ZONE n01-(Fanzine-UK-2016)

A short fanzine with lots of black and white drawings, it includes a short story and the rest is just nice weird drawings.

This is the first issue and I am not sure if there have been more issues printed after it. 

Sometimes there are little collages added making these drawings even more interesting.

 I am posting here a little sample.

I think it is a very nice short zine full of good artworks.

Enjoy it.

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BULIMIA BANQUET-Live A Forte Prenestino il 4/5/91-(Kontagio Produzioni Tapes-Italy-1991) -REISSUE+Recalls by Jula Bell and Al Hansford

On the 27th of Sept 2017, I posted this great tape by this amazing band. One year later Jula Bell(the singer) got in touch with me, she kindly rectified some of the song titles and agreed to write some memories about this gig!
Here I am going to attach what Jula and Al Hansford(the guitarist) wrote about it: "It was 30 years ago, but here is what we remember about that day:  First off, we were the last minute add to the show.  I guess Andrea Rossini who was the sound man from Leoncavallo  (who was riding with us) must have talked to Luciano or someone over there and had us added last minute.  When we arrived it seemed like the Coliseum to us!  It was old and huge with giant dilapidated broken down walls.  I think that there 5000 or so people there for the festival, and it was a super fun night.  When we got there we met the Angelic Upstarts.  They were super nice, especially the bass player.  They were also super drunk and it was hard to understand them through their really thick cockney accents.   The bass player had to translate what some of the other guys were saying.  Since we had Dez Cadena from Black Flag in the band, we ended up throwing some Black Flag covers in with our set.  Al is pretty sure that he and Dez sang "White Riot" with the Angelic Upstarts. 

Al recalls that there were Italian Black Panthers there and recalls learning "By Any Means Necessary" in Italian.  He also recalls people giving free partial mohawks, and the touching the cold stone walls.  We stayed the night there and Al swears that he saw ghostly images marching up the corridor.  I guess that place is pretty haunted.   We had a wonderful time and Luciano and his friends were very fabulous hosts. "

A FB page about Bulimia Banquet is here  , you`ll find their old flyers and an interesting video interview to Jula published on Women Of Rock Oral History where she talks about also her experiences in the L.A. Punk scene and Bulimia Banquet, of course.

Kontagio Produzioni Tapes was a small distro releasing mostly live tapes recorded in this massive squat(probably the biggest in Europe).
Forte Prenestino is, in fact, a fort squatted on the end of the 80s and still alive and kicking. 

  The pictures included here were taken at their gig at Diskarika Occupata in Foggia during the very same tour.

Big Thanx to Giuseppe M. for these pics.

Eventually, I also posted their 2 albums "Party My Colon(1989)" and "Eat Fats, Die Young(1988)", you find them here.

A very big THANX to Jula for her contribution, help and kindness.

Enjoy this great tape, amazing recording and now exact song titles.

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GRIM MACHINE-Ghost Industrial-(E.T.C.-Greece-2017)+Hiss Tape-(Concrete Noise/E.T.C.-Greece-2018)+Exotica Mystica-(Concrete Noise/Ru.Mor.Re-Greece-2018)

This is the second post about Grim Machine, in fact, I posted already quite a few of his early productions + the first part of this well-done biography written by the Alexander himself, you find that post here.

A very big thanx to this amazing artist for his contribution and digital gifts.

Grim Machine is a solo project by Alex M. (The Zyklons, Black Faun)
through found/modified instruments and homemade/readymade sounds it deals with noise and improvisation as machinery made to attack reality, more or less, a useless skronk of freedom. I swapped a few emails with Alexander, the headmaster of this project, He kindly wrote a biography based on his releases.

"Ghost Industrial, which followed shortly after, is an experiment on duration and continuity, a mechanical transcending wall of noise made from MRI scanner loops saturated and manipulated to the point of total destruction/ no recognition, where machine signals become the howling sound of human absence.
The next release was Hisss Tape, February 2018, an experiment inspired by Giacomo Leopardi’s thoughts on Philosophy of the Useless. It is the presentation of a sound/noise archive of every day and “useless” sounds by means of music concrete synthesis. The idea was to form a psychological palindrome narrative of sound itself, with no entry point and no way out. Side A is a 30 minute amplified total distorted cut up pastiche and side B consists of an everyday found-sound collage.
At that time GM started to explore furthermore the use of non- electro-acoustic devices and small instruments creating noise-scapes resembling natural and ethnographical or imaginary world sounds, questioning the distinction between the artificial and natural environment, perception and false identification. Following a growing interest on Field recordings and world traditional music from a sociopolitical point of view, 2018’s Exotica Mystica is the first step towards the idea of OTHER WORLD MUSIC, a “theory in practice” concept based on pan-ethnological primitivism, the primeval impulse of expression and creativity found in common universal roots, sound in ritual acts, a multi-layered experience of self -identification and social identity. The ideological standpoint of OTHER WORLD MUSIC is to utilize sound like an eternal instrument towards total freedom, to blend elements of universal heritage, cultural and artistic, in a free interpretation /statement constructing a collective subconscious soundtrack. To eliminate race, colour, gender, language, time, space…Every sound is played by real instruments or analogue gear and then processed in order to construct a new faux traditional field recording of a hypothetical lost unknown tribe, sans ethnicity and location, a future omen.

