/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Noise,
Electro-acoustic, Drone, Ambient, Minimalism/
Comment: by
listening to this17-track issue on can admit “New Weird” does not mean “folk
music” at all in some cases. This time the listener can enjoy vowel based
experiments from Australia. You can be sure it is as mystical as crooked folk
music used to be. More profoundly, the issue is imbued with minimally designed
digital drones, spaced-out echoes, buried noises, metallic reverberations and
of course, with looped vocals and few words as instruments. I guess this miscellany
would be a sweet cake for those protagonists who like such artists as Iris
Garrelfs, Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Michael Schiefel, Roomet Jakapi. However,
there are represented such artists as Juarez, Ronnu Panda, Scissor Lock,
Furchick, Rabbit Island, Sky Needle, Mosaic Mosaic, Alice Hui-Cheng, Major
Napier, Donna Hewitt, Kucka, Holy Balm, Mimic Bass, Kusum Normoyle, Paul
Heslin, Amanda Stewart, The Deadly Nightshades. These compositions are
well-crafted ones though I suspect for most of these artists such a sort of
concept has not been the most substantial one. In a word, New Weird
Compilations used to always surprise with truly cutting-edge approach and touch.
It is a great series of music gathered together across the Green Continent. Life is noise is art. Something like that.