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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: RADIO EMACM #2: KEKAMBINGAN |
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RADIO EMACM #2: KEKAMBINGAN
hosted by Ayah Mejelis {{{ayahmejelis<at>gmail.com}}}
http://www.yat.ch/emacm/radio.html
Alrighty then... Radio EMACM's second outing. A bit like an
excursion to a cult commune without the satisfying worship of giant
ornamental tea-pots or the pleasurable sights of young nubile naked
women prancing pagan-faerie-like in a secluded forrestry with
pristine waterfalls. All we have, thankfully and sanely, are oodles
of audial devastation, torture, assault, carnage and unbridled
savagery. FUN like Genghis KHAN!
Our second trod into sonic deviance and defiance is also our way of
outwardly handing out support and dedications to all affected by the
recent Black Metal hooplah.
From those caught up in the mix during the recent NYE raid --
however the misattribution by the authorities -- to all committed
corpsepainting brethens and sistas who swear their direct line of
ancestry to the Nordic and the Goat of Goats; right up to those who,
sans paintworks and the plainnest of Janes and Joes, can't get
enough of the art and sounds of heavy detuned dirge-ness (of the
fast and/or slow variety) and Cookie Monster vokillllling! ROAR!
So this second show is thematically an abyssal plunge into the fiery
realm of Pure Evol, Doom, Gloom, Blackness, Darkness, the
Apocalyptical, Death, the Sinister, Morbidity, EVOL, the Nocturnal,
the Ghastly, the Grimmest, the Vilest. etc. etc..
We have a specific request: PLAY THIS SHOW OBSCENELY LOUD. Don't be
cheap ass and pussy weak on the volume. Crank the shit up! After
all, it's our little moment of protest or, to fiddle with some word-
play, pro-tease. Tongue-in-cheek cheekiness.
On a sidenote: two Malaysians (ok, only one but the other guy was
born here) are featured here. One from Batu Gajah and the other from
Klang.
(Technical note: Those on Netscape and Firefox may experience some
problems loading the Flash Mp3 player and playing the Mp3s online.
Please do not hesitate to email us if this occurs. No problems so
far with other existing browsers.)
1) Charley Patton -- Devil Sent the Rain Blues (from Screamin' and
Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton [Revenant Records,
2001])
There is no going around the fascination early Blues had with the
Devil. Recall the Robert Johnson myth that never fails to be
recounted in every canonical narratization of Rock n Roll history --
the sale of his soul at the crossroads to the Evil One in exchange
for the gift of musical talent and brilliance... the Blues then went
on to inspire early Rock n' Roll (Little RIchard, Jerry Lee, Chuck
Berry, Elvis) without which we wouldn't have the Stones, Beatles,
Cream, Hendrix, the Who, Led Zep, etc.. blah blah blah... (or que
that cliche of cliches: "and everything else as they say is
history"). All that Devil music yea?
However, by this humble reckoning, Johnson just ain't as cool as
Charley Patton who by the way was an inspirational force on the
former. We just think Patton has more of the heebee jeebees going
for him. Unquestionably better as the Devil incarnate or the spook
who could drive the Devil in and out of his own unwavering psyche
and pathos. And as one of the most seminal figures in out-Americana
music (or weird America as bluntly so-called these days), John
Fahey, once indicated (factual note: Fahey wrote his PhD thesis on
Patton) Patton is a pioneering creature of what might be called Fire
Music -- swampy fringe desolation induced by a force simply beyond
mortal disposition and finite comprehension. Just enough Fire to
produce a trove of awe-inspiring and bewitching music.
The 7 disc box-set _Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues The Worlds of
Charley Patton_ released on the late and great John Fahey's label
Revenant Records:
http://www.revenantrecords.com/index.php?section=releases&cd_ident=10
A review of the above box-set:
http://www.mnblues.com/cdreview/2001/charleypatton-7disc-cr.html
Renowned underground cartoonist Robert Crumb's take on Patton's life:
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/patton1.htm
2) Abruptum - Part I of Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me (excerpt)
(from Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me [Deathlike Silence
Productions, (1993)]
"The absolutely most evil band in the world" is held together
devilishly by two members with the names "It" and "Evil". You'd find
it ludicrous to take these guys seriously especially if you're one
of those types who love nothing but to knee-jerkingly heap ridicule
on the theatrical veneer that has long been a convention of Black
Metal. Whatever your inclinations, Abruptum is an act that deserves
all your scrupulous attention.
