Stichflamme Barnick - Stichflamme Barnick
Released: November 15
Stichflamme Barnick is a collaborative effort between two artist who have extensively released music on the same label (Superpolar Taips) for years now. However, this is the first time that we see the two coming together for an independent project and it is an incredibly rich album that spans a wide variety of electronic and acoustic sounds, combined in a positively intriguing manner. The album evolves slowly and heads in some rather unexpected directions considering how it begins with the rather low profile and slow simmering “Verboden te Roken.” It’s a track that begins with a light and airy motif that has a slight grey coloration to it, but begins to make sudden turns with these twinges and twangs that feel like they are tearing at the soundscape and disperse long enough to allow the scene to reform. It’s a dynamic that presents itself throughout the album, but becomes more intense in later tracks.
Right in the middle of the album lies what is possibly my favorite track of the album - “Montabaur 8.” It feels so subtly tense and has this odd repetitive sound that feels almost like shallow breaths. It languishes in this sound for some time, fading away only to introduce the indistinct voices of several people. We don’t get to know what that are talking about but the sonic context around the speaking imparts a seemingly uncomfortable tone to their speech. It’s a very well crafted sonic landscape that resonates with me for reasons I can’t really pin down. But the remainder of the album plays out in a similar vein, particularly in Datenwurm with its digitized growling mixed with ethereal choir sounds that feel similiarly “off” in a digitized manner, like a bad signal.
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