Bone Throne Out Now!

Bonethrone is the fourth installment from Tennessee's experimental dark - ambient ambassadors KUWAHARA. Shifting focus towards conception vs. cataclysm they tread new ground on performance and profound accessibility, rather than evoking a space of darkness; now darkness shapes the space of this post industrial and bleak at best landscapes of mechanical and molten tectonic textures that permeate each track; one unfolding into the other, clawing their way out of an abysmal plane of introspective solitude. Download or Stream Audio:

New Full Length!

We've been working on the follow up to last year's release Kandy Heart Afghan for sometime now, and are planning for a December release. Currently, we are in the mastering stage and working on artwork for what is to become our heaviest release yet. Title TBA, more info to come.

Honeycutt and Hertz

A collaboration between Mike Honeycutt and Jack Hertz is now available via Treetrunk Records. "Burn is a long form drone collaboration between the artists Jack Hertz and Mike Honeycutt. This track was created for the Time Drone artists series that was originally broadcast on February 16, 2011 at radio.electro-music.com." Download link available here. Enjoy!

Kandyheart Afghan Reviewed by WOTE

Kuwahara - "Kandyheart Afghan"

[Waiting World Records]

Kuwahara present us with some noise/death industrial in a similar vein to Stratvm Terror, Megaptera, etc. The songs employ deep, hellish drones to provide the foundation for layers of noisey textures. Most of the songs are droning and plod along slowly, though beats present themselves occasionally. There are some cool tracks like "Order of Primitives", "Feeding Tube", and "Scum Class" that have a good, industrial-tinged, rotten sewage feel to them akin to Stratvm Terror. These pieces are dirty and atmospheric, certainly residing amongst the darkest catacombs of the ambient genre, without being overly abrasive. Despite the usual ultra repetitive nature of some death industrial, most these tracks move and shift quite a bit during their duration; there are many different sounds introduced and they don't feel repetitive or overly long. The production here is about as good as you can expect from a style that relies heavily on drones and noise, although the track volume seems to fluctuate from track to track. The only thing I really don't like about this album is that a number of songs contain seemingly random noises which seem out of place and/or annoying to the ear. On "B-33920" and "Meat Bubble" the drumbeats sound totally out of left field and don't fit with the atmosphere generated by the rest of the album. Although "Meat Bubble" sounds kind of like old demo VAC or some other rough, experimental trippy industrial of that time. If you like "heavy" ambient and stuff from Slaughter Productions and so forth, give this one a try.

Much thanks to the WOTE Crew for their time, consideration and support of the Mighty K.
More info here http://woundsoftheearth.blogspot.com/

Kandyheart Afghan Now Available

Kandyheart Afghan, the third release from Kuwahara, reveals the duo's fondness for bleak atmospheres and tortured electronics. Kuwahara continues head-first into the abyss with no signs of turning back. Purposely avoiding the white walls of sound from early pioneers of noise and dark ambient that influenced them, they instead focus on texture and melancholic passages to move their audience with a wretched grace rather than brute force. Make no mistake; this album is a pummeling slab of tectonic movements and soundscapes, much like their previous installments. This however, dwells in a realm of nightmare and abandoned hope.

Mighty K Update

Aside other side projects galore, we are currently constructing tracks for a split release with Jack Hertz to be released on Cohort Records (Release Date TBA). Copies of our Cultivation Series Volume 1 are still available, sorry no trades at this time as this is a limited series. If you want something for free, feel free to download the two latest M. Peck releases Bodies To The Sky and Beneath Forever or his latest EP from his new project TIDAL. Enjoy.

Mystery Hearsay in Vital Weekly

Bred from runoff and debris from the great Mississippi River, Mystery Hearsay's audio wasteland has a common theme of unbridled creativity and strangulated frequency fetish. Those familiar with the early underground cassette trade have known this for years, those that are new to the name are in for a treat, because this is just Phase 1 of what's to come.

