Bichkraft - 800 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2015 debut album from the Ukranian guitar and drum machine noise makers. From Kiev to Kansas City, 20-something's the world over tend to traffic in the same sort of distractions from modern life clothes, sneakers, cars, love. Mascot holds these things for what they are fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern times and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. That the band composed, wrote and recorded Mascot’s eight songs in its hometown of Kiev only adds to their authority on the matter. As fluent in Jesus & Mary Chain's Psychocandy as they are with Sonic Youth and Big Black, Bichkraft is heavy, paranoid music with frenetic jams of dueling and weaving guitars, digitized howls, and amped up brutality and chaos, and even some undeniably pretty moments of love & decay.

2016 . To write and record their second shimmering record of dangerous beauty made by and for the adventurous, the group built a studio in a debris-strewn lot in the Roshinskiy neighborhood of Kiev, Ukraine. Using the piles of broken classical LPs, discarded winter coats and Soviet-era refrigerators they found there, they constructed a studio to serve as their de facto headquarters. The trash-filled yard outside, in all it's chaotic beauty, became it's own source of inspiration. Finding inspiration in the wasteland, Shadoof refuses to end the party even while chaos and disintegration build around the edges. From anthemic industro-punk and jagged, hook-filled noise pop, to pulsing techno noise Shadoof hits hard out of the gates and takes listeners on a journey through Kiev's winding streets, out past the Ukrainian border and into regions unknown.

Jens E. Christensen - Duos with Organ [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/1997