Crown Of Bone — Wolf Creek
Crown Of Bone is the blacked noise project of Indianan based Dustin Alan Redington (also of Tenebrious, ex- Demonologists & ex-Ensepulchred). The project has been in existence since some point in mid 2012, and so far has amassed around 23 or so releases- which have taken in a lot of split CDR releases, and a few stand alone releases.
This release from mid 2013 finds the project offering up a single thirty four minute track- which mixers together searing & scorching layers of harsh noise, grim & stark synth washers, along with samples from the films original soundtrack. All this creates a fairly complex & multi layered work that both captures the films brutality, it’s stark surroundings, & the shimmering bloody bleak-ness of it all.
I’ll have to admit that in the past of I’ve had fairly mixed feelings about Crown Of Bone work, finding it decidedly hit ‘n’ miss in both execution & sonic quality. But I must say this release perfectly captures & nicely builds on the atmosphere created by the Wolf Creek movie to create a stand alone sonic work in it’s own right.
The track opens with a direct sample from Frank Tétaz’s soundtrack for the movie with a mix of gloomy ‘n’ grating prepare piano work, doomed piano string picks, bleak violin swoons & the odd trail of eerier grating metal . At spot on the minute mark a searing mass of layered noise sudden slices into the errier-ness & we start into noise heart of the track- yet under neither the grating & violent oscillating noise craft you can make out moody & macabre drifts of synth craft, with hints of the films main theme & it’s mix of doomy piano tolls & forlorn string swoons darting in & out of the mixers. The remainder of the track sees Redington create this truly intense sound scape that’s made up of hovering low to mid range noise scrubs, scalding mid to high end sears, and smashing clouds of junk metal- these noise elements are underfed by darting layers of more atmospheric, eerier & moody soundscaping elements. In it’s last three or four minutes the track thins back to eerier prepare piano work & sudden string picks for nice moody yet nerve jangling end.
All told this is a very fitting & accomplished bit of soundscaping- where intense & deeply layered & caustically seared noise craft sits perfectly along side more moody, barren & chilling sonic fare. I guess you’ll to have to have seen the movie to get the most out of this, but it does stand up well on it’s own too. This is easily my favourite Crown Of Bone thus far, & a must have item for those who enjoy mixers of scalding intense noise-ness & more moody/ chilling fare.