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December 4, 2009 - Friday 
Thoughts From Screeching Lake (exclusive diogenes)by Various Artists
Various Artists - Thoughts From Screeching Lake (exclusive diogenes)
Thoughts From Screeching Lake is the
second compilation by Sheffield label Singing Knives. Seventeen exclusive or hard to come by gems, collected throughout 2009 from
friends and kindred spirits with a slightly larger net cast further afield than last time but a slightly keener focus of vision. The result is a trip further out yet in. Sometimes frenetic/kinetic and sometimes dilatory/dilated but always sonically interesting and uncultivated or degraded in the best senses of those words. Thoughts From Screeching Lake is the Now Sound of Sheffield hand plucked from the UK and the rest of the world
by Singing Knives.Tracklisting:

Various Artists - Thoughts From Screeching Lake (exclusive diogenes)(SIN-DIG001)

1.Harappian Night Recordings - Nyai Roro Kidul1m 21s
2.Shiggajon - Brudet Og Fundet2m 10s
3.Pekko Käppi - Yhtenä päivänä kompastuit2m 42s
4.Ross Parfitt - Cornholme2m 43s
5.Helhesten - Sei Lights2m 54s
6.Serfs - The World It Keeps Turning2m 54s
7.The Navigators - Drudin2m 55s
8.Stephanie Hladowski - The Seven Virgins3m 3s
9.Plum Slate - Loosing The Grippe3m 30s
10.Ben Nash - Samaya Part 14m 10s
11.A Wake - Spittle Street (edit)4m 46s
12.Infinite Light - Heeley Invocation5m 9s
13.Dylan Nyoukis - The Frosted Growth5m 10s
14.U Boat - no. 35m 18s
15.BAO - Test Drive6m 10s
16.Christine Sehnaoui - Essais N16m 13s
17.Alberorovesciato - Ingresso Della Vergine Vampiro Dagli Occhi Infuocati D'Eroina6m 36s

