RELEASED BY HOLUZAM (Lisbon, Portugal):
You can stream and download the whole album by following this link:
holuzam.bandcamp.com/album/kenemglev
I HAVE SOME COPIES AND I CAN SHIP THEM TO CANADA & USA.
THE PRESSING IS PRETTY GOOD ACTUALLY !!
BOOMKAT product review:
Bourbonese Qualk legend Simon Crab meets Charles Beullac (Galerie Stratique) in a volley of brooding, dubbed-out industrial/illbient misfits for Lisbon’s Holuzam, the young affiliate label of the renowned Príncipe
Simon Crab is nothing less than a true pioneer of British post-industrial music, with a catalogue of prototypical dark ambient, groove-driven industrial, and hardcore techno practically unparalleled in his field. In collaboration with Canadian artist Charles Beullac, ‘Kenemglev’ speaks to the range and nuance of Crab’s output while introducing Beullac’s likeminded industrial audness to new ears; yielding nine tracks of sleepwalking industro-dub rhythms and tormented electronica blessed with a nocturnal allure that places their work in fine company amid Holuzam’s roster of off-road esoteric groovers.
The title ‘Kenemglev’ means “consensus’ in Breton, and smartly describes their mutual efforts to explore a sort of neutral no-person’s-land or virtual middle ground between their respective musical languages. In suit, all the tracks are titled in Breton - itself a mix of French and English - and their un/familiar nature is reflected in the music’s angularities and secretive feel, roving from Mille Plateaux-like glitch in ‘Douakek’, to the air-stepping pads of ‘Direnker’, and crispy noirish jazz hustle streaked with intercepted radio signals and keening crowd noise in ‘Razheta’, while ’Skaotan’ comes off like a glitching Raime workout, and the squashed break trip of ‘Berzh’ recall Spectre or Scorn.
released November 21, 2020
Sabaturin are Simon Crab & Charles Beullac.
All music was written, recorded and produced by Simon Crab & Charles Beullac during 2017 – 2019 in Québec, Canada, Oxford & Hastings, England.
Cover designs from digitally generated Chladni tone patterns: Simon Crab
holuzam.bandcamp.com/album/kenemglev