The Gate - Vomit Dreams
New York-based trio The Gate are Dan Peck (tuba, composition), Tom Blancarte (upright bass), and Brian Osborne (percussion). Moving fluidly between freely improvised music and composition, their sound is dark, deep and full of events, twists and turns. Tuba and bass combine to erode conventional notions of melody and harmony, marching to the rhythm of decaying ship hulls falling against each other, metal scraping against metal. Incomprehensible languages combine with layers of viscous noise to create a suffocating and unrelenting texture of doom.
Vomit Dreams, their third release, bridging the gap between free jazz and dark ambient music, is a collection of 5 gore-infested improvisations, influenced by Stephen King and Australian metal band Portal.
‘The range of textures each player produces is impressive enough, but the invention and skill they bring to the task of combining their individual instrumental voices is breathtaking. They are great at allowing their scrapings and scuttlings to coalesce magically into growling riffs and
malevolent low-register thunder, bridging the hitherto unspanned void between Don Cherry’s Mu and early Swans.’ (The Wire)
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The Gate - Destruction of Darkness
Moving fluidly between freely improvised music and composition, the sound of The Gate is dark, deep and full of events, twists and turns. Dan Peck (tuba, compos..(read more)
Label: Carrier
Artist: The Gate
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Death Metal, Drone, Improvisation, Tuba.

Preliminary Saturation - Staring at Empty Eyes
Dark Ambient by Wouter Jaspers and Steffan de Turck. Recording from 2008.
Label: Dirty Demos
Artist: Preliminary Saturation
Medium: CD-R
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Dark Ambient, Industrial Music.

ARM - Driving By Accident
ARM was a Norwegian trio of electronic improvisers, Alexander Rishaug, Are Mokkelbost and Arne Borgan, preaching glitchology. Their signature sound was that of ..(read more)
Label: Melekktronik / MELK LP 007
Artist: ARM
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Improvisation, Norway, Vinyl.
