Lyke Wake & Noise Cluster -
Let The Universe Fall
There a new tape in town, this time we have another new release which is a collaboration between Lyke Wake and Noise Cluster. Released on Luce Sia, cassette (60 copies), and available by digital means via Luce Sia´s official Bandcamp site. Just a quick introduction, for those who don´t know Lyke Wake I can only say that it is an old Italian industrial-cult act which has existed since 1984. Something worthy to check (Fans of MB, Ain Soph, and Die Sonne Satans). I do not know the other act Noise Cluster, it is a newish project which have been started by members of DBPIT and XxeNA ( which I don't know either). Both projects DBPIT and XxeNA have been highly productive in the field of experimental industrial (check the Discogs links below!). Anyways, this new release has been called Let the Universe Fall, over 53 minutes in total.
First track Gamma Rays Scenario kick-starts the album with a warped technoid-ambient feel. Alienated electronic drum patterns lift the spaceship further into a great cosmos, evocative and epic Tangerine Dream´ish synth-ambient meets the listener/spaceship here. Mindscanning electronic-noise whirl around the listener as well. Interesting and rather....spaced out intro.
Next track A Stream Inside The Dark Of The Universe moves away from the rhythms and adds a more floating psychedelic sensation. Could very well sound like the birth of the universe. Distant and screaming angelic-voices, eerie radio-clatter, icy synth-drones, and whispering voices. Reminds me of a Deutsche Nepal track (in a way). All this weightless eerieness meets up (later) with the spiritual and excellent church-like organ/synth-work by Lyke Wake.
Third track Deranged Solar Flares starts off with an (I think) being some kind of hornet/trumpet-drone. Interesting and icy rhythms comes second with evocative synth-work in the background. A kind of a low-beat and minimal melancholic piece if you compare it to the two first tracks.
Fourth track And Then The Dark starts with a classic Lyke Wake melody, which suddenly stops and meets up with metallic dub effects and rhythms which we heard earlier on Deranged Solar Flares. The sounds of repeated violins mark a new beginning for this track, and this gets mixed up with sci-fi sound effects and gentle synth-work.
Fifth track The Shadowed Universe Of Pain (b-side) gets a bit murkier. A sort of apocalyptic of a nearby galaxy sort of feel, or a sucking black hole maybe?. Or some great cosmic evil waiting to devour other planets for lunch. Sofar the most experimental track on the album, and also the darkest.
Sixth track Younger Dryas gets into new and strange territories. Ethnic female-vocals, eerie looped piano-part, shortwave radio noise... a really acid-drenched piece. The merge between the two acts sounds a bit too mixed up here... slightly confusing piece.
Seventh track The Black Light Beyond Lensed Star 1 returns to icy-melancholic dub-effects with weightless evocative synth-work. Do like the clattering icy keys here, lovely outro as well.
Eight (and last) track There Goes Our Comet ends it the album with glitch, acid, and rhythmic looped recordings. Strangely cheerful but also strangely menacing at the same time.
A strange album with its ups and downs. The album starts really great (a-side) but then it slowly gets less and less imaginative. The freshness of the start with its epic electronic feel, and cosmic strangeness slowly turn down the mood the further we get on. At times we do have episodes when the two projects collide and get too... mixed up in a confusing matter. The album is also (maybe) too long compared to its fusion-style, the excellent a-side is enough in itself. But do give it a spin nonetheless, I do think it is a rather unique piece of mood music that requires curious ears.
First track Gamma Rays Scenario kick-starts the album with a warped technoid-ambient feel. Alienated electronic drum patterns lift the spaceship further into a great cosmos, evocative and epic Tangerine Dream´ish synth-ambient meets the listener/spaceship here. Mindscanning electronic-noise whirl around the listener as well. Interesting and rather....spaced out intro.
Next track A Stream Inside The Dark Of The Universe moves away from the rhythms and adds a more floating psychedelic sensation. Could very well sound like the birth of the universe. Distant and screaming angelic-voices, eerie radio-clatter, icy synth-drones, and whispering voices. Reminds me of a Deutsche Nepal track (in a way). All this weightless eerieness meets up (later) with the spiritual and excellent church-like organ/synth-work by Lyke Wake.
Third track Deranged Solar Flares starts off with an (I think) being some kind of hornet/trumpet-drone. Interesting and icy rhythms comes second with evocative synth-work in the background. A kind of a low-beat and minimal melancholic piece if you compare it to the two first tracks.
Fourth track And Then The Dark starts with a classic Lyke Wake melody, which suddenly stops and meets up with metallic dub effects and rhythms which we heard earlier on Deranged Solar Flares. The sounds of repeated violins mark a new beginning for this track, and this gets mixed up with sci-fi sound effects and gentle synth-work.
Fifth track The Shadowed Universe Of Pain (b-side) gets a bit murkier. A sort of apocalyptic of a nearby galaxy sort of feel, or a sucking black hole maybe?. Or some great cosmic evil waiting to devour other planets for lunch. Sofar the most experimental track on the album, and also the darkest.
Sixth track Younger Dryas gets into new and strange territories. Ethnic female-vocals, eerie looped piano-part, shortwave radio noise... a really acid-drenched piece. The merge between the two acts sounds a bit too mixed up here... slightly confusing piece.
Seventh track The Black Light Beyond Lensed Star 1 returns to icy-melancholic dub-effects with weightless evocative synth-work. Do like the clattering icy keys here, lovely outro as well.
Eight (and last) track There Goes Our Comet ends it the album with glitch, acid, and rhythmic looped recordings. Strangely cheerful but also strangely menacing at the same time.
A strange album with its ups and downs. The album starts really great (a-side) but then it slowly gets less and less imaginative. The freshness of the start with its epic electronic feel, and cosmic strangeness slowly turn down the mood the further we get on. At times we do have episodes when the two projects collide and get too... mixed up in a confusing matter. The album is also (maybe) too long compared to its fusion-style, the excellent a-side is enough in itself. But do give it a spin nonetheless, I do think it is a rather unique piece of mood music that requires curious ears.
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