A Hawk and a Hacksaw is chiefly the work of Jeremy Barnes, previouslyof krautrock brain-sizzlers Bablicon, and more recently of Guignol, abizarre one-off with members of Volcano the Bear. With A Hawk and aHacksaw, Barnes takes many of the European folk music fixations firstglimpsed on the Guignol album to their logical conclusion, creating asuite of ethnographical crossbreeds of indigenous music from France,Spain, Czech, Great Britain and Mexico.
Following up his "Vacancy" mini album from last year, Joseph Arthur returns to the scene a bit wiser.
The third album from one of my three favorite Rune groups makes the second essential Rune release of the year (after Food's Last Supper).The title does not describe a new modus-operandi for the duo; it isinstead an abstracted definition of Alog's unique position since theirfirst record.
Die stadt
This is the second collaboration between these two iconoclasts, the first being last year's too-short Tinnitus Vu: the duo's hiss-laden meditation on hearing loss and the dynamics of sound after sound stops.
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Tired of hip-hop's limitations, onetime club DJ Andrew Broder went intohis basement with a slew of second-hand instruments that he didn'treally know how to play. What came out—a mishmash of keys, drums,turntablism and an army of odd sounds, organic and otherwise—became hisone-man band Fog.
The first disc of this two CD set contains a live recording from 2003,originally intended for studio completion, while the other containssome of Ivan Pavlov's first recordings as Coh from 1997.
Ant-Zen
This concept mini-CD accurately represents its subject, massiveplane/boat hybrids known as ekranoplanes, in sound. Dmitri Della Faille(Szkieve)'s passion for his material is evident on this 22 minutehomage to, and study of, these anomalies of Russian scientifictechnology.
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This disc reissues a live LP from Sunburned Hand of the Man that wasoriginally released in 2003 in a small edition that was immediatelysnatched up by collectors. It is part of a trio of digital reissues oflimited live LPs by the Wabana label (the other two are from AcidMothers Temple and Wolf Eyes), all of which come packaged in genericpurple digipacks with a skull on the back and a clear sticker on thefront.