A product of accumulation and intuition, This Face is a confounding and ravaged creation, disseminating a series of clinically vindictive compositions that are as much a product of contemporary soundtrack innovation as they are from the visceral, body-centric screeds of industrial music. The harrowing rigour and tenacity at the core of This Face is a forbidding psychological territory, with Gnaw as its cruel masters.
Next Saturday, April 25th, there will be the premiere screening of the documentary, the Legend of Pale Male, at the Greenwich Audubon Society. I’ve been working my butt off on the film since January and it will receive the 2009 Best of Festival award at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana in May. The film chronicles a Belgian filmmaker’s near obsession with a red-tailed hawk that “moves” to NYC, its established residence on Mary Tyler Moore’s esteemed building and the lives it affects in Central Park, NYC and the birding community.
There are 2 screenings; 4pm and 6pm. It is free but a $10 donation is suggested. If all goes well this week, I expect to NOT be there!
http://www.guidezilla.com/event.asp?id=11897
http://www.ctenvironmentalheadlines.com/2009/04/event-film-screening-legend-of-pale.html
FILM SCREENING: “The Legend of Pale Male” With film director and producer, Frederic Lilien – Guidezilla New Haven, CT Events Calendar: “Join Frederic Lilien for this special screening of The Legend of Pale Male – a new film that will receive the 2009 Best of Festival award at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana this May. Saturday, April 25, 2009, from 4 PM to 6 PM, at Audubon Connecticut, 613 Riversville Road, Greenwich, CT 06831. RSVP to Jeff Cordulac 203-869-5272 x 239.”
Are you willing to push the limits of you musical palette? If you said yes, Gnaw’s debut album will be a release that you will listen to time and time again in an attempt to figure out what hidden meanings lie beneath its harsh, violent exterior. Even listeners who have experienced quite a number of noise artists will find that Alan Dubin and the rest of his band have a unique way of doing things that separates them from the rest. But one thing is for sure, Gnaw is off to an intriguing start and considering how many different elements are present it will be exciting to see just where the group chooses to go from here.
Gnaw is an aurally terrifying display of dissonance, yet is not without rhyme or reason. Once again, it’s all relative though, isn’t it? …the noise terrorism takes several different forms, none of which are soothing to the ears or conducive to anger management. However, through all the electronic-laced, feedback drenched, and tribally percussive clutter and clatter, This Face offers memorable moments…
[Gnaw] provides more grist for the gore mill than most could cope with. Haven Vault is howling white noise and harsh blackened vocals but the centerpiece is “Feelers”, whose remorselessly increasing bpm could drive a sensitive person to tears. Horrifically effective. [8/10]
Gnaw’s relentless rhythmic grind, almost psycjedelic in its use of infinite shades of grey, emphasizes the oppressive crush of city-dwelling. They perceive the metropolis as a vast mincing machine, the meatpacking district expanding to consume and process the entirety of the five boroughs. So-called “extreme music” often posits an idea of Hell; Gnaw deal only in the most nightmarish, man-made variety.
Couldn’t tell you what it says, but it’s probably pretty terrifying.
