our solar system - vart solsystem

BEYOND BEYOND IS BEYOND RECORDS just unleashed one of the best PSYCH ROCK ALBUMS OF THE YEAR from sweden's OUR SOLAR SYSTEM entitled VART SOLSYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!  and guess what? YOU NEED IT NOW!!!

this cosmic collective of RnR misfits channels the most mind expanding moments of AMON DUUL, PARSON SOUND, HAWKWIND, SUN RA'S ARKESTRA, CAN, SOFT MACHINE and TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS, complete with all the droned out epic jams and lysergic freakouts you could want in a psych rock album!!!!!   FUCK YES!!!!!

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM seamlessly merges the best of krautrock experimenting, west coast hippie psychedelic jams, mind melting late 60s/early 70s japanese rock n roll, post free jazz avant sonic exploration and high flying space rock into one HELLUVA A FUCKING JOURNEY THROUGH DEEPEST CORNERS OF YER CONSCIOUSNESS !!!!!!!!   and no substances are needed to enhance yer mind, cuz this VART SOLSYSTEM's druggy haze will swallow you whole!!!!!

fans of YURI GAGARIN, CAVE, WOODEN SHJIPS, MMOSS, VERMA and/or WAY OUT THERE EXPERIMENTAL PSYCH ROCK N ROLL NEED TO GET SUCKED DEEP INTO THE OUTER REALMS OF COSMOS WITH THIS ALBUM BY OUR SOLAR SYSTEM !!!!!!!

seriously recommended.  

listen to the whole album below 
  and pick one up now from BEYOND BEYOND IS BEYOND here!!!!!



and watch the video for JUPITER off VART SOLSYSTEM here -

buck gooter - witch molecules

sometimes you come across an album that's so strange / haunting / menacing / fucked up that you just
can't help but listen to it over and over again.....can't say i know much about BUCK GOOTER, or their new album, WITCH MOLECULES, other than you need this punch in the face.....

combining the thrash of black flag, the industrial noise of throbbing gristle, the psychedelic nightmare of chrome and the ear blistering feedback of wolf eyes, BUCK GOOTER create a dark musical corner all their own on WITCH MOLECULES..... a stripped down mess that somehow acts of as wall of frightening noise, their lp seems to be comprised of nothing but a duo strangling both a guitar and some drum machines and samplers.....  kinda like BLACK PUS covering the SWANS..... or SUICIDE, PERE UBU, CONTROLLED BLEEDING and SIGHTINGS all thrown into a blender and amplified til yer speakers catch on fire........

seriously not sure what to make BUCK GOOTER, yet their warped industrial meets noise meets early hardcore punk potion of pure evil / madness will for sure grab yer ears and send chills down yer spine.  not for the faint of heart, but those who like music challenging, abrasive and loud (like most of you readers of tiny grooves), will definitely find something rewarding in WITCH MOLECULES......  after all this may just be the soundtrack for the post apocalyptic / dystopian future that seems just around the corner....and what better way to prepare for the ensuing chaos, than BUCK GOOTER...............

LISTEN TO WITCH MOLECULES BELOW -
  and if you dare grab a copy from X MIST / BEAU TRAVAIL here.

black pus - all my relations

BRIAN CHIPPENDALE of the legendary noise rock duo LIGHTNING BOLT has been recording solo as BLACK PUS for quite some time now-- a steady stream of feedback damaged CDRs beginning around 2005 and culminating with 2011's PRIMORDIAL PUS lp on LOAD RECORDS--but all those releases sat back seat to his main gig.  that is until now. BLACK PUS just released a new album out on THRILL JOCKEY entitled ALL MY RELATIONS and it takes his frenzied noise to a whole new transcendent / ear devastating level.....one that makes lightning bolt seem tame by comparison (and is sure to cement the album's place on my year end list)

all the key ingredients are here - distorto vocals / bass oscillations / free jazz meets punk thrash drum blasts / psychedelic walls of feedback / circuit bent electronics / all kinds of weird noises looped and fragmented.....ALL MY RELATIONS is brian chippendale's post modern / inner city, tribal / noise rock manifesto.....  it's as if everything we've learned from psych rock, hardcore, free jazz, krautrock, no wave and punk has been distilled down into one swirling epic eight song album........ hints of the masters of avant musical thinking are here; from coltrane to zorn, and glenn branca to throbbing gristle, not to mention faust, keiji haino and cluster.   maybe it seems like a bit to a stretch to put BLACK PUS next to such forward thinking visionaries, but that's exactly what this ALL MY RELATIONS is striving for, going way beyond the limitations of the loft show staple of the noise rock duo format......

BLACK PUS stretches outs the songs into very spiritual avant garde jazz / minimalist meets maximalist space......deconstructing all these sounds we've become comfortable with, making them sound fierce, ugly and mesmerizing again, and without so much as a guitar.  all you have to do is turn it up loud and let the music mutate and writhe around in yer ears........

BLACK PUS has composed some of the most conscience-shattering noise you'll hear all year long.  and for a LOAD / SKIN GRAFT RECORDS fanatic like me, it feels good to have another release to blown out my speakers with......

fans of any of the following noise mongers ought to rush out to yer local record shop now to grab ALL MY RELATIONS - RUINS, HELLA, FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, BOREDOMS, PINK & BROWN, SIGHTINGS, ORTHRELM, HAIR POLICE, NAKED CITY and/or HARRY PUSSY

this lp is fucking sick.  thanks THRILL JOCKEY.
BLACK PUS comes with the highest recommendation.....

