)
5) The Mars Volta - With twilight as my guide / Octahedron (Warner, 20099
6) Ramleh - TMOTL (Unreleased)
7) Ramleh - Untitled 3&4 (Unreleased)
8) The Archivist - Street Night Om / The Archivist EP (2007)
9) Boduf Songs - That Angel was fucking piss / 'The Strait Gait' Or 'A Great Difficulty In Getting To Heaven' (Latitudes, 2009)
10) Boduf Songs - Deathbed triumphs of eminent lackwits / There's something hanging above you (Under the spire, 2009)

Free Downloads
Ramleh: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2624/
The Archivist: http://www.iamthearchivist.com/music.htm


First photo by Man Ray, second one by Francesca Woodman


"Desire not thou, dear my soul, a life immortal, but use the tools that are to thine hand." Pindar

"It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough." Albert Camus

7/26/2009

Klang vol. 117 [26.07.2009] : Bleed for me




1) Jackie-O Motherfucker - The Corner / Ballads of the revolution (Fire, 2009)
2) Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Untitled 9 / Shall i download a black hole and offer it to you (Blast First Petite, 2009)
3) Chameleoness - Yes Now, No Later / Project Housing (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)
4) Marine Rape - Poor Choices / Project Housing (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)
5) 36 - Juliet / Hypersona (3six Recordings, 2009)
6) 36 - Nephyr / Hypersona (3six Recordings, 2009)
7) David Tagg - Harmonic Exchange / The Lingering Path (Waterscape, 2009)
8) Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Untitled 2 / Shall i download a black hole and offer it to you (Blast First Petite, 2009)
9) 36 - Forever / Hypersona (3six Recordings, 2009)
10) Jackie-O Motherfucker - A Mania / Ballads of the revolution (Fire, 2009)


BLOODY PAINTINGS BY MIKE EGAN
www.eganpaintings.com


You've heard the story of Jesse James
Of how he lived and died
If you're still in need
Of something to read
Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang
I'm sure you all have read
How they rob and steal
And those who squeal
Are usually found dyin' or dead.

They call them cold-hearted killers
They say they are heartless and mean
But I say this with pride
That I once knew Clyde
When he was honest and upright and clean.

But the laws fooled around
Kept takin' him down
And lockin' him up in a cell
Till he said to me: "I'll never be free
So I'll meet a few of them in Hell."

If a policeman is killed in Dallas
And they have no clue to guide
If they can't find a fiend
They just wipe their slate clean
And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde

If they try to act like citizens
And rent them a nice little flat
About the third night
They're invited to fight
By a sub-guns' rat-a-tat-tat.

Some day, they'll go down together
They'll bury them side by side
To a few, it'll be grief
To the law, a relief
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

Poem read aloud by Bonnie Parker - from the movie 'Bonnie & Clyde' ('67) by Arthur Penn

7/18/2009

Klang vol. 116 [19.07.2009] : One Bad Day



1) Super Minerals - Folkmelt / The Vooh (The Offices Of Moore And Moore)
2) Gregg Kowalsky - IX / Tape Chants (Kranky, 2009)
3) Cam Deas - As spring fell from the leaves / My guitar is alive and it's singing (Blackest Rainbow, 20009)
4) Amenra - Silver Needle Golden Nail / Mass III (Hypertension, 2008)
5) Expo '70 - Sleeping Corpse (A1-Into Body, A2-Cold Forecasting, A3- Breaking the Dirt) / Psychosis (Peasant Magik, 2009)



'All it takes is One Bad Day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where i am. Just one bad day.'

'Ladies and gentlemen! You've read about it in the newspapers!Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you the average man! Physically unremarkable, it has instead a deformed set of values. Notice the hideously bloated sense of humanity's importance. The club footed social conscience and the withered optimism. Most repulsive of all, are its frail and useless notions of order and sanity. If too much weight is placed upon them they snap. How does this poor, pathetic specimen survive in today's harsh and irrational world? The sad answer is "not very well".'

