New from Post-Materialization Music, St. Petersburg:

Hanatarash – Eye Condom Cassex Assette

 
The legendary Japanese noise band Hanatarash was formed by Yamantaka Eye and Mitsuru Tabata in Osaka in 1984. Their live shows with the unpredictable and machinery wielding Yamantaka Eye as a frontman were such violent and dangerous events that they were soon banned from most Japanese venues.

This Post-Materialization Music cassette is a re-release of a cassette that Philipp Volokitin put out on his Monopolka label from St. Petersburg in 2007. The Monopolka cassette itself was a re-release of a cassette published on the Japanese Murderous Tapes label in 1986. It captures Hanatarash in full swing. The cassette, recorded late in 1985, opens with a traditional Japanese piece of music but soon switches to harsh noise larded with Yamantaka Eye’s undermining microphone work, varying from obscene whispers to wild grunts and growls. Invite this noise orgy to your home and witness how your place is ruthlessly torn down by Yamantaka Eye’s backhoe.

New from Post-Materialization Music, St. Petersburg:

Smegma – Self-titled

Smegma (a pun on the French band Magma) started in Pasadena in 1973. A couple of friends – none of them having had any formal musical training – got together and formed an experimental band on November 23rd of that year. Influenced by artists, thinkers and musicians as varied as John Cage, Harry Partch, Sun Ra and Buckminster Fuller and drawing from their own creativity, Smegma soon developed a distinct experimental and anarchist sound, which they labeled ‘primitive suburban folk’. Most band members moved to Portland, Oregon in 1975 but remained in close touch with Los Angeles through their friendships and collaborations with the LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society). Smegma has remained active since. The band regularly performs in the US and Europe and releases cassettes of Smegma and friends every now and then through their label Pigface Records. Today the core members of Smegma are: Ju Suk Reet Meate, Rock and Roll Jackie, Dennis Duck and Ace Farren Ford, but their line-ups and collaborations have included more than 100 other musicians and artists over the years.

The Post-Materialization Music cassette, released in 2017, contains a couple of wild pieces by this ensemble of fine improvisers, who somehow always manage to keep a distinct sound of their own and re-invent themselves at the same time. Smegma is always Smegma but never the same. Great cassette by PMM from St. Petersburg! → Order now