One of their more impressive early works, Obscuritatem Advoco
Amplectere Me was released on Øystein Aarseth's Deathlike Silence
Productions (him of Mayhem fame and, lest we forget, ermm... leading
role to Varg Vikernes's stab(s) to infamy!). This particular track
from Part I of the release lends credence to why they are often
considered to be one of the paltry few (and certainly a pioneering)
black metal bands that dares to propel the genre into freer and
noisier (in the harsh experimental noise sense of the word)
territories.
An Abruptum website:
http://www.geocities.com/scorntorrent/ABRUPTUM.html
Another Abruptum website:
http://www.geocities.com/scorntorrent/ABRUPTUM.html
Reviews of Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me:
http://www.blackmetal.co.uk/MReviews/op=show/rid=205.html
http://www.hyperblastmetal.com/reviews/a/abruptum/obscuritatemadvocoa
mplectereme.html http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1930
(amongst other horror-tinged musical artifacts)
3)Diamanda Galas "Sono L'Antichristo" (Plague Mass (1984 End of the
Epidemic) [Mute, 1991])
If there is anyone that could justify in a deserving manner the
title of Grand Dame of Darkness, Diamanda Galas would qualify in a
lucid instant (by a grave mile). But that would be such a facile,
uninteresting and not to mention lazy way of describing the
idiosyncrasy and complexity of her work. Her recent career as a
performer has either vacillated mainly between theatrical
performances of eternal grieving and mourning, and belting
out "operative blues" accompanied by her piano-playing (classically
trained but equally adept at executing the blues and jazz) under
conditions that resemble desolate and dark gothic lounges (if there
are even such things) that even Nick Cave would fear to make a choir-
boy's presence.
In other words, this multiply-octave voiced lady sure knows how to
put on a real show. All her performances so far have never failed to
be incredible. You will be assured of an experience that traverses
elegance, entrancement, seduction, the terrifying, the shocking
right up to the compelling.
Official Diamanda Galas website:
http://www.diamandagalas.com/
Galas website at Brainwashed:
http://brainwashed.com/diamanda/
4) Sunn O))) -- Cursed Realms (excerpt)
(from Black One [Southern Lord, 2005])
A Beastly slow-motion sludge fest/feast from Stephen O'Malley and
Greg Anderson.
Black One is their latest album that has almost every
experimental/indie rock to metal underground gushing -- appearing on
just about everyone's Top 10 lists for 2005. There is no heaven high
enough to prevent this glacial slow flow DOOM droners from becoming
strastrophically stacked (Marshalls we opine) by the day.
Cursed Realms, not unlike the Abruptum track featured above, sounds
like an aural depiction of Hell-ish phantasmagoria or a (sub-)sonic
resemblance of torturous nightmares gone absolutely beyond earthly
repentance. More of an ode to Black Metal (yea, those sinister sub-
sub-vokills somewhat give that away... and the fact that it is an
Immortal cover) than nudges to the original arbiters of low-end
drone, the mighty Earth -- prominent and omnipresent
in all their previous works --; this fine album also features yankee
black metalers, Wrest and Malefic (of Twilight fame, amongst other
groups), renowned Australian experimentalist guitarist Oren Ambarchi
and American noise-nik John Weise.
Reviews of Black One:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3507
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2474
Visit official website and order Black One:
http://www.southernlord.com/sunn/
Stephen o'Malley website:
http://www.ideologic.org/
Review of live Sunn o))):
http://ruthlessreviews.com/music/live/sunnonorth.html
5) Anaal Nathrakh - Pandemonic Hyperblast (from Codex Necro
[Mordgrimm, 2001])
A piece of awesome brutality from everybody's favourite post-Black
Metal (whatever that means) band from Birmingham. As diabolically
necrotic as you can get in whatever period of time, Past, Present
and Future. Title of the track says it all -- a pandemonic
hyperblast. Yes, all demons be wary. Would you expect anything less
from quite conceivably the most menacing and brutal band alive
today? Machine gun drum-rattling, violent guitaring, insane
vokilling, etc. etc..
This track is the only one featured on this show that has the most
resemblance to anything recognisably Black Metal (at least within
the form that it has evolved into). But by no means are Anaal
Nathrakh slouchers in taken on the boundaries of an often
restrictive genre. Listen to this track and you'll see why.
