.\/\//\\/., Aleksei Nisiforov, MIROCAW
Across two immense live transmissions, Russian experimentalists .\/\//\\/., MIROCAW, and Aleksei Nisiforov construct an architecture of pressure where the walls seem to inch closer with every passing minute.
.\/\//\\/. opens the descent with "Abstinentia Rebus," an astonishing monument of atmospheric power electronics where immense tides of distortion rise and recede like black weather systems gathering above an abandoned industrial landscape. Every surge carries a profound sense of dread, yet beneath its overwhelming force lies an unexpected elegance—a slow choreography of tension, shadow, and malignant beauty that refuses to loosen its grip.
The second half finds MIROCAW, joined by Aleksei Nisiforov, steering the listener into an altogether different abyss. The violence becomes quieter, colder, more insidious. Minimal industrial percussive gestures, no-wave austerity, spectral spoken-word incantations and skeletal electronic remnants assemble into an uncanny subterranean world. It is as though forgotten machines have continued communicating long after their creators vanished, their fractured transmissions echoing from somewhere beneath the earth's crust, where rust itself has learned to whisper.
Dark, immersive, profoundly unsettling, and utterly essential.
-Sir Kuliktavikt
