v.a.-Prayer Of Mankind-(SSSM-Japan-2xc60-1997)

Astonishing double c60 tape compilation with an amazing selection of artists and tracks!

The music evolves in areas such as noise-ambient, power-electronics, industrial, drone and similar genres.

It came out with a variety of printed paper inserts housed in a plastic bag. 

SSSM was a Japanese label releasing tapes and CDRs of experimental, abstract and noise artists, operated by Hiroshi Hashimoto. 

It is still active and you can check its latest releases on its Bandcamp Page.
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Tracklist

A1	–Brume	Hate's So Good Part 1	5:10
A2	–Brume	Hate's So Good Part 2	6:13
A3	–Die Sonne Satan	Addenda	6:25
A4	–Die Sonne Satan	A Dirge	4:38
A5	–Streicher	Juda Verrecke ! II	8:27
B1	–Tesendalo	Arbeits Kopie	11:23
B2	–Black Elegance	Hole Of Bride	9:28
B3	–Fatal Impact	In Progress (The Rum)	4:39
B4	–Fatal Impact	Fun Choice (The Dup)	3:58
C1	–Telepherique	Finsternis	5:23
C2	–Telepherique + Tesendalo	Licht	5:25
C3	–Skin Crime	One Dark Sun	5:41
C4	–Skin Crime	Masturbation Fantasy #176	4:34
C5	–Runes Order	The Church	10:24
D1	–Bad Sector	Alexander 1922	5:33
D2	–Bad Sector	Maria 1954	6:11
D3	–M.S.B.R.*	Red Breast	9:56
D4	–Contagious Orgasm	Guilty Connector	9:05

v.a.-FLORALIA Vol. 1-(On/Off Records-Italy-1997)

Volume one of this great compilation series, I have already posted the Vol. 2.

Also here a bunch of obscure bands/artists playing various forms of psych-rock, it came out with a booklet reporting info and pics/graphic works about the bands. All the relevant scans provided.

 On/Off Records was an Italian independent label from Spotorno (Savona); in 1998 changed the name in beware! RECORDS, continuing the same catalogue numbering.
And also this time, It is a precious gift from my friend Dante, who kindly donated this amazing sampler as FLAC files adding a personal little note. A big Thank You, dear Dante.
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 As with Vol.2, Floralia #1 presents us with a wide variety of indie-psych, rock & space-pop sounds. Mostly Italian bands this time, understandably. So far, I'm still only familiar with half of it, but the highlights for me are, naturally, Kryptästhesie (quite the Saucerful!), and Subterraneans (driving, retro fuzz), Olographic Landscape (bouyant interlude), Experimental Low-Fi Pop Oscillator (reminds me of The American Analog Set), the 2nd entry by Backwards,
Angus Bidoli (pre-launch warm-up). 
Gastel Etzwane provides the most welcome experimental sounds like the album's closer. As I hear flashes of early Floyd in many of the bands, which is also quite natural, then Gastel is the Ron Geesin of the entourage. (Dante)
 

Tracklist

1	–Mirabilia (2)	The Economy Of Thinking	5:48
2	–Oak (26)	Taverna Magica	6:08
3	–Kryptästhesie	Mara E La Macchina Del Tempo	6:36
4	–Gli Acidi Tonanti	Le Sfere Angelicali	3:48
5	–Gli Acidi Tonanti	Cattedrale Di Luce	3:34
6	–Subterraneans (3)	Something About You / Inner Space	6:59
7	–Olographic Landscape	Sole 17	1:58
8	–Knot Toulouse	Jamboree	5:39
9	–Experimental Low-Fi Pop Oscillator	Three Suns	7:05
10	–Angus Bidoli	Oscurità	6:34
11	–Backwards	I'm In You	2:20
12	–Backwards	Merry-Go-Round	3:51
13	–Sunscape (4)	Libera Esplosione	7:16
14	–Howth Castle	The Golden Lotus	4:01
15	–Gastel Etzwane	La Liquefazione Di Fleba E Vignola	4:47

Claudio Parentela-Early Works-(Graphics,Mail Art-Italy-1997)

These are some of the early works by the graphic -mail artists Claudio Parentela, I have received them a long time ago..in the meantime, Claudio is been very active in the underground scene collaborating with many fanzines, webzines, mail art projects and so on...here a short biography taken from official webpage:  

"Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,photographer,mail artist,cartoonist,collagist, journalist free- lance...Active for many years in the international underground scene. He has collaborated&he collaborates with many, many zines, magazines of contemporary art, literary and of comics in Italy and in the world...& on the paper and on the web..."

