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File under: Noise

Akerlund / Huhta / Karkowski

Horology

Label: Monotype Records

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic

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€14.00
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2013 release ** "On Horology we hear Lars Åkerlund, Jean-Louis Huhta and Zbigniew Karkowski plugging their wangs into the Buchla 200 synth at the EMS Studio in Stockholm, and producing thereby an almighty dollop of powerhouse analogue wallop, an extremely thickened and scaly drone, like something torn from the back of an alligator. It first stuns you into surrender with over 20 minutes of unholy, grisly noise – a distorted pounding chaos of white noise and writhing agonised moans that follows the familiar Karkowski strategy of utter
remorselessness. This is then succeeded by certain chuggering rhythms, patterns and textures which admittedly are a shade more palatable – more in the area of a fleet of outboard motors, than a night spent in the factories of dark horror and gigantic machines that will grind us to a pulp. This mesmerising phase grows gradually in intensity, cramming multiple inedible wafers into the mouth of the listener, until the nasty opening noise returns with a vengeance to close out the piece. This leaves us in no doubt as to the world-view of its creators. If Horology were a morality play, it would be one whose lesson is “life is horrible, we all suffer, and afterwards we’re all going to burn in Hell”, or something equally dismal."

Details
File under: Noise
Cat. number: mono057
Year: 2013
Notes:
Recorded on Buchla 200 series synthesizer at EMS Stockholm in May 2012. Thanks to [a=Mats Lindström] - EMS. Trifold (6 panel) card sleeve.