The Ahasverus Project

AHH007 - Westwater Meadows

RELEASED JULY 1st 2008

Noise/Ambient

July 13

I’ve noticed that the city is built on a long, slowly descending slope. Also, when I look ahead, the concentration of buildings seem a lot denser at what appears to be the bottom. This, I’m guessing, is the city centre, and this is where I must strive to reach. The destruction in the current area is more pronounced than it was at my place of entry, but interestingly enough, radioactivity-levels appears to be significantly lower. Why this is so, I do not know at the present time, but hopefully I’ll find out as I collect more information. I should probably make a more thorough mentioning of my surroundings; around me, a cluster of semi- or completely destroyed buildings- most of them factories of some sort which curiously enough appear to be at least partly operated by steam- is visible.

- report and journal by Dr. E. Houwitz(Ph.d)

Comes in plastic sleeve with folder.

Title: Westwater Meadows
Artist: demergo
Year of production: 2008
Type: CDR, limited edition 50 copies.

1. Preface to journal entries (3:08)
2. Westwater meadows (6:38)
3. Slowly descending slope (6:31)
4. Geigercounter (4:51)
5. Deterioratded infrastructure (6:06)
6. Normal counterparts (5:30)

Total 32:46

Order: 5 Euro

Shipping: 2 Euro

Reviews:

Demergo's first album, preceded by just one demo, contains a bit over half an hour of effective noise-ambient. While it's clearly soundscape stuff, its style is quite harsh. And a most charming thing is that despite the machinery, it is in no way clinical-sounding. Instead, it lives in an organic fashion and mutates a lot. Patrik Muhr shows definite talent in using several sound layers at once, in ways that make Demergo very much the equal of Finnish masters of the style such as Haare and Nyrjä. The tracks also differ significantly from one another, making the album stay interesting laudably well. The fact that the tracks also have a feel of being definitely pre-planned compositions adds to the interest it evokes as well. Especially the last two pieces, Deteriorated infrastructure and Normal counterparts are excellent examples of this.

Westwater Meadows is music made in and for the margins of marginality, and will certainly not evoke any wider interest. But in its own genre it is first-rate stuff.

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