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by teague schneiter-todd |
Melbourne Australia's Grey Daturas are an improvising, instrumental
trio with no songs or melodies; they don't rehearse; yet they maintain
a touring ethos to match that of early hardcore pioneers.
Drawing sonic influence from a vast ocean of musical styles including
free jazz, the avant garde, psychedelic rock, punk, metal, industrial
and noise, Grey Daturas have developed a blend of harsh and dark
psychedelia unmistakably their own.
From their more nihilistic, sheer noise based beginnings improvising
sound tracks to silent horror classics and sixties physics animations,
Grey Daturas have over the course of the last 6 ½ years morphed into a
surreal auditory nightmare, blending dark pulsating drones, slow
low-end sludge riffs, crushing percussion, and walls of ear torturing
noise.
Now three and a half years since the release of their globally
acclaimed second album Dead in the Woods, and following numerous EP's,
split and collaborative releases with the likes of Yellow Swans,
Monarch, Bardo Pond and Wolf Eyes, Grey Daturas are about to unearth their
finest and most challenging work, their highly anticipated 3rd album,
Return to Disruption.
As with all follow up releases comparisons to the predecessor are
inevitable. Between Dead in the Woods and Return to Disruption the
most obvious difference is the improved production values. Where Dead
in the Woods took a modest month to complete on 8-track / ¼" tape,
Return to Disruption spanned a lengthy 18 months on 24-track / 2" tape.
The band once again teamed up with Melbourne based recording engineer
Neil Thomason to track and mix drums, guitars, bass and various other
sounds and objects such as contact microphone feed back, scrap metal,
hardware materials and tools, violin, saxophone and electronics.
Following three months with Neil, the remaining 15 months (between
numerous tours of the USA, Europe, and Australia) were spent
painstakingly post producing and collaging together the original
tracks from Neil's sessions, with the final mastering touches of Pig
Destroyer's Scott Hull, to what has become the vast and consistently
flowing epic that is Return To Disruption.
'Return to Disruption' is due out mid April 2008 thru Neurot Recordings (USA & Europe) / Heathen Skulls (Australia & New Zealand).
