Artist: En Nihil & Elyseum
Title: En Nihil & Elyseum (Split Album)
Genre: Industrial/ Noise/ Experimental
Release Date: April 2011
Label: Syndrom Records
Album Review
This is a split album by EN NIHIL that is of Adam Fritz and ELYSEUM of Mark Angel. ELYSEUM wrote ‘Maelstrom’ which, despite its length, is the best moment of the album delivering a more apocalyptic and enigmatic soundscape. Without being overwhelming at the same time it is evident that there exists some mode and process of real thinking. On the other hand, EN NIHIL lives in their own microcosm, inside their own head and as I can guess they have developed superb rhetoric about music theory, sound and the darkness of the human mind. Mantras for nothing. But overall, you have to be kidding me…
Especially when it comes to EN NIHIL I was listening to distinctive sounds, resembling electronic simulations of bodily gas functions in the form of white noise and all that under the pretentious assumptions which compose this not so brilliant and “avant-garde” album. Where to start from? That the photographer strived to find something original in order to come up with a photo inspired from “The Terminator”? About their music, I’ll be polite and I’ll say that all that have been done before and better. Do you remember of Iannis Xenakis and his ‘Neg-Ale’ (1960)? The SCRATCH ORCHESTRA and its concert to London in 1969? Taku Sugimoto? Maybe the early and very experimental shows of SONIC YOUTH? The sound sculptures of Siegfried Fink, Klaus Ager and Wilfred Jentzsch among many others? What they bring and add to all that? Nothing.
Tracklist
01. En Nihil: Part I 5:09
02. En Nihil: Part II 2.58
03. En Nihil: Part III 1:57
04. En Nihil: Part IV 0:49
05. En Nihil: Part V 3:53
06. En Nihil: Part VI 2:09
07. En Nihil: Part VII 4:15
08. En Nihil: Part VII 5:25
09. Elyseum: Maelstrom 33:32
Line-up
En Nihil – Adam Fritz
Elyseum – Mark Angel
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 4
Sound: 5
Total: 4.5 / 10
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