Hana Haruna — [shoppers at suburban mall, May 1993]

Here’s a new two-track album from Hana Haruna (aka Portland’s Ken Jamison). We’re presented with two half-an-hour slabs of dense & texturally detailed walled noise by one of the true masters of the form.

Sado Rituals — Scattered Identity

Scattered Identity severs up a forty-one-minute slice of sub-bass walling from this long-running Polish project. It’s a ‘wall’ that sucks you in from the off, keeping you fixed in its taut & tense grip throughout

Nightwing — Long Hard Road (CD boxset)

Long Hard Road is a CD box set collecting together the work released by lesser-know/ under-appreciated British rock band Nightwing in the early/ mid 80’s. The five-disc set takes in four studio albums & one live album- all of which highlight the project's blending & blurring of heavy rock, proto-metal, prog, and later more American-styled AOR- always managing to balance great instremental chops with an ear for melody/ great song construction.

Lee’ Scratch’ Perry/ VA — Flashing Echo

From the fine folks at Cherry Red’s Doctor Bird, here is another collection of tracks produced by legendary/ innovative reggae producer Lee’ Scratch’ Perry. Flashing Echo is the second collection focusing on the key year of 1973, and over two CD’s/ forty eight tracks, we get another sonic look into the mind of this key/ important producer during his prime- the 1970’s.

Walls For Eerie, Haunted, & Darkly Hopeless Vistas

Vacant Align Interview

Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview

Creative ‘n’ Inventive sleaze- The world of Roman Porno

Jasper Sharp interview

In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.