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July 30th, 2010

Music :: Secret Pyramid – Ghosts

Secret Pyramid
Ghosts
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the hidden rhombi of Aaron Levin:
Minimalist journeys through static debris and processed guitar form the blueprint to this Solars side project hailing from Vancouver. The dense new age grooves on Ghosts are a fitting sonar trigger to your mental mars vacation; calming reverberations through cosmic fog, dripping vocals and mystic drones. Listen with three ears… or three hands.

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Secret Pyramid – Permanence

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Secret Pyramid – Ghosts of the Sun / Oceans

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July 28th, 2010

Music :: Gyre Spire & Spindle – Nuggets

Gyre Spire & Spindle
Nuggets
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the spindly gyrations of James Goddard:
While we’re on the topic of Bart Records, can I mention the tragically short-lived Gyre, Spire & Spindle? Technically savvy and hyper-literate, they’re a fitting realization of the fables their name conjures. The recipe was simple: one folkie turned post-hardcore screamstress, several journey-men Edmonton musicians, and a penchant for pairing words. Simmer in a large, black, cauldron. Serves up one brain-melting five-song cassette. Nuggets is proof that once upon a time there was Gyre, Spire & Spindle. Grip it while it lasts.

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Gyre, Spyre & Spindle – Wishy Washy

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Gyre Spyre & Spindle – Splishy Splashy

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July 27th, 2010

Music :: Meat Curtains // Pompoir – Blue Rare

Meat Curtains // Pompoir
Blue Rare
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 235))
Halifax, NS // Vancouver, BC
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From the blue-label rarity of James Goddard:
There is the music – loud, thrashed out, punk descended, riff heavy tunes held together by cacophonous percussion and throat tearing vocals. Then there is the politics – re-appropriating pejorative terms for female anatomy and sex acts, a jaded DIY nihilism, and the revolutionary potential of punk itself. There is the A Side – Halifax’s critic-baiting, charcuterie-themed, absurdist fem-core four piece Meat Curtains. Then there is the B Side – Vancouver’s sex-positive, weird punk, all-stars. There is…you’re still reading this crap? You should probably listen to the fuckin’ traxxx. Now. It’s imperative.

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Meat Curtains – Dead Dog

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Pompoir – Side B [excerpt]

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Meat Curtains – Get Rebel

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Meat Curtains – Pepperoni Ghost

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July 26th, 2010

Departure :: The Esquires – Love Hides a Multitude of Sins b/w Why Should I Care

The Esquires
Love Hides a Multitude of Sins b/w Why Should I Care
(Columbia Records)
Ottawa, ON
Originally Released: 1966


From the put-me-down vortex of Aaron Levin:
After Don Norman (the original low-man!) left, at-the-time-pop band The Esquires scrambled to reform and find another label. They landed on Columbia and recorded two great garage-punk singles, this being their last and lesser-known (it’s uncomped). Killer guitar tone and classic put-me-down lyrics, the oddly-placed poppy chorus is balanced by the ripping hand-clap organ solo. Makes me want to stomp and get dumped, wallowing in a single-dude vortex full of gnarled fuzz. Except not really.

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The Esquires – Why Should I Care

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July 22nd, 2010

Departure :: Morley Loon – Cree Songs

Morley Loon
Cree Songs
(CBC Northern Service Broadcast Recording)
??, NWT
Originally Released: 197?


From the northernly service of Aaron Levin:
Mystic folk-psych drifting between a Native American tradition and the first wave of acoustic lysergia. Morley’s intimate Cree singing is augmented by woven strands of ethereal flute, hand percussion, and melancholic guitar, conjuring a dense empathetic miasma. One of the most affecting records I’ve ever heard. Found in a pile of CBC Northern Broadcast Recording 7″s I received from a friend and the only of its kind I’ve ever encountered. If you know anything about Morley Loon (who unfortunately passed away some years ago), please get in touch. A short history of recording sessions in this series can be found here (PDF). 500 copies pressed and distributed as promos.

