DeafNoise / Deafthnoise
An Eye For An Ear
WRNG02 (9 track album) TO LISTEN AND FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Since the first chance meeting with Luna Menta the DeafNoise Attack has grafted itself to me. I've watched in awe as Luna overloads speakers until you can smell the cones starting to melt; "My favourite perfume", he says. He feels the sound with his hands as it pushes & fractures the air & wrestles with equipment not designed to cope with his demands. He adapts hearing aids & unwittingly invents a whole new methodology to try & capture what he hears in his head and needs to feel throughout his very being. This only begins to describe this unmartialed artist as he dances with the 4 Horsemen, conjures, kicks, films, writes, challenges, plays the medication game & jokes about blind psychiatrists, failed suicide & the times he's been sectioned! Whatever interpretation you have for the term 'Hard Of Hearing' will undoubtedly change with these recordings. |
Norman Records Review (Phil wed 18th July 2012)
Okay, this is an odd one. Deafthnoise is a chap called Luna Menta who is aurally impaired (or deaf to you and me). Fancy making music that you’ll never be able to hear? Fancy not knowing what the music you’ve created sounds like? Fancy creating music in your head (like folks do) and then trying to recreate it but not being able to hear it? Crazy times. Luna gets a grip on the music he’s created through the vibrations in his speakers and through the air. He also adapts hearing aids to try and capture what he’s hearing.
So what does it sound like? It’s interesting alright. The first track ‘Jesus Touched My Penis And They Say I’m Insane’ is almost like proto-clattering techno with a hefty industrial vibe. In fact a lot of the tracks have that slightly harsh industrial vibe but it’s never unlistenable taking in the context of the tunes. The tracks veer from more clattery affairs to the ambient sounds and rhythms of industrial machines. You’ll either love or hate this but if you’re into experimental sounds and dark strange music then you’ll definitely find something here to get your teeth into....according to our Phil on Wed 18 Jul, 2012.
Okay, this is an odd one. Deafthnoise is a chap called Luna Menta who is aurally impaired (or deaf to you and me). Fancy making music that you’ll never be able to hear? Fancy not knowing what the music you’ve created sounds like? Fancy creating music in your head (like folks do) and then trying to recreate it but not being able to hear it? Crazy times. Luna gets a grip on the music he’s created through the vibrations in his speakers and through the air. He also adapts hearing aids to try and capture what he’s hearing.
So what does it sound like? It’s interesting alright. The first track ‘Jesus Touched My Penis And They Say I’m Insane’ is almost like proto-clattering techno with a hefty industrial vibe. In fact a lot of the tracks have that slightly harsh industrial vibe but it’s never unlistenable taking in the context of the tunes. The tracks veer from more clattery affairs to the ambient sounds and rhythms of industrial machines. You’ll either love or hate this but if you’re into experimental sounds and dark strange music then you’ll definitely find something here to get your teeth into....according to our Phil on Wed 18 Jul, 2012.
Herd Mentality
WRNG17 (9 tracks) TO LISTEN AND FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE So, it's been over 3 years since I first met Luna Menta & I must say I really feel lucky to have had the opportunity to have my outlook altered & very fortunate to have had the chance to work with this important artist. Over the course of these last 3 years much has happened; locations & situations have changed radically & both of us have learned a lot through our friendship. Initially I never thought it likely that we would collaborate but now, after several recording sessions, both here in Sheffield & also in Vienna in 2012, we have developed a strange intuitive language based very much on the honesty of non-compromise. Not since working with Jono Podmore on the Dry Hip Rotation album back in 1987 have I been pushed and inspired to respond purely to the sounds presented to me without thought of where the finished piece might go or to whom it might appeal. I can best describe the experience as complete sonic immersion. To have Luna Menta direct certain themes and narrative ideas has also been fascinating and to write from the perspective & dichotomy of an integrated outsider has been right up my street! These 9 tracks have remained true to the original purity of expression that first appealed so much to me when DeafNoise erupted in my mind. They are raw and unpolished and because of that totally intact. |
The DeafNoise story continues. The man behind it, Luna Menta, challenges our concepts of what a deaf person can achieve through the creative medium of sound. His Anarcho-Punk ethics and approach spew forth heavy bass, caustic slabs of harsh rhythm and discomforting sonic undulations. For this release he called me in for vocal duties. A shared fascination with the power of words and dark subject matter spawned some interesting lyrical ideas, often spontaneous and then beaten into shape over a time until the lid finally fit the box. Studio sessions became the catalyst for ideas that were later ripped apart and re-shaped. Rehearsal tapes were dredged through to find key moments when everything was excitingly WRONG. The aim has been to keep the ears guessing and, at the correct volume, the internal organs resonating. My job has been too do my best to interpret what i believe are the frequencies and vibrations Luna Menta lives inside. I can never know how accurate the results. There can never be a definitive answer & this is why DeafNoise is so important to me. Nothing is known, nothing is definite & nothing is comparable.
<> Pete Hope.
Fluxus principles sit side by side with song structures, nothing connecting them other than a knowing glance or a lurch of the body as some knew direction is gambled upon, the dice are loaded and the dealer is blind, by not trying to win victory is inevitable.
<> Pete Hope.
Fluxus principles sit side by side with song structures, nothing connecting them other than a knowing glance or a lurch of the body as some knew direction is gambled upon, the dice are loaded and the dealer is blind, by not trying to win victory is inevitable.
Eye Of God (Ex Auge Gottes)
WRNG16 (13 track album) FREE DOWNLOAD TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE Representing the collaborative works of DeafNoise & Pete Hope between the first Deaf(th)Noise album, An Eye For An Ear, & the 2013 album Herd Mentality. Recorded in both Vienna & Sheffield in 2011/2012 & including the Santo Productions cassette release 'Ex-Auge Gottes Kino' - Special thanks to Joerg Goldhalm, Albin S. Julius, Davi Santos & Dave Thee Engineer. |