Autumn Wind Productions
My favorite website has to be www.discogs.com. You can learn a lot about music and bands with just browsing there. Next to that it offers a vast knowledgebase with aspects you always (or never) wanted to know. For example: Did you know there are 46 bands on there with Vomit in there artist-name? And I only knew of 3 ...
Ok, so much for the fun part, let's get serious. I'm here to review stuff and I've now listened to the album 'Antecrux' by Vomit Orchestra a couple of times. And well, it's true beauty only revealed itself after the third listen or so, but how beautiful it is!
At first when I heard the band-name I also thought "WTF?" but just as with the sincere noise-drones from The Vomit Arsonist, it's not all as bad as it seems at first (Hi Andy, see you next month). Taking the statement from their MySpace page as basics, let's see what we have and how the f*** this album should be described.
"Formed in 2001 out of the desire to create something unlike any other sort of music. Lo-fi and hi-fi, hideous and beautiful. That is VO's essence." (myspace.com)
And you know what? This actually comes closer to any description even a well trained reviewer can give you. There is one track quite different from all the others - being "Dance ov the Sugardrugged Faery (The Diviners Effect)" - which is a quite heavy industrial noise track influenced by glitch and power electronics, but all the other tracks are based on minimal guitar tunes and melodies combined with various aspects of the music industry. Only one track for example has a true rhytm and one is combined with the crackling of a vinyl record.
So when you read 'lo-fi' in their own description, think Smog, or maybe Slint, Kramer or even Jad Fair. At some moments I even imagined a studio session with the Notwist in the '12' era, but then sitting behind the mixer and taking out the rhythm section and bass.
This must be one of the more original recordings I've heard in quite some time.
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