WEREWOLF JERUSALEM / WASP HONEYMOON
CDr
PRESS / REVIEWS
Reviewed on VITAL WEEKLY
http://www.vitalweekly.net/
Noise is of course the territory of Jliat these days, but perhaps this week it seems to be mine too. Which I think is fine, in these quiet days with not much mail, and a Merzbow collection heard twice already. Plus perhaps it is funny to hear band names like Werewolf Jerusalem and Wasp Honeymoon, who collaborate together for a good thirty minutes. If I have to play someone a release of 'noise' music I could easily, no, best, pick out this release as an example of what 'noise' is, as it appears here in its most purest form. There is a quick fade in at the beginning and a quick fade out at the end, and in between there is one line of distorted noise, without too much interference, interruption or change. I am sure that whoever I would be playing this too, would be surprised to learn that the material was assembled from January 2008 until August 2008 and I could hear the witty remark: what exactly did they assemble? How much work could it have been for something that sounds like it was assembled in the amount of time this release lasts. But nevertheless it was quite nice. (FdW)
Reviewed on TERROR
http://www.terror.lt/
Legendary Werewolf Jerusalem under which unweary Richard Ramirez hides and Wasp Honeymoon (Geoff Markoff, Alison Rowe) cooperated for this release. They delivered three pieces with playing time of more than 25 minutes. Released in CDr by the Spanish label R.O.N.F. Records. Visually album looks really great. I do have a weakness for these contrasting + radiating spirit of giallo and cruelty artworks/pictures. Tracks are sequenced from the shortest to the longest one. Part I lasts just for a little more than 2 minutes, but the start is powerful. Wall of noise boiling in low frequencies prejudices in favour of the whole album. Short and concrete track. The second track is absolute surprise. In fact when I heard this track for the first time, I thought that my audio equipment was broken so I got up, messed with cables etc., but no. Part II is like a district of silence that lasts for 9 minutes. For the most part a silent crackling is everything what you hear, just as if cables would've been being disconnected. These cracklings evolve into short bursts of white noise that suddenly ends and you remain with silent crackling for another minute or two. At the very end of the track, cracklings become more and more ruffled and finally couple of seconds of low frequencies tears away as if from below thick ice of silence. While reviewing this track I thought to myself that it's strange for this "song" is the most difficult to "listen" to and seems the most boring one, but I could write pretty much about it. The last and longest/biggest wall in the album - Part III. 15 minutes of intense static. Sound is "raised" from the first minutes and when it reaches the peak, goes forth through the whole spectrum of frequencies. What I hear is not that pleasant though really powerful and massive stuff. Just like echoes from Part II the upper sharp and open layer of noise remains, but going to the end of Part III it disappears and only low rumble, stroking the body and soul with soft hand of killer remains. All in all - it's a rather good work. So whose neck will be tenderly kissed and cut with scalpel tonight? Who will be the next victim of this anonymous killer?
Reviewed on Musique Machine
http://www.musiquemachine.com
'Próximas Víctimas' is an edgy, offten active & brutal Giallo influenced HNW collaboration between Richard Ramirez's most know solo project Werewolf Jerusalem & Wasp Honeymoon which features Geoff Markoff(S.S. Electronics, Viking Movement,) & Alison Rowe(Nurse Unit, Rinne).
The release only lasts just over the twenty five minute mark, but the trio really pack in a lot of textural shifts & brutal sonic dips & riser’s through-out the four tracks on offer here. It all kicks in nice ‘n’ nasty with the just over two minutes of ‘Part 1’ that's all about nice searing rumbling's meeting juddering static tones which is all unlined by this grim sort of bassy drone which gives a nice oppressive air giving & brings to mind the feel of a victim hiding from his Killer in a wardrobe or under a bed.
‘Part2’ hacks straight into to you with a shrill teeth-grating jitter like you’ve just being stab very hard in the head a few times. Then we drop into a few minutes of great ominous & nightmarish clouds of tolling ambience that are overhang by deep static crunch; but pretty soon your slammed back up into ‘wall’ territory with brutal velocity. Yet the track still keeps it’s grim ambient & rumbling under base- the rest of the track nicely shifts texturally gears from one seared & dammed ‘wall’ after another in a nice often jolting & brutal execrating manner.
‘Part 3’ is the longest track here at just under the fifteen minute mark & it starts out with a nice thick & punishing wall of dark sound. The 'wall' sort of sounds like semi slowed mass of voodoo drums that are lined with static builds 'n' grinds, as the track progresses the wall of sound just gets thicker & thicker, more airless & oppressive in it’s feeling like it's pressing out all the light & air from your listening space. This track feels like the killer is feverishly working on slice, peeling & dismembering your desiccated corpse. As the track grinds & drills on the trio nicely shift & morph textural roars, groans & drags with-in the thick wall of sound, through there are no great sudden shifts or rapid stabs of sound like the second track- this track is more about slowly craving & gutting of all hope(and your organs) away!.
The CDR comes in a very nice thick see-through plastic case that has on the outside a black gloved hand holding a straight razor & on the inside a picture of the stretched out & blood soaked murder victim- both pictures are done in grainy and slightly off focus black & white which really fits the albums nasty, blacked & murderous sonic tone. I can safely this is one of best examples of brutal & sleazy- yet often darkly atmospheric Giallo influenced HNW I’ve come across & it comes in such a classy/ fitting package too. For more info, to hear samples & buy direct drop in here.
