MONSTRARE / WILT — Graveflowers
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Hervorragender dark-ambient / post-industrial split-release auf dem kanadischen ANGLE Records-Label. Sechs Stücke von MONSTRARE, wie immer sehr hallend, monumental & pulsierend, aber mit vielen interessant konkreteren Sounds & Analog-Effektengespickt; vier von WILT; weitaus direkte und “industrieller”, nicht minder abgründig und mitreissend...
“500 COPIES. .ANGLE.REC. .A.R.05.02. deluxe cardboard sleeve For the last few years, the enthusiasts have been enjoying the evolutionary sound creations of CORDELL KLIER (MONSTRARE) and JAMES KEELER (WILT). The first, very often, in his solo adventures, works in a register which one could hail as 'dark glitch', or a close encounter of the third kind between modern technology and the abyss, as the second builds us somber sonic monoliths, raw blocks of black bruitist matter and dark lo-fi atmospherics …
It was no doubt that the collision, or fusion, between these two aesthetics tinged with psychotropism was going to give way to a genuine journey, a unique and peculiar epic, in the image of the respective projects of the two creators. There is a natural fit between these projects as both focus on dark mathematical projections. In this monumental production, MONSTRARE feeds us with new-school sonorities as WILT opts for old-school sounds, an it goes without saying that one used the source sound material of the other to crystallize his own visions, and vice versa. Side by side, the intemporal, uncompromising and often arrhythmic sonic fluids secreted here sometimes have a textured minimalistic feel, sometimes reflect a will of nuanced saturation … Here one will easily recognize the traditional ambient and subtle black noise WILT feel, just pushed to the utmost level, with MONSTRARE doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned for, but in an especially demented way.
Alternately, the listener finds himself wandering through the uneven meanders of subterranean cathedrals and flying over futurist cities radiant with an aura of strangely coloured neons. But there are a thousand and one other possible interpretations. Organic yet bleak, the music presented here symbolizes the passing of life into subharmonic spirituality. Now is your turn to make yourself your own interior movie
while listening to this album!” [label description]
“...Monstrare here offers 6 tracks and Wilt 4. It's quite absorbing music, in an industrial ambient style, to lose yourself in it, if that's your thing. Careful and close listening recommended, otherwise it'll lose it's point, and may become just a background buzz without a point. This music sucks you into it's own world, which may be worlds apart from any reference point in the reality or elsewhere. No concrete connection to a strict tradition in music or art, besides the general ambient-industrial sound, instead this music prefers to be on it's own ground. Wilt brings in more intensity with the wonderful track 'Hemophilic root plow'. The cover design is reminding of a Van Gogh painting in a darkened industrialised manner. Impressionistic industrial ambience, of a fine kind.” [BR / Vital Weekly]
“500 COPIES. .ANGLE.REC. .A.R.05.02. deluxe cardboard sleeve For the last few years, the enthusiasts have been enjoying the evolutionary sound creations of CORDELL KLIER (MONSTRARE) and JAMES KEELER (WILT). The first, very often, in his solo adventures, works in a register which one could hail as 'dark glitch', or a close encounter of the third kind between modern technology and the abyss, as the second builds us somber sonic monoliths, raw blocks of black bruitist matter and dark lo-fi atmospherics …
It was no doubt that the collision, or fusion, between these two aesthetics tinged with psychotropism was going to give way to a genuine journey, a unique and peculiar epic, in the image of the respective projects of the two creators. There is a natural fit between these projects as both focus on dark mathematical projections. In this monumental production, MONSTRARE feeds us with new-school sonorities as WILT opts for old-school sounds, an it goes without saying that one used the source sound material of the other to crystallize his own visions, and vice versa. Side by side, the intemporal, uncompromising and often arrhythmic sonic fluids secreted here sometimes have a textured minimalistic feel, sometimes reflect a will of nuanced saturation … Here one will easily recognize the traditional ambient and subtle black noise WILT feel, just pushed to the utmost level, with MONSTRARE doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned for, but in an especially demented way.
Alternately, the listener finds himself wandering through the uneven meanders of subterranean cathedrals and flying over futurist cities radiant with an aura of strangely coloured neons. But there are a thousand and one other possible interpretations. Organic yet bleak, the music presented here symbolizes the passing of life into subharmonic spirituality. Now is your turn to make yourself your own interior movie
while listening to this album!” [label description]
“...Monstrare here offers 6 tracks and Wilt 4. It's quite absorbing music, in an industrial ambient style, to lose yourself in it, if that's your thing. Careful and close listening recommended, otherwise it'll lose it's point, and may become just a background buzz without a point. This music sucks you into it's own world, which may be worlds apart from any reference point in the reality or elsewhere. No concrete connection to a strict tradition in music or art, besides the general ambient-industrial sound, instead this music prefers to be on it's own ground. Wilt brings in more intensity with the wonderful track 'Hemophilic root plow'. The cover design is reminding of a Van Gogh painting in a darkened industrialised manner. Impressionistic industrial ambience, of a fine kind.” [BR / Vital Weekly]