FLAMING FIRE/ MAGIC IS KüNTMASTER 7" $7, MilkPal. New! “Excellent New York-area weirdness...Flaming Fire delivers bent cabaret chaos.” |
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MAGIC IS KUNTMASTER, VIRGIN GHOST CD $9, MilkPal Records. Hand-screened covers, enhanced CD featuring video by Camilla Ha and award-winning filmmaker Usama Alshaibi. Partially supported by a grant from the City of Chicago Dept of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Picture someone, you perhaps, convulsing in a padded white cell illuminated with blinding fluorescent lights. Your antipsychotic medication is wearing off and your restraints are mercilessly tight. Your mistaken suspicions and hallucinations are getting the better of you. To your dismay, no one else seems to hear the strange voices and disturbingly faint noises infiltrating the air, seeping into your auditory chamber. The incessant light source makes time impossible to determine. Who knows when the doctor’s next round will be? Your only resort is to turn inward to the only person who can’t help you. This is the feeling I experienced when listening to Virgin Ghost. I imagine the creepy whispers of inarticulate voices and pulsing static discharges of evil being the sort of schizophrenic aural delusions I might experience in Magic Is Kuntmaster’s claustrophobically enclosed audio environment. Extremely experimental, minimalist, cerebrally scratching, eerie, dark, unstable and disturbing. They take me to a place I dare not visit alone, but I have no choice. >>Guy Montag |
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MAGIC IS KUNTMASTER, NIGHTSONGS FOR UGLY CHILDREN CD $13, Nihilist Records. Handsewn, unique vinyl demon-doll covers. Partially supported by a grant from the City of Chicago Dept of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. |
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Chicago's Camilla Ha (ex-My Name Is Rar Rar) is hardly a sexless elf ala Lord of the Rings, Magic is Kuntmaster is a thoroughly upsetting musical experience, ripped stockings and scuffed Sunday shoes for all. Ambient music is defined as background music, Magic Is Kuntmaster demand attention at all hours. Each CD case comes snug in a painstakingly handmade fabric bag. Something is wrong here.
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ABBA: MASTER OF THE SCENE CD $10, Nihilist Records. Compilation CD featuring many of today’s most exhilerating noise artists and others. Tracks by Canned Hamm, I & Makoto, Irr.app.(ext), Sudden Infant, Viki, Evil Moisture, Vertonen, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Foamula.... ...And there’s another excellent spooky lost ghost girl ballad just a couple tracks later, Chicago act Foamula’s rendition of “Chiquitita”....And don’t worry, even with ABBA being the honored artist, it’s not a kitsch/irony-fest. >>Blastitude |
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QUINTA ESSENTIA CDR $7, Heresee Records. Spoken word compilation, hand-assembled, printed, compiled by Carly Ptak for Feels Heavy. Features spoken word pieces by members of Nautical Almanac, Brian Chippendale, Lexi Mountain, Hanna Fushihara, Haley O’Connor, Blaster al Ackerman, Catherine Pancake, Chiara Giovando, Michael Barker, Wolf, Leif & James Ritchy, Bonnie Jones & Andy Hayleck, Robert Francisco, Nate Hadyn, Pat Ptak, Camilla Ha. |
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USAMA ALSHAIBI, MUHAMMED AND JANE DVD $12. Feature length
plus 3 extra short films. Videomaker Usama Alshaibi is the sort of canny visual stylist who can sustain a mood...The haunting score is by Andy Ortmann and Camilla Ha. >>The Chicago Reader |
Also available: All prices include shipping (International prices vary). Checks and
money orders payable to Camilla Ha. |
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