Lucifer Sky – नरगिस I Narcissus – Download – 2024.
https://lucifersky.bandcamp.com/
1. 25th December 2014.
2. Comfort In Denial.
3. I had a feeling you would ruin me, So instead have ruined myself.
4. खेद [Regret]
5. याद [Memory]
6. Slowly Poisoning.
7. नरगिस ["Nargis"]
8. Peripheral Neuropathy.
9. Weathered Memory.
10. याद रखना [Remember]
11. आत्महत्या [Aatmaghaati]
[Shreiks from the Ghost Town.]
quote from project's bandcamp page.
Lucifer Sky is one of those projects that I was thrilled to discover after looking them up when reading about them in a Facebook post about a gig that I had recently missed. I was intrigued as the project is from my birthplace of Coventry.
The first track, 25th December 2014, stands out as it is the sounds of feedback and gasps that give off a suffocating atmosphere. In other parts it sounds like a transmission from the edges of the self, broken and fighting for survival. The sound can be shimmering, raw, or fractured and uses samples of Hindi music against feedback and drones. In contrast to this, Comfort in Denial is a brief passage of shimmering noise. Spoken word is burried in feedback for I Had A Feeling You Would Ruin Me, So Instead I have Ruined Myself, the background uses muffled roaring as if taken from field recording, buzzes and drones flitter around this, it feels as if I am trapped inside the artist’s recollections of her memories, this work genuinely makes me feel uncomfortable. खेद ["Regret"] is another brief work that has that memory feel of the previous track through feedback sounds and samples. याद (Memory) uses noises, samples and drones as if carrying on from the previous track to make a muffled pychedelia that races through mind and memory. Wobbly, malfunctioning synths and a background recital of a poem work with each other on Slowly Polarising. This track feels like an uneasy hallucination, gasping screams replace the spoken vocal and the electronics catch up by becoming more unstable. When the electronics are left on their own for a time, they deliver the feeling of the work, the vocal seems to represent a shift in mood or signify a traumatic event.
नरगिस ["Nargis"] is distortion masking a distant rhythm, as if using a wall of noise, but making the backing noise more prominent than normal, this is effective. This all dies off to leave a spoken dialogue. Screwy electronics return for Peripheral Neuropathy, alarm like synthesisers and distortion form a passage of noise that laasts a couple of minutes. Weathered Memory uses a cleaner synth melody, subtle with a slight distortion wavering over it, this seems to offer a brief respite to the angst of the previous tracks. याद रखना (Remember) is a man singing with Hindi music whilst electronics go off around it, this is actually quite menacing. आत्महत्या" ["Aatmaghaati") is a lone guitar melody providing an outro to the album.
This also sounds like nothing else out there, it is unique and obscure – a complete one off. I was talking to a friend who uses a lot of vocals in their work about trying to allow the electronics time to do the work without the vocals, this album does that a lot and I like it. I am going to throw this out there, it is possibly brilliant. I can't stop coming back to this album, as it is disturbing and gorgeous – it deserves a physical format. Keep up the good work.
Nothing and Nobody 2025.
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