Four tracks of postmortem power electronics from Lithuania on a C26- Clo Goelach's first US release. Packaged in 6x9 zip lock bag featuring pro printed artwork and a xerox A5 insert of additional artwork. Black tape with printed labels on both sides. Limited to 50 copies.
$7 US, $9 WORLD. Paypal: waterpower2010 [at] gmail [dot] com
Audio samples available HERE (http://www.chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=35778)
Packaging:
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nice !!!
Best looking CG release to date.
Just received my copy today. I am really enjoying this release. thanks
I'm glad you liked this record of mine. Thanks.
Have given this some listens now...and I particularly like this filthy tape.Really scratched an itch so to speak.
Good job on sounds...also covers/insert are pretty to look at.
Glad to see some kind words on this thread. There are more copies left, so if anyone is interested, please let me know.
Little promo video for this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK2ZfP3hMLY
I've listened to this 4 times within the past 3 or so hours. Great stuff, pure and furious. I guess that it is some of the best PE I have heard in awhile from a group that isn't on the "holy trinity" of labels I love. Keep it up Clo.
Quote from: RyanWreck on March 31, 2010, 11:21:10 AM
from a group that isn't on the "holy trinity" of labels I love.
Sorry to hi-jack the thread but while some see this type of "fanatism" for a certain type of labels, groups and esthetics, some see it as plain stupid.
Regardless, it doesn't make it any easier on me. 2xCS CG set, set for the future. Could be awhile though.
Also, this release will be available at Freak Animal and RRRecords in the very near future.
Quote from: bogskaggmannen on March 31, 2010, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: RyanWreck on March 31, 2010, 11:21:10 AM
from a group that isn't on the "holy trinity" of labels I love.
Sorry to hi-jack the thread but while some see this type of "fanatism" for a certain type of labels, groups and esthetics, some see it as plain stupid.
I listen to tons of labels and I never said that I don't buy music on other labels, its just that I can always assume that IOPS, Filth & Violence and TF/PE will release material that I will more than likely love. I don't see how that is stupid.
got mine today!
A dandy review from our friends over at Vital Weekly! Apparently, when they forwarded this tape to "jliat," they neglected to include the sheet of information that I included- but that doesn't matter- he didn't like it anyways. In our defense though, he starts off on the wrong foot- "two badly Xeroxed sheets"- those bad boys were pro-printed!
CIOGOELACH - CO? WOMB OF THE GRAVE (Cassette by Waterpower)
The packaging of this cassette was two badly Xeroxed sheets of B&W pictures of what I think are naked and semi naked female cadavers who have met violent ends, being for various reasons a little low I expected from this a cathartic and violent scoundscape fitting of these images, what I got was lo-fi rumble, noise and ambience, bit like a water fall, with faint industrial field sounds, evidence of some looping, but nothing totalising and violent. The gentility of the ambient loops are just annoying, and I forget but rectify, the title above is what I could make of unreadable text, it's a very disappointing piece, the tape is saturated to the extent that it is a lo-fi mud, which it might meant to be? Just as is the title? As such it succeeds, which probably means its very good, bit like the beauty of a
tidal river with its mud patterns, debris and shopping trolleys.... (jliat)
No address given
definitely because of my experiences I believe V.W. is not the best site for reviewing this kind of Noise/PE releases as they seem to don't get this kind of sounds... I think they're more experienced and keen on reviewing Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental type of sounds so that's why I am more picky when selecting releases of my label/projects to be reviewed there
Quote from: manuel-ronf on April 27, 2010, 06:13:59 PM
definitely because of my experiences I believe V.W. is not the best site for reviewing this kind of Noise/PE releases as they seem to don't get this kind of sounds... I think they're more experienced and keen on reviewing Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental type of sounds so that's why I am more picky when selecting releases of my label/projects to be reviewed there
Well, regardless, I made an official response on the Chondritic Board to this review. Having created the artwork and done the design, I couldn't let a couple things go without being said.
http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=35778&p=369253#p369253
Hi Kevin, I agree on your facts, I also had the impression couple of times in the past that "little care was put into writing" as you say
Review by TeRRoR :
"If I'm not mistaken, this tape, released via Waterpower label from USA is the first release of the label and the last one of Lithuanian power electronics/post mortem act Clo Goelach. After this release it transformed into Body Cargo that have already released a couple of tapes via Autarkeia. Well, different conception, different stage though you could notice the gradual change of Clo Goelach for some time already in 2009. It seems that peculiar sound was finally discovered too, which in this tape is, I think, most distant from Clo Goelach's sound a couple of years ago and more resembling Body Cargo.
Edition of this tape is 50 pieces. Packed in oversized zip-up plastic bag with three black/white A5 collages inside. Corpses, body parts and rough black-white aesthetics. Symbolic reflection of the project and album title in the main collage - disemboweled woman and dead baby to whom his mother became his own grave. Accurate. The album itself is not long - somewhere around 25 minutes. All tracks are untitled and they seem like one long atmospheric soundtrack, divided into four parts. Tracks are rather static and monotonous, but suggestive. Especially while listening to these tracks through headphones when you can hear the whole of a sound and no details disappear. Wall of noise with field recordings in the background, rhythmic loops here and there, distant hums, forming thick and massive avalanche of mud and streaming to your ears. This one is without a doubt the filthiest (I think for a reason) Clo Goelach record that I've listened to up to date. It seems that such approach to sound forms dark, oppressive and not aggressive, but somewhat twisted atmosphere. The listener does not receive the sound chewed and served on a plate. Big amount of primal magic and mysticism is still in there and you must analyse it yourself according to your imagination. While listening to this record, sometimes I get the feeling that these are simply manipulated field recordings, recorded into several tracks of a tape in factories, harbours, docks and plains, then put together and released. Those that adore precision and clean sound should avoid this cassette. Those who likes filth, I hope they already had a chance to evaluate this tape. The first track sounds as if it would be recorded in docks. Distant buzz, low rumble, squeaking conveyer, metal banging and intensive rustling, hidden behind the curtains of noise. All that is in the background seems not important because fundament of sound hangs in front, but at the same time, these distant sounds are organic part of the whole. And it goes like that for all the tracks. In the second one, the voice is heard (ain't these the lyrics printed on one of A5 collages?). Voice blends with the sounds and breaks the impassable mud of this tape. On the other side - two very similar tracks. Soft pulsating loops, notes, sunk in noise, absolutely distorted and deformed sound. Both tracks sound monotonous and though they're not that bad and B side goes as if it'd be one decent track, but I prefer the first side of the tape. I once mentioned to Mykolas already his project's similarity to Gruntsplatter, so I'll mention it here too. Right, Clo Goelach, especially in this tape, is filthier, but that dark and sick ambient/noise atmosphere can be felt. I would say Clo Goelach was choked and left to die in right manner. From that same cold grave Body Cargo was born. Though I didn't have a chance to listen to releases of B.C., but I tend to wait for them with high hopes."