BLK W/BEAR – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 3 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
BLK w/ BEAR is the
audio vehicle of Washington DC based artist J.S. Adams. His work is very much about interference and
distortion, the corruption of the note and the exploitation of sound. The noise he produces is a basic alarm to
the human race. People should take
note.
The initial pitch is a
distracted pulse. It sounds like life
but not strictly in a traditional sense.
As glitches prevail and the aural vision distorts, a sonic crackling
manifests and rips apart the origins of the track.
Moving on Adams
continues to take a measured approach to destruction, happily feeling out the
source material before etching in his own string accompaniment to run in sync
with exterior feelings. The presence
attained of such a gesture proves a winning blow producing something akin to an
electronic Godspeed You Black Emperor type execution before organically winding
down. A good thing.
The deep rooted
strings of Track 3 offer a horrid manifestation of a bleak capacity as bass
drops in to caress and distract from what is the overriding piece of industrial
horror that is dominating proceedings.
This feels quite representative of the modern experience, of commercial
horror and the machines that drive it.
This remix of the track holds genuine contrast as beauty wrestles with
the ugliness of the original version.
In the end, all gets tamed.
The BLK w/BEAR take on
Track 4 of the project is a heavy duty eleven minute plus workout that moans
and pulsates like a dark portion of the score from Alien or The Thing. This is a brash piece of drone texturing
that requires the listener to buckle in before progressing. In the end it proves officially the longest
piece of the project (the puzzle).
Thesaurus moment:
expanse.
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