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

Red Mannequin Rape - Fruiting Bodies [Bored Bear Recordings - 2012]

“Fruiting Bodies” is the third in series of twelve monthly three inch CDR releases that are to be put out through-out 2012 by Ireland's Bored Bear Recordings. Each release in this new series offers up a debut release from one of twelve new projects that are been put together by highly influential & respected Texas noise artist Richard Ramirez.

Red Mannequin Rape is a solo Ramirez project, and I guess from what’s on offer here you’d say the project was a mixture of fairly active ‘n’ harsh droning noise, and higher pitched/ grating sheets of Harsh noise, with maybe the odd dwell in wall-ish territory….but really this is more of a harsh ‘n’ dense drone meets seared ‘n’ ear melt harsh noise atttack.  Subject wise it seems to be brutal horror themed

On offer here is a single self titled track that comes in at the 21.41 mark.  The track slowly edges in with this distant to sudden close-up bank of  roasting & flaming textures, these seems to awkwardly &  often jerkily drift into ear shot of each of the textures used. The tones seem grow & intensify  as the track progresses, yet Ramirez still keeps jerking the textures layers back & forth to creating this almost hot air balloon burner like vibe as the layers of noise short in ‘n’ out. At times it edges towards almost wall-ish like dwells, but these never really fully form for an really length of time as the layers keep edging & shifting. At around about the 9.20 point a juddering higher pitch tone with rising high pitched sustain sears in, and pretty soon things get really nasty & ear bleeding active as Ramirez adds in a mixture of shunting ‘n’ mid tone noise, which suddenly swells & rises with more sustained & pained high tone points.  Around the 14 minute mark you get the odd break out of lower toned crusty ‘n’ pummelling  electro bombardments, but these are few & far between as most of the time the tones are of a mid to higher tone in there feeling. It’s only in the last minute or so well it very nicely locks down into a slow churning ‘n’ roasting mid to lower toned noise swirls.

I cant say this is one of my favourite of Ramirez’s projects, as it’s all a little too active for my liking & I’m not a great fan of high pitched tonality in noise. But I can certainly appreciate the boiling yet controlled vibe he maintains here.

Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Red Mannequin Rape - Fruiting Bo...
“Fruiting Bodies” is the third in series of twelve monthly three inch CDR releases that are to be put out through-out 2012 by Ireland's Bored Bear Recordings...
290324   Piranha - Piranha(DVD)
280324   Typhoon Club - Typhoon Club(B...
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...
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