The Utter
Pareidolia
One early listener claimed this reminded him of early Sonic Youth!!!! We're not quite sure how that came about but, hey, as many have observed before (and after!) all sorts of things can be heard in The Utter because The Utter is The Utter is The Utter. Perhaps this album is less 'death', whatever that means, than the "The Semantic Verses" but it's no less 'Contemporary Death Jazz'. This new album is twelve new tracks of improvised death jazz mayhem delivered squarely in the current day, making it assuredly contemporary.
Please allow me to introduce you all to our guests, some who have been here before and some new to The Utter. In running order, we have Kerorg (kerorgrorek.bandcamp.com), Aitch, Dayal Patterson (www.cultneverdies.com), Mars, R*, Spider God (spider-god.bandcamp.com) and Huxley, all of whom generously provided vocals. Also we have a guest musician on three of the tracks; KL Lassy brought her accordion to The Space Between and recorded some good old squeezebox. Who'd have thought that, eh?
As ever, the bulk of the music has been recorded on the Doc's bass guitar and has been funnelled through a web of effects pedals resulting in the glorious noise we have here!
The opening track "4 The Owl" was composed and is named, equivocally, in response to a call from The Owl himself for four-minute tracks for his at-the-time upcoming compilation Noisembryowl #4 Described as having breakcore rhythms, this track took the opus Untitled I from Demos (Jan 2023) as its inspiration.
"Viking Sorg" plumbs the depths of the soul of the Viking abroad, as he mourns the homeland he has left behind. "Horn Of Abraxas" is inspired, lyrically at least, by the film "Mandy" where the aforementioned horn was tooted to summon the villains of the piece. Musically it comes from an entirely different place and was stranded alone in the wilderness until Spider God happened upon it and infused it with a spark of divinity. Oh, and can I tell you this as well... While chatting with Spider God it was revealed that injecting His divinity into this otherwise unremarkable and mortal track had nudged Him out of His comfort zone and had provided inspiration to record a new album Himself!!! Allow me to introduce you all to Fau5tu5, available at fau5tu5.bandcamp.com , which was written and recorded in a day of furious activity!
"Corpsepaint" arose following a conversation with Dayal Patterson. The vocal track is taken from an interview he gave at Beyond The Gates festival discussing the evolution of the black metal aesthetic. "Storm" is inspired, if you will, by the herring gulls of St Ives, Cornwall, UK, and, indeed, features one or two of them. Their cacophony then acted as onward inspiration for our Italian colleague, Kerorg, to compose and perform the lyrics. "Supreme" is Aitch's interpretation of Cara Supreme (Giulio Cesare), blending some opera into the dissonance. An early listener commented that "The Bride Of Caracas" sounds felt like an ancient sea invasion with the sounds of the oars of the invading ship, but it is however inspired by a Venezualan tale of a bride who failed to reach her wedding, while Huxley's "Trap" serves as the perfect closing track, allowing you to escape back to normality, or is it? Hahaha hehehe