Cacophonous/Worldlier — The Blair Witch Noise Pject

Here’s a noise split themed around the genre-defining found footage film The Blair Witch Project. The six tracks bring together elements of forking-yet-moody harsh noise,  churning walled noise, more noise-focused ambience, and of course more than a few seared-up 'n' bucked film samples.

The release appears on Milan's Deep Throat Records- coming as either a cassette or digital release. I can’t comment on the first as I’m reviewing the second, though we get a neat ‘n’ crude monochrome still-based cover. The release can be found here.

The two projects featured here are Georgia’s Cacophonous and Knoxville’s Worldlier- the track list is made up of alternative tracks from each project-  with it being finished off with a collaborative track.  We open with the seven-minute and twenty-second Cacophonous track “It’s Just A Documentary” which blends slowing billow ‘n’ baying to high-pitched sweeping noise craft with the eerily weathered & worn dialogue samples from the film.

Next, we have Worldlier’s “Swaying Bundles Of Twigs And Pine”. This twelve-and-a-half-minute track is largely focused on rushing billow, searing gallop, low-key bass rumble,  and washed-out hiss. Then there’s twenty and half minutes of Cacophonous “Lights Out”- which blends agitated static jump, hiss, pelt with low-end bass unease, and unsettling dialogue from the film- regarding the three lost campers running for their lives in the middle of the night.

Next is  Worldlier’s  “Burkesville Odium”  where we get a just over six and six-and-a-half minute journey- into ragged churning noise meets fan pelt slipping tonalities, which from time to time drops into judder ‘n’ bay bound noise craft. Cacophonous’s “Alone In The Corner” is the shortest track here at three and bot minutes- though it’s one of the most harrowing blending recordings on the film's final scene with a sound-scaping haze of bumping ‘n’ buzz, snap ‘n’ slide, and a light fork noisecraft.

The split is finished off with a ten-minute track collaborative track “Elly Kedward Has The Last Laugh”. This ten-minute track moves from thumbed bass-like atmospherics,  creepy bobbing tone honks, and eerier old-school industrial ambient bay ‘n’ drag.

The Blair Witch Noise Pject is an excellent split- with each track nicely capturing the tone and feel of the film, as well as some effective use of dialogue samples from the film.