 
Formula Of Reversal
2004
CD
Wavetrap
These Records
50:50 Stewart Gott
4 May 2004 experimental | An unnerving journey inside the mind of John Everall, this is a documentation of a period of intense psychological disturbance, complete with jumbled speech fragments and periods of brutal, angry noise. Reminiscent of Aube's experiments with brainwaves, blood vessels and cardiograms, this sounds like the inside of your skull after a jolly afternoon on the park bench knocking back the aftershave your mother gave you for Christmas. The deeper you get in to the long single track on this recording the more the feelings of claustrophobia and confusion mount. Around the half hour mark we are left with nothing but a repetitive popping sound, five minutes later and we are catapaulted into a white river of screeching harsh noise. At the other side of this the popping and the crackling again. Reminds me a little of that John Duncan recording ("Crucible") where all you could hear was the rain dripping on the kit. Shadowy, intrusive - a journey to the centre of your brain, or maybe to the cenre of your soul, not one for the faint hearted. |
