"What does the world sound like when we're no longer in it? What
grows over the pavement while winds howl thru cracked, abandoned
skyscrapers? What will truly outlive us?"
The two unnaturally mountain-moving noise units EARTHFLESH and EYEROLLS embark on their first mutual journey through the vast and often monochromatic fields of noise and elongated drones – a trek that morphed into the evocative and beckoning ELEMENTAL ATROCITIES, that’s to be released on August 26 via Bent Window Records on CD and Trepanation Recordings on tape.
ELEMENTAL ATROCITIES was conceived as a single, astonishing 58-minutes piece conjoining the tangible human element with the often distancing mechanical one, together producing a sonic voyage of proportions rarely heard of. While the release was cut into two portions named “Fading Places” and “Elemental Atrocities” (which you can find respectively separated on both sides of the tape edition), the effort needs to be engulfed as a whole to be properly experienced and understood.
ABOUT BOTH PROJECTS:
EARTHFLESH
Formed by the end of 2019, EARTHFLESH has slowly been establishing
itself a name in the noise scene, collaborating with some of the
greatest names in from its so-said Underground. Three years and 40+
records later, Swiss-based musician Bruno Silvestre Favez is still
there - loud and proud - cultivating and sculpting its noise with
passion, guts and determination.
earthflesh.bandcamp.com
EYEROLLS
The sounds made by Mx. Zoe! Eyerolls have been described as "super
adventurous – you just may end up down some paths that aren’t quite
as comfortable as you’d hope" (Tabs Out) and "either an excellent
set of art slices or an annoying noise that demands you turn it
off" (THE ORGAN). They can't both be wrong!
eyerolls.bandcamp.com
ELEMENTAL ATROCITIES, as introduced by EARTHFLESH:
It all started with an ordinary "friend request" once in 2021. I was
used to get lots of them at the time from random people in the scene
asking to collaborate or do a split but I somehow quickly identified
this one could well be a little more special than the others.
Although we did not know eachother before, I have the feeling Zoe
and I quickly started becoming really close one to another from that
point, as we started exchanging thoughts on various subjects and
sincere words of appreciation and admiration towards eachothers
works in sound and art in particular. One conversation leading to
another, we then quite quickly started drawing plans and ended up
agreeing on a theme which we would use as a guide to our soon to
come collaboration : from the words of Zoe, "something related to
empty, abandoned places - areas that were once inhabited but have
since been left vacant".
I don't have much interest in that kind of "regular" splits where
one drops a track and the other drops another and we are just done
with it. It doesn't make sense to me ; I rather prefer working on a
true collaboration, exchange ideas and build things together hand in
hand, even on distance. Zoe luckily had the same vision and a little
more than a month after just sent me a first batch of files : the
tremendous "Thrum" and "A Face made of Rain" - two extra-dark and
evocative works of noise sourced from a collection of field
recordings. My face was melted, already, pure and simple ; and the
rest truely is history as we then just spent the following weeks and
months sending eachother some more recordings and elements,
exchanging, talking about life and noise, confronting ideas, mixing
and remixing eachothers sounds and completing eachothers work until
we both found full satisfaction and true sincere pride for every
aspect of our art.
Six months later, "Elemental Atrocities" was officially finalized
and so here we are now. Finally able to share it with anyone caring.
As always I'll say it's up to anyone's appreciation, though I have
no doubt this is one for the books.
ELEMENTAL ATROCITIES, as introduced by EYEROLLS:
What does the world sound like when we're no longer in it? What
grows over the pavement while winds howl thru cracked, abandoned
skyscrapers? What will truly outlive us?
Earthflesh's massive, force-of-nature noise walls & Eyerolls' random
sonic digressions might seem like strange bedfellows on the surface.
Perhaps that would be the case, in a split context. Which is exactly
why sessions for Elemental Atrocities began with formulation of a
conceptual framework that allowed each artist the greatest possible
leeway to exercise their strengths.
Painstakingly-sourced field recordings were first assembled into an
intricate sonic lattice, then sequenced, overdubbed & edited
iteratively--as was the artwork. At each stage in the process,
unanimous agreement was required before the next step could proceed.
This resulted in two distinct pieces--which Earthflesh then single-
handedly molded into one cohesive 58-minute composition.
RELEASED, AUGUST 25th, 2022:
- CD through Bent Window Records (edition of 100 copies):
bentwindowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-atrocities
- TAPE through Trepanation Recordings (edition of 25 copies):
trepanationrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-atrocities
LISTEN TO EARTHFLESH:
earthflesh.bandcamp.com 
