The final track by Stelzer is the winner on this, but you've raced through quite a labyrinth of sound osmosis before you reach the last seconds of that final track. Halalchemists submits a nine minute live fragment of banging on things and giving it feedback while Haters drives home a noise fanfare that is completed when you realise that it has begun. With a running time close to thirty minutes each, it's the Hanatarash- and Howard Stelzer-tracks that occupies most of your time spent on this eight installment in the curious alternative soundworld curated by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. The two tracks are quite different, a casual way to differentiate them would be to lump the Hanatarash-offering as minimal versus a very busy Stelzer-composition. Assuming Stelzer is working with tapes and splitting and meshing sound bites is a lot of what his track gives the listener, Hanatarash's "Tottori" manipulates a small fragment, focusing on the stretching and droning of the source material. None of this is very much in your face or confrontational, it's a measure or play with sound, to be taken as either exercises in a narrow genre or as free strolls outside normal musical borders.
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