Kategorie: English language stuff

  • Front Line Assembly – WarMech – 2018

    Front Line Assembly – WarMech – 2018

    I can almost hear him say … “Mazze, why are you writing about old shit again?” O.k. the album is already 5 years old but as I liked it from listening to it for the first time some day ago … Front Line Assembly is the child of canadian musician Bill Leeb who once used…

  • Skinny Puppy – Remix Dystemper – 1998

    Skinny Puppy – Remix Dystemper – 1998

    Well, this one was lying around for many years now and I don’t know why I didn’t listen to this remix album earlier. As those familiar with my musical taste know Skinny Puppy are one of my all-time favourite bands/projects so I had to buy this one as soon as I got aware of it.…

  • Frickelfest – Grenzwellen (What is going on over there?)

    Frickelfest – Grenzwellen (What is going on over there?)

    Just to give you an impression: I just started setting up a few playlists with our program at Frickelfest’s Grenzwellen-Program. Check it out and listen loud!

  • Riverside – Wasteland – 2018

    Riverside – Wasteland – 2018

    Poland … our direct neighbour … a land we share quite a few memories with and many of these are not what you’d call fond memories :-/ What can – looking at the artistical output from this beautiful country – of course not be said especially when it comes to the wast field of contemporary…

  • Nazoranai – Nazoranai

    Nazoranai – Nazoranai

    Nazoranai is a project between legendary Japanese master of experimental music Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals & synth), drone doom legend Stephen O’Malley (bass) and Australian experimental/avantgarde musician Oren Ambarchi (percussion). All three somehow met. Somewhere. And decided to play this record. The Text on the rear of the record reads as: 中心の決意が 自分の中で 何度も何度も何度も 砕け散る事に 限りない歓びを 覚えよfeel the ultimate joy…

  • SymAsym, der wievielte?

    SymAsym, der wievielte?

    Ich hab ja viel zu viel Zeugs rumliegen. So zum Beispiel einen Haufen SymAsym Leiterplatten, teilbestückt, weil ich mal mit meinen Kindern einen ganzen Stapel von den Verstärkern gebaut habe, die seitdem in allen Teilen der Welt zuverlässig ihren Dienst tun. Ein Pärchen davon liegt bei mir seit Unzeiten in einem Pappkarton. Und jetzt auf…

  • CAN and Me – a documentary film with Irmin Schmidt.

    CAN and Me – a documentary film with Irmin Schmidt.

    Soon a new movie about Irmin Schmidt and CAN the band that many others as well value as the most important band from Germany is going to come to the cinemas. HerrWaltz was kind enough to send me a link to the official trailer of “CAN and Me” featuring Irmin Schmidt. Was bedeutet Klang? Was…

  • 2023 Label Sampler by Transcending Obscurity Records

    2023 Label Sampler by Transcending Obscurity Records

    You gotta love Bandcamp … sometimes you see an album over there and you know that this one is waiting for you … just like the 2023 sampler from Transcending Obscurity Records a label from India … a label that specialized in the heaviest that metal can offer … bands from many different countries and…

  • Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton) – Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Ideologic Organ, Jan 20, 2023)

    Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton) – Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Ideologic Organ, Jan 20, 2023)

    On her latest release Kali Malone is setting focus on playing tuned sine wave oscillators and is getting support from Stephen O’Malley on guitar and Lucy Railton on Cello. The composition took place during Covid lockdown in Berlin, Germany, -and the we can observe and experience several versions of the only track “Does Spring Hide…