Don't miss this brilliant shamanistic improv from Norway/Finnish duo. Isungset's unusual and primitive drumset consists of natural materials, like wood and stones. He also plays jaw harp and uses his voice as an instrument. Tapio's repertoire goes from a variety of flutes and clarinets to kantele and all sorts of little instruments.

No boundaries music of mystical shamanism,born by the inspiration of Nordic Nature and finest Finns woodwind player. Loving the last track of this record. Another unique record to pollute happy new ears.
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EAI is for pussies. I don't know what all of you cracker-ass bitches have been smoking lately, but this is how a no-input mixer is really supposed to be used.

cuntz.

Okay, but in all seriousness, this really is one of the most refreshing noise records I have heard in quite some time (probably since Black Vase). Apparently these guys are from Israel and their name translates to a liter of semen in Hebrew. That's really all you need to know.
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Antennas Erupt! (the band name ends with (!) but i cant characterized their name on the post title) is not your 'normal' band type. Stumbled upon this band while i was in search of the new music from soulseek and the first listen; i'm hooked :) First off, the instrumentation is horns, cello and drums. A lot of it is instrumental. There is some Albert Ayler and Captain Beefheart influence there, but it also reminds us of Julius Hemphill & Stanley Cowell.
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This is my favorite EAI release of 08 so far. Not saying a whole lot since things have been sort of slow (though the upcoming releases from Erstwhile more than make up for that: Yoshida/Nakamura, Rowe/Sachiko M, and solo Nakamura and Yoshida!!!), but it stands above both Dance Music and One Day, which clearly signifies that you will be downloading this today.
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I love noise. Harsh noise, power electronics, you name it. The thing is, I'm beginning to become a tad desensitized to the whole thing. Walls of "sldkhfsadgiuagsdohgghggggggggggggggggggg" just don't sound as chaotic as they used to. So where do I turn nowadays when I yearn for chaos? That's right, good ol' D.I.. You see, Disco Inferno is very similar in aesthetic to groups like My Bloody Valentine, but at the same time, they sound nothing alike.
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Given the recent EAI kick a few of us have been on, I figured I would upload this finally. It had been a couple years since I last listened to it, and I had not rated it because when I originally listened to it, it did not do that much for me. Well, of course, now I think it is a fantastic example of the unexplored reaches of acoustic music. KF, well ahead of this year's crop, has been committing all sorts of clarinet fuckery to disc for a while.
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Maybe Livonia? is a compilation conceived for a scene showcase show, titled Livonia Live, that took place sometime this month that apparently went badly and ended in some Great White-type disaster but anyways, LIVONIA. "What the hell is it and why aren't you posting Swahili post-punk?" you might ask. Livonia is a shitty suburb somewhere in Michigan nobody knows about where every other teenager has an amazing band (or so it seems) and one of my main inspirations at the moment.
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This is a great, out of nowhere disc put out on Mazen Kerbaj's label, Al Maslakh. Gene Coleman is a good ole American, but Raed Yassin is Lebanese, and I don't think I've heard him before this. Kerbaj has done a world of good exposing a host of artists from that troubled, yet hopeful land. Each disc on that label is enjoyable, as is Kerbaj's output on other imprints.

The music here is less like what Kerbaj does in that the instruments, for the most part, sound like the instrument.
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When a band that has already been together for 22 years puts out a new album it is generally excusable to let it slip under the cracks, or if given a listen, to not take it seriously. And it's reasonably excusable: bands aren't usually as impassioned as they once were and tend to pick at the carcass of an idiom that died several years before.
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"I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest." - Eyvind Kang

Violinist/composer Eyvind Kang seems to take his time and try to do something distinct with each record -- from the noisy, quick-change collages of 7 NADEs to the mellower, more song-based instrumentals of theater of The Yelm Sessions; and The Story of Iceland is my personal favourite, the kind of music that I enjoy listening to while on long bus/train trip.
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