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Effacer Le Tableau - Self Titled [African Audio Documents - 2013]

This self titled release is the first release on African Audio Documents- a new French HNW label that themes all it’s releases around the violence, dubious politics, twisted sexuality, & mass killing that takes place on the  African Continent

The label is run by 24 year old Pierre N, who was born Democratic Republic Of Congo,before moving to France. Pierre is also the one behind this project too, and the other two or three release that have also been so far released on the label

The CDR features a single fifty minute slice of brutal & unmoving walled noise. With the wall been themed around Democratic Republic Of Congo General Freddy Ngalimo, who almost single-handedly reintroduced mass war-cannibalism into the country. In 2002, Freddy Ngalimo took men from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo into the Mambasa region of the country. There, he gathered the pygmy population and divided the population in half. His men killed half the pygmies, then he asked the other half to eat their dead. This was the first mass war cannibalism act to takeplace  in Congo in over a 100 years- all told a very disturbing theme for a ‘wall’, so does the HNW with-in portray this inhuman tragedy well?

The ‘wall’ on offer here is built around a constantly drilling ‘n’ rumbling drone, which has a muffled & low-end focus to it. This drone is played over by a mid pace line of low-end cracking noise.  The whole ‘wall’ has a nice pressing & air-less subterranean air to it.  I’m not sure if to me the wall suggested mass murder & mass cannibalism, but the whole  thing does have quite a oppressive, dark & muddy feel, which I guess could indicate the darkest human emotions & thoughts.

On the whole I found the track quite entrancing, and it kept my attention fixed through out it’s pressuring & unmoving fifty minute runtime.  And I must say the theme of darker & depraved side of the African Continent is rather original one in HNW, with the only other wall noise artists touching on the African Continent  been fellow Frenchman Julian Skrobek with  past projects like Ghost & The Sandman Wears a Mask. So to sum up this CDR is a promising start for both Pierre N as a an HNW artists, and African Audio Documents as a label.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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