Sujo     

Kahane

Fedora Corpse Recordings 2013

On Kahane Indiana's Sujo wrap you in their beautifully simplistic yet evocative ambient drone noise.  Evocate initially fills your mind with a stillness, a serenity by gently caressing it with fuzzed out notes.  However a discordant splinter of noise rises and continues to grow and wash over your consciousness like a slow moving avalanche of glass shards.  This leaves you maddened and distressed until it eventually and abruptly subsides and ushers in a glacier of prickly, coarse sound.  A warped beat and a wall of fuzz greet you on Achille.  The Cymbal strikes hit harder and the fuzz undulates slowly in the darkness pulling the listener into a state of audio submission.  Cold melodic elements circulate in the shadows of the track.  Astral synth and a clinical beat combine to generate stellar clouds of ambience on Kahane.  It's elegant in its late-night desolation and sorrow and I feel faint shades of Skinny Puppy lurking within the track.  A sinister crackling vibe fills the listener with dread as Entebbe gets underway.  The warbling walls of massive, throbbing sound echo into the abyss before crashing into angelic synth and pounding percussion.  The song becomes dense with layers of noise scraping across your eardrums until finally the noise relents and you are left with a stark, singular guitar.  Frei inhabits the final 8+ minutes of the album and you get a sense of elation and catharsis as the wavering tones morph into a hypnotic, melodic black metal stream.  The track drops into a mechanical beat and a malevolent current of dark noise as it continues to strive towards its own demise, like the death of a star.  Kahane is an album to listen to in a state of sensory deprivation as your mind flows freely throughout the sonic fabric of the compositions.  Your thoughts are pushed out an you are left with isolation and the myriad of emotions that flood out to meet that cosmic bleakness.