Sunday 13 November 2011

Heart, Lungs, Bones

This weeks theme is sounds from the human body.

Aube

Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) is a Japanese noise musician who, since the late 1980's, has made music that is composed out of a single source. These include heart beats, brain waves, lungs breathing, taps turning on and off and so forth.

The album Cardiac Strain has the recurring theme and sample of the heart beat. It is one of his heaviest and loudest releases.






The album Sigh in Depressive Blue is a very different album to Cardiac Strain. There is much less overlapping distortion, and clearer sound effects, almost verging on ambient rather than solid noise. The sample of the sound of lungs breathing is more difficult to pinpoint than that of the heart beat.





Zero Kama

Zero Kama (Michael DeWit)is a Dutch dark ambient musician based in Austria. His most prominent release 1984's The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.

All instruments on this album are made from human bones forged by Zero Kama himself

This is a highly ritualistic album, with nearly every song containing various amounts of shamanistic drumming followed by long periods of ambient electronic drones. dem bones




1 comment:

  1. i listened to it whiled stoned in a car; strange stuff.

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