Vital Weekly 789

MYSTERY HEARSAY - FLESH TOMB (CD by Monochrome Vision)

Whereas Factor X was even bootlegged in recent years - always a mark of long lasting quality - Mystery Hearsay wasn't. No lesser quality however from this hometaper - as the lingo of the day was - also known as Mike Honeycutt. He went on to produce other things later on, such as Mystery X, Mystery Iguana, but Mystery Hearsay seemed to have gathered dust. This CD, in fact a re-issue of a tape release called 'Flesh Tomb' plus bonus material from a net release from 2007 (which is which is not clear from the cover). Without wanting to say much about the quality of the music, the quality of the recording is of an entirely nature than the Factor X one, i.e. something that seems at least more professional. One of those typical mid-80s things was the arrival of what was called 'ambient industrial': music that was too loud to fully downright ambient, but also not loud enough to be classified as industrial. Hence ambient industrial and that's exactly the field of Mystery Hearsay's music. Lots of guitar/synth manipulations, along with percussive, metallic sounds and tons of sound effects to manipulate them. Like with a lot of these 80s things its not the composition that counts but the mood created, so it sometimes gets off the rails and takes a bit too much time to be fully interesting. But this is another great reminder of the young FdW at home listening to tapes, and one who fully forgot that Mystery Hearsay was actually a great band. Long forgotten, 

but thankfully resurrected.

http://monochromevision.ru/mv38.html
 

Honeycutt Featured on No Pigeonholes EXP

The weekly podcast hosted by Don Campau recently featured several tracks from Mike Honeycutt/Mystery Hearsay. Check it out http://nopigeonholesexp.podomatic.com/ Enjoy!

Cultivation Packaging

As we've mentioned previously, the packaging for the latest K. release "Cultivation Series Volume 1" is handmade. The CDR's are full color thermal printed, and the inlay is laser printed 80lb. stock. The disc is attached to an adhesive hub to keep it from sliding around and scratching the precious, all housed in an ultra clear poly bag. Copies of this are limited, so get in touch to get yourself a copy before they run out.

Cultivation Series Vol. 1 Now Available for shipping

Waiting World Records is proud to announce Cultivation Series Volume 1 from the post-industrial/dark ambient outfit Kuwahara (Mike Honeycutt and M. Peck) is now available.
Unlike many sophomore releases, this 45 minute slab of gnarled soundscapes and shimmering audio poetics are remixes of the tracks featured on the groups highly acclaimed debut HoneyCult.
Cultivation Series Volume 1 features remixes from some of today's most notable sound artists and standouts in their genres with offerings from WILT, Steve Brand, Mannequin Hollowcaust, Andrew Lagowski and two previously unreleased tracks from Kuwahara. Make no mistake, these are not just rehashed renditions of the original tracks and come off as something entirely new to the listener. Each artist left their own mark on the tracks leaving the release as a whole, a very fluid and coherent offering, albeit jaundiced and decrepit, this album reeks of brilliance in a most progressive manner.
This release comes packaged with full color artwork and full color CDr housed in a ultra clear poly bag. Please send $10 (includes S/H to mpeckmusic (@) gmail dot com to order yours today.

Cultivation Series Update

Currently, we are awaiting the arrival of the discs which should be here no later than 01/19/2011. If you want to make a pre-order, please hold off and I will post when the discs are in and the packaging is complete. This limited edition release will be available later this month, without a doubt. If you have any questions regarding orders, distro, etc. feel free to contact us at mpeckmusic (at) gmail dot com.

It's Coming

HoneyCult review by Zzaj

"Kuwahara - HONEYCULT: Some splendid indie music in from one of the "founders" of the home-taping underground, Mike Honeycutt. If you've never heard bees swarming, you may not relate well to this sonic assault... with headphones on, you'll believe you've been caught on the inside of the hive, & that you'll never be able to get back to "normal" (whatever that is, heh! heh!). This is synth-driven, and it's one of the most excellent excursions I've been on lately - while there are a few invasive moments, this is unusually harmonic and totally perceptive of what will drive you up the proverbial wall, but let you down gently enough to escape without commitment to the "D" ward. There wasn't a lot of information available on the web, though you can find the tracklist here... Mike is joined by M. Peck, and they've created a wealth of sonic adventures that any active listener will find irresistible... some of this stuff takes you right out to the very EDGE of the universe, and doesn't necessarily bring you back (or at least not in one piece). One of the most intriguing compositions was "Whose Children Are We?", with blunt-trauma sonic hammers ready to blow you ALL THE WAY AWAY... the other piece I just loved (my favorite track, without doubt) was the swirling opener, "A Basket For Elliot"... just beautiful! I'm impressed, and you will be, too... I give this aural adventure a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an "EQ" (energy quotient) rating of 4.98."
Rotcod Zzaj
Zzaj Productions

