Svarte Greiner - Depardieu

Erik K. Skodvin was last seen moulding odes to shadowy Norwegian film reels with ‘Pale Ravine’, his collaborative effort under the Deaf Center moniker, now he returns in his murky solo guise Svarte Greiner with two tracks of crumbling cinematic degradation. One part absurd theatre and one part haunting melancholia, Skodvin takes countless recordings – stones, wood, water or leaves and layers them over and over each other to leave us with skittering atmospherics and abrasive noise, under which he embeds droning organ sounds or discordant guitar strums. This is the first example of Skodvin’s devastating acoustic doom, a style which he has further explored in the imminent full length album ‘Knive’ and details lonely journeys by the sea at the dead of night as boats creak and the dark waters lap at your feet. Comparable to the edgy soundtracks of Angelo Badalamenti or even the noise-flecked distortion of Machinefabriek, Skodvin has carved out a distinct sound for himself in Svarte Greiner, and ‘Depardieu’ is only the very beginning.

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