Just a month and a half ago, I reviewed some deliciously loud output by the British Input Error Records. And here we have yet a newer batch of stuff.
The second one in this batch is Flea Apparitions with “Ampullae Of Lorenzini”, and Flea Apparitions is the project of Pittsburgh multi-media artist Lorne Zeman. Active in visual as well as audio art, and this seems to be his first full-length CD since 2013. So it’s no surprise that this is already sold out from this batch on, Input Error releases. If the whole world waited 12 years for this album …
In seven tracks and 52 minutes, Lorne dives into the swirling madness of Ctenocephalides, and he shares it with the listener. “Dream Deception” has a heavy death ambient feeling and wouldn’t be misplaced if we had found it on a sampler by Slaughter Tapes. “Crickets” is a weird experimental piece. There is a bit of noise and loads of analogue experimentation, but the choice of sounds puzzles me. It’s a mixture between drone/noise and what could be experiments like Phillips Lab. But in this track, you learn how to focus on the delay in the work.
“Halloween” is a track with a sound of unknown origin, but with a significant role for the delay above, though here it’s accompanied by feedback and saturated EQS. Again, an old-school feeling is creeping up, but that’s not a bad thing. “Neighbor’s Transmission” is a lovely, minimal, and short loop, but for me, it’s about these last two tracks with a 30-minute playtime. “Sleep in the Tomb” has dirty vocals and some beautiful pulsating noises to start with, and then … Wow … A few harmonic structures, loads of deep saturated noises, there is so much happening here. A few moments of silence could have indicated the plan to make it into multiple tracks for – for example – one side of a cassette, but it’s all there—fifteen minutes of hell. The final track “End Of The Society” starts with a loop with those words, and a noise scape is built on that. Again, heavily saturated noises and delay take care of a feeling of the time you were listening to the noise for the first time. If the previous track were the first side of the cassette, this would have been the reverse side. But I am more than thrilled to see this on a CD.
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