Anti-Gravity Bunny on Neil Jendon "Male Fantasies"

Link here.

This line alone describe the release:

"It saunters right up to New Age and says "Fuck you, this is how it's done.""

Thanks Justin! Review below.

-A

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Another piece of sweetness from Land Of Decay, although this is the first one from them I've heard that is non-Locrian related. Neil Jendon is just a dude who makes some killer drone, and also used to be in Zelienople and runs the gutflora label.

Side A is really dense stuff, deep rumbling static with delicate layers of barely there shimmer lying beneath the surface. Sounds like massive earthmovers hauling down dirt roads, kicking up an impenetrable wall of dust behind them, and seeing the sun in sporadic blurs where the dust has thinned out just a bit. And as the enormous trucks move on, the rumbling fades, the dust settles, the sun shines. Bliss sets in, soaring drone in the wide open barely blue skies. It saunters right up to New Age and says "Fuck you, this is how it's done."

Flip it over and it's 20 more minutes of amazing fucking drone. It sounds like electronic static distortion ramped up and evened out to create a plane of intimidating drone, yet still with the twinkling euphoria thrown in. It gets increasingly intense, imminent fucking danger where everything's about to go supernova. Feedback, static, low end throbbing, more static, and then it just fades away into the deepest growl you've ever heard. I'm talking from the depths of the deepest trenches. That kinda deep. But then that, too, fades away, into some more heavenly drone like the end of the A side. Some seriously incredible sounds, totally lush, a little OPN type warbling synth with star dust and tape hiss. It doesn't get much better than this.

Male Fantasies is some supreme drone. Jendon has pulled out all the stops, going from crumbling static to glowing glory and everything in between, mixing it all together and making a DAMN fine album in the process. It's a limited tape (250 copies) and it's one of the best aqua colors I've ever laid eyes on. So vibrant and punchy! Love everything about this.

Ox Magazine on Locrian "Rain of Ashes"

Link here.

LOCRIAN
Rain Of Ashes

Format: CD

Label: Basses Frequences

Spielzeit: 59:39

Genre: Electronic

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Wertung:

„Die verminderte Quinte sowie die kleine Sekunde im Bezug zum Grundton klingen besonders dissonant“, sagt Wikipedia über den Lokrischen Modus, englisch: locrian mode. Als in Musiktheorie Unbegabter habe ich das zwar nicht verstanden, aber ein Projektname, der auf Dissonanz hinausläuft, scheint mir für das Duo aus Chicago passend zu sein.

Mit mal schrägen, mal extrem massiven Gitarrendrones, düsteren Soundcollagen, fiesen Schreien und hoch- wie niederfrequentem Noise schaffen LOCRIAN ein unangenehm im Bauch brodelndes Unwohlsein und eine beängstigend intensive Atmosphäre, ohne sich über die beiden zusammenhängenden, je halbstündigen Stücke im Selbstzweck zu verlieren.

Dafür hat ihre Komposition auch zu viel Dynamik. Und das ist beeindruckender als der ewige öde Krieg, wer denn den längsten Noise-Schwanz hat.

André Bohnensack

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And a crappy translation below:

"The diminished fifth and the minor second in relation to the fundamental sound very dissonant," says Wikipedia about the Locrian mode, in English: Locrian mode. I am not talented in understanding music music theory, but as a project name referencing dissonance seems to be a good fit for the duo from Chicago.

With oblique views, sometimes extremely massive guitar drones create dark sound collages, nasty screaming and high-low frequency noise such as an unpleasant Locrian seething discomfort in the abdomen and a frighteningly intense atmosphere, without losing on the two contiguous, each half-hour pieces in themselves.

For their composition has too much momentum. And that is more impressive than the eternal desert war, who then has the longest tail noise.

Land of Decay Related: CALL & RESPONSE / Zine w/ Scott Treleaven

For those in this congregation interested in printed matter, Locrian's Terence Hannum has issued his seventh zine in his monthly series for 2010, Call & Response, a collaboration with artist Scott Treleaven, for the month of July. Locrian has worked with Scott for years scoring his films and videos and just recently performed at a screening at Light Industry in Brooklyn, NY. If you've been keeping score with the past 6; False Bloods, Temple of the Immortals, Cataract of Fire and Blood (w/ Elijah Burgher), Profaned Missive (for Fan Death), Black Arts and our own New Rites - again you will not be dissapointed.



Call & Response is a visual dialogue between Terence Hannum and Scott Treleaven . Over the course of one year the artists emailed back and forth, trafficking in images both personal and culled from their extensive archives. When the words were stripped away, what remained was a record of an excavation of their own peculiar belief (and disbelief) systems, overlapping and colliding throughout the conversation. Call & Response pays homage to their devotion to underground zines, nefarious causes, cults, hours lost and gained, corrupted architecture, and youth pinioned in agony/ecstacy. Hazy stills from videos and films carry over formal concerns and a similar tone of darkness that these two friends share, punctuated by drawings and scrawls, xeroxes and vellum.



color xeroxes with black on white |
black on black xerox on paper and vellum
34 pages |
7" × 8.5" |

Edition of 200

$17ppd (US) / $20ppd (World)
Please send payment to: landofdecay (at) gmail (dot) com

Uncut Magazine on Locrian "Territories"

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Locrian Facebook Page

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LOD 008 - "Land of Failure" Sold Out

Thanks to everyone for your interest in the "Land of Failure" loop tapes. We are currently sold out of this release. We didn't expect so many people to be interested in picking up this release, which, we think, is very cool.

If any become available then you can send us your email and we will include you on the waiting list.

Or if you would like to be the first to know about such releases, then you can join our mailing list by emailing us at: landofdecay@gmail.com with the subject "Subscribe."

We are also sold out of the Gerritt Wittmer tapes, as well as the André Foisy "Seven Thrones" CDR. Thanks for the support on these releases.

LOD 008: Locrian "Land of Failure" 2x Loop Tape

Artist: Locrian
Title: "Land of Failure"
Format: 2x Loop Tape
Catalog Number: LOD 008
Edition Size: 13 Copies

"Land of Failure" is a 2x loop tape that the group intended listeners to listen to simultaneously, ad nauseam. One tape consists entirely of Locrian member Terence Hannum and the other consists entirely of André Foisy. The packaging comes with a folded insert, black printing on black paper. Each of the tapes are made on black tapes with white labels. Photography by Kelly Rix.

This release was recorded in July 2010 marks the end of Locrian's phase one of existence.

Cost $10 US @ postage paid/$15 World @ postage paid

Payment to landofdecay@gmail.com

Please inquire to make sure that copies are available before sending payment.