OREN AMBARCHI / CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL FLAHERTY / C. SPENCER YEH
Ambarchi / Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh
(Krayon Recordings) split 7-inch $9.00
The Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh Trio's oceans of bawling drum kit fire and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism. Infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence, with fragmented reed chewing rasp and roar joining myriad coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip, an unexpected monolith from Ambarchi, stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare, and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders. Art by Paul Coors.
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB / GLOCKENSPIEL
Astral Social Club / Glockenspiel
(Krayon Recordings - KR014) split 7-inch $8.25
Machines groan and distant melodies ascend on the face-chewer by Neil Campbell on one side, while Glockenspiel’s vinyl debut on the flip weaves wooly tones with the harmonics of rubbed toms and bowed metal. A snow-blind haze of feedback, amplified string scrape and analogue electronics.
BARK HAZE / OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Bark Haze / Our Love Will Destroy the World
(Krayon Recordings - KR009) split 7-inch $8.25
OLWDtW’s Campbell Kneale (ex-Birchville Cat Motel) closes in on the glistening, levitation altar, with backwards bliss-shimmer, spooked chant, and analogue squawk’n’squeal. Bark Haze (Thurston Moore and Andrew MacGregor) hit back with focused power-drone guitar dueling from the heart of the bong.
Enspiel
(Krayon Recordings - KR004) CD $7.50
Using tapes, electronics and guitars through chains of effects, Adrian Dollemore's fundamentally Earth-ground chords and astrally-projective processing paint a rural tonality with a bristling white afterglow. Glistening arpeggios rise and fall against gurgling analogue electronics, washes of processed cymbal and ethereal drone filigree.
INFINITE LIGHT / VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Infinite Light / Vibracathedral Orchestra
(Krayon Recordings - KR013) split 7-inch $8.25
VCO drops straight into a heads-down, fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb. Tweets and rattlesnake percussion join mystic keyboard spirits blowing in a weightless drift. The first cut from Infinite Light is a section lifted from a show featuring Barry Dean on guitar, Mick Flower on guitar and organ and Pete Nolan jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog. Part two wraps solo harmonic guitar vignettes around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation.
New Sky Dragon
(Krayon Recordings - KR016) LP $18.00
Beautifully self-recorded heavy psych by the three-man cosmic research team formally known as the Nackt Insecten Trio. Drum-clouds, synthesizer atmospheres, anti-gravity percussion accents, and saturating feedback zones. Featuring members of Lanterns, Eye Shaking Kingdom. 180g vinyl.
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Blue Eyes Are My Reward
(Krayon Recordings) LP $15.00
Former Birchville Cat Motelier Campbell Neale intends to charm snakes and drop jaws with his latest collection of crop circles etched in an icicle-clad forest. Dublike boomph and bleary-eyed strum blast the path out of a decidedly greying world of so-so metalized-myspace-drone into a miniaturized drone-prairie of superpowered starshine and dazzling stellar-commotion. 180-gram vinyl.
C. SPENCER YEH / RYAN JEWELL / JON LORENZ TRIO
C. Spencer Yeh / Ryan Jewell / Jon Lorenz Trio
(Krayon Recordings - KR012) 7-inch $8.25
Bent frown jazz construction from violin scrunch and squeal, hard tom rub and dense harmonic blowing. Side B fragments into bowed skin, seesaw string microtone and rasped mouthpiece.