Verse of Birds is a collection of recordings from the west coast of Ireland. It comprises over 100 minutes of new music conceived during the spring, summer, autumn and winter of 2010/11.
The album can be thought of as an auditory companion to the texts of The Flowering Rock, which are collected within Field Notes (Volume One), also published by Corbel Stone Press.
PR: Suum Cuique is the alias used by Demdike Stare’s Miles Whittaker to vent his purest analogue noise experiments. Giving a stoic nod to the hardware emissions of Mika Vainio or Maurizio Bianchi, and conducted with a meditative practice comparable with Eleh, his 2nd album ‘Ascetic Ideals’ is the sound of Miles’ machines coaxed into revealing their bleakest secrets, often recorded straight from the mixing desk with no overdubs or edits. Aesthetically, it’s closest to his Demdike Stare material, as opposed to his Pendle Coven or MLZ releases, and was – perhaps unsurprisingly – crafted in between sessions for the ‘Elemental’ album. But these tracks are far more stark, murky and extreme than anything in the Demdike cache. The sound veers between outright shock attacks like opener ‘Strohtopf’ to plangent techno malfunctions on ‘Kuiper Analysis’ and the shellshocked, Alberich-like sound sphere of ‘Core Values’, leading us blindfolded thru the infernal torture chambers of ‘Proton Aesthetic’ and the Carpenter-esque closing sequence ‘Dionysus Decay’.
Only listened once through so far, but am very pleased to have this on wax. Prefer it to Splazsh which, while good, isn’t as good as this. Judge for yourself.
1 Alex Reece / Pulp Fiction / Metalheadz
2 Leviticus / Burial / Philly Blunt Records
3 Origin Unknown / Valley Of The Shadows / Ram
4 Omni Trio / Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Remix) / Moving Shadow
5 Omni Trio / Renegade Snares (Foul Play Remix) / Moving Shadow
6 Whats My Code / Dubplate / Stage One
7 Renegade / Terrorist / Moving Shadow
8 Deep Blue / The Helicopter Tune (Fantasy #1) / Moving Shadow
9 Q Project / Champion Sound (Alliance remix) / Legend
10 Hyper On Experience / Lords Of The Null Lines (Foul Play Remix) / Moving Shadow
11 Origin Unknown / Truly One / Ram
12 DJ Rap & Aston / Spiritual Aura / Proper Talent
13 DJ Taktix (feat. Top Buzz) / The Way (Remix) / Back 2 Basics
14 Dead Dred / Dred Bass / Moving Shadow
15 Slipmatt / Breaking Free / Awesome
16 Boogie Times Tribe / Dark Stranger (Origin Unknown Remix) / Suburban Bass
17 Andy C & Shimon / Nightflight / Ram
18 Jo / R-Type / Awesome
19 DJ Ron / Crackman The Return / Rough Tone
20 MA2 / Hearing is Believing (Vocal) / Formation
21 Alex Reece / Basic Principles / Metalheadz
22 DJ Zinc / Super Sharp Shooter / Ganja Records
23 A Zone / Calling All The People / White House
24 The Dream Teem / Stamina / Suburban Base
25 DRS feat. Kenny Ken / Everyman / Rugged Vinyl
26 Roni Size & Reprazent / Brown Paper Bag / Talkin’ Loud
27 Krome & Time / The License / Tearin Vinyl
28 Splash / Babylon / Deejay
29 DJ SS / The Lighter / Formation
30 Amazon II / King Of The Beats / Aphrodite Recordings
31 DJ Krust / Set Speed / V
32 Roni Size & Reprazent / Share The Fall (Full Vocal Mix) / Talkin’ Loud