With “Miasmic Detritus” opening this album, the first thing I did was open my browser. A) English is not my native tongue, so I googled the meaning of the poetic title “Miasmic Detritus”, and well, it’s definitely way more poetic than ‘Smelly Garbage’. But with the browser open I started some research on Spacial Absence. And I couldn’t find anything except for a liner note on another release stating, ‘very excited to celebrate Cador’s solo work outside of their prolific noise project Aether’. With 14 projects called Aether on Discogs and none mentioning a Cador, This is what you get on background info from me. About five releases can be found but when I can’t even find a name, there are way more releases that are kept secretive for the world. But why … THIS IS GREAT NOISE! Get it out there, fill in the catalogue and share some info.
Spacial Absence has found a crossover between harsh noise and harsh noise walls. There are moments when not enough is happening, and you’re feeling the droney atmosphere you usually see in HNW, and suddenly, the whole composition is turned over. You’re in a cacophony of sounds, and you all forgot that you had to throw out the garbage. Six tracks take longer than an hour, so you get value for your money, as you always get when ordering from Steve LEM directly. As said, the album opens with “Miasmic Detritus” followed by “Oratorio” Part 1 and 2. Why it is cut into two pieces, I don’t know. It could have to do with the same setup used in 2 sessions or specific sound sources. Great work here, too, though a preference towards the 2nd part, where the massiveness comes out a bit better.
Third on the album is “Cold Mechanical Death Love” which knows some extreme dynamics. When you make noise, and you cut out your sources a lot of time, you get a considerable feedback attack, so even the negative space in harsh noise is difficult to find. But not in this track; Spacial Absence uses that silence as a form of negative space in its composition. “Jitterfck” again shows all the different layers of frequency heaven, and the closing track “Despondent Transmission” is probably gonna be my new favourite track in nihilistic anthems. It’s cut into a few parts, opening with the feeling of nothingness and through different states of sonic emotions, stating that nihilists have feelings, too. There is no use denying it because despair and disgust or just as many basic emotions as love and happiness. I want more.
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