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The Girl On The Bridge - Little Wolf [Needle & Knife - 2015]

From late summer 2015 here we have the first release from The Girl On The Bridge- a new project from up & coming Australian wall noise artists Shaun Mack(also of Morte Cammina, Widow Park, and runner of the excellent HNW only label Needle & Knife). The release comes in the form of a C52 tape, and came in an edition of just ten copies.

The project apparently takes it themes & subject focus  from 2002 Swedish film Lilya 4-Ever (a compelling   character study that focuses in on the human traffic trade),  the cruel child sex trade in general, and the bleak & lives of those involved in it.

The track features a track per-side of tape, and each track is a suitable dense, troubled yet stark bit of walled noise. Side ones track is entitled “Cold Air”, and is built around a continually tumbling yet locked judder- this is weaved with stark & bleakly crisp jittering textures. The tumbling judder has a rapid, meaty yet bleakly churning quality to it, while the crisper jitters have a feasting numb-ness about them.  As the track progress you get slight nudges occurring in both textures, and also possible a few very sub-tone additions- but really the whole is very much a fixed, battering & bleak bit of wall matter that fits the projects themes nicely.

Flipping over to side two, and we have the track "Awake At Night". This track brings together a mix of musty & grey locked purring/ buzzing, & a layer of chopping ‘n’ juddering texturing- with the whole thing been wrapped in a muffled & brutally hazed yet fixed noise fog. The track nicely balances bleakly locked wall making, with a sleazily & airless atmospheric feeling. As the track progress you get some nice blurring & hazing going on between the textural patterns, yet the whole thing never goes all noise white-out, with the walled firm-ness staying fixed once again.

I had quite enjoyed Mr Mack work with his  Morte Cammina project, and I must say I rather enjoyed this tape too. As with  this tape he mangers to offer up two  fairly compelling ‘walls’  that nicely capture the bleak &  surely hope numbing  existence of young people working with-in the human trafficking/ sex trade around the world. I look forward to hearing more from The Girl On The Bridge 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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