Reportaż - Reportaż / Muzika

Label : Tonpress - SX-T 129

Year : 1988

Country : Poland

Format : LP

Back from the dead, to give you some stuff to listen to. 

Maybe, if you want.

Two to make up for my absence with excellent, excellent RIO from Poland. An avant-bordello soundtrack, even. You might have heard these releases somewhere else on the internet but you might just like my rips better.

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Label : ADN - 25

Country : Italy

Year : 1987

Format : C60

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XX Century Zorro - La Volpe Du XX Siècle

Label : Old Europa Cafe - OECD 140

Country : Italy

Year : 2011 (1983 orig)

Format : CD

Not to blaspheme the blasphemers, but in the face of the revolutionary MonSter sound system I have shirked the original intentions by doubling the tracks on each channel into one for every song. In its original form, the album has different tracks going on at the same time in the stereo space, perfect for equalizers... But I intend to give it a bit more accessibility if at all.

Warped cabaret tunes and postpunk industrialism in a collage of madness.

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Only A Mother - Dusty Nuggets

Label : Apparèmment Des Notes

Year : 2014

Country : Italy

Format : CDr

I think that if I had the connections and the savoir faire required of musicmaking Only A Mother would be a sound I would aspire to. Herkyjerky jazz spasms interspersed with country folkisms led to a lot of great music from Pahl and co. Along with his solo career, Frank makes some darned good musics.

Now what we have here is a collection of unreleased recordings. As musicians are wont to do after awhile, releasing archival tidbits from here or there into a neat little package. How it got all the way to Italy is anyone's guess. As the man hisself described in the modicum of a liner sheet, it could have been a box set or something of that nature due to the surprising amount of outtakes. I wouldn't hesitate to throw my dollars down on that.

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Sejayno / Maths Balance Volumes - Split

Label : 8mm Records - 8mm 031

Country : Italy

Year : 2008

Format : C44

This one's a bit odd, I feel like I got a bootleg of a bootleg. There is some sort of incongruence between my copy and everywhere else I've looked on the web, biggest glare being the difference in cover and tracklisting. Most places I see it's usually just the bird without a listing under it. Also, I can't find any place that links the "Blade Runner" track title to this release or to anything by Sejayno for that matter. Strange.

Speaking of Sejayno, whose name I always mess up for whatever reason, I have another release of theirs that I might post if I feel... Inclined to do so. You might also be familiar with MBV, but I don't have anything else by them. Though I did have Loveless a long while ago, pretty good album you might have heard of it.

Both groups do a noisy take on freefolk from what I see, Blastitude fodder from what I hear. Another Pierre ambiguity is the track order itself, my tape topside is dominated by Seyjano and the flipside likewise sublimated by Math Balances Volume, which contradicts what the "official" websites say... Odd.

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Die Welttraumforscher - Die Singende Sternlaterne / Folklore Des Weltalls 1982

Label : A Tree In A Field Records - TREE046 / Planam - PLANAM WTF2

Country : Switzerland / Italy

Year : 2013

Format : LP

Here's a good'un. Someday, I will buy this entity's entire catalogue and share their genius ectoplasmic sonicforms with you all. In due time, of course. Or maybe one of those electro-boutique labels like VOD or Dark Entries or Blackest Ever Black etc. could do that... There's a whole realm of possibilities, though it betrays my own contrarian and pseudosolipsistic sense of "ownership" over it and the gratification of exposing it to the relative "masses". Doesn't matter when the music's this good!

This is both a rerelease and an archival release, the first side being a reissue of a 1983 tape and the flipside being an unreleased 1982 project now trapped in wax for our pleasure. This is all fine and dandy, but I wonder if the A side is an abridged version of said tape, as some tracks seem to fade a bit early and there seems to be a few tracks missing from the original. Even with that in mind, this is still an excellent document that I recommend very much so.

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