Genetic Transmission – News From Wormland (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Noise.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Originally released in 2002 as a limited CDR on Genetic Transmission’s own label Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk the album has been now re-edited by Zoharum. The work features the same tracklist while the front cover is nearly identical.
Content: This is a totally Experimental/Abstract album which is also defined as Electroacoustic music. Is it really about music or collecting and manipulating noises. The work sounds like a true sonic collage. It all sounds improvised and a mishmash of isolated sounds, crispy noises and crashing effects.
+ + + : Tomasz Twardawa remains a reference in this particular and extreme sonic universe. It’s an anarchistic sound production which will mainly appeal to lovers of improvisation.
– – – : You’d better avoid this work if you’re not addicted to Experimental/Electroacoustic productions. I’m missing visual content listening to the work.
Conclusion: “News From Wormland” brings us back to the essence of Experimental music which is mainly meant to please a restricted number of listeners.
Rate: 6.
Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum
About Genetic Transmission
Genetic Transmission is the main recording name of Polish artist Tomasz Twardawa, active in the country’s underground industrial and noise scene from the mid-1980s, when he also co-founded the groups Zilch, Ładne Kwiatki and Godzilla. Genetic Transmission’s debut material appeared on an OBUH cassette in 1997. Twardawa ran his own label, Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk, through which he issued his own recordings and side projects with other musicians, and released over 30 albums under the Genetic Transmission name before his death on 16 July 2020 following a long illness. Editorial note: this review, first published in the original format, states Twardawa passed away in 2002; verified sources place his death in 2020, and the correction is noted here. Zoharum has continued to reissue Genetic Transmission’s early, self-released material, including “News From Wormland”, originally issued as a limited CDR in 2002.
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