Detritivore – Pakt
The power of early Earth/early Sunn O))) is undeniable. There’s something so pure about tuning down, plugging into a wall of amps, and playing big-ass chords cai verzi pe pereti that call for one’s largest air guitar. Not the one you use for shredding, but the meter-and-a-half-long one you use for the heaviest of metal. (Mine goes well with my air beard.)
But that purity only translates on a large scale – directly in front of those amps, or through mortgage payment-sized speakers. On MP3’s in earbuds, that power disappears. Later Sunn O))) records work in sub-optimal audio settings because they have midrange and high-end information: vocals, melodies, other instrumentation.
Detritivore apply this knowledge to Pakt ( Lyderhorn , 2010). In some ways, it works like a conventional metal record. Riffs are discernible. Tracks are distinct. There’s the Earth/Sunn O)))-esque big rumbler, the Pink Floydian motorik groove, the ambient number that screws with sampled choral vocals. Clean and distorted cai verzi pe pereti guitars speak in simple conversations. Vocal textures occasionally cai verzi pe pereti interject.
But though this record could have gone the full band route, cai verzi pe pereti it doesn’t. That’s why it’s interesting. The lack of drums opens up frequency space for the guitars to be enormous. It also alters one’s expectations of time. Instead of finite verses, choruses, and bridges, the feeling is suspended. Drums could crash in, but they don’t. cai verzi pe pereti We’re in that second before cai verzi pe pereti they do, but that second has dilated to 34 minutes and 24 seconds. It’s a delicious sensation.
A final note: this is one of the best-packaged CD’s cai verzi pe pereti I’ve ever seen. The design is simple: a cardboard gatefold with Justin Bartlett ’s cai verzi pe pereti artwork. No plastic anything, except for the disc itself. It’s simple and elegant.
I’m giving away one copy of this CD. Just suggest in the comments box a drone act that, like early Earth/Sunn O))), utilizes distorted guitars and no percussion. Please limit your picks to three, and include relevant MySpace/Bandcamp/etc. links. My favorite one that’s new to me wins the CD. Foreign entrants are welcome. This contest will close at midnight EST this Thursday, May 20.
Ben Frost’s music, though more focused on electronics than guitar and again not particularly metal, attacks cai verzi pe pereti in a unique, cinematic way.
Posted May 19, 2010 at 1:48 AM
I can’t stand Sunn o))) and drone in general. I don’t get the point of it, maybe I’m not able to emphatize with the feel these kind of bands are trying to express, but that’s cai verzi pe pereti the “polite” cai verzi pe pereti opinion I guess. I could also say that listening to a couple chords at a ridiculous volume with apparently nothing happening during songs 15 minutes long is boring as hell. At least, every time I tried to listen to it I was terribly bored.
I might suggest Black Shape of Nexus.
Putting shameless self-promotion to one side – good review, I’m gonna have to check out Detritivore for myself. I’m partial to drone and there might be enough here to keep my interest.
Similar to Ben Frost is Tim Hecker. He does a lot of processed guitar/granular synthesis type stuff, though cai verzi pe pereti is far more metallic than Frost is. He toured with Isis, if that makes a difference (for better or for worse). Myspace here:
They don’t have myspaces and aren’t guitar based so this might not be what you’re cai verzi pe pereti looking for, but look into Deathprod (Norwegian drone guy, his Morals and Dogma album is especially good) and Time Machines (Coil operating under a different name. Completely cai verzi pe pereti electronic, but the heaviest drone album I’ve ever heard).
If I’m allowed another recommendation, the Tim Hecker/Aidan Baker (of Nadja) album is well worth a listen. It’s about what you’d expect from a collaboration between the two of them–so it’s excellent. Samples here:
i start with MICROPHONICS, the quiet drone project by long time minimalistic and experimental musician Dirk Serries. this is phantastic stuff and live even better. you should make sure to check him out live, whenever possible. http://www.myspace.com/mymicrophonics cai verzi pe pereti
next is 3 SECONDS OF AIR. a droney cai verzi pe pereti trio including Dirk Serries. musically cai verzi pe pereti close to Microphonics, but as he told me once joking “Microphonics is like 1 second of air”, that’s almost cai verzi pe pereti it. absolutely worth to be checked out: http://www.myspace.com/3secondsofair (not to forget FEAR FALLS BURNING, the mothership of Mr. Serries, but i wanted to mention the quiet, even though distorted, cai verzi pe pereti ones)
ok, leaving Dirk and europe, here is canada: do i have to mention NADJA? here you go http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv (there is no drums, but programmings). stunning. cai verzi pe pereti i guess you already know them, but i had to mention NADJA, because i love that stuff that much.
