Silence is often louder and more disturbing than the visceral noise that Andrew Chalk began his career with as Ferial Comfine.
This tinnitus style collaboration with early Italian Industrialist Giancarlo Toniutti, is as disturbing as being confronted by your own hidden thoughts.
As it's our last post of this very....very.... crap year of 2017,it will give you a chance to reflect upon the tragedy of the rise of a new dark age of popularism. For the first time since the Berlin Wall came down, there's a real danger that we have leaders stupid enough to start a nuclear conflict. So savor what could be your last chance to say 'Happy New Year',no matter how ironic are those words or vacuous those tedious fireworks displays are , because next time, we could all be DEAD!
Tracklist:
A Tienalauami(24:27)
B Warkswood (20:31)
These are indeed the 'Final Recordings' of Andrew Chalk's 'Ferial Confine' project, but The New Blockaders would carry on to this very day.
Andrew Chalk would go on to make increasingly disappearing and quieter music as himself in the Dark Ambient arena; whereas The New Blockaders would carry on making the same old noise for the next quarter of a century.
As much as I love a nice paint stripping noise track or two, they do tend to chafe somewhat at the boredom threshold. Like Van Morrison has made the same LP every year for fifty years, the leading lights of the Noise/Drone scene are doing the very same, pointless exercise. Having said that, Pointlessness is the entire point of The New Blockaders raison d'etre, so I can't criticize them for sticking to their dogma like limpets,as I usually criticize artists for not doing this.......they just can't win can they?
I heartily advise making just one record then stopping.Then one cannot be criticized for anything of the sort,except for being a quitter.
Tracklist:
A Untitled 17:06
B Untitled 18:21
Another journey through the Richter scale of noise from Ferial Confine, aka Andrew Chalk.
Ranging from gentle electrical interference accompanying birdsong, to paint stripping screeching noise.
Meiosis is the initial stage of cell division that leads, ultimately to the existence of the Human scourge of the Planet Earth.So the gentle acceleration from something tranquil ,even beautiful, to an ear-bleeding destructive racket is, for these bleeding ears, a very accurate portrayal of natures greatest mistake.
Tracklist:
Side A (31:41)
Side B (31:07)
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Ferial Confine was Andrew Chalks scratchy scrapey nihilistic noise outing from early in his 'career.
Reminding one very much of similar cohorts, Organum,and The New Blockaders work; Chalk was right in there when it came to the early days of articulating 'Noise' into something feasible. He would later travel down the well-trodden path of ambient drones,but his early work is truly bizarre.
Tracklist:
Side A (20:23)
Side B (18:35)
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