OUR FRIENDS AT Kalporz BRING OUR ATTENTION TO A NEW BAND
AUTHORED BY Monica Mazzoli – TRANSLATED BY Dominic Valvona
Continuing our successful collaboration with the leading Italian music publication Kalporz , the Monolith Cocktail shares and translates reviews, interviews and other bits from our respective sites each month. Keep an eye out for future ‘synergy’ between our two great houses as we exchange posts during 2024 and beyond. This month regular Kalporz scribe Monica Mazzoli reviews the newly released album, previously on hold, from the Austrian duo Nový Svět, DeGenerazione.
Nový Svět ‘DeGenerazione’
(Quindi Records)
Fifteen songs broken inside by dreams and nightmares, fragments of something that could have been, and wasn’t, degenerating: DeGenerazione by the Austrians Nový Svět, which features a framing of Nelly Bordon’s (Barbara Bouchet ) dance on the cube in Fernando Di Leo ‘s noir Milano Calibro 9 (1972) on the cover, is a work that rises from its own ashes.
The track recordings found on DeGenerazione were originally made in 2007 but abandoned for years. They were later recovered in extremis, ending up online not long ago, and published now, in 2024, on disc by the Florentine label Quindi Records.
Irregular, unfaithful wavering sound fragments with an indefinite and indefinable shape: a derailment from genres – neofolk, dark ambient, post-industrial…? – and consequently a caustic destruction of the latter. The album – we read on Nový Svět ’s Bandcamp – was supposed to be the final part of a Spanish trilogy that began with the 2004 conceived “Fin. Finito. Infinito.” However, deemed “too Spanish” it was put aside.
In reality, this album by the Viennese group is everything and the opposite of everything: an uncontrolled binge of sounds, noises. From the disturbing carillon of “Tibidabo” (with a video inspired by
Aldo Lado ’s 1971 Short Night of the Glass Dolls ) to the claustrophobic guitar loop of “Raja”, and from the alienating rhythmic delirium, lacerating cowbells of “Alarma” and “Tierra (Sanguine II / Noticias)” to the manipulated spoken word of “Torbellinos”.
Rated: 80/100
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