• Karnilapakte "Karnilapakte" LP

Project from Wagner Ödegård mixing Black Metal with rock and experimental music. Previously released by Brugmanziah, this version has remastered audio and includes 2 bonus tracks, from 2020's "s/t" 7" EP. Comes with an A5 booklet with lyrics and and additional sheet with translated lyrics

"Though it will probably be classified as “138” by lazy collectors and website completionists, this project draws from many wells, several of which being much older traditions than black metal. Most prominent on the production side is the influence of various analog experimentalists, ranging from Basinski and Eno to This Heat and Sonic Youth, who use recording technology not at a means to an end, but as an end in itself. Incorporating tape, wire, analog synth, field recording, film samples, vintage mics, and all manner of mixing humor, the production on this album is “raw” like Silver Apples, “raw” like Suicide, “raw” like early Beefheart — this music is not chasing after a fashion or cashing in on a trend, but rather offering an homage to a long tradition of outsiders, and in doing so, cementing itself within that tradition. “Black metal” activities occur here — treble confronts, repetition develops into ecstasy, screams are shouted — and if asked to contextualize this in a lineage of outsider black metal, bands like Furze, LIK, and Lugubrum could be referenced. However, when enjoying this album, I am much more frequently reminded of artists from outside that lineage, numerous artists famous and forgotten, occupying the catalogs of Ralph Records and Am-Rep, cluttering used CD bins in Berlin record stores, laying in disrepair among cigarette ash and fast food trash in the back of a Buick somewhere in Louisville… (the mind wanders, as it should, guided by such music as this!). Perhaps all of this analysis is too idiosyncratic. Perhaps I am conflating all the things I like with one another, and again with all the things I think other people with good taste should like. But even if this were true, I am convinced that there is something special achieved here that deserves attention. Send this record to your uncle who likes Can, or your old professor who made homemade recordings — it is worth, inter alia, a damn share. Is it going too far to say that, if John Peel were alive, he'd love this album?"

Karnilapakte "Karnilapakte" LP

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Tags: 02.02.2022