Tue, 21 May 2013 15:52:06 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=195770#Comment_195770 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=195770#Comment_195770 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:14:28 -0700 ian holloway Hopefully it's cool to pimp my little fanzine here as I've just uploaded the latest issue.

Wonderful Wooden Reasons (the name is a line from the song Meadow Meal by Faust) is now in it's fifth year and has a monthly readership of around a thousand hits. I've tried to keep it as predominantly a music review zine but occasional book and movie reviews do creep in when I get the urge to write them.

The music featured tends to be from the more abstract ends of the spectrum - drone, noise, free-improv, psychedelia, jazz - but other forms creep in now and again.

If you're interested the new issue and several years worth of archived reviews can be found here.

there's also a myspace page where I try and upload the new issue on a roughly monthly schedule.

peace
ian ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=195771#Comment_195771 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=195771#Comment_195771 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:18:24 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=207572#Comment_207572 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=207572#Comment_207572 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:48:41 -0800 ian holloway www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk and at www.myspace.com/wonderfulwoodenreasons

there's a massive variety of music in there including drone, industrial, electronica, ambient, noise, post-rock, jazz and krautrock.

hope you find something interesting enough to investigate further. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=207575#Comment_207575 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=207575#Comment_207575 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:00:37 -0800 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=210976#Comment_210976 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=210976#Comment_210976 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:40:46 -0800 ian holloway
The new issue features reviews of new releases by...

Max Bellancourt - The Stone Tape
Birds of Tin - Altarwise
Broohaha - EP
Ctephin - Liber XXXI
Dead Labour Process - People Are The Same All Over
Miguel A. Garcia - Live at El Tanque Gallery, Santa Cruz De Tenerife, 2007
Gish - Pilfer
Iker Ormazabal - Sesiones Acusticas
Andrzej Piontek - May You Live In Interesting Times
R.J. Schrey with Kenji Siratori - Future Embryo
&
Wander - s/t

also included in the new issue is a comprehensive set of Top Ten Releases of 2009 by myself and a host of others such as...

Jean-Herve Peron (Faust / Art-Errorist)
Darren Tate (Monos / Ora)
Kevin Wienke (Alluvial Recordings)
Mike Fazio (Orchestramaxfieldparrish / Faith Strange Recordings)
Ralf Rabendorn (ContraMusikProduction)
Manuel Marrero Cubas (R.O.N.F. Records / Mixturizer)
Susan Matthews
Rani (Heart & Crossbone Records)
Ryan Huber (Olekranon / Inam Records)
Pierre Gerard (et le feu comme)
Mirko Uhlig (Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf, Ex Ovo Records)
Terje Paulsen (Three Strings)
Sylvain (Ini Itu Records)
Brian Shea (The Bordellos / Welshcake Records)
Adrian Shenton (Phonospheric)
Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press / Persepolis Records)
Yui Onodera
Kevin Wilkinson (brb>voicecoil / Muzzedia Verhead)
Brian Lavelle
Kyle Wright (Diophantine Discs)
Dan Hopkins (Hurra Caine Landcrash)
Hideho Takemasa (Trumn)

You can read the zine at it's myspace page or at it's own website.
if you are reading the myspace version then please feel free to leave your own selection in the comments.

hope you all have a great new year and an outstanding 2010

peace
ian ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=218976#Comment_218976 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=218976#Comment_218976 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:09:50 -0800 ian holloway here & here - featuring reviews of albums by...

Banks Bailey
Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. & Maor Appelbaum
Mark Bradley
Paul Bradley & Colin Potter
Chemins
Crepuscular
d'incise
FM Einheit + Irmler
Lawrence English / Shinkei / Miguel A. Garcia / Andy Graydon
Etrangler L'etranger
Francisco Lopez
Mister Vapor
Monos
Montauk In February
Nigel Samways
SAP(e) feat. Bernhard Gunter
Luigi Turra & Christopher McFall
Vecchi-Teller
Xedh

and also a brand new feature for WWR, an accompanying podcast which is also here. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230737#Comment_230737 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230737#Comment_230737 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:05 -0700 ian holloway here and here.

