Noise, EAI, Drone, et cetera

I've been known to indulge in some Sunn o))) and Boris, but that's about it

Apparently this is the best drone album of the year. 

JJLehto wrote: In which case, why not just be hit with pure sonic waves?

Indeed, sometimes it pays to head down to the local construction site and soak up the sounds than forking out tha' cash for an album that sounds like it's deconstructing you speakers. sh*t, I've heard a cement mixers spittin' out noise (of all frequencies) heavy than any latter day Drumm album :P But, in seriousness that's a reason Sunn o))) concerts are so f**king loud.

harmonium.ro wrote: Apparently this is the best drone album of the year.

I've got FrequencyLib by him, which I thinks from 2001 (I'd have to check). Also, his splits with Ekkehard Ehlers are a little more active if people find that boring.

Noak, fire away, I was kind of hoping this thread would slip into the discussion mode for those sonically inclined. Two of my housemate's and I dinned listening to that Kazumoto endo album the other night, fun as hell. You got any other Ashley? Automatic Writings is an indispensable part of my collection, got it and a couple of others on vinyl too.

Swear they used to have the whole Wolfman album up here, but: http://www.ubu.com/sound/ashley.html 

A little bit twisted, but Nurse With Wound is one of my favourite avant-garde / noise artists.

Noak wrote: My recommendations for  EAI are slimmer in amount since I haven't actually heard that much. Even though it's a genre that interestes me greatly. I have two albums which I would recommend; Hammeriver by Hammeriver, and In Search of Wild Tulips by Erik Carlsson, Tetuzi Akiyama, Henrik Olsson and Toshimaru Nakamura.

If you're interested I could give some suggestions? The genre only gets better in respect to the ones you recommended ;) Something in the interim (I'm running late for numerous things) taking us back to the early days, chocked full with some heavy hitters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EKo8jiM79Q&feature=related 

BTW I'd assume (in consideration of your avvy) you're a fan of Roy Andersson?

stonebeard wrote: I very rarely think guitar-based drone is good. Sunn O))) is especially bad. But I do Like Natural Snow Buildings and Earth, but because they spice it up and NSB has some very compelling textures and colors to the sound. Fennesz is a good ambient artist with some noise here and there. Static and different colors of noise can be compelling in a musical context, as well as glitch, but without any kind of grounding in a progression or melody or chord change of some sort, there is absolutely no point in listening to it for me.

Agree with you entirely about Sunn o))) I never could workout why they gained such wide spread success, but each to their own. Analogue drone can be just as bad, saw Nadja live in Berlin two years ago, one of the most boring shows I've attended, if it were for the pub afterward would have been a write-off of a night.

Have you mainly stuck with Fennesz's solo output or looked into some of his collaborations? Any favourites?

Don't know much Tim Hecker, tho' I've enjoyed some Hecker (aka Florin Hecker) albums which are slight more noisy...

This came in the mail yesterday:



"With Waste Of Songs Joe Colley offers a series of events jumping between brutal noise, field recording, and (fake?) psychoacoustic tonal interactions. The result is a tightly edited collage journey through states of mental duress and negative reactions to an environment. There are sounds of broken or dying equipment, devices pushed to limits, attempts to coax out spontaneous reactions from feedback and linked cheap electronics. A strong statement, and an evolution showing the next direction of his desire to reach emotional states through the coldness of electronic sound. Joe Colley (b.1972 Ft. Lauderdale) is a self-taught artist concerned primarily with the phenomena of sound and its unique ability to activate a consciousness set apart from rational understanding in a way very different from visual or verbal means. This consuming interest has led to extensive experimentation with results occasionally made public through performances, installations, and commercially available recordings. These experiments have encompassed abstract electronic/noise composition, amplification of natural phenomena, investigations into phase, and creation of complex mass from layers of simplistic sound material, often with an attention to the mundane or pathetic." taken from http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/colley.joe.html

That IMJ collection is good to find your feet. I'd go through pick out names you like and go from there.

Okay, so stuff I think might be a good start, most of this stuff is older (hence sometimes a bitch to get), so if you want newer stuff just say. Other than the Lescalleet I've tried to stay away from solo albums. This was a bit hard than I was expecting, but then again I've always been utter useless when it comes to making list, so take it with a grain of salt... 

AMM Before driving to the chapel we took coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed (not sure if you've heard later day AMM? But this album is ace.)
Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Fennesz / O'Rourke / Drumm orange disc (this is the one from youtube link)
Keith Rowe/Günter Müller/Taku Sugimoto The World Turned Upside Down
Jason Lescalleet Mattresslessness
Kaffe Mathews/Andrea Neumann/Sachiko M In case of fire take the stairs
Taku Sugimoto/Masafumi Ezaki/Taku Unami Trio At Offsite
Toshimaru Nakamura/Tetuzi Akiyama Meeting at Off Site vol. 2
Gunter Muller/Masahiko Okura/Otomo Yoshihide/Taku Sugimoto Metal Tastes Like Orange
MIMEO/John Tilbury The Hands of Caravaggio
Greg Kelley/Jason Lescalleet Forlorn Green

Re: Roy Andersson:I've seen Sånger från andra våningen & Du levande both of which were great.

Noak wrote: I was surprised to find this on Spotify the other day: Thomas Ankersmit – Live In Utrecht. One of my favorite albums of 2010.

Word, this was definitely one of the better albums to come out last year :)

Another goodie from 2011: http://searaploaieparc.blogspot.com/2011/03/jim-orourke-christoph-heemann-plastic.html

There's a band called E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research) that have done some good drone albums. 

Edited by King Only - May 19 2013 at 13:46