Bands appearing on No ReWind (September of...):
Nimrod 33 - Hex - Milgram - Polaris - Fiend - March of Dimes - Serious Naan - Opaque - Death Cat
nimrod
33 is a dusk jockey, aka Tormod Mor
from the Winged Temple of the North
postHighland discorporate folk music
postCalvinist bardic dadaism
field recordings made from deep within the sparkling yew
digital bricollage from vinyl, voices and all sorts of musical instruments
hyperborean psychedelia (near gods' ears)
sonorities for odd folks
antipolitics: 'discorporate': to lose your body
disorganize religion,
no longer believe in things,
render duration sonorous
phantastickon
Listen to "Song of the endless wanderer on grim paths with ecstasy on his brow" (streaming audio)
Nimrod 33 also has one track ("Barbed Bed") appearing on the Alba Absurdia compilation.
Nimrod 33 will have an album (and maybe more!) released on mrw44 shortly...
Listen to "Dr
Strangelove" (streaming audio)
"Aforementioned"
Hex now have their debut album out on mrw44, check here for full details.
You can also visit their official website here.
The group started in 1997 with drums, 2 basses and guitar.
A first album -Vierhundertfunfzig Volts- was recorded in sept.1998 by Fred Norguet and released in 1999 on Pandemonium records. They went on tour around Europe (England-Ireland Dec.1999) (Switzerland-Austria-Slovenia-Italy-France-Spain Mar-Apr.2000) a long time ago...
A second album - Subversion Standard - was released on Red F records (home to the Redneck Manifesto) in September 2002. Recorded by Greg Teurtri in December 2000 and mixed by Fred Norguet again in April 2001.
After the departure of one member, the band has been playing as a trio since November 2001: Nicolas, Jeremie and Frederic, in a basic formation (but none the less efficient) drums, bass, guitar.
All the former songs having been left for post-mortem fame, they are now working on a brand new and exceptional set of instrumental songs, and should re-pop in your tree-houses, kitchens and clubs pretty soon. Don't miss them, you really could not forgive it to yourself!
Buy CDs.
Listen to "La poule d'eau géante du canal des Moëres" (from "No ReWind")
other
releases:
£7.50 / €12 / $12
Listen to "Pecos Jim" (streaming
audio)
Milgram's second album, on Red F Records. Looped, Slint-esque, Albini flavoured, experimental - what better references for a band. Recorded when they were still four (guitar, drums and 2 basses), this album is a pretty diverse affair - from loud and heavy to quiet and calm with some looped violin thrown in along the way. Anyone who knows the Pandemonium sound (Condense, Hint etc.) will have an idea what to expect. One of those albums that gets better every time you listen to it.
£7.50 / €12 / $12
listen to "Gobelet" (streaming audio)
Milgram's first album, on Pandemonium Records. Think Unwound, A Minor Forest...
The line up is:
John Ford - Bass; Neil Turpin - Drums; Joe O'Sullivan - Guitar; Andrew Pollard - Guitar/voice
They have recorded one album called 'Belated'. It was released on a German label called Common Cause in 1997. They have also done a split 7" with Baby Harp Seal and contributed a track to a 1 in 12 Club comp. CD.
They have played all over England, Ireland, Scotland and mainland Europe. These days they tend to play less often due to band members other commitments.
Polaris members also play/ have played in numerous other bands such as HiM, Bilge Pump, Red Monkey, Casino Volante, Snail Racing...
Listen to "Dr Colossus" (streaming audio)
Fiend is Brendan
O'Hare's solo project.
Fiend have released 3 albums on God
Bless Records:
Fiend 1 - Caledonian Gothic Fiend 2 - Caledonian Cosmic
Fiend 3 - Caledonian Mystic
Brendan also plays in Glasgow rawk band Macrocosmica.
Listen to "Spacetime" (live) (streaming audio)
March of Dimes has been playing about for the best part of two years now. Starting off as just Scott on guitar now more recently incorporating drums for a more military feel.
