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SATORI - Pillars of Salt

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring - CSR346CD Release Year: 2025 Note: "Here's where the Noise happens. Loud and without any mercy, the pleasure and the pain. That's what we want from noise and SATORI delivers the goods.." [VITAL WEEKLY] - *SATØRI's mission to document the stupidity of our species continues - a journey through grinding rhythms, dystopian soundscapes and a fascination into what lies beneath the surface.* - hostile alienation Industrial, since "The Hanging" (Tesco 2015) the solo effort of DAVE KIRBY, one of the original founding members... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info SATØRI's mission to document the stupidity of our species continues with "Pillars of Salt" - a journey through grinding rhythms, dystopian soundscapes and a fascination into what lies beneath the surface. "An aberrant signal. Data loss. Corrupted programming. Everything should be fine. But it isn't, is it? Everything is fucked. Something has gotten into the system and is destroying it from within. This is humanity being consumed by the inability to think for itself. Ahead is the future. Just don't look back..." Formed in the mid-80's, with previous releases on high-calibre labels such as Broken Flag, Cold Spring, Trident, Mindscan, and Tesco Organisation, SATØRI's sound comprises a mixture of harsh Industrial noise and power electronics with harder and heavier percussive beats than before. Their material provides a constant pervasive undercurrent of violence, the feeling of a planet on the verge of collapse and a reflection of the lack of humanity embedded in a culture based on greed and self-preservation. Featuring guest vocalist Lorenzo Abattoir, the album was produced by Andy Swan (Khost, Final, Iroha, Tactical Pagan). Composed, Recorded & Mixed by Dave Kirby @ Digitalis, Somerset 2022-2024 Additional Vocals on "Animal Girl" by Lorenzo Abattoir. Executive Production by Andy Swan. Mastered by Martin Bowes @ The Cage Studios, Coventry Artwork by Abby Helasdottir Dedicated to Michael Stanley Holloway. https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/pillars-of-salt "For a few reasons, noise seems to be back in my life; reading and writing about noise helps, I guess. I knew Satøri never left the stage but went through different incarnations. First, a duo of Dave Kirby and Robert Maycock, back in the 1980s, then Kirby and Justin Mitchell, later with Mitchell and Neil Chaney, and since 2012, it is a Kirby solo project. I wrote all of this using slightly different words in Vital Weekly 1398 when I discussed the previous album, 'The Woods'. This new album continues Satøri's explorations of rhythm and noise, with the word dystopian piping up again. I'd love to say I like all things dystopian, but they should be confined to the art world, in books, music and movies. However, dystopia is around us nowadays if you hand a second-hand Bond villain the keys to the system. In the words of Cold Spring about this album, "An aberrant signal. Data loss. Corrupted programming. Everything should be fine. But it isn't, is it? Everything is fucked. Something has gotten into the system and is destroying it from within. This is humanity being consumed by the inability to think for itself. Ahead is the future. Just don't look back..." Lyrically, it's hard to say what these pieces are about. The vocals are down in the mix and often layered and laced with effects, but titles as 'Blackened Skies', 'Fear Is A Lever' and 'Humiliate Me' are telling examples. The rhythms aren't complex affairs, but mainly in the low end: a punch in the stomach or a blow to the head. Primarily slow, but occasionally like a machine gun. Synthesisers and effects accentuate the rhythm and the voices and form the machine core of the music; here's where the noise happens. Loud and without any mercy, the pleasure and the pain. That's what we want from noise and Satøri delivers the goods. It's not your standard scream noise, power electronics record, but a highly diverse dish with much structure, thanks to the beats and the chaos swirling above, but in equally measured proportions—an excellent album." [FdW / Vital Weekly]