From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Scott Locklin )
Subject: Some capsule reviews
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:57:23 GMT
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Just got a couple tapes in the mail. 

Jonathan Briley "At The Mountains of Madness"
Jon Briley is a member of "Sleep Chamber". I took a chance with this one as
Sleep Chamber seems to be more of a "Goth" band than industrial most of the 
time. I was pleasantly suprised. This tape is excellent "pure" industrial.
Lots of machine noise combined with weird feedback gives an outre feel to
this piece of work. Strong "factory" feel to it without the bleep-bleep
hard-edges of bands such as Throbbing Gristle or E.N. Spooky stuff
with a pretentiously done reading of Anton LaVey's "Satanic Diatrebe" on the
fourth track "Furie's Child".
A nice piece of work; if you like "Hardcore" industrial noize, this is the
shit!

Zoviet France "Loh Land"
I've been a ZF fan for a while now; all their work has been fairly good
so far. This is the best I have heard yet. Strong tribal rythms with a
weird haunting feedback. ZF makes use of some type of stringed instruments on 
this tape, but in an unconventional manner. The whole tape has  rather middle-
eastern sounding harmonies paradoxiacally combined with the strong tribal beat.
If we were to find some primitive culture on another planet, their music might 
sound like this ZF tape. Typically ambiguous & bizzare ZF record cover. 
Thumbs up!

Randy Greif
My first full length Randy Greif work. I thought his work on the various 
compilations were very good, and was not dissapointed in this one. Greif, ever
the experimenter, runs the gamut of several styles of experimental music.
Some sounds like classical music loops cut & spliced in interesting 
combinations to create new harmonies. Other tracks have a strong tribal sound
to them. Some sound like Tangerine Dream on bad acid. Some have a dark machine
ambience to them. About the only thing these tracks have in common is that 
they are all creative & well done.

I plan on buying all I can of R.G. and J.B.'s work as it is quite good
compared to some of the more "mainstream" bands such as NWW or E.N. and a
hell of a lot cheaper at 2 tapes for $5

Nurse With Wound "A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table..."
I really wish Stapleton would lose his fascination with screeching dissonance.
I enjoy the noise fests of various other bands, unfortunately Stapleton's
Staple seems to be harsh high-frequency screeches that are utterly 
unlistenable most of the time. When he is not scratching chalkboards he comes
up with some interesting pieces, but unfortunately, it is seems to be easier 
to scratch chalkboards for the majority of the record. I ain't buying anymore
NWW without hearing the whole thing first. I will give this tape another listen
(Preferably while heavily sedated so as not to give me high blood pressure)
but I doubt as I will find anything new. At least I will pinpoint that one
interesting track. Steve Stapleton _does_ paint some really interesting &
entertaining album covers, perhaps he should stick to the visual arts.

Next time AMK/PGR/AEM "Flatland"
PGR/Thessalonians "Concentration of light Before Combustion" and "The Black
Field"
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