Video Afterthought

How To Wake A Sleeping Shaman

Sleeping Shaman webzine recently gave HoneyCult a fabulous review:
"The sound-world of Kuwahara, a duo consisting of M.Peck and Mike Honeycutt, is one of grainy kaleidoscopic twilight murk shot through with fractured transmissions from some alien transmitter device. Dull bathyscaphic pulses shudder across arcing, shimmering feedback that subsides into eerie field recordings from some location that may or may not exist. Kuwahara have soundtracked the fall down the rabbit-hole, and it is terrifying."
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Cultivation Series Vol. 1

We are currently underway working towards the release of the first installment of the Cultivation Series. Featured contributors are Steve Brand, Andrew Lagowski, WILT (James Keeler) and Mannequin Hollowcaust. This release will also feature one or two previously unreleased tracks from Kuwahara.
We've decided to scrap the 3" format as it may not be suitable for all machines and limited packaging options. We are still looking towards mid to late July for this release. More to come. In the meantime please join the mailing list for further announcements. Thanks.

Submission Deadline

Round One of the Cultivation Series is now closed. All remixes have been received and/or arrangements have been made for all late entries. We appreciate all your work and are eager to finalize this and get it ready for release as soon as possible (projected for early July). Submissions for Round 2 are now being accepted. Contact mpeckmusic (@) gmail.com or mysteryhearsay (@) gmail.com for guidelines. More to come...

RRRandom Video

Rought 'chere is the accompanying video for the recent 9th Floor playlist. Enjoy in whichever manner you decide. Preferably in the dark.


9thubradio 5-10 pt2 from das ubuibi on Vimeo.

More play

Coming up TONITE
Thursday, 13-MAY 2010
11pm-1am (US Pacific Daylight Time.) / Friday 07.00-09.00 (GMT)

WATCH 9th UB RADIO ::: LIVE on Peralta TV !! (visual manipulations by dAS)
Peralta TV can be seen on cable channels 27 and 28
in Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont (California USA)
OR LIVE on the Web at www.peralta.tv

.mp3 archive of this show :
https://www.box.net/file/429879992/encoded/10802055/5618fbda039ebcb640a5860c546ae992

PLAYLIST:

ARTIST / RELEASE / LABEL

Cheryl E. Leonard / Instruments In Trees / All Ways North

César Bolaños / Peruvian Electroacoustic & Experimental Music (1964-1970) / Pogus Productions

The Element Choir / At Rosedale United / Barnyard Records

Dead Kennedys / Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables / Alternative Tentacles

Yma Sumac / The Exotic Lure of Yma Sumac / Golden Stars

Anonymous / Default's Greatest Hits (a compilation of the best of the worst that Napster had to offer) / evolution-control.com

Telepathik Friend / Turn on the Resonator! / self-released

Charles Rice Goff III & Vernon Lawton / re-INGcarnation / Taped Rugs Productions

Ivor Cutler / Dandruff / Virgin

Fred Frith / Speechless / ReR Megacorp

Earwicker / The Mind Control Matrix / Accidente Feliz Recordings

Boredoms / Pop Tatari / Reprise

The Evolution Control Committee / Unreleased Ambient Works

M. Peck + Mike Honeycutt / Kuwahara / Waiting World Records

The Twists & Turns of the Loved and Hated / ZH27

HamaYoko / E68 / entr'acte

Bank of Christ / Sickly Sweet Tracks

ZH27 / Here Be Monsters

Analog Cheese / Toztizok

Robo / Karawane 2010

Zanstones / BodoBuddha / ZH27

Big City Orchestra / White Fungus Issue 11 / Pogus Productions

De Nagalm Op De Kopf! / Ultra Eczema 60 / Ultra Eczema

various artists / Trunculence compilation / Arvo Fingers

various artists / 500 Lock Grooves by 500 Artists / RRR

Monostadt 3 / Experiment 8.2 / Digestive Systems

Fuzzbox / Whats the Point / WEA

Koo Koo Heads / Consider It Done

Air Play

Thanks to 9th Floor Radio.com and Wolfgang Dorninger's show broadcast somewhere out of Austria. Follow the links below to hear their entire broadcasts. Thanks!
9th Floor
Wolfgang Dorninger