Jazzfinger - Night Fall At Borrowed World tape

A bit more folky and psychedelic, this one, thus it sounds slightly brighter. 2012 tape on Sonic Oyster Cassettes.

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Jazzfinger - Titan Granolith 2 X tape

Moist, oozing improv drones by the masters, with lots of organ to put us into blissful coma. 2 X tape on Blackest Rainbow.

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PS: In the past couple of years, I've been working hard to finish my PhD, along with working too much and raising my son. This is not going to be a real return to posting consistently, just doing it when I have some time off.

Jazzfinger – Ugly For A Living

The godfathers of skronky impro drone on a very heavy fuzzed-out jam. "Shribble By The Shoals And Stepping Stones" is an amazing hypnotic track. Sounds somewhat like Burzum' "Tomhet" but without the melody, just a monotonous synth drone. Really good. 2005 cdr on Gold Soundz.

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Jazzfinger - Bad Timing I

 

 This really was a double cd called Bad Timing I & II, but the box I received had twice the same disc with a different cd cover. Meh. So if anyone has the second disc, please send it over here. Anyway, this is an IMMERSIVE mix of Jazzfinger live performances at their absolute best = not extremely noisy or badly recorded, but with a hypnotic and outright devotional approach. The gigs themselves must have been amazing for the audiences. 2007 cdr on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Various ‎– Sage Rage

Live gig recorded in Gateshead in 2007 featuring Jazzfinger, Marzuraan, Monoblock, Byron Coley/Alex Neilson, Culver and Noisebastard. 2007 cdr on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Jazzfinger ‎– Mole & The Morning Dew

Majestic psychedelic drone improvisations. Less heaviness, more ecstatic and acoustic. Great stuff. 2009 LP on Spirit Of Orr.

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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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Jazzfinger - Our Friends In the North 4 X CDR

Three-and-a-half hours of dissonant green-ish free drone by the inimitable Jazzfinger recorded live across North England from 2001 to 2008 and three studio tracks. What else do you need for a hot Sunday? All hails to Posset for sharing this monumental piece of NE sickness! 2011 4 X CDR on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Blyth Holes ‎– Blyth Graveyard tape

One of the most mysterious recordings of the North-East England underground is this one which seems to commemorate the contributions of Jamie Stewart, Martin Gregory and Waz Hoola to the scene. Actually, it is  an one-off recording by George Proctor (Mutant Ape, Inseminoid, Turgid Animal Records), Ben Jones (Jazzfinger, Mechanical Children), and Dean Glaister (RYN, Erases) playing very lo-fi harsh noise and musique concrète, with the second track being so lo-fi that is almost hypnotic. 2011 tape on Ecstatic Peace! with artwork by Kim Gordon!!!

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Jazzfinger - The Ducal Palace

First rehearsal in 1996 of the initial duo form of Jazzfinger (Hasan Gaylani and Ben Jones) abusing guitars and basses. Very heavy, noisy, fuzzy and with a sense of green-ish muck pervading. 2009 cd on Turgid Animal.

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Various ‎– Fuckin' Fifty? (Fuckin' Amateurs compilation 6 X cdr)

The two recent posts about Xazzaz and TQ Zine were more or less related to Fuckin' Amateurs, so I thought to post this. In short, F#A was a ten-year-long project started by Martin Gregory and Jamie Stewart, documenting the life of the North-East English no-audience underground, mainly by bootlegging gigs of those artists and bands located or playing there, many of whom have received posts about here, or are going to get! That scene is really vibrant, diverse and creative and F#A did an amazing job keeping the light alive, until its folding of operations last year, which has fortunately been taken over by No-Audience Underground tapes. In this mammoth six-cdr compilation celebrating the fiftieth release of the label, a long series of artists ranging from drone, noise, punk, dictaphone and free jazz are compiled. Some are blog favorites, such as Jazzfinger, Posset, Waz Hoola, Culver, Wrest, Basilica, MC Blazin, Mechanical Children, Hapsburg Braganza, Lobster Priest, Charles Dexter Ward, as well as enigmatic car-race radio broadcast dictaphone worshipper Chris "Pause" Richardson. The highlight, though, is the last track of the last cdr, which is a band called The Nice People From Straightsville doing a cacophonous lo-fi castrato-voice cover of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" renamed "I'm Going to Ashington." 2009 6-cdr set on Fuckin' Amateurs.

