Premature Ejaculation - Wound of Exit.

Premature Ejaculation – Wound of Exit – Hollows Hill Sound Recordings – 60004 – 2- 1998 - 2xCD.

1-1. Alone With the Devil.

1-2. Head.

1-3. At the End of Every Day.

1-4. Rope Trick.

1-5. Two Thirteen.

1-6. Wound of Exit.

2-1 Alone With the Devil II.

2-2 Ruptured Walls (7700 Volts).

2-3 Sick Swing.

2-4 Purged and Destroyed.

2-5 Flesk and Blood (You Are My).

2-6 The End Is Here /Exit.

Of late, I’ve been making frequent revisits into the noise work of Rozz Williams Premature Ejaculation project, listening and recently interviewing Chuck Collison in depth for Special Interests magazine. I’ve been thinking about the work a lot. Wound of Exit is the last Premature Ejaculation recording, and it was released just after Rozz Williams death by suicide in 1998.

Talking about Premature Ejaculation, I’m often debating what is their best work. Many would argue it’s Death Cultures and the work on the Happiest Tapes on Earth label, this was the beginning of the era where Chuck Collison and Leo Wildes were also involved. All three members are each a separate, unique story to be told. There was also involvement in Premature Ejaculations history from Ryan Wildstar, Eric Christides, Paris Sadonis, Kris Fuller and Ron Athey, every member again has a rich, legendary creative past. Collison is the other main member of Premature Ejaculation, involved with most of their releases. He was the man that really gave depth and form to the overall sound – he improved things. Wound of Exit had input from Ryan Wildstar and Paris Sadonis, but oddly Collison was not involved on this recording.

Premature Ejaculation was the most prolific of the Rozz projects, there were 21 known releases as well as many privately released cassettes by Rozz that are even more obscure than the Happiest Tapes on Earth releases. This album has had an odd marketplace fluctuation; for a long time around 10-8 years ago copies were rare going for around £40 when they popped up on eBay and for the last few years it has been easily available at around £10 with no reissues in 27 years since its original release in1998. I’d couple this release with the live Rozz album Accept the Gift of Sin that was recorded with David E. Williams; this was also released after the passing of Rozz. Slowly rereleases are starting to come through on Cleopatra, Malaise Music (Erik Chrstides, later John Collins, Ben Siebert), Rozznet (via Chris and Kevin Graves and later Casey Strain) and Dark Vinyl. Collison has also recently done a few solo Premature Ejaculation performances.

There was an earlier recording Rozz and Chuck did as Premature Ejaculation called ‘The Wound of Exit’; this was a privately released tape that wasn’t included in the Lost Recordings series. Collison later deemed this recording to be unfinished and unedited. This continues the style of nightmarish passages of sound that the early recordings took. Rather than one journey, this took the form of separate pieces like loops repeated to nauseating effect, samples of dialogue, torture and coughing warped into something beyond their original context.

Much of Premature Ejaculation’s recorded work was either crude noise, sampling or layered Dark Ambient soundscapes that functioned like long nightmares; Wound of Exit was a different approach completely. Each works 7 minutes shifts from use of urgent, repetitive, aggressive sounds to sampled records and bleak, murky noise The sounds were said to be taken from Ryan Wildstar's record collection of Avant Garde recordings, sampled treated and overlaid with sounds.  Instrumental overlays included moog synthesiser, guitar and funeral organ. This is the stand-alone album in the Premature Ejaculation discography, nothing else in there sounds like this one. Some of the Lost Recordings are primitive aggressive but Wound of Exit demonstrated a more accomplished aggression. Its lengthy nature and production, in my eyes make it one of the best Premature Ejaculation releases. It marks a clear change in direction for the project that shifted away from ambient nightmare soundscapes and a direct use of muddy, urgent noise and I feel that it is the wildcard amongst all of their albums.

The nature of the cover art is a polaroid photograph by Cecilia A.Trevejo, it shows Williams in a deformed face mask holding a blade to his throat backed by an American Flag. The other polaroid’s show Williams in the mask, he chewed and adjusted these photos to suit his needs. The original images had a Swastika flag in the background, a frequent theme for Williams was to highlight the parallels between Nazi Germany and modern-day America. In later life not long before his passing, Williams wore a Hitler moustache and didn't seem to care in the slightest what people thought anymore.

Wound of Exit is an epic last album for Premature Ejaculation and an aggressive final statement. Will the story continue?

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