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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Caacrinolas
Title......: Vargtimmen
Rip Date...: Sep-06-2007 Cat.No.....: n/a
Style......: Avantgarde Label......: self-released
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Single
Size.......: 47,6 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
"It's been over FIVE years since we last heard from German duo
Caacrinolas and their strange brand of constantly changing black
metal weirdness. The two were fixtures in the avant garde jazz /
experimental electronic German underground, fronting the group
Bretzel Killing Machine, but the two became fixated on black
metal, and horror movies and decided to do something about it.
Their debut, A Thousand Cries Has The Night, was a brief black
assault, with buzzing riffage, sweeping black ambience, and some
of the most intense wailing vocals we'd ever heard. We compared
the music on the disc to groups like Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra,
Abruptum, Nokturnal Mortum, Potentiam, bands who took black metal
and shaped it into something more unique, and often more
disturbing. The duo returned soon after, with a second salvo, the
ominously titled Valley of the Dead, another lengthy single track,
but the black buzz was pulled back to reveal a haunting
Goblinesque soundworld of lugubrious dark crawls, and Bohren like
blackjazz slowcore. Granted, the record was like a haunted house,
with creeps and starts lurking around every corner, but the focus
was a long droning black drift (btw, both of those were SUPER
limited so don't try to order 'em...)
Now here we are 5 years later (although most of this was recorded
in 2003 and '04), and Caacrinolas take up just where they left
off, creating a gorgeous epic creepscape of drifting pointillist
pianos, long drawn out minor key chords, whispery ghost like
voices, dark cavernous drones, and streaks of fuzzed out ambience,
all smeared into ominous, yet strangely lovely stretches of
cinematic tension. Hard not to hear Bohren, and again Goblin, but
also Stars Of The Lid, and even bits of Tim Hecker, Aidan Baker,
and other subtle sound sculptors... Most AQ drone-heads are
already in love with this kind of sound and it only takes a minute
or two before those folks are ready to close their eyes and drift
off... but not so fast....
About halfway through the opening track, some keening distorted
high end guitar, begins to repeat, over and over, like some lonely
distant minor key siren, until they're joined by some downtuned
low slung slow motion riffage, that buzzes and crawls, over a warm
warbly bed of synths... it never explodes into black action
though, instead, it slowly twists and turns, the various layers of
keyboard and synthesizer, getting all tangled up and drifting
darkly above a swirling sea of subtle black drone.
The second track follows a similar pattern, a slow building horror
movie ambient epic. Keyboards drone and shimmer, muted melodies
drift right beneath the surface, bits of percussion pepper the
Niblockian blur, the tension builds, the production crackles and
hisses, a strange textured underlayer to the near static drone,
until a mournful strummed guitar surfaces, and the track
transforms into some strange lonely lament, drifting, drifting,
drifting, until the band suddenly launches into full on rock mode,
crunchy riffage, eighties synths, simple propulsive drumming, and
the band is squarely in Goblin (or Zombi) territory, weaving a
tense soundscape, dramatic and a little over the top, eventually,
becoming -slightly- black metal with some super brittle high end
insectoid buzz and some blasting double kick buried in the mix,
like a black metal Goblin scoring one of those scenes where the
terrified girl in her nightgown is running through the midnight
forest, being chased by a mysterious maniac. Eventually, the band
settles back down into a haunting slithering creep, but now with
mysterious female voices mumbled beneath the buzzing synth, the
sizzling cymbal swells, the spidery sad guitar melodies, and the
slow motion downtuned riffing, until it all fades to black.
Awesome!
Like the other discs, this one is also limited to only 100 copies,
so we're not sure how long we'll be able to keep these in stock.
If people freak out over this one the way they did over the first
two, probably not long. But UNLIKE the other ones, which were
packaged in slimline jewel cases, 3 is super elaborate, housed in
a gold metallic hinged box (like those old Chain Reaction
releases), with the artwork silkscreened directly onto the metal,
the cd affixed to a metallic nub on the inside, and a printed
black on black insert with all the liner notes tucked inside."
www.aquariusrecords.org
p l a y l i s t
01 Vargtimmen 25:14
02 En Un Espacio... 19:55
45:09 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