MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE – 2017 European Tour

MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE is the collaboration between Neurosis’ Scott Kelly and Buried At Sea’s Sanford Parker. The band released their self-titled debut – a sonic manifestation of insomnia, complete with the tossing, turning, and perennial dread that comes with facing a new day – earlier this year via Neurot Recordings. The five songs that comprise Mirrors For Psychic Warfare lurch and pulsate across a sullen, desolate landscape with an almost curious obsessiveness. You can hear the record in full at their official Bandcamp page.

Anyone who has lowered their ear into the chasm of sound between metal and industrial in the last couple of decades will most likely have come into contact with Sanford Parker’s work. Perhaps through the bands and projects in which he is or has been involved as a musician: the doom-prophesying powerhouse Buried At Sea, the extreme-sound fraternization, Corrections House, or perhaps the doom/post-metal shamans Minsk. Or maybe via the sheer volume of the releases to which he skilfully brought his very own toxic sound as a producer or sound technician. In this capacity, the name-dropping begins with Pelican, Eyehategod, Rwake, and Voivod and carries on far beyond Yob, Lair Of The Minotaur, and Wovenhand. In many cases (Minsk, Corrections House, Twilight, Yob, Blood Ceremony), he even combined the two areas of activity in an interdisciplinary radicalization of sound both through the amps and behind the mixing desk.

In a way, this material is the translation of doom into the methods of electronic music. A concept work of cross-genre, dystopian music that builds on the loops and sequencer programs of industrial, but shuns purely linear song structures in favor of instrumental storytelling, the development of which expands a track into an entire world of sound. In the process, Parker knowingly invokes American and British industrial traditions, but equally, his microscopic detail work – primarily observable in the harmonics – could easily have come from German avant-garde electro institutions such as Raster-Noton or Mille Plateaux. These ideas manifested themselves in his solo album of this year, Lash Back, which imposes itself on the contemporary extreme music scene like the black monolith in Kubrick’s Space Odyssey – unassailable, incomparable, and perfect in form. Listen to the record in full at his Bandcamp page.

MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE w/ Sanford Parker:
1/12/2017 MS Stubnitz – Hamburg, DE
1/13/2017 Worm – Rotterdam, NL
1/14/2017 OCCII – Amsterdam, NL
1/15/2017 Het Bos – Antwerp, BE
1/16/2017 Espace B – Paris, FR
1/17/2017 U Underworld – London, UK
1/19/2017 Druckluft – Oberhausen, DE
1/20/2017 Berghain Kantine – Berlin, DE
1/21/2017 Beerokracja – Warsaw, PL
1/23/2017 Klub 007 Strahov – Prague, CZ
1/24/2017 Dürer Kert – Budapest, HU
1/26/2017 Ziegel Oh Lac – Zurich, CH
1/27/2017 Circolo Colony – Brescia, IT
1/28/2017 Industriestrasse – Luzern, CH
1/29/2017 Dachstock – Bern, CH
1/30/2017 Between – Bregenz, AT
1/31/2017 Arena – Vienna, AT
2/01/2017 Kapu – Linz, AT
2/02/2017 UT Connewitz – Leipzig, DE
2/03/2017 Scheune – Dresden, DE
2/04/2017 LAS – Poznan, PL

http://www.mirrorsforpsychicwarfare.bandcamp.com