Here is another older Blossoming Noise title that I just picked up for the first time, a 2005 disc from Japanese sound sculptor Akifumi Nakajima's Aube, titled Chain[Re]Action. As with any of Aube's recordings, he is capable of summoning an entire world of sound out of a single sound source, and on this album, it�s a metal chain that is used as the source of these haunting, sometimes terrifying textural dronescapes, which Nakajima invokes purely out of the recorded sounds of the metal links of the chain.
The tracks shift from minimal fields of high-pitched, ringing bell-tike tone drone that steadily increases in volume and intensity until it becomes a blinding white blast of sonic light, to passages of even more minimal clinking noises, barely-there scrapings, all-enveloping aural swarms of metallic screech, distant cicada-like buzzing and electrical hum, portentous sonar-like emanations, and the delay-soaked thrum of alien engines. Nakajima is a master of sound manipulation and design, of achieving contrast between abrasiveness and fragility, and the haunting, richly textured ambience he creates here is nothing short of dark magic.
The two middle tracks in particular ("Re[sound]" and "Recondite") are effectively eerie descents into chthonic machine drift.
The signature track however is the closing "Spasmodic Repetition", a massive, seething thirteen-minute dronescape formed from the looped sounds of chains being dragged and rattled, traced into writhing, scraping rhythms and sinister serpentine activity.
The disc comes in a full color wallet slip-case, and is limited to 1,000 copies.