Kleistwahr

 

Kleistwahr was the solo project of Gary Mundy which he ran alongside his main band Ramleh. One of the earliest releases on Broken Flag, its first album 'Myth' more than fulfils the promise of the UK’s power electronics scene to fully deliver on punk’s failure to fully liberate rock/roll from the service of generic form. It is massively psychedelic –Ramleh always were the most ‘psych’ focussed of the Broken Flag groups, as their later ‘rock’ albums underline– with a churning miasmic appeal that sounds like it’s devouring several decades of outlaw sound. Later tracks are a little more pugilistic, with electronics that double all over themselves again and again, generating hypnotic matrices of pulse-based melodies and whooshing outer space F/X. Indeed, the degree of obsessive repeat here makes this a minimalist Industrial classic, doing more with a simple set up of electronics and vocals than your favourite goddamn avant orchestra. Parts of this inexplicably reminds of Alan Silva’s electronics on the Celestrial Communication Orchestra’s classic 'The Seasons'. [SOURCE: SOUNDOHM]