Escape from Noise - Is this not music?
 

Interesting, thanks.

Wow. Awesome read.

cool article

The article blunderbuss posted back in 2012, information provided by, Arvo Zylo, mentions Chicago based noise Ensemble, Burden Of Friendship.

Burden Of Friendship - The Head Of Your Goat / The Son Of Your Dog......recorded at WZRD and WNUR in 1985, re-released in 2019

I’ve become obsessed with Arvo Zylo since I discovered him via his Heavenly Sounds In lo-fidelity — Arvo Plays Ferrante & Teicher.

Since then, I’ve spent a good deal of time and money building my Arvo Zylo collection.

Tiny Mix Tapes reviews Blood Rhythms

Blood Rhythms Side A Excerpt

So far in 2019, on the 13th Of each month Arvo Zylo releases a new interview......with today being Friday the 13th, Arvo talks with the Chicago based Avant-gospel outfit -ONO- led by P. Michael Grego

Arvo Zylo has a new album out:

“The first two tracks on CIVIL WAR are some of the most disturbing sounds ever heard. If a paranormal investigation produced these recordings, the ensuing fear of an alternate reality or after life would cause growing mass panic.“

Blood Rhythms - Civil War

Children Of The Stones......as re-envisioned by Arvo Zylo

Arvo Zylo interviewed by HOUDINI MANSIONS at length about the recent CIVIL WAR LP by BLOOD RHYTHMS

I received one heck of a package from Arvo Zylo this past week:







It also contained Porno Art with three cassettes glued to it. It’s on foam board attached to a coat hanger. He also included some CD’s of different releases and download codes to a few others.

Broken tape records presents: International experimental music compilation (400 way split)......YES - this release has 400 tracks. The third track is 56 minutes long and it’s not the longest track on the comp : )

Put some new noise in your ear hole!

Toward the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, I became more aware regarding the work of Blake Edwards. Blake runs the label, Ballast and performs as Vertonen. Most of the Ballast releases are in limited runs that are usually sold out before they are released. The latest release is: Drowning Machines



Drowning Machines is a 2xCDR release about drowning that comes with a descriptive book. Many of Blake’s releases are 3” CDR and all come with elaborate packaging......anyone else listening to Blake’s music?

The Arvo Zylo 13th interview series featured Blake Edwards last month:

Seriously......who else is doing leather bound snap boxes of “112 ideas to get you thinking / unblock creative processes” cards for 3” CDR:

“Of course, dead edits also creates audio, so enclosed with (technically sandwiched between) the boxes is a 3” CDR, the audio upon which is a tri-layered recording of me typesetting the Opaque Staggeries in Quark 4.0 on an iBook G3 while one of Eric’s “opycay” devices recorded and played back intermittently, a microcassette recorder recorded and played back intermittently, and a microcassette with audio from Eric played back intermittently; the 60-ish minute process was captured on a zoom recorder (non-intermittently) and then layered to create the final product.”

Dead Edits - Opaque Staggeries

I received the opaque red vinyl version of ‘Civil War’ by Blood Rhythms today with the 44 page art booklet (my pics don’t do it justice)

Last week Arvo told me he was including something “extra” = WOW!!!

Blood Rhythms - Assembly
(mispress copy for John M)

Last but not least and the biggest surprise of all:

ahlzagailzehguh - recycled (RRR)

No Part Of It releases 5 new pro CDR’s



“Arvo Zylo is an outsider music evangelist, releasing all manner of electronic, noise, and blackened disasters via his label No Part of It.”

Thirteen Hurts - Threshold

TROU - Grjòthaugr

Credo In Deum - Blood Soaked Sand

Nital Etch - SIMULACRUM

Blood Rhythms - ZERRISSENHEIT

No Part Of It is back with yet another CD bundle for $20 and you can mix & choose!


156 - An Accidental Exorcism
“Though the music on this release is still in the spirit of early Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, Crash Worship, and Z'EV, 156 has added the use of synthesizer on some tracks, while still staying away from outsourced samples, as all sounds used are strictly recorded by collaborators.

156 is conducted by Adel Souto, who is a Cuban-born musician, multimedia artist, and writer. The outfit started in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood in 2010, but has recently relocated to the Florida Everglades.”


