FROM THE SWAMPS

Keiji Haino is a musician and thinker who requires no introduction. Truly the musical embodiment of the Kyoto School of Nihilism, his work entrances the listener beyond the veil, into pregnant nothingness. What you get with this album is a level of simplicity on par with Soliloquy For Lilith  by Nurse With Wound: purely a tone generator, Haino's voice (which does not make an appearance until at least a half an hour in I believe), and the rare interjection of a stringed instrument that sounds somewhat like a sitar but most likely is not. A profound psychological experience all the way through, modern monophony in its stolid singularity provides a prism for self-effacement. So, Black Is Myself

Little Princess was a Japanese grindcore group comprised of all women. They're really strange, even for grindcore, because in between each song on the EP they have little spoken-word sections that are supposed to be a princess party or something. One of them says the name of the song really sweetly in Japanese and in English, they go at it, and then there's a cute little applause. I think this is the only thing they ever released. It's pretty hard to find so I just kind of ripped all of these songs from Youtube and put it in a zip, so you're welcome I guess! Track Listing: 1. Carpet Man 2. Disqualified Human Being 3. Red Handkerchief 4. Shiny Diamond 5. Dried Squid With Mayonnaise And Soy Sauce 6. Debuo More Food 7. Monsieur P 8. Downstairs Neighbor Song Collection

Corrupted is a Japanese sludge/doom band that incorporates dark ambient, acoustic, and spoken word elements into their music. Their typical sound is similar to that of  Grief  or  Whitehorse , with extremely downtuned guitars, guttural growls, and glacier-paced tempos. The band has many interesting idiosyncracies that I find tasteful, and not overly gimmicky: most of their album titles, song titles, and lyrics are in Spanish, with the occasional inclusion of Japanese or English; they refuse to do interviews or take promotional photos of any kind, the only photos of the band that exist source from fans who took them at live shows; they adhere to an aesthetic and methodology similar to bands in the powerviolence genre, by releasing many split 7" records and choosing bleak, black-and-white photos of landscapes or atrocities for their album covers; and they have written a good amount of songs for their studio albums that exceed 40 minutes. Compared to most doom band...