...according to our Brian on Wed 02 Mar, 2011.
I had to be the man that forced Business Lad(y) to don his/her personal headphones in protest this Wed lunchtime, didn't I. This sensitive colleague of mine quite despises left-field sound-art and much of the experimental noise genre. I quite enjoy it but wouldn't take it home to meet me mum. Or anyone else's mum for that matter. This is pretty random stuff that can be fairly challenging. I especially dig the snatches of voice manipulation that recalls Mike Patton or Brighton dwelling mad badger Dylan Nyoukis. By track six we're getting treated to some pretty visceral frequencies and the digitized sound of someone/thing getting punched in the gut. Lovely. I'm not very well 'versed' in the profundities of this type of sonic probing and outsider feral-core. Some of the processed sounds are quite interesting though and the faint whiff of violence and madness emitting from this record is wonderfully unsettling. There is also a suggestion of a growling electronic Doberman at a couple of intervals. I hope the bloody thing is chained up. Those metal teeth can leave a nasty impression.....
Aspec(t) works with electro-acoustic instruments, digital devices and systems of feedbacks and resonations. Their music shares the timbrical research and the execution control typical of some radical impro music, but meets the visceral intensity and the obscure poetic of the new aktionsm and of noise music, as well as the research on analog devices and concrete sound materials of the sonic poetry. The result is a fascinating and inextricable forest of sounds: frenetic structures, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of the soundscape and the time stream.
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