10/19/2008

Klang vol. 78 [19.10.2008] : SILENCIO!


1) Steve Gunn - Concrete Beach / Sundowner (Digitalis, 2008)
2) Steve Gunn - Money Train Blues / Sundowner (Digitalis, 2008)
3) Windy&Carl - Champion / Songs for the broken hearted (Kranky, 2008)
4) Rale - Nightside / Nightside/Shadeup (Peasant Magik, 2008)
5) Boduf Songs - Quiet when group / How shadows chase the balance (Kranky, 2008)
6) Boduf Songs - Pitiful shadow engulfed in darkness / How shadows chase the balance (Kranky, 2008)
7) Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Staub / Dolores (Ipecac, 2008)
8) Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Welten / Dolores (Ipecac, 2008)


Picture taken from the Bohren&Der Club of Gore website

10/12/2008

Klang vol. 77 [12.10.2008] : FANTASMA PARASTASIE


Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker / Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8, 2008)

1) Phantom on a pedestal
2) Hymn to the idea of night
3) Auditory spirits
4) Skeleton dance
5) Gallery of the invisible woman
6) Dream of the nightmare
7) Fantasma-Parastasie


Leah Buckareff - Socorro / Trinity (Die Stadt, 2008)

10/05/2008

Klang vol. 76 [05.10.2008] : Everything seemed to be normal



1) Dino Felipe - Chandeliers / No Fun Demo (No Fun Productions, 2008)
2) Eleanoora Rosenholm - Bolly Palkkionmetsästäjä / Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat (Fonal, 2008)
3) John Maus - Love letters from hell / Love is Real (Upset!The Rhythm, 2008)
4) Crystal Stilsts - Coverging In The Quiet / Crystal Stilts (Woodsist, 2008)
5) Zomes - Alll Together / Zomes (Holy Mountain, 2008)
6) Zomes - Night signs / (Holy Mountain, 2008)
7) Zomes - Black Magic Band / (Holy Mountain, 2008)
8) Zomes - Membranous Plane / (Holy Mountain, 2008)
9) Janek Schaefer - Radio Jodoform / Extended Play (Triptych For The Child Survivors Of War And Conflict) (Line, 2008)
10) Mika Vainio - Behind the Radiators / Behind the Radiators (Touch, 2008)
11) Sutcliffe Jügend & Prurient - End of summer / End of autumn (Troubleman Unlimited, 2008)

Background:Dino Felipe - 6 Feet Under / No Fun Demo (No Fun Productions, 2008)

First photograph from the "Road Trip" installation by Janet Cardiff&Geoege Bures Miller
Second one is a video screenshot from Eleanoora Rosenholm's 'Maailmanlopun' music video

9/07/2008

Klang vol. 72 [07.09.2008] : Acqua alta


1) Bovaflux - Blind / Where there was nothing (Highpoint Lowlife, 2005)
2) Bird Show - Mbira, Harp and Voice / Bird Show (Kranky, 2008)
3) E.A.R. - The Calm Beyond / Beyond the Pale (Big Cat Records, 1996)
4) E.A.R. - Dusk / Beyond the Pale (Big Cat Records, 1996)
5) Raglani - Perilous Straits / Of Sirens Born (Kranky, 2008)
6) Eternal Tapestry - Woodland Spirit / Altar of grass (Hyperblasted, 2008)
7) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Envelopes Another Day / The Doldrums (Paw Tracks, 2004)
8) Jasper TX - Black Sleep Part VI / Black Sleep (Miasmah, 2008)

Photography by Francesca Woodman

8/31/2008

Klang vol. 71 [31.08.2008] : Creep backwards



1) Woods Family Creeps - Creeps Collage / Woods Family Creeps (Time-Lag Records, 2008)
2) Woods Family Creeps - Sleep, sleep, sleep / Woods Family Creeps (Time-Lag Records, 2008)
3) Woods Family Creeps - Howling on howling / Woods Family Creeps (Time-Lag Records, 2008)
4) Barn Owl - II / Smoke Loom Ceremony (Blackest Rainbow, 2008)
5) Scott Kelly - Figures / The Wake (Neurot, 2008)
6) Nadja & Black Boned Angel - Christ Send Light (Battlecruiser, 2008)

Background: Barn Owl - II / Smoke Loom Ceremony (Blackest Rainbow, 2008)

