DARDIS – Funerealism – 2022 – 5” CDR/Download – 2022 – [IND133F].
https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/funerealism-ind133f
http://www.colindardispoet.co.uk/
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Funerealism part 1.
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Funerealism part 2.
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Funerealism part 3.
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Funerealism part 4.
Perversely, the process of
creation – the birth, the formation, and ultimately the execution – became the
driving theme behind Funerealism. As Beckett writes in Waiting for Godot,
"They give birth astride of a grave." Any idea or concept of life
therefore must also contain the seed for conceptualising death, for the two are
simply inseparable. DARDIS 2022.
I recently received a generous
package of recent releases today from Florida’s Inner Demons Records. There
were the distinctive 3” Cdrs a plenty, badges, figures and to my shock, several
5” Cdrs I like this new progression of format, as they are tied into the
discography perfectly using Dan Fox’s black and white cover artwork with Inner
Demons typeface and logo. One of those 5” releases are by Northern Ireland
based project DARDIS.
This release is conceptually
loaded as seen in the quote above and heavier detail on the Bandcamp page. Sonically
I am impressed by the dream like ambient sound, there are parallels to the
amazing work of CTEPHIN. Funerealism has a deep, immersive sound that the
listener can drift in and out of it at will. The drones and rumbles feel locked
within a constant loop of movement, like how HNW work operates with subtle
changes of sound that are incorporated into the work. There are keyboard
melodies tied into Funerealism that give a haunted and slightly holy quality when
listening. The tension that exists within the sound of the work feels like an
important floating journey towards our end – an attempt to represent the
journey towards death? How death is represented is a personal concept, which
makes it difficult to judge the success of the work in that respect. This sounds
great and fits into the label’s catalogue perfectly as a single well thought out
jewel of a release.
Choppy Noodles 2023.
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