Barrera - My Rage Knows No Input
Second-latest release (from 2022) with this great Spanish HNW act. Might just be the ultimate noise-wall experience with Barrera, since we are dealing with a cassette having only one track... which is 60 minutes and 5 seconds long. Released on the Polish label Antenna Non Grata as a limited 23 copies (sold out!), it should already be a cult release. Why you ask me, how can a limited cassette release become an item of cult worship? Please...let me explain.
It´s a spiritual and almost religious experience. A pure archaic primal noisescape that would leave Boyd Rice bloody jealous. Primitive and brutal yes, but filled with a hidden and esoteric world inside. Interesting layers of sound here, almost like listening to both dark ambient and noise at the same time.
A close recording of our burning sun with the sound of hell... (or heaven?) somewhere in the background. I don´t know if it was the intention of the recording itself, but I do find this incredibly enjoyable... almost relaxing. Again, monotonic yes... but with a vibrant and organic feel to it, like being inside some living organism.
Different from the fetish kind of HNW-themed stuff, closer to ANW and to the recordings of early NON/Boyd Rice of the Haters. The sound is absolutely superb, great to hear on stereo speakers in a cold basement! A perfect album to lay your ears to after a totally fxxxxxx-up day. Prime noise-wall stuff from Spain, absolutely prime!
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