(Re-bar) Sacramento improv-noise dynamo Xome headlines what looks like an intense night of highbrow cacophony and disruptive tone science. On his 2010 album, Separation Anxiety, Xome lets loose erratic jet streams of extremely high and low frequencies that sound like natural and industrial disasters funneled directly into your pitiful earholes. For a while, maybe 15 minutes, this is exhilarating. After that, the foundations of your carefully constructed edifice of “sanity” may start to crumble. Timm Mason plays guitar and bass in Midday Veil and Master Musicians of Bukkake and synth in TJ Max, yet he also finds time to maintain a solo career under his own name and as Mood Organ. His two long compositions on The Lost Levels (Debacle Records) combine drones with what could be rarefied horror-film and sci-fi-flick soundtrack concepts that are too strange for Hollywood. Mason pours a lot of interesting ideas into the disc’s 39 minutes.
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