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BUDRUS  Devyniems Rytams Au�tant  CD   (Terror)   11.98


Here's a fucking fantastic album of cinematic jazz-flecked cosmic power electronics/dark ambience from this Lithuanian group, whose lineup includes Leonardas Marozas, the editor of the excellent new PE/harsh noise zine TeRRoR. I was struck by the combination of dark spacey psychedelia and smoldering power electronics that Budrus reveals on Devyniems Rytams Au�tant; the only other band that sound even remotely like what these guys are doing is 88MM, who also combine elements of PE and space music. But Budrus's sound is all their own, seeping with intense orchestral power and seething dread, the sound woven with looped woodwinds and strings wound into ominous minor key figures that are repeated over and over, with more dissonant processed string and horn sounds hovering in the background. Electronic effects and churning distortion melts down into dense buzzing drones and hallucinatory soundscapes, and the album is filled with a relentlessly bleak feeling, an industrial suite for the end times. Pounding tribal drums are heavily processed and echo beneath the hostile growling vocals, which deliver all of the lyrics in guttural Lithuanian. Psych guitar leads soar across an onyx horizon, surrounded by opulant synthesizers, ghostly harmonium-like drones and groaning cellos.

The fifth song is "Draskyti Sapna. Atbulom Link Skliauto (To Tear Apart The Dream. Backwards Toward Dome)", one of my favorite pieces here; a swarming hive of trebly, almost blackened guitar buzz and eerie minor key flute-like melodies, fronted by the ravings of a madman. The following track "Pjutyje/In The Reaping" is also noteworthy for it's symphonic sound and vast droning strings; it's the processed saxophone, though, that elevates this, the bleary sound of the sax drifting over blasting electronics, becoming an ominous buzz rising into the stratosphere while muffled clanking rhythms rumble in the distance alongside electronically tweaked screams. The sax also appears on "Budraujant/White Wake", where it meets up with space rock guitars gliding across thumping shamanic drums.

Definitely not just another PE album, Budrus's debut is pretty amazing, the trace elements of power electronics that appear here adding certain ferocity to the dark psychedelic drift that they unleash across these nine tracks. The disc comes in a six panel digipack that includes a twelve page booklet, and is released in a limited edition of three hundred copies. Highly recommended.


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