Bad Noise Productions' Top 10 lists, 9 / 07


Christopher Eaton...

1.  EARTH, HIBERNACULUM (2007) – CD/EP
Still waiting for them to drop the much-anticipated full-length A Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull?  Play this EP again; it makes killing time a narcotic ease.
                                                          
2.  JOE COLEMAN’S PORTRAIT OF ED GEIN
I can’t hardly stand it.  Some sort of fucked spiral inwards. 

3.  BELA TARR, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000) - DVD
Do you love Gus Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy” [ Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), Last Days (2005) ], but dislike the rest of his work?  Me too.  There’s a very good reason named Bela Tarr.  39 shots.  Get schooled, kid.

4.  BLACK MAPLE HILL BOURBON
I like to make special infusions with things like sour local cherries, wild apples, or vanilla bean.  Dream infusion: Black Maple Hill’s 21-year blend with charred sugar maple branches and crushed violets.

5.  PELT, EMPTY BELL RINGING IN THE SKY (1997) - LP
From ten years back but currently on my platter more often than not.  Appalachia meets Asian temple music meets Dead C.

6.  GRETSCH ELECTROMATIC  LAP STEEL GUITAR
Routed through a Univox Univibe and  then dumped out of a Fender Twin Reverb amp uh huh.

7.  MAGGIE O’SULLIVAN READING “CHAIN CRATE ILATE”
Scots make the best poets, in an audio-performative sense.  For real—listen to albums by Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta for backup.
                                
8.  THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, VOLUME I - DVD
Tied with The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky for best recent avant-garde film repackaging.

9.  GOLDEN AND BACK, BRIAN SCHUTMAAT – PHOTO SERIES
Glint.

10.  INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR THORENS TD 160 TURNTABLE
O harmonious assemblage of text, weight, and graphic image.  That particularly German sensation of rhetorical density.  Bedienungsanleitung, I love you.  Your words make me melt inside: The friction of the stylus in the moving record groove produces a force which may be resolved into a component Fr pulling longitudinally on the tone arm and a component Fs pressing perpendicularly on the inner groove wall.

David Applegate...

1.  COCOLASE DEVICE
insane circuitry for total voice disruption

2.  HUMCRUSH, HORNSWOGGLE - CD
duo percussive / electronic improvisations

3.  ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 VOLT -DVD
noise movie by Sogo Ishii, very special

4.  BASHO'S HAIKU / TRANS. BARNHILL, DAVID LANDIS / ALBANY: SUNY PRESS, 2004
compleat with transliterations from the kanji, e.g.: "years-years ! / monkey on wear / monkey's mask"

5.  MUTANT SOUNDS
rare & out-of-print sounds for free download, 100% weird

6.  SHOSTAKOVICH,  STRING QUARTET NO. 8, OP. 110
true origin of death metal

7.  NANOLOOP
transforms Nintendo's Gameboy into a noise machine

8.  ORTHRELM, ASRISTIR VEILDRIOXE - CD
duo percussive / guitar shriek, 99 songs in 12 minutes, best poems

9.  STALAG RIDDIM
perfect old school riddim by Winston Riley

10.  THOSE ARE ALL THE THINGS I LIKE THIS MONTH!
CHECK BACK NEXT MONTH FOR MORE THINGS!

Saburo Taiso...