PSEUDO ARCANA
"Dialing In is the ecstatic roaring psychedelic drone project of Seattle based sound artist Reita Piecuch. Utilising the natural acoustics of a series of reverberant spaces she weaves together super saturated soundscapes by recording in one environment, playing back in ...
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PACD083 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Formed in 2003 as a conduit for intense ritualistic sonic exploration Glory Fckn Sun is the ecstatic psyche-noise trio of Antony Milton (guitar/electronics), Ben Spiers (guitar/violin/electronic) and improv percussionist Simon O'Rorke (gongs/percussion). 'Vision ...
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PACD109 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Milton's A.M project. With beats! Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones and pounding ...
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PACD107 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"On the follow up to their debut "Static" LP (Kr-aa-k) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante who chants ...
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PACD108 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Originally apprearing in an ultra limited home-pressed edition 'North/South' is the follow up to last years wonderful 'Drift' on Digitalis. Best known as a trumpeter, the Brisbane resident Busby ventures here into a subtle processed exploration of that instrument, but ...
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PA080 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"The Wire Thicket is the swirling shimmering US power-drone duo of Alex Cobb (Taiga Remains/ Students of Decay label) and David Kirby. Processed acoustic(!) guitars and voice etc are layered and sculpted to construct dense spine-tinglingly intense edifaces that soar ...
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PACD081 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Hailing from Belgium, Formatt is resolutely a digital artist. He creates his pieces from heavily processed glitches, chimings, loops and drones, the original sound sources virtually impossible to discern. In an over-crowded genre Smeekens manages to transcend the ...
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PACD098 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Temples is Kevin Richards. He hails from Denver, Colorado. 'Murk' is an acoustic guitar album. What is refreshing to these ears about this record is that its an acoustic guitar album wherein the guitar itself is subsumed within the glorious phenomena of the recording ...
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PA105 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Deep in the swirling depths of the ocean a terrible yet wondrous beast stirs slow but sure amidst great forests of sea algae. Taking on the form of a pair of conjoined drown-ed sailors it sets forth upon the currents determined to loose its apocalyptic vision upon the ...
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PACD102 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Campbell Kneale once explained that to describe Wellingtons Seht as drone music is much the same as describing Antarctica as white. Where as many of us utilise the drone as an ingredient, a point of departure, Stephen Clover's Seht project distils drones to craft ...
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PACD097 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"A new project from Antony Milton, Paintings of Windows attempts to light a cosy campfire in the midst of the digital tundra. Field recordings, some capturing spare use of 'trad' instruments, are manipulated and shaped using basic software to produce a peaceful, ...
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PA022 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"Swung is Aucklands Zoe Drayton. Besides her invaluable role as the chief archivist, promoter and all round lynchpin of the New Zealand 'new music' scene, Drayton is an active musician and composer in her own right. 'Voice and Key' is -as the name suggests- a collection ...
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PACD084 | PSEUDO ARCANA
"New Zealand guitarist and sound-artist Peter Wrights back catalogue stretches to something like 30 releases over the last dozen years. 'Yellow Horizons' is the most recent of these and follows on from 2004's 'Distant Bombs' (Last Visible Dog), and 'Desolation Beauty ...
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PACD066 | PSEUDO ARCANA
