Limited solo cassette from Truscinski, drummer with GHQ/X.O.4/Slaughterhouse Percussion, Steve Gunn et al, touches on the detonating Industrial rhythms of Einsturzende Neubauten, Z'EV et al while incorporating great blats of liberated Afro-American fire moves, passages of bowed and scraped drone and some grimy, distorto-primitive punk stratagems. On Bill Nace of Vampire Belt's own label.

Limited edition debut 12” from the duo of Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Bill Nace (Vampire Belt et al) on Nace’s own Open Mouth imprint: four extended tracks, mastered at 45rpm, that sees Kim revisit the kind of spectral guitar-isms of the more amp-damaged early Sonic Youth sound, combining railroading No Wave klang with haunting/distant sing-song vocals and moments of disembodied choral drift that comes over like Rudolph Grey plays the ghost of electricity. Nace is on similarly distended form, working slow, intricate patterns of woozy modal string-think into the kind of beautifully confusing shapes that would cross the more nod-out/zoned moments of the Dead C back catalogue with a Jandek-plays-gamelan vibe that is supremely hypnotic. Hands-down best of the ‘post-Sonic Youth’ projects, another fantastic record from these two, highly recommended!

Edition of only 250 copies trio LP from saxophonist Joe McPhee and guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Bill Nace (Body/Head): nothing like the noise/blurt fest you might have been led to believe from some of the ‘reviews’ or even a cursory look at the personnel involved, instead this is a beautiful, majestic, darkly atmospheric recording that goes deep into devotional/fire music traditions while using twelve electric strings to generate deep-field drones and eerie off-kilter melodies that are deeply meditative. It has to be said, McPhee sounds amazing on this, with a honey-thick tone that comes straight out of the Coltrane songbook while Nace and Moore’s playing is very subtle and measured, playing clanging Evol-isms and slow atonal/whammy bar ascensions that are as dramatically sustained as your favourite Sonic Youth ‘between song’ jam with an extended avant classical feel that is truly more sophisticated and more minimally crude than anything you might’ve imagined. This is one of these rare improvised sets where it feels like there isn’t a second wasted, not a stray note or tone, with the whole deal mainlining the kinda third-eye quaking atmosphere of Om, say, while simultaneously reformulating notions of avant jazz. Beautifully recorded live at Roulette NYC in 2012, this is a peerless example of avant rock/free jazz synthesis and stands tall alongside classics of the form – Borbetomagus/Blue Humans/Last Exit/Barefoot In The Head – while sounding approximately like none of them. Cover art from Joshua Burkett, immediately sold out at source, very highly recommended!