xdementiaPost subject: Chefkirk – Museum of Food Waste CDR
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:25 amChefkirk – Museum of Food Waste CDR: http://www.tibprod.com/chefkirk.htm
Multi-National Disaster Records: http://www.mndr.de
Overall Rating: B
Composition: B
Sounds: B-
Production Quality: B
Concept: C
Packaging: C+
Roger Smith must be an insomniac to be able to release so many records all the time. This one comes in under his project name Chefkirk. The CDR is packaged in folded colored paper and stapled together at the edges to form a colorful, large sized D.I.Y. style package. It’s very amateur here, and even a bit childish but at least it has personality.
I would readily compare the material featured on here to the previous Chefkirk I have been exposed to Range Maps. This is more harsh noise but it is also a bit more refined with attention paid to the mixing and editing which takes Chefkirk’s brand of quirky experimental harsh noise and makes it more then just another CDR release. There are a lot of interesting ideas and themes here, but it still sounds like a total stream of consciousness expression, which is a good thing because it also sounds quite unique.
I like what Chefkirk is doing because it is very different then the average harsh noise release. He isn’t afraid of going into more experimental passages with sometimes quirky melodies or just flat out strange sounds presenting a nice contrast and many variations in the harsh walls of feedback and noise that pervades most of the release.
Many of the sounds reside in the “psychedelic” realm of things with changes flowing into each other instead of using jagged cuts, but you will find those often enough as well. Every track here has it’s merits with some being better then others but there are moments I enjoy in “The Waste Maker” which features chunky washes of distortion and a helping of delay lines. “1609” has some great panning going on and I also like the high pitched screaming feedback break in “Volatile Organic Compounds.”
This is probably the best Chefkirk I have heard before and I like the direction that he is going in. It is an original detailed recording that takes the listener on a strange but rewarding journey into the sardonic gaze that I feel is on me all the way through.
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