Burning Yard by Trawl Hz

Steeply immersive field recording collage and mechanically-reclaimed steppers pressure from Kolkata via Copenhagen, by the lesser-spotted Trawl Hz on a super limited lathe-cut job.

Pitching one side of sweltering atmosphere form the streets of Kolkata, with one side of rotoring loops and noise, all cut to vinyl by “bladud flies”, the ‘Burning Yard’ 10” is a rare example of work by a figure who has recorded with the BBC, Matthew Herbert and Plaid in their time, aside to running the “ultra-sporadic” District Six Records (home to early Metamatics and Anthony Manning). It’s a real one.

‘Kolkata’ plunges us into febrile street scenes on the front, layering and cutting field recordings of fauna, human and mechanical sounds to give a palpable, if subtly impressionist, feel for the place. It’s also a primer for the killer B-side, recorded in a workshop beside a crematorium on the Ganges where the dead were being burned on open pyres. Sputtering mechanical rhythms gradually grind their teeth into a gnashing pattern, a swinging mutoid stepper littered with sonorous bells and buzzsaw interjections that raise the spirits of the dead.
(Boomkat)

Raw and processed field recording montage forged with dense electronic music and sound design.