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Sephiroth's Knot / Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung

CDR (2006), CDR (2006), CDR (2006)










private   Sephiroth's Knot : Magic of the opening Eye (US,2006)**°'

Sephiroth's Knot is a big group (I read somewhere a 12+ ??) freak and free jam collective, partly psychfolk and partly noise, partly experimental. The first EP's two first tracks are completely acoustic and with a wide eye-view on infinity. Third track is semi-acoustic unreasons and meditative unrest noise on guitars and metal strings with a bit of electronic keyboard waves, an industrial improvisation of disorganizing orders in chaos, as trash becoming organic. The track reaches freightning proportions of industrial unpeace, like revolting ghosts from broken apart rusted machines. The organ and electronic keyboards waves thoroughly take over the sound mass changing it into a more melodic infinity to conclude with. Last track is more a moody half-sleeping consciousness experimental music track, with keyboards waves, percussion on trash cans or with keys, voices mumbling or celebrating, and one-note chime drones. Here the collective as a group makes the composition. Last track is also experimental : crazy voices, an overload of jam debility, and a steady jam rhythm and bass, keyboards trying to pull the strings, the complex strings which are overloaded with knots. Now, the Sephiroth’s knots become like points of concentration, and the chaos disappears once more into the collective’s consciousness, creating a mood, pulling all sounds into the (self-) organizing organicness of the evolution.
private  Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung (US,2006)***°

This release really shows the collective force. Starting in a condition close to chaos and complete disharmony, the collective succeeds to create different, moody sections of inspirations, from acoustic psych song and improvisation (with a female vocalist and acoustic guitar) over more experimental, rather industrial music like with rubbed piano and other strings, to a commune like collective sound (with vocals like a Father Yod community singing in chorus). Organ and drums are some of the organizers…

Homepage with audio : http://www.myspace.com/sephirothmusic
private   Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung : Drug Friends and other themese (US,2006)
private     Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung also known as "The Sephiroth" (US,2006) ?
private   Sephiroth's Knot in concert (US,2006) ?
private        Sephiroth's Knot / Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung (US,2006)***°
private        Jow Jow, The Death Knell Rung : Maiden Mask & Secret Spring (US,2006)

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private   Sephiroth's Knot : Trance of the Death Mask (US,2006)***

It’s hard to tell what is really happening here. You almost need to (not enough) go in trance with the music to be able to describe this communal improvisation which builds up mostly in one line in one trance, with a tube feeling filled with organic sonic mass.

Homepage with audio : http://www.myspace.com/sephirothmusic
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