Effacer Le Tableau — Self Titled
The label is run by 24 year old Pierre N, who was born Democratic Republic Of Congo,before moving to France. Pierre is also the one behind this project too, and the other two or three release that have also been so far released on the label
The CDR features a single fifty minute slice of brutal & unmoving walled noise. With the wall been themed around Democratic Republic Of Congo General Freddy Ngalimo, who almost single-handedly reintroduced mass war-cannibalism into the country. In 2002, Freddy Ngalimo took men from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo into the Mambasa region of the country. There, he gathered the pygmy population and divided the population in half. His men killed half the pygmies, then he asked the other half to eat their dead. This was the first mass war cannibalism act to takeplace in Congo in over a 100 years- all told a very disturbing theme for a ‘wall’, so does the HNW with-in portray this inhuman tragedy well?
The ‘wall’ on offer here is built around a constantly drilling ‘n’ rumbling drone, which has a muffled & low-end focus to it. This drone is played over by a mid pace line of low-end cracking noise. The whole ‘wall’ has a nice pressing & air-less subterranean air to it. I’m not sure if to me the wall suggested mass murder & mass cannibalism, but the whole thing does have quite a oppressive, dark & muddy feel, which I guess could indicate the darkest human emotions & thoughts.
On the whole I found the track quite entrancing, and it kept my attention fixed through out it’s pressuring & unmoving fifty minute runtime. And I must say the theme of darker & depraved side of the African Continent is rather original one in HNW, with the only other wall noise artists touching on the African Continent been fellow Frenchman Julian Skrobek with past projects like Ghost & The Sandman Wears a Mask. So to sum up this CDR is a promising start for both Pierre N as a an HNW artists, and African Audio Documents as a label.