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The Rita - The Voyage Of The Decima MAS [Troniks/Pacrec - 2009]

'The Voyage Of The Decima MAS' sees The Rita return to the Troniks/Pacrec label which released such landmark & genre classic Rita/HNW recordings as: 'Thousands Of Dead Gods' , 'Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence' & 'Total Slitting Of Throats'- but this is far from simply another HNW record or a retread of The Rita’s past work.

On offer here is a just shy of fifty six minute long single track that’s made up of edited, manipulated & texturally layered Live snorkelling source recordings made by Sam McKinlay(who of course is The Rita) in Pender Harbour Canada. The track starts off relatively calm & rather haunting with just the rush of water & snorkelling tone present, but as the track progresses McKinlay adds in more textural detail &  jittering noise risers yet it still keeps returning to the untouched & stripped snorkelling recordings. Moving towards the 20 minute mark & things start to get more fierce, thicker  & more wall like in it’s feel as McKinlay nudges up the intensity of the track, yet he still never complete abandons the textural snorkelling & water rush tonalities. By about the 26th minute he’s really turned very noise & jittering wall like; but instead of going into all out noise burn 'n' boil attack around the half an hour  mark he strips the track right the way back down to the atmospheric, wiry & thin snorkelling, water & static air hissing. The rest of the track really plays out in this strange, watery, jittering, spaced -out & atmosphere rich manner- sure there’s the odd dart or boil of more thick & powerful noise raisers, but for the most part it just stays in the aquatic, jagged & at times oddly soothing & haunted state.

Certainly not an album for those expecting all out thick & unforgiving harsh wall noise making. This for the most part is a lot more considered, controlled & atmospherically rich take on The Rita’s sound.

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Roger Batty
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