Daily Listen by Brian Brock

Various Artists vs. Disinformation - Al-Jabr (hear Mechos - “Raxor”)

This is one of the least horrible sounding pure noise albums i’ve heard.  A lot of people get into noise as a kind of last resort after being finished with heavy metal or punk, a final finger flipped to the winds of good taste.  I value catharsis, although it can often fall into masochism.  I would not discourage the services of those who let us cast our suffering onto their pyres, although I would question the motives of some of them.

This album is a collection of remixes of electromagnetic noise recordings.  It isn’t driven at the core by a desire to hurt people, but out of interest in nature.  Conventional tonality is nothing more than a manifestation of the ease with which the mind can process concurrent pitches the frequencies of which maintain simple ratios, which means that conventional music is a sort of discovery of latent nature.  This music is likewise an unraveling of natural sound.

In general, I believe that music is best which accesses a place deeper than one’s relationship with society, although of course the understanding of that relationship is deeper than the relationship itself.