If you travel to the middle of the ocean and dive to the extreme depths of the seafloor, you may happen upon little balls of rock made of magnesium, cobalt, nickel, and copper spanning for possibly thousands of miles. Scientists have recently discovered that each of these polymetallic nodules carry a voltage potential that when combined with neighboring nodules, remarkably produces oxygen in complete darkness through a process called seawater electrolysis. I am convinced that if one were to repel a microphone 20,000 feet below sea level to these icy pressurized abyssal plains and record these processes between nodules, the result might sound eerily similar to the mystically immense sounds produced on The Bug and Ghost Dubs new split LP Implosion . The first word that comes to mind when I think of The Bug (aka Kevin Martin) and Ghost Dubs (aka Michael Fiedler or Jah Schulz) is heavy . Well folks, I am happy to say that Implosion not only delivers on this maxim but it might just be the ...
Read on BPM here . In Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us , a filmmaker visits a small village to document the funeral rituals of an elderly woman who is about to die. While waiting for her death, he witnesses the intrusive nature his filmmaking has upon their society and begins to question whether he will be able to accurately depict these deeply personal and cultural sacraments he observes during his stay. These questions of accuracy and observation are deeply analyzed throughout Kiarostami’s filmography but are more unconventionally examined throughout Slovenian trio Širom’s discography. “We don’t want to play something that sounds like it already exists”, admits Samo Kutin, who is one third of the experimental folk group. This is quite a strange thing to say for a folk musician as (generally speaking) folk music tends to embody traditions, cultures, and landscapes that have indeed existed at one point in time. These kinds of statements, as well as their previous four LPs, hav...