Sunday, January 30, 2011

Dust in the Lungs of God



Out now on Cathartic Process, Death Agonies, Dust in the Lungs of God C20.

This is the fifth Death Agonies release and the first not released on Survivalist.

Line up for this was Carroll. Edgar. King. Nolan.

Dust in the Lungs of God was born out of the middle period of an extended personal meditation on the shortness and shortcomings of human life and the idea that we aren't nearly as important as we'd like to think we are in the grand old scheme of things.

Musically it represents another attempt of mine to erase the importance of individual thought and action in art.

The sounds were recorded in mid-2009 over four sessions, mostly at the end of Blockade rehearsals using our regular backline and drum kit on a variety of hand held recording devices. A vague nod is made to power violence in that part of the goal i set myself was to structure essentially formless and very loud recordings of harsh noise in a way that reflected the structuring of Endless Blockade material. I like the end result and the fact that i can't tell what material came from which session and who's responsible for its creation.

I haven't heard any of the other releases in the current Cathartic Process batch but the previous release by The Teratologist on CP was excellent and i hope for more of the same on the new one. If you don't already have them i'd also strongly recommend Bastard Noise OEB IV, Clew of Thesus - Meridian, Bizarre Uproar - Triumph and Vice Wears Black Hose - Part 1 releases.

Reading:

Wild Garden - dian marino
Wasase - Taiaiake Alfred

Listening:

Godstopper - demo
Morbosidad/ Perversor
Macronympha - Amplified Humans
Control - Seven Deadly Sins
Urban Blight - Total War
Winters in Osaka - Mutual Collapse
Nekrasov - whatever it is that's coming out on Void Seance sometime this year. Great release, perfect meditation music

4 comments:

Ryan Page said...

I enjoyed this recording. I like layers in music, and especially in noise. It's also interesting to hear different types of noise contrasted.

Good to see you're back.

These Seans said...

purchased. excited.

Anonymous said...

I ordered this one together with the Bizarre Uproar-box. I hope the German custom office doesn't check the package, otherwise i'll probably have some trouble because of the BU-artwork.
Are you still doing the post about the Black Metal album?

Vegas said...

This isn't related to anything but your "Listening" section, but man that Godstopper demo is fantastic!