The anonymous artist behind the cipher \\\V/// builds up a threnody of muscular tension, as if too much sound is trying to squeeze itself through a narrow, rusty pipe.
A vibrating tuning fork? A revving V8 engine? Rabbit ear antennae twitching with reception? The name \\\V/// is apparently unutterable but definitely connotative.
It may sound counter-intuitive, but noise music can be a thinking persons music, too. An ambient drone with chunks in it, it resembles action painting in its volition and abstraction, splashed across the speakers, an expression of the liberating palpability of sound.
The anonymous artist behind the cipher \\\V/// builds up a threnody of muscular tension, as if too much sound is trying to squeeze itself through a narrow, rusty pipe. Scraping its edges, it breaks loose after some eight minutes with a great thrust, its ungreased forward motion trailing a surprisingly amicable little up-and-down melody, all the while opening up more and more echoing space around it. \\\V/// is in full control of the core and periphery of this rushing clamour, introducing a tinny, computer-generated snare and hi-hat a little less than halfway through its twenty-four minute running time. It serves as an point of orientation as well as a kind of comic relief.
Handmade and home-burned, 267L-18 is still a good-looking listen. Related and also very worth checking out in the more polished, pro-printed CDR format on this German micro-label’s roster are the two releases by Nebula VII, a Russian dark ambient proposition of cold, foreboding restraint, like the echo wandering within the cast-iron body of a bell long after the clapper has struck.
267L-18 is available on Vomit Bucket Productions. [Release page]
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