Showing posts with label Harm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harm. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Various ‎– A Chance Meeting With An Uncle Pt. 1 & 2



The last existing recording of Harm is this live performance of heavy guitar drone in Newcastle in 2007, along with an intense performance by Jazzfinger, as well as Chalfont, and Putrefier/Romance. 2007 2 X Cdr on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Harm ‎– The Dye From The Dresses Of The Drowned Women



 Those of you who closely read this blog might remember my post of a compilation called Doing the Right Thing Takes the Emptiness Away, which includes a track by Harm beautifully called "The Dye From The Dresses Of The Drowned Women." That was a shortened version of the title track of this tape, which was my musical holy grail for many years. Having already their other tapes, this was the only one missing and I managed to locate it with the aid of good reader tfn, who pointed me towards an owner willing to sell it. If you have heard their tape on Matching Head Everything Turns Out to Be A Triangle of Death (which I had to take down but you can contact me for a link), you will hear the same direction: very deep guitar drone, with a spacey and industrial flavor at moments, while the title track is not unlike Culver in its black-hole, light devouring atmosphere.

2006 self-released tape.

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Various - Surrounding CD-R compilation



Mostly drone-focused compilation, featuring tracks by RYN, Violence Beyond the Snowline, TenHornedBeast, Harm (you know the deal by now), Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg, Culver, Leo Slayer, plus two smash-and-clang tracks by Snotnosed, and one psychedelic reversal bliss track by Michael Gillham (that is, Snotnosed). 2004 CD-R in DVD case by Traqueto.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Harm / Culver ‎– Split tape



This is sadly the last Harm release, as Samantha Davies would eventually join other more well-known groups/projects, in one of which she played together for some time with Lee Stokoe, with whose main moniker Culver she shares this split demo. The Harm track is once again a blindfolded treading through dense clouds of feedback, while the Culver side (with loops by Harm) resembles the sound of the engine of an ice breaker ship, which characterizes many of his releases. 2006 tape on Matching Head.

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Harm ‎– Everything Turns Out To Be A Triangle Of Death tape



Harm was a (solo?) project of Samantha Davies, now a member of many well-known BM-noise band. I have already posted a compilation featuring a Harm track, possibly from her/their first demo The Dye From The Dresses of the Drowned Women (which I hope someone will eventually share). As with that track, this tape is absolutely some of the best drone to have ever been recorded, immensely dark, dense and deafening, easily rivaling early Sunn O))) or the Earth 2 for the throne of guitar drone, but without the decidedly metal approach. This is definitely a must listen. 2006 tape on Matching Head.

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Saturday, June 17, 2017

va - Doing The Right Thing Takes The Emptiness Away



Great 2006 CDR drone/noise comp by Pjorn72 featuring Alistair Crosbie, Kylie Minoise, Dirty Husband, Culver, Temple Of Static Christ, Handek, CKDH, Nimrod 33, Nackt Insecten, The Maniac Upstairs, Muscletusk, Legion, The Blue Brazilians, Opaque, Shareholder, Adverb, Noma, Usurper, Silent Order, U-Drift74, Fordell Research Unit, Wounded Knee and an unbelievable sinister drone by Harm (Samantha Davies of Skullflower, Voltigeurs, Valley of Fear). This track bears the namesake of Harm's demo The Dye From The Dresses of the Drowned Women, which is the only release by Harm I don't have, so please if anyone reading this has it, I'd be grateful if it could be shared.

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