Photo by Aaron Wojack
CD/ LP REVIEWS
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Colourful Disturbances LP - Weird Canada
Colourful
Disturbances LP - Textura
Colourful
Disturbances LP - Aqaurius Records
Colourful
Disturbances LP - Electronic Voice Phenomenon
Disc of the Week - Colourful Disturbances LP - Montreal Mirror
Exceptional
new release - Red Rainbows CD - Killed in Cars
Eureka!
- Red Rainbows CD - Tiny Mix Tapes
Red Rainbows CD - Junkmedia
Red Rainbows CD - Joaquin The Cow
Red
Rainbows CD - Kathodik (Italy)
Red
Rainbows CD - One True Dead Angel
Red
Rainbows CD - The Sound Projector
"Brilliant
Colors" track review - Houston Press
"Rainbows" track review - The Needle Drop
Red
Rainbows CD - Electronic Voice Phenomenon
Red
Rainbows CD - Cheap Anime Cosplay Costumes
Boomkat
Red Rainbows CD/ Paint on the Shadows LP - Visitation Rites
Red
Rainbows CD/ Paint on the Shadows LP
- Mimaroglu Music
Paint
on the Shadows LP
- The Sound Projector
Paint
on the Shadows LP
- The Fader.com
Paint on the Shadows
LP (No Fun Productions)- Aquarius
Records
"Noveller is the
working name for avant-drone guitarist / filmmaker Sarah Lipstate.
Having graduated from the legion sized guitar symphonies of both
Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, Lipstate produced a couple of cd-rs,
a cassette, and some tracks for some compilations. She's also been
moonlighting as the guitarist for Parts & Labor, but it's this
album that caught our attention. Recorded for the increasingly confounding
label No Fun (less aggro noise these days and more occluded psychedelic
dronemusik), Paint On The Shadows begins with a liltingly pretty,
side-long construction of intertwining guitar loops and elliptical
fingerpicked patterns that conjures all of the best that Grouper
and Colleen had managed through their loopstation laboratories.
All of these sounds blossom out of a harmonic bed of bowed guitar
drones; and steady low end thrums sublimate into richly plucked
chiming notes that could even double for Jozef Van Wissem. The flipside
offers up two pieces which seem to reflect her live presentations,
with ebows, motors, and hand-held tape decks driving the strings
and pick-ups from her double necked guitar. With precise placements
of the ebows and some choice tremolo effects, Lipstate generates
phasing tones often heard in the cosmic explorations of Eno &
Fripp's No Pussyfooting or certainly not that far from Emeralds.
Another one of those hyper-limited lp pressings from No Fun. Just
300 were made, and don't expect these to last very long! "
TAPE
REVIEWS
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This Heat Will Melt The Earth (Baked Tapes) cassette -
Dracula Trap
"Noveller
is the sonic personification of rolling waves, brush fires and distant
bird songs. All of which are accomplished by the contrast of distant
chiming bells, primal singing and brick walls of feedback. "This
Heat Will Melt The Earth" begins with a subtle lyrical beauty
that lies in stark contrast with the grimy sound masses that follow.
This release covers more ground than most noisicians would dare
to try. This full spectrum of expression is why Noveller, aka Sarah
Lipstate, stands out from the bulk of noisicians. As a whole this
release makes one coherent thought which is equally effect as it's
five constituent parts."
CD
REVIEWS
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Vasovagal 3"CDr
(2005) - DEAD
ANGEL
"This wee li'l three-inch
cd-r is the work of Sarah Lipstate, who shapes two-to-three minute
bursts of noise from voice, theremin, field recordings, banjo (?!?!),
and effects. The effects are the most obvious -- there's plenty
of processed electronic frippery on the seven tracks here -- but
the sound is less about all-out carnage and destruction than it
is about stacking up blocks of sound and texture that work well
together. The strategies she employs on this disc are far removed
from the usual blinding wall-of-death power electronics one might
expect from the artwork and the label; this is more like glitch
electronica fed through heavy reverb abuse. The tracks generally
have a bedrock, core noise going on, over which other sounds drift
in and out (or occasionally just bulldoze through). Some tracks
like "Shok" may make you think your cd player is on the fritz, though.
I like the use of field recordings to add ambience and quiet moments
amid the crunchy bursts of antimusic and noisy earhurt. Watch out
for the sixth track "Langis," however -- that one is WAY beyond
out of control, and about twice as loud as the rest of the disc.
Swell experiments in sonic abstraction and (at times) pure ass-quaking
noise hell. Limited to thirty copies."
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