Kakerlak - The Gardener (CDr, Life Is Easy 2007)

The opening track on this album begins with a continued drilling, occasional scream and a fast squeaking sound, rocking back to forth. It sounds like a mental patient aggressively shaking his bed. As the track continues the sound gets more harsher and violent. On the background you can hear muffled bangs and other strange noises (wind maybe?) that I can't immediately place. This gives a mysterious aspect to the track, which I like very much. The second track begins with storm like harsh static noise, which gets accompanied by occasional short feedback salvos. Also here the sounds gets more intense as the track evolves, with heavily distorted power electronics going all over the place. The last track opens with rather slow shuffles, squeaking and industrial noises, and like in the first track, I also can sometimes hear strange sounds on the background. This is the most remote and calm one of the three.

With three long (Untitled) tracks of harsh noise (each track lasts about nineteen minutes)
this is truly a great and intense work from Kakerlak. And in combination with the artwork it makes it a mysterious, bleak and rough trip.

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