STYLE...... Industrial, Ambient, Power Electronics, Experimental
LABEL...... Cloister Recordings
QUALITY..... 320kbps / Joint-Stereo
COUNTRY... US
XAL is a new post-industrial formation consisting Am Not, A and Mollusk king - solidifying live and studio collaboarations of recent years. The Debut tape "Spirit Breaking " is intended as a tribute and attempt at a soundtrack to Darren T Byler's thesis "Spirit Breaking: Uyghur Dispossession, Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City." (University of Washington , 2018). Stepping away from the Heavy electronics/ PE style that Am Not is known for, this tape explores tendency cinematic/dystopian-electronic/ rhythmic industrial to convey the harowing experiences and processes described in the text. Though this one off diversion into different music territory is stylistically very differnet, it works as a perfect follow up to 2022's "Cold + Disloyal"(Unrest Productions) as it continues with the same themes of dispossession, technological, political pessimism. Highly recommended.
Tracklist:
1. Spirit Watching (2:00) 2. Seven City Blocks (3:57) 3. New Dominion Pioneer Corps (1:17) 4. The Three Evils (3:18) 5. Terror Capital (2:51) 6. Dispossessor (2:17) 7. Disappear (0:44) 8. Behind The Black Gate (03:35) 9. God Is Dead (3:16) 10. Takbir (2:33) 11. Bioluminesence II: Sleeping Citadel (3:56) 12. Dungeon Theme (3:52)
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