Inner Demons #21
Inner Demons logo from the Inner Demons Bandcamp.
James Nathan Powell – Hateless – 3”CDR/Download – 2022 - [IND131]
https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hateless-ind131
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I.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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VI.
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VII.
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VIII.
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IX.
Spitting crackle greets me as my
introduction to the work of James Nathan Powell. The crackle functions alone
with no backing bass unlike the following track that uses a combination of deep
bass and sharp hiss cutting along the top of it. The bass is effectively cut into
on II, it dislocates the smoothness of the sound, but the hiss isn’t – this
makes for good listening. Guttural clanking and banging seems to hijack the
track - James isn’t having any of this smooth continuity lark, he’s very
difficult.
Very fractured noise makes up
III, it is as if this looked like it was going to be something, but changed
direction as the sound splutters and coughs out noise. This is abrasive work. Hissing
distortion and clanging make up IV, I like the level of experimenting that emerges
on each track. V marks a return to fractured distortion as it progresses to
gargled spatter on VI, this sounds like a broken voice trying desperately to
communicate. Bass tries to back the work but it is equally fragmented. The
broken approach continues into VII which has more splatter to its sound. VIII ups
the ante with fragmented elements forming a broken wall, this sounds gasping
and dragging. Piano playing ends the album, giving a nice finale from all the
splattered walls and chaos.
Interesting work, broken up nicely
with different experiments and recordings.
INFELIX – Eternal Hymns of Entropic
Darkness – 2 x 3”CDR/Download – 2022 – [IND122D]
https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-hymns-of-entropic-darkness-ind122d
1.
HYMN I: GBK.
2.
HYMN II: The Divine Abyss of Sleep.
3.
HYMN III: Doomed to Devour.
4.
HYMN IV: Hoarding Decay.
5.
HYMN V: The Anguished Light.
6.
HYMN VI: Eternal Suffering.
This is an Inner Demons double 3”
CDR release, I like these as you end up with an album worth of work across two Cdrs
Eternal Hymns of Entropic Darkness initially has a majestic Industrial sound,
it is dark and futuristic. It also doesn’t sound like anything that I have
heard before with its’ ambitious sound and cinematic quality. There are moments
when the sound has a buzz like a swarm of flies, giving an infected feel to the
work. Noise is used amongst the rhythms in different tracks, at other times
noise is prominent in the work. The work on the second disc is the best as the
use of prominent noise kills off the majestic rhythms with impressive ambient
textures. I feel the work does glide across genres and think it shows some
impressive synth skills across 2 discs. I didn’t take to the first disc, but
the second disc really perfects what INFELIX is trying to do across the other
disc, I was eventually impressed.
Goose – Selah – 3”cdr/download
– 2022 – [IND125]
https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selah-ind125
1.
Selah.
Goose is a USA project by Brett
Lunceford that has been active for 23 years.
Selah is starts quietly, ambient
drones and sounds play in the distance. The sleeve information tells me that
this release was made using only a 22” Gong and a signal processor. At some
points there are rhythmic beats, subtle beats on the gong. The dark atmospherics
the gong creates are strong as it resonates and rolls. I find myself wondering
where it was created, in a room, a recording studio, someone’s house? Lunceford
makes the gong resonate in different ways; he can make different passages of
sound from the same gong to allow several shifts across Selah. As a piece of
work it moves along beautifully. Selah is very effective and very strong.
Army of One 2023.
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