Anaal Nathrakh website:
http://www.geocities.com/anaalnathrakh/main.html
http://www.anaal-nathrakh.tk/
Anaal Nathrakh on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/anaalnathrakh
Chronicle of Chaos Interview with AN:
http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=1-315
6) Aleister Crowley -- The Call of the First Aethyr (Enochian) (from
1910 - 1914 Wax Cylinder Recordings [Transparency, 2000])
It's difficult to find someone as severely misunderstood and
scandalously deep into various controversies than Aleister Crowley.
Most of which has been and continues to be a consequence of
exagerations and saturated interpretations of his admittedly
enigmatic and singular work. Constantly being misplaced and referred
to from anything as dubious as a New Age (of the flaky kind) guru to
a Satanist to a pioneering advocate of psychedelics for the
transformative and transcendent (anticipating say Tim O'Leary
and the 60s), amongst other questionable characterisations that has
perdured advancingly in the Crowley industry. Sure, there is
certainly no dispute over "the Beast"'s bohemic lifestyle which
prefigures a great deal of "hedonism"s that appeared much later. And
many of which we have come to recognise as conventions of bohemia
and decadence. But there is undoubtedly more to Crowley which
deserves highlighting than the cult of his personality and the
depiction of the man and his work within the sphere of popular
culture. For starters, his written work, be it of the literary or
the more philosophical, deserves closer and meticulous attention
than has hitherto been brought to bear. In the case of the
literary, -- the prose and the poems -- the imagery and poetry are
astounding and unlike any fathomable. Definitely a writer in a
universe of his singular own. And of the philosophical or critical
work, at least within the subject of religious philosophy, Crowley
has to be one of the more erudite and accomplished hermeneuts of
just about any Eastern and Western religious, mystic, and occult
text available to his perusal.
Crowley at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
Some Crowley myths dispelled in this insightly FAQ:
http://altreligion.about.com/library/faqs/bl_crowleyfaq.htm
Large fragments of Crowley's Confessions on-line:
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/confess/
A near comprehensive list of Crowleyana links:
http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_crowley.htm
7) Khanate -- Capture (excerpt)
(from Capture and Release [Hydrahead, 2005])
Another Stephen O'Malley project. This time teaming up with James
Plotkin and Alan Dubin (both of O.L.D. notoriety). Khanate is
unquestionably the most distinctive and forward-looking outfit
working out of a rock/metal context today. Capture and Release which
came out last year is vast proof of the expansive and exploratory
dynamics the band has been tackling since day one of its conception.
What we have here which is only a snippet of a longer 18 minute
track -- an unfortunately fleeting glimpse -- shows off the clinical
execution and measured arrangements the band has consistently pulled
out of their cerebral cranium of DOOM. A trademark exacting
endeavour that masterly combines depressingly dark and anguished
vocalisations (courtesy of Dubin), controlled guitar/bass feedbacks
and dirge sludge (without becoming opulent and the sole musical
focus that is the case with O'Malley's other project featured
above), Tim Wyskida's restrained and methodic drumming, and a very
refined and
disciplined observation of compositional temporality. Silence and (a
slower) tempo never looked so rigorously assembled in all their
perfect places within the metal and rock genres. All this of course
without sounding like a contrived and concordant piece of work.
Capture and Release is a definite must have for all who are serious
about rock and metal today. No kidding.
A review of Capture of Release on the usually dogdy, tepid and dull
Pitchfork:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/khanate/capture-and-
release.shtml
Another review on Stylus Magazine:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3282
Khanate interview:
http://www.digitalmetal.com/interviews.asp?iID=4890
8) Corrupted -- Nieve Segundo
(from the split 7" EP with Phobia [Rhetoric Records, 1999])
With their strictly no interviews policy, very little has thus far
cyphered through about this highly esteemed exponent of sludge
crust. In keeping with the spirit of low-profiling, we will have
this commentary slightly shorter than average and remain respectably
muted for this revered Japanese band. Creaking silently however, we
will however recommend all to purchase their double CD release,
Llenandose de Gusanos and listen attentively to the first passage of
disc one. For this show however, we will treat you to Corrupted in a
recognisable and conventional mode.
