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alm 95
babylone chaos
"noises from the attic"
4 december 2013
music by
julien cornu-kuoch, 2012
photography: delphine ancelle-b.
seven years ago, we released a "réactions mécaniques", a 3" by botchan korisen, one of the many aliases julien cornu-kuoch uses (used?). over the years, his main project babylone chaos evolved from more electronic sounds and rhythms to more complex structures and organic sounds.
babylone
chaos recently released a collaborative disc with contagious
orgasm ("altered beasts" on steelkraft manufactory) and
it seems like babylone chaos could be now compared to the
japanese artist.
"noises from the attic" is an oppressive 17 minute
track, a frightening and dense mass of sounds.
tracklisting
:
1. noises from the attic
(also available as a limited edition 3-panel digipak)
reviews :
Vital Weekly 912
As per usual, new releases by Taalem are on 3" CDR
and are released in groups of three. [...]
Also Babylone Chaos is a new name, but behind it is Julien Cornu-Kuoch,
of whom Taalem released a couple of years ago 'Reactions
Mecaniques' under the name Botchan Karisen - which is something I
can't find no evidence off in back-issues - but now sees a change
of modus operandi. The sampler seems is dusted and microphones
stuck in the attic, basement or outside and sampled together into
a dense piece of sample mania. Cornu-Kuoch is working these days
with Japanese artists Contagious Orgasm, which is something that
also shows in his solo music. There is an ambient quality about
this too, but it's very much unlike say Tone Color. Where's Tone
Color is light, airy, and up in the sky, Babylone Chaos is dark,
brooding and mysterious. More the soundtrack of a fine horror
movie about zombies and life after a nuclear holocaust, ending
with a fine industrial grinding of said (sad?) zombies. Very dark
and very moody indeed. Quite unlike for Taalem, I was thinking.[...]
(FdW)
A Closer Listen
Taâlems latest batch of CD3"s arrived at the
end of the year, but all are suitable for winter. Tone
Colors entry is cool and sleepy like a long
hibernation; Øe (Fabio Perletta) and Enrico
Coniglios is cold and dry like Antarctic wind;
and Babylone Chaos is as
disturbing as a stir crazy Jack Torrance. They are
available together or apart; the first editions are in digipacks,
later editions in jewel cases.[...]
Noises from the Attic is the strangest of the trio,
a series of hallucinations that serves as the polar opposite of Today
Will Die Tomorrow while implying that very thing: the
coldness of death, lurking somewhere near. What is that
noise in the attic? We already know that someone is
going to ascend the creaky stairs while carrying a malfunctioning
flashlight. The last beam will shine on something sinister,
and then, darkness. Packed with rustles and rattles, creaks
and chains, darkness and drones, this is easily one of the most
frightening releases in recent memory. And yet its so
well done all suggestion, no screams that one cant
help but want to play it again. And again. All
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. (Richard
Allen)