Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Sun City Girls

  Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2)

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

  Harvested from tracks recorded during the Torch of the Mystics and Dante's Disneyland Inferno sessions, Napoleon and Josephine can almost b...

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  Gregg Kowalsky

  Tape Chants

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2009

  The cover art gracing Gregg Kowalsky's latest drone epic for Kranky appears to depict sound waves emanating from two sources lying across f...

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  Neither/Nor

  Imperial Noise

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2009

  Toronto, ON-based experimental music collective Neither/Nor have been active since 2001 but Imperial Noise is the first release to bear the...

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  C. Spencer Yeh & Paul Flaherty

  New York Nuts & Boston Beans

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2009

  As Burning Star Core, violinist, vocalist and electronics wizard C. Spencer Yeh grinds sound into a fine pulp, reassembling the remains int...

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  Ensemble SuperMusique

  Y'a du Bruit Dans ma Cabane

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  This is the second effort from Ensemble SuperMusique, an all-star collective of Quebecois improvisers, but it's the first to feature this s...

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  Horde of Two

  Guitar and Bass Actions

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  Vancouver, BC duo Horde of Two find Mecca Normal guitarist David Lester sparring with solo bassist Wendy Atkinson. Guitar and Bass Actions...

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  Mountains

  Choral

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  Juxtaposing undulating swathes of synthetic drone with deft strokes of organic instrumentation, Mountains men Brendon Anderegg and Koen Hol...

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  Franck Vigroux & Matthew Bourne

  Me Madame (Good News From Wonderland)

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  The cover of Me Madame is a bleak, monochrome photo of a film being shot on a beach, the potential gorgeousness of said scene being strippe...