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RARE April 22, 2009

Rare Frequencies: Trouble and treble
By Susanna Bolle

Inimitable Maine dada-noise artist CRANK STURGEON comes to town this Saturday for a show at the semi-regular Open Sound experimental-music series at Third Life Studios. Crank’s performances are nothing if not memorable events, filled with costumes and contact mics and all manner of strange devices that will boggle your mind and ears both.

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Asher, Open Sound at Third Life Studio, Crank Sturgeon

RARE April 15, 2009

Rare Frequencies: Mudboy at Middle East; the Beeline Festival wraps up
By Carly Carioli

MUDBOY: Dubious Liftings (Live in Northampton, 2009)
It's week two of an influx of Providence's most spellbinding performers gracing our ears with a show of tricked-out organs and infinite drones. MUDBOY (a/k/a Raphael Lyon) is a veteran of the legendary Fort Thunder noise-art scene. Known for his theatrical performances, Lyon combines found sounds and modified keyboards to create what's sometimes called "fantasy noise."

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Area C, Beeline Festival, PAUL LANSKY

RARE April 08, 2009

Rare Frequencies: Shiny new drones, analog overload, and pitch-black dubstep
By Susanna Bolle

It’s a record-release party of epic proportions this Sunday at Great Scott. Local sound artist BRENDAN MURRAY follows up last year’s acclaimed long-form drone fest, Commonwealth, with an untitled album of shorter, more delicate pieces. Brooklynite Daniel Lopatin (a/k/a ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER) has a beautiful new vinyl record of drifting, kraut-synth inspired works called Betrayed in the Octagon

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Great Scott, Piano Craft Guild, Oneohtrix Point Never

RARE March 18, 2009

Rare Frequencies: The best of the spring's fringe harvest
By Susanna Bolle

Lawrence English
There’s a fine array of experimental- and electronic-music releases set to bloom this spring. Here are five choice examples:

LAWRENCE ENGLISH | A COLOUR FOR AUTUMN | 12k | This seasonal release on 12k is a bit out of sequence, but the hazy, sublime sounds of A Colour for Autumn are perfect listening any time of year. Australia’s Lawrence English, who runs the Room40 label, uses a delicate mix of field recordings, live instruments, and electronics to evoke the beautiful tension of a season that is somehow neither here nor there.
DOWNLOAD: Lawrence English, “Galaxie of Dust” (mp3)
(4 MORE AFTER THE JUMP)

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mp3, Lawrence English, Martyn

RARE March 11, 2009

Rare Frequencies: What's in a name?
By Susanna Bolle
The evocative qualities of a name like the PUTREFIER are about as subtle as a flying hammer, but Mark Durgan’s music is actually nuanced. Honest. Although his recent records are by no means easy-listening classics, they aren’t as fetidly ferocious as you might imagine, owing as much to musique concrète as to Merzbow. Durgan is a 20-year veteran of the UK noise scene who’s collaborated with legendary avant-noiseniks like the New Blockaders.

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Nettle, Filastine, Enormous Room

RARE March 06, 2009

Rare Frequencies: Whole lot of Nothing
By Susanna Bolle

The twin clarinet duo the INTERNATIONAL NOTHING are really something. KAI FAGASCHINSKI and MICHAEL THIEKE, two of Berlin’s most interesting experimental musicians, have been performing together as a duo for almost eight years now. At times, the blending of the soft airy sound of their reeds is nothing short of sublime — it’s this close to melodic, almost songlike.

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Heathen Shame, KAI FAGASCHINSKI

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Rare Frequencies: Barrage a trois
Published 6/3/2009 by Susanna Bolle

They say good things come in threes. That’s certainly the case with releases on Boston’s own Intransitive Recordings. Specializing in experimental music, noise, and sound art, the label has released some tremendous CDs over the years by acts like NERVE NET NOISE, BRENDAN MURRAY, and KAPOTTE MUZIEK, pretty much always in groups of three.

This month, label head Howard Stelzer unleashes a new batch of recordings by an international array of experimental music luminaries and cult figures (in law enforcement, no less) from the outer reaches and beyond. After the jump, some MP3s to give you a sense of what’s happening on one of New England’s most adventurous record labels.

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Rare Frequencies: Slow cooking
Published 5/20/2009 by Susanna Bolle
The folks at Bassic have done it again, bringing yet another top-rung dubstep artist to their baseme...