This unknown and almost unpronounceable project has been snapped up by Athanor after the original version was released as a 100 limited CDR (on some label called Black Dead Rabbit?!). Furnishing it with an official bio, it goes on to state “this was considered by us as the most important ‘dark ambient’ recording we have heard since Lustmord’s: The Place Where the Black Stars Hang”. Pretty big words you might say, now the question is: does this album come through with the good to back up such a statement? In a single sentence, I think this release falls just short of reaching the same breadth and depth of the aforementioned album, yet I do acknowledge that this is still a powerful recording. Forging forward from the outset with cyclic pulsations, track one sets the scene to make way for track two to take on a broader and more atmospheric frame that sweeps off into nebulous regions. Continuing on the building and evolving format, track three arrives as a mass of urgent partly, metallic sweeping atmospheric sound textures (and conjures up an image of a ancient monolithic generator positioned at the centre of the cosmos, that for unnumbered aeons has been powering the infinite expansion of the universe…). More brooding and catatonic, track four uses deeper more minimalist movements to create its atmosphere of cosmic resonance, including just a hint of melody and slow rhythmic percussive sounds (and to an extent actually reminds me of early Archon Satani). Spiralling pulses categorise the length seventh track, with the sound palate working on a vertical axis with its rising/ falling framework, again bringing visions of an idling archaic generator. However at around the five minute mark this track verges off into a panoramic styled soundscape with the whole atmosphere becoming increasingly urgent. On the eighth and final piece, with the use of slow echoes pulses & cyclic drones, it verges on an Inade like quality particularly when enhances with tribal-esque percussion in the final segment. Taken as a whole, this recording does a splendid job of evoking visions of the cold barren cosmos.
SPECTRUM MAGAZINE
credits
released January 1, 2001
CD, ltd. 500, Athanor (ATNR 012), 2001
Re-issue of the untitled CDR released by Black Dead Rabbit Production (BDRP-094) in 1999 limited to 100 copies.
Recorded in July 1999 on Mayak-232 tape recorder using: Korg DS-8, Korg Poly 800, Аltair-231, Polyvox, Akai S2000, Atari 1040FT, Samson MX-8 mixing desk, Lel Distortion, Rubikon 03C-1, Roland SH-01.
Musicians: Igor Potsukailo, Sergey Matveev, Yuri Denisenko.
Mastered by Andreas Resch.
Graphisme: Jean-Marc Dauvergne.
A collection of unreleased material from Daniel Burke's beloved experimental project, spanning four decades of loud, off-kilter weirdness. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 21, 2023
Shards of static & distortion crash against disarmingly beautiful piano & synth melodies on this riveting new record from Carbon and Prose. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2022
This wild experimental artist from Chicago uses electric kazoos, tape loops, and more to craft far-out, wonderfully confounding songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 15, 2021
Dear God, where was I when this first came out as a cassette tape in 1989? I mean, if I had been anywhere near this, I could have entered Nirvana without passing Go. Could have avoided wasting all that time sitting on my black pillow trying to be focused, still and silent. Dear God, send me back to 1989 and let an angel in the guise of one of my friends turn me on to this: "Hey, man. Take a hit of this, man. It'll freak you f__ing out, man." --- (I'll be a better person for it, God. I promise.) Wyndham Rain