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)
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