& the Dark Persists

Continuing on with Darkjazz music, here are several more divergent offerings to showcase some variety in the genre.

 

Gamardah Fungus is a Dark Ambient drone outfit from Dnipro, Ukraine. They play slowed drone Ambient featuring Darkjazz stylings with electroacoustic instrumentation incorporating field recordings. This is one of their finest moments... 

 

Gamardah Fingus - Nuclear Winter, Nocharizma nchr010, 2012.
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Big Finger Labirynth    
Nuclear Winter    
Last Train to Save Us    
World Dying    
Another Earth

 

 

 

 

 

Somewhere off Jazz Street is the film noir Darkjazz music project of musician Buz Hendricks featuring late night sound improvisations, sound effects, & saxophone. Hendricks plays all the music using electronically generated sounds played on keyboard. 

 

Somewhere off Jazz Street - Stories of Midnight Streets, self-released, 2007.

It's Time    
Can't Escape the Past    
When it Slips Away    
Scene of the Crime    
Along the Way    
Forgotten    
Calm Before the Storm    
One Crazy Night    
Last Resort    
Night Voices    
If I Had a Reason

 

 

 

 

 

Although trumpeter & composer Jon Hassell is primarily know as the creator of Fourth World music (& his work on it with Brian Eno), he has collaborated with many & dabbled in numerous genres. He has released several Darkjazz offerings, this being my favorite, The strangely beautiful title is taken from a poem by the great 13th century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. The rest of it is: "Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street/I took it as a sign to start singing/Falling up into the bowl of sky."  Listen to Hassell's trumpet sing...

 

 

 

Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street, 

ECM Records ECM2077, 2009.

Aurora
Time & Place
Abu Gil
Last Night the Moon Came
Clairvoyance
Courtrais
Scintilla
Northline
Blue Period
Light on Water

 

 

 

 

 

I've been sharing a bit of Tuxedomoon lately. They as well tried their hand at Darkjazz. 

Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name - Blue Velvet Revisited, Crammed Discs MTM42, 2016.

The Slow Club    
Lumberton    
Do it for Van Gogh    
So Fucking Suave    
Now it's Dark    
Dorothy - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name
Lincoln Street - John Foxx
A Candy Colored Clown    
Frank    
Alligator Briefcase    
Jeffrey Nothing    
Until the Robins Come    
Don - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name

 

 

 

 

 

Schwarzeneggerization is the Darkjazz / noir-lounge project of Ukrainian Anton Korablev serving as a distinctive tribute to that unforgettable pair of cinematic hauntologists, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch. There are synthesizer swipes, big-ass rimshots, Noir reversals of indie guitar twang, decayed xylophones, vibrato stacattos, drumesque freakouts, & overamped pulsatronics. Each track on this debut limited-edition cassette Big Ed's Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache feels like a track for an unreleased unfilmed Film Noir by David Lynch or a horror movie by John Carpenter.

Here Schwarzeneggerization is: Igor Kharabebasku - guitar; Anton Perezimnik - keyboards & strings; & Anton Korablev - double bass, drums, & noises.

 

 

Schwarzeneggerization - Big Ed’s Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache cassette, 

Православная Боль 001, 2012.

Side A -
Dead Dog Farm
Uncle's Day at a Whorehouse
6 Ounces of Unicorn Meat
Side B -
Body Bag
Ronette's Bridge
Deer at Log Cabin

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