Joker's monologue from 'The Killing Joke' (1988) by Alan Moore & Brian Bolland



1.From 'The Killing Joke'
2.Poster for 'Psychosis' LP by Ashley Lande

7/05/2009

Klang vol. 114 [05.07.2009]: Rebirth from the ashes


1) Stephen Burroughs - Goodbye Darling / Che (Southern Lord, 2009)
2) Sunn O))) & Pan Sonic - Che / Che (Southern Lord, 2009)
3) Biosphere - Shenzou / Wireless - Live at the Arnolfini, Bristol (Touch, 2009)
4) Chord - E9 / Flora (Neurot, 2009)
5) Bohren und Der Club of Gore - Mitleid Lady (Latitudes, 2009)
6) Chord - Gmaj (flat13) / Flora (Neurot, 2009)

6/26/2009

Klang vol. 113 [28.06.2009]: Poisoned to my rotten core



1) Ignatz - The remaining light / A Canine and a kitten in the car (Goaty Tapes, 2009)
2) Ignatz - The woman helped him / A Canine and a kitten in the car (Goaty Tapes, 2009)
3) Nadja - Long dark twenties (Slighly extended 7" Version) / Numbness (Happy Prince, 2009)
4) Work/Death - May the universe provide, or not / Ruptural Strictures (Arbor, 2009)
5) I.U.D. - Girls just wanna (time to have sex) / The Proper Sex (The Social Registry, 2009)
6) Jason Crumer - Luscious Voluptuous Pregnant / Walk with me (Misanthropic Agenda, 2009)

Photography by Nir Hod

6/18/2009

Klang vol. 112 [21.06.2009] : Right where it belongs


1) Bvdub - To Live (Smallfish, 2009)
2) Saito Koji - Beautiful (SEM, 2009)

Photography by Nobuyoshu Araki

6/13/2009

Klang vol. 111 [14.06.2009] : It's not my dream anymore. It's ours.


1) Cold Cave - Heavenly metals / Cremations (Hospital Productions, 2009)
2) Aaron Martin - Orchard / Seed Collection (Mobeer, 2009)
3) Part Timer - Seeds Collection (Seed Recollection) / Seed Collection (Mobeer, 2009)
4) Cold Cave - E Dreams / Cremations (Hospital Productions, 2009)
5) Cold Cave - Love You Forever / Cremations (Hospital Productions, 2009)
6) Pelican - Geometry of Murder / Ephemeral (Southern Lord, 2009)
7) Matrix Metals - Tanning Salon / Flamingo Breeze (Not not fun, 2009)
8) Cold Cave - Mag dreams / Cremations (Hospital Productions, 2009)
9) Cold Cave - Cursed by the cross / Cremations (Hospital Productions, 2009)
10) Gareth Davis & Stephen R. Smith - A Relic / Westering (Important, 2009)
11) Gareth Davis & Stephen R. Smith - The Pulpit / Westering (Important, 2009)

background music: Final - Green / Reading all the right signals wrong (No Quarter, 2009)

Photography by Kate Bernauer

6/07/2009

Klang vol. 110 [07.06.2009] : Who'll walk with me in these woods?



1)Es - Haamut Sun Sydämestä / Kesämaan Lapset (Fonal, 2009)
2)Risto - Elävä Ihmisjumala / Sähköhäiriöön (Fonal, 2009)
3)Shogun Kunitoki - Nebulus / Vinonaamakasio (Fonal, 2009)
4)Mudboy - Lil John Carpenter Tribute Song (Extreme Animals) / MUDMUX vol. 1 (DNT, 2008)
5)Anahita - Chalice of Cypress / Matricaria (Important, 2009)
6)James Blackshaw - Cross / The Glass Bead Game (Young God, 2009)
7)Current 93 - 6 April 2007 / Aleph at hallucinatory mountain (Coptic Cat, 2009)
8)Current 93 - Invocation of almost / Aleph at hallucinatory mountain (Coptic Cat, 2009)

Photography by Peter Beste - from 'True Norwegian Black Metal' series

5/28/2009

Klang vol. 109 [31.05.2009]: Dim Lights, thick smoke


1) Pumice - Twin Neck Double Kick Bum Chin / Grouper & Pumice Split EP (Soft Abuse, 2009)
2) Grouper - Rising Height / Grouper & Pumice Split EP (Soft Abuse, 2009)
3) Sunn O))) - Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] / Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord, 2009)
4) The Skull Defekts - Six Sixes / The Temple (Important, 2009)
5) Ilyas Ahmed - Some of None / Goner (Root Strata, 2009)
6) Ilyas Ahmed - Exit Twilight / Goner (Root Strata, 2009)
7) Isis - Threshold of Transformation / Wavering Radiant (Ipecac, 2009)

