Jenks Miller — Zen Automata Volume One: V’
The Cdr comes in a rather neat semi transparent art paper fold around with this screen printed black monster drip like drawing on it by Jenks himself. And sonically on offer here is a near on 40 minute track of mainly very repetitive machine hum or drone matter. For most of the tracks running time the tone is akin to a continuous & mind drilling looped/ circular tone which I guess sounds like what you’d get if you held your head against one of those shoe polishing machines you get in more up market hotels for a extended period of time. Miller does subtle move & shift the layers of tones towards the start of the track, but as it goes on it starts to become very stuck & repetition based in it’s feel, yet there are still the odd very subtle movements with-in the layers of hum & drone that shift under the main very drill central tone. I really find the whole thing strangely appealing, enjoyable & quite original in it’s sound & attack. And when it’s all finished it leaves your ears with this great odd low level buzzing feeling for quite a few minutes after its gone.
You’ll only really enjoy this slice of machine drone ‘n’ dwelling if you have a thing for highly repetitive, stuck & monotonous tone studies or 'walls' of unmoving sound. So approach with caution, but if like me you dig such looped & stuck sonic dwells this is very worthy of your time.