NICOL ELTZEROTH ROZENDORF Announces 'Internal Return' LP ( out June,9 ) Premiere Debut Single
NICOL ELTZEROTH ROZENDORF ANNOUNCES 'INTERNAL RETURN' LP
The newest LP from done/experimental artist is coming out on June,9 via Negative Capability Editions
Release: June, 9 2023
Genres: Experimental, drone
Format: LP, DR
Label: Negative Capability Editions
FFO: Coil, Sunn O))),Ben Frost, Masada
Tracklist:
1.Olah (Burnt Offering)*
2. SHÛB*
3.Wave Offering*
4.Double Cube*
5.Cohen*
6.Tacheles
7. RÜCKKEHR*
8. Heave
9.Article 116(2)
10.Immer Besser*
A wordless play on words, a heavily atmospheric drone, a groaning pun, a violently expressionist klezmer violin solo, a tale as old as time and yet as new as space: Internal Return is an album that in the act of giving something meaning also prompts us to evade it, to turn around it, to see a smile in a scowl and a scowl in a laugh.
Interdisciplinary artist Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf playfully explores that quicksand site where maybe things are not as they seem, the internal fountain of creativity from which interpretation itself emerges. The internal return is thus an experience of being anxiously stuck in a place that cannot stop shifting, like the ‘Olah (Burnt Offering)’ with which the album begins, wherein Daniel Hoffman’s (Davka, Ute Lemper, Klez-X) violin and Ben Bertrand’s clarinet beautifully surge with melancholic energy as depth-charge electronics and guitars suddenly and repeatedly detonate beneath – a rhythm that seems to transcend timelines.
Our insides, however, are but the result of all the worlds that have already ended time and again, once upon a time. Rosendorf’s Jewish heritage informs the album’s themes as that lives-long tapestry of tales and memories that in seeming to make meaning clear are actually further entangling the threads within: less History, more myth. “Cohen” weaves a multitude of swirling electronics, William Ryan Fritch’s trembling cello, and re- purposed vocals from Jarboe’s (Swans, World of Skin) contribution to Nicol’s Big Other (2020), sounds that knit each other into dense, layered bundles.
The path through the album’s 10 pieces can be harsh, filled with low, crackling drones, sparse instrumental sections, and swerves into noise, the dizzying signs of stories that cannot be interpreted, that have no beginning and no end, that definitely mean something but offer no way of knowing what. In wondering we only wander towards more quicksand, our scowls turning to smiles turning to sobs turning to laughs.
Because the chaotic stitches of a history of trauma – exile, sacrifice, Holocaust – in which individuals drift through the looking-glass of family inheritance, is also the horizon of renewal, in which things never stay the same, in which meanings are always shifting around, in which we look back and see that the narrow pathway was always pretty big, as far as narrow pathways are concerned.
The very last track, “Immer Besser”, featuring Greg Fox (Litvrgy, Ex Eye), throws a slow lifeline for listeners to follow, a layered drone that returns to the beginning’s themes, a fading star now suddenly supernova. The title is, as Nicol says, “German for Forever Better.” He adds: “If only.” Suddenly, we are no longer stuck, but floating; suddenly, we find bits of ourselves in the stories of others; suddenly, we can see the outside again. It’s already dark, but it doesn’t matter – you have a strange sun growing inside, and there’s nothing new under it.
‘Internal Return’ is coming out June, the 9th. The LP edition(*=LP Tracks) would be available starting August 2023. Limited deluxe edition with Giclee Print would feature CD with the remixes by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Siavash Amini and Terence Hannum.
