Recycle Your Ears: Brazilian Nightmare
The american project Cdatakill is going to surprise many listener with this Brazilian nightmare, an item that sees Zak Roberts steps out from both the 12″ format and the rhythmic, breakcore-ish style of his past release. This CDR album is a collection of atmospheric and mostly arhythmic material, which features 9 new tracks, three that had already been released somewhere else, and one, Eating, which is a remix by Cdatakill of a track by an act called Stick. Finally, the packaging of this album is very nice, the CDR coming in a folded heavy cardboard sleeve, making it look far better than most of the CDRs I know. Low and rumbling, Brazilian nightmare has a bass heavy sound, the tracks are full of rumbling and layers. Flowing with ease from one track to another without any break, Cdatakill’s music here has a very tense and “threatening” feeling, always at the border between on the one hand experimentations with drones and effects (Il Diavolo)and, on the other hand, a soundtrack kind of material (A Question of Purpose, Discussion, sometimes reminding of Lustmord’s Metavoid). Even though it incorporates quite a healty dose of noise, Brazilian nightmare is well recorded, which makes it even closer to a movie score. Dark, sometimes grinding, but always changing, this album incorporates a lot of elements, from outbursts of rapid drums, samples from accoustic instruments, piano lines (Juno) or deep and distant reverbed percussions. Even though this description might make this album sound like a regular dark ambient album, Brazilian nightmare benefits from a very efficient composition and a good production, making it sound far better than most of the release it could be compared to. Moreover, Brazilian Nightmare turns out to be a highly evocative album, whose lush atmospheres and thick sound layering work very well together, producing a heavy but still flowing. Finally, this album is surprisingly emotional and moving. The combination of accessible tones and weird patterns make a very rich album out of this CDR, that really convinced me and that will not find its way out of my CD player for a long while.