5/21/2009

Klang vol. 108 [24.05.2009] : Schokofabrik


1) Mark Templeton - Oak / Inland (Anticipate, 2009)
2) Mark Templeton - Even you can tell / Inland (Anticipate, 2009)
3) The Archivist - You are made of stardust / The Keeper of the Library (Lacies, 2009)
4) Torngat - 6:23 PM / Le Petite Nicole (Alien8, 2009)
5) Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - On the beach boys bus / Gok (Geographic)
6) Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Time takes me so back / Gok (Geographic)
7) Animal Hospital - Novel Moments / Good or Plenty, Streets and Avenue (Mutable Sound, 2009)
8) Animal Hospital - Baryard Creeps / Good or Plenty, Streets and Avenue (Mutable Sound, 2009)
9) Peter Wright - Snow Blind / Snow Blind (Install, 2009)
10) Peter Wright - Follow the leader / Snow Blind (Install, 2009)
11) Melodium - Bonne Nuit / Lullabies for adults (Self released, 2009)

5/17/2009

Klang vol. 107 [17.05.2009]: Drink Demon


1) Peaking Lights - Intro to Imaginary Falcons / Imaginary Falcons (Not not fun, 2009)
2) Peaking Lights - Boy and the rabbit band / Imaginary Falcons (Not not fun, 2009)
3) Rambutan - Bat Star / Rusted Prayers Converge (Tape Drift, 2008)
4) Hannu - Unenvieja / Hintergarten (Kesh, 2009)
5) Scott Tuma & Mike Weiss - Rubadub - Taradiddle (Digitalis, 2009)
6) Jasper TX - They've flown away and left us here / Singing Stones (Fang Bomb, 2009)
7) Pixies - Monkey gone to heaven / 05 August: Newport, RI (The Show, 2005)
8) Jasper TX & Anduin - Like the footprints of an invisible man / The Bending of light (SMGT, 2009)
9)Peaking Lights - Owls barning / Imaginary Falcons (Not not fun, 2009)

5/02/2009

Klang vol. 105 [03.05.2009]: Spaced-out



1) Valet - Rainbow / False face society (Mexican Summer, 2009)
2) Wouter Veldhuis - Liquid Piano / Satumaa (Waterscape, 2009)
3) Monks of the balhill & A man and a guitar- l'homme sans chapeau / Beyond the map (A beard of snails, 2009)
4) Monks of the balhill & A man and a guitar - Le chat la chouette et le coyote / Beyond the map (A beard of snails, 2009)
5) Steve Hauschildt - What One Does to Another / Critique of the beautiful (Gneiss Things, 2009)
6) Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Joy Maker Machinery / Twice born Men (Samadhisound, 2009)
7) Ethan Rose - Fortunate / Oaks (Baskaru, 2009)
8) Expo'70 - Serenity / White Ohms (Peasant Magik, 2009)

4/26/2009

Klang vol. 104 [19.04.2009]: Midnight Sun


1) Last Days - Thoughts of Alice / The Safety of North (n5MD, 2009)
2) Last Days - Fracture / The Safety of North (n5MD, 2009)
3) SubtractiveLAD - Away form brightness / Where the land meets the sky (n5MD, 2009)
4) St. Kilda - Clutching At Straws / St. Kilda EP (Phantom Channel, 2009)
5) Speck Mountain - Shame on the soul /Speck Mountain (Carrot Top Records, 2009)
6) Greg Haines & Wouter van Veldhoven - On Waiting / Three Days of Fever (Eat this Media, 2008)
7) Greg Haines & Wouter van Veldhoven - On Buildings / Three Days of Fever (Eat this Media, 2008)
8) Last Days - This is not an ending / The Safety of North (n5MD, 2009)

4/15/2009

Klang vol. 103 [19.04.2009]: Slow Motion


1) Lawrence English - The Surface of everything / A Colour for autumn (12k, 2009)
2) Mokira - Contour / Persona (Type, 2009)
3) Gudrun Gut - Harz4Schleife / Apples & Pears and Deer in Poland (Monika, 2009)
4) Gudrun Gut - Apples and Pears / Apples & Pears and Deer in Poland (Monika, 2009)
5) Cyne - Money Parade / Pretty Dark Things (Hometapes, 2008)
6) Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree - Dug In / Balance (12k, 2009)
7) Gareth Hardwick - Lost in the memory (Machinefabriek remix) / Aversions (Low Point, 2009)
8) William Basinski - 92982.1 / 92982 (2062, 2009)

