Currently only available as a download.
There are plenty of CDs left but are currently sitting in a box on a different continent. I'm hoping to be able to collect them later this year. If you're interested in one or more copies of the CD, feel free to get in touch and I'll see what can be arranged.
A full-length JNC album on a pro pressed CD. Artwork by Chimere Noire, mastering by Thomas Garrison (Misanthrope Studio).
"Inner Light is the latest release of intensely dynamic harsh noise from Joshua Norton Cabal, the experimental electronics project headed up by Andrew Nolan, who has played in a bunch of cool bands like The Endless Blockade, Ebola, Humiliation, Nameless Dread, and Columns Of Heaven as well as running the excellent and erudite Survivalist blog. With this project, Nolan and company flex their pedal-muscles through high-energy blasts of harsh junknoise and sputtering sine wave abuse, crafting a series of five dark, apocalyptic industrial noise assaults that are both a throwback to the brutal noise abandon of the late 90s and an ongoing experiment with the physical properties of extreme electronics.
There's a variety of sounds and approaches used on Inner Light, though. Opener "Born Into A Rotten Time" is pure assault, an avalanche of scrap-metal tumbling over bursts of controlled feedback and pedal manipulation that's somewhere in the vicinity of K2 and MSBR, while "Useless Flesh" mixes together field recordings and rustling contact mic crackle with blasts of skull-boring feedback to create one of the disc's more unsettling noise pieces. At the beginning of another track, we hear the sound of a distant orchestra appearing for a moment, drifting through darkness, then suddenly being consumed by grinding looped machine-noise and violent high-pitched feedback waves, and a rumbling backdrop of low-end distorted factory noise. More of that brutal junknoise/pedal flux makes up "The Face Of God", where the din of metalscrape is laced with massive doses of rhythmic bass-heavy throb and rusted-out machine-loops.
All of this is a lead-up to the massive final track, though; the seventeen-minute "Shattered Hand" is a sprawling noise workout that moves through violent whipstrikes of manipulated distortion and crushing bass-heavy wall, layers of smoldering electronic buzz and masses of squirming chirping oscillator tones, recordings of trickling water and distant singing voices, tolling bells, and stretches of charred, ominous drone. Some of the electronic forms found on this track are reminiscent of the spacier blasts of artists like Government Alpha and CCCC but the Cabal will only linger within those cosmic fields for a few moments at a time, always surging back into the ever present waves of distorted low-end crush. It's the way that JNC injects these noise blasts with those moments of grim ambience that really enhance their noise assaults." (taken from the Crucial Blast web shop)
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