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*Assembly Of Light “Assembly Of Light” cd (At A Loss) – Providence, Rhode Island-based ASSEMBLY OF LIGHT choir is a secular all-female choral faction, unifying their incredible range of voices into beautiful, and often undeniably eerie, ethereal hymns, which blend classical styles through their own artistic experimentation. Chrissy Wolpert formed A.O.L. in 2008 and also handles the writing of all unconventional choral songs for the rotating cast of 20+ women which includes artists, scientists, gardeners, and teachers and musicians. The choir have collaborated with other vocalists and musicians often; the most notable of these collaborations .and appearances on record would inarguably be the choir’s massive inclusion on the 2010-released All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood, the acclaimed sophomore LP from apocalyptic doom duo, The Body. Live, the choir have played everything from the Carnegie Library Theater, St. Stephens Church to D.I.Y. warehouse spaces and punk houses, and have sometimes included covers of Judas Priest (with The Body) and The Velvet Underground.

Their self-titled full-length is equally as unconventional!!! Angelic vocal harmonies with piano and melodic drone lulls one into peaceful state only to be lead to erie vocals, violin and cello and a explosion of plodding percussion, low-end dirge and the juxtaposition of the piercing vocals of Chip King (The Body) against those of Assembly Of Light. The journey continues down the more melodic path with the addition of voice of Alexis Marshall (Daughters) building to a triumphant culmination of crashing cymbals, beautiful choral harmonies, and the combination of Marshall and King. The three parts of the album closer "Into The Woods" however, shows the true power of the voice of the Assembly Of Light minus without all the extras - beautiful!!!

*Christian Cosmos "Enthronement By God As The First-Born Of The Dead" lp (Hospital Productions) –

Released first as a limited 4 x cassette box set now condemned to vinyl.

Among the trinity of electronic projects of dominick fernow's studies in anxiety and fear from the mythic natures of rainforest spiritual enslavement, the info wars of vatican shadow and the creator's observation of christian cosmos.

Lightning drums pound the rhythms for lost souls as the fall from paradise abounds and the trumpets of the heavens command the threshold. imagine a voiceless dead can dance sent through a black hole hence the ancient notes and structures are scrambled and returned with information loss while the cathedral floor is flushed with his sacraments. but there is a beauty in submission to belief. some have said

the book is not about self improvement but faith.

*Eleventh He Reaches London "The Good Fight For Harmony" lp (Hobbledehoy) – AUSTRALIAN IMPORT - Remastered and on vinyl for the first time, all first editions come hand-numbered.

Originally self-released in 2005, Perth’s Eleventh He Reaches London debut album sat atop the local charts for months with pressings continually selling out across the country (Australia). A truly unique band that draws on inspiration from all corners – it’s an orchestra of unease, an anti-manifesto of poetry and personal history that is unquestionably Australian. Every song oozes of despair, each minute – unpredictable.

*Eskatologia “Stormens öga” cd (Halvfabrikat) – War, war never changes. This is how this release is set; and thus there are bands like Eskatologia, Gothenburgs force of the apocalypse. This is how Eskatologia sounds in 2012, this is their first fullength release. Ten new songs of misery and despair; d-beat and booze throughout 30 minutes of sheer and raw mayhem.

*Esseiva, Kiko C. "Droles d'Oiseau" cd (Hinterzimmer) – Kiko C. Esseiva is a composer with Swiss and Spanish roots who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. He creates electroacoustic sound pieces that are, not unlike those of the French master of the genre Luc Ferrari, warm, non-academic and colourful, spreading a humanity and richness that is far away from the sterility of a lot of today’s electronic compositions. He creates very diversified atmospheres which combine acoustic instruments, noise, human voices, field recordings and static sheets of sound with a stunning freshness and musicality that also brings to mind the very narrative nature of some older Nurse With Wound works.

Four years after „Sous Les Etoiles“ – his second full length album –, Hinterzimmer Records comes up with another great work of this fine composer whose musique concrète is without any doubt „cinéma pour l’oreille“.

