LOCRIAN & MAMIFFER - Bless Them That Curse You

The collaboration between Locrian and Mamiffer (the latter a duo made up of Aaron Turner of Isis and pianist Faith Coloccia) opens with epic, metallic cadences, in a kolossal post-metal & folk atmosphere embellished by slippery droning chatter. But "In Fuliminic Black" is, in any case, bound to drag itself along martial paths, preferring arcane evocation to the magnificence of an explosion filmed in a single unbroken shot.

The sinister glimmers of the title track, on the other hand, pair with a thrilling crescendo. "Corpus Luteum"'s music is, then, as austere as it is magnetic chamber music: hypnotic pianism, thuds and caresses of strings and gloomy ecstatic carpets of sound that steer the whole composition towards inhuman dimensions. The synthesis between the two souls isn't always balanced, so that moments dominated by Locrian's more noise-driven impulse alternate with others in which Mamiffer's classicist post-rock takes shape.

"Second Burial" thus pushes into electroacoustic and "concrete" territory, miming burial scenes or projecting unspeakable glimpses of horror into the soul... the choice is yours! A bit of breathing room comes courtesy of the autumnal evocations of "Lechatelierite", before arriving at the very long tail of "Metis/Amaranthine/The Emperor", a genuine suite that starts from feminine invocations suspended in a cosmo-droning limbo, lands on rough ambient-noise moors, and finally spills into a harsh postcore brawl.

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28/03/2012