The Rita and Herukrat are perfect partners in noisemaking, mostly because any small detail they focus on, either thematically or musically, is explored to the point of total obsession.
This quality is magnified 100x on Red Imprint From Ankle Ribbon, an album that explores the physicality of ballet dancing and its relation to the female form in nauseating detail.
The album begins with the track Ludmila Semenyaka, named after a Soviet prima ballerina. Appropriately, it begins with a sample of live ballet, presumably recorded in the 1950s. The sound slowly degrades into a dynamic, shifting wall of noise. It eventually solidifies into pure static before morphing into something with a subtle industrial rythm.
The song made me feel like I was hiding beneath the floor of a stage, listening to the shoes of the dancers are strike above me in unison.
Woman on Beach With Head Turned is another obsessively erotic examination of a small moment, in this case a woman lounging on the beach.
The track itself is mostly a static noise wall, droney and filled with bass, occasionally broken up by samples of a female voice.
The title track turns down the obsessiveness and turns up the beauty. It is soft and ambient. Vocals are also sampled, but this time it sounds like children singing. Absolutely chilling.
The Rita and Herukrat have managed to craft an art piece that both unifies and magnifies their individual thematic and musical preoccupations. Fantastic.
9/10.
9/10.
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