Scanner & Nurse with Wound – Contrary Motion

It looks so strange to see these two names paired up together for the first time, yet it feels weird that they had never collaborated before (to my knowledge).  Neither project should need an introduction as both Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) have nearly four decades Continue Reading

MadMen Duo – Through the Night

Our dear friends at Mahorka Records continue to surprise and delight us.  Their latest release features two musicians, the MadMen Duo (I don’t know where they are from, but they did record these tracks in Bulgaria if I understand correctly) whose music comes off as a wonderfully dark combination of Continue Reading

Trajectories – Quiet on Kökar

Trajectories is a troupe from Quebec who produce electroacoustic music.  From their Bandcamp site: “The album Quiet on Kökar was conceived of during a recent artist residency undertaken on the small island of Kökar in the Åland Archipelago in Finland, experimenting with a variety of recording set-ups and collaborative compositional Continue Reading

Maria Teriaeva – Sayan – Savoie

“Maria Teriaeva is a Siberian-born, Paris-based musician and composer. She uses the Buchla modular synthesizer as a framework for her music combining it with acoustic instruments and voice,” so says her bio on Bandcamp.  She has become quite a revelation to me, as her music is some of the must Continue Reading

TRUTH – Truth: Eponymous Anonymous

TRUTH is a new project that starts in the realm of microsound and develops into an organic piece of musique-concrète. The pulses and bleeps remind me of the very early experiments of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, as does the rather dark tone carried within the music.  It is both are Continue Reading

Various Artists – In Heaven, Everything is Fine: A David Lynch Experimental Noise Tribute (2025)

David Lynch was a very weird man, and I mean that in the best sense of the word.  His directorial body of work will stand the test of time.  He passed away recently, so the net label Red Tape has issued a compilation of noise music in his honor.  I Continue Reading

Holger Czukay / Die Angel & Zappi W. Diermaier – Gvoon: Version 1

As much as I loved the work of Can bassist Holger Czukay, there are a couple of his releases that I passed by.  This one features die ANGEL, whom I have never heard of previously, and Faust drummer Zappi W. Diermaier.  This sounds far less like Krautrock and more like Continue Reading