This is a record store day re-issue of Shamballa that was William Hooker's collaborations with Thurston Moore and Elliot Sharp at the Knitting Factory that originally came out in 1993, this is for fans of noiseniks at play.
The first disc opens with Sirius Part One Wheels a long noise infested improvisation that sounds perfect for the old SYR series of releases, the drums clatter all over the ever-repeating guitar line with odd things happening around it, this is cacophony as art. As this goes on Moore finds new ways to attack his guitar and get shards of noise as the drumming gets more complicated and does everything it can to not be rhythmic or melodic. Eventually it sounds like noisy underground train wheels grinding on the rails angrily.
Sirius Part 2 The Wings carries on in similar noisenik fashion trying to destruct our hearing and all sense of normality to create a sense of unease and dread that those wings might not be enough to keep us in the air. Things seem more desperate when it goes into a quieter passage, as if all our fears are about to come true, as everyone is already cowering at the back in fear of what will happen when it all comes back in again, as it all builds and builds all your fears have come true, your in the middle of a tsunami of noise once more. This seems to want to be a grunge noise epic as it has another quiet bit, like Thurston has decided to re-tune his guitar or change guitars and can't decide what to do next to annihilate the listeners ears.
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The second disc The Hat And It's Train Part 1 opens with a drum roll that's more melodic than anything on the first album, so we know that this is Elliot Sharp and not Thurston Moore collaborating, as what sounds more like treated violins weave around the drums that make this sound more in line with some of the early Velvet Underground noise pieces like Melody Laughter as the cantankerous sounds evolve devolve mutating our minds through the listening experience.
The Hat And It's Train Part 2 carries on where part 1 left off and as they fade the sound back up we get some synth noises like a motorbike careening down a racetrack at high speed set against the relatively slow drumming trying to crack open our minds once more with noise abuse the quieter quavering passage almost feels like they have a Theremin playing as almost a soothing sound to help you recover at the end of this double album.
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