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Alo Girl - Curettage [Violent Noise Atrocities - 2010]

'Curettage' offers up two ten minute sides of pummelling & hammering, yet at times almost harmonically laced Harsh Wall Noise from Italian project Alo Girl(aka Cristiano Renzoni- runner of the excellent Urashima label & the other half of Richard Ramirez’s An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter).

First off the rather kinky & a little strange cassette artwork is worth a mention; as it’s close-up full colour picture of  two female(I presume) backs & one has bondage under currents as it’s wrap tightly with a rope of some sort. Quite what it means is unclear, but there arresting & slightly disturbing pictures (through there’s no genitals or breast are shown). Anyway onto the Sonics on the tape- side one is taken up by a piece entitled ‘Enter In A White Room’ which feels like the HWN is made from looped, layered & feedback mangled rapid marching or some type of drum based  music  as the wall of sound has quite a rolling thick drum like texture to it & ever so often your ears just catch a trace of a harmonic like drone texture with-in the raging sound wall. 

Side two’s track is entitled ‘Inside your Meat’  and is less rhythmic & pummelling in its intent, it’s also more complex with it’s layers of noise tonality too. The track focus in on building up, shifting & often storm swirling layers of static roar, hammering noise down-pours & oceanic waves of noise tone. This track has less distinctive harmonic traces with-in it’s guts, through towards the end it does seem to almost build a calm with-in the eye of the storm vibe about it- it’s just a pity it ends when it does as it would have been nice to see were Renzoni went next with the track.

A pleasing short sharp shock of HWN in two ten minute sides which shows Renzoni adding some of his own distinctive edges to the genres all engulfing  & fearless sonic attack.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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