Listening Diary 20241219

Posted on Thu 19 December 2024 in Listening Diary

  • Whirling Hall of Knives - Blown Vestige - https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige: Fuzzed out, largely beatless, ambitronica from a now seemingly inactive Irish duo. Switches between atmospheric blooms and distorted guitar keyboard textures.
  • GNOD R&D/Whirling Hall Of Knives - GNOD/WHOK - https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok: Going off down a rabbit hole, this is a joint EP with Paddy and Chris of GNOD marrying GNOD's front end to industrial beats as opposed to their usual punishing grind, and creating something that sounds like it fell off an 80s industrial compilation. WHOK offer two variations on something that is both cranked up guitar riff and ambient drone.
  • Ordos Mk 0 - Buchla Experiments - @ordosmarkzero https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-experiments. The Buchla (Arturia's virtual one I presume) is often used for experimental noise so it's pleasing to hear it used for patterns and melodies here. From Ordos's current offer of their entire discography for not a lot at all, which is worth a punt.
  • Audio Interface/James Aletsch - A Night Before Christmas - https://www.audiointerface.org/shows/james-aletsch/ A special Christmas show of ambient electronics, calm noise and distant pop (it says here), which would be a cosy hour of a lot of splendid stuff if my study was warmer...

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