His webpage is very well done, and you can check there news, gallery, blogs, collaborations and more, it is here.

Big thanks to Claudio for giving me permission to post these old works.

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HEX MINORA-Under A Pornographic Sun-(Pylon Recordings-UK-1997)

Another excellent tape by this female noise artist who also ran BV Tapes.   Already covered in this blog. This tape came out in a VHS box and include also a short interview although it is not specified where and when it was published.Recorded 1994/1995. Remixed 1995. Limited to 100 copies.

The music here is a cacophonous magma of dark sounds touching the quite noise, the dark ambient, some crystalline esoteric electronics and more obscure sexual hypnotic messages.

Pylon Recordings was a UK based noise label active in the mid-90s, now defunct.
An astonishing tape-work.
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HOSTIA-All Is One-(Dark Vinyl Distribution-Germany-1997)

Hostia was one of the numerous projects by the German artist Paul Hostia. He also had other projects: Delysid, DLS, Helix 12, Moksha, Ordo Catharis Templi, Zoomorph.

With this album, Hostia delivers to us 4 tracks of powerful dark ambient including choirs, cavernous vocals, bizarre synth modulations, venomous pulsating drones, trumpets with a background of devilish and evocative sounds.

This is the lp version released on Dark Vinyl Records of the tape Alles Ist Eins which was originally released on cassette on the label O.C.T. in 1992. The vinyl had a print run of 449 copies.

Dark Vinyl Records is a veteran German label specialized in industrial, dark ambient and experimental music.

It is still active and you can check their webpage here. 

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Tracklist

A1	Alpha	11:12
A2	Delta	6:24
B1	Zeta	10:04
B2	Lambda	8:31

DEMANT/BAD JUSTICE-Live-Split Tape-(Bloody Murderer Tapes-Croatia-1997)

Live Split tape with two Croatian bands playing thrash/Hardcore punk with political lyrics.

It came with an A4 folded cover sleeve reporting the lyrics in Croatian and the English translations.

The overall recording quality is not too bad.
Bloody Murderer Tapes was a small tape label from Zagreb active in the mid-90s.
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v.a.-FLORALIA Vol 2-(On/Off Records-Italy-1997)

An amazing international compilation with very obscure bands/artists playing weird shoegaze, strange psychedelic rock, unhinged avant-garde, personal space rock, and similar acid jingles.

It came out with a little booklet reporting bands info and graphics works.

A little treat for people into acid musical voyages and joyful no-sense carnivals.

It was released by On/Off Records 

Italian independent label from Spotorno (Savona); in 1998 changed the name in beware! RECORDS, continuing the same catalogue numbering.

A very big thanx to Dante D. for donating to this blog this little unknown gem as Flac files + this small interesting note about the sampler.
"Comparable to the better known Succour and Alms compilations, The Floralia series of four discs was released n Italy during the same period, and like Soccour these CDs featured similarity independent space & psych bands from across the globe.
Personal highlights from the second volume are Kryptasthesie`s spiralling teleportation raga(from Italy) and Tribe of Cro(launching from Belgium in a brief stellar cruise toward suspended animation).
Other guests include two of Jorge Beltransjam-bands, Humus(Mexico) and Frolic Froth(ex loch Ness).
The U.S. Texas arm of underground space-rock bands are represented by Iron Bong and Bag(both from the same dry heat that gave us Lithium X-Mas and ST 37).
Excerpts from Anna Nacher`s sacred cave meditations with the polish group Atman are also added, along with contributions from S/T and others you no-doubt know or will soon discover."

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Tracklist

1	–Moonflowers (2)	Let It Rain	4:46
2	–Tribe Of Cro	Implosion	4:54
3	–Dunlavy	In Circles	2:45
4	–Humus	Brylereem	4:56
5	–Earcandy (2)	Cosmic Space	6:48
6	–Wobble Jaggle Jiggle	Keep Yourself In Control	4:06
7	–ZeN (62)	Spaghetti Eastern	3:56
8	–Lo-Fi Sucks!	Get Out Of My Way	3:05
9	–Iron Bong	All Day Long	3:12
10	–TV Dinner	Sheltering Sky	6:59
11	–Bag (2)	The Last Resort	4:10
12	–Frolic Froth	Karmic Controlled Planets	2:14
13	–Ole Lukkøye	Children	5:48
14	–Atman (2)	Theatre Of Mist	6:49
15	–Anna Nacher	39	4:30
16	–Kryptästhesie	Brevi Amnesie	2:03
17	–S/T	Marsschleifen	4:58

SIVULLINEN Newsletter 5/97-(Sivullinen-Finland-1997)

Another astonishing issue of this amazing newsletter:

Sivullinen was a newsletter edited by Jouni Waarakangas in Helsinki(Finland)!!!Jouni was printing in it everything that was coming out from the underground world.This newsletter had no borders!!! 

