Necromishka - The Space Between Us
Necromishka is a new act which hails from Israel, members being Tamar Singer (Cruel Wonder, Zeresh) and Michael Zolotov (Kadaver). Two different backgrounds join forces, one from a neo-folk act and one from a death-industrial/power-electronics act! And this is one is their debut, released on a new label called 999 Cuts. A CDr housed in a cardboard slipcase, in my case, it was a Nescafe cardboard slipcase. Promising... I like coffee drinkers.
The first track starts off with primitive angelic post-rock´ish soundscapes, with a slowed down voice recording... so slow that you cannot hear what he/she is singing/saying. The soundscapes being quite good and interesting, despite the primitive sound-quality. Actually, the primitive recording heightens the track. Next track called Paradise (access denied) jolts the listener into a melancholic sludge. Mysterious and ominous multi-layered soundscapes put the neo-psychedelic mood just right, reverbed acoustic folk´ish guitar-work and occasional ritualistic vocals. Meditative and melancholic good stuff. Next track Blood Room sucks the listener into a reverbed noise-ambient treat with angelic guitars and threatening vocals in the background (almost like a spiraling vortex), endlessly chaotic and static at the same time.
Fourth track Excelsior adds extra juice to the continued and heightening esoteric-sense, almost works as a follow-up to the former track Blood Room. Cool sounding witchlike humming vocals, strange psychedelic, and swirling soundscapes with suddenly ends at starts of with the next track called Them Roots. So far this album kind of sounds like a live recording in a basement. Them Roots being a disturbing 2-minutes intermission. Next track Evil follows up on the psychedelic garage neo-folk sound, almost with a proto hippie-folk/early 60s vibe to it (In a good way!). Evocative guitar work and interesting vocals, really love the effects on the vocals. The second last track Harms Way offers screaming voices of the dead, reverbed rumblings and angelic post-rock´ish textures. Last Track simply called There Is No Space Between Us ends the album in beautiful acoustic ambient style!
A decent album... A really really decent album. I thought it would be a terrible treat by the look of the cover-art... my advice; don´t look at the cover-art just listen to the music! Like I mentioned earlier, it does sound like a live-recording BUT! It works perfectly in its improvised state of mind. Fans of Novy Svét and Swans, do give this one a check up!
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