Purists might deem it pop concrète, but I haven’t tittered so much since I first heard Nurse With Wound’s “A Sucked Orange” and praise doesn’t come higher than that.” (Wire about ‘Sous Les Etoiles’)

“Every incident is placed exactly where and when it should be, episodes succeeding according to a far-sighted architecture that nonetheless tends to forget rules every once in a while in favour of a healthy anarchy (…) This is the kind of listening experience that often leaves with the mouth agape, wanting more when the disc is over. Then it’s back to the miserable normality of ‘regular’ everyday noise.” (Touching Extremes about ‘Sous Les Etoiles’).

*Fowler, Luke / Richard Youngs “Yellow Gardens” 7” (Fourth Dimension / Lumberton Trading Company) – The first entry in Fourth Dimension’s new Singles Club sees the prolific avant-folk and generally self-styled Richard Youngs making his first appearance on the label since his collaborations with Simon Wickham-Smith in the mid-1990s. This time, he collaborates with Luke Fowler on a couple of incredible synth jams based around modulations, atmospheric splurge and stuttering rhythms. Limited to 250.

*Krigskontrast “Krigskontrast” 7" (Halvfabrikat) – Krigskontrast is a crust/punk/mangel band from Gefle 02666, Sweden. In the year of 2006 Krigskontrast rose from the ashes to become a warmachine to fuck up the society. Three warriors filled with anger and hate, fighting against all kinds of fascism, sexism, homophobia and filthy rich bastards.

Krigskontrast from Gävle deliver käng a la 1980. Think Mob 47, think Moderat Likvidation. Furious, fierce, brutal! Like a fistfight on the whole harsh and bleak society. Awesome!

*M:40 "Diagnos" cd (Halvfabrikat) – New songs from the Lidköping crust/hardcore unit known as M:40. The band started back in 2002 over a totally improvised recording. Their second fullength, Historiens svarta vingslag, was released as CD in 2007 on Halvfabrikat Records. Since then the world has not quite been the same. A long time, bands such as Disfear, Tragedy and Totalt jävla mörker led the way of crust/punk entirely. As the summer of 2012 approaches, the tables will turn. M:40 are back with their third fullength, titled "Diagnos". Diagnos does not only gives us the brutal side of Disfear, the raw side of Tragedy, or even the fierce side of Totalt jävla mörker. Diagnos also proves that crustpunk can infact be diverse; in contrary to the before mentioned. Imagine yourself arriving at the barren no-man's land, with no way back to safety; warmth, love or affection. This is the soundtrack to that exact moment.

*Mott, Nick "Almost Entirely of Nerves and Blood" 7" + cdr (Lumberton Trading Company) – Originally due to appear in 2007, this release finally appeared in late October 2011 in an edition of 100 with a signed and numbered A4 print by Nick Mott. However, these all sold out within two months via mail order and are no longer readily available. As such, a second edition of 150 will now appear sometime in April 2012 along with a bonus professionally reproduced CDR featuring some bonus material never previously released. Comprising of several solo pieces by Nick Mott (ex-Volcano The Bear, Spectral Armies and Skeleton Birds And The Number Of God), this version of the release will represent the final one.

*Ocean As Mistress, The “Insulation Resistance Test Record” cd (Pacific Ridge) – Rock with slight emo overtones, prior to the term becoming synonomous with brooding amateurish monotony. The emphasis on the writing and vocals is comparable to the days when emo was significantly more influential and delved into insight and philosophy in a similar fashion to that of Mineral and onelinedrawing.

*Passiv Dodshjalp "Skit Pa Repeat" 7" (Halvfabrikat) – Passiv dödshjälp (Gävle, Sweden) is back. This time they have put four new tunes on black vinyl. This is a sort of a theme record; an outcry on the cops actions in the society of today. No one is free until everyone is free!

