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We would just like to say that if you missed out on one of our RSD releases DO NOT PAY EXTRA FOR IT ON EBAY.
Just wait until June (that's all we can say right now).
Please spread the word.
Thanks!
Just wait until June (that's all we can say right now).
Please spread the word.
Thanks!
It's official. Hydra Head's Record Store Day 2014 releases are coming to blow the dust out of your speakers that have been feebly emitting the subtle sounds of your significant other's soft rock samplers. Here comes hardcore heaviness.
BOTCH - Unifying Themes Redux 2xLP
CAVE IN - Jupiter LP+12"
KHLYST - Chaos Is My Name LP
BOTCH - Unifying Themes Redux 2xLP
CAVE IN - Jupiter LP+12"
KHLYST - Chaos Is My Name LP
JODIS BLACK CURTAIN PRE-ORDER
Known for their work in the dark recesses of heavy music via such vehicles as Khanate, ISIS and Blind Idiot God, it would have been easy enough for the trio of Aaron Turner, James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida to kick out something adequately dark and crushing with the formation of Jodis in 2007. Certainly outside expectations of what the group would sound like fell along those lines, but to the dismay of some and the delight of others, the final results were altogether more lush, melodic, and downright beautiful than anything previously imagined. The foundation for their debut album Secret House was laid around a careful synthesis of Plotkin and Wiskyda's reductive, mercurial rhythmic interplay coupled with Turner's knack for constructing monolithic sounds and dramatic ambience. Each note was deliberate. The gaps between notes were as important as the notes themselves. Tempos were made malleable. But a clear sense of structure and a dreamy, understated elegance threaded through the album's seven tracks to produce an alluring, if somewhat bleak sonic landscape for the listener.
After several years of steady concentrated work, Jodis have returned with their sophomore album, Black Curtain. Once again, the trio's emphasis on sparseness and tension remains in full force, but is tempered by a greater focus on melody and slow blooming song structure. While its predecessor thrived on a kind of predatory patience, Black Curtain's reserve is more of a salve than a threat. The album opens with "Broken Ground", where spikes of reverbdrenched guitar sprawl across a humming electronic horizon, over which delicately draped vocal melodies twist, collide and dissolve. Drums occasionally rise from the ether, punctuating the meditative passages of pastoral calm. The band continues to explore the many outlets of their panoramic minimalism across the airy expanses of "Silent Temple", the shimmering melancholy of "Red Bough", the hymn-like repetition of "Corridor", and the mantric chants of "Awful Feast". The more visceral and vitriolic elements of Jodis's members' past work are put on hold for the majority of Black Curtain. But the thunderous low-tuned throbs of guitar and strong-armed pounding of the drums rear their head in the closing track "Beggar's Grasp". Even in this rousing close to the album, the harmonious core is retained, and the listener is immersed in the depths of the sound around them, rather than mercilessly suffocated by it. Black Curtain is no doubt heavy - emotionally, even sonically - but its true strength lies in its graceful reserve and reverential worship of gray-skied beauty.
JODIS - BLACK CURTAIN
Jodis will release their sophomore album Black Curtain, the follow up to 2007's Secret House, on October 2, 2012. Featuring members of Khanate, ISIS, Mamiffer, Blind Idiot God, OLD, Khlyst, and Old Man Gloom, the album will be available via limited vinyl LP, CD, and Digital:
Known for their work in the dark recesses of heavy music via such vehicles as Khanate, ISIS and Blind Idiot God, it would have been easy enough for the trio of Aaron Turner, James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida to kick out something adequately dark and crushing with the formation of Jodis in 2007. Certainly outside expectations of what the group would sound like fell along those lines, but to the dismay of some and the delight of others, the final results were altogether more lush, melodic, and downright beautiful than anything previously imagined. The foundation for their debut album Secret House was laid around a careful synthesis of Plotkin and Wiskyda's reductive, mercurial rhythmic interplay coupled with Turner's knack for constructing monolithic sounds and dramatic ambience. Each note was deliberate. The gaps between notes were as important as the notes themselves. Tempos were made malleable. But a clear sense of structure and a dreamy, understated elegance threaded through the album's seven tracks to produce an alluring, if somewhat bleak sonic landscape for the listener.
