Slideshow "....suddenly all innocence was lost!" / MYSPACE REPOST

As stated before, we're cleaning up. But since not all of the past was evil, we saved some of it. Like this old slideshow, posted on myspace many, many moons ago.

REVIEWED AGIAN Mort Douce 'Locust Dreams' @ compulsiononline.com / MYSPACE REPOST

Just like our last post, this again is actually and old review but since we are cleaning up and many of the sources stated in the HIBERNATION END post are no longer valid, in other words dead, we try to make as much information as possibly accessable via this very blog. So here we go.... we only added a few hyperlinks.



The kind people from COMPULSION ALTERNATIVE CULTURE wrote some very kind words but, read for yourselves...

"The fold-out sleeve of this professional CD-R with its series of graphic polaroid images depicts a girl, battered, bruised and wrapped in cellophane; a ruby-red ring steeped in blood. While another shows a torn page with the handwritten scrawl of a poem. You'd be forgiven for expecting something sinister with packaging more at home with brutal power electronics.

Instead on Locust Dreams Mort Douce, the project of the Polish musician Adam Stalker, create audible landscapes of alien terrain and industrial wastelands. Some of the tracks here appear like soundscapes for films. 'A Flash Flood in the Night' is like a setting for a horror film set in a disused industrial space as corrosive sounds ricochet around metallic corridors and vast empty chambers. Likewise, the niggling whispering tones of 'Sun in My Hand' evoke images of desert wind howling over space craft - it's like something that would accompany scenes from Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth of Lynch's Dune.

Locust Dreams isn't all soundtrack stylings, 'Coarse State of Saturn' features a wavering slight-piercing drone, where tiny variations in tone ring out like a faint melody. The incessant piercing all but overwhelms the refracting movements underneath and with its 8+ minute duration it's painfully distracting. Much better are the aching chasms, quaking textures and scraping, shifting timbres of 'Beneath the Flesh', 'All Stripped Down' and the opening track 'Dreams of Better Days' where mammoth slabs of rumbling sounds and cavernous electronics meet distant metallic clatter.

Locust Dreams, Stalker wrote on his blog, is the final Mort Douce release due to lack of exposure for the project. This is a pity as the cosmic dark ambient is every bit as good as Vestigial and compares favourably with similar type releases on the Cyclic Law label and suchlike. Locust Dreams relies heavily on personnel involved in the Coil mailing list: Stalker is an active poster, the graphic design is beautifully rendered by Gregory Rapp, the poet John Siddique contributed a specially written poem for the project - from which the track titles are derived - and the release was realised by a subsidiary of DANHUSER Org., a label operated by yet another Coil listee. I sincerely hope that Adam Stalker continues with Mort Douce as promoted elsewhere he could easily find an audience for his ambient atmospherics. As at the hands of Mort Douce even the slightest tonal change is like a mammoth tectonic shift."

View the original source @ compulsiononline.com

Yet another LCOUST DREAMS review can be found.... HERE!

REVIEWED Mort Douce 'Locust Dreams' @ brainwashed.com / REPOST FROM MYSPACE

This is actually and old review but since we are cleaning up and many of the sources stated in the HIBERNATION END post are no longer valid, in other words dead, we try to make as much information as possibly accessable via this very blog. So here we go.... we only added a few hyperlinks.



Brainwashed's very own Matthew Amundsen - known to some as Surface Hoar - wrote some very kind words regarding LOCUST DREAMS by Mort Douce but, read for yourselves....

"The latest from Poland's Mort Douce is named after a poem by John Siddique. Given the title, I expected to be besieged with insect chittering or else the maddening rush of descending swarms. Instead,the sounds are almost geological, like dropping a microphone into the center of the Earth and amplifying minute tectonic shifts, documenting the secret life of continents.

What first struck me when listening to this album was how it evokes an epic sense of space. "Dream of Better Days" begins with what could be the industrial clatter of a steel refinery reverberating in vast halls of feedback and suffering a slow death. "Beneath the Flesh" could be a geologic gasp, like a crumbling ice shelf, and "All Stripped Down" evokes large bodies of colliding minerals. Things get more cosmic with"A Flash Flood in the Night," which evokes the radar blips of a moonlanding while debris bounces off of a vessel in low gravity as faint bits of melody are drowned in gaseous swirls. The brief "Sun in My Hand" continues the outer space vibe, as if howling interstellar wind is stressing the metal of an orbiting satellite.

The album's only misstep is "Coarse State of Saturn." It starts with rasping,swirling sounds and deep tones that are soon overwhelmed, if nothing jacked outright, by a wearisome high pitch that induces headaches and makes dogs howl. Unfortunately, this annoying high pitch overpowers and obscures most of everything else occurring on the track, which is otherwise dense with activity. Still, it's only one track of six and doesn't spoil the album's stronger material.

Succinct and deliberate, Locust Dreams makes its point without any unnecessary fluff or padding. A definite step forward, it's easily the best thing I've heard yet from Mort Douce."

View original source @ Brainwashed.com

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The King is dead - long live the King!

Mort Douce ist no more, Mort Douce is defunct, it is late, gone, it has deceased.... 'Locust Dreams' - released via our subsidiary (((unsterne))) - was their final release, an end to an era.

So Mort Douce is dead? More or less! Gladly enough the man behind it all Adam Stalker is not. But he could not remain silent after all, he released a brand new and fresh - internet only - E.P. called 'Pastoral Landscapes', which we heavily recommend.

All the info is HERE, and the 2-track-piece is available for free FLAC download right HERE!