Love Katy — Cinematic & Dramatic
This tape appeared in a edition of 24 copies in January 2013, on the Florida based noise & experimental label Forever Escaping Boredom. The pro labelled tape comes in a black and white doubled side sleeve that takes in pictures of Ms Perry looking very glitz, yet slightly forlorn in a jewelled encrusted show gown with long gloves.
Each of the two sides feature two tracks a piece- one track comes in around the eleven to thirteen mark, and the second longer track comes in around the twenty to twenty three minute mark.
So side one opens with “The Dream”, and this starts with Ms Perry talking about been in love & married, and how is not like in the movies- this sample only last a few seconds, & over much of it is a trailing line of rolling noise. As the sample disappears & the ‘wall’ opens up we get a thin-ish mix of rolling & smaller darting patterned noise texturing- as this progresses the ‘wall’ starts to get more & more detailed with Killick cleverly adding in more smaller detailed patterns to the ‘wall’, and ones mind really starts to get quite overwhelmed as you try to home in on first one pattern then another. Around the 5th minute a slowing line of semi dragging yet still pattern locked crackling static moves out of the ‘wall’, and this adds another clever and compelling level of detail to the ‘wall’- yet the around this main tone we still have the other constant textural patterns present too. By around the 8th minute this main tone pattern has shifted again, and now it’s a patterned mixture of slow shaking ‘n’ circling feel. With the last minute or so of the track focusing on this hypnotic & slowly swirling mix of ice or snow like slicing textural detail.
Up second on side one we have the track “Cinematic”, and once again it starts with a sample, and this time it takes in the start of one of Perry tracks- it’s a moody & piano based number, and by the minute mark Killick has added in a growing yet oddly felt storm of raging & juddering walled noise, with Ms Perry's sample just been heard under the ‘wall’ until around the minute & a half mark. After this the ‘wall’ shifts into a mixture of more boisterously sounding roaming & puffed up static, which is weaved into this complex & waltzing ice skating like sounding circles of texture. To me it brings to mind some sort of bizarre on ice show, which features a Disney beast like character receptively chasing a ornate & be-jewelled princess around & around( maybe one could see this part of the track as a creative sonic enactment of Ms Perry & Mr Brands ill fated marriage). At around the 7th minute the more boorish & brutish texture drifts back & away, and we’re just left with the skating & slice patterns, though by the 8th minute a thin yet fixed low end & tight drilling tone has been added into the ‘walls’ make-up. The next textural shift happens around the twelve minute, as we get a mix of circling & swirling ice like cutting texture, thin billowing wind texturing, and a slow throbbing yet hollow juddering, and once again Killick is really screwing with your head as your mind tries to follow first one than another pattern. By around the nineteenth minute the patterns thin back once again to a less complex juddering & crinkling pattern- but even this is compelling & somehow a little sad in it’s feel.
So flipping over to side two, and first up we have “The Choice”. And once again the track starts with a sample, and this time another documentary/ interview sample with Ms Perry talking about relationships, and how she thought she's chose a life partner. Over the top of this rises a swirling & circling web of two or three crisp & descending noise textures- once again I think these elements have a very skating or skiing slicing feel to them. By just over the minute mark the samples faded & we’re left with these truly hypnotic circling textural which just seem to pull you down & down. By around the 5th minute these texture now seem reverse, and they seem to be almost coming out at you in a 3D like manner- but now there’s an almost woozy & blurring feel to the textures. At the 7th minute mark the ‘wall’ cuts out completely, and we get a repeat of the start of the tracks interview sample again, and this time the noise texture that appears over the top of the sample has a more constantly oscillating icy slicing feel to it, with another constantly churning texture underneath the main tone- and once again it starts off quite clean & seems to get more woozy & off-colour.
Lastly on the tape we have the track “Dramatic”, and this track opens with another song sample, & the sampled track is a mix of slurred beats, moody piano, and woozy pop synth trails that bob around Perry’s passionate vocals. By just over the minute thirty mark the sample has faded out and we left with a ‘wall’ which brings together fixed a grating & churning mid-ranged noise pattern, which is set into a revolving 'n' woozy circling noise backdrop. As the ‘wall’ progresses it seems to get slowly but surely more blurred & faded around the edges as it’s shifts from walled noise toward ANW. And at around the 7th minute we’ve thinned down to just a mixture of slowly circling tonal crispiness, but just when you it think it will fade more, a more taut and descending fixed judder appears, and the track starts drifting apart & starts become more intense & building in it’s feel. And just at the 9th minute Killick adds in more layers of skating slicing pattern detail, and once again your head gets nicely screwed, as the texture nicely mesh & blur together. And in it’s last few minutes Killick thins & slows down the ‘wall’, to just one crackling & juddering line of uneven static crunch ‘n’ splutter.
Simply put this is another truly masterful, progressive & richly detailed walled noise release from Mr Killick. As once again he perfectly balances interesting & complex tonal detail, with distinctively mood & atmosphere to create a truly spellbinding 80 minute ride. I think sadly this is release is now out of print in it’s tape form, but you can still check this out on-line & download it at Forever Escaping Boredom site here.