"This year's soundtrack to drinking away the nightly news." -C.M. Sienko
It's quite unfortunate that a record like this still has any meaning. This is a recording of live and loud electric and acoustic pained guitar droning and noise over a beautifully edited soundscape of nuclear war-themed samples from 1950's Civil Defense movies, United Nations hearings, interviews with Edward Tellar, and nuclear tests. It's the kind of thing that frightened the composer as a young child and is now, unfortunately, frightening him again. Fortunately for us, he exorcises his demons on tape rather than with a gun.
This one cuts like a badly serrated and rusting knife. Much like "Schindler's List," it's definitely worth one real good listen, but repeat listening value is undetermined at this time.
"It’s starting to feel like the day before "The Day After" again. Fortunately, Joezef K has been doing the worrying for us for many years now. While we were happily skipping through the Clinton administration, getting more piercings and armband tattoos while polishing our fashionably nihilist rhetoric, Joezef still realized that death by radiation poisoning will suck just as much now as it would have in 1984 (book or anno). The guitar attack is a series of smeary stabbing motions, often two or three at once. Although some fancy pedals are utilized, this is no Henry Kaiser digital wank-a-thon. No way, it’s the blues! Not "Blues Club" blues, but can’t-get-out-of-bed blues. To quote a recent Jandek song title, it’s blues turned black." -C.M. Seinko, The C.M. Sienko Foundation (read the entire review at The C.M. Sienko Foundation Corporate Web Presence)
