▼WV083: ZAÄAR / Spintria - Genesis of Cyclopian Sorcerer
獨眼巨人 巫之起源
After a period of dormancy in the Magic Jungle, ZAÄAR has continued to breed several ovules at WV Sorceror Productions. The first one comes as a result of this split LP with the Tennessee occult trio Spintria, with which WV Sorceror has teamed up with Moonlight Cypress Archetypes to present “Genesis of Cyclopian Sorceror.”
Following the dark lineage of Tennessee’s Southern Gothic tradition, with wild alien-shaped tentacles growing out of the wild grass fields, Spintria performs their mesmerism through free jazz/ improv/ black metal music, hypnotic and untamed. As for ZAÄAR, they have brought us a piece of free jazz tribal dancing conducted by primitive beasts as part of this transcendental journey into the world of sorcery.
We also have the great honor of collaborating with French artist Kathy Aponi and presenting two stunning paintings of hers, "Aurochs" & "Twalaak", as cover art for this record.
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Brussels, surrealist jungle. Saxophonist JJ Duerinckx was seeking the truth in improvised music. Using survival skills from his lizard brain, multi-instrumentist Guillaume CZLT went down with him in the waters of the suburb mangroves to meet electronic multiverse moebius Didié Nietzche. Neptunian maximalism was gathered in an ethno-industrial liturgy, then appeared a double-headed pulse entity. Drummer Sébastien Schmit and bassist HP Desrosiers arrived as one, connected by an inner primitive self. “ZAAAÄÄÄAAAR!”, did they shout when separated into two bodies by a powerful psych-free jazz ritual. “Here and now!” JJ said, and the quintet was made.
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Spintria is designed to melt the borders between free improvisation, free jazz, black metal, drone metal, and more, and is furthermore an attempt to discard the ideas of written vs improvised music altogether. There is an overarching guiding hand but it is not composed, and though it is improvised it is not "free improv" in a true sense.
"The storm waves of jazz fusion, drone metal, ambient music, and prog-metal hit you again and again, but not at random. This isn't to say I think every note on this special release is carefully planned, it probably isn't, but that there's a definite sense of an overarching, chaotic spirit guiding it. And whatever it is you might have to say about that spirit, it sure as hell ain't boring. At times, in fact, it's positively breathtaking."
- Machine Music
Recorded at Espace MOSS, Brussels, 1st February 2020
by Guillaume Cazalet & Hugues-Philipe Desrosiers
Mixed & mastered by Guillaume Cazalet & Thomas Stadnicki
at Homo Sensibilis Sounds & The Vault Studio, Brussels
Spintria:
Ryan Clackner: Guitar
Josh Byrd: Drums
Edward Longo: Keyboards
Engineered by Shibby Poole
Mixed & mastered by The Empty Hall Studio
Cover art from paintings by Kathy Aponi
“Aurochs” & “Twalaak”
Layout by Ruò Tán 若潭
Improviser and composer Lara Alarcón has created an experimental opus rife with moments of wildly free jazz and lovely melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2021
