Wow… This is seriously the best ambient drone stuff I’ve heard in ages…
I recently discovered the band in an old issue of Oaken Throne zine. I was quickly going from interview to interview without really paying attention to my reading until I bumped into the story of that girl who used to travel India messed-up on ketamine (and all kind of drugs she could find there). One day she bought thorazine from a sketchy guy who sold the shit as morphine. She eventually woke up and came up with the song: “Thorazine Eclipse”. What??? High on ketamine and thorazine in India, fear and loathing in Calcutta? I just can’t think of a more accurate description of hell.
I flipped a few pages back: that same girl recently spent 9 months in Pakistan, living under a burka, where she lived in a small village and recorded some sounds for her upcoming album called “Islamic Bomb”. Holy fucking shit!!!
So I did what I could to get her first two albums under the name “Dialing In” and I’ve been instantly blown away but what I heard then:
Disturbing noisy, haunting lo-fi ambient, desolate urban landscapes with layers and layers of distorted chords (guitar, piano) and a voice that you could compare to a conjuration of dead souls. But what’s more surprising is that Reita Piecuch, that’s her, without compromising her love for basic tape-recorders, manages to keep a pop aspect in her music. Well, for someone who admitted she always found Sonic Youth boring as opposed to Fletwood Mac, the heroes of her teen days, it’s maybe not that surprising… It’s great, brilliant stuff here. On top of that, she’s also involved in photography and her taste in urban decay, dumps and other wrecks is totally according to my taste.
Anyway, I didn’t get a chance yet to get her third album but it’s available now on vinyl (and limited to 500 copies) on Music Fellowship. I guess I’ll place my order tomorrow or something.
You can listen some stuff here.
