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IRR.APP. (ext.) - Cosmic Superimposition

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Errata in Excelsis eie06 Release Year: 2007 Note: a godlike one-tracker (44 min.), trancy surrealistic drone-scapes of a higher beauty using many "concrete" / field recording elements..! BACK IN STOCK ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info IRR.APP.(ext) goes Drone again! "Kosmische Überlagerung" ist ein One-Tracker (44+ Minuten) allererster Güte, ein unglaublich weites Feld an denkbaren Klängen öffnet sich hier in einer metallisch morphenden "flüssigen" Dronewolke, field recordings und Objekt-Noises werden in die aurale Glut perfekt eingewebt, immer wieder tauchen wunderbar verschnörkelte UAOs ("unidentified acoustic objects") auf, das Stück entwickelt sich in mysteriöse und immer obskurere Geräusch-Sphären hinein, steht niemals still....perfekt zum versenkten Detail-Hören.. "IRR. APP. (EXT)’s second installment in a planned trilogy that draw from the philosophical ruminations of Wilhelm Reich is a single 45-minute track of revolving organic fluctuations that wax and wane in accordance to a well-tuned internal logic. Glassine ambient passages of processed environmental noise slide into the sustained harmonics of bowed metals which in turn couple with the off-kilter phase pattern of an exhaust fan whose motor is not quite properly aligned. All the while gurgles from streams, clatter from subterranean actions, singing bowl reverberations, and dark elliptical cycles of blackened electronics pock the stately progressions of Cosmic Superimposition's dronemusik foundation. Principle IRR. APP. (EXT) designer M.S. WALDRON has toiled in the foothills of California for well over a decade. Recently, Waldron has found himself in the grasp of Nurse With Wound as one of the auxiliary sound alchemists for Steven Stapleton's forays into live productions. He has also worked with the Icelandic electro-absurdists Stilluppsteypa and the damaged minstrels from Faun Fables." [press release] "A couple of years ago, Aquarius enjoyed a brief moonlight gig as an art space (which we hope to make happen again someday), proposing the same curious aesthetic on the visual front as we continue to do on the musical. One of the more intriguing exhibitions we hosted was from an ambitious, if under-recognized artist by the name of Matthew Waldron. His meticulously eccentric drawings, paintings, and assemblages depicted mutated beings conducting psychic surgery upon each other with all sorts of psychosexual overtones. These provocative and compelling images held their own with the classic Surrealist works of Hans Bellmer and early Salvador Dali. At the same time, Waldron introduced us to the equally ambitious catalogue of sound constructions that he had been quietly making in the Santa Cruz mountains under the moniker irr. app. (ext.). These albums followed in the deconstructed / abstracted sound collage traditions of Nurse With Wound, The Hafler Trio, and HNAS, often times surpassing the quality of those which came before. Sadly, very few people had heard of irr. app. (ext.) because of Waldron's unfortunate round of luck with record labels and general low profile. Jump forward to the contemporary era, and things look entirely different. Today, you will find Waldron a mainstay in the Nurse With Wound performance entourage, being whisked away to play in all sorts of unlikely European festivals; and irr. app. (ext.) has consistently released albums that build upon the successes of those which we had heard before. So for us here at Aquarius, it's very satisfying to see an artist we once supported have their career take off... And that leads us to Cosmic Superimposition, the second in a proposed trilogy from irr. app. (ext.) of releases based upon the writings of Wilhelm Reich. Cosmic Superimposition was a book that Reich had written in 1951; and in that book, he argued how the superimposition of multiple energies is the common functioning principle throughout the natural world. It was through these ideas that Reich arrived at the ideas of Orgone, cloudbursting, etc. On the single 45-minute track that comprises Cosmis Superimposition, irr. app. (ext.) presents a revolving set of organic fluctuations that wax and wane in accordance with a well-tuned internal logic. Glassine ambient passages of processed environmental noise slide into the sustained harmonics of bowed metals which in turn couples with the off-kilter phase pattern of an exhaust fan whose motor is not quite properly aligned. All the while gurgles from streams, clatter from subterranean actions, singing bowl reverberations, and dark elliptical cycles of blackened electronics pock the stately progressions of Cosmic Superimposition's dronemusik foundation. As is stated in the liner notes, Waldron repurposed the source material from the first stage of the trilogy Ozeanische Gefuhle; but Cosmis Superimposition is hardly a replicant remix of the first. Rather, the ghosts, shadows, and ripples of his earlier album emerge in the fluid ambience of the second as bridge that points to Waldron's ambitious and highly successful undertaking. One of the best records of 2007, for sure." [Aquarius Records] "...Whatever he did on 'Ozeanische Gefühle' in terms of processing, he takes it a bit further here. Nothing as such that could possibly be traced back to it's original sound, with massive drone sounds being developed out of almost nothing, rain drops sounding like metal percussion (or vice versa), this is quite a strong work, and a great counterpoint, or rather companion album to 'Ozeanische Gefühle'. It bears not much relation to his work of late, or Waldron's involvement in Nurse With Wound. It similarities could be drawn from here this work comes close to The Hafler Trio's 'Kill The King' period. Drone heavy, but adding much more to it, in terms of percussion like sounds, the collage element and the constant flow and change of the material." [FdW/Vital Weekly]