Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Fadensonnen - Live @ Actionist Studio (FR005 - December 2011)


SKIDMARKS ON BRUCKNER BOULEVARD / 114 FORREST STREET / VAN BRUNT / HOYT AND THIRD 
36:57

Four high psychic energy improvisations to upset the universal neighbors.


CUSTOM HANDMADE DIGIPAK WITH BLACK CD-R - (EDITION OF 100 - SOLD OUT - COMING SOON TO BANDCAMP)

LIVE AT ACTIONIST STUDIO REVIEWS

Via Christopher Stigliano's excellent Blog To Comm:

" . . . LIVE AT ACTIONIST STUDIO just happens to be the latest release this unheralded (and under-documented, under-appreciated and under-weight for all I know) musician has dared to unleash on us modern music maniacs , some of us who still harbor some hope that there's interesting underground avant garde rock being made a good thirty years after it all sorta went 'n deep sixed!

A lotta the same aspects of previous Fadensonnen releases can be discerned, but I was able to pick out a whole batch of new influences here (or was that just my ears hallucinating?) from Les Rallizes Denudes to even some of those Kongress workouts that I thought had only graced mine ears (esp. the one where Von Lmo was extrapolating on his own trapology!) It is heartening to know that people still play with stylophones! A pretty hotcha way to begin the new year if you ask me, and if this is any sorta start I just hope my hard can stand it these next twelve months!"

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Fadensonnen - PD1 (FR004 - July 2011)



GHOSTS REJOICE, REJOICE / BLACK SMOKE / OOMOO / G TRAIN / UNO LAPIS 
34:17

Five instrumental tracks of brutal melodic guitar improv action colliding with intense percussion attacks awash in a sea of feedback and toy saxophones - total abandon!

CUSTOM HANDMADE DIGIPAK WITH BLACK CD-R - (EDITION OF 100 - SOLD OUT - COMING SOON TO BANDCAMP)

PD1 REVIEWS

Via Christopher Stigliano's excellent Blog To Comm :

Who'd've thunk a brand-new Fadensonnen-related release would've made its way to my door this soon? But this just ain't any ol' Fadensonnen release, but one featuring the man in a solo setting handling all of the instruments (which include, besides the featured Amphetamine Lead/Feedbacker/Drone/Anvil Rhythm/Black Hole Lighter Slide Guitar...drums, percussion, tape manipulation, AM/FM clock radio and toy saxophone!), and it all sounds pretty disturbing, but in a great, life-reaffirming kind of disturbing way! Thirty-four minutes of total high-energy rock abandon which has me thinking a whole lot of the infamous Doug Snyder/Bob Thompson DAILY DANCE album which should be so ingrained and embedded into your psyche that I won't even bother hitching up a link to one of the many on-line reviews of it I have written o'er the years. Let's just say that if you like hard distorted acid guitar wailing and manic percussive scrunch being played over what sounds like one of those old John Cale tape experiments that were released a good decade or so back then this is the one for you! Cee-Dee closer "Uno Lapis" earns points for exceptional tape-loop drone repeato riffdom unheard since the days of at least READ ONLY MEMORY.

Permalink: http://black2com.blogspot.com/2011/07/not-much-to-report-on-really.html

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Fadensonnen - Black EP (FR003 - June 2011)


NIGHT OF SHAROQUE COUGHS / SWEET JUDY BROWN / GNID GNID
32:18

Three tracks spanning the extremes of Fadensonnen - improv guitar action meets pop meets tape cut pileups!

CUSTOM HANDMADE DIGIPAK WITH BLACK CD-R - (EDITION OF 100 - SOLD OUT - COMING SOON TO BANDCAMP)

BLACK EP REVIEWS

Via Christopher Stigliano's excellent BlogToComm :

Fadensonnen-BLACK EP CD

The third and last in the Fadensonnen trilogy keeps up the high-powered amped up electronic rock of the first two delivering more of that total eruption free music that I kinda thought went out of business around the time REM began replacing Chrome as a template for youthful rockist exuberance. Echoing a variety of hot eighties underground flashpoints I remember (the MX-80 O-Type and Half Life spinoffs come to mind) and don't (well...maybe Mark Hanley's Sister Ray side project Room 101), Fadensonnen really know how to take the basement recording situations so prevalent in the days of cassette kultur and update the entire shebang for the present, not quite an easy task considering just how vague the notion of "the present" is. This ain't "industrial" or any real variation thereof, but some mighty engrossing underground rock and roll that takes the best moments of the past fiftysome years of sound exploration and runs wild over the hills with 'em! Only hope that this ain't the LAST we're going to hear from  Fadensonnen!

