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Is - Compossibility [Phage Tapes - 2009]

‘Compossibility’ offers up two c40 tapes worth of agitated, shifting, detailed & rewarding judder, jitter & crunching noise matter & wall building by Chicago based Bryan W. Tholl's Harsh noise/ HNW project Is

The two tapes come in a twin white plastic cassette box that features on the outside a photo of a wall made up of jagged but symmetrical lines of bricks & this fits perfectly the near on 80 minutes worth of noise inside the box  which sees Tholl building these wonderful agitated, bucking & shifting walls of noise tone. Each side of tape offers up a twenty minutes worth of juddering, jagged & crunching attack on the  sonic senses, with Tholl keeping the pace very active and shifting through-out each side of tape. We go from: thick & crushing multiple static jitter clouds lined with  seconds of silence, onto weaving more wiry static ear stringers, through to roaring furnace like chugs, into wiping electro like sears, and through to boiling & bucking walls of all out thick wall making. Each side varies in the type textures that is used for make it’s juddering,  jittering & violently bucking caustic sonic landscape; side one uses more static fuzzed type tones, side two uses more bucking metallic type tones, Side three uses more thick & crusty static emissions that are under textured by  hammering tones, and lastly side four users more hissing & spraying coarse noise tones that rise up into more roaring & bombarding noise attacks  which are under run by a metallic throb ‘n’ prong tones. Each side of tape is urgent, shifting & brutal in in it’s attack, with Tholl managing to keep you interested, focused & often tense through each sides twenty minute runtime.

So this two tape box set offers up four rewarding & brutally active harsh noise compositions that tend more towards jittering ‘n’ juddering noise texturing & all out Harsh noise wall making. Very worthy of your time if you enjoy shifting & brutal Harsh noise matter & another great release from the excellent Phage tapes.

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Roger Batty
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