Controlled Death — Dirge For The Departed

Controlled Death aka Osaka-based noise maker  Maso Yamazaki –also of Masonna, Space Machine, Rin, emerges once again, delivering a new aural profanity. Dirge For The Departed appears in the form of a C30, and has recently been released by the infamous Deathbed Tapes

Continuing his saga of synth-deteriorating expressionism, Yamazaki offers up an album filled with drenched and deranged organs, somewhat detuned, for the sake of morbidity and mood. The instrument is blissfully manipulated and sounds like a malevolent horror movie soundtrack, from the likes of Hammer Films, or general seventies horror. Featured are two long, fifteen-minute pieces, full of suffocating melodies that are sporadically obstructed by intentional glitches, which sends the otherwise steady flow of musical current into morbid peculiarity. 

The album sounds and feels sinisterly absurd and definitely eerie, in the projects signature way. Ditched in a muddy production, that adds depth, tension and vulgarity at the same time. The album stinks of a grotesque funeral atmosphere, primarily characterized by a macabre neo-classical style. The sound is raw and crunchy, crawling somewhere between the middle and high-frequency spectrum. Minimal in its very own right, stunningly monolithic and without anything to tame the track's gloomy sharpness. 

Dirge For The Departed severs up a pair of deathly rituals with a strong air of victorian gruesomeness &  ghastliness. Two rough elegies and collectively, one sonic mnemosyne magnificently performed! Snag a copy from here.