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Refreshing to have so many fluid points at play, this could have easily drifted in a altogether singular direction – gone all-out sinister rolling those doomic dice – but instead HJ Irmler and Carl Friedrich Oesterhelt tease us with a classical anarchism that isn’t affixed or preconceived. > Print this Continue reading Irmler / Oesterhelt – Die Gesänge Des Maldoror […] Bureau B
> Print this Continue reading Der Plan – Unkapitulierbar […] Dais / Sacred Bones Allegory And Self
> Print this Continue reading Psychic TV – Allegory And Self / Pagan Day […] Trinity Community Arts, Bristol 8 July 2017
> Print this Continue reading Bristol Psych Fest IV […] Aphelion Editions
> Print this Continue reading Ocean Floor – Four Shadows […] Northern Spy
> Print this Continue reading Larkin Grimm – Chasing An Illusion […] The Gatherer Consouling Sounds
> Print this Continue reading A-Sun Amissa – The Gatherer / You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less […] Bureau B Magnetband: Experimenteller Elektronik-Underground DDR 1984-1989
> Print this Continue reading Various – Magnetband: Experimenteller Elektronik-Underground DDR 1984-1989 / Sammlung: Elektronische Kassettenmusik Düsseldorf 1982-1989 […] Play Loud! Goal Less Play
> Print this Continue reading Floating di Morel – Goal Less Play / Said My Say […] Bristol 26 May 2017
> Print this Continue reading Swans / Little Annie (live at Trinity Community Arts) […] Thoofa
This second helping from Prescott has been well worth the wait. The musicianship is blinding, each track built up on little stabbing motifs playing footsie with Commodore computer tape loadings > Print this Continue reading Prescott – Thing Or Two […] Bristol 12 May 2017
> Print this Continue reading Damo Suzuki / The Cube Orchestra/ Agathe Max (live at The Exchange) […] Bristol 28 April 2017
> Print this Continue reading Flowers Must Die / Saddar Bazaar / Stereocilia (live at The Cube) […] Ponderosa (Europe) / Northern Spy (USA)
> Print this Continue reading Arto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame […] Play Loud!
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They may have slipped out of the Neue Deutsche Welle limelight sometime ago, but this surprise newbie from Der Plan hits back with that familiar quirkiness that gave us “Du Bist Es Nicht”, “Gummitwist” and the sublime “Space Bob”.
Ahhh, “Godstar” was a surprise back in the day, a light and airy departure from the Crowley curves and noisy exorcisms that had nailed the first two Psychic TV albums. Further Throbbing Gristle fan head-scratching ensued, more so when it hauled the operation completely overground
On a roasting Saturday, a beautiful day in July, the wonderful Trinity Arts community centre hosted the juggernaut that was the fourth Bristol Psych Fest. Squeezing two dozen bands into one day on two stages was quite a feat to attempt, but seemed to go incredibly smoothly.
Straight from the cultural antenna of Aphelion Editions comes this intimate sonic experience, tonally chased in whirlpooling vibrato. 
Seeing Larkin Grimm at the (now demolished) Seymour’s Family Club in Bristol back in 2006(?) was a real pleasure, that incredible voice of hers just held its own, her musicianship spurring and stirring her wordy glow-forms. 
A-Sun Amissa‘s The Gatherer weaves a rich cadaver of intrigue. A sombre dream horned by a raspy clarinet yarn and a trickle of hypothermic piano. A poetically pinned bleed with a lysergic slur of percussion and convulsive coils of sax, burning bright in sulphurous melodics to be cut back to a gorgeous microcosm.
Like Play Loud!‘s excellent Ende Vom Lied, this collection from those bastions of Germanic goodness Bureau B gives you another whistle-stop tour of the DDR’s vibrant underground tape culture. Magnetband is a fourteen-track compilation from the mid- to late Eighties salvaged from a load of brave documenters 
Floating di Morel‘s Goal Less Play LP is a sparse, spittle-mouthed wonder nuzzling into some glinting sparks of acoustika. Bursts of sonic weirdness lurk between the main feasts – brief sketches that clear the palette for the more song-oriented goods
The stage may have dwarfed her stature, but Little Annie‘s cabaret queen antics were larger than life, completely over-spilling the place. Cloaked in Eastern silk, her waist a blaze of African bracelets, Annie’s hoarse vocal was something to be treasured – both warm and vibrant, bursting with wit
If this was a knitting pattern it would be full of lopsided colour, tangled dimensions and probably more armholes than really necessary.
French violinist Agathe Max warmed things up with a stunning set of looped riches, her bow floating with the gymnastic gait of a trapeze artist as she filled the canvas with different textures and tonal depths. 
Stereocilia‘s haunted ambience has been hooking me in for some time now, the cinematic scope of his recent LP was blinding, but tonight’s show just blew me clean away.
A culmination of a thirteen-year itch to get back to business, Cuidado Madame cuts into some of the sweetness of previous outings to revel in skittish twists of modernity. 
Formed in 1994 by ex PLO and Young Scamps members Kai Drewitz and Sabine Blödorn, Floating Di Morel have been mixing it up on the Berlin underground circuit for some time now. This, their latest album is my very first taste and I’ve got to say I’m really partial to what they have to offer.