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BASTARD NOISE + SIKHARA  Tukano Khalkha  CD   (Genderless Kibbutz)   13.98


This Bastard Noise disc from a few years ago is back in stock, at long last. 2006's Tukano Khalkha album is one of the strangest entries in Bastard Noise's extensive discography, the resultant document from a one-time collaboration between the Skull (here the extended lineup of Eric Wood, Bill Nelson and John Wiese) and the industrial group Sikhara, recorded back in 2003. Sikhara's percussive-heavy industrial surrealism has tended to focus on the vocal traditions of ancient non-Western cultures, and together with Bastard Noise, the two groups focus specifically on the ancient cultures of the Amazon basin and Mongolia, creating two long-form electronic trance meltdowns that feel like futuristic remixes of old ethnocological LPs. The two tracks on Tukano Khalkha consist of surreal vocal loops and chanting that drifts across massive storms of intergalactic gamelan and thunderous ritualistic tribal percussion from the Sikhara rhythm section; the booming tribal-industrial pummel and wailing vocal ecstasy is joined by Bastard Noise's relentless stream of squealing oscillator tones, chest-rattling low-end bass frequencies, crushing distorted drones, laptop manipulations, and those signature swarms of carnivorous cosmic locusts. It's different from the rest of Bastard Noise's stuff, for sure; the two bands come together to create a trance-inducing psychedelic freakout, collages of infinite chant collaged with brutal electronic noise and a dark industrial undertow. At times, this sounds like fragmented transmission from a Crash Worship performance breaking through a bleating, skull-crushing Bastard Noise set, but the musicians just as often create subdued dronescapes and long stretches of otherworldly psychedelic ambience, making this disc one of trippiest releases from Bastard Noise.


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