(Catalogue no. 14291)
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Title Description:
Chuck Bettis' 6-song EP Sonic Sigils starts off sounding like an electric tsunami and ends up like a magical spell. The opening track "Night on Fire" attacks your eardrums with a barrage of electronic noises, some cloudy some sharp, though it backs off from its initial loudness in a way that suggests 'I'm not as scary as I appear to be'. That sentiment sort of runs through Sonic Sigils, as it feels both like a wild, freeform attack and like an olive branch, an attempt to make bugged-out sonic experimental soundfields feel comforting even as they sound wild and hard to pin down. Sonic Sigils was improvised, recorded live, and does feel like it. Bettis' music inhabits a place between 'noise attack' and 'atmosphere' - Sonic Sigils is both at once, demonstrating ways that loud can be gentle, rough can be beautiful, fierce can sound holy, and vice versa.
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