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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: The Human Quena Orchestra
Title......: Means Without Ends
Rip Date...: Jun-02-2007 Cat.No.....: n/a
Style......: Industrial Label......: Daft Alliance
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 46,0 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
We are pleased to announce the debut release of The Human Quena
Orchestra. The HQO is the work of Ryan Unks. Ryan Unks is known
for his work with Creation Is Crucifixion (Willowtip, Robotic
Empire), Fate of Icarus (Willowtip), and his more ambient work in
CIRCADIA. Unlike any of his previous work, or anything Daft
Alliance has ever released for the matter, The Human Quena
Orchestra "Means Without Ends" sets a new standard in mechanistic
darkness. It's just the self righteous, umcompromising,
post-indistrial rubbish the world, or the Daft Alliance cellar,
doesn't need. We're happy to bring it to you.
The Human Quena Orchestra will appeal to fans of early Swans,
Bastard Noise, Jesu, Xasthur, The Locust, and Godflesh.
"Various permutations of this disc have been floating around for a
while, each in various states of completeness, but every one we'd
heard sounded even better than the last. But this is the one, the
final, finished product. The long in the works Human Quena
Orchestra, the work of Ryan Unks, formerly of techgrind combo
Creation Is Crucifixion, but don't be expecting grind, or even
technicality, this all the way on the other side of the spectrum.
Abject, filthy, pummeling, slow motion noise drenched doom. A
plodding sonic monster, guitars, not just distorted, but treated
and twisted into harsh, skin scraping, caustic slabs of sinister
sound, a low end so thick, it's like dunking your head in a cement
mixer, insane sounding drums, each snare crack like the recording
of a million breaking windows, each kick drum the sound of a
slowed down car wreck. And beneath it all, thick swells of black
ambience, drifting and slithering, pulsing and swelling. A
lurching, stumbling blackened doom dirge behemoth.
Think Swans, Godflesh, Pitchshifter, that sort of machinelike
apocalyptic industrial pound, mixed with some funereal ultra doom
a la Moss, Bunkur, etc., but filtered through a druggy
psychedelia, with a minimal shimmery drone bent, that ends up
sounding like a way more brutal, way more harsh, tripped out,
psychedelic, industrial version of Jesu, that sort of blissed out
sun baked vibe, but as if played by some misanthropic black metal
horde, harsh blackened vocals, shrieking hysterically and growling
demonically over the relentless amp melting metallic trudge. Every
track is rife with layer after layer of undulating low end. Like
being tossed about on a stormy sea, but instead of water, it's an
endless expanse of roiling black sound waves, rumbling drones, and
thick snarled streaks of throbbing bass.
The magic Of Unks' Human Quena Orchestra though is that this
hellish harshness is balanced with a nearly equal amount of
meditative ambience, long stretches of deep shimmer, and even some
of the harshest tracks are tempered by the swirling low end drift
lurking beneath. So brutally gorgeous. Definitely essential
listening for fans of all the above mentioned outfits, as well as
Monarch, Nadja, the Angelic Process, Fear Falls Burning,
Skullflower, Abruptum, Monument Of Urns, Trollmann, Khanate, The
Body and all our favorite purveyors of crumbling downtuned beauty
and dreamy damaged doom.
Packaged in a gorgeous hand screened multiple panel fold over
sleeve with super striking ADD style microscopic super detailed
artwork."
www.aquariusrecords.org
http://www.myspace.com/daftdaftdaft
p l a y l i s t
01 The Doctrine of Signatures 01:54
02 The Ballad of Ayd Rand 08:37
03 A Wheel for Quinn 01:55
04 Believer 05:19
05 Fascist Haircut 16:37
06 A Bow for Guattari 03:53
07 Savior 03:58
08 To Be Without Ends 01:17
09 To Eat One's Way From the Inside Out 06:27
49:57 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl