POMassacre zugeschnitten

Konzert

Freitag 09.05.2025   20:30 - 22:00

P/O MASSACRE

P/O MASSACRE
Anton Ponomarev, electronics, saxophone
Anton Obrazeena, guitar, electronics, knife
  
New album presentation!

"Leviathan" released by Utech Records (US)

"The indomitable Massacre, Anton Ponomarev (Electronics) and Anton Obrazeena (Guitar, FX, Knife), return to Utech Records with one of their most ferocious releases to date. Leviathan is a relentless assault. Pure apocalyptic walls of sound built around Ponomarev’s fierce electronics and the roar of Obrazeena’s guitar. Recorded live at Juckpulver festival in Marburg, Germany".

https://masssacre.bandcamp.com/

 
Support act by MIRIO
 
Noise-spilled, improvised gestures. Mutual spirals and fractured repetitions, unfolding through a shifting frame.

The live project of Zurich-based musician and composer Piero Scherer follows the pull of movement and moment, guided by a prone system of feedback and unstable signals. No script, no fixed form. Just a detour through unheard territory, a feral garden of detuned drones and broken loops, an outgrowth of musical debris.
 
  
P/O MASSACRE
Their music is an unearthly ever-shifting roar, sometimes identifiable as the product of guitar and saxophone but just as often not. An immersive world of pure sound that fills the room as easily as it empties out your skull.
Their debut self-titled album was released on Utech Records in 2021. A downtuned wall of distortion so thick you can almost scoop it up in your hands and rub it on your face. This album is an immersive world of pure sound that fills the room as easily as it empties out your skull – an exquisite journey to the endless soundscapes of drone.
Two years after P/O MASSACRE goes deeper in their immersive noise experimentation with their second album "Aural Corrosion". Collaboration album with Alex Buess (Swiss musician, composer, sound engineer and 16-17 band leader) and Merzbow (Masami Akita). It’s a journey of pure sensation, destruction, and rebirth. A skull-vibrating sound decomposition to your face.
Third album "Sonic Oblivion" has a different impact. This nearly two-hour-long album features knife-sharp and grave-deep guitar noises by Obrazeena, apocalyptic electronics and shrill saxophone avalanches by Ponomarev, alongside electroacoustic textures and found sounds.

“Cutting through with clanging post-punk tones like signals sent through clouds of poison gas. The electronics are dubbed outwith static and distorted samples pulsing in away that recalls Autechre at their most mean-spirited… Overpowering the listener with massive whooshes and roars, but there's a frantic beat at the heart of it all. lt's like listening to a set by Pan Sonic played from inside a sandstorm.” (Phil Freeman, The Wire 469)

The resulting music is an unearthly ever-shifting roar, sometimes identifiable as the product of guitar and saxophone but just as often not. Obrazeena’s guitar frequently starts out as an almost country-tinged drone before turning into a downtuned wall of thick, syrupy distortion you can almost touch. Ponomarev’s sax screeches and bellows, and his electronics create a dense pulse, with needle-sharp sine waves piercing the waves of static and reverberant atmospheres. The absence of rhythm allows them to concentrate on hearing and reacting to each other without worrying about time, creating an immersive world of pure sound that fills the room as easily as it empties out your skull - an exquisite journey to the endless soundscapes of drone.” (Phil Freeman)

The deep sub tremble of 2 creative minds! This shit is FOR REAL! Image-rich walls of pure and raw energy gushing over us. Holding the instant NOW hostage. A super-intense and cleansing audio-bath of a new era! In an extremely great and creative mix, these two Russian masterminds take no prisoners! I LOVE this! Radical brutal poetry and in-your-face outer space ROCK! This is an antidote of a massacre – this brilliant BEAST is of healing qualities. This is a radical new approach and attack on all previous attempts of making Noise. Face melting beauty!” (Mats Gustafsson).

This duo from Anton Ponomarev and Anton Obrazeena pushes free improvisation to its limit, bordering and often venturing into the realm of pure noise music. The album (Sonic Oblivion) is a tour de force, a relentless assault on the senses that needs to be experienced in one sitting and at dangerously high volume. Its four pieces are purposeful exercises in tension and sonic exploration through a heavily distorted guitar, noisy electronics, samples and a screaming saxophone, all focusing on texture and volume over rhythm or melody in pursuit of pure catharsis. The final track is a more conceptual piece of contemporary music, revolving around the processed sample of the plane Obrazeena flew leaving Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. A long, loud and challenging release, that's freeing and purifying the way great noise music can be.” (William Rossi)