Love Earth Music used to be from all over the place, but now Steve Davis - the leading man behind the +DOG+ project - is located in Sudbury, Massachusetts. When I found out about that, my interest was triggered. I have a weakness for the New England Noise scene. Many connections were made in the few years I played Rhode Island Noise Fest, and most of them I still cherish. But in all honesty, there is only one of their releases in my collection out of the almost gazillion they did (En Nihil - The Absolute). So there is no time like the present to dive into these.
The third +DOG+ release is a split with the Greek project Ego Death. As his passport states, Ego Death - or Manos Michaelides - used to be way more active between 2005 and 2015, so it's good to see a release by him again. "NIOSE" in Greek lettering comes from 'niosos', which means 'to feel', so it's not a typo. The tracks by Ego Death are actually very much fitting to both, though. His four tracks with which the split starts are sensitive, well-thought compositions. The total playtime of Manos' four tracks is over half an hour which some people would already turn into a release itself. And would this be the case? I'd probably end up saying that it's a bit short but worth the money. But guess what, this one has over 20 minutes of +DOG+ still to listen to! Steve is alone again on these tracks. Except for "Finally some rest for the weary" which plays for almost 8 minutes, his tracks are quite short on this one. This long track is guided through murmured vocals and field recordings and actually grows to be quite epic in itself. Not stating the others are bad, no sir, because there is beauty in massive noisy sounds. The intensity of noise reveals how the listener handles his / her / their feelings towards it. But wait, wasn't that something with the title?
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