Playing with Nuns - 1805 // NMMREM X

God knows how manyth split of Playing with Nuns, 1805 is named after Mary Nuns, an infamous woman born in 1805 and also by one of the base books of nunnerism "The nuns of the desert, or, The woodland witches", released in 1805. No really im just shitting you. The nuns of the desert is a rather hilarious title of a book anyway.

Playing With Nuns is a noise/experimental artist hailing from Argentina and like previously mentioned, he has made over a hundred splits, cd-r's and webreleases in just a few years. Of these releases my favourites include 4-way split "Origami Chupacabras", Cd-r "North Korea in 5 minutes" and another Cd-r "Horse surgery". I'm actually shitting you again, I've never listened to any of these but you must agree that the names of the splits are entertaining.

Time for your own thoughts
by maxon / HBC

From this baseline I placed 1805 to my record player, alas an mp3 in foobar2000 audio player v.1.1.8, a basic drag and drop manouver in between the artists Plain Ride and PMMP. Head-on collision with a soundwave is the easiest description of the beginnings of the first track, "The consequences of a chain reaction". Huge soundwave some harsh noise but overall a more pleasant sort; I find myself not getting petrified by it, no matter where I am. My most enjoyable moment with this release is 3 am at lan party, where it worked well as seclusing myself out of this world.

The consequences of a chain reaction has an almost metal interlude at 10:05 with lovely bass-soundwave bursting in. But then continues mostly the same except for some entertaining oddities, for example mechanics at 13.00 which; if made by the British Death Metal band Carcass; could be titled "Chainsaw & Circular Saw Macabration of Mutes".

1805, the title track, is considerably more soft, mostly half-way gentle glitching harsh noise. The end of it advances to Rainbosws (name dropping an obscure artist you haven't heard about) like glitching pleasant sound. Almost like water pouring outside and dribbling against the glasses. After two different tracks the fittingly named "One more to annoy you" closes the album like it started.

For a harsh noise release based on mostly just white noise 1805 has some interesting variation, but lacks originality. With some track notes and linear specifications of the tracks and or themes, harsh noise tracks such as these would be far more interesting. If there is any? Is there ever, really?

I Like noise, most of it is entertaining to listen for one or two times when you don't know what is behind the next hill of the voyage. After that many noise albums tend to lose much of their initial interest, if they aren't filled with nuances. Playing with Nuns - 1805 is one of those albums though I can imagine listening two thirds of it from time to time when in need of seclusion and concentration; and ordinary music isn't doing it.



Download Playing with Nuns - 1805 for free here: http://archive.org/details/siro274PlayingWithNuns-1805