REVIEW: THE IMPLICIT ORDER - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY EP

The Implicit Order - For Your Eyes Only EP, 2011

THE IMPLICIT ORDER
For Your Eyes Only EP, Bandcamp, 2011
Three-piece refresher course on Anthony Washburn's aesthetic. The title track is dark, rhythmic, Bill Nelson style atmospheric, new-agey in a good way, relatively uptempo epic at seven and a half minutes. It's a cross between gorgeous and hellish. "Kingdom Of Blood" features christian preaching-type stuff, behind reverby synth pads. I prefer the instrumental stuff, "Monsters Among Us" is pleasant little three minute bit of haze to round things out. Is this my first time hearing The Implicit Order? Maybe it just feels like it. Now I'm a fan.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: KNITTING BY TWILIGHT - WEATHERING - CD, 2011

Knitting By Twilight - Weathering CD 2011

KNITTING BY TWILIGHT
Weathering CD, 2011
http://www.itstwilightmusic.com
Fascinating, percussive instrumentals with art rock tendencies. It would be lazy to say Dead Can Dance with special guest Robert Fripp, so I won’t say it. The soundtrackish, professional production places this album into a category all its own. And though the song title “Harold’s Budds” may tip their hand, Knitting By Twilight is more than mere gauzy piano. The layers of hand percussion deserve a special mention, and the unique, darkly Asian tone of the cymbals. The dynamics ensure that this is not some overly-rigid MIDI new age pastiche, or something. I’m losing the plot trying to say how much I’m enjoying this. I do! I’m reminded of David Sylvian’s better instrumental pieces.
Ian C Stewart

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INTERVIEW: Ken Clinger of Bovine Productions, etc.

Ken Clinger

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
KEN CLINGER
interview
by Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
There was a definite void in the Universe, which has now once again been filled.

REVIEW: Hal McGee and Danny McGuire - The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming - cassette 2011

Hal McGee and Danny McGuire - The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming, 2011

HAL MCGEE and DANNY MCGUIRE
The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming cassette, 2011
Haltapes - www.halmcgee.com
Whacked-out improvisations recorded in the summer of 2010, thirty minutes up one side and thirty back down the other. It could be cartoon music from hell. The first piece contains layered feedback, loops and rhythmic repetition. This is definitely not easy listening, background kind of stuff here, this stuff commands your full attention. "Hal McGee is state of the art," that phrase, repeated, brings to mind Brak and Space Ghost. Side two continues similarly, rolling and writhing. I enjoy Danny McGuire's detuned guitar riffing action, it almost takes this into the realm of dark ambient heavy metal. Rounding out with "Smack The Taste Out Yo Mouth," which the entire tape easily manages to do. A welcome return.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Ian C Stewart of AUTOreverse, Devilcake, Samarkand, Bizarre Depiction, etc. featured in his own publication

Ian C Stewart, 2011

IAN C STEWART
interview by
SKOT SCHTIKLA
July, 2011

When did you first become aware/ interested in sound in general and what do you remember of your earliest 'hearing 'experiences whether musical or not?
I think, when I got my first portable tape recorder, that was the first time I became aware of sounds. That was probably around my 8th birthday, which would be 1980. Eventually the thrill of listening was surpassed by the greater thrill of recording every single thing I could find. Listening was not as much fun. It's easy to forget that in those days, everything you experienced was transient and, once it was done, it was done. Of course now it's the opposite extreme, everything is documented. I have tapes from 1984, when I was learning to play the guitar. You hear ten minutes of room noise followed by some naff guitar playing, followed quickly by whatever I was watching on TV at the time. The act itself of recording was the main thing. Which is pathetic, I sound like a total caveman.

INTERVIEW: Carl Howard of audiofile Tapes, The Land Of Guilt And Blarney and more

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
CARL HOWARD
interview
by Skot Schtikla

Carl, you made a high-profile contribution to the first issue of AUTOreverse. You then disappeared for the rest of its run, if I recall correctly. Tell us in five or six words, what have you been up to since then?

I have directed all of my squalor... to internet radio! Practically everything else has either disappeared, been sacrificed, or else been ruined by water damage along the way. Sheesh! Watch fifteen years of ones life vanish... before... your... very... eyes!

INTERVIEW: Jehn Cerron of Eyelight

Jehn Cerron

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
JEHN CERRON
aka EYELIGHT,
conversation with Ian C Stewart
July 2011

Have you ever done much traditional promotion of your own work? I don't recall seeing many interviews with you back in the old days.
 Short answer: no. My idea of promotion was handing out tapes around town. I was really bad about answering mail. Anything that ended up out there was by someone hearing from someone else. Shy...arguably Aspergers. Just didn't have that kind of agenda. Just wanted to record for the sake of.
My question to you... how many hours did you log listening to submissions and how??

INTERVIEW: C. Reider of Vuzh Music

c. reider

AUTOreverse #14, summer 2011
C. REIDER
of VUZH MUSIC,
interview by
Ian C Stewart


SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Yes.  It was an important document of cassette culture.
I am embarrassed looking back on my own contributions, my review writing was generally pretty poor, and I was often unnecessarily harsh in my judgements (sorry all you hometapers), but excluding most of my writing it was a great 'zine.

NEWS: new Vuzh Music release - Auzel - "Old"

Auzel - Old

A new release by a new artist on Vuzh Music.

Auzel’s debut release is called “Old”. It is a diverse set of peculiar, tiny, composed vignettes that suggest contemporary avant-garde composition as much as freak-folk or hometaper weirdness.
keywords: weird, dreamy folk, female vocals, lo-fi

http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/auzel_old.html