#coagul

Artista:  Coagul Álbum: La forja centrípeta Ano: 2015 Faixas/Tempo: 05/42min Estilo: Power Noise Data de Execução: 02/02/2022 Nota: 3,0 Melhor Música: L'edat de ferro

◜ V I A ◝ P S I C O N A U T I C A ◡ M A R C ◞ O' C A L L A G H A N ◠

El black metal y la música ambiental siempre han compartido cierto gen esencial, el de una actitud contemplativa y una inquietud trascendentalista en los márgenes de lo humano. Dicen que el black metal se mató a sí mismo, otros dicen que fue la corriente más honesta en su contradictoria y kamikaze búsqueda de la divinidad. Una vez finalizada la época dorada de este género con la sucesión de crímenes que lo precipitaron a su estigmatización, en varios de estos músicos se pudo percibir una tendencia común a virar estilísticamente hacia terrenos más próximos a la electrónica o al folk pero manteniendo su esencia tanto formal como conceptual, en muchos casos siendo pioneros de ciertas fórmulas posteriormente explotadas. Esta lista es un ejercicio por recuperar este eslabón perdido de la musicología.



Varg Vikernes decía que la música de Burzum estaba concebida para que funcionase como un hechizo. Un hechizo para que el oyente la escuchara en la soledad del atardecer, de manera que al quedarse finalmente dormido después de escuchar el disco su cuerpo astral se desplazara hacia esta tierra mágica que los antiguos escandinavos llamaban el wyrd: una dimensión atemporal en donde el espíritu descansa y entra en contacto con los dioses y los antepasados, pudiendo regresar con nuevos poderes o conocimientos. Con esta lista también he querido hacer un poco de arqueología de esta funcionalidad mágica de la música, programando su orden con estos mismos fines.



Esta es la música que yo escuchaba cuando tenía 18 años y ya me estaba cansando del black metal, que al mismo tiempo me instigó a abrir mi mente hacia tantos otros géneros. Cuando comía setas alucinógenas y me iba con los amigos al bosque a hablar con las piedras. Esta wanderlust adolescente, esa capacidad de maravillarse con el mundo y vivir la propia existencia como una aventura épica. Fue por aquél entonces cuando también dejé de jugar a rol, para vivir la realidad con la misma actitud alucinada que si fuera una partida de Dungeons & Dragons.

 Coàgul | marcocallaghan.com

Tracklist:

1. ILDJARN - Echo From The Chambers Of Death; Relief - The Escape Entering Timeless Nothingness 2. MORTIIS - I Mørket Drømmende 3. BEHERIT - Sense 4. BURZÛM - Moti Ragnarokum 5. BEITHÍOCH - Ghost Treees 6. ISENGARD - The Halls And Chambers Of Stardust The Crystallic Heavens Open 7. ILDJARN & NIDHOGG - Daybreak 8. MAYHEM - Silvester Anfang 9. VOND - Slipp Sorgen Løs 10. WONGRAVEN - Opp Under Fjellet Toner En Sang 11. FATA MORGANA - Stargazer 12. NEPTUNE TOWERS - Caravans To Empire Algol 13. SUMMONING - A New Power Is Rising 14. DARKTHRONE - Snø Og Granskog 15. CINTECELE DIAVOLUI - The Devil Must Kill 16. EMPEROR - Opus A Satana

Mohammad - Zo Rèl Do (CD/LP, 2014, Antifrost)

Mohammad is a Greek trio, who consists of Nikos Veliotis, Ilios and Coti K, all of them been recognized internationally for their solo music careers. As Mohammad, they are working on the principles of inter-modulation between electronic and acoustic sources. Zo Rèl Do is their forth full length album and it is the first volume of a trilogy that explores the sound of geographical area between 34°Ν - 42°Ν & 19°Ε - 29°Ε, which is the region between Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. The album starts with a field recording of a crowded place (market place?) that unintentionally reminds me some of the recording of the ethnomusicologist researcher Deben Bhattacharya in Asia. The following tracks are characterized by a heavy drone instrumentation using contra-bass, cello, electric double bass and some electronics. Mohammad explores the acoustics of space, filling it with strong vibrations and doom like resonances. Playing slow and steadily they create a religious atmosphere and repetitive sound patterns, deeply inspired by the Greek traditional music.

http://www.antifrost.gr/

http://www.mohammad.gr/

Coagul – La Roda De La Justicia (LP, 2013, Magia Roja)

Marc O’Callaghan is a Catalan illustrator artist and musician. Coagul is his solo sound project, exploring the limits of industrial music, using synthesizers, voice and bells. Been active from 2009, Marc has released some very obscure works, in various formats, most of them published in Spanish small run labels. La Roda De La Justicia comes out as a solid red colored vinyl LP accompanied with some very characteristic art illustrations made by Marc and a detailed inlay cart in red color. This album includes eight tracks that were formed over the years 2009 to 2012. Coagul here, maintains a good level of minimal geometric music forms, using repetitive noise parts and half-clean vocals in Catalan. This music explores the sonic torture soundscape and the limits of the sound equipment, searching amidst the stylistic territories of Post-Industrial and bands like throbbing gristle.

http://www.magiaroja.net/

http://www.marcocallaghan.com/

The Tenses – Howard (LP, 2014, audioMER)

The Tenses is a duo comprised of Ju Suk Reet Meate and Jackie Oblivia, known most for their participation in Smegma, the American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973. Howard includes three compositions that it was made in Smegma’s studio in Portland, Oregon in 2011 and a live concert recording. This new project is exploring sound and space, using turntables, reel-to-reel machines, electronics, distorted surf guitar, coronet etc. It's a bit unclear what you listen about, a pretty chaotic collage of sounds, radio signals, looped voices, sound effects and instruments that creates a real obscure atmosphere. What we’ve got here is a unique cacophony in terms of psychedelic free-jazz noise and avant garde. This is a great sound experience of a multi-textured pattern of a distinctly idiosyncratic idiom of music.

http://www.audiomer.org

Dave Phillips & Aspec(t) – Medusa (CD, 2014, noise below/)

Dave Phillips has been sonically active for over 25 years, with a great number of releases and collaborations with artists like Francisco Meirino, The New Blockaders, Rudolf Eb.er etc. Dave was the co-founder of the Swiss hardcore-extremists Fear of God in 1987, after that he started his solo music carrier as an activist performer. Aspec(t) are SEC_ and Mario Gabola from Italy. They make free improvisation/noise music, using tape recorders, computer, contact mics, resonant drums etc. Medusa is a conceptual project CD inspired from a sentence from George Monbiot’s article “Feeding Frenzy” that says “The jellyfish represents the collapse of the ecosystem and the spinelessness of the people charged with protecting it”. Source material was recorded at The Basement, in Napoli, in April 2011. Sonically, this is a pure sample of musique concrete, quite atmospheric with a lot of interposed periods of abstract sounds, noise, and field recordings. Well structured compositions with a notion of temporality and cinematic continuity. Great stuff!