12:44 AM 
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
Sono al secondo disco dopo Ancient Shining Drums of the Covered City su Stunned, ma forse – complice anche una tiratura che dire limitata è eufemistico – in pochi se ne sono accorti. Eppure sono italiani, seppur residenti a Berlino, e gironzolano marginalmente per il giro sommerso della Hundebiss oltre che essere coinvolti nell’ensemble Phonorama con Sinistri, Claudio Rocchetti (a.k.a. Olyvetty), 3/4HadBeenEliminated e altri.Il moniker che si sono scelti è già in sé un neanche tanto velato rimando alle filosofie orientali, cabalistiche e anche classicamente europee. Roba che marchia a fondo le musiche del duo, perché il legame con il mondo naturale evocato dal progetto è nulla in confronto allo stridore primitivo del percussionismo tribaloide, estenuante e brutale col quale Francesco Cavaliere e Marco Lampis annientano chi ascolta. Tutto rigorosamente acustico, magicamente naturale e ossessivamente ritualistico, Tigers In Acid… è nichilismo dada al limite dell’autismo, tour de force percussivo che rasenta il rito voodoo, sabba psicotico che rifugge tecnologia ed effettistica digitale per (ri)piegarsi in un contatto materiale con le fonti sonore più disparate, purché percuotibili. Se si potesse ipotizzare un gamelan occidentale, beh, molto probabilmente sarebbe simile a Alberorovesciato.(7.1/10)
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
Everyone knows Stunned Records out of Long Beach is an outstanding label, but it is my opinion that Stunned is at its absolute top when it goes international. These two tapes make my case real easy. The first is by Albero Rovesciato a two man percussive crew out of Berlin by way of Italy and the second is the Russian psych homebrew Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi.
Ancient Shining Drums of the Covered City begins with a startling vocal yelp and an absolutely clattering downpour of metallic objects. The second piece features a bit more space and the slightest (seriously slight) hints of melody possible from a thumb piano and possibly an organ. The j-card is of some help both guys take on “bells, gong, objects” and each one takes on either bass drum or snare drum. Objects is intentionally vague but is an important piece of the sound. Anyway, now you have an idea of the palette these boys are working with let me say what they do with it is incredible. The second piece is pretty epic though crazily difficult to write about (the tape in general is). This is the most wild chunk of sound on the side and it covers a pretty wide spectrum of sound which doesn’t always happen with percussion only groups. It’s pretty amazing that Albero Rovesciato can capture the sound of things falling apart and the sounds of totally groovy percussive jams simultaneously. The third piece features an organ upfront but it too is used as a percussive instrument. It isn’t played amelodically, but the melody is skeletal, sketched out with curt stabs at the keys. The fourth piece is brief and returns to agressively drenched sound of heavy metallic rain. The fifth piece is a wondrous gamelan-type ordeal. Metallic tones are in constant resonance; it’s soothing but a little unsettling as well. Voices begin speaking briefly during the piece and the effect is surreal. No. 6 actually has a steady, almost 4/4 beat. I feel like these guys have to be using loops to be creating sounds this dense, cause there’s only four arms between them. But whether there are loops or not, this all sounds live. It is interesting because a lot the sounds here sound like dropping a pan on your kitchen floor or someone tapping their glass to make a toast but these guys mold all those sounds into a strictly musical context. It’s a fascinating listen.
Flip it over and there’s even more great stuff. It’s hard to find an analog for these guys but the closest I can think of is Bromp Treb minus the tape machine doohickery. This stuff is totally liberated from imposed rhythmic constraints and finds a true, natural flow of rhythms. That isn’t to say they’re above relentless, authoritative pounding as on the second piece but as that part fades a thicket of clicks, clacks, clinks clanks, thrums, dings, dongs etc. materializes against a super sparse minor key organ melody. Resolving the percussive in a (somewhat) more coherent way against a pulsing organ loop beware going nuts in the final 15 seconds. A brilliant piece. The last two pieces are also great. The first is shorter and has a droning presence along with percussive rattle that starts out friendly before getting real complex real quick. The last piece initially sounds like marbles and silverware slung down a bar through a labyrinth of beer glasses. It’s somewhat disorienting but appealingly tactile and immediate. I don’t even really hear drums anywhere in the piece, and it doesn’t matter, the two guys manage to create a rich, exciting piece out of these incidental sounds that people usually ignore in their everyday life. There's some squeaking towards the end that sounds like saxophone almost, but I’m pretty sure it’s just coming from the friction of someone rubbing a glass. Not only is this tape just a flat out brilliant and enjoyable percussive brouhaha, these guys are creating something really distinctive, complex and enthralling. 
6:29 PM 
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
An epileptic fit of percussion follows a raucous sneeze. This record tumbles into disarray before you can say ‘gazoontite’. Alberorovesciato are originally from Italy, but now reside in one of Europe’s many creative hearts – Berlin. They deliver powerful gamelan messy percussion, reeds and various primal noises that focus on the occult crudity of fervent performance. Can’t really pinpoint an obvious contemporary comparison – just think the far-out lunacy of My Cat Is An Alien with the primitive rumbles of Chora/ Pascal Nichols. 

The opening gambit sets a canvas of disruption, and a point of reference for the entire babble of menace. The percussion is fast and evolving, encountering keyboard with a Talibam! styled fizz and interference. Things elevate with taught drama and an all-consuming trance enfolds; if only you’d submit to its zeal! So many surfaces are hit during the performance one’s brain has to fight through various puzzles to stay abreast of what’s taking place. The overall feeling is one of analogue rave with the technical deliberation of free jazz. Reeds twist around scratches and knocks that reach up and fall back before their presence is truly noted. As the pallet changes and the various objects, including metal / wood / canvas and what-ever-else, unfold the record truly begins to shine. There are insanely loose repetitions that crop up and patterns emerge after many focussed listens. Yet with all this analytical nonsense aside, it is truly best consumed with ones mind wrestling the paralysis of over stimulation. 

When synths cut beneath the clammer, a real sense of fire and avant-jazz bleeds through. There is an impossible pace to many of the pieces, resulting in a tip-tap of rain effect, which truly disorientates already frayed mental rhythms. The organic nature of their playing feels bestial and playful in its approach. Towards the final stages, things are stripped right back to a perplexing delayed cacophony. Some of the jazzier pieces feel a little nauseous after the onslaught of omnipresent percussion, yet welcome in a breath of deference. 

