Bridle Wire: Damper String
Scarcelight Recordings

Calling all noise aficionados: Bridle Wire's (visual artist Thaniel Lee) 3-inch Damper String features a detonative nineteen-minute drone generated entirely from piano samples. Occasional traces of the instrument can be heard (though the rambunctious plinks and plunks suggest the sounds of pianos tumbling down stairs) but more often than not Lee mutates the material into hammering masses of droning shimmer, rumbling thrums, and bruised bellowings. Teeming noisily with the sounds of screeching splinters and squalling slabs, Damper String conjures the sound of tortured wails emanating from clandestine evisceration sessions.

February 2005