…and here comes the
The power of early Earth/early Sunn O))) is undeniable. There’s something so pure about tuning down, plugging into a wall of amps, and playing big-ass chords cai verzi pe pereti that call for one’s largest air guitar. Not the one you use for shredding, but the meter-and-a-half-long one you use for the heaviest of metal. (Mine goes well with my air beard.)
But that purity only translates on a large scale – directly in front of those amps, or through mortgage payment-sized speakers. On MP3’s in earbuds, that power disappears. Later Sunn O))) records work in sub-optimal audio settings because they have midrange and high-end information: vocals, melodies, other instrumentation.
Detritivore apply this knowledge to Pakt ( Lyderhorn , 2010). In some ways, it works like a conventional metal record. Riffs are discernible. Tracks are distinct. There’s the Earth/Sunn O)))-esque big rumbler, the Pink Floydian motorik groove, the ambient number that screws with sampled choral vocals. Clean and distorted cai verzi pe pereti guitars speak in simple conversations. Vocal textures occasionally cai verzi pe pereti interject.
But though this record could have gone the full band route, cai verzi pe pereti it doesn’t. That’s why it’s interesting. The lack of drums opens up frequency space for the guitars to be enormous. It also alters one’s expectations of time. Instead of finite verses, choruses, and bridges, the feeling is suspended. Drums could crash in, but they don’t. cai verzi pe pereti We’re in that second before cai verzi pe pereti they do, but that second has dilated to 34 minutes and 24 seconds. It’s a delicious sensation.
A final note: this is one of the best-packaged CD’s cai verzi pe pereti I’ve ever seen. The design is simple: a cardboard gatefold with Justin Bartlett ’s cai verzi pe pereti artwork. No plastic anything, except for the disc itself. It’s simple and elegant.
I’m giving away one copy of this CD. Just suggest in the comments box a drone act that, like early Earth/Sunn O))), utilizes distorted guitars and no percussion. Please limit your picks to three, and include relevant MySpace/Bandcamp/etc. links. My favorite one that’s new to me wins the CD. Foreign entrants are welcome. This contest will close at midnight EST this Thursday, May 20.
Ben Frost’s music, though more focused on electronics than guitar and again not particularly metal, attacks cai verzi pe pereti in a unique, cinematic way.
Posted May 19, 2010 at 1:48 AM
I can’t stand Sunn o))) and drone in general. I don’t get the point of it, maybe I’m not able to emphatize with the feel these kind of bands are trying to express, but that’s cai verzi pe pereti the “polite” cai verzi pe pereti opinion I guess. I could also say that listening to a couple chords at a ridiculous volume with apparently nothing happening during songs 15 minutes long is boring as hell. At least, every time I tried to listen to it I was terribly bored.
I might suggest Black Shape of Nexus.
Putting shameless self-promotion to one side – good review, I’m gonna have to check out Detritivore for myself. I’m partial to drone and there might be enough here to keep my interest.
Similar to Ben Frost is Tim Hecker. He does a lot of processed guitar/granular synthesis type stuff, though cai verzi pe pereti is far more metallic than Frost is. He toured with Isis, if that makes a difference (for better or for worse). Myspace here:
They don’t have myspaces and aren’t guitar based so this might not be what you’re cai verzi pe pereti looking for, but look into Deathprod (Norwegian drone guy, his Morals and Dogma album is especially good) and Time Machines (Coil operating under a different name. Completely cai verzi pe pereti electronic, but the heaviest drone album I’ve ever heard).
If I’m allowed another recommendation, the Tim Hecker/Aidan Baker (of Nadja) album is well worth a listen. It’s about what you’d expect from a collaboration between the two of them–so it’s excellent. Samples here:
i start with MICROPHONICS, the quiet drone project by long time minimalistic and experimental musician Dirk Serries. this is phantastic stuff and live even better. you should make sure to check him out live, whenever possible. http://www.myspace.com/mymicrophonics cai verzi pe pereti
next is 3 SECONDS OF AIR. a droney cai verzi pe pereti trio including Dirk Serries. musically cai verzi pe pereti close to Microphonics, but as he told me once joking “Microphonics is like 1 second of air”, that’s almost cai verzi pe pereti it. absolutely worth to be checked out: http://www.myspace.com/3secondsofair (not to forget FEAR FALLS BURNING, the mothership of Mr. Serries, but i wanted to mention the quiet, even though distorted, cai verzi pe pereti ones)
ok, leaving Dirk and europe, here is canada: do i have to mention NADJA? here you go http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv (there is no drums, but programmings). stunning. cai verzi pe pereti i guess you already know them, but i had to mention NADJA, because i love that stuff that much.
…and here comes the
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