Boring Machines

MY DEAR KILLER/RELLA THE WOODCUTTER
My Dear Killer has been our first release. After years spent in scientific research in three different countries he’s back working on a bunch of new songs for a new proper album to be released soon. In the meantime he gives us this track, still reminescent of his early tunes, slow, sad and dissonant. Rella introduces himself with a couple of shorts tracks, smelling of sunny backyards, acoustic guitars and various discomforts. The first track opens with a tribal chant deliberately different from what follows, just a small hint of one of the many things that our man likes.

FATHER MURPHY – ‘HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD’
Our heroes Father Murphy just went through the -nth EU tour, this time sharing the stage with Sic Alps at times. Before they left they recorded a personal re-interpretation of VU’s Jesus, a possibly darker and noisier version as they imagined it. What a pleasure to welcome on the flipside another dark-ish trio from Turin, with a great bandname, great musical tastes and huge personality. There you go fellas, surfing through both sides of this perfect headstone to the warm season. This 7 inch is co-released with Aagoo, Avant! Records, Brigadisco, LaDelirante and Madcap Collective.

RELLA THE WOODCUTTER – ‘I KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO GET THE FUCK AWAY’
Rella, a new entry in the Boring Machines family, will be protagonist of a series of releases, started with the 7 inch split single with MDK and now continuing with this cdEP made of five songs. An entire new album of songs is set to be released later this year. From the initial sonic assault of Apocryphal, the five tracks guide the listener through shades of early nineties electric blues (think Palace, Songs:Ohia and fellows), sixties psichedelia flavoured from the spirit of Skip Spence. Rella’s singing is rich, intense and perfumed, sometimes plunged into deep trance, like in Are You Expired? or Wrong Affection where instruments and voice rise together in a psichedelic unison building from a country-like opening. Rella demonstrates he can manage nude guitar&voice songs, like in Coward where he accompany himself just with acoustic guitar fingerpicking and also skeletal electric blues like Bodies which transfigurates in a noisy orgy of percussions and violin. Recorded at home, this EP is the prelude of a forthcoming album which is part of the vynil trilogy started with the self released Nihilist Shack.

HEROIN IN TAHITI s/t  LP
This duo from Rome declared to have invented a new genre, with the tipical boast that only romans have. When we actually saw them playing a gig with Stellar OM Source at Codalunga we tought that if it’s not new, it’s surely weird enough to be released on Boring Machines. Heroin in Tahiti welcomes you to death surf, the sound of a possible apocalypse which surrounds two twanging guitars. The album moves slowly through Morriconian tunes and other ‘surfing’amenities, all covered in a hazy numb of loops, effects and drum machines. Think of drinking a frozen Daiquiri in Mururuoa during the atomic test while watching spaghetti western b-movies and you probably get the image.

RELLA THE WOODCUTTER – ‘THE GOLDEN UNDERTOW’  LP
A complete album from the man with a guitar that made us think at the same time to old bluesmen, psychdelic jammers with injections of modern slowcorers. Recorded at home in a week this album sounds as a perfect synthesis of what we like on a songwriter. Good lyrics, great flexibility between styles and a general psychedelic feeling that make us think of a sunny afternoon in the frontporch with lots of beer, cigarettes and nothing to do except watching the horizon. Get yourself a rocking chair and a hat.

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