Genre: Noise/Experimental 

Track Listing:

9 untitled tracks

By nothing short of a miracle, I once found myself with a ticket to London for an unexpected vacation. Could this get any better? Sure it can. Turns out that on the same time period when I am there, neurosis are going to be there as well for a show. Could THIS be any better? The opinions vary, but this is of no importance anymore. I run to the ticket office, buy a late ticket for the show, which makes me sit on a chair on their show. I don’t care though. I am lucky enough to be there in the first place. Sitting there before the show starts; I was listening with the whole crowd to the music of the various releases on Neurot Recordings. This music went on for over an hour, and ranged very widely. There were Neurosis songs of course. Some Isis songs as well, Great acoustic songs by Steve Von Till and Scot Kelly, who were about to blast the amplifiers very soon when Neurosis would finally go on stage, and there was Zeni Geva, the amazing band from where KK.Null comes. That was so different than the rest of the music, and where everything else that was played that night vanished when Neurosis began their show, Zeni Geva stayed.

Coming from there, and several years later, the prolific KK.Null shows once again his intriguing and powerful approach. "Oxygen Flash" holds 9 untitled tracks with the ambition to challenge the listener with a rainbow of musical ideas. Sometimes these ideas come one after the other in great speeds and sometimes they come together at once. The sounds are heavy and hypnotic. Track number one begins with a constant rhythm that is mesmerizing completely; and coming with it is a fast percussion that brings a new, different rhythm to the music. A game is played on the listener's time perception as the two rhythms play mind tricks and offer two linear stories at the same time.

KK.Null makes sounds collide with each others and creates a boiling platform with ongoing electronic pulses and tiny musical events that engulf them like a field of live electricity. The chaotic, expanding sounds seem to feed of each others and on track number three it almost seems like the many mechanical sounding bits and beats are creating the melody that is played by them. This sort of development that seem to happen almost without its creator's involvement happens again on the next track, number four, as these small, robotic beats gather around like ants and form a huge feedback wave of great force.

Kazuyuki Kishino, as KK.Null, jumps from rhythm to static noise to multi layered psychedelica in amazing grace and speed. As track number six drums away with an almost tribal feeling percussion, escorted by more insectoid feedbacks, what seems like the softest track in the albnum so far ends up like a thin needle that is going to your brain very slowly. A certain test of endurance, but it is also a very meditative and inspiring track as well. More layers are added over the previous ones and creates an almost living mechanism that is obediant to Kishino's will.

Neurot recordings are known for many great releases. A very important, even powerful name in their roster is the one you have just been reading about. With him behind the wheel of this album, "Oxygen Flash" is an outstanding and powerful work that should really be noticed.