New albums from End of the Alphabet: Yan Jun and FANZ

New albums from End of the Alphabet: Yan Jun and FANZ

End of the Alphabet Records are proud to announce their 5th and 6th releases since the label started in September this year: "Live at the Pyramid Club" by FANZ and "Microfeedback Lausanne" by Yan Jun.

After a period of frenzied and sleepless work, we have ready two albums that sit at opposing ends of the noise spectrum

FANZ are a four piece freak noise outfit from Wellington, New Zealand, featuring the legendary Antony Milton (here taking the drum seat), End of the Alphabet boss man, Noel Meek, South Korean performance artist, Samin Son and noisenik Fergus Nelson Moores. They have been described as being "something like a cross between The Skaters and The Futurians" (Pseudoarcana). Solidly in the New Zealand tradition of weirdo outsider noise makers, FANZ are four solo music freaks getting together to make a racket that one audience member described as "symphonic noise."

"Live at the Pyramid Club" was recorded at the most recent in a 15 year tradition of music venues in Wellington dedicated to experimental music and consists of two sides of improvised free noise and drone propelled by caveman drums. It is a wild ride of an album that sucks its listeners into a whirlpool of feedback and screams . . .

A sample track from "Live at the Pyramid Club is available here: https://soundcloud.com/end-of-the-alphabet/fanz-live-at-the-pyramid-club-excerpt

Yan Jun's release, "Microfeedback Lausanne", End of the Alphabet's first (and far from last) release from Asia, is a simply sublime work of feedback drone; electrics stripped back to nothing but their essential bliss. Recorded as part of a "series of headphone concerts as hypnotizing events" in Switzerland, "Feedback Lausanne" is a work of beautiful simplicity.

Yan Jun, known as the "Godfather of Chinese experimental music" (Tinymixtapes) has been working in experimental music since the early nineties as a writer, musician, sound artist and organiser. He is a key figure in the Chinese scene and massively influential both inside and, increasingly, outside of China. His writing features regularly in The Wire, he tours widely internationally and organises a plethora of gigs at home in Beijing.

Both albums are out on December 10th

"Live at the Pyramid Club" limited edition cassette and download

"Microfeeback Lausanne" limited edition CDR and download

Both albums, along with other EAR releases, are available on our bandcamp site: http://endofthealphabetrecords.bandcamp.com/

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