Nova Scotian Arms - Blackout Machine

Artist: Nova Scotian Arms

Album: Blackout Machine

Genre: Tape music, Drone, Ambient

Information: Words cannot describe it. 

Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms

Artist: Jacon Kirkegaard
Album: 4 Rooms
Genre: Minimalism, Drone, Field Recordings
Information: This work is a sonic presentation of four deserted rooms inside the 'Zone of Alienation' in Chernobyl, Ukraine, recorded in October 2005.

The sound of each room was evoked by an elaborate method: Kirkegaard made a recording of 10 minutes and then played the recording back into the room, recording it again. This process was repeated up to ten times. As the layers got denser, each room slowly began to unfold a drone with various overtones.

From a technical point of view, Kirkegaard's "sonic time layering" refers back to Alvin Lucier's work "I am sitting in a room" [1970]. He recorded his voice in a space and repeatedly played this recording back into that same space. In Kirkegaard's work, however, no voice is being projected into the rooms: during the recordings he left the four spaces, to wait for whatever might evolve from the silence.

Melvins - (A) Senile Animal

Artist: Melvins
Album: (A) Senile Animal
Genre: Sludge metal, Stoner rock
Information: One of the most influential sludge groups of all time, Melvins have been rocking the scene since 1983, and to this day continue to release amazing releases. This specific album, (A) Senile Animal, is certainly not the pinnacle of their work (that would be Houdini) but is nonetheless an absolute must listen by them.

Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama - Hatali Atsalei (L'échange Des Yeux)

Artist: Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama
Album: Hatali Atsalei (L'échange Des Yeux)
Genre: Musique concrète
Information: For his second Intransitive album, Lionel Marchetti returns to his favorite subject: the modern musique concrète composer as shaman. Amid an atmosphere of heavy mystery and engrossing, sublime confusion, Hatali Atsalei (L’Echange des Yeux) seems to be informed by radio drama, improvisation, and documentary recording. According to Olivier Capparos’ liner notes, the album provides a “rather faithful” experience of Ancient Greek ritual: Hatali Atsalei, the exchange of eyes.