27 Jun 2012 — Henning Lahmann
Originally posted on Ad Hoc
"Waghdad“ is one of the "Six Cities of the Red Night", which play a central part in William S. Burroughs’ 1981
novel of the same name. Inspired by the literary work, Glasgow musician Ruaridh Law aka
TVO (The Village Orchestra) has created
Red Night, a 58-minute piece of drone, menacing noise, and subdued proto-techno that revolves around the dystopian themes laid out by the author: the indeterminacy of time and loss of memory. Law’s hauntological approach to composition, which might be compared to that of Manchester-based contemporaries
Demdike Stare, is able to expose the uncanny and sinister subtexts of purportedly familiar structures, as best exemplified in “Waghdad”, one of
Red Night’s center pieces. The slowly creeping, loosely textured track falls into a raw, stripped-down version of a late night dancefloor filler, leaving too much room for anxiety between its unobtrusive yet relentless 4/4 kicks to let the listener remain calm and collected.
Red Night is out July 2 on Law's own
Broken60.
