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| "AVigillant Carpark is the first official release of music by Sasha Grey and her cohort Pablo St. Francis and it is made up of recordings that go back to 2005. Included here are 6 short vignettes of noise, abstract dub, and thick, heavy soundscapes; sensual and dark, erotically-charged and bleak. Sasha has described it as an "experimental death dub orgasm kind of project…" I think that sounds pretty close. This is a record you have to hear." |
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Red
2. Every Wolf Every...
3. The Pleasure Dome
Side B
1. Matic
2. Larry Park
3. Efrom (the Retarded Rabbit)
Atelecine is:
Sasha Grey: Vox , lyrik, Synth , drumbox ,Tape loops, Guitar
(Yes, the porn star Sasha Grey)
Pablo St. Francis: Vox , Bass, Drums, Dulcimer, Synth
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| "In a time when industrial music is so saturated with the same tried and true formulas of tight rhythm programming and catchy if distorted bass lines coupled with angst-ridden lyrics, it's gratifying to see a project like ATelecine come along that pushes past the boundaries and returns to a spirit of pure experimentation. Listening to aVigillant Carpark is like finding a time capsule to a more adventurous time when groups like Throbbing Gristle, Coil, and SPK focused less on melody and more on just what could be done with sound. Just listening to "Larry Park," the longest and loudest track on this EP will have you grinding your teeth as morsels of mangled audio rise and fall throughout, with the only trace of rhythm being a static pulse that might be the remnants of a heavily manipulated sample or the overdriven effects of a synthesizer about to collapse. The rest of the EP follows suit as "Red" and "Efrom (The Retarded Rabbit)" grate on the ears with an abundance of sound that is tweaked to unprecedented extremes; whatever these sounds originated as, be they voices, samples, synths, no traces are left as they are transformed into pure noise. But in case you thought there was no rhythm to be heard here, "Matic" and especially "Every Wolf Every..." do at least feature what appears to be muffled clanks akin to an abandoned factory, with the echoes of manipulated voices adding an increasingly haunted quality. The only downside to the EP is that the tracks are far too brief, most them not even breaking three minutes; one gets the sense of where ATelecine are going, but these are more vignettes to leave us begging for more nightmarish exploration...but then again, that is the point, as aVigillant Carpark prepares us for new surprises from an exciting new voice in old-school industrial music." |
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