Paradise Camp 23
"Solitaire" CD
Mandragora
Records
Genres: noise, experimental, psychedelic
Mandragora
P.O. Box 936
Northampton, MA
01061
Jun 16 - 22 2003 |
In
the start, Solitaire sounds as if it's going to evolve into a
great big rock opera, fiery dancers and all, but that moment never
comes. Forty minutes and eleven seconds down the line and you're
still kind of expecting everything to explode into a shroud of guitar
solos and zealous, overexcited pop singers. But no. That
never happens.
Solitaire is one track, "Like A Duck In A Noose,"
and that's it. A three-quarters-of-an-hour build up to something
that never happens. And when the disc player reaches the end of
the CD's data, you're left wondering - if nothing happened, then what did
happen?
And that's fucking brilliant. This is about as noisy as you can get
without crossing the line to Merzbow territory. Assorted
soundclips are buried, mangled, in a dense marsh of guitar feedback
and churning sonic experimentation. As the noise flows, the
suspense intensifies. Builds. Builds. Builds.
Ends.
85%
Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
1 track, distributed by the
label, released 2003] |
