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DEATHPROD - Occulting Disk

Format: do-LP Label & Cat.Number: Smalltown Supersound Release Year: 2019 Note: DEATHPROD aka HELGE STEN (also a member of early MOTORPSYCHO and nowadays SUPERSILENT) with a new album after 15 years => most abstract and amorph, eerie dronescapes and fog horns that ebb and wave in siren-like formations, an intense trip into the naught and mysterious powers, understood as a sound ritual against hate and fear... \"it could be viewed as an amulet to ward off hate and bad energy..\" [Resident Advisor] - comes with inlay on black vinyl Price (incl. 19% VAT): €24.00 More Info OCCULTING DISK is an anti-fascist ritual. Recorded in Oslo, Reykjavik, Cologne, Berlin and Los Angeles between 2012 and 2019. It is the first Deathprod album to be released since the 2004 album «Morals and Dogma». Liner notes by Will Oldham (note: not the above below). LP cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. Artwork by Kim Hiorthøy and Helge Sten. “I remember driving over a mountain with my mother, she was in the passenger seat and we were being mauled and cuddled and battered and fried by sound; together. We were together experiencing something previously unimaginable, and we were facing the same direction, and we were moving through space and time knowing that a geographic destination some way ahead would bring an end. And the sound surrounded us, and for once our mutual silence was loaded with good. Because we were in the presence of each other, and we knew so much about how we had failed each other (it wasn’t a mystery any more), and we knew how we had maimed others when we worried too much about ourselves, how we had contributed to the faults of others simply by focusing in instead of out. Our mutual silences were laden with what that could only be called love. I used to hear love in music until I learned to hear love in sound. “ (Will Oldham) Hinter Deathprod verbirgt sich der norwegische Musiker Helge Sten, seines Zeichens Ex-Mitglied bei Motorpsycho und Supersilent. Neben seinem Pseudonym Deathprod nahm Sten auch unter dem Namen Audio Virus als auch unter seinem eigentlichen Namen zahlreiche Alben auf. Zudem kollaborierte er mit Biosphere, Arve Henriksen, John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug, Sidsel Endresen, Christian Wallumrod, Nils Petter Molvær sowie mit seiner Frau Susanna Wallumrod, als Sängerin vor allem unter dem Namen Susanna bekannt. \"Occulting Disk\", das erste neue Album von Deathprod seit fünfzehn Jahren, ist ein antifaschistisches Ritual. Aufgenommen in Oslo, Reykjavik, Berlin, Köln und Los Angeles zwischen 2012 und 2019, ist es das erste Deathprod-Album seit \"Morals And Dogma\" aus dem Jahr 2004. https://deathprod.bandcamp.com/album/occulting-disk \"The Norwegian dark ambient artist Helge Sten, or Deathprod, is a master of atmosphere. Since 1991, he has been harnessing apocalyptic dread through immersive electronic sound design and bone-rattling live performances. For his first solo LP in 15 years—the follow-up to 2004\'s Morals And Dogma—the Oslo producer has conceived a politically minded album that considers the ways in which we confront fear and hate. The liner notes from Will Oldham dig deeper into Occulting Disk\'s political character. \"If you hear hate in the voice of another, it is your job, as the identifier, to address that hatred and reduce it by its opposite,\" he urges. Stern expresses these political ruminations using a complex and chilling series of beatless, wordless tracks that command focus—his vision of ambient differs from Eno-led notions of the music as soft wallpaper. Occulting Disk serves a more confrontational, instructive purpose. Knowing the anti-hate messages at the album\'s core, it could be viewed as an amulet to ward off hate and bad energy, its unrelenting honks and bellows stirring up the hopeful sounds of protest. Stern\'s use of repetition is powerful and carefully considered, making space for deep thought and reflection. Pockets of silence strengthen this concentrative quality. The opener, \"Disappearance / Reappearance,\" sends out a duo of ear-splitting foghorn blasts, an allusion perhaps to the album title\'s maritime reference—occulting light is a navigational beam used by ships. Thick walls of insectoid buzzing on \"Occultation 2\" urge you to step outside yourself, reeling you in with ugly-beautiful effect. The LP summons a raft of mutated sounds from Stern\'s \"audio virus\" set-up—an array of electronics that has included homemade devices, tape echo machines, theremins and analog ring modulators—that feel eerily familiar and sinister. Case in point: \"Occultation 4,\" whose creaking, dissonant drones give the impression of dive bombers circling each other, while the weeping, warbling synths on \"Occultation 1\" are as evocative as human tears. The album\'s crushing \"Black Transit Of Jupiter\'s Third Satellite\" is a tidal wave of distortion, suggesting a final evacuation of dark energy. Stern\'s gift is to make that feel both unsettling and immersive.\" [Resident Advisor]