
Z’ev - Forwaard [korm plastics - 2007]Forwaard lowers the listener into a strange subterranean world that’s created by Z’ev using field recordings made by Frans de Waard, which he manipulates into ominous, strange and often alien sound environments. The forty minute disk is split into Six untitled tracks, but really these are more like helpful index points as each track organically drifts, bubbles or mergers into the next. Drone elements and various dread filled pitches of sound join dark running, rustling, drippings water, and all manner of droning and muffled pipe work sounds. Rustling & bizarre crunching bob around the stereo channels like strange alien dialects, or strange clucking and banging like the sound of bodies bobbing against rusted steel. Z'ev really does build up a wonderful eerier and bizarre atmosphere were your unsure what will sudden bubble up or slide out from the dense green and wet organics of the piece. Though this never descends into noise or chaos, Z’ev keeps a tight rein on the tracks atmospherics. A very effective long form piece of sound atmospherics’ which really takes you on a strange and eerier jouney. Packaged in a nice oversized card folder with rather fitting pictures of greenery on water and bizarre close-ups of vegetation. Sadly only ltd to 300, but well worth a look if you get there in time.      Roger Batty
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