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Seda E Marg
Days of Unrest
- Khoun Va Khak
- Shekanjeh
- Hierarchy
- Fistfriend
- Zendebad Marg
- Reign of Terror
- Azadi [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Days of Unrest
- Clandestine Struggle [ full-length mp3 ]
- Ultimatum
- Dissidence [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Tensions
- Apostasy [ mp3 excerpt ]
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Format: CD-R, jewel case
Release date: 2001
Price: $0
Hymns of confrontations and conflicts. Potent, dominating machine rhythms and hydraulic-pressure atmospheres.
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Judas Kiss (by Militia)
This is a fantastic noise album from Seda E Marg track 1 'Khoun Va khak' has a very kind of 'cinamatic soundtrack like' classical melody spiraling through the industrial beltings of noise throughout the track.
Track 3 'Hierarchy' gives a bizarre array of industrial and electronic noise sounding almost like a bell chiming symphony as it all compiles into a melody of its own. Track 4 'Fistfriend' contains heavily induced noise, an almost machine gun fashion spraying bullets of drum beats with a dark low bass line pulsating vaguely underneath it's patter.
The mixture of noise and classical blend beautifully in parts as in track 5 'Zendebad marg' where a flutter of flute like melodies blend into a spiral of tranquil classical melodies and rhythmic noise mixing the beauty with the beast and giving an almost heaven and hell feel to it, crazy how it works but it does and so well.
My favourite tracks are Track 7 with 'Azadi' which has a very classical exert mixed into a very digital noise type beat giving a very powerful and hypnotic feel and Track 11 'dissidence' which is a complete bad ass mother fucker of a rhythmic noise track akin to that of the fantastic 'Converter'. From here on it is much of the same more ferocious noise. This is a fantastic album and I look forward to hearing more by this band and recommend it to any fellow noise fans out there. As it says on the back of this CD and quite rightly, this is MEANT TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME.
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New Empire (by Toxin)
Seda E Marg's second release 'Days of Unrest' features harsh, almost epic noise. It is a brutal, loud and noisy album with slow tracks. I call it noise and not rhythm noise, because the focus lies on scratchy soundscapes with playful arrangements. The beats are very confusing, distorted, ripped apart by breaks and often drowned in a flood of brachial noise attacks. So the music is not rally danceable but in its essence still lies a kind of groove.
The album begins almost harmonic but soon the opener 'Khoun va Khak' turns into an infernal noise-track. Tracks like 'Fistfriend' or the brutal title-track 'Days of Unrest' should be played at maximum volume like announced on the cover. Hammering sound-cascades attack the listener and the brutal struggle of mechanoid beats and distorted beeps and scratches tortures the brain. On 'Ultimatum' you can hear a very slow beat, a lot of noise and a speech-sample that has be manipulated beyond recognition. Only the character of the voice can be felt: hard and brutal.
Seda E marg are mastering the beauty of destruction. They build up schizophrenic harmonies and destroy them immediately. The album consists of cataclysms. War is going on here. For most people it will be to hard and they will miss the straight dance-elements but fans of harsh sounds and old-school noise will love this brilliant album.
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Industrial.org (by Moron, May 16, 2001)
Calling this release 'Days of Unrest' is one hell of an understatement. This collection of tracks from French outfit Seda E Marg is absolutely the total opposite of sedentary, the restless rhythms and churning movement blasting morgue clean the old school foundations the music is built upon. This is Information Overload Unit era SPK but with their eyes rolled back until they face inward, the weight of the explosives strapped to their back causing them to menacingly stagger into a Mental Destruction sponsored euthanasia centre. The smell of death, structural decay and raw brutality is overwhelming and although a core sample would show evidence of prior industrialization, the sonics are not at all dated or worn.
13 tracks make up these 'Days of Unrest' with the material ranging from riotous clashes to destructed powernoise to bombastic militaristic anthems performed by heavy machinery. There is no time anywhere on this disc where the material's mercury level dips out of the red danger zone. At the quietest moments the most you could accuse it of is being suicidally melancholic but the vast majority is like having an arc welder jammed into your ear by someone from Cold Meat Industry or perhaps even Triumvirate Records. There is no doubt that this is noise based music but it most definitely is not power electronics as there are no shortage of strong rhythmical structures, that is before their support columns get atomized by the ruthless distortion.
Track 6, 'Reign of Terror' is a perfect example of the nearly unbearable white hot intensity Seda E Marg vent forth. Cacophony is not a fair description since this implies a random nature to the insanity where as the material here most definitely premeditated. It is like the split second of nauseating tension between when you hear the unsettling crack and the burning pain actually hits you. Except the red event is time stretched to fill up 4 minutes and 44 seconds of your life with utter dread. The entire disc has that kind of intensity - it makes you feel puny under the sheer mass of it. Building up momentum until there is absolutely no chance to stop it, assuming you had mind enough left to think about it which you do not.
The compositional tools employed range from infinitely over tightened delay loops to impossibly saturated distortion to stolen patriotism warped by age and neglect. As mentioned previously this has a lot in common with Mental Destruction but in a best of breed sense as if the gene splice has long since been modified into a leaner meaner bio weapon. Tempo is used as a bludgeon, sometimes sparse yet at others manically pounding the listener into bloody submission. The stereo field is also reddened by the blast and regardless of whether you are in close or distant proximity to the sound source, the results here are unavoidable.
Seda E Marg have managed to encapsulate some of the singularly most vital and disturbingly raw industrialism on 'Days of Unrest' that I have come across since my first exposure to the genre in the 80s. This is truly nasty shit with a bead on your subconscious like that of a homicidal parasitic twin. Unavoidably mandatory sounds that have marked a new grave that others will have to dig their way out of from here on in if they wish to leave their own slash mark.
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Electroage (by Final Man, June 25, 2001)
Days of Unrest, like any Mechanoise Labs' release, is a step further into the abyss of corrosive noises. What is distinctive between Seda E Marg and the rest of the label's roster all generated by same T4L man is hard to say, but this second release from the project is loud noisy industrial as it was surely intended.
This is an extremely dense and grinding release, taking huge rhythmic assaults like Fistfriend and Reign of Terror that could make your usual Ant-Zen's release sound like New Age music. Overcharged by greasy beats pound and malfunctioning machines, Days of Unrest isn't the most seducing release and is much more efficient with its slower tracks, like Apostasy or Azadi.The late, moving more into an isolated path, is a vast landscape of dark atmospherics with twisted orchestral inserts and resonating metallic beats; truly the stand-out track.
Utterly loud and maybe derivative at the first listen, this new CD-R release from the French label is a great new showing, that make us wondering when Mechanoise Labs will head for the true CD format. There is a lot of potential here and seeing the growing popularity of diverse noise acts and labels, the Mechanoise might gain more attention.
Days of Unrest is equivalent to a musical machine-gun, fast, fierce and dangerously powerful; with the only flaw of being sometime too harsh. Seda E Marg is, like its label, something to watch for.
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