01/07/2024
Jeux De Carnage by fourthousandblackbirds & Paxillus Succubus
fourthousandblackbirds and Paxillus Succubus are ambient experimental artists from Montreal, QE, Canada. Walnut + Locust released their joint album, "Jeux De Carnage," on May 28, 2024.
You can witness it here: https://walnutlocust.bandcamp.com/album/jeux-de-carnage
My impressions:
It is only once in a while that I get to experience an instrumental piece of music which injects hallucinations directly in my spine. These sounds conjure imagery of dimensions of alternative probability.
They speak/sing of the captivity of souls; of ringing spirits shaking a blighted wilderness. The activity of the cursed brilliantly streams forth across a spiritual, cosmic desolation.
In the realm of spectres and haunted minds, the search is eternal for a shred of honesty. They no longer wail. They suffer in near silence, lantern raised, desperate to fins something worth remembering.
A gap in the moment of high war, like a quiet interlude before a desperate charge. The deafening stillness immediately following the most incendiary part of the atomic blast.
This is a place of austere beauty, a place of contemplation, a place of perverse reflection.
By the end of the experience I get the implication that the worst is not yet over. That even though the sun will rise again and the remnant remains, still there will be another harrowing blow. And another. There is a solemnity and gratitude that the worst is over
but it is evident that the worst may still be met by the bad.
Review by Ryan O'Doud
Issues magazine #86 - July 1st 2024 - http://orderofcelestialintegration.org/issues/
