Sebastian Tomb — Beads of Mercury

Beads of Mercury is a recent slice of buffeting ‘n’ bothersome bass-bound walling from Berlin’s Sebastian Tomb.  The release features just a single ten-minute track.

The release is jointly self-released/ on a label- Fort Worth’s Hot Fuzz. Cover artwork-wise we have a monochrome picture of a woman in a long dress & gloves kneeling down- this looks like it’s from the 1950’s. So you have two choices of where to play/download the track- the self-released version & the Hot Fuzz version. 

The single ten-minute track opens with a short morphed/ warped sample of a woman talking about the consuming buzz of getting a new item. Then we’re into the wall- it’s a blend of stretched-out rumbling bass tones, which are edged with cluttering, hacking, lightly skipping static subtones.  There is both a rewarding feeling of sonic crowding & detail about the wall. I could easily have listened to this ‘wall’ for up to an hour- as both the thick bass purr & subtone detail are most appealing.

So, another rewarding-if- short release from Sebastian Tomb- who is quickly becoming one of the more consistent, at times creative projects on the worldwide wall noise scene.