Heathen Harvest reviews PBK tape releases

Heathen Harvest reviewed three PBK cassette releases from 2011.

Asian Collaborations, Volume One: "The two tracks that fill the second side of this tape are both deeply interesting, studied, crafted even, pieces of abstract industrial noise. I could happily draw comparisons with Nurse With Wound (at his least mirthful), Dead Voices On Air (at his least rhythmic), and even Merzbow at his most spaced-out. These two pieces contained noise used in ways that even surprised me, shaped and controlled as it was with what sound like dub-like tape manipulations, echoing metalworks rhythms, detuned radio voices and, yes, various shades of noise and distortion."

Cornwall Spectre/Holloway Reservoir Creeps: "These two 20-minute compositions from PBK, a noise and ambient composer based in Flint, Michigan are long-form studies in various kinds of creepy, uneasy soundscaping that runs the gamut of abstract Industrial music styles. Fortunately never veering into the “spooky” trap that all to often nabs Dark Ambient musicians, these two sides cram in a lot of atmosphere and depth."

Deus Ex Machina: "These tracks do have a lot more going on than mere noise; more nuance and layering than a lot of non-noise recordings while retaining a harsh edge, and despite that still feeling restrained and controlled. They’re freeform, abstract compositions with nothing in the way of clear structure or rhythm but with a clear feeling of progression, of direction and of an aesthetic at work. Here genuine noise is layered over tons of different sections of sound – melodic tones and frequencies, voices distant and distorted and clear as a bell, random radio-dial snatches of sound and many other elements."

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