Cornucopia - .C. flac album

After familiarizing myself with this brief album I felt the closest comparisons I could make would be with ANOTHER HEADACHE (as they have a similar ebb and flow compositional approach), and TACTILE (as the thick muscular sound seems to have originated from similar sources). Their music - in this case a single track stretching a half hour or so - manages to avoid musical structure yet somehow seems composed. Combining raw feedback-like swelling tones, stunted guitar like mutant insects, jungle ambience, distant amorphous human voice and watery sounds which might last have been heard on some New Age recording (although, thankfully, here without the pan pipes, flute or lazy piano picking out bright, pensive tunes), it becomes one great fused mass, ever swirling in a slow dance of ripples and waves. As it progresses the intensity and volume of the piece increases, moving from small intriguing waves of hum to great cloud chamber swirls of hissing, roaring noise, before dropping away to wash the listener in it's last dying efforts. Analysing it makes me think that perhaps it's a location recording of a stormy sea - it has elements of the greyness and semi-white noise. Whatever it's source, it has become something else here, through various processes, long delays and flanging effects. It reminds me of the "Sky Flowers & Horses Eggs" composition - strangely familiar ambience yet never fully revealing itself to the listener. The littered waste of half-perceived imagery hides a subtly intriguing machine-like scattering of rhythmic events, not actually percussion - more machine driven alien heartbeats and the burrowing of tiny but determined beings. It also brings to mind some of RRRECORDS' own releases - crazy experimental stuff with a finite appreciative audience. And like their odd releases, this deserves to exist in a world where even folk who consider themselves 'experimental' rarely move outside a safe, saleable panoply of clichés. This could also be seen as Chill Out music for the Japanese Noise enthusiast - ambient yes, noise yes, aggressive hell-bent attempts at documenting the moment when a nuclear reactor blows up - no! Interesting and uncompromising, it's nice to hear music like this arriving from places you probably wouldn't imagine having such diverse artists. Originally reviewed for Metamorphic Journeyman.