The continued intensity of the whole record fries your mind with volume of expression equal to a fire alto performance, or imagine the ferocious static chaos of Haswell & Hecker in analogue. I approach this record from time to time (having owned it for a month now) and manage to soak its energy in random encounters rather than focussed continual listening. The structure is dense and engaging yet a little overwhelming. To conclude I’d recommend this explosive ear buster to percussive enthusiasts and worshipers of the avant-garde. I am utterly desperate to see this act live – I’m sure it would resonate in memory for a long, long while. 7/10 -- Peter Taylor
6:27 PM 
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
Albero Rovesciato is actually a composite of two Italian dudes now residing in Berlin, Francesco Cavaliere and Marco Lampis. Self described as desiring to escape electronic effects in favor of material contact, the duo successfully opt to do weird the old fashioned way, using vocals, drums, bells, gongs an "objects" to concoct an immersive percussion orchestra piece that travels the spaceways between Varese's "Ionisation," Andrew Cyrille and Milford Graves' "Dialogue of the Drums," and Balinese gamelan. These guys aren't slouches either. It may sound like chaotic pot and pan handling, but the duo move through their sound realms with a speed and energy that's pretty tough to come by. Hharsh blasts of feedback will enter and disperse as rattling and skittering mini melodies and percussive jaunts explode outwards, creating a classicist meets isolated genius meets mad professor vibe that's pretty strange and hard to pin down in terms of placement. Sometimes it comes across like a Henry Cowell piece and other times it sounds like a three year old dinnerware solo. The depth of the whole thing is actually pretty astounding considering their instrument choice. One track will be all rattle and crazed percussion worship and the next will be an exploration in the resonance of some crystal bowl or something, ringing about as small gestures are done above it. It is an airy and tactile psychedelia that these two subscribe to, one moment slamming down the soup can stack and the next hovering above the tree line, spatula in hand, all the while exhibiting a directional control subtle in its unpredictability but definite in its shape. Definitely one of the more difficult releases on Stunned yet, not to mention one of the hardest to describe. Not really any way of summing it all up except that there is as much there as you could ask. Real works that drone and splatter their way into some sound worlds not often explored. Also worth mentioning is that despite their lo-fi approach, the recording quality here is actually quite impressive. Every nuance is beautifully captured, giving the whole work a spacious quality that really takes into account the room being played in. One to return to again and again, thee guys will have you finding new moments of beauty forever with this one. Great artwork too, complete with J-card. Unfold it for full effect. Can't quit these guys. Ear Conditioned Nightmare
6:24 PM 
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November 29, 2009 - Sunday 
Albero Rovesciato - Ancient Shining Drums of the Covered City c30 (Stunned no. 21) — out of stock — Albero Rovesciato’s members Francesco Cavaliere & Marco Lampis are native to the mystic isles off Italy but now they roam Berlin, presumably because they have smashed all the percussion instruments in their homeland. All we know is we’re glad we located them with some remaining objects and intact drums, because few troupes can make us simultaneously smile with delight and scamper for cover when they rev up like this. Cavaliere & Lampis emerge from the badass Italian sound collective Phonorama, so we know they mean business once they open their trick bags and begin spilling out wares of leftfield musique concrete & cybertimes junkyard gamelan. Before-and-after shots of their performance spaces provide evidence that a typical Albero live action reduces much of their tools to splinters & powder. This isn’t to imply that things are sloppy, however. Not for a second. Crystal recording fidelity on ‘Ancient Shining Drums’ benefits the wheezing-blurting-whacking fits of OCD voodoo, ensuring that we have never heard chaos sound so lean & tangible before. Marco puts it best when mentioning he & Francesco’s desire “to escape from pedals and digital effects, to approach and find material contact with the instruments, to arrive at PYRAMID LEVEL.” Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes in blood red shells, insert card, and double-sided color jcard.

6:20 PM 
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