13/05/13

Wires.Under.Tension are a two-piece from the Bronx, New York. They do an excessively pleasing combination of Battles-esque rhythmic exploration and slightly processed instrumentation. This track, 'Electricity Turns Them On', is from their album Light Science, released on Western Vinyl.

Here's the Wires.Under.Tension website, and, just for good measure, here's the Western Vinyl website.

03/05/13

From PR blurb: "Klavikon reimagines ‘electronic’ music without the use of conventional processes - no loops, no laptops, no sequencers. Instead, pianist Leon Michener employs a unique system of amplified prepared piano. Augmenting the 88 keys with his own inventions and found objects - a custom-made pick up, a robot dog - he delivers cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and abstract soundscapes. This amalgam of virtuosic technique and real-time analogue processing is at once connected with the classical traditions of Stockhausen and Cage and the experimental dancefloor idiom of Amon Tobin and Bochum Welt. The result is a fertile sonic territory, sincere in its eccentricity, restlessly inventive, and resisting easy categorisation."

What that means is pretty cool techno, played on piano, with 1980s toy figurines jammed in the strings:

26/04/13

Silly name, intriguing sounds. Craig Scott's Lobotomy seem to throw every single instrument, rhythm, style and melody into a big pot and, well, leave it there. What do you get? Aural drugs. The Leeds-based artist/musician is currently offering stems for his new single 'Technicolour Yawn' through his website, if you feel that you can do better.

08/04/13

They describe themselves thus: "Dovesizedwasps is music for keyboard instruments, electric guitar and bass, drum kit and throat written and performed by Penelope Collegefriend, who was previously a member of Lapsus Linguae". They certainly share a sense of the orchestral and the absurd with Lapsus Linguae, and a trite summing-up of this tune could be 'Captain Beefheart playing Sun Ra funk on Oxes' instruments, on Broadway'.

10/03/13

Following up on Nonsun from a couple of posts ago, here's another band from Lviv, Ukraine. There's good stuff going on over there! Gravitsapa mangle the stronk fadeouts of Sonic Youth circa Goo with Captain Beefheart's sense of the absurd and Don Caballero's way with a melody. They've just recorded a new album, Vulgata, and they're seeking labels to team up with in order to release it as a multi-label partnership.