As ever it's an eclectic assortment of music - drone, field recordings, improv, dark ambient, psychedelia, stoner-rock, grindcore and more.

reviews of new albums by...
Andreas Brandal
Chemins
Content and Daruin
Hearts of Palm
The Infinitus Ensemble
The Rick Jensen Trio
KonstruKt + guests
Marsfield
James McDougall
Money I$ God
Mountain Witch
N(13)
Nurse With Wound
Terje Paulsen
Dave Phillips
Seconds in Formaldehyde
SHG - M
Shinkei + mise_en_scene
The Shitty Listener
Simulacra
Darren Tate
Test Phasen Negativ
Test Tone Anthology Vols 1, 2 & 3

I didn't have time to make the mixcloud podcast yet but i'll get it online later in the week.

Hope you find something of interest. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230781#Comment_230781 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230781#Comment_230781 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:15:36 -0700 Kernowdrunk http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230849#Comment_230849 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230849#Comment_230849 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:01:07 -0700 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230860#Comment_230860 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=230860#Comment_230860 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:02:34 -0700 ian holloway
it's a shame i couldn't get the podcast uploaded as well but i'd killed most of a bottle of rum and was flying by the time i posted the announcement.
the joy though is that most of these fellas have myspace pages so they're easy to check out. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231314#Comment_231314 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231314#Comment_231314 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:23:59 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231322#Comment_231322 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231322#Comment_231322 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:35:20 -0700 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231411#Comment_231411 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231411#Comment_231411 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:50:37 -0700 ian holloway
@warren - i'm hoping to have the mixcloud podcast up later tonight if that helps.

hope you all enjoy. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231472#Comment_231472 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=231472#Comment_231472 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:47:23 -0700 ian holloway WWR 33 cloudcast ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243428#Comment_243428 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243428#Comment_243428 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:36:26 -0700 ian holloway the new issue (#34) of Wonderful Wooden Reasons is now online as is the mixcloud mix.
It can be read either here or here

It's the usual mixed bag of genres. I hope you find something you like.

albums by...

Chemins
DIODAAR
Fukuoka, Garcia, Henritzi, Izarzugaza, Karpenter, Mantizidisor
Grozny Penthouse
Rolf Julius
Marinos Koutsomichalis
Richard Moult
David Newlyn
No Context
N.Strahl.N
Obsil
Quetev Meriri
Seasons (pre-din)
Sujo
Philip Sulidae
Syrinx
Darren Tate
Carlos Villena
David Wells
Simon Whetham ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243451#Comment_243451 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243451#Comment_243451 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:26:23 -0700 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243478#Comment_243478 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=243478#Comment_243478 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:27:18 -0700 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=254080#Comment_254080 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=254080#Comment_254080 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:06:22 -0700 ian holloway here if you just want music without the words)

As usual you can read it at it's own website - here - or at it's myspace page - here.

It's the usual ragtag assortment of drone, ambient, noise, psychedelia and wierdness with even a touch of post-hardcore lunacy this month.

reviews of...

Beequeen - Time Waits For No One
Andrea Borghi - Moltiplicazioni
Chemins - cdr#4
Clutter - Yellow Light Discarded
Rod Cooper - Accepting the Machines
Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain / Dysthymia - split 7"
Everything But The Gargoyle - Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Hall of Mirrors - Forgotten Realm
Marinos Koutsomichalis - Trevor Jones Studio Sessions vol 1
Goh Lee Kwang - Hands
Dale Lloyd - Akasha_For Record
Mopey Mumble Mouse - I Am Happy Being Nothing
Lasse-Marc Riek - Habitats
Mathieu Ruhlmann - As A Leaf Or A Stone
Hiroki Sasajima - Nille
Seasons (pre-din) - Occasionally I Forget To Breathe
Spoils & Relics / BRB>Voicecoil - Split LP
Syrinx / Playing With Nuns - Split
Nicholas Szczepanik & Juan Jose Calarco - Lack Affix
Various - Dark Meadows Recordings sampler
Viosac - Dawning Luminosity
VipCancro - Tropico

I hope you find something you dig. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=263280#Comment_263280 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=263280#Comment_263280 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:07:07 -0700 ian holloway here if you just want music without the words)

As usual you can read it at it's own website - here - or at it's myspace page - here.

