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51717 - Paranoia Star - 12" - LIES 119

51717 - Paranoia Star - 12" - LIES 119

$ 18.00


51717 - Paranoia Star - 12" - LIES 119

Releases on Silent Servant’s Jealous God imprint in 2015 and the 6-1-6 cassette on Total Black in 2016 served as formative sonic gateways leading up to this album, as we hear 51717 expand on her cold minimalist sound design.

The music on “Paranoia Star” is a collection of songs composed during various points and throughout travels between 2013-2018. Thematically, much of it revolves around inherited and lived traumas, taken in, processed, and finally transmuted into sound. Shades of modern computer music minimalism, Concrete experimentalists, and good ol’ DIY American smut electronics (ala John Zewizz’s “Women of the SS” project) come to mind through this recording.

Haunting vocals float next to jagged synth lines, primative pulses set a tone as the message is carried out to the listener. Field recordings from domestic and ancestrally charged locales mesh with primitive electronic composition, forming a narrative via repetition, moving stillness, restraint, and tension. 51717 keeps her sonic sources hidden, rather focusing on the transmission and decay of overwhelming thematic elements into minor sonic forms. Here, her work touches on implicit musical tensions between noise and silence, language and sound, material and transcendence. Unnerving and spacious, yet disturbingly uncomfortable, “Paranoia Star” emerges slow, furious, erotic, wet with thousands of years of violence informing the whole.

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