Feast of Hate and Fear

Sky Burial is a ambient-noise project of Michael Page (of Fire In The Head and Irukandji) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, who was introduced to my ears via last year's self-titled CD on Housepig Records. While I enjoyed what I previously heard, I think this far surpasses it. This go around has Sky Burial producing over an hour of vision-inducing soundscapes and aural compositions that brought to mind cold walks through leafless forests and abandoned villages. Distorted field recordings washed in a sea of ambient or looped drones, often crushed under an industrial-like dirge. Twelve tracks that brought to mind older modulator-manipulators like early Zoviet * France and Controlled Bleeding (before they hit the Wax Trax!
dancefloor, or Paul Lemos going metalhead). I can see / hear quite well where the title stems from, which is a tribute to the Wampanoag tribe (meaning 'people of the first light' ), who were the original natives in Sky Burial's area. All of it is packaged in a CD slipcase with one
cardboard letterpress sleeve featuring a nice camouflage look, and one glossy foldout sleeve with beautiful black and white photography. This release is another limited Sky Burial LP at only 200 copies, so the race is on.