Rammel Club – 05/07/2019. Chameleon Arts Café, Occult and
Light, Nacht Und Nebel and Vampyres. Chameleon, Nottingham.
The Chameleon Arts Cafe.
For tonight’s event there were some last-minute changes,
Lucy Adlington was replaced by Occulting Light. This was what I’d call a
Nocturnal Beats project, built from arching Keyboard drones, beats and noise that
made a slowly building sound, the work intensified as the set progressed. The
beats seemed to become more tightly repetitive, as the moody sound built up to
a hypnotic climax. I liked this and got into the performance, Beat driven, noise related things like
Tetsuo, Abysse, Salford Electronics and Daphnellc have really been on my
listening list lately. This really fit in with that for sure. I do believe this
was the project’s third outing - good work, good show.
Occulting Light.
For Nacht Und Nebel’s performance there were no stage lights,
just the glow of the small light included in the artists set up; it was all about
the noise made and made for an effective sound delivery. When the sounds
started they were stuttered and choppy, interrupted by silence. It morphed to a
bigger sound that was distorted, pulsating, throbbing and very controlled to
make one of the most sonically tense and abrasive sets that I have seen from
the project. There seemed to be a lot of individual sonic aspects put together in
different segments of the show, it was very varied in sound language as various
cutups built and interlinked to make a whole.
Nacht und Nebel.
I was keen to hear Vampyres as I’d bought ‘Voyeurs at the
gates of hell’ when Culver played here a few months back, it’s the project of
Lee Stokoe of Culver and Martyn Reid. This is a more aggressive project in
sound, there are massive drones combined with an army of noises. Their
performance moved from being suspenseful, guttural, infected and pulsating
throughout their set. Like their recordings the drones that underlie the music
combine with the chaotic noise that batters away at the foreground and sound huge.
Each artist’s sound grew tonight, but this went elsewhere. Vampyre’s set was simultaneously
controlled and chaotic, I feel both members bring different things to the
project, as a result I was very impressed by what I saw and bought their ‘Bloodstream’
tape plus a bunch of other Culver stuff.
Vampyres.
Great night.
Choppy Noodles 2019.
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