Blood Rhythms - The Universe Spilling Out Of A Spider's Bowels
“there is a bit more adventure to these tracks, as they're not afraid to be abrasive or raw, and they don't stray far enough from the bounds of noise music to be considered pleasant by the academic crowd. Herein, one might hear string instruments, harpsichords, factory machines, insects, and the air pressure of hissing steam. However, sometimes one sound has been juxtaposed in a way so as to resemble another, or be quite indistinguishable through all of the layers of different sounds, which one hopes at times, would make for a "third voice" to appear. "The Universe..." sees Zylo's signature "failed minimalist" style manifest with what is ostensibly drone music, but in actuality is often jam-packed with layer upon layer of nuanced stereo activity.

This incarnation of Blood Rhythms features source material from Dave Phillips and Daniel Burke. Art by Bradley Kokay. Harpsichord was recorded by Blake DeGraw at Cornish College.”


Sterile Garden - Acidosis
“Harsh noise for junk metal, tape recorder, and 4 track, Recorded at the Apohadion Theatre in Portland, Maine over the course of two months, summer 2020. Sterile Garden on this recording is Jacob DeRaadt. Lightly mastered by Arvo Zylo.

Sterile Garden has been active since 2006, a project headed by Jacob DeRaadt, with and without regular collaborators. DeRaadt also runs the fantastic Basement Tapes label. His collective's output has evolved to include visual art and film. The project could be characterized by the use of primitive tape manipulation, blown-out field recordings, and just general good, old-fashioned industrial noise, but often without the regular gestures that have come to be constraints within the legacy of these mediums. Some people master the posturing of noise and experimental music; the hills and valleys can be predictable and reliably anticipated. Sterile Garden is even more amusical than those folks, with structures that often sound like archaeological excavations more than compositions.”


Nital Etch - Simulacrum
“Nital Etch is a project out of Washington State, from a town considered by many to be a truly dreadful place. It is a morally, spiritually, and economically desolate landscape. The sound of Nital Etch seems to confirm that: One man with strings and some pedals creating the soundtrack to a nonexistent film, probably envisioning an unidentified rotting corpse lying dead in a ditch, only to be discovered months later because no one missed them.”

Arvo Zylo - I Wonder Where We Are?
synched with the Wizard of Oz (1925)

Review: Credo In Deum - Blood Soaked Sand

This past Wednesday, Mr. Austin Rich invited Arvo Zylo to take over the programming for Mid-Valley Mutations: A Broken Hell Is A Functional Hell (#210)

Blood of Chhinnamastika – Wronged Animal (excerpt from Side A)
AGOG – Magnetic Phenomena of All Kinds (excerpt from Side A)
Pink Narcissus (film excerpt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067580/
Inbreeder – Garbage Dump (from Helter Skelter: Noise Interpretations of Charles Manson’s Music)
(behind DJ: William Basinski – Evening Scars – Shortwavemusic)
Yuji Toriyama – Maze / A Taste of Paradise (1985)
Mariya Takeuchi – Plastic Love / Variety (1984)

Shiny Horse – Bye Bye My Baby (from Hard To Be A Killer: A Tribute To Ralph Gean)
Sorrow – Let There Be Thorns – Let There Be Thorns
Hawthonn – Misandrist – Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
(behind DJ – John Zorn – The Extreme Point of Mysticism / The Hermetic Organ Vol 8)
Frans Zwartjes – Masterpiece – Masterpiece/Spectator
(behind DJ- more from Zwartjes, Spectator)
John Zorn – Alienation and Black Magic (excerpt) – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 8 – for Antonin Artaud
Sarah Davachi – Diaphonia Basilica – Cantus, Descant
J.G. Thirlwell, Simon Steensland – Crystal Night – Oscillospira
Frank Garvey – Eropoc (excerpt) – Omnicircus (1979)

The Shadows – It’s Been A Blue Day (Unissued Alternative Un-Dubbed Version) – At Abbey Road
Cliff Bennett – Use Me – At Abbey Road
The Nocturnes – Mr. Carpet Man – Psychedelia At Abbey Road
Locomotive – Mr. Armageddon – Psychedelia At Abbey Road
(behind DJ: The Shadows – Slaughter on 10th Avenue)
Kris Jenson – Torture
The Viceroys – I’m Toiling On – Dub Landing Vol. 2
Lana Del Rey – Bare Feet On Linoleum – Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass
(behind dj) ‘kirchenkamf’ – nightrealm – Set The Controls
Compest – Abseits – Leitern Und Pfade


The middle section goes from a popish goth to organ drone and it doesn’t disappoint!!!

The Arvo Zylo monthly 13th interview series features Bob Bucko Jr for December.