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Calla - review
Bret McCabe - The Metsound highway rising out of John Cage's Williams Mix and running deep into the dense woods of ambient, electronic textures.sound highway rising out of John Cage's Williams Mix and running deep into the dense woods of ambient, electronic textures. Along the way, Calla hits Ennio Morricone's cinematic tapestries, Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s urban decay dirges, and illbient's bent beats?that diversity permeates Calla's debut. Disarmingly ornate melodies slip and slide out of abrasive noise collisions; sheets of sounds dwindle to tone coils that blossom into surprisingly smooth... Read more...
"Calla is the ideal amorphous musical state…"
Alkemist - Boston Weekly DigAn empowered translucent trio of musicians who by trade drill like miners into a wall of experimental soundTake a musical hybrid of Mogwai and Spiritualized with rockabilly and garage roots and have the music stripped and deconstructed by Scanner. If gentle experimentally minimalist sounds are the soup de jour, then slurp slowly as you have your objective simmering in front of you. Read more...
Flux Information Sciences - The best downtown band these days, bar none.
Steven Blush | PAPERA NYC band, FLUX INFORMATION SCIENCES is incredibly intense heavy almost James Brown funk grooves with complete noise organized chaos along with it. They are a violent, hilarious, carnival, Las Vegas showbiz murder. Really fantastic entertaining live -like being beaten up by a guy in a clown suit. Larry Seven says the drummer is one of the best he's ever seen..." Read more...
Overall impression: excellent!
Mark Weddle The Angels of Light is the new band led by Michael Gira, formerly of SWANS.Gira's first post-SWANS projects were the primarily instrumental The Body Lovers and The Body Haters (see also "Number One of Three", "34:13"). With The Angels of Light, Gira returns to vocal based songs. And it's so good to hear Gira's voice and words again! Lyrically "New Mother" is probably his most personal work to date. Many of these songs reflect Gira's relationships with himself, his parents and Jarboe (also of SWANS): his faults (alcohol... Read more...
Calla - Review
Christopher Porter - Alternative Pressexcelling where so many others have failed in this post-everything era of musicCalla touches on such iconoclasts as Paul Schutze, Tricky, Tom Waits and Ry Cooder without an overt nod to any of them. Calla are about quiet tension without release and music without boundaries. Obsessive futurists looking for new song forms may find them here. Read more...
Windsor for the Derby - Review
Mike HeadleyWindsor for the Derby has recorded their most minimal and sparse album to date, but also their most engagingResurfacing after the demise of their label Trance Syndicate, this Austin Texas-based, studio-only band has recorded their most minimal and sparse album to date, but also their most engaging. Finding a new home on the Swans' label, the band has lost its Slint tendencies and techno beats stripping the music down to moods minus attitudes. Languid soundscapes filled with xylophones, tambourines, and vibes broaden their scope while still presenting their character... Read more...
David Coulter - Review
The Wire...a thrilling acoustic intimacy reminiscent of Japan's Cinorama…" The highlight of this month's column is the debut solo release from ex-Pogues and Test Dept multi-instrumentalist David Coulter...It has a thrilling acoustic intimacy reminiscent of Japan's Cinorama, and a similar exacting concern with coaxing evocative new textures out of instruments familiar and strange... Loosely receptive and inventive playing, uncluttered spaciousness, and the lack of rhetorical baggage makes this release a masterpiece of miniaturised beauty." Read more...
Calla - Review
Side-lineI am in awe of the romantic, desolate ambience…… of the familiar instrumentation as embraced by the electronic cadences that coarse underneath the surface. Calla bask in the sound of the day after tomorrow: it's hot and weary and there is nothing left to do but listen to the world as it disintegrates?and give in to the inevitable. Read more...
Calla - Review
Gil Gershman - Motion"David Lynch Sound System."With its uneasiest currents often just subjacent to the surface of the music, Calla beautifully captures the secret subversions and warped normality that inform every frame of the cult director's filmography?Something for the closet romantics who have already been swept away with Godspeed You Black Emperor! and are eager to board another emotional roller coaster. Read more...
Calla - Review
Tom Ridge - The Wirestartling collection of low-end Industrial blues fed through a grainy veil of electronics.Combining brittle rockabilly guitar, wheezing machine noise, bursts of static and heavy bass programming, Calla compress different musical elements together, rub them up abrasively against one another and force them into new, unfamiliar shapes. Read more...

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