This is the solo debut from Milch de la Maquina’s Marisa Demarco and it is memorably blown-out and deranged- New Mexico sure seems to be quite a fertile place for deviant, unhinged art.
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Anthony D'Amico
Bigawatt, s/t CDr
Fabio Selvafiorita/Valerio Tricoli, “Death By Water”
I am generally not the target audience for 40-minute musique concrète pieces inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot.
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Roedelius, “Plays Piano (Live in London 1985)”
Hans-Joachim Roedelius went through a phase in the ’80s in which he was fascinated with grand pianos- so much so that even went on tour as a solo concert pianist of sorts.
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Keijo, “Maailma Hetkinä” CDr
This was my first exposure to this Finnish psych icon and I found it to be quite a curious one.
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Haunted House, “Blue Ghost Blues”
This is easily one of the more confounding and difficult albums that I have heard in quite some time.
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Anthony D’Amico’s Verbose and Overthought Year End List
Best Album Peaking Lights “936″ (Not Not Fun) There were a ton of great albums released in 2011 (The Caretaker, Dirty Beaches, Tim Hecker, Natural Snow Buildings, Myrmyr, Prurient, Charlambides, etc.), but I definitely listened to this one more than all of them combined. I’ve been pretty evangelical about making sure other people hear...
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Andrew Pekler, “Sentimental Favorites”
In theory, this carved-up homage to ’60s/’70s soft rock and easy listening could’ve been a great album- perhaps even Pekler’s own Endless Summer.
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Nicola Ratti, “220 Tones”
This is a more conceptual, rhythmic, and process-themed work than usual from this reliably enjoyable Italian guitarist/composer.
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Conrad Schnitzler/Borngräber & Strüver, “Con-Struct”
After reissuing Schnitzler’s classic Zug and Ballet Statique albums, the fine folks at M=Minimal decided to try something a bit more unexpected and ambitious.
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Andy Futreal/Babel, “7/8″ split tape
This unconventional and oddly packaged split cassette pairs two very different artists together to tackle the curious theme “tectonic disasters in Asia,” which turns out to be pretty fertile creative ground.
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Andreas Brandal, “Disturbing The Dust”
I am not sure how I have managed to avoid hearing an Andreas Brandal album before now, but I am damn glad it finally happened- this was absolutely revelatory.
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Olekranon, “{abadina}” CDr
This lies somewhere between “weirdly friendly noise” or “weirdly hostile post-rock,” which pleases me a great deal- I like gray areas.
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Tunnels, “The Blackout”
Nick Bindeman’s first foray into synthpop is an unexpectedly intense and disturbed one.
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