LISTEN TO A PREVIEW OF ALL MY RELATIONS BELOW - (the whole lp can be streamed on thrill jockey's site here)


AND WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 1000 YEARS HERE -

can - the documentary

krautrock / psych / experimental rock legends CAN need no introduction from me.  but if you're looking for a little history on a band that nearly everyone cites as an influence, you need to watch the documentary below.  

CAN - THE DOCUMENTARY tracks the seminal german krautrock band from the early days with malcolm mooney all the way through their reunion album, and through out are tons of classic live performances and interviews that'll blow yer mind.......

so enjoy, and pick up every CAN lp you can get your hands on.  they are classic as it gets.  

ono - albino

MONIKER RECORDS has released what just may be THE STRANGEST DARKEST AND MOST MESMERIZING LP OF THE YEAR: ALBINO by ONO......

a experimental swirl of shadowy influences from punk to gothic blues, as well as no wave, gospel, noise, dub and proto industrial......ALBINO is a truly AVANT POP MASTERPIECE...... musical reference points for ONO are ALL WAY OUT:  Captain Beefheart, Can, Tools You Can Trust, Birthday Party, Throbbing Gristle, Faust, Public Image Ltd, the Residents. Controlled Bleeding, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks and Suicide.....  just listing all those bands makes my head swell, but believe me ONO swallows all those diverse strains of musical exploration and makes one crazed hell of an album........

ONO's music is a post apocalyptic nightmare dream sequence filmed by david lynch, sure to shred your perception of reality......filled with no wave clanging guitars, cacophonous industrial beats, gospel moaning and a fierce off kilter coat of feeback looping and droning, this lp is as PUNK, EXPERIMENTAL and  OUTSIDER as you can get.......  imagine going to see ONO back in the early 80s when the whole chicago punk scene were bands like naked raygun and mentally ill......  THIS SHIT WOULD'VE PROVOKED FIGHTS, IT SOUNDED SO STRANGE, OUTTA THIS WORLD AND AHEAD OF ITS TIME.......

the mysterious ONO has been lurking around chicago for thirty years now, in the shadows and so far off the grid as to not even warrant a proper allmusic entry, but hopefully with ALBINO this will all change.....ONO's back story is quite hazy as are the album details, but fortunately MONIKER RECORDS has done their research before releasing this album, so read on -

 To non-locals, ONO's stunning Albino might have fallen from the sky, but to an enlightened and ever-growing bunch of Chicago heads the band is already full-on legend, and the release of their first recorded music since 1986 is a majorly epic landmark that needs no introduction. For the rest of y'all: ONO is a unit of transcendent noise-making now in its fourth decade. Both notorious and neglected in their early years, ONO's unholy bitches' brew of noisy snarl, avant-garde R&B, gospel-heavy blackness, queer sensibility and extravagant, performance-art theatrics (they once played a concert at Navy Pier in which singer travis was dragged through the audience in a steel cage, naked but for a jockstrap) was in a whole 'nuther galaxy from the macho Chicago punk scene that spawned them.

Reemerging in the late 00s with astonishing vehemence and an expansive, multi-generational lineup, they've been embraced by a more fertile and experimental Chicago scene, and are about to explode skulls internationally. travis has always referred to fellow-founder P. Michael ONO as the 'leader of the band,' but anchor might be more appropriate—P. Michael's groundswelling bass and nasty, insectoid beats are unquestionably the glue that binds the sprawling noise. But then there's travis, whose fierce brilliance carries echoes of punk prophets like Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and Gil Scott-Heron but is always pure, raging ONO. As for the rest of the band, check the sick, Beefheartian groove of Veil, or their revelatory cover of the Velvet Underground's All Tomorrow's Parties, which manages to excise much of the song's innate sentimentality while upping its sonic generosity, the wall-of-sound sprouting weeds and flowers in its cracks.

ONO's original mission statement (1980) runs through this music more truly and deeply than ever, so to quote it in full and let it speak for itself: ONO1980// Experimental Performance, NOISE, and Industrial Poetry Performance Band; Exploring Gospel's Darkest Conflicts, Tragedies and Premises. Some deep-listening shit--beyond recommended! 

this is one album that just can't be explained--words are not descriptive enough to encapsulate the haunting power of this record, one that i wasn't sure i would even like but now can't stop spinning.  you gotta just listen for yourself, and be saved by the redemptive dark magic of ONO.....ALBINO is truly unique music, that rips down the illegitimate walls we put up between sub genres of rock n roll.......  after a couple of spins you might just find yourself putting ONO on your best of the year list........ 

SO LISTEN TO ALBINO BELOW....
    and grab it from MONIKER RECORDS now......limited to 300 copies.

watch ONO's video for MODEL BRIDE filmed in 1983.....



and for further listening track down ONO's first two seminal recordings, MACHINES THAT KILL PEOPLE (soon to be reissued) and ENNUI.......both VERY RECOMMENDED...........
hit up youtube for a listen, there are avid ONO fans that have done us a favor and uploaded these two lost and classic album from THERMIDOR RECORDS.............