Photo by L. Battes Jaffe

8/24/2008

Klang vol. 70 [24.08.2008] : Black snake crawlin' in my room

1) Nico Muhly - Monster / Mothertongue (Bedroom Communmity, 2008)
2) Au - Are Animals / Verbs (Aagoo, 2008)
3) Nudge - My new youth / Cached (Kranky, 2005)
4) Nudge - Remove ya / Cached (Kranky, 2005)
5) Dusk & Blackdown feat. Target - Darker than east (Roll Deep Entourage / Margins Music (Keysound, 2008)
6) Pocahaunted - Ghetto Ballett / Island Diamonds (Arbor, 2008)
7) Daniel Padden - Those Throats / Pause for the jet (Dekorder, 2008)
8) Ascend - Divine / Ample fire within (Southern, 2008)

Background: Pocahaunted - Follow I / Island Diamonds (Arbor, 2008)

8/17/2008

Klang vol. 69 [17.08.2008] : WTF!


1) Brainiac - Nothing ever changes / Hissing pigs in static couture (Touch and go, 1996)
2) Battles - Leyendecker (DJ EMZ Remix feat. Joell Ortiz) / Tonto EP (Warp, 2007)
3) Von Südenfed - That Sound Wiped / Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino, 2007)
4) Depth Affect - Honey Folky / Mesquin EP (Autres directions in music, 2004)
5) Modeselektor - The White Flash / Happy Birthday (BPitch Control, 2008)
6) Subtle - The No / ExitingARM (Lex, 2008)
7) Daedelus - Fair weather friends / Love to make music to (Ninja Tune, 2008)
8) Tocotronic - Imitationen / Kapitulation (Buback, 2007)
9) Milemarker - Shrink to fit /Anaesthetic (Jade Tree, 2001)
10) Saul Williams - WTF! / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!
11) Les Savy Fav - We'll make a lover of you / Inches (French Kiss, 2007)
12) Nine Inch Nails - Only / With Teeth (Interscope, 2008)


Artwork by Annette Messager

8/10/2008

Klang vol.68 [10.08.2008]: May the circle remain unbroken



1) Machinefabriek - Porselein / Dauw (Dekorder, 2008)
2) Machinefabriek - Engineer / Dauw (Dekorder, 2008)
3) Directing Hand - The Temptation / What put the blood (Dancing Wayang, 2008)
4) Asva - A game in hell, hard work in heaven / What you don't know is frontier (Southern Records, 2008)
5) Black to Comm - Air Salon / Fractal hair geometry (Dekorder, 2008)
6) Mv&EE with Willie Lane - Death don't have no mercy / Pray for less (Blackest Rainbow, 2008)

Background: Black to Comm - Orange Record / Fractal hair geometry

8/03/2008

Klang vol. 67 [03.08.2008] : Repeating myself


1) Pumice - Pumice Quo / Quo (Soft Abuse, 2008)
2) Pumice - World with worms / Quo (Soft Abuse, 2008)
3) Einstürzende Neubauten - Mei Ro / The Jewels (Potomak, 2008)
4) My cat is an alien - Blue Beings / Stories from the vacuum (Black Horizons, 2007)
5) Valerio Cosi - Astral Shipwreck (pt.2) / Stories from the vacuum (Black Horizons, 2007)
6) Prurient - Lungs / Arrowhead (Emego, 2008)
7) Machinefabriek & Leo Fabriek - Het waait over / Fabriek + Fabriek (Machinefabriek white label)
8) Belong - Same Places (Slow version) (Table of the elements, 2008)

Background: Machinefabriek & Leo Fabriek - Polderlicht / Fabriek + Fabriek (Machinefabriek white label)

Artwork by Pumice

7/27/2008

Klang vol.66 [27.07.2007] : unreasonably cruel monsoons, chance of anarchy


1) Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Pt. 1) / Ghost Town (Important, 2008)
2) Dan Friel - Singing Sand / Ghost Town (Important, 2008)
3) Raven Chacon - Americana / Overheard songs (Innova, 2006)
4) Odd Nosdam - My Prayer Rug / Pretty Swell Explode (Anticon, 2008)
5) Odd Nosdam - 20th / Pretty Swell Explode (Anticon, 2008)
6) Century Plants - Ruinous Circle / Accidental Visitor (Cut Hands, 2007)
7) Blacksand - Probe One / Barn (Asusu, 2008)

7/20/2008

Klang vol. 65 [20.07.2008]: Does our death turn you on?


