Chrup / Gen 26 – Post Viral Madness – CD / Download – Terraformer Research Facilities – 2020
https://terraformerresearchfascilities.bandcamp.com/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/6786914-Chrup
1.
Chrup
– Crying
2.
Gen
26 – Zvocna surovina.
3.
Gen
26 – Kolonija.
4.
Gen
26 – Regeneraci sonda.
5.
Gen
26 – Genetska modifikacija organskih celic.
6.
Gen
26 – Prasna Nevihta.
I’ve
reviewed Gen 26 a few times over the last few months and have become familiar
with Matjaž Galičič and his stripped down, raw take on Harsh Noise. This latest
work Post Viral Madness is a split, with a newer Czech project called Chrup.
Children’s
cries serve as intro and end to this work. Big resonations of tunnelled,
blasting sound progress into roaring violence. At first, the piece has a lot of
space carved into it forming an area for the sound to act out creating a sense
of haunted isolation. Wall noise builds with sharper sounds overlaid on top, erupting
until space is gradually reinserted back into the equation. The repeated shifts
from full to spacious provide a dramatic contrast within the act of Crying. Is this
work a tantrum or a description of the process of being upset?
Gen26
starts off with short abusive frequencies that make my head rattle, the
following track uses a shifting, sharp, warbling distortion. I like the minimal
palette that is always demonstrated here, this is also the case in the busier
works – a few make a lot. This is good European Harsh Noise that uses blasting
distortion to create some good walls. I would however describe these walls as a
sharper, less meditative and more abusive as if they are shouting right in the
listeners face. The sound is always full and at times very compressed to
radiate high levels of tension; there is very rarely any space in the works.
This sums the nature of Gen 26 on this recording; a more ‘at you’, impossible
to disengage with approach that demonstrates the usual high levels of thought
and clarity in Gen 26.
I
recommend both acts and buying this screamer of a recording.
Dorcus Maximus 2020
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