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Morley Loon – Agajee Dona Nooch (To hunt no more?)

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Morley Loon – Deb Skum (My Own)

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July 21st, 2010

Music :: Mongst – Kamira

Mongst
Kamira
(Isolated Now Waves (INW 226))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the genital fusion of Aaron Levin:
Kamira sees Mongst traversing the dualic streams of Glassian multi-part ambience and melanic guitar exertion; both avenues percolating his soundscape with dialectical conviction. Let the hypnotic minimalia of “Or Does It Explode” take your mind through a 12 minute trip into ancient ambient pastures, climaxing with a heavy dose of tranquil string dronage. The whole passage seems serene when compared to “The Riverboard Caroline”‘s avant-occult shreddery, and thankfully the contradictions don’t stop there. A brilliant strip of experimentalia from one of Vancouver’s finest.

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Mongst – Or Does It Explode

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Mongst – The Riverboat Caroline

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July 20th, 2010

Music :: White Dog – White Dog

White Dog
White Dog
(Prairie Fire Tapes)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the dogless white of Jesse Locke:
Barking at the moon from the heart of middle Canada, White Dog’s Chris Jacques doubles as the co-founder of Prairie Fire Tapes and its off branch Dub Ditch Picnic. This four-song c30 is the latest ear-clot from his ambient/drone project, and finds Jacques in a meditative mood while maintaining trademark murk. Following three storm and stress instrumental creepers, the clear culmination is closer “A Forest”. Here, haunted vocal samples sink into plaintive acoustic plucks, mystical wind chimes and ominous horror movie hums for a spirit animal ceremony that’s both mesmerizing and mysterious.

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White Dog – A Forest [excerpt]

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White Dog – The Return of Light [excerpt]

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July 20th, 2010

Video :: Pink Noise – Wild Love [Dir. Emily Pelstring]

Pink Noise
Wild Love
[Directed By: Emily Pelstring]
Montreal, QC
::web/visuals::


From the Betamax catalog of Aaron Levin:
The shrieking energy behind Futensil emerges with a beautifully shot black-and-white visive for Montreal’s most bewildering basement conjuror, Pink Noise. Emily brilliantly captures Pink Noise’s wyrd cabaret via Residential eyeballs flickering between blurred belly dancing and a wicked multi-limbed goddess. A++++.

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July 19th, 2010

Music :: Bloodhouse – Bloodhouse

Bloodhouse
Bloodhouse
(Self Released)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the bloodied home of Aaron Levin:
A churning swamp of distortion oozes from Bloodhouse’s debut cassette. It pushes their thunderous pop monstrosity into new dimensions of intensity, molding the Haligonian pop-vocal-phenomenon into walls of spectral noise and sinusoidal chaos. Tracks like Eerie Power tear apart the murky folds of reverb, bearing witness to a brash group of teens spawning havoc within our audio organs. HEAVY.

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Bloodhouse – Eerie Power

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Bloodhouse – Grave Mind

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July 16th, 2010

Review :: Fuck The Tundra – Grin Diesel

Fuck The Tundra
Grin Diesel
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::


From the teen steamings of Jesse Locke:
Midway through their final set at the Bart Records showcase for Sled Island 2010, Fuck the Tundra’s hyperactive frontman pushed the crowd back, tucked to his toes and hucked a massive flat ground back flip. That gymnastic feat was impressive enough, yet it was still overshadowed by a pitch-perfect performance of all six songs from their debut cassette, one of this year’s most jaw dropping releases. Throughout Grin Diesel’s succinct 16 minutes, the quartet tears into 31G-style post-hardcore with pulse quickening drum fills, spidery dueling guitars and mathematical change-ups, all peppered with their bizarre sense of humor. Most surprising is the serenely summery yet still mathy instrumental “Eliminator Boat Duel,” an ear-pleasing interlude amidst the chronicles of ridiculous.

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Fuck The Tundra – Gintro

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Fuck The Tundra – Eliminator Boat Duel

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