The tracks recorded for the comp. were done minus drums the day before mother's day (when he really probably should have been buying flowers) in ailidh's bedroom on the papa's computer. These songs are relatively new and were recorded using a takamine electro-acoustic through a fender with a mild gain. Wood was thumped, feet were stomped, keys were a' jangled and the papa's hands clapped themselves raw. Thankfully the recordings have spared the listener the agony of the tuning breaks that punctuate the gigs.
Hopefully there will be more material available soon. There is more to March than just these two tracks. Scott and David also play guitar and drums in Sons and Daughters.
Listen
to "March On John" (streaming
audio)
"Two
Leos"
Serious Naan mania is fast sweeping Britain. Already sales are outperforming all other sectors in the serious foods market and Serious Naan are fast establishing themselves as the new heros of speciality bread. "A few years ago, it was impossible to find Serious Naan bread served fresh from the tandoor outside of the Indian restaurant or takeaway. We recognised the enormous potential early on and have worked with our beloved consumers to develop restaurant-quality Serious Naans that can be served at the consumers inconvenience", says Dr James Tresnac, CONSUME's joint managing director and Naan specialist. "We haven't stopped there. Whilst the obvious flavours take a lead from restaurants - Plain, Garlic & Coriander and Peshwari - we have developed a whole host of innovative recipe ideas, sound manipulation techniques and convenient snacking formats to take Serious Naan into the Millennium." "Naantastic" as they say!
The fantastically confused debut album by Serious Naan 'Naantrax' (CONSUME 06) is now available in takeaway format for tasting. See Consume website for details.
"Serious Naan is also a duo, this time Lonny Bashee and The Stare and is something different. Distorted, vocoded voices, piano, organ, drum machines. Sometimes inspired by The Residents, but at others maybe by ambient music, but then played with a sense of naivety (as in 'Random Dancer'). Serious Naan move around in many styles, but they have changed it, so that every track is their own and not a derivat of something else or a hotchpotch of styles. Nice stuff here, and an altogether varied release." FdW, Vital Weekly.
Listen
to "Mental State of Nothing"
(streaming audio)
A Lancaster-based 3 piece band (guitar/drums/bass) who improvise, swapping instruments as and when they feel like it. Their music is dark and intense based around repeated phrases / loops which grow and evolve, usually culminating in a high volume wall of sound.
Aside from several singles, eps and albums released on small labels all around the world, they were also selected by Fat Cat to appear on their "No Watches No Maps" compilation - and by mrw44 to appear on "No ReWind"...
some of what was said about their previous releases:
"Now I don't know if their intention was to drive the listener over the edge but we do think this release should come with some kind of health warning. Do not operate machinery whilst listening to Opaque, do not try and do anything because they're pushing you right to the edge with their high pitched minimalist repetitive scratchy drone and riff cycles that slowly builds up in to delicate plate smashing rage music. Sparse post-art instrumental guitar sound sculpture that's not far off musical water torture. They manage to jar so much with so few sounds. There's an Eastern flavour as that bass drones underneath guitars that sound like mechanical wind chimes and really I don't think I can go through the whole thing again, it's like finger nails on a blackboard, they almost defy you to keep listening... enough! Turn it off!!! An excellent single." Organ magazine about "Temporary Lifestyle"
"The kind of thing you'd expect to find accompanying black and white film footage projected onto a demolition site in downtown Dresden as part of some art installation or other, Opaque's two improvised tracks beguile with a mixture of Warser Gate's quieter guitar scrapings and Ochre records' knack for spinning meaning out of no sound whatsoever" Robots and Electronic Brains about "Temporary Lifestyle".
Listen to "What if, ok?" (streaming audio)
They are an obscure combo delivering scattered improvised performances. One of them appears in full (20 minutes!) on "No Rewind" (August of...).
The Theme from Death Cat, another - much shorter - track is the opening track for the lastest No ReWind compilation.
Contact: are you sure you really want to contact Death Cat ? You could always try and shout loud enough whenever the wind is blowing westward...
Listen to "11th August" (streaming audio)
Listen to "The theme from Death Cat"