*Tazartes, Ghedalia "Ante-Mortem" lp (Hinterzimmer) – Ghédalia Tazartès was born 1947 in Paris, where he still lives. He is praised as being one of the most creative European experimental artists and is often mentioned as an important influence on a lot of todays underground music exponents. Of course he was on the legendary Nurse With Wound-list…

Ghédalia Tazartès’ music has always been a mystery. It switches from musique concrète to – existing or invented – ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second, but it constantly is in flux and coherent. Or like André Glucksmann wrote: „Ghédalia Tazartès is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker (…) Ghédalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person; the solitary opera explodes himself into an infinity of characters. The self is multitude and others. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition, it escapes control, refuses classification. Off Limits, music descends, cries and screams when it touches the ground.“

Hinterzimmer Records is extremely proud to release one of Ghédalia Tazartès’ major works of the last 20 years, Ante-Mortem. Although simply named 1 to 23, it bears a collection of very diverse tracks, a couple of them connected in a thematical frame, others simply standing for themselves. What holds them all together is first and all Tazartes’ archetypical voice. One could say that Ante-Mortem contains some of his harshest ever tracks as well as a couple of his most humorous ones. Generally it is more than exciting to hear that some parts of Ante-Mortem could as well have been created around the same time as his masterpiece Une Eclipse Totale De Soleil - his music sounds as timeless as it did 30 years ago. Nobody else ever sounded like Tazartes. Ante-Mortem sounds like Tazartes at its best.

*Transmontane "Staring Back At You" lp (Sick Room) – Transmontane is a mystery. It points to the other side, across the mountains. Our breath, visible. Our soul escapes in the mist. We follow behind. Through peaks and valleys, ascent after decline, our muscles twitch with pain and exhaustion. We still endure. We must go on. We have no other choice. The songs on this record do speak with an air of desperation, of longing, feeling lost, but then the echoes return. These tiny gems roll around in your head, and a sense of hope emerges. New energy resounds. The response is overwhelming. One voice becomes a chorus of thousands, and amid so many different reflections, the same emotions that once isolated us are revealed as universal.

For his second solo record, Ryan Duncan, co-founder and owner of Chicago’s Sick Room Records LTD, turned to masterful engineer Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City, IA. Luke has worked with the likes of William Elliott Whitmore, Peaking Lights, STNNNG, and many other fine midwestern bands. The result is an excellent 11-song album available in a limited edition of 300 colored LPs w/CD.

Musically, friends and others have kindly compared his work to Dean Wareham(Galaxie 500), Smog, Peter Jefferies and even Neil Young.

*V/A Gypnosis compilation lp (Gypsy Farm) – GYPNOSIS (GF003) is a Garage Rock, Scooby Pop and Poppin Punk compilation record from Athens, GA based label, GYPSY FARM.

Featured are the freaks that will soon steal the hearts of all the scoundrels you thought your mother threw out years ago! The Rodney Kings, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Humms, Uncle Skunkle, The Ice Creams and Ghost Lights!

Compiled and produced by the same funky folks that brought you THE HUMMS / LEMONLAND in 2010. Do the sinister shuffle, the tainted tango. GYPNOSIS is a fantastically vicious piece of wax!

*V/a More World, Less Band 3: No Borders, No Banks compilation 7" (Halvfabrikat) – Have you ever wondered if there are a thing such as the perfect compilation? Well, look no further! The world has so far stopped twice; once in 2003 and oonce in 2005. Now it's time again for what might be considered the best alternative compilation record ever. Hereon you'll find all killers, no fillers. This EP is filled to the brim with the best of the best.

8 bands, 8 tracks - all exclusive! Why ever change a winning concept? For the first time in six long years, here it is - an almost 16 minutes long compilation just waiting to be heard. For the common people, not just the punx of today - against the world bank and against the state borders everywhere. In a world where networks such as Ingen människa är illegal/No one is illegal is becoming more and more important. Here is the More world, less bank part 3: No banks, no borders!

Featuring: Misär, Krimtänk, Slaktrens, Eskatologia, Passiv dödshjälp, Insidious process, Moderat likvidation and End of all.

*Your Heart Breaks "Harsh Jokes and Bong Tokes" cd (This Will Be Our Summer) – In the spare, messy style of Your Heart Breaks, "Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes" is a nostalgic chronicle of the twins of youth: romance and rebellion. With the perspective that years bring, songwriter Clyde Petersen weaves melodies out of teenage trouble and innocence, songs in which we can all recognize ourselves. Imagine yourself getting high on a playground merry-go-round, having snuck out the first floor window of your ranch house in your neighborhood with no sidewalks because it was built during a time when people believed no one would ever walk anywhere again. Imagine enjoying it.