Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

The Rita & Is - "..." [Whitechapel - 2008]

This is a split between master of wall noise The Rita and brooding ambient/ noise project Is, With each offering up a 20 minute track on a 3 inch cdr a piece. All packaged in a rather nice & distinctive black card folder with a photograph set in like a funeral portrait of an ominous looking lake.

The Rita Disk/ track is first & entitled Forced Wet Bedrock. Starting as you’d expected with the Rita the sound is very dense and wall-like attack of fiery static and boiling noise texture, though there’s a lot more movement with the sound than pure wall noise. There this shorting or shifting of a huge steel structure sound that at times almost has a rhythmic quality to it & it keeps appearing with-in the roar for the first half of the track. Strangle too the roar it’s self has almost a sinister groove about it, that surfaces ever so often. The track show’s the Rita keeping his seething and edgy sound yet devolving and growing it too. I can’t wait to hear were he goes next.

The Is disk/Track keeps with the water bound theme and is called Benign waters. It opens with an ominous electro loop underpinned by growing dread feedback and drone textures. Feeling to start with like the soundtrack to some micro budget grim and eerier 70’s horror film, but slow and surely the noise background starts to grow in strength and volume overtaking the original loop. Giving a great feeling of stale airless ness, much like been downed I would imagine. Then it kicks-in full force with panicked and exploding noise like the roar of water and struggling underneath. The rest of the track calms down a little performing  some brutal yet atmospheric noise folds, burns and panic’s and discordant/ sinster forkings.

All in all two great, brutal and sinister lined tracks that nicely complement each other, packed in great and creative packing. This Is the first I’ve heard of both Is and the Whitechapel label and I’m highly impressed with both, with The Rita proving he's still king of his particular brand of noise.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

The Rita & Is - "..."
This is a split between master of wall noise The Rita and brooding ambient/ noise project Is, With each offering up a 20 minute track on a 3 inch cdr a ...
270324   Jerzy Skolimowski Collection ...
260324   Latex Choker - Sealed
260324   Occlusion - 59: No Input Wall
260324   Nihil Impvlse - Anabasis
260324   Marta Forsberg - Sjunger För...
260324   The New Boy - The New Boy( Th...
250324   The Stargazer’s Assistant - ...
250324   Liza Lim - Annunciation Trip...
220324   Patrick - Patrick( UHD/ Blu Ray)
220324   Dadawah - Peace And Love
Latest Articles

The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H...
Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon...
280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri...
290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev...
100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is...
181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &...
051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ...
181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp...
210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri...
290823   The Residents - The Trouble W...
110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ...
250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2023. Twenty two years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom