Miguel A. Garcia & Gyakusatsu & Tube Tentacles - Ulls De Fang
One of the Gyakusatsu members and from Heulen (former review) team up with Miguel A. Garcia and Tube Tentacles, and have then created this interesting and highly experimental noise-ambient treat called Ulls De Fang. In the language of Catalonia, it means clay eyes... don´t know if that would be the right translation. But anyways, the cover-art clearly shows a rundown and decayed ruin of a house being almost devoured by wild-plants/weed. I cannot help but associate it with the cursed home of the dreaded wizard Whatley from Lovecraft´s Dunwich Horror. I have also heard rumors that the artist Tube Tentacles might be a Lovecraft fan... I think. So who knows?. So what kind of sinister Lovecraftian soundscapes have these 3 people created anyways?
5 tracks, 45 minutes with a cassette release from Marbre Negre ltd. to 75 copies. We´re dealing with a kind of... sandbox of exploring. Abstract and surreal cosmic noise-ambient with lots of eerieness. First track Sprow Fluctus starts the track with electronic-based and slightly distorted sound of insects chirping, metallic clatterings, eerie flutelike mood effects and wave-like winds of eldritch horror elevates the listener. A very strange and exquisite evocative welcome-intro indeed!. Next track Sagues just sucks the listener further into the unknown. The sound of almost frozen-like-in-time church bells, distorted sound-waves (like heavy-rain) streams into the ear and more of those warped and eerie effects giving you that floating sensation. Third track (with a long and complicated Catalonian title!)gets you down with a cold early-industrial feeling/sound. Think Throbbing Gristle and Nurse With Wound, that kind of feeling!. Perfect soundtrack-stuff for isolation!. Fourth track ´Preshic Et Clamorem´ works in a calm-before-the-storm kind of way. Earthquake-like rumblings, metallic raindrops, screaming distorted synths... VERY good!. Still maintaining that .. old-school/early music-sound from the Death-Factory kind of feel! The last track wraps it all up like a relaxing hangover, while still having that strange, spacy and eerie quality.
A thick book of a release, a strange journey of a noisy ambient-soundtrack. A recommended and excellent inspiring release to lay your ears to (When you are all alone!). Get it on cassette before your neighbor does!.
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