Artist: Awk Wah
Title: Opera Box
Label: Sprayplastic
Catalogue No: sp-5595
Format: TDK CDR in DVD slim case and pink envelope
Edition: 77
Duration: 37 min
Released: Feb 2011
Price: SGD16.00
Inventory Status: Available
Tracklisting:
1. Twisted Stripes (4:39)
2. Instructions and Warning for All Young Men (4:56)
3. Under Tongue (3:35)
4. Indonesia Matters (6:07)
5. One is Open (4:26)
6. Morning Star (3:44)
7. Face Downward (4:18)
8. One is Shut (3:12)
9. Opera Box (2:16)
Notes:
All tracks composed and performed by 惡華
Recorded between 2007-2010 at Symphony Heights Singapore
Mastered by Justin Seah
Media Release:
Awk Wah is the solo guise of drummer/percussionist Shark Fung (Amino Acid Orchestra, I\D, Engineered Beautiful Blood). Over the course of 9 tracks totaling 37 minutes, he overlays a variety of skitters, clatters and scrapes over twitchy, spidery rhythms. This is Noise, not as tidal overwhelming or pulsating drift, but as wide-eyed wonder/wander at each rupture/disjunct.
Reviews:
“[...] a nice metallic surprise from Singapore, slipped inside a pink envelope – perhaps this is the traditional Asian way of expressing a friendly greeting to a music lover. Little friendliness found in the contents when I popped open this DVD slim box, though [...] an overall texture of unpleasant grittiness, metallic scrape and unpatterned rhythms that succeeds perfectly for me; it conveys a real sense of defeat and claustrophobia, like a bound man sewed up in a mailsack trying to wriggle free with nothing more than a small nail file to make his escape. ‘It seems as real as now,’ is the metaphysical utterance printed on the back.” – Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
“[...] a solid collection of some rhythm-based weirdness, sure filled with drums, but mostly sounds of scraping and chattering noises as if he sent a contact mic down the bug filled secret passage from Temple of Doom. Maybe somewhere between a more nuanced Black Pus and the drum heavy Merzbow albums [...]” – Andrew Murdock Livingston, Foxy Digitalis
Link:
Track preview and digital downloads available at awkwah.bandcamp.com
