SD13
Katchmare - Blood of a God
sprayed cdr with silk-screened sleeve and insert
Released 2007
50 copies

Track List

1.    Take the Medicine
2.    Contradiction of existence
3.    Astral waveform
4.    God of Light
5.    White channeled soundform
6.    Sleepers awake



Animal Psi review:

In short-lived rebellion, “Take the Medicine” begins ‘Blood of a God’ with anxious tumult, a blistering gain applied to wheedling guitar maneuver emitting noxious flare-ups from end to end. However, with “Contradiction of Existence”, the long form of the previous disc is revisited, though not without a recovered mode: with just three tones, Hoffman builds a simple diagram of straight lines to geometric precision, an offset peak skillfully implying the shape without overstating the point (both meanings intended). The digital swamp of “God of Light” seems Hoffman’s first overt attempt at narrative, a growing ball of hot noise implying some swelling animism amidst the chorus of electric chirps and babbling stew; the mass develops characteristics, primitive shapes - and not without some detectable anguish – before descending into a silent being, an altered space of thin altitude and pulsing tempo. Appropriately-titled, “White Channeled Soundform” continues this quietude through a lull and reprise of this deft character, a contoured abstraction presented in white cubed simplicity. At last, the brief “Sleepers Awake” takes on the empty presence of a charging fluorescent light, a single, calvary-call note extracted and held from a trumpet, moving slowing across the facade. Sprayed disc comes in a heavy jacket, sprayed and stenciled.