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Songs About Dying Compilation CD-R

I guess you expected this one would include "Don't Fear The Ripper" or maybe "Gloomy Sunday," didn't you? Well, no this is Pjorn 72, the label of Fordell Research Unit mastermind Fraser Burnett (we love him and his label compilations around here-check the tags) and this is a comp featuring many of the artists this blog worships and contains different styles. Lo-fi black metal by Incest Whore, horror noise by Scrim, a cappella folk by Wounded Knee, a black-metaly drone by Culver, computer noise loops by Dead Labour Process (great name), Popol-Vuh-like meditations by Nackt Insecten, space bubble noise by UFO Antler Band, an awesome guitar-synth mourning psychedelic hymn by Andy Jarvis, a menacing black hole drone by Sindre Bjerga and Meredith Hunter, fizzy drones by Fordell Research Unit, lo-fi dictaphone manipulations by Usurper, a huge sound drone-at-the-gates by Jazzfinger, heavy noise/drone by Shareholder, field recordings of the outdoors by Blood Stereo (Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance) and some more drone manip by Grant Smith. 2011 cdr on Pjorn 72.

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Various ‎– George Ferguson McKeating 2CDR

The first Bells Hill label release was a benefit compilation in the memory of the head of the label and musician (Mudguts, Black Leather Cop) Scott McKeating's father who died of Pancreatic Cancer, with the money intended to be donated to the Pancreatic Research Fund and included a small heartfelt note by Scott. The musicians who gathered to pay respect are the following, including giants of the English and American experimental/noise scene: the one and only Richard Youngs collaborating with Alex Neilson (ex-Ashtray Navigations), Astral Social Club, Culver, Mirag (Matthew Bower), Hapsburg Braganza, Vars of Litchi, Hasan Gaylani (of Jazzfinger), Jazzfinger themselves, Graveyards (with John Olson of Wolf Eyes), Greg Kelley again with Alex Neilson, Mechanical Children, Trauma, and Blood Stereo (Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance). So, by the names you know you should expect top drone, noise, experimental and psychedelic music. 2009 2XCDR on Bells Hill.

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Popular Radiation & Witchblood - Live At The Mining Institute split tape

This is an amazing split live tape recorded in Newcastle and shared between Popular Radiation and Witchblood. PR is a solo project of Jazfinger's Hasan Gaylani, so you know you should expect something good. This isn't Jazzfinger-like improvisations but a grinding, climactic drone accompanied by some deep bass noises. It's very good, but the highlight is Witchblood, a project of the omniscient droner Lee Stokoe of Culver and one of the most talented women in noise, Lucy Johnson, whose Smut releases I've just posted. What we have here is one of the most beautiful and enveloping drone recordings ever made, consisting of a maniacal piano melody (played by Lucy?) and a deafening, screaming siren drone (Lee-made?) that sounds like it's played on strings, but I'm not sure. I really can't get enough of this, it has an amazing cathartic quality and must be placed among the classics of modern experimental music. 2014 tape on Boiled Brains Bootlegs.

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Jazzfinger ‎– The Golden State cdr

Like toxic pox sprawling from a nuclear reactor. 2006 cdr on Turgid Animal.

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Jazzfinger / Culver & Fordell Research Unit ‎– Split 12"

Guitar abuse by Jazzfinger, mud crawling by drone sensei Culver and apprentice Fordell Research Unit. 2008 12" on Blackest Rainbow.

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Jazzfinger ‎– The Metal Eggs cdr

Horrifying improvised drone by Jazzfinger. 2009 CDr on Infinite Exchange.

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