A Captive of Oxygen is close-up magic, field recordings of a rubber-booted hunter slogging through muck and tall, wet grass before entering a rusting, oily world like the Zone of Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
Sweden’s Per Åhlund presents the second three inches in a nine-inch trilogy that began with Through an Odious Framework. A Captive of Oxygen is close-up magic, field recordings of a rubber-booted hunter slogging through muck and tall, wet grass before entering a rusting, oily world like the Zone of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. The walker turns into a vinyl cripple, limping over a low tone that actually instills in the listener a certain cold comfort in this cast-iron, toxic brownfield, as do the birds, who always have the option of flying far, far away. Deftly manipulated, Diskrepant’s A Captive of Oxygen fuses natural and synthetic sounds into a far-more earthbound second chapter, albeit one into which you are required to supply your own fresh air.
A Captive of Oxygen is available on Attenuation Circuit.
