Knurl - Periodic Nephromucilaginocity

Driving, intelligently crafted noise from Canadian Alan Bloor. As usual, recorded live with analogue equipment and without overdubs. Released as a CD on Canadian experimental label Total Zero in 1999.

 

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Carl Smith - There Stands the Glass

Another release featuring a great rendition of the song that Webb Pierce made famous in the early 1950s. The majority of these songs were popularised by Pierce, making this the kind of musical tribute that is common in the country music industry. They are performed and reimagined excellently by Smith. Released on Columbia in 1964.

 

1. Slowly

2. Wondering

3. Love, Love, Love

4. Back Street Affair

5. So Used To Lovin' You

6. I'm Tired

7. There Stands The Glass

8. More And More

9. How Do You Talk To A Baby

10. Yes I Know Why

11. That Heart Belongs To Me

12. I Don't Care

 

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Skin Crime - Parasite

Goliath CD release from Americans Skin Crime on Japanese noise label Xerxes in 2001. Raw sound recorded from 1996 to 1998, then digested into this release over the proceeding three years. An excellent exposition of Skin Crime's harsh noise abilities in their prime. 

 

1. Uncinaria Stenocephala

2. Anoplocephalia Perfoliata

3. Thysanosoma Actinioides

4. Rhipicephalus Sanguineus

5. Cochliomyia Hominovorax

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Deterge - Prince of Palo Alto

 

 

Released on quality Rhode Island noise label Bacteria Field in 2018. Now sold out, but see their store here. Jim Haras executes his signature style of atmospheric, foreboding and disturbing power electronics. Themes appear to surround sex, intelligence and learning disabilities.

 

A. Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

B. Genetically Disadvantaged

 

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Conway Twitty - Look into My Teardrops

The great country singer lends his voice to several excellent songs (with very pleasing arrangements and musicianship). In particular his renditions of 'Fraulein' and 'There Stands the Glass' are rewarding over and over again. Released on Decca in 1966. 

 

1. Don't You Believe Her

2. Almost Persuaded

3. I Don't Want To Be With Me

4. I Made Her That Way

5. The Wild Side Of Life

6. There Stands The Glass

7. Look Into My Teardrops

8. If You Were Mine To Lose

9. Fraulein

10. Take Me

11. Another Man's Woman

12. Before I'll Set Her Free

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Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars and His Other Great Songs

Collection from 1969 including many classic songs and displaying Hall's remarkable talent for cast iron American songcraft and inimitable storytelling: most notably 'That's How I Got to Memphis', which is surely one of the best original love ballads ever put on record.

1. That's How I Got To Memphis

2. Cloudy Day

3. Shame On The Rain

4. Highways

5. Forbidden Flowers

6. Ain't Got The Time

7. Ballad Of Forty Dollars

8. I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew

9. A Picture Of Your Mother

10. The World The Way I Want It

11. Over And Over Again

12. Beauty Is A Fading Flower

 

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Aaron Dilloway & John Wiese - Sniper Counter Sniper

Collection of harsh noise material recorded between 2007 and 2019 by the two veteran American sound artists. Ranges from meaty, high intensity assaults to sparse reverberations and intoxicating loops. Old school, high satisfying harsh noise. Released on Dilloway's Hanson records as a CD in 2019. Also included a special edition release featuring a collectible coin (see here, doesn't appear to be available as a digital download through Hanson). 

 

1. Dumbells

2. Zero Loss

3. Windage

4. Scrambler

5. Junk Food

6. Sling Pressure

7. Putty & Plastic Water

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Knurl - Floritura Deuteranopia

Intense and varied live analogue noise from Canadian Alan Bloor. Artwork is by Patrick O'Neil (Skin Crime). Released on O'Neil's Self Abuse sub-label Solipsism as a CD in 1998. Edition of 100.

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LHD - Opaque

"Harsh city crust" from "double flamethrowers" Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Both are on excellent form here throughout this intense display of sonic pyrotechnics. Released on Ron Lessard's Pure label in 2005. 

 

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Webb Pierce - The Wondering Boy

Fantastic collection of early material from 1950s superstar honky-tonker Webb Pierce. This is an extended LP-length disc based on an earlier 1954 10" containing some of the same songs (see here). 'There Stands the Glass' has been covered often (Conway Twitty and Carl Smith deserve mentions) but never sung quite so sensationally as Pierce does here. 'Love, Love, Love' and 'Slowly' are also particular standouts, but the overall quality is very high throughout.

 

1. Wondering

2. There Stands The Glass

3. That's Me Without You

4. Don't Throw Your Life Away

5. Love, Love, Love

6. If You Were Me

7. Back Street Affair

8. It's Been So Long

9. Slowly

10. That Heart Belongs To Me

11. Yes I Know Why

12. I'm Gonna Fall Out Of Love With You

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