GELSOMINA Disease With A Purpose CD (Freak Animal) 11.98I'm now detecting an obvious ongoing obsession with director David Cronenberg with these guys.
Massively heavy, LOUD power feedback from this Finnish artist who approximates the sound of 100 howling guitar amplifiers melting down violently in an
incandescent silver haze, delivered at the volume of a jumbo jet taking off. The burlier parts of this disc reminds me of old Broken Flag steez, as it mixes
up menacing power electronics style assaults of high-end metallic distortion and squealing circuitry burn with a destroyed-guitar vibe, but then Gelsomina
also move into these ultra dense, extremely detailed passages of power drone that to my ears sound absolutely beautiful, with traces of doomy melodic figures
buried deep within the swirling ocean of squealing feedback. I'm not sure what the original sound sources were for this materal as the packaging doesn't say,
but alot of this music sounds guitar-feedback generated; regardless, the more "ambient" stuff is huge and heavy and richly psychedelic in the way that old
TOTAL and SKULLFLOWER can wipe your mind out, but infused with a razor sharp harsh noise bite. Kinda reminds me of BASTARD NOISE's dronier stuff, or THE RITA
if they were an apocalyptic droneological free-guitar unit. Song titles like "Throat Cut With Diamonds" and "Shot To Death With Pearls" just add to the
overall coolness of this disc. Excellent crushing feedback heaviness from the legendary Freak Animal imprint...limited to 300 copies, packaged in a simple
sepia folder sleeve with xerox insert.