This introductory four track CD-R is the first not-so rotten fruitfrom the newly minted side project from one half of Newcastle uponTyne’s Tears of Abraham. Mein Kinder might freely embrace the tag of‘dark ambient soundscapes’ but the music here is far darker, deeper andbetter than the limitations of that genre suggest.
Part of an ongoing larger 21 track project, these tracks take theirtitles from the names of the children killed at the Branch Davidiancompound in Waco, Texas. The basic ingredients of the tracks here aremaybe straight to tape live sounds such as drone and feedback withlittle or no manipulation, but they swell under the weight of differentthe sounds that are heard.
At nearly twenty five minutes longer than the other pieces, “Little OneJones” can’t help but stand out. The ranting insane vocal line (done inone take through a child’s tape recorder) may be incomprehensible butit still manages to clearly rage under the unfolding and judderingcircling waves.
The other pieces are shot through with streaks of violence (“LisaMartin”) and eddies of bleak tapering smoke blown by circlinghelicopters (“Star Koresh”) creating compulsory if unsettling listens.Even though closer, “Startle Summers,” is possibly still a futurework-in-progress, it’s the best thing here. Chaining a metal melody ofcalland response feedback to a groaning backdrop of shifting weight itstaggers contemptibly within its constraints. There’s a huge repeatingsound (perhaps a disfigured doom metal chant or perhaps percussion)with in the track that carries it headlong into gloom.
Mein Kinder mayonly be a few months old but he’s maturing very fast.
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