Saturday, March 10, 2007
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voluptuous vultures cd
[2006, psychform]
this is a cd reissue of maja solveig kjelstrup ratkje and hild sofie tafjord's 2005 10", also on psychform. this shiny version adds on a titular track to make it worth the transition. voluptuous vultures has always been my favorite fe-m
ail release, so i'm more than happy to blab about it.
valkyrie procession begins with a soothing wall of distortion that will slowly dissipate more and more until it's but a mere rumble in the distance, over which there's a good balance of electronic sounds and drones being made. a sterner layer of distortion makes its presence known after four minutes and so do some siren-esque vocals, but anyone with any knowledge of classical mythology knows that sirens equal bad times. that holds true here as things get more violent. they'll settle down soon enough as to make way for maja's crazed, spoken-in-tongues, utterances and then those are pushed back to bring in louder, repetitious vocals. those; however, quickly get manipulated wonderfully beyond all recognition. all the time that this is going on there's roughly ten other layers of sound all co-existing. some more peacefully than others. yeesh. this one's a keeper. noisy and enthralling.
so far, both valkyrie procession and the second track, artbeak, have managed to have trance-inducing backgrounds. in a lot of cases with experimental music, i find that what's going on behind the scenes is just as important as the more prominent layers. there's some vocals that are sharing space with alternately screeching and sputtering noises, and it's heavenly. the bar on blustery sounds has been raised quite a bit since the opener.
after the jittery electronics of dunlin dance, we get to the twelve minute addition, voluptuous vultures. there's a wealth of odd ball noises that i can't describe as well as the first appearance of hild's french horn. vultures, at times, possesses a playful sound to it with the merry-go-round music and various quirky samples, but the overall abundance of noisy things going on at once (despite there being only the faintest of drones in the background) keep this a challenging listen. that's challenging in a good way, even if it doesn't really come close to turbulence of the first two compositions.
with that, i think that i've exhausted psychform's awesome package.
Artbeak
[2006, psychform]
this is a cd reissue of maja solveig kjelstrup ratkje and hild sofie tafjord's 2005 10", also on psychform. this shiny version adds on a titular track to make it worth the transition. voluptuous vultures has always been my favorite fe-m
ail release, so i'm more than happy to blab about it.valkyrie procession begins with a soothing wall of distortion that will slowly dissipate more and more until it's but a mere rumble in the distance, over which there's a good balance of electronic sounds and drones being made. a sterner layer of distortion makes its presence known after four minutes and so do some siren-esque vocals, but anyone with any knowledge of classical mythology knows that sirens equal bad times. that holds true here as things get more violent. they'll settle down soon enough as to make way for maja's crazed, spoken-in-tongues, utterances and then those are pushed back to bring in louder, repetitious vocals. those; however, quickly get manipulated wonderfully beyond all recognition. all the time that this is going on there's roughly ten other layers of sound all co-existing. some more peacefully than others. yeesh. this one's a keeper. noisy and enthralling.
so far, both valkyrie procession and the second track, artbeak, have managed to have trance-inducing backgrounds. in a lot of cases with experimental music, i find that what's going on behind the scenes is just as important as the more prominent layers. there's some vocals that are sharing space with alternately screeching and sputtering noises, and it's heavenly. the bar on blustery sounds has been raised quite a bit since the opener.
after the jittery electronics of dunlin dance, we get to the twelve minute addition, voluptuous vultures. there's a wealth of odd ball noises that i can't describe as well as the first appearance of hild's french horn. vultures, at times, possesses a playful sound to it with the merry-go-round music and various quirky samples, but the overall abundance of noisy things going on at once (despite there being only the faintest of drones in the background) keep this a challenging listen. that's challenging in a good way, even if it doesn't really come close to turbulence of the first two compositions.with that, i think that i've exhausted psychform's awesome package.
Artbeak
:: posted by avant gardening, 7:44 PM