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AVIV AFTERMATH
Various artists
Tel Aviv Aftermath
2002
CD
Topheth Prophet
64:49
A showcase for new music from Israel, Tel Aviv Aftermath
is a mixed bag of noise, industrial, electronic and avant-garde
music which, although at times it wallows in self-indulgence, at
others has the power to intrigue and to captivate. The minute's
silence "for the memory of all those who violently lost their lives
in the Middle East conflict, except those who took other lives while
losing theirs" would be the collection's low point, were it not
succeeded by an utterly dreadful seventeen minute live improvisation
by an underground supergroup calling themselves The Crossfishes.
This is a shame, as the nine preceding pieces are all pretty much
OK - and none better than the New Jerusalem Defense Forces'
'Make Law', a bitter slab of grinding power electronics that appears
to be punctuated by the sound of a nearby firefight. Never mind
that NJDF personnel Igor Krutogolov and Vadim Gusis
also work out with the aforementioned Crossfishes (as well
as both having good individual tracks on the compilation), they
also find time to contribute to the wonderfully weird ''The
Golden Skull', as backing group to Vera Agnivolok, a singer
capable of raising the hairs on the back of anybody's neck. The
other standout track is VectorScope's 'No Way To Deny The
Dream', which, with its pounding industrial rhythm through as swirling
soup of synth sounds, had me in mind of the Aphex Twin, c.1993.
New label, interesting material, worth a listen.
STEWART GOTT - 8 August 2002
- NEW JERUSALEM STUDIO
http://www.njstudio.co.il
njstudio@njstudio.co.il
New Jerusalem Studio is a collective of Israeli experimental / dark ambient
/ noise / folk / electronic musicians. You can find here the websites of Agnivolok,
Chaos As Shelter, NJDF, Igor Krutogolov, and other NJStudio-related projects.
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