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In case you missed the sold out latest NNF Bored Fortress singles club, here's three offerings available from good ol fusetron....What I've gathered....Shepherds: Meneguar alterego (?) side project, have to get that new LP, heard nothing but great things.Ignatz: Blues/folk from the future, a million effects on fingerpicking shuffling far away sadness.Skullflower: Heavy, guitar drums drone from one the pioneers of the genre.Axolotl: One man noise project of drone-psyche.Last but not least is Slither and Thurston Moore and company doing what they do best....Slither I think is more electronic-y (no myspace) and Thurston and Paul have a full length live release out together of free jazz. All good stuff, another impressive year. If there would be the thing to have to keep up with the latest in nu noise it's this 3 year and running collection.... a who's who directory of sound/experimental/noise artists for the next century. Put it in the voyager, send it out into space.All out from NNF, for purchase from Fusetron:*Artist: SHEPHERDS/IGNATZTitle: SplitFormat: 7"Label: Not Not FunCountry: USAPrice: $6.50*Artist: SKULLFLOWER/AXOLOTLTitle: SplitFormat: 7"Label: Not Not FunCountry: USAPrice: $6.50*Artist: SLITHER/THURSTON MOORE & PAUL FLAHERTYTitle: SplitFormat: 7"Label: Not Not FunCountry: USAPrice: $6.50
I was wondering if this is the same Kit from the buddy series split with Deerhoof....and it is. I don't remember that side too much....this is female fronted, very deerhoof related, or even Be Your Own Pet, but wayyyy dirtier...something like Abe vigoda, with the attitude of BYOP. I've been bored with them lately, the songs were great for a minute but I don't know if they had any kind of longevity....but then again it was fun while it lasted.Kit reminds me of erase eratta....erratic stutter punk.Now the split is with Mirror/Dash who go by another name... Thurston and Kim from Sonic Youth...I got this from lastfm...
In an interview, Moore said: “Kim and I have been doing Mirror/Dash for a long time. It came about because I have a record label I run from my bedroom called Ecstatic Peace, which I advertised in a magazine in the late ’80s. There were a bunch of fake band names on the ad, one of which was Mirror/Dash, so the next thing I had to do was release records under these names to make the bands real.Mirror/dash is a lot of Thurston Sonics and Kim singing, minimal and primitive, who could have guessed....Limited edition with artwork by Kim Gordon.Paypal $5 ($9 overseas) to: N_F_J_M [at] hotmail.comor the ZUM online store.KIT / MIRROR DASH-split 7” (Nothing Fancy Just Music/NFJM022V) $8.99“A beautiful new split by KIT and MIRROR/DASH, a pairing of two different underground noise generations. Just as vital as they are obscure, both bands push buttons as ways of opening most of the envelopes that have and will stay sealed. The Bay Area's Kit breaks away from the pop of Broken Voyage and into a more dangerous, but equally exciting, "damaged" terrain. Three unreleased songs by that are as invigorating as they are confusing. "Blues for Proposition Joe" stands strong as one of the best Mirror/Dash tunes, a long time collaboration of THURSTON MOORE and KIM GORDON. The energy is similar to that of a vacuum melodically played and then screwed. Limited edition (500 copies) with artwork by Kim Gordon.”
The podcast is finally back! Episode 16... and I'm busy lining up new guests, like Mr Matthew Nash editor of Big Red and Shiny who gave his unabashed reviews/insight to the Vivian Girls single on woodsist and No Age - eraser on subpop.
It would be really incredible to see a catalog of all the sonic youth side projects and splits, the sheer output of this band since 1981 will take decades still to unearth and sort through, recategorizing and rating. Not to throw another release on the pile, but here it looks like he's teaming up for split 7's and a 12" with an all star team of psyche-noise, everyone from gang wizard to robedoor is on the reverse.It's still amazing that he is so involved in the scene and continues to support great bands and even release some of these projects on SYR, but this is more than just a few vinyl discs, this will be a piece of artwork if not not fun has anything to do with it. It's going to be christmas morning. Partially because I really have no concept of what this is going to sound to sound like. Right before I run over and put it on the record player will be a memorial, because things won't ever sound the same again.Deathbombarc has it, and I thank them....$25.An elaborate box-set of vinyl, pairing Thurston Moore 3 times with a selection of amazing Los Angeles acts. Box set will include equaly amazing art designed/curated by Britt & Amanda of Not Not Fun.
Thurston Moore (you know the dude, he is in Sonic Youth) contributes music that ranges from beautiful acoustic guitar work to fierce noise and charging thud rhythms.
Men Who Can't Love is the gang of young LA noise dudes that do the tag team thing like it is the ultimate party. They share the 12" w/ Moore, and hit you over and over with the tagteam efforts of Solitary Hunter, Impregnable, Moth Drakula, Haircut Mountain Transit, Toxic Loincloth, & Privy Seals.
Barrabarracuda are the much more friendly sort, but welcome at the same party. Featuring Grace of Foot Village and Amanda of Pochahaunted on fireworks... erm drums and vocals, plus Britt of Robedoor on guitar and Nichole of Child Pornography on keyboard. Their split 7" w/ Moore is definitly the most melodic of the bunch.
Kevin Shields (here as Eva Aguila of Gang Wizard & Amy V of Yuma Nora) fuses searing walls of aluminum with angelic harmonies for a tension that evokes pure joy. Their split 7" with Moore is matched with equal amounts joy and angelicism, but in soothing rather than tense manner.
