Satøri – The Braver the Bull the Better the Bullfight – Cassette/Download
– Outsider Art – 2019 – OA031.
Tracklist
1. Cunt.
2. Burn
Out Your Eyes.
3. Closing
the Gates of Hell.
4. Toybox.
5. The
Paranoid Ward.
6. Handmade
Tools (for Izabela)
When I saw Satøri play live this year, I remember two
things clearly, the depth and range of their sound and being convinced by Dave
Kirby’s performance. I bought a CD at the gig, but my amazing co-reviewer Psymon
immediately did an in-depth review of it. The term veteran act usually implies
there’s a sense of establishment acceptance around the act, the various Satøri
Line ups that have led to founder Kirby being the returned sole member of the
project, releasing plenty of bleak recordings and the nature of Satøri’s live performance
rules out any establishment acceptance.
Cunt is rich in dense, dark atmosphere from the outset, the
noise is refined and sharp. The resonating synthesisers are deep in texture as the
combinations of different sonic elements work to create that now familiar,
infected Satori sound. This serves as a nod towards Death Industrial in the
overall feel of the album.
There is also a submerged feel to Satøri, this is
particularly evident in the tortured sounds of Burn Out Your Eyes. Lots of
action seems to go off in the background and foreground at different times, the
brief vocal is sickened and convincingly disturbing. I believe some of the
noises are vocal sounds treated and abstracted beyond recognition throughout the
album.
I felt I’d walked in during the middle of Satøri in full
throttle as Closing the Gates of Hell’s massive sound erupted. This uses nightmarish,
ethereal repetition and walls of cascading distortion to make a full, hellish
assault. To tweak it from generic wall noise the sound behind the distortion is
prominent and comes to the forefront frequently. As this dies off, we are left
in deep spacious a deep spacious dreamlike field of sound as if the gates of
hell have really been closed. A different variation on the earlier mass of
sound builds up for a short time until it pases.
The deep atmospheres that filled Gates of Hell continue
Toybox as a backing to distorted, sampled dialogue, but a similar hell of noise
soon erupts begins to unfold. Very sharp noise from one speaker dominates as if
there is a sound fault until distorted, metallic crackle suddenly bursts from
the other speaker as if to bombard with two separate walls of sound. Toybox absolutely
thrives on the play off of noises. This pulls right back as pleasant toybox sound
and atmospherics make for a happy ending.
Things remain restrained as The Paranoid Ward unfolds, the
wider atmospherics that Satori revels in, really kick in here so that the
slightest rise is really felt across the entire sound. Eruptions in the sound
are huge as they eventually come to a massive blast of hellish assault before
things sink back into silence.
Just as I was beginning to thing Satori’s infected quality had
disappeared, it came back tenfold on Handmade Tools. This has a real sickness
of sound – an absolute wall of sickness punctuated by shards of sharp
frequency making for an excellent erurtion of a finale.
This is an excellent album and up there with Outsider Art’s
best, it feels like what I saw Satøri do live amped up to maximum effect with
cutting sonic clarity as it moves across many methods of delivery - Buy it before it sells out.
Nevis Kretini 2019.
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