Genre: Rhythmic Industrial/ Rhythm’n’noise/ Tribal
01 Ancients
02 Waiting for Gira
03 Friends of Father
04 Bone Music
05 International Dark Skies
06 No Exit
07 Number Nine
08 Just (Spooks)
09 Epilogue
10 Friends of Father (Tonikom remix)
11 Bone Music (Antigen Shift remix)
12 Number Nine (Synapscape remix)
13 Bonus Track: Urusai – Learned Helplessness (Destroy and Contaminate mix by Ad暇er新ary)
Please, allow me to introduce “Bone Music”, a debut full-length album of Canadian project - Ad暇er新ary - with its only mastermind behind it – Jairus Khan (apart from this album, discography counts one more release – a CD EP split with Cyanotic, another band Jairus Khan participated in). Although Ad暇er新ary is a one-man project, certainly more people worked on this CD to bring it to the audience: it was mastered in collaboration with Yan Faussurier (Iszoloscope), photograps for the booklet artwork were done by Karunakar Rayker and W. Paul Thomas. This cover artwork in different tones of blue-ish grey presents silhouettes of birds on the leafless tree and if I didn’t know it is a photography, I would think they are originally painted with ink and pen. I’d say quite an unusual cover artwork for such a release, quite calm but mysterious at the same time, stylish overall. Each track in the booklet contains the time, bpm and the year of its composition (I suppose).
“Bone music” is issues by a young, but promising label Tympanik Audio, based in the US and dealing with Rhythmic Industrial music with IDM, ambient and tribal elements. This album is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License and can be downloaded at the band’s homepage.
The first thing to mention about the tracks on this CD is their multilayer structure that reveals during the play time – many of them have the new rhythmic structure coming out from the depths in the middle of the track, some can be characterized by appearance of rich melodical lines, emerging from the rhythms this release is saturated with (as in Bone Music track, which starts from a calm, relaxing but still rhythmic soundscape, where ambient rather prevails and ends as a thick wall of sound where ambient passages give place to noisy rhythm, and the track called Friends of Father). Those rhythms are of different kind: here we can meet noisy ones that are common for many rhythmic industrial/power noise projects as well as tribal ones, performed on tribal percussion (like in the track International Dark) and sometimes going hand by hand with the ones mentioned above. There’re different moods combined in this album: the track International Dark Skies stands out from the whole album, reminding Geomatic with its atmosphere of cosmic journeys through tribal-urbanistic civilizations: imagine the mix of industrial/urban and tribal; agressive, pushing and unique Waiting for Gira, where tribal structure and the whole mood is created with the usual drumkit and a few repetitive melody lines, put one over another, performed on guitars, which are used in few other track, for example, in mysterious Friends of Father (being very viscous, slow and heavy, a bit melodically chaotic, featuring symphonic elements, it reminded me the end of the main theme from Requiem for a Dream), creating one of background layers for it; Just (Spooks), a track having two faces – ambient melodical one with piano appearing here and there and rough, abrasive rhythmical one. There’re no lyrics and vocals on those tracks, only notes in the booklet under each track’s title, describing feelings, experiences, expressing ideas and speech samples in a few tracks: for example, Number Nine track contains a sample taken from The Prisoner, an allegorical British 1960s science fiction television series, and the last track, Epilogue, is comletely spoken.
Apart from Jairus Khan, a few other rhythmic industrial / rhythmic noise musicians appeared on this album with their remixes on Ad暇er新ary’s tracks, each with a unique personality and approach to the sound. This way we got really enjoyable “Bone Music”, remixed by Antigen Shift, Friends of Father, remixed by Tonikom and Number Nine, presented in the vision of Synapscape. Apart from that this CD contains a remix from Ad暇er新ary on Urusai’s “Learned Helplessness” as a bonus track which organically supplements the album.