1) Jason Crumer - A. After Betrayal / Ottoman Black (Hospital Productions, 2008)
2) Jason Crumer - V. Certified Blue / Ottoman Black (Hospital Productions, 2008)
3) Burning Star Core - Mysterties of the organ / Challenger (Hospital Productions, 2008)
4)Prurient - Apple Tree Victim / Pleasure Ground (Load, 2006)
5) Cloudland Canyon - Harvest Hunt / Cloudland Canyon&Mythical Beast Split (Not not fun, 2008)
6) Jasper TX - Home / This quiet season (Slaapwel, 2008)
7) Subtle - Providence / Exiting Arm (Lex, 2008)

Background: Kevin Drumm - Untitled 1 / Snow (Hospital Productions, 2008)

7/13/2008

Klang vol. 64 [13.07.2008]: Mute


1) The Stranger - Something to do with death / Bleaklow (V/Vm Test Records, 2008)
2) Gas - Untitled (4.02) / Nah und Fern (Kompakt, 2008)
3) Sian Alice Group - When... / 59.59 (The Social Registry, 2008)
4) Fabio Orsi - Before Long, Before Anyone, The Stars Will Be Walls In My Mind (Students of Decay, 2008)
5) Jesu - Old Year / Conqueror (Hydra Head, 2007)
6) Nadja - Disambugation / Desire in Uneasiness (Crucial Blast, 2008)

7/06/2008

Klang vol. 63 [06.07.2008] : Glass Forest


1)Daniel Menche - Glass Forest 1 / Glass Forest (Important, 2008)
2)Datashock - Side A / Untitled Symbol (Qbico, 2008)


Artwork by Daniel Menche (grizzly carved in wood!)

6/29/2008

Klang vol. 62 [29.06.2008] : Even the cowgirls get the blues



1)Eric Enocksson - Electricity / With it's dark tail curled 'Round the garage
(Kning, 2008)
2)Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Chitchat / Everydays (Family Vineyard, 2008)
3)Taiga Remains - part 2.a / Ribbons of Dust (Root Strata, 2008)
4)Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - Go dig my grave (Railroad boy) / From the great American songbook (Preservation, 2008)
5)Quetzolcoatl - Untitled 8 / Living (Leaf Trail, 2007)
6)James Blackshaw - Past has not passed / Litany of Echoes (Tompkins Square, 2008)

Background: Inca Ore - Silver Wings / Birthday of bless you (Not not fun, 2008)

6/22/2008

Klang vol.61 [22.06.2008]: Isolation Effect



1) Dwayne Sodahberk - Bird bones o.version / Fjärilsfalu (Kning, 2008)
2) Alexander Tucker - Omnibarons / Portal (ATP, 2008)
3) The Caretaker - Von Restorff Effect / Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
(Install, 2008)
4) Grouper - Disengaged / Dragging a dead deer up a hill (Type, 2008)
5) Jozef van Wissem - The heavens are parting and the spirits descends like a dove / A Priori (Incunabulum, 2008)
6) O))) presents Pentemple - Pazuzu 2 (Southern Lord, 2008)

Background: The Caretaker - Past Life Regression / Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
(Install, 2008)



First artwork by Alexander Tucker
Second artwork is from an original painting by Guy Denning

6/15/2008

Klang vol. 60 [15.06.2008]: Summer won't come (w/ Osman Kaytazoglu)


1) Jessica Bailiff & Annelies Monseré - Common Ground / EP (Morc, 2008)
2) Oren Ambarchi - Bleeding Shadow / Destinationless Desire (Touch, 2008)
3) Grouper - Wind and Snow / Dragging a dead deer up a hill (Type, 2008)

6/08/2008

Klang vol. 59 [08.06.2008] : First there was darkness



1) A Storm of light - Adrift / And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (Neurot, 2008)
2) A Storm of light - Iron Heart / And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (Neurot, 2008)
3) Brael/Tokyo Bloodworm - Golden Mean Rectangle / Living Language (Moteer, 2008)
4) Charlemagne Palestine - Tritone Octave 1.2 / From Etudes to Catalclysms (Sub Rosa, 2008)
5) Gnaw Their Tongues - The urge to participate in butchery / An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood (Crucial Blast, 2008)
6) Stephan Mathieu - Auf der Gasse / Radioland (Die Schachtel, 2008)
7) Nadja - Flowers of Flesh / Touched (Alien8, 2007)

Background: Nadja - Affective Fields / Desire in Uneasiness (Crucial Blast, 2008)

6/01/2008

Klang vol.58 [01.06.2008] : NWOFHM


1) Circle - The Greatest Kingdom / Arkades (Fourth Dimension, 2006)
2) Circle - The Ghost of the Highway / Arkades (Fourth Dimension, 2006)
3) Eddie Prévost & Alan Wilkinson - For Marlene / So are we, so are we (Matchless Recordings, 2006)