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November 25th, 2009

Review :: Tonstartssbandht – Dick Nights

Tonstartssbandht - Dick Nights Tonstartssbandht
Dick Nights
(Dœs Are)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


Weird Canada HQ is under the Tonstartssbandht spell, so instead of posting the Dick Nights review, I’ll post a review of the fictional Dick Nights movie running through my mind. Dick Nights documents the mescaline-induced wanderings of a brotherly Barbershop duo lost in east L.A. They’re trying to win earth and save their father who fell ill after drinking left-over TMNT™ ooze during his brief stint as an extra for the Turtles in Time remake. Only Christmas caroling in the world’s most falsely represented neighborhood will raise the funds necessary for dad’s ooze transplant (what?). And so Edwin and Edwin’s-brother, armed with looping pedals and the most extravagant pop hollerings this side of any Disney™ soundtrack, are ready to expropriate your mind with their choralic minimalism. They’ve amassed a new world order with their throats; poor souls hypnotized under Tosntartssbandht’s cosmic orations, every jangled follower a vocal-cog in their diabolic choir soon capable of singing to the world. Aim your voices high, my friends, because there’s only one thing standing between Tonstartssbandht and the money needed for their dad’s surgery… THIS SATURDAY… OPEN UP AND SINGDICK NIGHTSSSSSSSSSS.

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Tonstartssbandht – Seriously

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Tonstartssbandht – Sarajevo Preadub

August 13th, 2009

Review :: Seizure Salad / Indiensoci Split Cassette

Seizure Salad / Indiensoci - The New The Good The Bad and The Ugly Soundtrack (split cassette) Seizure Salad / Indiensoci
The New The Good The Bad and The Ugly Sound Track
(Ice Cream Ala Mode Tape and Sound)
Calgary, AB / Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::

This cassette woke me up on the first day of my vacation. My buzzer rang at 8am this morning and I was pissed-off. I ripped open the parcel and the Seizure Salad / Indiensoci split-cassette fell out; I was excited and ashamed. Seizure Salad’s side skidded into my mind with a lo-fi barrage of experimental psychedelia; a droning, rhythmic travelogue to the far-reaches of Disneyâ„¢-hell filled with distorted film illusions and guitar shreddery. It’s a real narrative with emotionally percussive climaxes and mellow, ambient descents. On the flip-side, Indiensoci sends her parsed, ambient bellowing in an attempt to balance the intricate mind-barrage of Seizure Salad. Indiensoci is the not-so-secret side project from BRAIDS‘ singer and it all makes sense; mellifluous echoes of her voice traveling from every direction in cassette-quad beauty and sentient brilliance – it’s all the things we love about BRAIDS in one stream of magnetic tape. Where Seizure Salad takes you on a Trip Thru Hell, Indiensoci brings you back to the world of the half-alive, allowing a return to your dreams, naps, narratives, and lives with the subtle feeling that everything is not-OK, but it’s all lovely because her vocal wysps linger on in half-audible existence. An easy contender for best experimental cassette of 2009.

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Seizure Salad – Sleeping Buddy

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Seizure Salad – The Lion Thing

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Indiensoci – Boys aRe Stupid 1 (the snowshoe)

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Indiensoci – Boys aRe Stupid 2 (touched by a sentiment)

And for fun, here is two more Seizure Salad tracks…

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Seizure Salad – Beauty Lewis & The News

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Seizure Salad – Acquittal Mermaid

August 4th, 2009

Henge.

Anju / Knell - Hegne Anju Singh / Knell
Henge
(Isolated Now Waves) (INW #209)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

Take two talented women in the experimental foray. Give them a side of C30. If you’re lucky you’ll end up with something close to Henge; two sides of atypically-driven drone. Anju Singh (of AHNA) delivers a quarter-hour piece of violin static that patiently builds into multi-feedback noise-scapes; effectively rendering the previous 14 minutes of your existence into a zone of bewilderment. On the flip we have Knell, an interesting side project of Mint Records recording artist Kellarissa, venturing deep within the rarely charted territory of vocal looping. This is not classical choral material; her voice is quickly fractured into subliminal jet-streams of ambience whose minute being coalesces within various meditative drone-states. Both sides of Henge have the same weird attention-sucking immediacy despite being unassuming and “mellow.” Another brilliant addition to the ever-growing Isolated Now Waves catalog.

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Anju Sing – In Suffocation

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Knell – Reserve

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