HFT

This one is a recent discovery. HFT (High Fucking Time) is a three piece instrumental jam band from Delhi!. Their tunes are absolutely hypnotic and their songs can go on for 15 minutes if they have to. Lew Hilt on the bass is a madman. Arjun Sen (guitars) doesn’t play guitar in the conventional sense. His unique texture-weaving kind of playing is beautiful. The drummer, Adhiraj Mustafi is the third member of this line up, and trust me, he is the perfect compliment to the bass and guitars. Catch them live if you can and download their mp3s and videos off their webpage http://www.hftmusic.com/ .

Lightning Bolt

Noise. Noise at its loudest. That is how one can describe the music of the drum/bass duo of Lightning Bolt. All efforts to describe their sound in rational terms will eventually prove useless. I write this at a point where I’ve been listening to only LB for more than two weeks. Further listening means you are risking permanent damage to your ear drums. The crazy, incredibly precise drumming of Brian Chippendale leaves one gasping for air. The evil distorted bass of Brian Gibson is definitely going to get you and rip that head of yours. How does one get the idea of replacing one of the bass strings with a banjo string? Wreaking havoc with the sounds thereby produced. The vocals are sung into a telephone receiver. This is one evil evil band, meant for the hardest of the hard-core noise freaks.

I’ve also been incessantly listening to Black Pus, a solo side project of Brian Chippendale, who also writes comic books when he’s not jamming. The first two Black Pus albums are available for free download at http://www.fauxfetus.net/faux/bands/blackpus/ . I find it absolutely impossible to try and describe the sound in Black Pus. Go ahead and find it for yourself!