Corrupted website:
http://www.dxmxtx.com/corrupted/
Corrupted's earlier website? Has some pictures:
http://www.disassociate.com/corrupted.html
9) Yeoh Yin Pin -- La Pestilenza (excerpt, remixed by Loose Cypher)
(from La Pestilenza [Halus, 1999])
Released on cassette in the late 90s as La Pestilenza (english = The
Plague), and now found on CD as Sono La Pestilenza, local
guitarist/composer presents a work that ownes as much to the droning
minimalism of Phil Niblock and Tony Conrad as it does to the sludge
rock worshipping of the Melvins and Eyehategod and also to metal of
the black, stoner, and death kinds. The full piece clocks close to
over half and hour, and the front cover for the cassette release is
all gloomingly black with smudges of blood red gracing a central
bleed. The release also includes a dedication to all his
"... secondary school classmates who would spend hours together
listening to Cradle of Filth, Napalm Death and Carcass." Ah the joy
and impermanence of youth. Too bad you could only grow your hair a
wee long.
10) Current 93 -- Judas As Black Moth
(from Live at Saint Olave's Church in London, 04/06/02 [bootleg])
From a Current 93 show with Antony and Johnsons on the same bill
(who incidentally covers C-93's Soft Black Stars throughout their
international gigging).
For those who do not know Current 93, you could say it's a project
centered around the work of David Tibet. Over many years and 50 or
so albums, the likes of Stephen Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound fame
and a long-time collaborator), Nick Cave, John Balance, Tiny Tim,
Crass's Steve Ignorant, John Murphy, Boyd Rice, to name just a few,
have all waltzed into the C-93 constellation to lend their
musical/artistic talents. C-93's recent work (or at least since the
early 90s) is often branded as "Apocalytic Folk" drawing from
influences as far and wide as the Incredible String Band, early
traditional English folksters like
Shirley Collins, various occultisms and mysticisms, the prose of
Thomas Ligotti, just to name a few of the rich diversity drawn
together by Tibet's vision.
Interesting fact on David Tibet: he was born in Batu Gajah (yes,
that town in Perak, near Ipoh) in 1960 and moved to England 13 years
later. And apparently, he returned to Malaysia in 2002 to hold his
marriage here.
c93 website at Brainwashed:
http://brainwashed.com/c93/
Wikipedia entry on Current 93
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_93
Daid Tibet Interview:
http://www.uncarved.org/music/OOOc93.html
Tibet at MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/davidtibet
The Wire's Invisible Jukebox with Current 93:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/unpublished/current93.html
Tibet's profile:
http://www.nndb.com/people/951/000034849/
11) Keiji Haino -- I said this is the son of nihilism (excerpt)
(from I said this is the son of nihilism [Table Of The Elements,
1995])
There has only ever been one Prince of Darkness and he is proudly
Japanese. Standing no taller than 5'6" and prediposed in the jetest
of blacks, Haino-San is not only an extremely venerated figure in
the Japanese experimental music underground
but also internationally regarded as -- rare today -- an absolutely
original musician and performer of a sublime capacity. Fronts -- in
this Ayah's opinion -- the most important and original rock band of
the 90s, Fushitsusha, a guitar-bass-drums trio that has consistently
delivered the most uncompromisingly intense and inventive of musics.
There would be no hesitation to place them amongst the pantheon of
other power-trios of paramount loftiness. Yes, right up there with
the Hendrix Experience, Cream, etc.. We wouldn't be surprised if you
experience a moment of transcendence when listening to their or
Haino's music but we recommend trying them out in the flesh. Haino
or Fushitsusha live is richly rewarding and SUPERLOUD. Be sure to
bring ear protection.
I said this is the son of nihilism is an early Haino solo work. It
begins appropriately with shrills and shrieks of voluminous electric
guitar feedback methodically conditioned like a piece of chamber
music for the rock and gothic. However, the section clipped for this
show is from the second half which is calmer and more melancholic
with Haino strumming in reverb-drenched mellowness and singing in
falsetto.
To tie up with some of the other acts featured on this show, Haino's
most recent release _Reveal'd To None As Yet - An Expedience To
Utterly Vanish Consciousness While Still Alive_ was mastered by
James Plotkin and artwork beautifully designed by Stephen O'Malley.
Haino interview with Alan Cummings published by Halana Magazine:
http://www.halana.com/haino.html
Haino website:
http://poisonpie.com/sounds/haino/index.html
Article on Haino at Perfect Sound Forever:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/haino.html
Wiki entry on Haino:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Haino
12) Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave (live)
A show that devotes itself to Goatliness is nigh complete without
the exalted Sabbath. This live number is taken from a legendary set
from 1974 at the California Jam music festival. Playing to an
audience of around 200,000, Ozzy and co. were in glorious full
flight putting up a performance that only Heaven and Hell can argue
over its exalted merits. For us mere mortals, we should follow in
agreement with the many devoted and long-serving Sabbath fans who
have considered this live spectacle as incontestably the best Black
Sabbath show ever.
