Kadaitcha - Tar
Kadaitcha comes from Ukraine and has since 2016 released 4 cassette albums. Andrii Kozhukhar describes his music like this:
Kadaitcha explores organic aspects of the noise, post-industrial and archaic aesthetics.
This album called Tar is the third album and it was released on cassette via U.S-based (Missouri) Powdered Hearts Records, limited to 40 copies. Kadaitcha is actually a two-man act, one being Andrii Kozhurhar and the other being Yurii Samson. How I would describe their sound? Slightly acoustic Swans via the otherworldly moods of Vidna Obmana, not that far away from another Ukraine act called Dispersive Light (see the former review!). A 7 track album, being almost one hour long in length.
First track Idle Hands sets the ears straight! Mysterious electronic glitchiness reveals their alien present while evocative acoustic guitar-work gently sets the atmosphere just right. Distortion being added to the guitar-work later on... which adds that slightly desert-rock´ ish aesthetic. Love the monotone pulsating feel/sound here. A pure mescaline trip to another galaxy going on here. Fans of Ivonne Van Cleef will dig this!.
Second track 2219 F makes sure that something... is trying to open a rift into your own dimension. Something way beyond the normal understanding of physics. Effective and heavy-industrial drone and pure shoegazer brutality collide into the burning sun. From sheer electronic ear-candy to breathtaking violent epicness. VERY good!.
The third offering simply called Ran moves further into stoner/droner-rock territory. Hectic acoustics, noisy hyper-space traveling, pulsating distorted pulse-sounds... Very trippy and very archaic sounding!
Fourth track Saima enters into heavy-dub ambient territory. Fans of early Scorn anyone? Feels like a cloud to rest on, while the world below is witnessing an apocalyptic disaster. Soothing dub rhythms slowdowns the time, with evocative shamanistic vocals and while erratic and multi-layered guitar work adds an interesting pattern to it all. Can u dig it?!!
Fifth track Eclipse warps straight into the heart of the moon. A frightening mind-altering eclipse that is! A quite aggressive and dramatic evocative piece, abstract and moody sound elements suggest the presence of a Lovecraftian outer-god like Yog-Zothoth. A wonderful and frightening abstract piece of apocalyptic doom´ ness.
Sixth track Serpent Hill offers more Lovecraftian horror for those being thirsty for more cosmic horror. Interesting distorted and ritualistic vocals here, warped soundscapes, pounding rhythms... and that is it (and it works). Very creepy and very scary... definitely evil! Kind of Coil/Nww feel here, very otherworldly!.
Last track Yatagarasu is the longest track on this album (and the most challenging), being 13 minutes and 19 seconds long. Yatagarasu?. We are talking about a three-legged Crow, found in various mythologies and arts of East-Asia. A symbol that represents and inhabits the sun. A thorough sound-exploration into industrial-ritual sounds. Has that sort of, Throbbing Gristle-improvisational ritual-feel ( know what I mean? ). Very hypnotic and very effective!. Very good way of ending the album!.
A trip to outer space via industrial-stoner-rock moods anyone?. Might be something new here, forget about drone-metal and kids thinking that Sun (o)))) is the shit. Kadaitcha is the shit!
First track Idle Hands sets the ears straight! Mysterious electronic glitchiness reveals their alien present while evocative acoustic guitar-work gently sets the atmosphere just right. Distortion being added to the guitar-work later on... which adds that slightly desert-rock´ ish aesthetic. Love the monotone pulsating feel/sound here. A pure mescaline trip to another galaxy going on here. Fans of Ivonne Van Cleef will dig this!.
Second track 2219 F makes sure that something... is trying to open a rift into your own dimension. Something way beyond the normal understanding of physics. Effective and heavy-industrial drone and pure shoegazer brutality collide into the burning sun. From sheer electronic ear-candy to breathtaking violent epicness. VERY good!.
The third offering simply called Ran moves further into stoner/droner-rock territory. Hectic acoustics, noisy hyper-space traveling, pulsating distorted pulse-sounds... Very trippy and very archaic sounding!
Fifth track Eclipse warps straight into the heart of the moon. A frightening mind-altering eclipse that is! A quite aggressive and dramatic evocative piece, abstract and moody sound elements suggest the presence of a Lovecraftian outer-god like Yog-Zothoth. A wonderful and frightening abstract piece of apocalyptic doom´ ness.
Sixth track Serpent Hill offers more Lovecraftian horror for those being thirsty for more cosmic horror. Interesting distorted and ritualistic vocals here, warped soundscapes, pounding rhythms... and that is it (and it works). Very creepy and very scary... definitely evil! Kind of Coil/Nww feel here, very otherworldly!.
Last track Yatagarasu is the longest track on this album (and the most challenging), being 13 minutes and 19 seconds long. Yatagarasu?. We are talking about a three-legged Crow, found in various mythologies and arts of East-Asia. A symbol that represents and inhabits the sun. A thorough sound-exploration into industrial-ritual sounds. Has that sort of, Throbbing Gristle-improvisational ritual-feel ( know what I mean? ). Very hypnotic and very effective!. Very good way of ending the album!.
A trip to outer space via industrial-stoner-rock moods anyone?. Might be something new here, forget about drone-metal and kids thinking that Sun (o)))) is the shit. Kadaitcha is the shit!
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