SUNDAY PAINTERS-SURFACE PARADISE-4TH ANNUAL REPORT, LP, 1983, AUSTRALIA

Ferocious, fascinating, claustrophobic and completely forgotten rhythm box-driven Aussie post punk cacophony that holds a mid-ground between Metal Urbain and The Instant Automatons, though less venomous then the former and less giddy than the latter. This treasure was unearthed for your edification courtesy of blog friend James Dean Brown, formerly of post-industrial beat merchants Hypnobeat, whose Huggables cassette will soon be featured here and whose latter day work as Narcotic Syntax has been issued by Perlon (more info Here )

Note: I put the wrong release date on the zip file for this, but I don't have the time to re-up it, so just know that 1983 is the accurate date for this one...


Note: it appears that this LP, alongside their first album and several singles are soon due for reissue (see note on the comment board), so the links for this have been removed.

EUGENIO MICCINI-CONCERTI DI POESIA, LP, 1983, ITALY

While many sound poetry albums may sound like a good idea in theory (especially if you've got a thing for flipped out vocalists) the reality of actually sitting with one is often as enticing as a dry hump with a hair shirt. That however is not the case here, or at least not with the jarringly odd A side (the flip side being a bit of a wash unless you get aroused by the idea of someone holding down the FF button on a cassette deck). Miccini was something like the grand old man of Visual Poetry in Italy during his life; an art practice that involved collapsing together words, figures, signs and symbols. A similar set of aesthetic collisions and elisions is in evidence here, as ancient tinny gramophones underpin increasingly hectic stereo-panned recitation en route to what sounds like armageddon in a clock making factory.

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BRUCE DITMAS-AERAY DUST, LP, 1977, USA

Following on from my post of his Yellow LP some time back, here's another wild and wooly collection from this one time fusion drummer turned avant analog keyboard maven and Joan LaBarbara associate, courtesy of Blog friend Ward, who last gifted us with the Chamberpot LP. The A side here mirrors Yellow's outwardly bound mooginess and groove splatter while the far more jazzy flip finds him in a series of enjoyable if much more idiomatically straight duets with legendary Italian jazz trumpter Enrico Rava.
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BLACK PHLEGM-MUZAK FOR ABATTOIRS, LP, 1989, UK

The name and title here really sum things up nicely, with this absolutely lost to time UK crew spewing out a murky and seasick slurry of dink beats, key quease and purgatorial atmospherics dredged up from the bowels of the UK avant garde. One of the biggest weird music collectors I ever met claimed this as a personal favorite, and while there is no accounting for taste, this certainly does manage to kick up a very specific and strangely compelling sort of malaised atmosphere.

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RONRUINS-KETSUNOANA, CD, 1998, USA/JAPAN

In which Japan's most formidable and berserk bass/drum duo dive head first into a spaghetti-tangled menage a trois with Bay Area avant string slinger and prog/punk avatar Ron Anderson of The Molecules. The corrosive chop 'n' change art spasms that ensue are both exemplary and exactly as one might expect, given the previous work of these three.

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FUCK UP PREVENTS POSTS 'TIL THURSDAY

Sorry...everything was planned to go up today and then I manged to lose all the texts that I'd written (along with the texts from many earlier posts) today in a technical fuck up of epic proportions. I probably won't have the time to re-write this stuff now 'til thursday rolls around. Eegads.