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cat-nr: verazität: 029, release date: July 2004, ltd.-edition: 50, mp3 
`Since 1995, Miguel A. Garcia, through his project "XEDH", has been developing an incessant serach of new musical proposals within the more industrial and noisy side of music. More familiar to old bands, such as Throbbing Gristle or Esplendor Geometrico than current panorama which has a more conventional attitude. Garcia's sound forms are strengthened by noises and rhythms trying to create an environment that reflects simultaneously the self-destruction of the human being and the decline of a society that becomes less and less human. "Serpents" is a good example of that: obsessive rhythms that evoke in the distance the sound of the human machinery into action. Sounds are based on dissonance, manipulated voices, noise "increscendo" no exempted from influences within the most brutal noise panorama and the light fragments of most conventional music (that calles melody). The soundtrack of a world on the verge of extinction, the present time, and the mortality through the personal apocalypse of a single human being.´ | |
I never heard of Xedh before, and the cover says 'music and design by Miguel A. Garda, a name that also rings no bells here. In the press blurb I heard something about the 'self-destruction of the human being and the decline of a society that becomes less and less human". The three tracks on the release are filled with machine like rhythms and piercing electronics. Life is harsh and so is this music. Old school noise and industrial, but sadly not done very well, at least not to my liking. by frans de waard @ vital weekly Serpents" is quite a powerful work. The music could be labeled as apocalyptic and I think that is exactly what it is...sounds like an aftermath of a grand conflict where only smoke lingers around forsaken houses. Three braincrashingly massive tracks will send shivers up your spine. There is only one way to listen to these, really loud! by GIAG | ||