Vitauct & SOROM – Is There Any Way Out? – Digital Release –
Ulka Pind Records – 2023.
https://ulkapindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/is-there-any-way-out
https://ulkapindrecords.bandcamp.com
1.
Pain(t) Factory.
2.
Boredom of Production.
3.
Machines Desirantes.
4.
Conveyor Belt of Despair.
5.
Life is Full of Colours.
6.
Corporate Thinking.
7.
Existential Abyss.
8.
Alienation.
9.
Nada!
10.
Wasted Years.
SOROM is a Ukrainian (Odesa) project that makes experimental
music, which is created using both electronic instruments and field recordings.
Vitauct is also a Ukrainian noise project that combines harsh noise, death
industrial and percussion industrial. They also often use field recordings in their
tracks. Two projects from war torn Ukraine. Respect to anyone making noise
there in these very troubled times.
Images of present day destruction in artist's hometown, courtesy of the artist.
Intense humming and clatter build Pain(t) Factory, the track
intensifies via busyness, volume and insane churning, making for a severe
intro. I like that there are things going off during the track, conversation,
scuffling and electronic blasts. Field recordings introduce Boredom of
Production, as people go about their business, electronics hiss and hum. The
sounds begin to blur, what is the field recording and what is the noise? Is the
shuffling part of the performance or is someone tidying up a mess? A harsher squawk
resonates Machines Desirantes as drones rush through the sound, it is raw and
effective. The sound is chaotic and vocals seem woven into the sound, it has
that early Power Electronics sound and is great because of this. A louder frontal
assault is delivered for Conveyor Belt of Despair, I feel this is a rapid shift
from an early Grey Wolves type muffled chaos to a more modern-day Unrest
Productions type clear, precise assault, I am realising a gem dropped in my
inbox now. Metallic wailing scrapes and screams at me and Life is Full of Colours.
Drones and warped announcements truly display power of sound,
elements are controlled. everything is disinfected and precise on Corporate
Thinking. I am really impressed by the drones and hiss, how they create tension
and threat. The abstracted announcements are voices amongst the war of the
sound. Distorted percussion and warbled noise play off each other until a dramatically
warped vocal takes the lead on Existential Abyss. I like this, as it is
carefully combined rhythmic Industrial and cluttered experimentation, making
for good work. Feedback weaves through the track beautifully. Blasts of roaring
distortion build Alienation, drones flow under the bellowing chaos. Feedback
seems to eventually take the lead and wail through everything. Nada! means
nothing. This feels like a field recording punctuated my roaring noise and
feedback. It sounds like war as if planes and rockets soar through it, the
feedback is like screams. This is terror. A deeper, lower assault with huge
drones and vocal samples are the final track Wasted Years. Creepy electronics
play off the drones as the track progresses, which builds a huge finale sound.
I think my Inbox got landed with a gem today, great album,
impressive use of various approaches, excellent work. Stay safe and well.
Isolated and aware. 2023.
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