POST SCRIPTVM

"RASPAD"

Tesco Organisation - 2007

CD

From Brooklyn, New York, comes Post Scriptvm, a project that has released two albums and some mini CDs through different labels, including the unknown Somnambulant Corpse Recordings, the Italian Stridulum Recordings, French Hermetique, known for the early Propergol outputs, and others. "RASPAD", Russian for disintegration, is its third full-length, this time published by prestigious Tesco Organisation. Jerome Nougaillon of Propergol mastered the six tracks of the CD, assuring them a powerful and effective sound.

Post Scriptvum can't be filed under "dark ambient", since his music has little to share with the atmospheres evoked by the north European school of Cold Meat Industry, or the deflagrating cosmic sceneries of Lustmord, Inade, etc. It's still ambient, since the sounds keep a descriptive function, stimulating the listeners' imagination and subconscious, weaving images and scenes before their eyes, but their nature is definitely industrial, with distorted electronic frequencies, metal thuds, reverberating chains and angry machineries. Particularly representative in this sense are the exciting "Purge Echelon" and "Ruins Of Men", where memories of even Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle emerge in the intelligent use of analog equipment, while the aggressive "Exacerbation" has little to envy to the likes of BDN. Final "Fever Dream" is the most disturbing of the six tracks, with its nervous, suspended atmosphere, a funereal organ playing in the finale and a telephone ringing without answer.

Post Scriptvm confirms itself as a very interesting name, capable of creating original sound collages and combining the ambient, industrial and power-electronics matter in a personal stimulating way. "RASPAD" stands easily out as its best effort till now, and as another remarkable development for Tesco.

- Simon V.

Website: http://postscriptvm.com

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tescogermany