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Morte Cammina - The First Taste [Death Sex Electronics - 2015]

Morte Cammina(aka Death Walks) is a recent Australian  wall noise project that focus in on unmoving & intense HNW themed around Italian Giallo movies.  Fittingly titled this C60 debut release appeared on Death Sex Electronics- a relatively recent northern English label, which focuses in on walled noise & power electronics releases.

The unlabeled cassette comes in small black cardboard box- this features a  three black & white inlays, which take in  stills from what I presume are from pics a giallo film(?)- taking in dead bodies, a man with a knife, ect.  On the inside of the box is a black & white stuck-on still that features a picture of a women’s face with switch blade knife held in front of it. On the boxes lid the same image is repeated.

So moving onto to the ‘walls’ with-in, and offered up here we have two thirty minute tracks- with one on each side of tape. The first sides track is entitled “Sweet Revenge”- this track is built around a mass of tonal & pattern  similar noise textures that are set out into a mid-paced juddering ‘n’ churning dense noise mesh.  The tones fall in between: muddy thin-ish low range, churning lower mid’s, and jittering static tumbles.  The whole things creates an all engulfing mass of sound, which is akin to constantly swimming against a thick ‘n’ pure grey static sea. Texture wise I guess the ‘wall’ is fairly simple, and not very creative- but as dense & unchanging ‘walls’ go, this is acceptable enough, and it did manage to hold my attention through-out.

Flipping over to side two & we have “The Bloodstained Lawn”.  This track is built around a more compacted yet still dense selection of tones, and these take in the following: a taut rolling judder, a jittering ball bearing like static texture, rapid crust-bound fixed rumbles/ rip’s, and thinner static jittering.  Once again the textural elements are covering fairly common ground, but they are feed out into another fairly appealing bit of ‘wall-making’. Of the two I'd say I enjoyed the first side more, but I think that’s more down to personally preferences, as both ‘walls’ kept me locked in through-out their running times.


So in conclusion- while neither ‘wall’ here is going to blow you away with it’s original textures, or creative twists- if you after no-nonsense fixed ‘n’ intense walled noise with a giallo theme this is a worthy enough debut. And I look forward to hearing more from this project in the future.

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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