-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Joseph Zitt Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:15 PM
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:00:48 +0100 "Kris Visser" <sstarkris@hotmail.com> wrote:
Please, anyone, let me know of some more really eerie nightmarish music out there. Music you should not play at night. Any record I have not mentioned. I need help!
The disc of Fushitsusha in the "Driftworks" box completely freaked me in a late-night listening.
Some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think): There's a Nijiumu-sounding track on the Purple Trap box set called... Forest of Spirits, if I remember correctly, and one of the sections sounds just like what the title says, as if Haino placed some microphones in the woods and did a field recording and picked up disembodied sighing. Scary as all hell. The Exorcist soundtrack is also extremely effective (the Crumb piece in particular). Someone also mentioned Istvan Marta's "Doom: A Sigh," on the Kronos Quartet's Black Angels album. This brings to mind an Organum piece which was a recording of a boy burying his father -- am I remembering this correctly? There is also a whole genre of so-called dark ambient music, though a good amount of the practitioners rely on the same tonality of drone. Lustmord's "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" is a great starting point, as is also "Heresy." Nurse With Wound's "Homotopy to Marie" is excellent as well -- nowhere near as pure dada as some of Stapleton's other stuff, nor as droney as, say, "Soliloquy for Lilith." Comus's "First Utterance" has a way of really getting under one's skin, though since it's acid-damaged psych folk it's an acquired taste. But if the image of mad, gibbering violinists, hangings, and things in the woods appeals to you... (Later David Tibet would do a very fine cover of Comus's "Diana" on Current 93's "Horsey" album -- now that I think of it, listening to Current 93's "Dogs Blood Rising" late at night really freaked me out.) And now to black metal: it's hard to take a group like Abruptum seriously because their main dudes are named It and Evil. (I keep thinking of Cousin It and Dr. Evil hamming it up together.) However, their album "Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me" is nothing but pure howling and screaming for an hour. Guaranteed to scare your neighbors. Later, Ben http://www.thewilyfilipino.com