schimpfluch-gruppe - paris aktionen - bennifer editions - lp - 19$
Brutal Document of two Live Actions performed in Paris 1996 & 1997. Aktion 961123 (theinfamous "Spaghetti-Action") featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter & Aktion 970223 featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter, Doris Tomasoni. Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad at D&M, Berlin. Co-released with Tochnit Aleph.
-bennifer
gastric female reflex / brian ruryk - alliances for debris / nairobi pieces 13-26 - split - bennifer editions - lp - 14$
There aren’t many noise bands in Canada. Granted, as compared with countries with larger populations like the States, that’s an unfair statement but holy hosanna, New Zealand? That country is infested with them! The point, then, is that when any of our home grown extreme sonic generators do come out with material, it’s always a treat, and doubly so when it’s released by the Toronto-based Beniffer Editions, especially now that they’re outputting on black plastic discs. In this case, the weird-as-hell drawing on the paper sleeve in turn houses two 10″ record inner sleeves that are then hand-dyed and hand-cut to fit the 12″ record itself. So the delicate packaging is fun: now, onto the music.
Brian Ruryk has been around since the 1980s, and has built a solid reputation surrounding his guitar-based noise. Well, not so much here. The title of his side of the record is appropriate, especially the word “debris.” Basically, what you will get is around twenty-odd minutes of the sounds of glass and metal connecting with hard surfaces at fast speeds, chopped up and re-spliced into microscopic fragments and at what eventually feels like a frantic rate. There is no way this is all done live, although if it is, I wouldn’t put it past Ruryk. Add to the mix random phrases recorded from audiences, bits of his live guitar work and some minimal passages, and the listener is left with a jaw-dropping dynamic and engaging experience that even stops being perceived as noise. In fact, I couldn’t believe this variegated cacophony ended when it did and wanted much more. Thankfully, Ruryk is one of the most prolific noise makers we have and so getting another fix (this is addictive stuff) is not too much of a problem.
Gastric Female Reflex also happen to be the people behind Beniffer Editions, so I guess they get to invite themselves to any of their own releases they wish. This batch of Nairobi Pieces (who knows where the first twelve went) has nothing to do with Kenya, but instead shares the diverse micro-sampling of Ruryk. If anything, the Gastric Female Reflex side is much of the same but sloppier: longer samples drawn from decaying radios and televisions, in-between-song recording outtakes, prayer tapes, random clicks, crackles and cuts, ambient bass rumbles, Tim Allen. Later on, we get a rather amusing series of three-second sound effects, each bridged by a wet fart rip.
Despite the even greater breath of sonic cues displayed by Gastric Female Reflex, the relentless pace of Brian Ruryk’s piece makes it the stronger side for me. All in all, as well as serving as a good starting point for neophytes, this split is a landmark release in the particularly obscure and disparate Canadian noise scene, and is well worth tracking down.
-Sal Hassanpour
transcendental rodeo - vol.1 - bennifer editions - cdr - 7$
4.5x 14”, double sided screenprinted foldout in cut vhs sleeve, CD
ED. 100
“Four track album from this lysergic country/lunar blues group featuring Matthew 'Doc' Dunn of MV & EE fame. The sound is raggedy communal goodtime ala The Cherry Blossoms, with mouth harp, banjo, guitar et al rendered in a lower east side hoedown style that is sure to appeal to fans of The Holy Modal Rounders, Mike Nesmith, Pat Kilroy, David Peel, Tower Recordings, Peter Grudzien, Matthew Valentine et al. Comes with fold-around screened sleeves in hard plastic envelopes. - David Keenan – Volcanic Tongue
Credits:
Transcendental Rodeo – James Anderson, Matthew Dunn, Michael Smith, Brian Tysoe, Laurel Waterman, Stuart Wiber, Andrew Zukerman
Art, Printing – Andrew Zukerman
-bennifer
afternoon penis - at the crack of dawn - lsd otb records / bennifer editions - cdr -7$
latest dispatch from Mouthus/Religious Knives' Nate Nelson's series of percussive-deep-water psychedelic stream of consciousness jams. Blissed-out womb territory, packaged in marble cd cases!
-lsd ot
Wasted Nymph continue their infantile excursion into the stereo diaper, probing the depths of their fly by night aesthetic with the audible grief of an gastroenteroligist's rehearsal dinner. Sometimes when a piece of music like this comes my way I find myself at a loss of words, embracing abstractions to better illustrate the esoteric; but I find that with this particular piece of transgression all that comes out is foor CamCamCamCA jjjjjjjjjje Re-O Re-O corsica NumNums. For fans of early Red Krayola and Broken Penis Orchestra. Still the best band in Montreal.
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-b