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Discontinuities

by Jute Gyte

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Jordan Vauvert
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Jordan Vauvert Première étape d'une trilogie qui traînait dans l'esprit d'Adam Kalmbach depuis deux ans, Discontinuities abandonne le chemin de l'electro expérimentale pour revenir sur un black metal microtonal. S'il est loin d'être un novice dans ce style, force est de constate que son désir de se dépasser est toujours aussi prévalent. Discontinuities possède les architectures musicales les plus glauques jamais composées par l'artiste ("The Failure of Transmutation") qui hurle à s'en déchirer les poumons. Favorite track: The Failure of Transmutation.
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Michael Carter A lot has been written about this artist,I feel a strong connection to his music,in a way that is emotional to say the least.The way everything seems different,twisted,off kilter,but it is not,just different.Once you get used to difference does it become like everything else?taken for granted,my answer is no,this music is so invigorating!
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Oscar Coyoli El vocabulario se vierte brillante y expansivo. Qué maravilla. Favorite track: Acedia.
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The haunting sense of an unrepeatable unidirectional vector Modernity’s square pyramid’s base The day recedes Both joy and light grow pale Flowing irresistibly onward Where are those who were before us? The skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails
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Day and night unglued Embalmed in secret vertigoes Ill with the obstinacy of images Blank pages of history To revere a false past is to be historically deaf Night is the collaborator of torturers Day is the light on harrowing discoveries
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To you who have turned aside For whom light and color And sound and odor And taste and touch are dung Natural truths spat like insults To you defilers for whom the earth would flame With a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom The cremation of some vast corpse long dead The loved one’s whitest flesh is what the broken glass will cut and the wheel crush
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Wilderness, authentication, and deleterious exploitation Resultant progress, alienation, loss Great deserts of black sand A people’s autumn’s Heliogabaline synonym Now pale and cursed to wander winter’s rise At the mercantile endpoint of Endlessness’s eye’s gaze The vastness of commodification The absolute fake Evidence accumulated in whorls of ash Catalogued and atomized, witnessed with one’s own eyes Surely we were a flame
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Fled from the beaten tracks of men Blood coagulated with melancholy Black bile rising again Waiting for the heavy fall The tremendous weight The failure of transmutation In a fleshy tomb Buried above ground
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Acedia 09:14
Crumbling and inarticulate Stalled with lassitude The spiders of weariness upon me Nothing to cleanse the poisoned element Flashing and yearning Suffering and identification The enigma of survival A call heard within sleep Cold copulars embrace

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I turned to microtonal guitar due to a growing sense that I did not have access to the tonal materials I needed and a dissatisfaction with the lack of accuracy afforded by more traditional solutions, like slide guitar or fretless necks. Giddy at the possibilities afforded by a quartertone guitar I wrote this album as well as its successors, Vast Chains and Ressentiment, quite intuitively in the span of two years.

The title "Night Is the Collaborator of Torturers" is from Anaïs Nin's House of Incest. "Romanticism Is Ultimately Fatal" is the title of a photocollage by Joanne Leonard (and is true). "Supreme Fictions and the Absolute Fake" refers to Wallace Stevens and Umberto Eco; the line "great deserts of black sand" and the nested possessives (probably ill-advised) refer again to the work of D.F. Wallace. The title track begins with a canon on a twenty-four tone series. The canon shifts, one voice at a time, to an arpeggiated minor triad, a transformation from microtonal serialism to triadic diatonicism.

"...A dense, dizzying microtonal black metal, that spends much of its time locked in spiraling, frenzied swirls of frenetic buzz, the sounds slippery, slithery and shimmery, those moments the closest any modern black metal band has come to creating something truly transcendental..." - Aquarius Records

"I've probably said it before, but this is basically a one-man Sonic Youth for the post-Burzum generation. The guitars fixated more on the former comparison, the vocals and shared love of ambiance redolent of the latter. This is an album which heavily explores textures. Warped, wonderful textures. From the thundering, droning inaugural progression of "The Haunting Sense of an Unrepeatable Unidirectional Vector", you can immediately feel the difference in the chords as subtle bass grooves are wrought below them. There is still a propensity for sheer 'wall of noise' amplitude, especially in some of the faster, harder hitting sequences, but these are never given so much face time that they grow to any level of annoyance. Instead, they're measured off against jangling, cleaner passages of dissonant tranquility, and once in awhile he pulls off a truly climactic, otherworldly chord sequence: near the minute mark of the wryly titled "Romanticism is Ultimately Fatal" (best song title this year?) would be one example, or the hustling post-punk clamor opening "Supreme Fiction and the Absolute Fake", which turns out to be perhaps my favorite overall of the metallic tracks.... There's a shocking sense of warmth exuded by even the most frenzied and insect-like polyphonic picking patterns, and though it might not be labyrinthine on a purely technical level, there's a natural complexity that builds while the mind reels and attempts to place the guitars into perspective. Uncomfortable? Of course. But in the clause of 'it if didn't hurt, it wasn't worth it'. Kalmbach continues to traverse genre boundaries as if they were mere hallucinations, and I do hope he continues to incorporate aesthetic divisions, implement nuanced instrumentation, and twist the knobs (and spines of the listeners). Another killer in a largely unbroken line of killers." - From the Dust Returned

"With this radical level of experimentation, the degree to which the album feels natural rather than manufactured is impressive. Perhaps it is unsurprising then that Jute Gyte is a one man band, the work of Adam Kalmbach whose experimental tendencies have gone untempered by the compromises that often happen with collaborations. “Discontinuities” is daunting because of its strangeness, its hour long length, and a certain kind of majesty that isn’t immediately obvious or instantly rewarding. Still, the album has lasting power far beyond whatever novelty it provides. Although supremely strange, it is more importantly a great album because of how the immersive layering makes such an alienating experience one that is absolutely worth repeating." - The Oak Conclave

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released March 4, 2013

Created by Adam Kalmbach between Spring 2011 - Spring 2012
24TET guitar retrofitting by Sword Guitars

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