CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Oren Ambarchi / Lasse Marhaug
Album....: Devil Wolf Men
Label....: Pica Disk
Size.....: 17,8 MB
Source...: Vinyl
Playtime.: 12:27 min
Genre....: Avantgarde
Release..: Jun-25-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
Track List:
01 06:10 Devil Wolf Men Part 1
02 06:17 Devil Wolf Men Part 2
Release Notes:
When a package of some really cool stuff arrived from
Lasse Marhaug's Norwegian experimental/ noise label Pica
Disk arrived I thought this 'Devil Wolf Men' 7" record
was by Australian sound artist Robin Fox as the sleeve
is a picture of him rocking an amazing Elvis cool/ Jesus
Christ shaggy beard look. A quick peek at the text
reveals that it is actually a Lasse Marhaug/ Oren
Ambarchi collaboration and as I approach the turntable
with vinyl in hand I'm very intrigued as to what will
come out of the speakers... Oh this 7" is dinked
oldskool style so I need my "Adaptor". I believe 33 1/3
is the correct speed here and IÆm struggling to
articulate what IÆm hearing which for me is a very good
thing. The vocal samples are totally deranged and sit
amongst some messed up abstract kind of theatrical noise
with string sampling (I think) fun. It's totally demonic
with its warped baby crying along to kung fu chops and
snarls over thundering low end. Then weÆre into wild
west cinematic action put through a blender with a
stomping drum beat. Totally unique although I would say
as reference point that this is the kind of clever trash
you might expect Steven Stapleton to come up with.
Imagine you're being suffocated while having an amazing
Enter The Dragon nightmare and that might get close.
Weird and wonderful and I'm itching to flip the record
over. Oh this is equal parts beautiful and deranged and
sounds like Ennio Morricone being savaged by wolves
during a thunderstorm. Total madcap growling, water
sounds and weirdo craziness. This has been put together
with total class. Towards the second half it feels like
a young Yamatsuka Eye hi-jacking a Finders Keepers
compilation. Marvelous gear all round. Totally gets my
seal of approval. A plunderphonics/noise extravaganza!