ROCCALE by HELMER

Three experimental techno tracks from Torn Hawk's label Valcrond Video.Valcrond Video invites you into the world of Helmer's "Roccale". Helmer's second release picks up the pummel that began with his first 12"", and continues the attack with three tracks of thoughtful, pulsing darkness. The first track, ""You Say I for Me"" presents a forbidding metallic landscape. A snake winds through it in the aural form of an eerie growl, making its way among the crunch and clutter to periodically emerge and rear with menace. The second track ""Corrib chun Mask""' is what they play for prisoners sentenced to hard labor in the gulag of the future, if hard labor = dancing for days. "spry -Env", the closing piece on ""Roccale"", is perhaps Helmer's most masterfully evocative. We have walked in on a ritual, dominated by an incense pendulum that swings and smokes, and carries with it the sound of an ancient transgression.