Showing posts with label Orb Tapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orb Tapes. Show all posts

UNCANNY DANDELIONS “Gravel Scavenger” (Orb Tapes)

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  I am a victim of mesmerism. Uncanny Dandelions (naturally) invade my senses; sometimes I inhale their seed pods by accident when I’m geari...

SERRATER / BUTOH SONICS “Split” C80 (Orb Tapes)

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  Hearing Michael Potter do the next obvious thing in his repertoire – a noise/no wave sludge-coction under his “Serrater” guise – is music ...

AAVD TRIO “Anti Glow” (Orb Tapes)

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  We exist in the deadening smog. AAVD Trio – Alexander Adams (drums & cymbals), Danny Andrade (tenor saxophone), and Daniel Van Duerm (...

THE UNKNOWN SOUND COLLECTIVE “The Light within Hauntings” (Orb Tapes)

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  It gets under your skin right away. Elena Botts’s, erm, haunting voice drifts over sound sources like chimes or gongs, hit every four bars...

SHAME “White Man” (Orb Tapes)

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  Shame is Abdul-Hakim Bilal, and I’ve had my eye on their band and their work before. (In fact, Samuel Goff, Bilal’s Among the Rocks and ...

FED ASH “Diurnal Traumas” (Orb Tapes)

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Knowing that “all proceeds from this release are being donated to Last Chance for Change, an organization dedicated to fighting police bruta...

PATRICK SHIROISHI AND DYLAN FUJIOKA “Neba Neba” C60 (Orb Tapes)

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Jazz nerds Patrick Shiroishi and Dylan Fujioka sure have been hanging out together for a long time, ever since they met at band camp (the ac...

FRAGMENT OF JOY “Cosmic Nosebleed” / “Volcanic Brain” (Orb Tapes)

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“Cosmic Nosebleed” is exactly the kind of post-hardcore I wanted to play in bands back in college, but I think we were too hamstrung by the ...

THE IDE OF EARTH “I Dream Seldom That You Emerged on Altered Craft with My Shining” (Orb Tapes)

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  And here I thought it was me who was bad at Google Translate, but it turns out that The Ide of Earth, aka Parker Weston (PKWST, Butoh Soni...

ALEX MAERBACH “Will the Low E Still Be There Once You’ve Come Down?” C60 (Orb Tapes)

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Alex Maerbach drafted the Low E Ensemble to help out with this thing, and it’s a doozy. As a “rumination on the IV humors, medieval pseudosc...

SHAME “I Don’t Like You” (Orb Tapes)

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“Shame is not here to make friends.” Well duh, not with a name like “Shame”! And, well, also not with a tape titled I Don’t Like You – I pr...

CONCRETE COLORED PAINT “Through a Lens” (Orb Tapes)

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Peter Kris looks through lots of lenses. The German Army conspirator has released under various monikers so many tapes and records and C...

SAMUEL GOFF “Transmissions” (Orb Tapes)

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Among the Rocks and Roots released one of my favorite 2019 surprises, Raga , which I wrote about immediately after hearing it (it came i...

CRANK STURGEON / MATT LUCZAK “Crank Sturgeon / Matt Luczak Split” C23 (Orb Tapes)

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That misfit Crank Sturgeon is at it again, this time bringing his mangled performance noise to Orb Tapes, where he totally belongs. Cran...

AMONG THE ROCKS AND ROOTS “Raga” C90 (Orb Tapes)

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Oh, no, please, don’t even try to peg Richmond, Virginia, duo Among the Rocks and Roots. There’s so much shift here that pinning down th...