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Under the Island: A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960-1994 – CD/digital (Nyahh Records 2023)

04/10/2023 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This compilation is a multigenerational exploration of fringe recordings by Irish artists and the result of very deep digging into the dertritus of recorded sound. Some of these people I’m …

Ambient / Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / New Reviews / Noise

One Leg One Eye – …And Take The Black Worm With Me – LP (Nyaah Records 2022)

22/10/202222/10/2022 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is a shit-weather album. The first time I gave it a spin, it was sunny outside and whatever this music does to get its hooks into my brain wasn’t …

Experimental / Music / New Reviews / Post Punk

JAH WOBBLE – Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub – 2xLP (Cleopatra Records 2021)

08/02/202208/02/2022 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

I’ve always found Jah Wobble’s musical journey far too prolific to follow with any degree of consistency, and my best effort has been to dip into it every couple of …

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / New Reviews / Noise / Post Punk

SISTER ODD – Bruise/Reuse (self released 2021)

18/05/2021 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

In the great abstraction of reality we’ve been living through, I always hoped that the upside would be frustrated musicians and non-musicians turning inward. While collaborative and band situations are …

Art / Books / Experimental / Fanzines / Irish Music / New Reviews / Reviews

DRAG ACID Issue 7 – Earth Angel And Snowy – Fran Cassidy (thirty three-45 2021)

22/04/2021 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The world used to be awash with zines of all sorts. The ones I saw were mostly punk or comics (or punk comics), and occasionally publications about UFOs or how …

Experimental / New Reviews / Noise / Prog

AFTERWARDNESS – Afterwardness LP (thirty three-45 2020)

15/11/202022/04/2021 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Contributing to the amorphous vaults of Irish psychedelic guitar noise is always important work, but work nonetheless and something to be approached with foresight. Monolithic repetition and loose structure do …

Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / Irish Music / Music / New Reviews / News / Noise / Post Punk / Prog

ROGUE SPORE – A Decade of Ironing Board Electronics 2010-2020 (RS9-2020)

02/11/202007/11/2020 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

For your auricular displeasure, Irish electronic entity ROGUE SPORE presents a new release celebrating 10 years of noise, esoteric and amphibious electronic experiments. A DECADE OF IRONING BOARD ELECTRONICS 2010-2020 …

Ambient / Experimental / Irish Music / Jazz / New Reviews / Noise / Post Punk / Prog

ZEROPUNKT – Clap Your Hands And Say No (2020)

02/11/2020 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Dublin based Zeropunkt continues its probing of cosmic noise and progressive spontaneity with a new album, the group’s second under the current name, and squillionth if you include the material …

Experimental / Irish Music / New Reviews / Noise / Post Punk / Prog

ORGANS – ORGANS CD (2019 Marginal Records/Lugnut/Little Plastic Tapes)

15/01/202009/02/2020 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Released in mid-December 2019, ORGANS is an improvisational experiment of sorts, a loose collective of musicians curated by Ian Pearce (Comply or Die, Minnows, Bad Dates etc.) to redress the …

Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / New Reviews / Noise

LANKUM – THE LIVELONG DAY (Rough Trade 2019)

09/11/201909/11/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Lankum’s 2017 debut for Rough Trade made a strong case for a band with definite intent about reforging tradition, mixing new ideas into the musty jars of heritage and happily …

Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Irish Music / Jazz / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise

ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019)

02/03/201902/03/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

When you are willfully divergent and askew to the point that logic dictates your bandname as ¡NO!, its ungooglability is going to bite you sooner or later. In my clunky …

Ambient / Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise / Prog

MICHAEL O’SHEA – Michael O’Shea – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018)

24/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

All City Records continues its worthy Allchival series with a long overdue reissue of the one and only album by street musician Michael O’Shea, originally released in 1982. Beyond the …

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / Martial / modern classical / New Reviews

LAIBACH – The Sound Of Music (2018 MUTE RECORDS)

21/12/201821/12/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Strange is the world of Laibach that it has taken 3 years for an audio document of this project to emerge. Given the publicity surrounding Laibach’s high adventures in the …

Electronic / Experimental / Irish Music / New Reviews / Post Punk / Uncategorized

STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018)

27/10/2018 - by bozmugabe - 1 Comment

To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …