One more cassette release that came
out on the label Crónica. This record serves best to start exploring the world
of the noise music. This is truly a textbook example of experimental electronic
music! I had a feeling that I opened the window and a real thunderstorm with
heavy rain and wind rushed into the room. Apparently the thunderstorm came from
the wastelands, inspired by the opening title track The Waste Land. All three
tracks of this release, The Waste Land, Voices from the Coal Mine, My Extra Personal Space, display the author’s most serious attitude towards processing
sound. It gives us the impression of listening to a news report from an
inexistent city.
out on the label Crónica. This record serves best to start exploring the world
of the noise music. This is truly a textbook example of experimental electronic
music! I had a feeling that I opened the window and a real thunderstorm with
heavy rain and wind rushed into the room. Apparently the thunderstorm came from
the wastelands, inspired by the opening title track The Waste Land. All three
tracks of this release, The Waste Land, Voices from the Coal Mine, My Extra Personal Space, display the author’s most serious attitude towards processing
sound. It gives us the impression of listening to a news report from an
inexistent city.
I haven’t encountered this kind of records ever since a
series of CD releases Mort Aux Vaches; the album The Waste Land surpasses the
conventional notion of music by a long shot. The Italian school of noise ever
since the days of Luigi Russolo has been a special interest for an in-depth
inspection and stays this way even today. This very release, The Waste Land is
no exception. Hypnotic time-stretched landscapes, ever-changing noise
constructions, an incredible and anxious architecture of sound, strange voices,
troubled territories… I have no idea what miraculous method Luca Forcucci uses
to create his noisy masterpieces, but you can clearly detect the hand of a true
master. Album cover photo by Luca Forcucci, mastered by Taylor Deupree. Crónica,
limited edition 100 copies.
Author: Andrei Vasilevsky
