Static Park — Doctor Z

Here’s a three track digital release that brings together eerier wall craft with an under carriage of uneasy ambience. Static Park is another one of the projects of high prolific & multi project linked French noise maker Julien Skrobek (Ecco, The Killer Came From The Bronx ,Ghost, The Sandman Wears A Mask, Ruine, Butch Bag, Gasp, Ruine, etc)- and with this project he adds in more experimental elements to his wall craft, such as ambience,  beats, ect.

This release is themed around early Jess Franco movie The Diabolical Dr. Z- the film was released in 1965, and was the last of Franco’s black & white films. It’s plot revolved around a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves, and an erotic dancer who kills people with poisoned nails. The film was one of Franco’s more moody & haunting features, working more as a  edgy/ creepy thriller apposed  to his later sleazy exploitation fare.

The three tracks( Doctor Z Parts 1 to 3), run between the four & fourteen minute mark. Each track is built around a fairly firm yet relatively thin static noise texture- these are underfed by a series creepy & moody  ambient/ drone textures. The noise elements here have an often quite  an eerier, cold & at times crisp feel to their unfold, while the ambient drone elements sort of sound like slowed, semi melted & ghostly church or music hall organ textures.  The tracks very nicely capture the more creepy elements of Franco’s film, and they also rather brought to mind a similar eerier/ dreamy yet darkly surreal feeling of a film like Carnival Of Souls.

So in summing up this release is a most effective mix of eerier wall craft and surreal spectral like ambience- it will be interesting to see if Julien does anymore work simlar to this in the future. This release originally appeared on Julien's own bandcamp, but it's recently been reissued by Nahàsh Atrym Productions have now reissued it- check it out here