South Saturn Delta — Experience The Concreteness
Its not surprising this has a Japanese noise air & feel about it since the project consist of Maso Yamazaki (Masonna) abusing guitar and voice, Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C., YBO2) violating and bending synth and voice & rhythmic attacks on drums by Nobuko Emi (Tsurubami). This is their debut disk & brings together the cream of the crop from live recordings between 2003 & 2005- in all 4 tracks totalling 50 minutes running time & running between 20 and 10 minutes a piece.
All of the tracks tread a very thin line between structure and absolute chaos/all out noise attack, quite often falling near head first into boiling & singing noise, but somehow they always seem to manage to just pull it back or hang on with their finger nails from complete submersion in noise with either a defined guitar elements or chugs, spacey synth emissions or rhythmic elements, or eerier yells and screams. With some quite tangible & eerier atmospheres and riff elements deep in the mix along the way too,but don’t get me wrong this is still very extreme and punishing & if coming to this from a straight psychedelic/ improvised rock background it will no doubt scary the hell out of you. This is more for a seasoned noise head who fancies something in-between noise and structure.
A devastating and painful lesson in rock music at it’s very last reaches before it turns fully to noise- brutal, uncompromising and psychedelically apocalyptic.