���� Another long out-of-print Bastard Noise title that recently resurfaced as a warehouse find, BN + A was a collaboration between the mighty Skull-squad (here made up of the duo of Eric Wood and John Wiese) and a short-lived "minimal noise" project called Antennacle that featured some of the guys from art-damaged grindcore outfit Creation Is Crucifixion. The EP features two tracks ("Moving Across" and "He No Longer Lives Entirely Among Us") that offer an interesting approach to ominous, lowercase noise, weaving short fragments of sampled voices and controlled bursts of high-frequency feedback with sheets of restrained drone and subdued juddering sounds, like the distant reverberations of failing machinery. There's little of the physicality that Bastard Noise's work is usually known for, but this material still captures that same bleak, dystopian, black-earth vibe that typically exudes from their work. By the time the artists make their way to the second side, this transforms into a harrowing electro-acoustic hallucination flecked with chitinous chirping electronics and deep, almost imperceptible bass pulses, the noisescape becoming even more unsettling and insectlike as it scuttles towards its conclusion.
���� Originally released in a limited run of three hundred copies, the record comes in cool handmade packaging, held inside of a pocket affixed to the interior of the printed sleeve, and the whole thing sealed with a piece of twine. And as with the other old out-of-print Bastard Noise releases we just unearthed, quantities are extremely limited.