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ND-018 Whimsical Fetus - Meditation #3
One of the final recordings put together by Whimsical Fetus, one of the long standing traditions in the Southeast experimental/noise music community, this 40-minute meditation has been dug up out of the archives to finally be presented to you.
Sink into your mind as this raga-esque drone piece wraps itself around your inner conscious and brings you closer to a personal enlightenment.
A new release from 1/2 of NRIII released for free from the great Vantage Bulletin Publishing.
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Free 9-minute solo performance recorded for Vantage Bulletin’s new SOLO series. Was happy to be asked to put something together for them. Jamison Williams, the main person behind Vantage Bulletin Publishing, recently lent his expressive alto saxophone playing to the latest NRIII release.
http://vantagebulletin.com/soloRENO.html
Out Now. $10. https://www.createspace.com/1989984
”The fear and anger boiling inside of our blood is spilled across the cold concrete of our self-made prisons. With every lowering of our head to governments, corporations, and institutions we are allowing them to slice away at our being with ease. A world of empty flesh moving meticulously towards their graves capturing every second of their meandering lives in a rush to remember what sent them down this desolate path.
Experimental Blackened Psych-Noise. The shadow screams of the defeated human race.”
10 Tracks. 44 Minutes.
New Album Available November 1st.
Electric Teeth Live Performance. Filmed by Keaton.
New NRIII. “Suffering” off of a new project entitled “Solus Patior”, which is currently being worked on.
ND007 - Whimsical Fetus - The Leg’s Urethra
Recorded in a garage during a balmy August night in 2003, this improvised performance brought together a lot of the strengths found in the bizarro collective known as “Whimsical Fetus” that usually can’t be captured so easily on recordings.
Allow me to muse… I feel that most 100% improvised noise music is a hollow experience that can only be enjoyed by the performers. Over the years, as noise music has become more and more mainstream in the hipster chic communities, I feel that improvised noise music has quickly become a way in which people try to contort their philosophical hodgepodge rhetoric into music as an escape from critics who would be able to more easily judge their ideals when written on paper instead of through the more obtuse use of sound.
To me this is the ruin of music in the experimental genre. Music should be able to speak volumes without the need to sit down and muse half thoughts picked up and distorted from other philosophical luminaries. When you listen to a truly great, 100% improvised piece, it shouldn’t sound 100% improvised. It shouldn’t sound like every other 100% improvised piece in a wall of chaotic noise and similar effects spreading ad nauseum so that you can name the exact pedal being used to generate it. Yes, you can use your music as a platform for new ideas, but they shouldn’t be a cover for bullshit terrible pap.
The Leg’s Urethra is a performance that stands out of place and time. A work that doesn’t need any legs to stand on but the recorded sounds. Sure, there is plenty of rhetoric and ideas hidden in it, but if you don’t find them through the music, then they either failed at their mission or you just didn’t pick up on them.
ND007- Whimsical Fetus- The Leg’s Urethra (2003)
1. Hunt the Squeaky Coffee
2. Strapping Detectives Wrapped in Whimpering Genius
3. The Boy the Hag Loved
4. Insecurity Nervous Lice
5. Eleven Yeti Eating the Judicial Pepper
6. Telekinetic & Dog-Gone
http://www.lulu.com/product/multi-file-download/the-legs-urethra/45915
ND004 - Jensen’s Down – Thoughts
Jensen’s Down is a faceless project that was originally started as a way to make soundtracks for the darkest hours of the night. All of the music was intended to be composed and recorded between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. in as close to complete darkness as possible.
The original concept was that anyone could record as Jensen’s Down as long as they followed the above rules. There was also an encouragement for the artist to completely alone in the studio/house/etc. when working on their music to add an additional sense of threat and unease to the recordings.
There were around 3-4 Jensen’s Down recordings made by 3 different people. This is one of them. A recorded soundtrack to the darkness of night made in the wee hours of 2002 on very cheap recording equipment. Turn off the lights in your home and enjoy.
Jensen’s Down – Thoughts