Picture by Joel Tettamanti

4/12/2009

Klang vol. 102 [12.04.2009] : Vollmond


1) City Center - This is how we see in the dark / Grouper & City Center Split EP ( No Label, 2009)
2) Grouper - False Horizon / Grouper & City Center Split EP ( No Label, 2009)
3) Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus - Okno / Ballas (Staubgold, 2009)
4) Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus - Bryza / Ballas (Staubgold, 2009)
5) Wooden Shjips - For so long / Dos (Holy Mountain, 2009)
6) Brian Eno - Baby's on fire / Here come the warm jets (Editions EG , 2009)
7) Woods - Born to lose / Songs of shame (Woodsist, 2009)
8) Woods - Rain on / Songs of shame (Woodsist, 2009)
9) Monks of the balhill - And Trudy Trotter Jumped In The Fire / Ten ways to get out of the water

4/05/2009

Klang vol. 101 [05.04.2009] : Clear sky, heavy clouds

1) Rafael Anton Irissari - Hopes and past desires / Hopes and past desires (Immune, 2009)
2) Stephan Mathieu - The key to the kingdom pt.2 / The key to the kingdom (Dekorder, 2009)
3) Hildur Gudnadottir - Into warmer air / Without sinking (Touch, 2009)
4) Pumajaw - Sweet kind of suffering / Favourites (Fire, 2009)
5) Weave! - Little liar / Weave!
6) Weave! - Mouthpiece Hysteria / Weave!
7) Brian Eno&David Byrne - Mea Culpa / My life in the bush of ghosts (Sire Records, 1981)
8) Pumajaw - The Bending Wood / Favourites (Fire, 2009)
9) Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke - Or possibly Köln / Two nice catholic boys (Family Vineyard, 2009)

3/29/2009

Klang vol. 100 [29.03.2009]: 100

1) Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs / Velvet Underground & Nico
2) Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie&Clyde / Bonnie & Clyde
3) Syd Barrett - Late Night / The Madcap Laughs
4) My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes / Loveless
5) Tim Buckley - Song to the siren / Starsailor
6)David Bowie - Subterraneans / Low
7) Brian Eno - Here comes the warmjets / Here comes the warmjets
8)Pink Floyd - Set the controls for the heart of the sun / A Saucerful of Secrets
9)Barış Manço - Dönence / Sözüm Meclisten Dışarı
10)The Velvet Underground - Heroin / Velvet Underground & Nico

3/22/2009

Klang vol. 99 [22.03.2009]


1) Pixel - +40° 42 24.12 -73° 59 51.82 / The Drive (Raster-Noton, 2009)
2) Jacaszek - II / Pentral (Gusstaf, 2009)
3) Jacaszek - V / Pental (Gusstaf, 2009)
4) Wo0 - Rotary Soul Twist - With the flowered minds (Phantom Channel, 2009)
5) Svarte Greiner & Anduin - Black River pt. 1 (SMGT, 2009)
6) Xela - Heirs of the fire 1 / Heirs of the fire (SMGT, 2009)
7) Felix Kubin- Jane B. ertrinkt mit den Pferden / Jane B. ertrinkt mit den Pferden (Diskono, 2001)

3/14/2009

Klang vol. 98 [15.03.2009]: Back home


1) Mamiffer - Cyhraeth / Hirror Enniffer (Hydra Head, 2008)
2) Animal Hospital - And ever... / Memory (Barge, 2009)
3) Humcrush - Stream / Rest at world's end (Rune Grammofon, 2009)
4) Land of Kush - Iceland Spar / Against the day (Constellation, 2009)
5) Tim Hecker - Paragon Point / An imaginary country (Kranky, 2009)
6) Sonic Youth - Rats / Sensational Fix (2009)
7) Tim Hecker - Where Shadows make Shadows / An imaginary country (Kranky, 2009)

3/08/2009

Klang vol.97 [08.03.2009]: Woods of broccoli



1) Neil Young - Guitar Solo 1 / Dead Man OST (Vapor, 1996)
2) Mark Templeton & aAron Munson - Contents are / Acre Loss (Anticipate, 2009)
3) Andrey Kiritchenko - Evening light wrap me softly / Misterrious (Spekk, 2009)
4) Benjamin Finger - Cat yowled weak jaws / Woods of broccoli (How is Annie, 2009)
5) Jarboe - Transmogrification / Mahakali
6) Jarboe - The Soul Continues (feat. Attila Csihar) / Mahakali (The End, 2008)
7) Benjamin Finger - Howl (at the buffalo girls) / Woods of broccoli (How is Annie, 2009)
8) Benjamin Finger - Failing watermath / Woods of broccoli (How is Annie, 2009)
9) Marissa Nadler - The hole is wide / Little Hells (Kemado, 2009)


Woods of broccoli cover art by Christer Sande
Video: http://www.howisannierecords.com/article.php?id=138&p=