Wednesday, 15 November 2006

Omnon and a thrilling day

Heaven got gloomy when I left University last Saturday and I was excited about the soft rain and the clouds, which seem to swallow the whole city. It was this kind of day you think "no matter what happens, this will be just great".
I felt a need for new music and went to the "musikexpress", a second-hand store with books and a lot vinyl and cds. The holder is a very strange guy. Always listening to psychotic musique concrète-stuff and traditionel industrial. I was always wondering how "normal" people are able to stand this torture.
First I grabbed some avantgarde-metal-stuff like korovakill`s "Waterhells", but got bored very soon. I started a discussion with him about my new ambitions and he gave me gerome nox "blood-red poppies" and a project called "Omnon" (2CD). I got into gerome nox very soon. Harsh, dark Industrial with tramping beats, some guitars (which helped me to get into it) and voice-samples. Its a concept about mass-murder and the evil in man in general. Nothing new, but it sounds great.
"Omnon" thrilled me from the very first second. Nerver heared, gloomy and alien soundscapes. It isnt that noise-like, brutal stuff where your ears start to bleed after some time (like maschinenzimmer 412). Omnon is very quite. Like a small stream running trough your ears it infiltrates the soul and evokes this kind of "metaphysical" mude i love so much. To talk in pictures: Omnon is the soundtrack Kubrick should have used for his monolith-sequence in "space odyssey". The man behind "purpose" and "blackeye" (which are the titles of the package) is called Ingo Lindmeier. Its limited to 500 copies.
I bought both albums and even the korovakill (which is a great album too)
For now i want to close. Will try some Maschinenzimmer 412. More in the coming days.

1 comment:

Lindow_Man said...

If you want some harsh noise, industrial, etc try some stuff from Freak Animal. http://www.cfprod.com/fa/