Elegi Discography

Elegi - Sistereis

“Sistereis" is still a singular experience and it's uniqueness should make it an absolute must for anyone interested in modern classical composition, doom, or electronic ambient.

Sistereis

Elegi - Varde

"After his glorious “Sistereis” album from 2007 Tommy Jansen, aka Elegi, returns with his second album for Miasmah. “Varde” is, again, an immensely atmospherical album but this time it’s not about shipwreck but about polar explorers and the sublime environment into which they advance, aspiring to reach the pole first. I don’t think the album narrates any explorer’s particular story. There are documents printed in the booklet (designed, as always with Miasmah releases, by labelhead Erik Skodvin (aka Svarte Greiner)) and there’s what I take to be an authentic historical audio document that features heavily in the final track, “Den Store Hvite Stillhet”. But these seem to be about different journeys, shifting the focus from narrative to stasis, ambience, landscape. And to the melancholy induced by the explorers’ hubris."

Varde

Way Of The Cross - Mind Of The Dolphin

"Massive new limited edition LP on NNCK’s new imprint documenting a series of recordings from this ambitious American/European big band that unites Dave Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band with Spencer Clark and James Ferraro of The Skaters alongside Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat, Jonna from Kuupuu, Stellar Om Source, Mik Quantius from Embryo and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho of Uton/Keijo. The whole entourage toured through Europe in the spring of 2007 and this LP collects the best of the jams. Three long tracks and one fragment, including two pieces recorded at VPRO Radio. The sound takes off from the kind of free goof blueprint of The Godz, with a lots of percussion and odd rhythmic dunting while The Skaters work lush keyboard parts and a wall of ululating vocal drone deep into the backdrop. Quantius supplies vocals that are somewhere between Don Van Vliet and Alan Bishop and the whole thing proceeds into this kind of weird ethno-zone where fragmented world rhythms and sounds are twisted to dark, psychotropic ends. But the real gravy is the side long fourth track, the most convincing update of the monochord bass/drum confusion of Skip Spence’s “Grey/Afro” ever improvised in real time, combining sublime vocal highs with a hypnotic bottom end."

Und das ist mit großem Abstand meine absolute Lieblingsplatte für dieses Jahr!

Hit für Hit EIN HIT!

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A1 Asahara Renunciate (Recorded At VPRO) 8:45

A2 Fright Dentmint 1:15

A3 Vagina Cocktata 10:00

B Unconsummated Seduction (Recorded At VPRO) 20:00

Mind Of the Dolphin

Infinity Window

Axolotl / Infinity Window - Split (2008)

Tracklisting:
A1 Axolotl - Ur 12:21
A2 Axolotl - Krur 1:54
B1 Infinity Window - Bone Mosaic I 8:23
B2 Infinity Window - Bone Mosaic II 6:29



Infinity Window - Trans Fat (2008)

Tracklisting:
1 Foaming Tusk 6:56
2 Trans Fat 13:52
3 Panama Rose 14:26



Infinity Window - Artificial Midnight (2009)

Tracklisting:
A1 Sheets Of Face 7:56
A2 Internal Compass 7:36
B1 Skull Theft 11:10



Treetops / Infinity Window - Tour Split (2009)

Tracklisting:
A Treetops - The Shape Of The Universe 8:18
B Infinity Window - Field Of Vision 9:11

Mark McGuire

-Mark McGuire is the guitarist of the Cleveland drone outfit Emeralds, but his solo work is prolific to say the least. McGuire utilizes a loop pedal, distortion pedal, and weed (I'm assuming) to create his meditative, psychedelic "Jamz". McGuire's guitar work washes over the listener as you get lost in his chords-

Nate Scheible & Mark McGuire - Untitled (2008)

Amethyst Waves (2008)

An Old Hag's Cackle Pt. II (2008)

Dream Team (2008)

Guitar Meditations (2008)

Let Us Be The Way we Were (2008)

Light Movement (2008)

Off in the Distance (2008)

Open Chords (2008)

Prehistoric Blackout/Mark McGuire - Split (2008)

The Garden of Eternal Life (2008)

A Pocket Full of Rain (2009)

Losing Sleep (2009)

Stranger Than Paradise (2009)

Tidings II (2009)

Land of Kush - Against the Day (2009)

"Eine extreme, experimentelle Mischung aus Free Jazz & Post-Rock, so etwas habe ich noch nie gehört"

Empfehlenswert, sehr sogar!

"Land Of Kush is a large orchestra assembled and directed by Montreal composer and musician Sam Shalabi, one of the city’s most unique and prolific players over the past decade. Shalabi performs constantly on electric guitar and oud, with regular appearances in numerous jazz and free improv ensembles, membership in a kaleidoscope of avant rock bands, and at the compositional helm of various musical assemblages large and small. Shalabi has seen a dozen full-length album recordings released in the last eight years, under his own name and with Shalabi Effect (on Alien8Recordings) and as a member of Molasses, Detention, Po, ‘Gypt Gore and Nutsack."

Tracklisting:
The Light Over The Ranges
Iceland Spar
Bilocations
Against The Day
Rue De Départ

Piff Paff

Kakerlak - The Heat Of The Hole

Kakerlak The Heat Of The Hole cassette on Thorax Harsh Cassettes.

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