A Short Apnea - Illu Ogod Ellat Rhagedia (Ustrainhustri)

The second album by A Short Apnea, Illu ogod ellat Rhagedia (Ustrainhustri) is a concept album divided into three long tracks, themselves evolving tunes composed of different movements. The innovative rock symphony – involving not only guitar, bass, and drums but also accordion, sax, clarinet, ’60s psychedelic experimentation, jazz as free expression, and ’90s american noise rock – breaches today’s rock line and finds its place as a hybrid music born of the mating of post-rock and experimental noise. With its instrumental pieces, A Short Apnea builds an evocative soundtrack-like album that works with variations of mood. The musicians take you from dark alleys where you witness a surrealistic apparition to disquieting dank sewers, then change the general atmosphere here and there with a melodic passage reflecting hope, while always bringing you back to spasmodic and bizarre tunes or dissonant and quiet experimentations. Dense and complex but at the same time evocative and easily accessible, A Short Apnea brilliantly proves with Illu ogod ellat Rhagedia (Ustrainhustri) a that avant-garde does not necessary means intellectual or inapproachable.

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Xabier Iriondo / Paolo Cantù / Fabio Magistrali

Massacre - Killing Time

Original Cover, 1981

Cd reissue cover, 1993

Killing Time is the debut studio album by American experimental rock band Massacre. It was released in September, 1981, through record label Celluloid. It consists of a compilation of recordings made at Martin Bisi's OAO studio in Brooklyn, New York in June, 1981, and live recordings taken from their April, 1981 Paris concerts. The group disbanded shortly after, eventually reforming in 1998 with Charles Hayward replacing Maher on drums and further recording three more albums. Killing Time was generally well-received by critics.

The album was reissued on RecRec music in 1993 with six extra tracks.

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