Nasty Wizard Recordings, the most ghetto-tastic coven in Northern China, are struggling to hide the boners peaking out from underneath their robes on account of their first release for 2015: a split between Shanghai’s hi-priest of doom/black metal noise, Nahash, and Indonesia’s unstoppable fireball of DIY sonic destruction, To Die. As previously stated we’re trying our best to sheath our nerderific erections, we really are.
Check out a disturbing and suitably doomy promo right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ClfHfwTlE
First up on the gallows we have Nahash, a particularly murky offering out of the neon drenched over-caffeinated smog of Shanghai, where the pigs don’t fly, instead they float down the river. Nahash is in fact a project of one Laura Ingalls aka. Raphael Valensi of Acid Pony Club and Death to Ponies, also the producer to a bunch of bands and also the brains and the money behind Huashan Records, another macabre and purposely DIY label down Shanghai way (*swoon*). Nahash also utilises the visual talents of one Tina Sparkles, who like totally kills it when it comes to celluloid and digital. Like, for real.
Nahash has be known to also draw in the occasional other cat (picture the performance at Pair’s last show in an underground rehearsal room where Mike Cupoli of Noise Arcade fame was smashing the drum kit a hard as he could, while Adam Cah of The Other was literally throwing a smashed guitar into an amp, while Mr. Ingalls himself blasted out some deeeeeeep doom bass. Now imagine how that sounded.) To the point: the Nahash bit of this split is what you need in your life: it’s that extra spoon of doom in your black coffee after whatever semi-legal substances you imbued the night before, it’s the white noise between your ears when you lay down in bed at night, it’s the cat that gets under your feet just as you're about to descend a very steep staircase whilst carrying a box of artificial limbs.
Next up in the inquisitor’s boudoir is To Die, sometimes a band, sometimes one dude with a bunch of pedals, sometimes hardcore punk, sometimes hardcore noise, frickin’ awesome all the time ninety six percent of the time (and that DOES make sense.) To Die have probably put out more releases than most comic bookshop owners have had intimate nights at home with a box of tissues and an internet full of porn (eg. a lot) and there’s no sign of a drought coming from the To Die camp any time soon. It’s a constant (un)healthy stream of work from the mind, mouth, and finger tips of one Martinus Indra Hermawan (as he’s known on this release), a DIY demi-God in the Mecca of awesome that is Yogyakarta, Indonesia. And hey, he also runs a DIY label over there which happens to be handling the SE Asia production of this split. What a weirdo tea party this is turning out to be! Anyway, the To Die side of the split is exactly what those in known have come to expect from this project an assault of possibility mediative noise and broken signals, a beautiful mess for your twisted brain to try and decipher and make sense of.
The China, Nasty Wiz Biz, version of this split is available in tape format because when was the last time you went to somebody’s home and got excited about their iTunes library?Physical music, physical art, that’s where it’s at, and as it happens for this releases the Order of the Nasty Wizards enlisted the help of one Nan Guazi, a super talented Chinese visual art who lends her finely skilled hands to everything from photography, toy making, design, and painting. In this instance she lent us a suitably dark and gothic piece from her university days. There’s only fifty copies of this tape being produced (for now) so get one, put it on your shelf, and next time some one is snooping around your Awesome Stuff Collection reap the satisfaction of hearing them mutter “dafuck is this?”
Stream, download, and buy the release on the Nasty Wizard Bandcamp:https://nastywizardrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nahash-to-die
For a full interview with Nahash check out LiveBeijingMusic: http://www.livebeijingmusic.com/interview-nahash/
For a full interview with To Die check out AWEH.tv:http://www.aweh.tv/posts/to-die
Also check out some words about Nan Guazi on AWEH:http://www.aweh.tv/posts/nan-guazi
Find out more about Nasty Wizard Recordings right here:http://nastywizardrecordings.tumblr.com/
Keep in nasty, ya wizard!
ps. check a steamy little video for a festival NWR had a hand in last December:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6w8JLWVHHE
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