Cave on important records

Just got an email about this release from Important recs last night...don't really know Cave, but I've been hearing them mentioned different places, so I went to go check them out at Important Records. They are a longtime releaser of noise/experimental bands, releasing Merzbow, Acid Mothers Temple and Wolf Eyes for a few.

Listening to Cave it's a lot like Kinski...a mix of psyche and rock. Fuzzy repeating guitar riffs, like they can't stop once they find a perfect little two note melody, wah wah pedals, buried vocals...really groove driven psyche on steroids.
After learning about that Hawkwind tribute single series on Trensmat records I feel like I'm hearing that sound everywhere. Dinowalrus and definitely with Cave. It's sci-fi psyche where synth and electronics are mandatory...there's some kind of jazz influence in here too at times. Almost a Tortoise kind of groove improvised repetition, not that I ever know where they are going from track to track.

This one from the single 'Made In Malaysia' is almost liars in it's use of glitchy electronics and chanting over it.... easily Drums not Dead.

Interesting stuff.

You can download a track from the single from the Important Records site to get an idea.

CAVE "Made In Malaysia" 7" $6|
-Bonus Bside track not on the LP. Essential listening.

The Shining Path on Trensmat records

This is an interesting duo of Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff, apparently playing live in 2005 in San Diego, they brought out a Can reference so I had to check them out, I kind of missed out on the Faust bandwagon somewhere and haven't given them a serious listen, they always come up in the same instrumental/experimental conversations and seem to be even more relevant with a lot of what's happening today. They were onto something and keep inspiring to this day. Can really is timeless, when you understand what was being done at that time, it somehow doesn't fit, they could be placed anywhere in that timeline.
On their separate myspaces, Ilya sounds focused on the acoustic guitar with a lot of leonard cohen feel vocals and Preston is working with all kinds of electronics and loops so combined this is the best of both of those worlds minus the vocals... I think.
The samples I heard from their forthcoming LP on Holy Mountain sounds like it fits right in with labelmates wooden shjips and the like...fuzzy feedbacked guitar loops, distortion....loud and unconventional.

From Trensmat records
The Shining Path is the 'rock band' version of minimalist duo Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. Like This Heat or Metabolist, The Shining Path are a Can/Faust-loving group that also exhales expansive psychedelic guitar excess with hints of Greg Ginn and the High Rise discography while tripping balls to a violent, throbbing, not-always-sosteady, Suicide-like rhythm. The 7" contains two raw, noisy, ecstatic live recordings from some of the very rare live shows The Shining Path played in San Diego in 2005. Both tracks are raw and relentless ... a taste of what can happen when punks get psychedelic. A blown out krautrock, wild noise space rock frenzy, some baffling mix of Can, Hawkwind, High Rise and Suicide - melting minds and destroying speakers.

Episode 15 - Unwound memories...I play the islands - flesh, Dnt take my wings away, Eat skull - dead families, no intelligence, and the blank-its - wait don't stop. I talk about what went wrong since the unicorns and generally sound like I have a cold. (29:30)