Uboa - Coma Wall
(c) 2015 Self-released
Artist....: Uboa
Album.....: Coma Wall
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 1
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Self-released
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo
URL.......: http://deezer.com/album/355775767
Tracklist:
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1. Coma Wall 22:36
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22:36
Total:54.48 MB / 22:36
Release Notes:
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Review by Void Worship:
I remember once, a few years ago, back when I started Void Worship, formulating
- more to myself than to anyone in particular - what were to be the tenets of my
new label. While I had been content with the labels I had run before, my
intention with Void Worship was more particular and precise: to offer a strictly
curated catalog of, broadly speaking, fringe, experimental or avant-garde works
that, each to itself, would to me be the absolute pinnacle of its respective
field of musical exploration, and that were innovative or ground-breaking in at
least some fashion. (Of course, Void Worship is also home to a few of my own
works - I do not wish to claim any level of innovativeness or
ground-breakingness for these works; all I can say is that they are square
within the aesthetic vision of Void Worship.)
As such, I was thrilled to host Mitchell Rotunno's searing - and intimately
personal - harsh noise project (A)Sex; Erika Yume Hayashi's absolutely
quintessential HNW project Shurayuki-Hime (in a tribute to yet another HNW
legend, Female Harakiri, no less); Waldo Pardon's supremely brilliant hip-hop
tape Dogglefox. Hearing these works stirred endless excitement in me, the sheer
feeling of bliss upon being confronted with a product of genius.
Sheer bliss is exactly what Uboa's Coma Wall is to me. A crushing, almost
23-minute track, it provides absolute catharsis through its extraordinary
amalgamate of hardcore, doom, sludge and harsh noise, an at times free-form -
yet at all times immaculately structured - crescendo of pummeling drums,
deafening cymbals and thundering guitar and bass,; a current of unsettling
ambient noises and droning howls running underneath without end; Xandra
Metcalfe's cries, howls, screams, pleas piercing the musical onslaught,
searching for release. To describe the track in too much detail is almost akin
to spoiling it, so I will refrain from saying too much. All you need to know is
that this work is absolutely essential.
Originally self-released digitally in 2015. Current edition of baby blue C46
tapes, limited to 50 copies. The digital version of Coma Wall can be streamed
and purchased on Uboa's Bandcamp, here: uboa.bandcamp.com/album/coma-wall
"Nothing will ever spare you from the void, except the void itself."