Masks + Filters
13 tracks of dubby, metally, glitchy, noisy electronics.
Aiming for May/June.
Preview of the 13 tracks currently being put together for the album-in-progress.
I’ve stuck another few tracks up that don’t fit in anywhere and are unlikely to be poked at again. This time around, it’s pretty much just glitch and noise music.
First track is the sound of an image reworked as a raw audio file, second track is a messed up guitar connection, third one is a heavily processed night field recording.
I’m not demanding anyone take notice. They’re there to be out of the way and to stop me trying to do anything else with them. It’s my equivalent of putting them on a shelf just out of reach.
mp3′s and stuff: noise.monofiopia.co.uk
As for y’know, ‘proper’ music, I’m now at 9 tracks/ 40 minutes, including a piano solo played with one finger, an outtake from John Carpenter’s secret dub album, what sounds like bits of a GY!BE track fed through a blender and a five-minute song with a three-minute intro (and a one-minute fade out). Still a couple of re-records to do and still have to make the digital tracks sound like they’re from the same album as the analogue ones.
Problem is, after writing that, I now want to call it ‘John Carpenter’s Secret Dub Album’.
Concept art; range of unrealistic, impractical or just unlikely concepts for spirits brands. Don’t really have the time or motivation to get through all this. Have got loads of development sketches done for about six concepts, but only really have one of them close to a ‘finished’ stage.
New noises; currently 5 tracks. Less ‘experimental’ than usual, definitely more structured. Much more coherent production. Will probably do a couple more tracks then decide I like none of them and abandon them all (again).
Radio revamp; doing the job I get paid to do for the employer I don’t get paid by. Putting together a horribly complicated proposal to improve multiple aspects of the station simultaneously. I should have put this forward weeks ago, but I’m still trying to work out some of the finer points of synergy.
‘untitled sidewise project’; the alternate histories of 20th century popular music. Timelines mostly done, key events and actions noted and appropriate shift points and directions developed. They’re the easy bits though. Originally this was going to be an audio-only project, but I don’t think it would make any sense (at least not in the way it’s intended) without documentation. I make it sound like I’m writing a prog concept album, but it’s more like a speculative research paper. Long-term project, unsurprisingly.

Early Listening Equipment (Museum “Waalsdorp”)
The Gamage Ltd Sound Locator No 1 Mk1 (Museum “Waalsdorp”)
Greatstone Sound Mirrors (Atlas Obscura)
A Short History of Acoustic Locators (Kircher Society via. WayBack Machine)
Acoustic Location & Sound Mirrors (Museum of Retrotech via. WayBack Machine)

I don’t think I had even listened to Les Paul musically until I heard one of the old Les Paul Shows on archive.org. I knew of him because he had his name on guitars, obviously, but through my own background I was well aware of how he was also the innovator of recording techniques that paved the way for how we listen to music now. Until digital recording came along we were using versions of the techniques developed by Les Paul, and even now we’re doing the same thing but in modified ways. Multitrack recording, overdubbing, tape delay – he was at the forefront.
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Brasil
“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?“
Ode On A Grecian Urn [extract] – John Keats (1795 – 1821)
If Keats were alive today, it is unlikely he would revel in conjuring out the imagery contained in contemporary dishware. Sadly, our pallid Ikean pastel washes will never compare to the intricate tales that would unfold from a simple combination of glazed clay and paint. With this void of inspiration apparent, Keats and others like him would need to uncover a new muse. An inspirational outlet with a comparably contrasting combination of simplicity and intricacy. A source of endless joy to behold for all. For them, and for you, I would recommend Kieronononon.
Entitled Three Man Party, Kierononononon’s latest work is one of the greatest examples of post-modern auditory expressionism imaginable to contemporary mankind. Where the Ancient Greeks would use mere clay as their base, Kieronononononon lay down a backbeat to rattle the Parthenon. In place of the intricately painted strokes there are soaring guitar lines and the potter’s indistinct caricatures replaced by bowel-threatening sub frequencies. Where the Grecian urn would tell just one tale of amazement, Kierononononononon tell several.
Six, to be precise.

From the moment the disjointed percussion of opening track, …And You’re Not James Bond Either, coasts into the consciousness of the listener it is already clear that this work possesses a quality far surpassing that expected of ordinary musicians. As the sounds of the rest of the troupe roll in, a deep sense of euphoria can be felt as the voice of Goatboy enters your ears, gleefully stylised as if being re-broadcast from the halcyon fields themselves.
*cough*
Apparently I’m not allowed to write a proper review.
Anyway, the new EP is pretty good.
Decent production, well structured & whether you particularly like the music or not, it’s genuinely interesting to listen to.
If I was going to give it some kind of arbitrary rating so that you can judge it by my opinion then I’d give it some stars out of a few. There’s some trendy buzz words like mathcore or artrock that you might find useful if you rely on genre specifications to define your tastes, similarly there’s probably some comparison to established artists like Mike Patton & Mr. Bungle to be made if you’re too cautious of trying something new.
Whatever you might think from that, it’s worth the three quid they’re asking for the CD.
Check out the video to …Eventually He Did from the EP.
Three Man Party by Kieronononon
It’s only £3. You can get it at the Roxxor2 Shop by clicking right here.
Other things you should look at and listen to:

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy & Last.fm have just started a new approach to the whole album preview thing. They’ve got the whole album up and streaming, but each track is interspersed with the band talking about the track that’s playing. It’s actually quite interesting. Helps with identifying some of the samples too.