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The first track of this album is “The Passage”. Almost frantic percussion plays, with a focus on cymbal and snare, and soon a highly distorted guitar comes in and plays a progression of several long, very distorted chords, half-drowning out…
Month: April 2020
Lotus on the Shore – Gloom
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In the piece called "The Path", a gong can be heard ringing out with some subtle, evenly spaced metallic percussion in the background, accompanied by footsteps. A thundering, low percussion comes in, like an ominous gargantua. There is a distor…
fernand – New Quantum-profundis-133
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“133-a” begins the release, with a fade-in of some noise (both tonal and not) crashing like waves while a synth-brass patch plays some melodies. The noise and brass interact, creating on one hand chaotic noise, and a sense of relative order …
die ANGEL – Utopien I
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Utopien I begins with “Epikouros”, which starts with a heavy, distorted, brassy pad that is soon accompanied by higher pitched bell-tones that play forward and backwards in a repeating pattern. A reso-sweeped synth joins the fray, and soon so…
Karnivulgar – Terjebak
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Terjebak starts out with “Kamu Bohong”, which begins with some resonant periodic noise with slightly ring-modulated tones played in the background. There is also a wall of white noise that can be heard. After a bit, another wall of noise com…
Sewnshut – Sewnshut
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Sewnshut’s self-titled mini-album starts with “Peak Convergence”, which begins with a guitar melody floating on distortion that is soon accompanied by electronic beats and a simple synth patch which plays a melody of its own. A resonance …
Accidental Tones – Disordered
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This release by Accidental Tones starts with “Untitled A”, and the sound of water dripping and flowing with reverb on it fades in, with a deep rumble present as well. There is the sound of something being tapped occasionally with a large am…
INTERVIEW: Yasuyuki Uesugi
In this, The Tartarus Times's first interview, my friend diigitae and I had the opportunity to ask noise artist Yasuyuki Uesugi a few questions. My friend and I formulated the questions, sent them to him, and we received his answers. Here they are:
Q: Hello, where do you live?I live in Hokkaido, Japan.Q: How long have you been making noise? How…
kel – kel
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Kel’s self-titled album starts with “horizontal drop”. It begins with a fade in of a choir synth with some flubbing in the background, which makes way for some scattershot beats, which are soon joined by a pluck synth with a filter being …
Orson Carroll – Here, Tomorrow, Here/Half Light
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This release by Orson Carroll, Here, Tomorrow, Here/Half Light, begins with a low, droning synth pad. A pad with a hint of bell harmonics plays, and there is a little bit of dissonance as the lower frequencies fight for space. The notes are not…