Description
Seite I
Introitus 02:00
Gli echi di Mauthausen 08:20
Il crepuscolo degli Dei 15:30
Extra culpam ero 02:00
Silentium 00:10
Requiem 02:20
Seite II
Rapporto Hess 03:25
Videolager 08:05
Exodium 03:00
Rapporto Hess (Mk II) 05:50
Urkraft 02:00
Tiefsinn 02:00
Achtung 01:05
Axis 04:10
Achtung 01:05
Concepito e prodotto da Eliphas Üsher, August-Oktober MCMXC
Tutto il materiale è stato raccolto nei mesi di Agosto (Cefalù, Taormina, Messina) e Settembre (Santeramo)
Studiato e mixato negli studi IÖR (Mauthausen) nel mese di Ottobre
Supervisionato dall’Akkademia Esoterica Üsher
Catalogato dall’Industrial Ölocaust Recordings (TK. I)
In memoria di Andreas Üsher (Napoli, Δ 21.IV.72 Ω 01.IV.90) mio iniziatore ed insostituibile compagno.
Eliphas Üsher assistito e sostenuto da Pia Üsher
SoftWatch (1990) –
This is a cassette of deep dark minimalism. It concentrates itself at the bass end of the spectrum & paints it’s abstract sketches in obsidian black. The sound booms out, creating an almost subsonic morass which bubbles menacingly in the background. This is certainly not music to dance to, nor does it demand you listen to it with your full attention, but instead it gives the impression it’s working on some subliminal level. Snatches of ‘found’ music, church organ & Gregorian Chants share with the primordial soup appearing, then fading whenever it suits them.
My only two criticisms are that it is unfortunately rather ‘noisy’, and even the use of Dolby doesn’t eradicate all of it, and what possessed them to use a slice of that God-awful track from the “BLADE RUNNER” soundtrack on it?
This is perhaps subtlety taken to an extreme.
(This review was written some years before the term ‘Isolationism’ became known. This album, KÖNER-like, is one of it’s forerunners!)