I have shared a stage with Wilt five times in my life. All events were on US soil, and I always get a big smile on my face when people talk about the event on February 23rd 2002, in Chicago. It was like the event 'everybody attended' who was in the vicinity of Chicago as well as people who happened to be visiting. Yes, Wilt and I go a bit back, and I think it's the relationship where you perhaps don't talk or interact a lot, but you have a lot of respect for each other. During the 2003 dates, James invited us, and we visited a sculpture garden together. Happy memories for two depressed noise heads doing what they do best: Thinking, talking, connecting and then just "being".
Wilt has been active since 1998 and has - since then - released around 100 titles. He is best known for his noisy approach to dark ambience. The noise can sometimes be quite in-yer-face - no wonder if you also collaborate with people like Cornucopia, Skin Crime, Gruntsplatter, The Rita and Prurient - and at moments, it's super minimal. "Crypt Gloom" is, without a doubt, a release to be added to the second/minimal approach list. The sound here is dark, filled with reverb decay and tells a story: It films in a way we can again re-use the 00's term Cinematic Isolationism and when mixed without the silences it could have been a horror movie by Cronenberg.
The inspiration for this third part of a trilogy - parts one and two being released on Self Abuse "A Deep Reflecting Gloom" and "Crypt Hymns" - is the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was an early 19th Century English poet who risked 'political and religious libel' for his atheist/materialist philosophical views in his time. Listening to this soundtrack for that era, those must have been some dark times... Really dark...
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