[ aquarius records catalogue

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MPEG stream: What Becomes An End
MPEG stream: Hollow Severer

Second album of extreme electric guitar and drums improv action from the duo of Munehiro Narita and Shoji Hano, this time under the name Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intention) which was the title of their previous PSF release (as well as the name of an early '80s project led by Narita prior to his formation of the Tokyo psych rock legends High Rise). The original Kyoaku No Intention left behind no available recorded traces, so we can't say how closely it forshadowed the sounds heard on Astral Projection. But with Narita's distorted, screaming guitar and Hano's tumbling drums, this disc can't be any less "out" than what Narita got up to 20 years ago. Shoji Hano is primarily a free-jazz drummer, though he's experienced in various psychedelic rock combos (Mainliner for one). Meanwhile, Munehiro Narita is of course the sort of underground Japanese guitar god that Hano is used to playing with (previous sparring partners include Keiji Haino and Kawabata Makoto). So you can expect serious speedfreak Hendrix psych-spurts alongside more moody, almost jazzy clatter over the three long, live tracks that writhe and burn on this disc. Lovers of way out, free-to-be-skree electric guitar mangling and drum wrangling will want to stick this in their ears right quick!

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Not sure what you call a group like Kyrgyz, um... other than Kyrgyz, but if this were some stadium rock record, or eighties hair metal record, one might call it a supergroup. But since it's more of a rumbling trancey free drone record we'll just stick with Kyrgyz. The fruits of an afternoon hang out / dinner party / recording session / jam, this disc is a gorgeous, dreamy, noisy slab of slow shifting abstract drones. Not the sort of minimal, single tone stretched out into infinity sort of drone, no these tracks are dense with varied instrumentation and lots of cooks in the kitchen, all swirled into a hypnotic whole. Kyrgyz just so happens to feature Robert Horton, Tom Carter of Charalambides, Loren Chasse (Thuja, Blithe Sons, etc.) and one of our new mailorder ladies Christine Boepple (Whysp, ex-Skygreen Leopards Skyband). Equal parts, traditional minimalism (La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise) and modern free folk drone new weird America whatever (Sunroof!, Birchville Cat Motel, Omit, Avarus, etc.), Kyrgyz take an impossible array of instrumentaion and somehow boil it all down into a deep, dark msyterious sound all their own. Lap steel, dobro, e bow, voice recorder, guitar, wah wah, computer, boot, sex machine, el flosser, dulcimer, vitaminder, cd-r's, tapes, minidisc, sleigh bells, percussion, Tibetan bells, cassette recorder, sheng, pitch pipe, hurdy gurdy, phlanger, music box, khaen and even saxophone, all beautifully tangled up into blissed out smears of dense ambience and dreamy drone.

MPEG stream: Clown Hands Dokalmak
MPEG stream: Hirzur Vadisi (Peaceful Valley)

THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.

SORRY. Includes the songs from their Man's Ruin 10" (that featured a cover of Sabbath's "Into The Void"), as well as recordings by guitarist John Homme's post-Kyuss outfit Gamma Ray (now called Queens Of The Stone Age because of the other Gamma Ray that all you Helloween fans are of course familiar with).

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