After several years of steady concentrated work, Jodis have returned with their sophomore album, Black Curtain. Once again, the trio's emphasis on sparseness and tension remains in full force, but is tempered by a greater focus on melody and slow blooming song structure. While its predecessor thrived on a kind of predatory patience, Black Curtain's reserve is more of a salve than a threat. The album opens with "Broken Ground", where spikes of reverb- drenched guitar sprawl across a humming electronic horizon, over which delicately draped vocal melodies twist, collide and dissolve. Drums occasionally rise from the ether, punctuat- ing the meditative passages of pastoral calm. The band continues to explore the many outlets of their panoramic minimalism across the airy expanses of "Silent Temple", the shimmering melancholy of "Red Bough", the hymn-like repetition of "Corridor", and the mantric chants of "Awful Feast". The more visceral and vitriolic elements of Jodis's members' past work are put on hold for the majority of Black Curtain. But the thunderous low-tuned throbs of guitar and strong-armed pounding of the drums rear their head in the closing track "Beggar's Grasp". Even in this rousing close to the album, the harmonious core is retained, and the listener is immersed in the depths of the sound around them, rather than mercilessly suffocated by it. Black Curtain is no doubt heavy - emotionally, even sonically - but its true strength lies in its graceful reserve and reverential worship of gray-skied beauty.
Vinyl Tracklisting CD Tracklisting
1. Broken Ground 1. Broken Ground
2. Silent Temple 2. Silent Temple
3. Awful Feast 3. Red Bough
4. Red Bough 4. Corridor
5. Corridor 5. Awful Feast
6. Beggar's Grasp 6. Beggar's Hand
Pre-Order Coming Soon.....
Get 'em while they're hot.
Also, Harvey Milk s/t and Life.. The Best Game in Town are now available in FLAC on the Hydra Head download store.
10. Rehearsal space bodily fluids
9. Gibson Les Paul 1954 Black Beauty R4
8. Masters for Table Of The Elements, Not Not Fun, Utech, Rhys Chatham, and
SMTG Ltd among others. Keep the quality sounds coming.
7. Remastering Saint Vitus and Witchfinder General
6. Bibio "Vignetting the Compost" CD
5. Jon Mueller "Physical Changes" LP/CD/DVD
4. Final nail in the KHNT coffin
3. Shield Your Eyes "Shield 'Em" master (amazing guitar acrobatics and killer songs)
2. Launching EHFX
1. Living outside the system as much as possible.
Also, the Jodis-"Secret House" 2xLP will be available very very soon, so be on the look out!
32 x 12 inches, signed and numbered in an edition of 100, this
print was created to commemorate the San Francisco exhibition,
Catalyst.
$125 + shipping.
See the KHLYST I silkscreen page for full details and
ordering info.
***Note: All orders for this print placed by midnight Wednesday
night/Thursday morning, December 11th, are guaranteed to be
delivered before XMas inside the US.
print was created to commemorate the San Francisco exhibition,
Catalyst.
$125 + shipping.
See the KHLYST I silkscreen page for full details and
ordering info.
***Note: All orders for this print placed by midnight Wednesday
night/Thursday morning, December 11th, are guaranteed to be
delivered before XMas inside the US.
There has been piles of great press and reviews coming in for Khylst's debut (The Sranger, Underground Review, Hard Rock Haven, Outside Left, Smother), but they all seem to say the same thing...that James Plotkin is playing bass. Its not a huge deal by any stretch, but we feel we should clear things up just a bit...James plays guitar (and drums, and gong, believe it or not) on the new record "Chaos is My Name". For those of you that are going to be in NYC on Thursday, come and see for yourselves that he is, in fact, playing guitar. Khlyst's debut performance, and likely their only one for a while, is Thursday November 2nd at Sin-e in NYC as part of the Vice/HHR show with the totally odd pairing of Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, 120 Days, Panthers, Favourite Sons and Chromeo.
