The Girl On The Bridge — Little Wolf
The project apparently takes it themes & subject focus from 2002 Swedish film Lilya 4-Ever (a compelling character study that focuses in on the human traffic trade), the cruel child sex trade in general, and the bleak & lives of those involved in it.
The track features a track per-side of tape, and each track is a suitable dense, troubled yet stark bit of walled noise. Side ones track is entitled “Cold Air”, and is built around a continually tumbling yet locked judder- this is weaved with stark & bleakly crisp jittering textures. The tumbling judder has a rapid, meaty yet bleakly churning quality to it, while the crisper jitters have a feasting numb-ness about them. As the track progress you get slight nudges occurring in both textures, and also possible a few very sub-tone additions- but really the whole is very much a fixed, battering & bleak bit of wall matter that fits the projects themes nicely.
Flipping over to side two, and we have the track "Awake At Night". This track brings together a mix of musty & grey locked purring/ buzzing, & a layer of chopping ‘n’ juddering texturing- with the whole thing been wrapped in a muffled & brutally hazed yet fixed noise fog. The track nicely balances bleakly locked wall making, with a sleazily & airless atmospheric feeling. As the track progress you get some nice blurring & hazing going on between the textural patterns, yet the whole thing never goes all noise white-out, with the walled firm-ness staying fixed once again.
I had quite enjoyed Mr Mack work with his Morte Cammina project, and I must say I rather enjoyed this tape too. As with this tape he mangers to offer up two fairly compelling ‘walls’ that nicely capture the bleak & surely hope numbing existence of young people working with-in the human trafficking/ sex trade around the world. I look forward to hearing more from The Girl On The Bridge in the future.