If you haven't been able to get these very limited (100!) edition Cee-Dees and would like to hear what you're missing, go to Fadennonsen's blog (see link up on left) where not only have the entire contents of the last three releases been posted, but videos along with them making for a particularly stimulating audio/visual excursion if you ask me. Actually, don't ask, because I haven't even had the opportunity to see them yet! Who knows, maybe they consist of nothing but the same cover graphic staring you in the face without any change in the picture or variation whatsoever just like every other upload which might be good for the ears but boring for the eyes. If I were you and I wanted to hear this amazing screech I'd head for this blog right now!

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Via Arcane Candy:

Fadensonnen is back in Black for their third color-titled half-hour EP. (I can’t wait until they cross the entire color spectrum and end up at Burnt Sienna or Turquoise.) The opening track, “Night of Sharoque Coughs,” features some lonesome guitar picking that is occasionally interupted by schizo workouts on the drum kit. “Sweet Judy Brown” is the first song in the Fadensonnen canon with vocals, which remind me a lot of the singing on The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy. Careful, guys–you might attract a fanbase. “Gnid Gnid” shuts down the album in a more atmospheric rock vein with tin cans dripping in the background as distant drums throb and the guitars chime and moan on into a lengthy, churning din. Here’s hoping that PD and RD will be joined by R2D2 and C3PO on their next EP for a Fadensonnen quartet take on the bar scene from Star Wars.

Permalink: http://arcanecandy.com/2011/10/19/fadensonnen-black%E2%80%8F/

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Fadensonnen - White EP (FR002 - April 2011)


SLIT THE MOON / WHITE OF ICE
24:56

Two drastically opposite rock eruptions - Slit The Moon speeds into the mainline to the nervous system - White Of Ice brings it back to the eternal drone - guitar excess in both directions.

CUSTOM HANDMADE DIGIPAK WITH BLACK CD-R - (EDITION OF 100 - SOLD OUT - COMING SOON TO BANDCAMP)

WHITE EP REVIEWS 

Via Christopher Stigliano's excellent Blog To Comm:

Fadensonnen-WHITE EP CD 
(Fadensonnen Music)

Gee, I didn't think that people (even myself) listened to WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT anymore. Well, at least the first of the two numbers on this "EP CD" sounds as if the two participants (a PD and RD in case you're keeping score) had been spending the past two weeks playing one of those budget-pressed early-seventies ARCHETYPES versions of that longtime classic before sniffing up enough discarded Bic lighter fumes and recording this high-throb exercise right in the middle of the Gowanus Canal (and it sounds it!). The other track reminds me a bit of those late-eighties solo Sonny Sharrock excursions for some reason and is equally recommended especially if you, like me, looked so desperately hard for any life or excitement throughout that feelygood decade. Anyway, if you liked Fadensonnen's previous effort which I reviewed here and quite favorably at that you might like this one as well, and if life wasn't being kind enough to us all already there's even gonna be a third volume heading our way this coming summer! Can you wait? Well, at least I have something good to look forward to these upcoming months!

Permalink:  http://black2com.blogspot.com/2011/04/yeah-i-know.html

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Via Arcane Candy:

Whereas Fadensonnen’s first album, Grey, was named after the most well-known type of alien, White pays tribute to that most beloved paranormal phenomenon: the ghost. (Punching the cobweb-covered clock at just 25 minutes, it seems that the latter could have been included on the same disc as the 30 minute long former.) Shyly boasting just two tracks, the EP kicks off in high gear with the duo of PD and RD a-pickin’ and a-grinnin’ their way through “Slit the Moon,” whipping up a dense, sloppy electric guitar maelstrom supported by a backbone of simple, Velvety drum thwack. “White of Ice” flip-flops the mood with a much more subdued sound stage filled with spacious drones that hover like body wash mist in a dank dressing room as gently-picked melodies tease some downwardly mobile stripper’s alcohol-logged head into a stupor.

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