Hydraheadshop.com are offering a pre-order on the new Khylst CD, "Chaos is My Name". Pre-order the CD now and have it shipped the week of October 24th. We are also making a limited edition t-shirt also available for purchase. The shirt will only be available until October 9th, at which point we will stop accepting orders for the "CD/Shirt" combo (the CD will continue to be available up to the release date). As usual this is a deluxe shirt, printed on black Apparel Agent brand t-shirts. The shirt was designed in house at Hydra Head by James O'Mara using elements from the CD layout.
The artwork for this release was done by Stephen Kasner. more on his artwork and other projects can be found at www.stephenkasner.com
Invoking an aesthetic amalgam of black echoes, night sweats, and necromancy, Khanate bassist James Plotkin (Phantomsmasher, ex-O.L.D.) and vocalist Runhild Gammelsæter (ex-Sunn O))),Thorr’s Hammer) set forth on a bleak journey beset with incubi, death convulsions, and abject hopelessness. Alternately harsh and beguiling, Chaos Is My Name is like waking up in the basement hospital of Jacob’s Ladder only to realize that the permanently disfiguring abuse you’re about to endure has already taken place. The rest of your brief, excruciating life will be spent as a hideously deformed flesh puppet, flailing helplessly under the high-pitched whine of various torture devices and experimental dental equipment, while seraphim sing in the distance, never once offering you their hand.
Track Listing:
1. I (2:44)
2. II (7:50)
3. III (1:45)
4. IV (2:00)
5. V (3:53)
6. VI (7:13)
7. VII (6:16)
8. VIII (4:53)
available at www.hydraheadshop.com
This years CMJ festival will include a VICE/Hydra Head Records showcase on November 2nd at Sin-e in NYC. Khlyst and Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum will both be taking part, More info to come...
What could we say that would adequately describe this malignant aural formation? Nothing that really comes close to the actuality of the sound, so we'll stick with the facts - or some variation there of. Khlyst is the brainchild of James Plotkin and Runhild Gammelsaeter -- the album at hand being a manifestation of a long distance musical romance conceived and executed at various studios (Oslo, Norway and NY, NY) between 2004 and 2005. Mr. Plotkin is probably familiar to many of you due to his work with/as Phantomsmasher, Khanate, Scorn, Lotus Eaters, O.L.D., as a solo artist, and a myriad of other musical projects spanning numerous genres and multiple decades. Mrs. Gammelsaeter is also an accomplished cult musician, having participated in the short lived but much beloved Thorr's Hammer, along with Stephen O'Malley (sunno))), Khanate, etc.) and others.while you might be able to picture what such a pairing might sound like, even such a mental fabrication couldn't prepare you for the contents of the forthcoming "Chaos is My Name" - the CD version of which is due out on Hydra Head on Oct. 24th, with the vinyl version to follow shortly there after. While the initial groundwork of the album was built upon spontaneous improvisation, and a lot of its power is derived from that sense of freedom and unadulterated creative blood flow, it is clear after multiple listens that this project is anything but thrown together. After laying down the initial outpourings, Plotkin painstakingly reconstructed the disparate bits and pieces into a towering and carefully crafted beast that alternates between vicious bursts of howling violence, and placid but unsettling passages of "ambient" textures. For those that cannot imagine what anything sounds like without hearing other band names being mentioned, think of what Abruptum might have sounded like had Brian Eno produced their earlier works - though even this comparison is belittling considering the ingenuity and inventiveness of this project.
The album is made up of eight tracks, all of which work as individual pieces; however it is best absorbed as one continuous piece that is merely divided into eight movements, with many elements that recede and return repeatedly, giving the album an almost labyrinthine character .... it is certainly music to get lost in.
To cap it all off "Chaos is My Name" will feature cover and interior art by Stephen Kasner (www.stephenkasner.com) and Runhild Gammelsaeter, all of which is highly complimentary and fitting for the music it houses.
For clips and further/related info see also: www.plotkinworks.com.