Third CD by the Input Error label, which visual artist Ewan Aparicio runs out of London, UK. His cut-up/collage art is often featured in releases of the noisier kind, and if I’m honest, the darkness in his visuals and the darkness that can be found, for example, in this release, can very well be the glue that makes it all stick. To create collage art that works, you need space between the parts, but also coherence between the objects. To make noise work, you need to be able to listen and let it infiltrate your brain, but also – in my honest opinion – have some space to let it settle. And that is what I hear back in ‘Mausoleum’.
Master Grave Services is a new project by the duo J.D. Evans (Confounder) and K. Geiger (Dead Door Unit, Inlet Terror), and after releasing a couple of tapes, this is their first CD. A CD available typically in limited quantities, but also in a super limited with 7″ lathe with a track of each artist individually. Seven tracks in total with a lovely mixture of harsh cut-up noises, a little bit of piercing feedback, weird sounds, heavily treated panoramic sounds (listening on headphones in the studio is high on my list), metal and object manipulation, a bit of screaming, some less screaming and more words, empty spaces between the sounds which are there to breath and – dare I say it – sometimes reflections of a melody. It’s dynamic as hell, which figures, as we are in a mausoleum.
With the tracks “Marked In A Hole” and “The New Funerals”, this album ends with a bang as if the lid of the coffin was jerked close from the inside out. But another track will be added to the podcast this week. The tracks “Repeated Haunting” and “Will There Be Smoke?” are, sound-wise wise my favorites because they’re the ones with some space to breathe. Just very nice tracks and even a bit of a Caretaker / Haunted Ballroom feeling in the “Repeated Haunting” one, so I’ll ask for that one to be included. Curious what you think of it.
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