Moutheater / Debris Amour

(Shirt design by Ben Sears)

Andrew Aircraft from the bands Moutheater and Debris Amour was kind enough to send me a couple of CDs. He also allowed me to host one MP3 from each release. I enjoyed these discs but sadly, I don't have time to go into a serious critique. My little blurbs below even took me a lot longer to get down than I'd like to admit.

First up, Moutheater's "Ornament." To put it simply, this is some dark, heavy, pissed but not one dimensional ROCK bordering on metalcore. When I say ROCK, I am thinking something in the vein of Melvins and Jesus Lizard but, Moutheater sounds like neither band. They also had the balls to throw in some atonal experimental and noise to mix it up. There's a lot going on here and it's all done with a nice rich production.



You can download an MP3 for the song "Obsolete Rhythm" here.

You can also check out more Moutheater on their MySpace page and pick up their album over at Thrashed Records.



Andrew's solo experimental project is Debris Amour and this disc is called "Notations in Negativity." The sound ranges from totally crushing power electronics to nearly ambient pieces. I won't even try to describe this any further except to say it's a very ambitious combination of experimental styles. This release is limited to only 40 copies so don't wait to get it if you are interested.

You can download the download an MP3 for the song "Hate Letter/Love Letter" here.

Here's a link to the Debris Amour MySpace page and "Notations in Negativity" is available from Swim Harder Cassettes.

Drift

You can see more video work by Mike Celona on his YouTube Channel and mikecelona.net

Trine + Kim

Trine + Kim is a Norwegian design studio perhaps best known for their exquisite packaging for bands like Mayhem, Enslaved, Ihsahn and Darkthrone.

They just released a beautiful book called "Decade" which features "a selection of our cover artworks. 160 pages. Hardback. Only 150 copies made. Other items are the Decade shirt, the Psykosedyr CD, postcards, limited edition prints and other selected titles."

You can check out their book + the other Decade merch, design portfolio and much more at trineogkim.no. They also have a blog at trineandkim.blogspot.com

Thanks to Rennie Resmini for the suggestion.

Like Me

LIKE ME from Lars p Arendt on Vimeo.

WARNING - This video is NOT WORK SAFE.

Check out the previously featured video by Lars P. Arendt here.

Kurushimi

I ran into Japanese drone musician Saya Sakura online and thought I would share her work as Kurushimi.

As she says, Saya "has been a revolving member in a number of noise/drone projects over the last 12 years. She has self-released several now out-of print drone albums under the name Kurushimi."

Saya has been kind enough to allow me to host two versions of her song "Kuchihateru" for your downloading pleasure:

Kuchihateru - Edit (5.5 megs / 4:02 mins)

Kuchihateru - Full Version (22.5 megs / 16:21 mins)

You can hear more Kurushimi on her GarageBand page and ReverbNation page.

Krautrock

Since I recently posted the excellent BBC doc on UK Synth Pop I figured some of you might be interested in this one as well. You can watch the rest of this doc on YouTube starting here.

And never forget... Das Leben ist wie ein Kinderhemd--kurz und beschissen.

UPDATE 11.18.09 - the Vimeo.com versions of all these BBC music docs have been taken down. Thankfully the Krautrock and Synth Britannia docs are still up at YouTube. Sorry, the Prog Rock Britannia Documentary is not on YouTube as of now.

Nirvana 2002

I must admit I remember listening to the classic comp "Projections of a Stained Mind" back in the early 90's but Nirvana 2002 never made much of an impression on me. Fast forward to now and damn... this is some delicious sounding Swedish death metal.

Won't you tell us more Relapse promo blurb?

Before there was a Swedish Death Metal scene - let alone a signature sound - Nirvana 2002 was helping to create both. Recordings 89-91 a collection of rare demos and rehearsals, is not just a nostalgic time capsule from the past, but a glimpse at what the future would hold.

The whole album is available to stream online here. And you can check out the band's MySpace page here.

You can get this CD and a very old school looking shirt over at Relapse. You can also get the album from iTunes here.