The release appears Room 2A- which is Ramirez's own label, the cassette release comes in an edition of twenty-five copies, and at present, you can still buy it directly from Mr. Ramirez Bandcamp here. As far as I can gather the tape comes in a monochrome sleeve featuring a moody picture of a snowbound Bigfoot, though I can’t confirm this as I’m reviewing the digital review copy of the release.

For most ‘wall-heads’ neither Mr. Ramirez or the Fouke project will need little or no introduction- but for those who are new to the genre. Richard Ramirez has been actively & prolific making noise since the late ’80s/ early ’90s with his work influencing both the development of walled noise genre & US noise in general. He’s linked to many, many projects- many are themed solo projects, though he’s also been involved with collaborative/ group release- some of Mr. Ramirez most known projects are Werewolf Jerusalem, Last Rape, Black Leather Jesus- the noise jam band he’s one the key players in and the project to hand Fouke. Fouke has been active since 2009, and has remained one of his more moody & consistent projects- so far it's put out around thirty or so releases and each is themed around the many different legends & reports of the Bigfoot from across the world. This new release takes its name from a Russian snowbound pass- wherein 1959 nine hikers died in strange circumstance, and it’s been suggested over the years it could have been aliens, Bigfoot, or some other supernatural force.

Each track here is untitled, and the first track rolls in at sixteen minutes and thirteen seconds- making it the longer of the two ‘walls’ here. The track kicks straight in with the noise, and we get a blend of meaty rumbling ‘n’ rolling low-end and fairly sluggishly-yet-thick pop ‘n’ crunch bound static. As the track progresses he skillful adds in at first sudden off pattern low-end crunches, then moves into dwells of even more sluggish rumble & hack, or pelts us gently swirling flurries of thinner & crisper static pitter-patter, popings, or grain slashes. The whole thing very much suggest some huge & lumbering thing making it’s way through deep, deep snowdrifts- with the subtle & moody textural deviations suggesting sudden wavering attacks or claw slashes with blood spurting onto the virgin white snow. As the track progresses the shifts become slight more active & noticeable, again indicating more attacks occurring- at moments we get these very effective jittering almost inhuman like bays swimming though the dense & crushing mass of sound- we also get some nice buffeting & baying tones added to the mix suggesting the cruel and freezing winds of the snowbound pass. All told another very brutal-yet- very atmospheric & mood setting 'wall'.

The second track comes in at the slightly shorter just under fourteen minutes- the track opens with a sample of dramatic music, slashing/ dragging sounds, and an eastern European accent women talking about something been outside. Then we’re into ‘wall’- it’s built around a rapidly churning low end, which suggests something large making it’s way through the snow again. Fairly soon Ramirez starts to add this small jittering-then-falling texture onto on the low end, and this creates a rather effective sonic illusion that the whole ‘wall’ is somehow slowly cascading & tumbling into its self- bringing to mind one tumbling down a deep snow slope as something vast is following you. As we get to around the eight-minute the jitter has become very rapid & incasing in its feel, with the low-end just been made out though it- there’s also an addition of a smaller knocking tone, which is rather creepy adding in creepy edge to the jitter bound intensity of the whole thing. In the last few minutes, Ramirez strips the whole thing down to  just a thinner & barren hollow jitter/ knocking which ends the track on a great moody point…with the track ending with another sample- this time & man-then women talking about hearing noises outside. Again this another very good example of atmospheric yet creative wall from Ramirez Fouke project.

Dyatlov Pass sees Ramirez once again up to high standards of the previous Fouke releases- so if you’ve enjoyed those or like moody cryptid/ monster focused wall noise you need to pick this up!.