Vomir & L’Autopsie A Révélé Que La Mort Était Due À L’Autopsie
Régurgitationisme
FRANCE Decimation Sociale Dsautopsir / Éditions Vibrisse iiss07 / Komma Null KN013 CASSETTE (2024)
Another grisly abomination of absurdity sent to us by Sebastian Borgo, aka Ogrob, whose work we have long endured in the pages of TSP. Here his improvising “supergroup” L’Autopsie A Révélé Que La Mort Était Due A L’Autopsie – the players now include himself, Anla Courtis, Franq de Quengo, and aka_bondage – have joined their claws with Vomir, i.e. Romain Perrot, the French creator who used to make “harsh noise wall” music and appear on stage dressed in black bin bags, but since moved on to create a form of acoustic “outsider folk and blues” music with his guitar and voice, thereby knocking Jandek into a triangular quandary.
I am personally glad to see these projects flourishing, especially as it seemed at one point that Borgo – never the most optimistic in his outlook to begin with – was despairing of the possibility of continuing, I think mainly due to loss of a friend and fellow collaborator. As title Régurgitationisme clearly indicates, this is their idea of a “remix” album where sounds and tapes are traded back and forth and re-generated, through audio craft and skills on the mixing desk, into something new and aesthetically pleasing. Well, that’s fine for the “normals” who want to keep their audience happy and sell records, but L’Autopsie have other ideas. In their configuration, the act of tape-swapping is more like diabolical warlocks at a coven throwing unspeakable things – vegetable matter, dead animal carcasses, mould, filth, bones – into an enormous cauldron and letting the flames consume what they may. Then when it’s all over they tip the entire mess over the floor of the forest, having first offended the nostrils and all the other four senses of humanity with their overpowering stench.
This time, the group have far exceeded the terms of their original project – if such a statement holds any validity whatsoever, which is doubtful – and moved into an unholy alliance, seeking out the sickest parts of noise music for a forced wedding with their idea of what “improvised tape music” is. Even the genteel, harmless genre of “field recording” can be polluted by this group of lunatics – if they could find a way of recording raw sewage and an abattoir at the same time, rest assured they would do it instantly. This team-up with the great Vomir has proven to be very productive and effective, reminding me of his exceptional record Saboteur Saboteur which he made with Yves Botz in 2019, itself a benchmark of the unfettered creative juice this remarkable fellow is able to inject into any situation. If you can get a copy of this limited (50 copies) edition cassette, prepare for an hour of sickening nightmares and dark clouds of insanity, for which there is no known cure.
With collage art by Jean-Kristau and screenprinting by Jessica Baum, this artefact is a gold nugget of powerful, menacing sound emanating from the deepest recesses of the French underground. Outsize plastic box includes a piece of rubble in a bag, just to remind you of the broken state of the world today. From 2nd April 2024.