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HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE - Edward's Lament

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Neurot Rec. NR 025 Release Year: 2003 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Das Experimental-Projekt um ISIS-Sänger (und LOTUS EATERS-Mitglied, etc.) Aaron Turner mit neuer CD auf dem Neurosis-Label ! Äusserst abstrakte ambiente Soundscapes wechseln sich mit Gitarrenklängen ab, hier gehen doom-metal und dark/drone-ambient eine effektvolle Vermählung ein .. dunkel & kraftvoll melancholisch zugleich ...dies ist die zweite CD nach dem Crowd Control Activities-Album. Hier mit dabei auch Leute von OLD MAN GLOOM, CAVE IN, KHANATE und SUNN O:))). TIP ! “House Of Low Culture marries warm cinematic tones with sub-nautical sound effects to produce an aural encounter, both vaguely disorienting and starkly captivating Edward’s Lament is the second full-length from House Of Low Culture—the laboratory concoction of Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters). Within its vast bandwidth, Turner marries warm cinematic tones with sub-nautical sound effects to produce a sensatory encounter like no other. Guitar strings reverberate circuitously within the close confines of amplifier housings and unidentifiable noises percolate from the murky recesses of the hearing threshold. Cavernous atmospheres find their foil in digitized blips as the low hum of inevitability drones mercilessly in the background. The effect is both vaguely disorienting and starkly captivating.” [label description] “Aaron Turner should win some sort of award or something. He's not only the leader of post-rock metalcore masters Isis, and also one of the contributors to the genius of both Old Man Gloom and Lotus Eaters, but he also runs the excellent Hydra Head label, AND never fails to buy stacks of stuff here at Aquarius whenever he's in town. Not only that, but his art and graphics have graced some of our other favorite releases of late. So of course we're happy to present this new 2nd album from House of Low Culture, another outfit featuring Aaron and friends, including other members of Isis, Old Man Gloom and Lotus Eaters. HoLC is in fact probably closest to the droned-out ambient sounds of Lotus Eaters. Unsettling, illusory soundscapes, haunted and desolate. Edwards Lament! starts off in a realm of industrial, boiler room drone, before ghostly strummed guitars infiltrate the mix. Their distorted, slowly unfolding melodies are buried in shallow grave of reverb, accompanied by backwards-tape-fuckery, low-end rumble, echoey effects, dragging chains... You'll hear some voices, but this remains a mostly instrumental affair, and an extremely sombre one. We don't know who Edward is, or what it is he's lamenting, but this does sound sad. Weirdly, while not overtly 'Americana' or at all 'country', somehow this still does keep making us think of an abstract, phantom echo of Woven Hand or Souled American. Maybe Edward counts Blind Joe Death among his friends.” [Aquarius Records]