| Noise is the voice of the chaos gods. In noise all | | | | of a rich and colorful heritage combined with some |
| possible sounds are present albeit in a kaleidoscopic | | | | very creative souls.Oddly enough not all noise is |
| non-hierarchy. Noise doesn't allow our expectations | | | | particularly noisy. In fact some of the more |
| that order will materialize to come to fruition. It | | | | interesting uses of noise can be in smaller and quiet |
| trumps us and our plans, leaving us vulnerable, | | | | sound event.There is an entire record label called |
| stunned. Don't let this fool you however, noise is | | | | lowercase that explores some of these more tranquil |
| music. From early recordings of DADA and Futurist | | | | noise events. Other noise can be quite melancholy. |
| artists such as Hugo Ball and Luigi Russolo on into | | | | Think of the band "The Birthday Party" or even |
| Musique Concrete to the sirens and crackles of Public | | | | some of Tom Waits on 'Swordfishtrombones' or |
| Enemy's "The Bomb Squad" and up to current aural | | | | "Heart Attack and Vine". Noise can be used subtly to |
| assaults by SunnO))), noise is music. Noise is also our | | | | convey sadness or strategically to highlight an |
| world. Think of the soundscape you move through | | | | explosive moment. This is the realm in which we find |
| each day. All of the alarms and sirens and microwave | | | | LSD March and their latest reissued release, "Empty |
| bleeps and computer blaps and Doppler effects of | | | | Rubious Red" (aRCHIVE).As stated above this disc is |
| cars and bits of conversation and jackhammers and | | | | a reissue of a previously (and microscopically |
| helicopters and horns and laughter and static and | | | | available) independent release. It has a couple |
| doors opening and doors closing and insects and birds | | | | additional tracks and some great new art work by |
| and ocean waves and bed springs and all of it, all of | | | | Joe DeNardo of the band "Growing".Where as some |
| it. We are adrift in a sea of noise.Japan is apparently | | | | of the aforementioned noise merchants come out of |
| crazy for noise. Since the late 1960's the Japanese | | | | the box swinging, LSD March tends to take a bit |
| underground has produced some of the scariest, | | | | more time. Songs start out with odd and quiet |
| overblown and sublime sounds the world has ever | | | | tinklings. They sound like springs popping and marbles |
| known. Two early purveyors, Keiji Haino and Les | | | | rolling through a piano. LSD March main man Shinsuke |
| Razilles Denudes were simply devastating. Move on a | | | | Michishita is a master of restraint. But when things |
| bit to Zeni Geva, Merzbow and Masonna and you're | | | | finally let loose, watch out! The music on this disc is |
| into some serious schizo territory.Current purveyors | | | | actually a nice range. There are quiet and melancholy |
| such as Acid Mother's Temple and Ghost are | | | | moments. At times ("As Many A Stars In The Sky" |
| furthering the range and impact of the eternal noise | | | | and "Nude and Bizarre") he drifts into a scorched and |
| theatre. What is it about Japan specifically? Could it | | | | parched folk music. The ethereal songs serve as a |
| be the legacy of being the only country ever | | | | nice counter-point to the monstrously thundering |
| bombed with nuclear weapons? That certainly seems | | | | jams such as "Empty Rubious Red". LSD March are |
| to have contributed to the stream of atomic | | | | perhaps not as steeped in pure noise as say The |
| monster movies produced over the last 40 years in | | | | Boredoms. THey are more psychedelic, folksy and |
| Japan. Mothra, Gammara and of course Godzilla all | | | | drone based. As with many great Japanese bands |
| seemed to involve variations on the theme of nuclear | | | | they are synthesists. This is great music to listen to |
| bombs and accidents. is it the vibrant and heightened | | | | while starring out at the vast ocean on a clear day |
| drama of Kabuki and Noh Theatres? is it the wildly | | | | from a tall cliff. It represents the quieter and more |
| colorful youth street culture? The full body tattoos | | | | expansive possibilities of the noise equation.This |
| of the Japanese Mafia? The religious response to | | | | album is sold out at aRCHIVE but you can download |
| nature so prevalent in Shinto? I guess it's no one | | | | the entire album from the Lotushouse Records mp3 |
| thing in particular. It's more likely just an accumulation | | | | shopzone. |