Golem Mecanique
Aliases: Karen Jebane
Abel/Kane
*200 copies limited edition* After having painted her own mythology out of antique myths and literature, Golem Mecanique began to work on biblical features. The vehicle is minimalist. The challenge, to go further with the instrument and the voice. For this album, Golem’s work focused in on a sound that enabled the abstract concept of Abel and Cain to become concrete, yet still built out of nothingness. Abel/Kane was composed as two acts of a march into a never-ending valley. Drone, voices, echoe…
Luciferis
All composed and performed by Golem Mecanique and her special guest Thomas Bel. Personnel: Golem Mecanique - drone box; Thomas Bel - guitar. Recorded and mixed in December 2020 at home by the mountains. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.Golem Mecanique: "Luciferis was composed as a dark doppelganger of the Nona, Decima et Morta LP (SOMA 033LP). Luciferis is the first act of a Trilogy I : Luciferis/canto XXXIV/ Satan. In Nona... I strove to create a lace of voices, an embroidery of several drones. I was …
Nona, Decima et Morta
Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ yield intently focussed, gothic works drifting from plainsong to heavily impending drones, and blending the two into spellbinding durational works comparable with a meeting of Yoshi Wada and Anna Von Hausswolff. “My first encounter with Karen Jebane (aka Golem Mecanique) was in the context of Echoés above the village of Le Saix in Haut-Alpes, in 2016. This tremendous location runs along a deep river canyon with a long cliff on one side and a small mountainside …