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http://www.vitalweekly.net/715.htmlNAMAZU DANTAI - BLACK LILY IN A WHITE POND (cassette by 2:00 AM Tapes)
On this attractive, limited-edition C20, we encounter a devilishly unattractive harsh noise wall from Sascha Mandler's latest project, Namazu Dantai, following several years of recording under the Izanami's Labour Pains moniker. Mandler dedicates this live recording to "female cruelty and my willingness to receive it" -- not the first tidbit of women-targeted ire to grace a harsh noise release, though one must assume that, despite the wording, he's aiming his anger at only those who've spurned him in the past. Or so I need to think, as a misogynist blast of this intensity would be merely inexcusable. Mandler erects this wall seemingly in mid-phrase, commencing side A's blistering duration without even a figment of an attack curve. It's an abrupt kick in the testes - one which pummels along for a pulverizing ten minutes before switching sides for yet another passage of carnal
noise. This is full-on, pedal-fervid abrasion, with HNW's trademark volume maximalism and stylistic minimalism. Imagine buildings collapsing and thunderstorms ravaging, as the noise shifts from harsh to harsher to less harsh to harsh in a smoothly shifting cycle whose 'calmer bits,' I assure you, can be identified only in relativistic terms. This is solid stuff, and at twenty minutes it's quite the right length to brutalize the listener effectively yet justly. I could live without Mandler's choice of muse, but there's no sense condemning this hefty racket. (MT)
