TAIKO OROSHI
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Reviewed on WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS
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Speaker, and eardrum, shattering shards of broken digital noise are the forte of Danish musician Claus Haxholm. Bleeder Locked Attack is a littered with fast moving and uncomfortable shards of sound that Haxholm tosses around with a wonderfully blase disregard for his listener. The tracks are, for the most part, nice and short so long before a sound or an idea becomes entrenched or passe it is has been discarded and we are all happily ensconced in the next track. My one real complaint is in the similarity of much of the textures he uses. There is a grittiness to many of the sounds that is interchangeable as though he has used the same effect (be it pedal or processor) on each track. That however is a quibble as this is a fun noise release that while not really offering anything new to a very full genre is still a fun listen.
Reviewed on VITAL WEEKLY
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A wet November morning in East Anglia, sleepily the CD goes into the player in the car stereo - and then BLAM! The noun "Noise" has been appropriated by all kinds of musics, experimental through to tinkling new wave nonsense - post Dada fluxus semi political bullshit performance of which even the God Merzbow has stepped into. This - read the title above again and weep - is - Noise, but I can't say this, limp, thoughtful, planned music uses the name these days, anything and everything is noise, is it then 'Harsh Noise'. 'Extreme noise'- 'wall noise?' I muse as I drive to work through the grey rain. (someone employs the guy!?) - each of the 11 tracks offers a differing definition of noise - in the same sense that Bruce Willis defines glazing in Die Hard, its 'Rape Music' - I like the image - what this evokes and the pun on Rap, (Rap on ecstasy) its Snuff Music, its not art or music but Stuff; I made up these titles whilst driving to deliberately exclude anything that puts forward an argument, and excludes all the sound collage/texture improv pussies.. (I've been watching 'Life on Mars' and the 'philosophy!' of Gene Hunt has got to me. Oh the days before PC was everywhere.) The term 'post-conceptual art'- more polite, dangerously so, but still has the irony that what now goes for conceptual - unmade beds et al. is in fact material, this sound is material, is stuff. Can we adopt then - us noiseniks, stuff, rape music to remove those who have pocket handkerchiefs from our genre. Here on some post Deleuze/Guattarian plateau - is all noise stuff- and its always perfect. Claus - you're the man. (jliat)
Reviewed on RUIDO HORRIBLE
http://ruidohorrible.blogspot.com/
En "Bleeder Locked Attack," Taiko Oroshi ejecuta 11 cortes segmentados como viñetas. Cada uno cuenta con un enclave atmosférico recurrente, que progresa mínimamente a veces, o bien, permanece decididamente estático, mientras modulaciones de efectos sacuden las capas más superficiales. Cercano al HWN -o Harsh Wall of Noise-, como lo evidencian temas como "Beyond the River,"o "SAKO," este trabajo gana mucho en lo efímero de la mayoría de sus piezas. Entre la sorpresa y el empleo de frecuencias graves, tunélicas, el trabajo se desenvuelve libremente sin cansar. "Chemical 6-Alpha" ve progresiones abstractas resolverse mientras un manto de oscuridad recubre su universo electromagnético. "If Tress Could Die Among Us" deja resonar martilleos mientras el rugido de la distorsión circunda grueso y vibrante. La escisión en fragmentos de irregulares longitudes y la variación de los temas hacen "Bleeder Locked Attack" ofrezca algo inususal en los trabajos de Wall of Noise, una exposición completa y bien lograda de las posibilidades del género. Mejor y más económico que una decena de C10s. (S.S.)
