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Exclusive tracks by all 3 bands/projects:
The Infrared Experience
Flat Black Project
Bleeding Thorax

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On the postcard sized album cover I see a horse standing in a forest, his head covered with a piece of cloth. This position reminds me of the pictures of detainees on Gunatanamo bay detention camp, and this hopeless situation, where ears and eyes are excluded from the rest of the world, raises a question about time. How is it being perceived when there is no external means to experience the flow of seconds, minutes or hours? Is there, in fact, time?

Coming from the ‘Against it’ records, this three way split is the first musical attempt of the label to explore and understand time. The three projects featured on this album give different interpretations and meanings to this subject with tracks that vary from experimental moments with numerous sounds colliding together into one primordial soup, to endless drones and obscure voices.

Opening the album with six tracks is the InfraRed Experience. In these six tracks the musical instruments employed are only electric guitars and effects, which bring to life lush and endless sonic landscapes that are rich with details as well as with empty deserts. One of the more tangible moments from this part is the track “Goodbye is not Farewell”, which strangely reminds me of a part on Iron Maiden’s Rime of the ancient mariner. This is a strange moment but, if I am to stick with my questions about time, a suitable one.

Bleeding Thorax offers three nerve breaking tracks of stressing drones. ‘Feral’ is an animalistic, repetitive and hostile hissing that gets us close to a dying beast, wildly breathing its last gasps of air. The seventh track, donning the graphic title ‘Rip Her On The 4th Floor’, along with the following track, ‘The black widow & the babe in barbed wire’, are both haunting and alarming drones of clear serenity and grim sonic visions , in which time seems to both stand still and be affected by the slow, yet rich dynamics of this musical act.

Flat Black Project ends this album with eerie music which accompanies the immortal, decadent speech from the movie ‘The Exorcist 2′, thus getting us to the final phase of the album, where music grows darker. The last five tracks are all obscure and deal with ghostly feedbacks and echoes that make Flat Black Project quite unsettling. The first track by this project, ‘Humanity at its best’ is perhaps the best on this part of the album, bringing together hate, cruelty and paranoia.

Whatever the future brings for this time learning musical project, part one of ‘Understanding Time’ is a powerful release with three worthy musical projects to introduce. Let us hope to see part two coming out soon! (Culture is not your friend)
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Ambient, Noise, Postrock
erwartet Konsumenten auf der ersten Ausgabe der Serie “Understanding Time” des Labels Against it Records, wo die experimentellen Protagonisten The Infrared Experience, Flat Black Project & Bleeding Thorax jeweils mit 20 Minuten Spielzeit vertre- ten sind, die sie allesamt mit vielfältigsten Beiträgen füllten.

An sich verfügen Menschen über kein Zeitgefühl, weshalb jegliche Be- trachtungen dieser, völlig subjektiv sind und zu äußerst unterschied- lichen Auffassungen über zurückliegende Ereignisse führen, in diesem Kontext spricht man von Zeitverständnis, das die drei Protagonisten auf “Understanding Time (Part 1)” in verschiedenster Art & Weise wiedergeben bzw. interpretieren. Diejenigen, die sich gerne mit den Abgründen der Gesellschaft beschäftigen, finden in “Understanding Time (Part 1)” ein inhaltliches Seelenfest vor.

Zum Auftakt präsentiert der “Weltbürger” hinter The Infrared Experience, welcher gerne in Japan leben würde, unverfälschte Ressourcen, die mehrheitlich aus verzerrten Gitarrenlinien resultieren. Um die Sounds von The Infrared Experience besser einordnen zu können, seien die Genres (Dark) Ambient, Drone & Postrock genannt, die innerhalb der 6 Tracks nahtlos ineinander übergehen & sich zu einer hypnotischen Symbiose mit hohem Kopfkinofaktor vereinigen.

Als Zwischenakt betritt die amerikanische Ein-Mann Formation Bleeding Thorax die “Bildfläche” und liefert eine mitreißende Ambient Noise Vorstellung ab, deren farbliches Spektrum von dunkel bis hell reicht und teilweise in spacige Atmosphären abdriftet.

Am Ende ertönen minimalistische Gitarrenlinien (zum Teil in Form von Drones) vom Flat Black Project, die zwischen Bedrohlichkeit & wohliger Wärme schwanken und durch Spracheinschübe Akzentuierung erfahren. Gefallen mag, dass der Akteur Samples aus verschiedenen Kulturkreisen vereint, wodurch sich seine Stücke deutlich vom Rest abgrenzen & an Eigenständigkeit gewinnen.

Insgesamt eine musikalisch sehr geschlossene Arbeit ohne Ausfälle, deren Sounds geprägt sind von Intensität & Komplexität, wodurch das Erfassen aller Feinheiten eine Menge Zeit & Muse erfordert, die interessierte Hörerkreise faktisch mitbringen müssen, ansonsten landet das Schätzchen definitiv in der Abteilung Ausschuss.


Fazit:

Wem Konzept vor aneinandergereihte Melodiebögen geht & Namen nebensächlich erscheinen,der legt sich Understand Time (Part 1) feat. The Infrared Experience, Flat Black Project & Bleeding Thorax zu, das ein schweres aber eindrucksvolles Abbild der Moderne zeichnet – meine absolute Empfehlung!

Hörbeispiele und weitere Informationen zu The Infrared Experience, Flat Black Project & Bleeding Thorax findet Ihr unter folgenden Links:
(Kultur Terrorismus)

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released September 11, 2010

Pictures, artwork, cover design & CD-Mastering by Ralf Rabendorn

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