Ram Ventilation
– Held in Mouth – Digital Release – 2020
1.
What
an Idea For Wet Wires.
2.
A
Simple Phallange Engine.
3.
Acousticon
(Brought My Soul Out to Burn)
4.
I
Guess I’ll Bleed for It.
I’m unfamiliar
with Ram Ventilation’s work, but the artist contacted me, and I was interested enough
to look it up and review. Ram has been active since around 2018 and the project
is linked to Coumadin and Cut Rings.
The opening
track for Held in Mouth is What an Idea for Wet Wires, which is very cut up and
fractured. Muffled distortion hums away, breaks in the sound interrupt. Once
things flare up noises are in combat with other noises, screeches screech and
distortion roars. These elements are randomly knocked off flow by cuts in sound
so other methods materialise allowing for different passages of wall and noise
which I like. The drops and raises in volume and volume play offs are
impressive- I call this method Broken Wall.
Shorter tracks
like A Simple Phallange Engine use subtle noise that again shifts, overlaps,
and fights with itself to produce a mini quiet riot. Acousticon contrasts this
with a noisy yet unique assault, the sounds are bouncy and choppy, this evolves
into a chopped stream of noise that continually morphs into different dominant
sounds. Drops and rises in volume are thrown at the line of sound, the continual
shifts are dramatic and strengthen the work. The final track starts as a drop
as if to continue from Acousticon, falters, cuts and erupts beautifully into a
choppy wall that continues through bold changes in sound.
I’m impressed
and glad my attention was bought to Ram Ventilation, there is a wealth of
material on the Bandcamp as well as physical releases. Good work, Held in Mouth
is impressive.
Nevis Kretini
2020.
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