Magic And Politics

Everybody likes some free noise music don't they? If so please take a listen to this artist. His/her (theres very little information about this individual, at least none I could find) album Self-Portrait As A Miserable Beast which features cover art by 'bad' painter George Condo is a tour-de-force of power electronics and seemingly modern art inspired strangeness. Some of the tracks (like 'Search For Skoffin' and 'Multi Media Installtion Of Male Violence') sound like highly distorted death and black metal songs layered unsympathetically over one another. Some of them (like 'Fountain Of Light' and the title track) have a much subtler though no less effecting ghostly quality that I suspect have been recorded in reverse. Some of the tracks (like 'The Form' and 'Depicting Totenkopf') are so abstract and bizarre they defy description.
I hope he/she releases more in the future but for now i'll have to be content with this.

http://www.last.fm/music/Magic+And+Politics

Werewolf Jerusalem

I felt it was time to make a music related post as the visual/conceptual aren't my only interests. Whilst reading the Powerlines section of Zero Tolerance magazine I came across the work of a man eloquently named Richard Ramirez. His brand of noise is painfully minimal, dense, and always seemingly on the verge of falling apart. On his myspace he cites his influences include old exploitative horror films and the broken static between radio stations. If your a fan of Kylie Minoise at his most stark and unrelenting or would like to hear what a rawer and less melodius Nackt Insecten would sound like then I heartily recommend Werewolf Jerusalem. Go on his profile (link provided below) and listen to Knock On The Door.

http://www.myspace.com/werewolfjerusalem

http://www.ztmag.com/

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