It's the usual hotch potch assortment of drone, ambient, noise, post-rock and some krautrock

reviews of...

Keith Berry - The Cartesian Plane
Blindhæð - Laguna Sunrise
Andrew Chalk - Ghosts of Nakhodka
Chemins - cdr #5
Erik De Cordier - Dyshim
Faust - Faust is Last
Fougou - Atlantis (for John Michell)
Mendel Kaelen - Remembering What Was Forgotten
Kassel Jaeger - lignes d'erre & randons
Brian Lavelle - Magdalena
Susan Matthews - In Search of the Shadow Walker
Adam Pacione - dobranc
Terje Paulsen - Coastline
Jonathan Read - Voltans
Matt Shoemaker - Isolated Agent / Stranding Behaviour
Sujo - Dimona
Darren Tate - Late Afternoon (for Keijo)

I hope you find something of interest. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283137#Comment_283137 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283137#Comment_283137 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:14:25 -0800 ian holloway
This'll be the last of these long issues because as of #38 I'm moving to a more me friendly format of smaller issues on a more regular fortnightly schedule.

Also, I'm conscious of cluttering up Warren's board with postings so this'll probably be the last time I announce a new issue here.

in the meantime. the new issue is here and (for those of you still using the hellhole that is myspace) here.

if you just want to listen then the mixcloud is here.

this issue features an eclectic mix of drone, noise, free jazz, freak folk, shoegazer and plain old strangeness.

reviews of...

Banks Bailey - Upwelling
Albert Beger Electroacoustic Band - Peacemaker
derschlaeger - Blogs
Giant Bears - Whisper in the Hollows
Daniel Jones – MTT
Ian Middleton - Aural Spaces Versions
Yui Onodera & Celer - Generic City
Orchestramaxfieldparrish - Crossing of Shadows
The Raw Men Empire - Elodie
Colin Andrew Sheffield – Signatures
Matt Shoemaker - Soundtrack for Dislocation
Philip Sulidae - Banish
Tomo - Butterfly Dream and Other Guitar Works
Various - Underwater Noises
Simon Whetham & Paul Khimasia Morgan - The Grey Area

hope you find something worth exploring further. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283146#Comment_283146 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283146#Comment_283146 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:56:03 -0800 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283157#Comment_283157 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283157#Comment_283157 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:51:18 -0800 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283305#Comment_283305 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283305#Comment_283305 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:35:58 -0800 ian holloway
warren - i'll happily keep posting when there're new issues if you'd like to be kept up to date.
i don't want to look like i'm taking advantage and cluttering up the place. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283884#Comment_283884 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283884#Comment_283884 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:15:01 -0800 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283989#Comment_283989 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=283989#Comment_283989 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:14:01 -0800 ian holloway
i love the way the Art Ensemble singer pronounces 'Champs-Élysées' - 'shawmps ill izay' - makes me smile everytime.

In case anyone's wondering. the mix me and bob are talking about is here ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=285161#Comment_285161 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=285161#Comment_285161 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:36:45 -0800 ian holloway
Issue 38 is now online at the usual places...

website

myspace

both of those have the mixcloud attached but it's also here

the new (shorter as it's now fortnightly) issue features reviews of...

Chemins - impasse #1
Glowing Pixie & Ghoul Detail - split
The Infant Cycle - Plays Fender Bass Guitars and Birdcages of Unknown Origin
Kaeba - Ianurek 5.0 X 100
Andrea Marruti & Fausto Balbo - Detrimental Dialogue
Olekranon - {bilal}
The Stinking Badger - Chunx Volume 1 1990-1997

hope you enjoy. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=287705#Comment_287705 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=287705#Comment_287705 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:14:10 -0700 ian holloway
as usual it's at...
www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk
and
www.myspace.com/wonderfulwoodenreasons

the mix on it's lonesome is here

features reviews of...

