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Tissa Mawartyassari - Sigsaw [H Series HNW/Deadline Recordings - 2009]

‘Sigaw’ offers up a live recording by Mexican HNW project Tissa Mawartyassari (aka Maria Velasquez-Soto) from a show in the Tilden Gallery in Houston Texas.

The CDR comes in a brow & grey spay painted  oversized A5 envelope & takes it’s name, and I presume influence from 2004 Filipino Asian ghost story/ horror movie ‘Sigaw’ which means either shout or scream in English. The envelope features a stuck on picture of the films poster artwork along of course with the projects names & pieces title. The 13 mintue track on offer here is built around two main tones: a semi sea sick blunt & bass noise drone pitch & a jittering slow rain of static or stuck Geiger counter rumble. Velasquez-Soto rubs & pulls these two elements along in quite a rewarding manner, sometimes cutting the flow of the two tones in almost rhythmic or harmonic pattens; through there a no great textural shifts here. All told it’s a rewarding enough track, though it rather lacks that magic & often elusive addictive edge that makes a ‘wall’ you’d like to return to again & again.

A nicely packaged item & an interesting influence behind the track; but ultimately the tracks over far too quicky and though it offers up a well made ‘wall’ of noise it sadly rather lacks the hypnotic & memorable elements needed to make this something you’ll want to revisit offten.

Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5

Roger Batty
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