A whole host of pictures, articles and writings on California Jam:
http://www.sabbathlive.com/articles/caljam.htm
The recent Sabbath BLACK BOX 9-disc boxset (8CD/1DVD):
http://www.black-sabbath.com/discog/blackbox.html
13) Striborg -- Misanthropic Isolation
(from Misanthropic Isolation / In The Heart of The Rainforest
[Asgard Musik, 2001])
The spirit of Burzum lives on... in Tasmania -- the other arse end
of this sordid universe. Striborg is a one-man project --
singlehandedly the brainchild of Sin Nanna.
Having slowly fostered a strong cult following amongst the countless
obscurios and esotericas of this ridiculously dull planet of ours,
Sin Nanna was recently given a tributary salute by none other than
Sunn O))) with the first track from Black One named after the
Tasmanian Devil. Little is known of Sin Nanna but one thing is
certain: every sublimated moment of his musical output is always
flitered through the lowest of lowest fidelities. All Striborg hyper-
lo-fi recordings are worth securing and played as inconsiderately
loud as possible on your modified car stereo system. Don't wait
until he becomes the Jandek of Black Metal.
14) Naked City - Leng Tch'e (excerpt)
(from Black Box [Tzadik, 1997])
John Zorn's Naked City serving up a completely different tangent
from their usual
schizophrenically accelerated and fractured cut-up music of insane
finesse. Leng Tch'e is an agonizingly minimal, slow and drawn-out
one-track piece of droning sludge rock inspiration -- according to
the liner notes, a tribute to the Melvins. A maddening dirge that
attempts to be the bloodcurdling soundtrack to an old Chinese
torture ritual called Leng Tch'e. The torture procedure goes like
this: the tortured victim would be pumped with opium in order to
prolong his/her life while he/she is mercilessly and slowly
dismembered. You want some flies with that?
The excerpt featured here is nearing the end of the first half of
the piece with the commencement of the second which introduces the
vocal psychosis and derangement of the supremely exceptional
Yamataka Eye (of chiefly Boredoms and Hanatarash fame). Members of
Naked City also include Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith and
Joey Baron -- all in themselves avant-garde/experimental music
luminaries.
A section devoted to Naked City on a Zorn fan-site:
http://www.omnology.com/zorn03.html
Last year's Naked City's 5-disc retrospective boxset release
_Complete Studio Recordings_:
http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7344-5
A review of the above:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17173
Wiki entry on Naked City:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City
15) The Melvins - At A Crawl
(from Ozma [Boner Records, 1989])
Forget Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and even Mudhoney, the most
outrightly genius of a rock act to ever hail from Seattle is still
the Melvins (alongside of course Dylan Carson's low-end droners
Earth). Grimey dark eminence beyond whatsoever comparison. The
Melvins are the original dudes who concocted all that bleak sludgey
distaste that we have come
to receive as a collosal genius of a rock approach. Who would have
thought that obliquely slo-mo-ing Black Sabbath (and Black Flag)
would have caused such a violent reverberation through musical
history. Not just on sludge rock mind you. Lets not forget the
seminal impression these guys had on one Kurdt Kobain who as hard as
he tried, was never even close to a whimper of mimicking the
staggering might of King Buzzo and co..
By the way, what a bunch of ugly guys. Ugly music for the facially
challenged. Ah glory.
Wikipedia entry on the Melvins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melvins
A Melvins website:
http://www.themelvins.net/
Melvins page at Ipecac:
http://www.ipecac.com/bio.php?id=5
A recent interview with truepunk.com:
http://www.truepunk.com/interviews/themelvins/
A treasure chest of audio and video recordings of Melvins live:
http://www.runningonion.com/melvins.html |
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Dear all, we're trying out a different Flash Mp3 player
for the radio show. Hopefully this resolves the previous
compatibility problems with some browsers.
Plus I think this looks better than the mp3 player
(Flam Player) we were using before.
Any problems, just get in touch with me
at <ayahmejelis<at>gmail.com>
http://www.yat.ch/emacm/radio.html
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