The first Esperik Glare album "Disruptions" is released through elseproduct. The site will be updated soon and I'll post a link but for now
if you'd like to get a copy email: else.product@gmail.com. They also
released the great 2 disc compilation "of spectres and saints ii" which
contains two esperik glare tracks.
"Esperik GlareAs the Insects Swarm (Static Hum Records)
7" - An interesting new arrival on the Dada/noise/ambient tip, Esperik
Glare is a one man sound sculptor hailing from somewhere deep in the
Midwest. He comes from the Nurse With Wound / irr. app. (ext) school
of domestic creepy crawlings, which means he keeps one foot planted in
murky industrial waters, the other in more minimal found sound space.
The title track is exactly what it promises -- a babbling brook of
clicks, shivers and windy whooshes that brings its subject matter to
life on a molecular level. It's basically impossible to tell what is
making what sound, but the overall caustic atmosphere breathes with a
Beginning of The End Complete air. The flip offers spooky minimal
tones and synth drones beneath a spoken work description of said
cataclysm that sounds almost like a sparser ambient answer to some of
the scariest moments of Current 93's Dog's Blood Rising LP. Pretty tight. "
"Auf Static Hum Records erschienen (und
bisher die einzige Katalognummer seit Erscheinen 2008) bietet die
kurzweilige und auf farbigem Vinyl erhältliche »As The Insects
Swarm«-7“ auf der A-Seite stark effektierte Harmonikaklänge und das
undefinierbare Klackern eines Klangfrosches aus Holz eingehüllt in
nebulös tiefgelegte Dronestatik. Esperik Glare dankt nicht umsomst RK
Faulhaber, dessen Name fest im Umfeld der Helen Scarsdale Agency
verankert ist (und somit Nurse with Wound und irr. app. (ext.) recht
nahe steht!) und der zumindest klanglich angemessen Pate gestanden
haben dürfte. Trotz der immens kurzen Formatzeit entwickelt die A-Seite
ein wahres Pändamonium an unangenehmer Kälte, die sich am Ende in jene
Form von Erleichterung auflöst, die einem Protagonisten in einer
Lovecraftgeschichte eigen sein dürfte. Umseitig dürfen Monte
Cazzaza-Anhänger erstmals nach Jahren die Stimme des
Industrialbegründers hören, verliest Cazazza über einem
hallig-delaygeformten Bett von glockenähnlichen Droneschwingungen einen
rezitativen Text einer Stadt im See, nach einer Geschichte von (nomen
est omen) Edgar Allan Poe. Der etwas augenzwinkernde Hinweis auf der
Platte, das ganze in einer dunklen Kammer aufgenommen zu haben, wirkt
angesichts des recht ernsten Materials (komponiert von 2006 bis 2008
(sic!)) recht albern, macht die Platte aber keineswegs uninteressanter.
Für Freunde der düsteren Experimentalistik ein Muss. 5/5" Virb Issue 14 March 2010 (http://virb.com/aemag/posts/text/9354378/issue-14-mrz-2010)
2009 Is upon us and this year will be more productive than the last. A lot of was done in 2008 recording and live show-wise but nothing was technically released.
A collaboration with the amazingly talented young Andrew W. of Uncertain will be coming out on a split cd-r with Teeth Gnashing. . Uncertain has a great album titled "Glass Fawn" availible for Free download that you should definately look into as well. Another planned release is a tape split with Zebulon Kosted. I stripped my sound down to a 4track recorder with two tracks of microkorg through delay pedal. There are other releases in the pipeline I won't say much about until they are further along. Hopefully "Disruptions" will still come out at some point too! I've been playing live a lot and if you're in Gillette I'm generally at Brother's Coffee Open Mic Night every first and third friday of the month.
If you know RK Faulhaber please join me in my quest to perpetually harass him into releasing his gem of an album that the world needs to hear. I think I've done enough rambling today!
ESPERIK GLARE As The Insects Swarm (Static Hum) 7" 4.50
Very much indebted to irr. app. (ext.) and Nurse With Wound, Esperik Glare offer two meticulously crafted collages of overlapping vibration, clattering objects, and unsettling tones, all of which allude to the swarming insects of the title. There's certainly a blackened, post-Industrial sensibility in these sounds which could contend with any of the Russian dark-ambient projects that occasionally pop up as a Drone Records single. Making the package complete is the b-side which features Monte Cazazza, who reads from an Edgar Allan Poe poem behind seasick bells and darkened synthetic tones.
