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Sheer Hellish Miasma
Kevin Drumm
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Employing guitar, tapes, mics, pedals, analogue synthesizer and some computer assistance, Sheer Hellish Miasma is a sonic beast comprising two extended tracks bookended by shorter works. Like the churning output of heavy metal’s distorted overdrive, this CD takes on an intense journey of wailing feedback, chaotic audio and radical processing. The extreme end of power electronics is present throughout much of Drumm’s first full-length recording for Austria’s entirely appropriate Mego label.
The two centerpieces of Sheer Hellish Miasma encapsulate this record’s aesthetic core: "Hitting the Pavement" is a twenty minute blizzard-like drone, while the 24-minute epic "Inferno" overwhelms the listener with a hail of torrential electronics, jackhammer sinewaves and general "evil" disguised as "music".
The two centerpieces of Sheer Hellish Miasma encapsulate this record’s aesthetic core: "Hitting the Pavement" is a twenty minute blizzard-like drone, while the 24-minute epic "Inferno" overwhelms the listener with a hail of torrential electronics, jackhammer sinewaves and general "evil" disguised as "music".
Kevin Drumm (USA) is one of electronic and experimental music's noteworthy talents. He has performed with ensembles of various sizes and has released numerous solo and duet recordings. Drumm began as a table-top guitarist. Laying the electric guitar flat on a table top. Drumm treated the instrument as a conduit for registering all manner of touch and the presence of its own internal electrical current. Amplifier buzz, hum and static were the dominant part of his vocabulary, making him one of the few musicians for whom the addition of a laptop computer to his repertoire of instruments is in fact natural. Sheer Hellish Miasma is Drumm’s fifth full-length release, and third solo recording. Past collaborative LPs include recordings with Dan Burke and Axel Dorner.