Purient: Arrowhead

purientNoise music has reached the point when all frequencies are well used, from near to complete silent pieces to extreme clouds of white noise. Dominick Fernow is dealing with this range of frequencies for over a decade, creating a postcards-from-hell-one-man show. Amazingly, this guy is getting precise and interesting from one release to another, and he`s already got over 100 releases so far, for his solo work and many other collaborations (with Kevin Drumm, Wolf Eyes and John Wiese to mention a few). Mostly releasing his stuff under his own NYC label "Hospital Productions" this release delivered by the Austrian label E-Mego. The album opens with very high, painful and loose frequency, a total anti-thesis for the mediative droning you get this days, so you find your self trying to dive into the music and concentrate, but with prurient it never easy. Random drumming and far-reached moaning comes from the back of the speakers. This track has no solution, you get all lost, just one second before a blast of power electronics attacks for another 14 minutes. Feeling lost is the core of this release, this is not uplifting noise. This is desperate crying. The last track though is a perfect closer for this work-body, leaned on repetitive tribal drumming swimming in a pool of glittering noise that slowly taking over every inch of space, until you cannot breathe anymore. This unique moments when noise albums gets emotional and physical at the same time are rare to find, and "Arrowhead" is one of them.
: : Purient/Arrowhead - E-Mego 091/Groove Attack.