Inner Demons Saturday.
The
great thing about doing this blog is choice, I can choose what I review and
when I get obsessed about something, I can dive right into it and literally
drown if I want to. So, because of that we are having Inner Demons Saturday - a
mass review of their latest releases.
There
are many releases by mystery project Chandrama Sarkar on the web. Guilty Nebula
Compound is like a psychedelic, horror film, noise tantum, intercepted by
squealing vocal sounds that are noise due to their inaudibility. This reminds
me of the Hypnagogic Pop era of noise when the Skaters and P.A.R.A. were
prominent, with twinges of early Ramleh and Maurizio Bianchi. The vocals try to
converse, but are too squealed to make any sense, making the work
disorientating and unstable as they become further animated. This Bad Trip of a
recording is described as Power Electronics, Noise and Dark Ambient amongst
other tags; it does touches base in all these areas whilst still managing to be
fresh, urgent and original. This project is worthy of further investigation as
this is an impressive, forward thinking release.
Hana
Haruna – Sakuraba Atsuko – Download/3”CDR – 2019 – [IND062]
Hana
Haruna is another mystery project linked mostly to the Portland based Basement Corner
Emissions label. Sakuraba Atsuko revels in sharp, static hiss and electrostatic
as if lose powerful electrical cables splashing about to create sparks and
shocks of noise. This is like an aggressive take on wall noise with feedback
and background noise contributing to the mass of sound. Despite the sharpness
of the foreground noise, what’s going on in the background is very interesting,
I found myself homing in on that a lot, further mystery and further questions. Another
Inner Demons gem.
YSK
– CLSOL – Download/3”CDR – 2019 – [IND066]
1. CLSOL001.
2. CLSOL002.
3. CLSOL003.
YSK
is a Japanese project. This like Hanu Haruna delivers harsh tones mostly in the
form of sharp foreground static, but with the background noises being more
recognisable. There seems to be a wall of static hiss and sounds going off
simultaneously. Both accelerate together pushing each other into overdrive. The
impressive shift in the first track is as humming becomes more prominent and
mournful as it eventually dominates the work.
The
Prominent hum is something that leads us to 002, this resonates in a Death
Industrial manner, throbbing mercilessly. Waves of sharp noises form a display
that builds continuously, the urgency and overdrive that builds is pure
dominant Power Electronics. The work intensifies to its’ highest levels of
noise for 003, this seems an impossible task after the first two tracks, but it
works well. This is by far the most
intense Inner Demons Release I have heard so far.
J3M5 – Point of Origin – Download/3”CDR –
2019 – [IND061]
01 Point
of Origin.
This is the
odd card of the releases I am reviewing today; it doesn’t explode like the
others. It has a futuristic sound, some vague, slow rhythm and distant echoes
with bleeps and noises at the forefront. Point of Origin has a Sci-fi feel to
it as if playing in a distant dark galaxy while the noises represent interactions
of some sort. As Point of Origin progresses it becomes darker and the
percussive elements are more punishing – the noises become ruder and interruptions
are increasingly aggressive. This is one of many shifts that happen throughout
the track, Point of Origin never stays the same, what we start with and finish
with are two completely different things.
Nevis
Kretini 2019.
