Damo Suzuki

The world-renowned singer / multi-instrumentalist / improv co-ordinator Damo Suzuki will be playing at the CCA later this month (promoted by our friends at Cry Parrot), and amongst his line-up of improv artists this time round is the very talented (and totally nuts) Hamish Black, also known as guitarist in XMRV and Christfuck. At the age of 20, this will be his second time playing with Damo Suzuki, and he's previously shared the stage with Einsturzende Neubauten, as well as having self-released six or seven albums and toured Europe with XMRV. As well as shredding lead guitar for XMRV, Hamish also programmes, plays bass and generally fucks shit up, making drone, metal, improv and free noise. He is insanely talented.

I've been listening to his stuff for ages and thought I'd post a few links to some of the free EPs he's put out through his myspace / last.fm etc.
Hamish Black - Khudo: Heavily texturised noise - relying more on the keyboards and synths than on the guitar as a prominent instrument.
Hamsh Black - Baby (L)P - Darker, noise-based tunes.

A fair amount of music can also be found on his last.fm, and myspace. I'll try to get a condensed package up soon.

XMRV vs Molotov Disco

Glasgow's finest "angry jazz" act XMRV (think At the Drive In, but more METAL and female fronted) play at Nice and Sleazy's tomorrow, alongside local metal-core growlers Nude Pilots and Can-esque kraut-rockers Wrongnote. Filling in the gaps and taking us to the end will be Little Rock affiliated Molotov Disco, playing a cocktail of classics, past present and future, with a slightly heavier bent than usual. Current playlists suggest a hefty dose of post-punk, No Wave and The Cramps, plus the darker and weirder edge of club culture. As usual, there's some free tunes for you to check out....

Download an exclusive XMRV tune






Download Nude Pilot's Demo






Molotov Disco on Soundcloud.com
Molotov Disco on Radiomagnetic.com

XMRV

For the Edinburgh peeps, one of Glasgow's finest metal / punk / spastic acts XMRV are playing across at Bannermans on Sunday night (that's May 16th). Doors are at 8, and entry's free. For the uninformed, think a more melodic version of Dillinger Escape Plan, or Delta 5 if they'd grown up listening to Black Metal and you're not really very close. Live, they're a frenetic explosion of bass / guitar collision, math-rock drumming and vocals that veer between delicate lilt and throat-shredding scream. We likey.

They've kindly given Shallowrave an exclusive free download of Suicide Slide, from their first self-released EP (available at gigs only). Get it here.

They're currently working on an album, and have gigs in Bloc next month, as well as playing Distorted Picnic this summer. They've toured Europe and played a number of festivals, and we expect big things from them in the near future. Be there.

Download XMRV - Suicide Slide