Grodock - Fluchtimpuls
Fluchtimpuls by Grodock, solo-act which hides a David Leutkart. Is an artist which has worked in experimental drone/ambient music since 2012. Most of his releases have been released via his own label called Grubenwehr Freiburg (Bandcamp link below). They describe their interesting label like this:
DIY-Label for Audio Recordings in the field of Noise, Fringe, Core, Musique d'ameublement, and musikalische Lebenshilfe. We are concerned about taste.
This one is the latest release with his project Grodock, and it´s called Fluchtimpuls (Escape Impulse in English). Released on Marbre Negre as a limited 20 copies cassette.
The first track is called Wehrhaft, a track that features a Felix Mayer. The whole track is very... musique concrete´ish. It sounds like a recorded art performance in some cellar room. Wet sounds dripping, echoed microphone scratchings, the sound of someone putting on latex gloves, metallic rumblings. The sound acoustics are incredible here! Superb recorded if you ask me, my room was transported somewhere else!
The second track Wechselbad is an incredible jaw-dropping piece of melancholic ritualistic drone-ambiance. Ever heard Italian I Burn? Kind of like that. Dreamy, mesmerizing, swirling, weightless stuff. Giving room for deep and aesthetic thoughts here.
With the Third track Exekution, it gets a bit noisier. A distorted windy drone and ritualistic beatings. Excellent cruel and evil-sounding track. Getting back to that classic sound of MZ.412!
The track stops and enters the fourth track Offenes Fenster Bei Nacht II. A track that reminds you a bit of the first haunted-cellar-of-factory-sound. Love the adventurous sound diversity so far!
The fifth track Äuglein Zu (Close your eyes) heads straight into pure ritual cult music. Strange and looped chanting voices, someone singing something eerie in German, mechanized droning noises and throbbing distortions. Wonderfull when noise and ritual music can go hand in hand!
On the sixth track, Absatz gets into something else. Echoed clicks and looped hissing noise. Sounds like the sort of noise you get the minute you press play on your cassette player, only this time the artist has managed to create a rhythm out of it. Fxxxxxx love it, a lovely thing after the former track.
We turn the tape and continue on the B-side with the track called Keim. A track that returns to the chanting ritual sound-setting, chanting drones from a deep subterranean cavern. Lovely effects and lovely distortions. Lots of these tracks have a live-recorded sort of feel.
The next track on the B-side Fütterung adds more noise into the cavern. Almost entering into a death-industrial sound here. Throbbing, flesh-grinding distortions and distant ritualistic moods in the background. Painful delight!
And that is all I will reveal to you, there are 3 more tracks on the album... and they are worth it, just like the rest. Very unique sound/release with tons of diversity, love the feel that the artist behind this act isn't afraid of trying something new while at the same time maintaining the mood as well. There is ALOT of depth and personality encased in this one, it´s a world in itself. Very sincere and very real!
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