Earth x Black Noi$e - Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions
Fire Records
- 1A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1 (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 2A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 2 (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 3Ouroboros Is Broken (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 4Geometry Of Murder (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 5German Dental Work (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 6Divine And Bright (Black Noi$e Inversion)
- 7Dissolution I (Black Noi$e Inversion)
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Drone-rock titans Earth announce a collaboration with hip hop/electronic producer Black Noi$e. ‘Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions’ is out today digitally on Fire Records, just in time for their European tour. An LP version arrives March 20th.
Earth x Black Noi$e - Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions are new (in)versions of Earth’s debut release, ‘Extra Capsular Extraction’, which originally came out in 1991 and notably featured Kelly Canary and Kurt Cobain on vocals on the tracks "A Bureaucratic Desire for Revenge, Part 2" and "Divine and Bright."
The original has been reworked as a collaboration between Dylan Carlson and Black Noi$e in mutual respect and appreciation with one another, each intrigued (in their own ways) in the creation of vast musical landscapes and the connection of music with an ability to transport the listener. The music of Earth is recognised and celebrated for moving at a glacial pace – and yet this new collaboration surprisingly sees Black Noi$e slowing things down even more so.
Black Noi$e reimagines the original recordings with his experimental sensibility and innovative multi-instrumental, cross-genre exploration. Applying contemporary electronics to the heavy droning bass and guitars, and languid rhythms, this inversion oscillates and reverberates with a different kind of energy whilst simultaneously highlighting the much-loved low, slow, and distorted properties of the original.
About the collaboration Dylan remarks, “I am always trying to push what I do forward in some kind of way, and I am always intrigued by music and making it by any means necessary or available. And I also am interested in collaboration, especially with people who have a relationship with musical equipment that I do not know about.”
Black Noi$e recalls how the pair first met, “…on a porch in Eagle Rock.” They both lived in a house of six people, mostly artists. Dylan was the first to move in and then Black Noi$e followed shortly after in 2020 just as Covid struck. During these restrictive times, a friendship grew and creativity flourished. Black Noi$e adds, “It was an ill setup because I got to build a studio in a little storage room that felt way bigger than it should’ve.”
The newfound housemates jammed and listened to music in this newly built space, and as time progressed and restrictions lifted, the studio became an important hub for travelling musicians. It was an incredibly special moment of some exceptionally talented people passing through and making music. Dylan adds, “I had been aware of Odd Future and its members like Earl Sweatshirt back in the day, but met Black Noi$e when he moved in. He is a great musician all the way round and plays guitar amongst many other instruments as well. We both got on well and talked music gear a lot.”
For Dylan, Geometry of Murder as a title and concept comes from J.G. Ballard's Crash and correlated with another book he was immersed in at the time, Paul Virillio's Speed and Violence, which for Dylan in particular, “had a numinous quality to it” and he felt it was appropriate to the “violent nature inherent in technological advances”. For Black Noi$e there is a shorter response to the question, ‘what does The Geometry of Murder signify’? and that is “Life is full of shapes and numbers.”
‘Extra Capsular Extraction’ was the first music Dylan made with Earth, and his first time in a recording studio, which he recalls at the time it was “terribly exciting” It also marked the first time collaborating with others and seeing it reified into a tangible object/product – a spirit that Dylan has carried through to the present. The original album ‘Extra Capsular Extraction’ is a document of a specific period and Dylan’s creative development. These inversions are, to quote Dylan, “an exciting way to reintegrate them into the present time and with my more expanded conceptions of musical endeavours.”
Earth x Black Noi$e - Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions are new (in)versions of Earth’s debut release, ‘Extra Capsular Extraction’, which originally came out in 1991 and notably featured Kelly Canary and Kurt Cobain on vocals on the tracks "A Bureaucratic Desire for Revenge, Part 2" and "Divine and Bright."
The original has been reworked as a collaboration between Dylan Carlson and Black Noi$e in mutual respect and appreciation with one another, each intrigued (in their own ways) in the creation of vast musical landscapes and the connection of music with an ability to transport the listener. The music of Earth is recognised and celebrated for moving at a glacial pace – and yet this new collaboration surprisingly sees Black Noi$e slowing things down even more so.
Black Noi$e reimagines the original recordings with his experimental sensibility and innovative multi-instrumental, cross-genre exploration. Applying contemporary electronics to the heavy droning bass and guitars, and languid rhythms, this inversion oscillates and reverberates with a different kind of energy whilst simultaneously highlighting the much-loved low, slow, and distorted properties of the original.
About the collaboration Dylan remarks, “I am always trying to push what I do forward in some kind of way, and I am always intrigued by music and making it by any means necessary or available. And I also am interested in collaboration, especially with people who have a relationship with musical equipment that I do not know about.”
Black Noi$e recalls how the pair first met, “…on a porch in Eagle Rock.” They both lived in a house of six people, mostly artists. Dylan was the first to move in and then Black Noi$e followed shortly after in 2020 just as Covid struck. During these restrictive times, a friendship grew and creativity flourished. Black Noi$e adds, “It was an ill setup because I got to build a studio in a little storage room that felt way bigger than it should’ve.”
The newfound housemates jammed and listened to music in this newly built space, and as time progressed and restrictions lifted, the studio became an important hub for travelling musicians. It was an incredibly special moment of some exceptionally talented people passing through and making music. Dylan adds, “I had been aware of Odd Future and its members like Earl Sweatshirt back in the day, but met Black Noi$e when he moved in. He is a great musician all the way round and plays guitar amongst many other instruments as well. We both got on well and talked music gear a lot.”
For Dylan, Geometry of Murder as a title and concept comes from J.G. Ballard's Crash and correlated with another book he was immersed in at the time, Paul Virillio's Speed and Violence, which for Dylan in particular, “had a numinous quality to it” and he felt it was appropriate to the “violent nature inherent in technological advances”. For Black Noi$e there is a shorter response to the question, ‘what does The Geometry of Murder signify’? and that is “Life is full of shapes and numbers.”
‘Extra Capsular Extraction’ was the first music Dylan made with Earth, and his first time in a recording studio, which he recalls at the time it was “terribly exciting” It also marked the first time collaborating with others and seeing it reified into a tangible object/product – a spirit that Dylan has carried through to the present. The original album ‘Extra Capsular Extraction’ is a document of a specific period and Dylan’s creative development. These inversions are, to quote Dylan, “an exciting way to reintegrate them into the present time and with my more expanded conceptions of musical endeavours.”