Nowadays GM’s main source of inspiration remains ancient art, symbols, myths, and rituals. Though the album releases of GM are conceptual and thematic, live performances are totally improvised rituals where primal form and structural narrative can be organized into a language addressing issues of spontaneity, evolvement, and deliverance. By blending sequences of sound in an unbroken continuity of loop layers and real-time processed physical sources, GM explores the use of noise as a medium of communication and improvisation as a way of storytelling.
Apart from the Grim Machine project, Alex M. also runs Concrete Noise DIY label and is a founding member of the long-lived Greek noise entity BLACK FAUN and the free jazz/improv duo The Zyklons. From 1998 and on he has been in many DIY HC/punk bands with varied discography. As Grim Machine he has 6 releases in E.C.T/ E.D.A and RU.MO.RE cassette/cdr labels and a split tape that includes his soundtrack version to the film Begotten by E.Elias.Merhige. He also participates in NOISE FROM THE RUINS OF EUROPE compilations #1 & 2 that present experimental music from the Balkan and Eastern Europe area. As a live act, he has played RTP festival, Noise Annoys fest, Kino-Bruitism, Multidom/Multeece, Signal Noise Soundsystem and lots of live concerts all around Greece."

To complete this post I am including a video of one of his performance taken from his Youtube channel.

Enjoy it.
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https://grimmachine.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/grim_machine
https://soundcloud.com/thezyklons
https://www.facebook.com/BlackFaun/
https://www.discogs.com/label/1264202-ECT

 

WORST CASE SCENARIO-(Bumpidee-USA-1994)

Worst Case Scenario was an American hardcore band from Olympia, Washington, active in the mid-90s and raging a furious HC Punk with shouted lyrics and powerful drums. 

Enjoy it.

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ANATOMIA N1-(Fanzine-UK-1993)

This is the first issue of Anatomia, a very good and long fanzine focused on death metal and related sub-genres.

In this issue interviews to Monolith, Xaztur, Naked Whipper, Thus Defiled, Imprecation, Lugubrious, Vomitory, Depravity, Nocturnal Rites, Sentenced, Malediction, Edge Of Sanity, House Of Husher, Embalmed, Pestigore, Gorefest, Suffer + quite a few small articles about new death metal bands, lots of  LPs, EPs and demo reviews and same rather very death graphics.  

Very well done with passion and love this is
only for death metalheads.
Enjoy it.
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Croniamantal –Latnamainorc-(Ritual De Sombras-Portugal-1991)

Amazing obscure ritual dark ambient project from the crypt of the 90s.

I haven`t got much info about it yet this is gold.

Gonna attach the Discogs info and a video found on Youtube.

Enjoy it. 
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Tracklist

A1	Theme III
A2	Theme IV
A3	Theme V
B1	Theme VI
B2	Theme VII
B3	Theme VIII

Credits

• Artwork [Cover Art "os Burgueses De Calais" By] – Auguste Rodin
• Design Concept – Mário Jorge Esquetim
• Performer – Fernando Cerqueira, Paulo Rodrigues

Notes

Official release by Ritual De Sombras from 1991, original recordings made in 1990.
Cassette is packaged in small handmade paper box with black and gold printed artwork on it.
This is a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies.

 

Comando Bruno / Bogart ‎– Tension Test -(Bog-Art/ECDM-Germany-c60-1985)

Comando Bruno is Rafael Flores, Spanish composer, sound and video artist. His whole work is a milestone of experimental music and sound exploration, he produces audio/video works in a very much personal way too hard to define. Rafael Flores build a solid personal universe with intelligent use of natural recordings and the methods of musique concrete, collages and plenty of other vanguard approaches, mixed with a particular sense of humour next to the spirit of dada and surrealism. One of the most active sound artists in the industrial music scene (international cassette network, experimental video, radio and mail art), he influenced new generations of experimental sound artists. His most notorious feature is the intimate poetical touch in the sound works, quite unusual for the industrial music scene. From 1991 to 2001, Rafael Flores reduced musical activity, and was involved with video art, releasing just a very limited sound works as "friends only" private editions. After a long pause, he returns to editorial activity in 2002.
Rafael Flores has published numerous works under his own name and also as Comando Bruno. Was founder member of Diseño Corbusier band and The International Mail Music Group. Many collaboration works followed with like-minded musicians, GX Juppiter-Larsen, Francisco López, Neo Zelanda, Victor Nubla, Francisco Felipe, Esplendor Geométrico, Zan Hoffman, Anton Ignorant, to name a few.
His music was released all over the world by such labels as Monochrome Vision, Banned Production, Discos Esplendor Geometrico, Korm Plastics, Zeromoon, Graf Haufen , Tonspur, and by his own labels Laboratorios No and ECDM.His FB page is here.

Bogart is Hubert Haverkamp-Cologne-based experimental musician. His actual webpage is here.(all the info from Discogs)

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Tracklist

A	–Bogart	Surgical Treatments
B1	–Comando Bruno	Broken Eternity
B2	–Comando Bruno	Pulsion Collages (Radio.Mix)
B3	–Comando Bruno	Koenig, 1923 (Parts 1-2)
B4	–Comando Bruno	Telex

Notes

Limited edition of 100 numbered copies (either hand-numbered or rubber-stamped numbered).
Available in regular ferro or chromium tapes.

"Spaimany Mail-Art"