I guess it started with my drummer moving back home to Norway, leaving me to start creating music on my own, and I needed some inspiration.
After seeing a friend post a sample of the Tunnel Canary track Jihad on facebook, I started to check out the "related" stuff on youtube, found Maria Zerfall, got a tip to check out Blackhouse (a christian p.e.-group) and after that I was back in the swamps of the scene, scanning the net after weird industrial/noise/p.e.-tapes that were only released in 33 copies and stuff like that.
I found a noise/industrial/p.e.-blog and started to check out the music reviewed there.
On it, I found this album, and liked what I read:
"[...] a varied outpouring of sounds concerning control, oppression and patriarchy. The Father flits between spoken word and instrumental noise pieces, rammed with samples. Gaya Donadio intones the lyrics; her heavily accented Italian voice, emphasizing key words and segments."
That sounded really interesting right?
After listening to the album, I was completely hooked.
I've played it twice a day, almost, the last three days.
Soundwise it's a rather industrial story, with some harsher parts. But mainly it revolves around pulses, looped rhythms and buzz tones.
The sound is cold, uneasy, dark and effectively creates a perfect atmosphere for the political lyrics of Gaya Donadio (vocalist).
Only One Mother (Track 9, my favorite on the album)
"Nature, the real mother.
Nature, the only mother.
Mother of life.
Nature, mother of death.
The cruel nature, the cruel mother nature.
[...]
She's vicious, she's pitiless, she's hurtless!
Divine grace is all gone.
She's the devil!"
Her lyrics are extremely relevant and extremely refreshing in a world filled with male acts/vocalists constantly using sexual abuse, porn and fascist thematics. I'm have nothing against that, I know the reason, the effectiveness and the thoughts behind it, but it can also get a little old sometimes.
The spoken word parts move between whispers, snarls and emphasizings, but sometimes turn heavily distorted and aggressive.
Her heavy italian accent is to die for! I'm just saying. It gives the whole album a dimension it wouldn't have without the accent.
