TORSTEIN WJIIK - Øresus Og Dus (CDR by Krakilsk & Ambolthue Records)
Four more tracks by Torsten Wjiik can be found on a split CDR with Swamps Up Nostrils. More along the lines of his 'Have A Noise Day', except that 'Hyperactive' is held together by some forceful beats. Nice but a bit superfluous after the previous release. Swamps Up Nostrils is a name we came across before, and it's the project of Arnfinn Killingtveit, the owner of Krakilsk and many other musical enterprises. I though Swamps Up Nostrils played some more wicked version of rhythmic - read: techno inspired - industrial music but here the spirit is more towards rhythm 'n noise. Heavy pieces of broken up music and sound. Still not always top stuff, as much of it is just a bit too crude for my taste. So I feared for the worst of the release with Swamps which is made together with Animal Machine and Aatmaa, both of them are new to me. They all play together here (I assume) and the result is another blast of noise, but the pieces were a bit more tight and concentrated. Much Merzbow at times, some rhythm and just very occasionally a somewhat quieter moment. It's ok, again, but not great and certainly not genre bending.
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