Judging by Joseph Henaghan's blog, he is something of a musical-project slut, lending a discordant guitar to assist and enable any and all comers. What makes Henaghan unique, in my eyes, is that downloadable evidence of his every creative entanglement surfaces on archive.org, that steadfast outpost of random modern obscurity and ubiquity. His motto—“I will make sounds that melt your head”—should tell you everything you need to know, though it is recommended that you give his oeuvre a test drive to get a cursory sense of what he’s capable of.
If you don’t have time for that, just grab the 30-minute long “Pupa,” which Henaghan cut with Bryce Brushnefski, another guitar interrogator of unusual sensitivity and tenderness, as Lantern. The discordant fruits of the duo’s musical union are blowtorch subtle, with a great deal of atonal parry, holler, and heave: sometimes the point seems to be cock (rock)-measuring blunder, sometimes there are wonderfully wrongheaded and tinnitus-enabling attempts to escape Earth’s orbit, sometimes they appear to lose consciousness altogether, and then sometimes both determinedly uncouth axmen seem to be feeling their way blindly through a cruel, unforgiving world free of guideposts, mood stabilizers, and clean amplifier tone.
What I enjoy, though, is that as much as Henaghan and Brushnefski are making “Pupa” up as they go along, there’s a self-cannibalizing hook/motif at the core of this white-hot navel gaze that offers the listener something of a sonic signal light to follow through to the light at whatever k-hole they’re leading you into. I stop just short of using the phrase “idiosyncratic sonic signal” because either these dudes are serious mid-career Dead C. stans or I stumbled into the mother of all coincidences."
2 comments:
This is a great album! Awesome review!
This site is missing a lot of lantern material from back in the day! I happen to know that in 2003 they put out there first demo, titled "Lantern Demo 03." Where is this among the many hidden gems in this treasure trove??
I also heard that "Streaming the witches seance, while traversing the black void,"(2009) is not all that you see here! Apparently this was originally released as a 2 disk set featuring a companion album called "Void Party." Where are these recordings sir!!
I would like to see these, and any other recording you are harboring you SICKO!!!
There may be truth to what you speak, sir. I will find the demo just for you.
"Streaming..." was actually a triple disk set, but the shear power of the demons contained melted the discs that held them, thus these rituals are lost for all time. They only exist in the minds of the poor folk performing the seance during the recording.
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