Back in stock! This disc is a collection of live material from Finland's prince of filthy power electronics and hateful harsh noise, Bizarre Uproar. I never get tired of having my brain matter jack hammered by BU's brand of violent scatological PE, and this disc captures the demon in front of small, enthusiastic audiences from Helsinki (and one at a record shop in Rio De Janeiro) unleashing his savage electronics at full force.
The disc begins with a 2009 set that opens with the sound of a muezzin's call for prayer slurred and stretched into a brain-damaged howl additional shouting voices and screams and streaks of minimal feedback appear, heavily delayed, skipping across the hallucinatory soundscape slowly builds as grinding noise and more vocals drift in, the sound thickening, growing ever more abrasive and malevolent, huge circular rumbling drones emerging from the depths. As the warped chanting disappears, the real vocals come in, a fearsome blackened shriek slightly obscured by the din of scraping, screeching machine noise. The next piece is introduced by a sample of Finnish military music that leads into a bludgeoning feedback assault, maniacal screams interspersed with bursts of high end feedback, then growing into a cacophony of concrete grinding against metal in steady, skull-splintering rhythmic churn.
Another 2008 set at the Bunker in Helsinki delivers an orgy of brutally abrasive noise and malfunctioning machinery, shifting into a spacious stretch of contact mic rattling and banging around, processed recordings of children's songs, high pitched squeals and violent screaming, then crashes back into a brutal wall of churning noise at the end. The Rio performance is an ultra low-fi recording full of amplified hiss and buzzing feedback, the filthiest sounding set featured here, with samples of armies marching across asphalt, the stomp of boots against the ground pounding endlessly amid bursts of vicious screaming and high speed blasting distortion. The disc ends with a 2006 set that's more subdued, an eerie echoing noisescape of dragging chains, scraping metal, all run through huge amounts of delay as a massive bass throb is buried underneath the swirling storm of feedback and oscillating electronics.
Comes with a twelve page full color booklet filled with live photos, and features some incredibly vile album art. Limited to three hundred copies.