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.