MULTICIDE

PATHOGENESIS

  1/  Radio Bagpipe (The Protomartyr Mix)                                      4.54
  1/  Zero Element                                                             6.35
  2/  Pathogenesis                                                             12.07
  3/  Ashy Drifts of Insect Corpses                                            18.54
  4/  Bad Blood                                                                9.56
  5/  Punishing the Atoms                                                      9.50
  6/  5-HT                                                                     15.18

          Recorded at Wall Of Silence, Birmingham, April 1993
          Produced by Multicide

John Everall: samples, sequencing, drum programming; M.J.Harris: mixing effects, additional samples; Paul Neville (2): guitar.

          1994 - D.O.R. (UK), ADOR 919 (CD)

REVIEWS :

This is the solo project of JOHN EVERALL, the guy behind the SENTRAX label, assisted with mixing effects & samples by MICK HARRIS and guitarist PAUL NEVILLE on the title track. "Zero Element" is a quiet, passive, enjoyably strange little track which moves between slightly metallic sustains & simple tabla-like rhythms - obvious comparison would be MUSLIMGAUZE, although this is a lot less intense, somehow less threatening. "Pathogenesis" is a more complex thng, opening with spoken voice on morbid subjects, it becomes a sort of R'n'R rhythm remoulded into something smoother, a loose sequential rhythm over which white gaseous buzzes of guitar & snatches of spken voice rise and fall. It has an insistance to it, simple yet somehow trancy. "Ashy Drifts Of Insect Corpses" slowly drifts in and out of the speakers, a non-beat thing which consists of a series of whitish synths & subtle samples, drifting out of the speakers in panned stereo soundscapes, a series of floating imaginary forms suspended in a lighter-than-air atmosphere. About 12 minutes into it's 18 minute length, a drum pattern fades into the mix, a jungle rhythm which fits perfectly into it's dream-state atmosphere. A more dense blast of noise fills the air for "Bad Blood", moving with heart-beat through icy wind-blown avenues of sound, amorphous, ungrounded & starkly alien. "Punishing The Atoms" is a slow, dramatic track, a sort of film theme, dark & gravid with intended threat. A voice quietly talks about a multiple personality in the background in that quiet, laid-back way found on CLOCKDVA's more dramatic 90's material. "5-HT" evolves through a series of disquieting soundscapes, peopled by voices male & female speaking of killing, into a huge rolling thunderous thing over which metal-like percussion, white-bleached beyond any physical weight, fall into fragments. An intriguing album, it's passivity countered by chill atmospheres & disquieting works from the darker side of the human soul. It's going to be interesting to see how this project develops.

Antony Burnham (courtesy of Metamorphic Journeyman website)