And here we have the second instalment of the ongoing Aachener Benevolent Pain label project. “Fragore per quattuor” or a ‘Crash for four’ is a series where four artists get around 15 minutes each to fill a CD, and in March I reviewed the first one with Positive Adjustments, Persons Unknown, Praying For Oblivion and Necroviolence. So yeah, that first one was quite heavy, but on this one we are presented with Grodock, D.K.E., K2 (!!!) and Carsten Vollmer.
The release opens with almost 19 minutes of Grodock. “Isolationsschlaf” starts with beautifully ambient drones of, amongst others, slightly detuned oscillators dancing in minimal patterns. After a while, noise gets added to the composition, and it slowly but surely, with a transition of feedback structures, evolves into a nightmare. Not a normal one, but one you wake up from, and you are trying to go back to sleep because you want to know how it ends.
The Dunning Kruger Effect, which is, as said in December of last year, a project of Sebastian Schweren, who people might know of, config.sys, Contaminant or Swanika. Yes, the same Swanika I wrote about earlier in this Vital. D.K.E. cut their time into two tracks. “Irgendwer über Irgendwas” has an ambientish approach with voices so messed up that it’s hard to pinpoint the subject, the origin … Which fits the title perfectly. “Die Fische, sie leuchten” starts as an ambient drone but gets noisier as the track evolves; A collision between the beauty of nature and the dangers of nuclear waste.
Third on the CD is another long one. Kimihide Kusafuka, a.k.a. K2, presents “Lego Pri Kontraurimedoj En Kazo De Malfacilajoj En La Nutraja Provizo,” which translates, according to Google, to ‘A Guide to Countermeasures in the Event of Food Supply Problems’. Note of writer: I do not know what he means by this. Fifteen minutes of modular noise, and me being me, I loved it. Noise without distortion, but where sounds generate the noise. Pure sounds and their beauty in their natural habitat.
The CDR closes with Carsten Vollmer and “Die Speisung van der Fünftausend”, the exact title of the 1979 CRASS masterpiece. I sincerely have no clue in what way both are connected. Maybe Carsten makes use of samples or parts of the original, maybe it’s a hint towards the problems with food distribution in certain places in the world these days (which might be a reference in the K2 track too now I think of it) but that might very well be my personal wish the message would be. Saturated noises of unknown origin looped into a massive epos. Maybe not with as much impact as CRASS back in 1979, but it’s a great track. Up to #3
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