KEVIN DRUMM - Relief / LP

KEVIN DRUMM - Relief / LP

Once more, Chicago's finest, Kevin Drumm, delivers a devastating slab of emotionally-charged noise. It's been 10 years since the epic statement that was Sheer Hellish Miasma. In the meantime, Drumm trawled through the depths of the global underground with a back-breaking catalog of releases for labels all over. Returning to Editions Mego, he delivers Relief, a 36-minute hypnotic roller-coaster ride through the depths of his unique palette of audio tactics. A haunting melody pinned to a bed of nails while it spins around the room, that's the kind of stuff Editions Mego likes. Extreme but approachable, a piece of music that demands repeated listens. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, September 2012.

• Editions Mego presents a 36-minute album by Chicago avant-garde musician Kevin Drumm. 
• Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, September 2012. 
• Drumm has collaborated with artists such as Taku Sugimoto, Jim O'Rourke, Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Mats Gustafsson and Axel Dörner, to name a few. 
• "...the music itself defies verbal accountability, a primordial concoction that belies chaos and focus as strangely inherent bedmates." --Dusted 
• "In the tradition of musicians like Tony Conrad and Merzbow, and perhaps more than anyone, himself, Drumm's Sheer Hellish Miasma is a surging, violent, electrical whirlwind, and one of the most fully realized works in his catalog." --Ink 19