We could find in its: news about zines, comics, tape labels, mail art, anarchist newspapers, poetries, short stories, experimental music, adverts for future compilation tapes, flyers of bands and their productions, mail art projects and whatever was related to all those subjects.

The graphics layout was messy and at the same time funny on one A6 size folded page or more pages.

It was printed 4 or 5 times at year in a print run of 1000 copies and it was free although a donation of stamps would have been always very appreciated.Jouni was into trading zines and cassette productions!!

Sivullinen was also a great fanzine created by Jouni and I have already posted few numbers as well as a couple of issues of this newsletter, you`ll find it all here.
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Under The Flag n9-(Magazine-Belgium-Feb. 1997)

Number 9 of this small yet very good free magazine from Belgium in English language.

I have already posted the number 10 released later in the same year.

Created in Liege by Didier Delhez this free magazine was a great tool for people into industrial/goth/electro and cyberpunk music-culture.

In this issue interviews to Ivan Iusco (Nightmare Lodge, Minus Habens), Diatribe from USA, Testify from Germany, Malaise from Sweden + an American scene report and a good selection of music reviews and general info.
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HOW LONG?-How Long?-(Czerwony Diabełek-Poland-1997)

How Long? is a Crust band from Ostrava/Karviná/Český Těšín, Czech Republic.This is their first production, some info ,and music on this bandzone page.

Czerwony Diabełek is a hardcore/crust/grind label and distributor from Poland.A Discogs page about it is here, I am not sure if it is still active.

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		Studio Side
A1	Anticapital
A2	Jugosławia
A3	Świat Ślepych
A4	Krwawy Makijaż
A5	Równość I Pokój?
A6	War (Wojna)
A7	It's No TV Sketch
A8	Rozbij Granice
A9	Państwo Nienawiści
A10	Wojenny System
A11	Wojna (War)
	Garage Sound
B1	Intro
B2	Rozbij Granice
B3	Nie! (Ne!)
B4	War Machine I
B5	Deport
B6	Dzieci Wojny
B7	F.M.L.
B8	War Machine II
B9	Bee...!
B10	Knajpa
B11	Ostatnia Bee...!

Notes

A1-A7 recorded in Trencin 24-28 june 1996.
A8-A11 recorded in C.Tesin 18-19 April 1996.
Side B recorded in the garage august 19

TRIAL OF THE BOW-Rite Of Passage-(Release Entertainment-USA-1997)

Formed in late 1993 by Renato Gallina (percussion/vocals) and Matthew Skarajew (stringed instruments), Trial Of The Bow emerged from the city of Melbourne, Australia's heart and melting pot of all musical forms. While both members live and work in a metropolis, they strive to remove themselves and their listeners from this and transport them all to places exotic with their bared-down Eastern-inspired music.(from Discogs)

  Trial Of The Bow is an Ambient/Neo-Folk/World Music project of two members of Australian Doom/Death act Disembowelment. This has a rare depth and integrity seldom found in most "side-projects", which suggests that this is no mere flirtation with sounds. Influences from various traditions around the world, including Arabic and Celtic, are melded into a whole that strongly recalls Dead Can Dance. Sensual tribal music from Australia, utilizing such instruments as the tamboura, manjira, and e-bow, which not only incorporates the mystical sounds which graced the band's debut, but also offers a further variety of vast musical styles.(from youtube)

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1	Father Of The Flower Cello – Mark Van NootenTabla – Paul Widdicombe	4:07
2	Ubar Bansuri – Phil Carrol	2:16
3	The Promise Cello – Mark Van NootenShenai, Rhaita [Ghaita] – Phil Carrol	3:27
4	Serpent Flute – Phil Carrol	6:28
5	The Eyre Of Awakening	7:21
6	Ceilidh For The Sallow Ground Shenai, Rhaita [Ghaita] – Phil Carrol	3:04
7	Muezzin Bansuri – Phil Carrol	5:41
8	The Court Of The Servant Recorder – Kate NealViola – Biddy Connor	4:17
9	As Night Falls	2:54
10	Alizee Double Bass [Bowed] – Tony Mazziotta	6:27