Niama Tounkara - Nongon Kele Cassette (Mali)

Something different tthis time: Malinese singer Niama Tounkara's album Nongon Kele. This was released by F.C.A. from Paris. Support them and visit their shop at 53 Rue Doudeauville, Paris, France.

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Minny Pops - Live Parkhof, Alkmaar 29-11-1980

The Minny Pops live at the (now destroyed) Parkhof venue in Alkmaar, The Netherlands on Nov. 29, 1980. No tracklist, maybe someone can help...

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815? - Okdekkvin? & Final Refuse (Japan 1995)

Two tapes from 1995 by obscure Japanese hardcorepunk band 815? If anyone has more info about this band, let us know.

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Bonsho - Japanese Temple Bells 8-17th Century (1984)

The Bonsho is the large temple bell. It is suspended inside the shoro constructed specifically to house the bell. The Japanese character "bon" is used to express purity. Because the Bonsho is used for Buddhist Services it is given this honorific title. The Seattle Betsuin uses the Bonsho in a very unique style. Although the Bonsho is traditionally only rung prior to the service to let the "assembly" know that the service will begin, the Bonsho at the Betsuin is also rung after the beginning of the service and is used as a focal point during our "Bonsho Meditation". Listening to the Bonsho may remind us of the words found in the beginning of the Heike Mono-gatari: "The voice of the bell at the Jetavana grove resounds with (the teaching of) all conditioned things are impermanent..."

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Anadorei - Pussy Cannibal Holocaust (2011)

Raw primitive girl punk trio from the Tokyo underground scene. Erotic anarchy!! Bitrate 320.

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Chu Ishikawa - Tetsuo: The Bullet Man O.S.T. (2010)

Excellent industrial soundtrack by Chu Ishikawa (Der Eisenrost) for Shinya Tsukamoto's movie Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Includes the theme song by Nine Inch Nails.

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Nauscopy Shortwave Series #2 CDR (2005)

These are (mostly) shortwave transmissions from various sources recorded in new Hampshire in the summer of 2005.

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Bad Posture - c/s (1983)

SF hardcore punk band Bad Posture recorded this album in 1983. It was produced by the band with Ted Falconi (Flipper). Bitrate 224.

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Phil Thornton & Steven Cragg - Initiation (1990)

Excellent spacy new age album with didgeridoo, flutes, percussion, electronics etc.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain O.S.T. (1973)

Somewehere else to find already also, but this time with the right tags . This is the great soundtracks of the cult movie The Holy Mountain from 1973 composed by director Alejandro Jodorowsky together with Ronald Frangipane and Don Cherry.

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Child Bride - Reflections On Prism City CDR (2008)

One-woman noise act Child Bride makes droning, ambient, sample-laden, tribal noise that sounds like a pagan cyber-witch mourning the death of her shaman. ~Gerry Mak/Lost At E Minor. Released on CDR in 2008 by Blackest Rainbow.

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Konx Om Pax - The Wake World

Mysterious project from probably Luxembourg. Truly dark industrial atmospheres and sinister soundscapes here. The track 'Bones Of Rev. Jones' includes the speech of Rev. Jim Jones minutes before the Jonestown mass suicide. No info whatsoever available, so if anyone knows more, let us know.

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South Pacific Drums (1965 Recordings)

These rhythms have hundreds of years of tradition behind every beat. Every group on this album consists of about ten talented percussionists. They employ 'toeres', a native form of wood-block, hand-carved from the 'Tamanu' tree, each of a different size and pitch. Several played together create a musical triad. A contrasting sound is sometimes furnished by the 'ofe', a section of split bamboo. The split section is raised and made rigid by inserting small pieces of bamboo at each end, and the instrument is played by hitting the raised slits with two bamboo sticks. The remainder of a Polynesian percussion orchestra consists of 'pahus', drums varying in size from tiny bongo-like instruments to the massive, deep-voiced bass drum, usually a hollowed-out coconut trunk covered by a sharkskin head. Each drummer has a rhythm of his own to perform, each more intricate as the drums gets smaller, and they all blend surprisingly into a definite syncopated pattern.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Mark Elder - Prokofiev: Cantata For The 20th Anniversary Of The October Revolution, Op. 74 (1996)

