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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 / 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 …

Ambient / Electronic / Industrial / Irish Music / Music / New Reviews / Noise

LUXURY MOLLUSC – Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records 2018)

15/05/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The world of recorded noise is a divisive one – deeply personal to those who construct it and abhorred by those who, often for very logical reasons, have no taste …

Ambient / Electronic / modern classical / Music / New Reviews / Reviews

LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018)

15/03/201812/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …

Folk / Irish Music / Music / New Reviews / Noise / Prog

WOVEN SKULL – They Were Pebbles But I Call Them Stones 10” (Lancashire and Somerset)

09/10/201709/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The new Woven Skull 10” comes in a sickly school-exercise-book orange sleeve with some lazy crap printed on the front. It’s not a good start. Their first LP proper, LAIR …