Andreas Bick - Fire and Frost Pattern
Ghoul Detail - Medicated
Brian Lavelle - Lambent
Susan Matthews - The Whispering Void
Pink Venom - Waste of the World
Adrian Shenton - Slowtime
Zanzibar Snails - Caveat Emperor

peace
ian ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302533#Comment_302533 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302533#Comment_302533 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:34:51 -0700 ian holloway
You can read and hear it at either
www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk
or
www.myspace.com/wonderfulwoodenreasons

If you don't want the words you can just listen to the Mixcloud mix here

featuring...

Eric de Jesus & Minus Pilots - We Won't Be Here Forever
Hearts of Palm - Ball Glove Mask
Rolf Julius - Music For A Distance: Small Music no.2
Phantom Heron Seas - The Unkindness of Ravens
Colin Andrew Sheffield - Slowly
Sujo - Qatada
Various - Playing With Words
Bettina Wenzel - Mumbai Diary

Hope you enjoy
Peace
Ian ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302601#Comment_302601 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302601#Comment_302601 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:52:13 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302602#Comment_302602 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=302602#Comment_302602 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:21:18 -0700 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304196#Comment_304196 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304196#Comment_304196 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:45:48 -0700 ian holloway
Issue 41 (with player) is here

myspace is here

mixcloud player without all those tedious words getting in the way of all the nice noises is here

featuring...

Acte Vide - Noeud
A Guide For Reason - I-IV
Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand - Already Awake in the Night
Faust / Band of Pain - John Cage - Radio Music
Head of the Taurus - Calamity / Perdition
Francisco Lopez - Fango de Euripteridos
Jeremie Mathes - Arset
Dave Phillips & Cornelia Hesse-Honegger - Mutations
Revenant - Zeltini
Seasons (pre-din) - Lesser and Still
Skafandr - Escape From The Past
David Wells - Resolutions
Z'ev - Live in Athens

hope you find something you enjoy.
Peace
Ian ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304226#Comment_304226 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304226#Comment_304226 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:07:26 -0700 Yskaya http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304291#Comment_304291 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=304291#Comment_304291 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:38:27 -0700 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=315179#Comment_315179 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=315179#Comment_315179 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:11:49 -0800 ian holloway
As ever Wonderful Wooden Reasons is available in a number of locations. it's website, it's myspace page or, for those who just want to listen to the pretty noises, it's Mixcloud page.

the current issue features...

Abhorrent Beauty & Jan-M Iversen
Banks Bailey
Juan Jose Calarco
Coeval / Miguel A. Garcia / Miguel Prado
Dog Hallucination
Pierre Gerard
Hallowed Circuit
Heart of Palm
i AM esper
Olekranon
Pink Venom / Playing With Nuns
Nigel Samways
John Sobocan
Stereocaine
Syrinx / Hoist
Darren Tate
Violence and the Sacred

and a whole host of pithy movie reviews

hope you find something you enjoy and if you are able please support the artists. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=319639#Comment_319639 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=319639#Comment_319639 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:08:50 -0800 ian holloway www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk featuring...

A Guide For Reason - VII-VIII
Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. - Industrial Murder / Menstrual Bleeding
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry - Vowl
Cliff Bastard - Recondite
Gushing Cloud - Prism Shelter
Olekranon - Listerga
PS Stamps Back & Olekranon - [no title]
Second Thought - Since Every Hour Is Too Late
Simon Whetham - Slopt
Various - Dark Meadow’s Lonely Christmas Vol.2
Violence and the Sacred - The true Poison 1986

Merry Xmas to you all and I hope you have a 2012 filled with love and peace. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=330664#Comment_330664 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7050&Focus=330664#Comment_330664 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:47:37 -0700 ian holloway
the mix is here

the magazine is here - www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk

featuring...
Adrian Dziewanski
Half Asleep
Herzog
Tetsuya Hori
Kostoglotov
Tom Lawrence
Francisco Lopez & Carlos Villena
Christopher McFall
Sujo
Koperschwache
David Velez
Simon Whetham

hope you find something of interest.
peace
ian ]]>