Female Harakiri — The Wave Petals

From late September 2013, this CDR offers up a forty minute slice of unrelenting & brutalizing walled noise from this Japanese HNW project. Female Harakiri is one of the more elusive & erratic HNW projects-  the project started in 2007/2008, but has only released around nine releases. This is quite small number of releases compared with the normally highly prolific HNW scene, where this likes of Dead Body Collection & Vomir have put out around a 100 plus releases- this is also meant to be the projects penultimate release.

The single 40.56 track is built around a very dense & overloaded ‘wall’ that takes in a mixture of thick lower-to-mid ranged rumbling ‘n’ churning crunch bond noise, & a selection of thinner jittering & slightly hissing static sub-tones. The ‘wall’ opens in very full, thick & crowded manner, and it just seems to get more & more overwhelming & completely engulfing as it progresses- though this is very much a firm & fixed piece of dense walled noise.

As fixed & overloaded wall-making goes this is a well put together slice of HNW, but for me it just rather lacked that all important entrancing/ hypnotic feel- so my attention did start to wonder around the mid way point. So if you enjoy dense & engulfing HNW it’s worth a look, but this is certainly not my favourite Female Harakiri- that prize goes to 2011’s Death Of Chizuko Mifune