Drug Age - Dyslexic Action.

 

Drug age – dyslesic action – 2 x CD - Input Error – 2023 – ie18

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Disc One.

        1.    Progress people.

        2.    Discrimination of graphemes.

        3.    Impact on writing.

        4.    External causes of sensory deficits.

        5.    Prevalence of intuitiveness.

        6.    Lungomare.

        7.    Soup loop.

        8.    Philosophy of language.

        9.    A furthest colony.

Disc Two.

        1.    Early Organisation.

        2.    Tipo l.

        3.    Tipo p.

        4.    Aggiunte e ripetizioni.

        5.    Specific disturbances.

        6.    Mundane minutiae.

        7.    Confessioni.

Drug Age is Francesco Tignola and Matteo Castro, they are from Italy. The duo has been releasing as Drug Age since 2012. Dyslexic Action was originally released on Second Sleep in 2013 on a four-cassette release. Francesco Tignola also runs the Joy de Vivre label and creates work as Elisha Morningstar. Matteo Castro runs the Second Sleep label; he is active in projects like Primorje and Lattera 22. Drug Age’s most recent releases were Deaf Plants and Costume e Societa in 2020.

The first disc of the album uses Harsh Noise creatively, this is firstly done through dramatic shifts in speed across tracks. At times it feels as if it is hurtling through a train tunnel at 186mph and other times it is as if the sound is slowly ploughing through a mountain. Broken crackle blisters and splutters to slow the sound down, thick, hissing distortion accelerates the work away from this. When chaos erupts, insane screeching, wailing feedback and hissing, whipping distortion are thrown around. This creates a shift in noise texture as the sound accelerates into itself. High pitched shooting sounds cut into the distortion fracturing the flow of sound. The battle within the work is consistent. The sound breaks down into either: broken crackle, screaming feedback or lone hiss at different times before throwing everything back together again. Clunking and clattering noises are at times left to be the main sound until the main noise elements return and work with, or over these.

Disc two screams into action, feedback and hiss square up to each other until they unite. However, the work on this disc eventually falls into heavier, murkier, atmospheric territory. Sounds are left to wail in an empty no man’s land, it is different to the lone noise awaiting more noises that happens on the first disc, here we are thrown into trance like passages of foggy noise. The noise is like a lone voice, lost and scared. At times the work feels like a radio in purgatory trying to find a signal, but only able to broadcast noise. This disc manages to achieve very haunted tones as the sound wails, gasps and coughs. As the work busies up, the sound has bleak drones that weave from being undertones to overtones and back again. The density of the sound returns to full flow.

The first disc is a solid display of Harsh Noise and how to keep things interesting. The second melts the sound so we are left with fractured atmospherics that are very effective as well as continued, precise outbursts of noise. Everything is detailed and composed well. These factors make it clear why this tape set needed a CD reissue. This has original theme, strong sounds, with excellent shifts in mood and composition. I was going to say that Dyslexic Action is very good work, but I am going to go with excellent here.

Army of One 2023.