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Berlin-Based Experimental Drone Trio Zeug’s Womb
All great ends lead to the birth of something new, and so, in the spring of 2020, right in the beginning of pandemic in Europe, Berlin-based drone trio zeug had a…
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All great ends lead to the birth of something new, and so, in the spring of 2020, right in the beginning of pandemic in Europe, Berlin-based drone trio zeug had a drastic lineup change. Despite the shakeup, the band, always up for experimentation, recorded their previous EP, Grounded, in der kleine Wasserspeicher, a vast ancient water tank with 5-6 sec. natural delay.
After the release of Grounded the band withdrew to their creative workspace at Gaswerk, Berlin, and spent Covid lockdown composing the material that would form Womb, the final EP of the trilogy. They took the term literally, descending into a dark, ancient labyrinth with a watery atmosphere to birth their creation.
This acoustic environment would have proven to be an absolute nightmare for any loud band and their producer, but for Zeug it was just another scene, a space, which had sonic rules, power, and its own will.
“This time we decided to go bigger and spent 3 days in dem großen Wasserspeicher, because the new material demanded an appropriate context, and because of the unspoken rule of the band never to go to a well-treated recording studio,” says the band. “Here, in a maze-like brick cave carved into the middle of Berlin, the natural acoustics shaped the EP’s sound (18 to 20 seconds of natural reverb).”
Womb opens up with hardcore punch-in-the-face track ‘Garbino’, driven by Nash’s guitar riffs, punishing rhythm from Barbieri and Overchuk, backed up by power electronics and desperate vocals. The middle track ‘Svet’ (Russian for ‘light’) derives from a droning vocal chant piece, which when recorded utilises the massive acoustics of the water tower into account and let it unfold in full power. The final song ‘HazeOver,’ is a hallucinatory trip through the noise labyrinth of mind, body, and soul. Womb melts into the heavens like flames reduced ashes; like smoke subdued by the punishing rains.
Preview “Garbino” via live session below:
Four days ahead of the official release of “Garbino”, Zeug will be performing live on October 24th with the noise-unit BADA (feat. Anna von Hausswolff), and with Ploho + Plattenbau, on the 3rd of March 2022 at Urban Spree.
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