From Wikipedia: Obscure as this cantata may be, it should never be dismissed as insignificant. Disturbing, it certainly is: its text alone, drawn from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, is, to say the least, controversial. In ten contrasting movements it relates the story of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union, from the battle for the Winter Palace in 1917, through the suffering of 1918 and Lenin's funeral in 1924, to the building of factories and collective farms in the early Thirties and the final consolidation of Stalin's control over the country with his new constitution of 1936. Begun by Prokofiev in 1936 on commission from the All-Union Radio Committee, it was finished the following summer. Prokofiev expected it to be part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. Due to the political climate towards artists in 1937, Prokofiev decided to assure his safety by withholding the work. The Cantata had to wait until May 1966 for its premier, 13 years after Prokofiev's death. Ironically, Stalin was also dead and also disgraced by this time. The cantata is a type of patriotic cantata. The music is frequently unconventional and certainly way out of line with the Communist Party's populist remit of Socialist Realism. Its extravagant sound palette combines a full orchestra with typically Russian choral writing, folk instruments and the sounds of marching, gunfire and sirens, all to spectacular pictorial effect. Leaving political acceptability aside, the Cantata is a thrilling piece of music, written when Prokofiev was at the height of his powers.

Recorded at Royal Festival Hall, London, England, Feb. 17, 1996.
Mark Elder - Conductor, Oleg Miroshnikov - Speaker, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Stephen Jackson - Choir Master, Philip Burwell -Engineer.

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Pislarven - Strak en Stuiterend (Live in Parkhof 27-05-1995)

Pislarven was a hardcore punk band from the Parkhof scene in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, active in the mid-90s. First line up consisted of Ruudje on vocals, Bertje Doperwtje on guitar, Wørm (ex-Disciples of Tonka) on bass and Tesselaar aka Sjakie (later Mindfok and many more bands) on drums. After Sjakie moved to Groningen, Lennaert from Boycot and countless other bands replaced him on drums. Bertje Doperwtje was already replaced much earlier by Leus (ex-Convulsion and Disciples of Tonka on guitar. They played a sort of distorted Japanese style hardcore with Dutch lyrics.

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Zeitlich Vergelter - Schlagen / Dimension 7" (1985)

Japanese industrial band featuring Tetsuo soundtack composer Chu Ishikawa, Maki Fuji of Soft ballet and NEU of Neurotic Doll. Sort of a Japanese Einstürzende Neubauten. This is their only release, besides a couple of tracks on 'Dead Tech/No Wave From Japan' and 'NG' compilations.

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ЯО 91404 Д – Ключ от Бездны (Key To Abyss) CDR (2005)

2005 release by YAO 91404 D, a St. Petersburg-based industrial project. Recorded using excerpts from radio monologues, musical cuts, factory noise and based on the book of 'The Last Soviet Writer' Ilya Masodov. This CDR was limited to 68 copies.

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The Nurse - ナース 7" Flexi (1983)

First flexi single by this female Japanese punk band from Tokyo.

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A Bloody Occurrence CDR (2005)

Transatlantic gruesome team-up of SCHIZOID (one leg DIRK FREENOISE, one arm swinging the axe of The Zoid and partly braindead) and SHARKI FACE (part-time cheerleader in CRACK WAR and mysteriously part of the neon entity known as CAROLINER RAINBOW). Stuttering no-wave feedback and molten noise lava snorted at intense volumes. Like throwing slow-motion snowballs and gargling absinth in the snow, we've tried but we're not any wiser. Strings are raped, datacrushing effect swirl and non-wave dancefloor-friendly noise clouds. Will have you air-guitaring all over the place! The multi-color handsilkscreened big poster-sleeve was designed by full-time bum and part-time cripple Jelle Crama. Limited to 100 copies.

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Yellow Sunshine Explosion - Yellow Sunshine Explosion LP (Germany 1987)

Maybe still available for download on 1 or 2 other blogs, but here it is again. Excellent trippy acid garage psych album from Germany, 1987.

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