xenis emputae aeonic trespassing (cdr from white star riser)
we have a really nicely packaged cd here, looking like the washed-out cover of an old book, complete with cryptic symbols and an orobouros, and the sounds are suitably obscure to match. it opens with 'algol', buzzy synthesized tones and chattering unintelligible background vocals informing you of your insanity, intermittent synth notes with the decay turned to eleven descending though everything. the title track opens with delayed, muffled sounds that might be from a guitar, or maybe animal sounds, i can't tell. soon it doesn't matter, though, as this track gets rather noisey with high frequency feedback noises, with a mysterious bed of background noises and good layering of nasty sounds. there seems to be some interesting filtering going on also, with certain sounds shifting from muffled to more clear (and piercing) every so often. this track goes a bit over seven minutes, although it seems much shorter. the third track, 'psychonaut' is more atmospheric, quiet pulsing and other sounds suggesting a bleak alien forest, with erratic, chattering static overtop, probably the most interesting track of the disc. 'panzerfaust', the final track, jumps on the listener with chaotic, distorted psuedo-musical tones and feedback, maybe some screams and/or sample manipulation (since this recording is dedicated to frater lashtal/graham bond maybe there are some samples of his recordings in here? not having heard anything by him i can't really say). in any case, as a whole this is a really complex release and seems to have a lot of layering going on... and after checking i realize that all of the four songs on here are over seven minutes, although only the last track feels like it. definitely worth checking out.