Tissa Mawartyassari/Messes Noires — Split
First up we have the Tissa Mawartyassari track which is entitled ‘Ophite’ and comes in just short of the twenty five minute mark. The tracks opens with a nice rolling, cracking & storm ripping wall of Harsh noise which nicely surrounds and encloses the listener in thick sound. The main pitch is a thick storm like down pour which at times sounds like an amassed recording of drum and at other time like seriously heavy rain downpour turned up to max. Around this main pitch Maria adds fast jitters, tears & fries of static tone that nicely jump about pulling you deeper into the track as it progresses. At about the mid-way point it stops for a nice few seconds of grim tone sustain before one more piling back into the thick maelstrom of sound, seemingly with even more vigour & thickness than the first half. This is my first taster of Tissa Mawartyassari ‘walls’ & I have to say I’m very impressed as the track thick, moorish & devastatingly hypnotic too.
Lastly we of course have the Messes Noires track which is entitled ‘Escalofrio’ & comes in just under the twenty nine minute mark. This track is a lot more jittering & static bound than the first track, though it’s still damn thick in it’s make up. The tracks main tone feels like the sounds one might get if they were to try to crawl though a room full of barbwire or a thorn forest(minus the screams of course!) - it’s a mass of vicious little tearing tones. These main tones are under shadowed by this longer & thicker slowed electro pulse that dips up & down underneath the jittering sonic tears. It’s a very appealing but unforgiving mix of sounds which almost has a feeling at times of an beat bound electronica track that’s been slowed way-down then dragged through a field of razor blades till it’s all buckled & nearly total gutted; it’s electro pulses soaking the ground in the mass of slicing jitter. The track has a really nice almost nasty grooved break-down at about the eighteen minute mark when you think it’s going to cut out altogether, as it goes on the track thickens it self up again through it still keeps this near stopping jitter pulse running all the way through it to great brain frying effect. It's a great track & it keeps it’s sadistic grip on you all the way through to the bitter end.
So an excellent split that’s introduced me to the thick & crushing wall talents of Tissa Mawartyassari & offers up another splendid & sadistic slice of static jitter & rip from (yet another) Richard Ramirez project.