Genre/Influences: Experimental, Industrial.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: Robin Storey (Rapoon, Zoviet France), Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique), and Shaun Sandor (Promute) met a long time ago. They also started releasing music under the Old Castle moniker for a few years.

Content: The work clearly appears to be a good old improvisation session resulting in a sonic puzzle. It might be linked to the early years of Kraut music.

+ + + : The least I can say is that Old Castle are simply into free-style. You might recognize different influences -I personally like passages featuring deep bass lines and Industrial sound treatments, but in the end it always remains unpredictable.

– – – : I’m missing structure and cohesion which you clearly can’t expect listening to such a sound experiment.

Conclusion: A complete anarchistic sound experiment; kind of sonic Dadaism.

Best songs: “Rage Goat”, “Nightmare Fuel”.

Rate: 6.

Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum

About Old Castle

Old Castle is the trio of Robin Storey (Rapoon, Zoviet France), Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique) and Shaun Sandor (Promute). “Artwork 51”, released 10 December 2022 on Zoharum, is the group’s second album for the label, built from improvisation sessions rooted in the early Kraut tradition, pressed in a 300-copy limited edition across digital and CD formats.

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