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Zilmrah

Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions

(Love Earth Music

- USA)

Zilmrah: Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions (Love Earth Music)

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The debut full-length from Lawry Romani's noise/drone project Zilmrah blends manipulated samples, modular synths, and handcrafted electroacoustic instruments into intriguingly distorted yet spacious soundscapes, balancing hypnotic rhythms with dadaist absurdity and dense sonic experimentation in a captivating journey of cut-up electronics and immersive drones.

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Lawry Romani-home made electronics, modular synths, sampler

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-316
Squidco Product Code: 35883

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack

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"Lawry Zilmrah, a.k.a Lawry Romani, works with everything ranging from handmade instruments to modular synths and from what Discogs can tell me, this might be his first full-length album. It is released on the consistently productive and highly acclaimed Love Earth Music from New England, so we might have a little indication of where this will bring the listener.

Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions is only 32 minutes in total, which is a bit on the short side. But as the Atrax Morgue CD reviewed in this Vital was only 31 minutes, I'll take it. The tracks range from approximately 3 to 7 minutes and carry dadaist names like "Serial Prognosticator" and "Algorithmic Personality Syndrome". Maybe a fair dose of LSD should be given away with each sold album to get into another realm of reality; who knows, maybe the chameleon on the cover is drenched in it! (Oh no, I'm mixing them with Sonoran Desert toads).

Musically, there is a lot of sampling and resampling of sounds and some proper manipulation in between. It's hard to find the origin of the sounds and the 'handmade instruments' Lawry uses. It's all manipulated, even though authentic distorted pieces are not the main ingredient of the album. When it's all too distorted, it tends to become more of a broken wall of sound, and in these compositions, there is still enough clarity and open space to enjoy the music. Sure, there are moments where it all gets completely garbled, but those moments seem to have a function too.

After several listens, I'm still puzzled by the release. It's not something I haven't heard before, but at the same moment, Lawry has quite an original approach to things. Next to the cutup electro acoustics, there are scarce moments where the rhythmic tendency comes forward and other moments where the hypnotism comes from a droney layered soundscape (the algorithm track). Towards the end, the expression gets more extreme (read: noisy), which are the moments you can get lost in this release. For a first full album: Proper! I wouldn't mind hearing more.'-BW, Vital Weekly

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"Zilmrah is the moniker for the Noise/Drone project of Lawry Romani. The project started as vehicle to combine the hand built electroacoustic instruments that he builds with samplers and modular synths to maximize his sound design capabilities. He has worked with many noise artists & musicians over the years to varying capacities either live or studio work, with the most recent being Missing Foundation, whom he performed with, recorded & designed instruments for."-Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/100067501584219/photos/421653683428014/?_rdr)
3/26/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Serial Prognosticator 04:03

2. Hit The Crash Cart 04:06

3. Dissimilar Metal Corrosion 04:21

4. Algorithmic Personality Syndrome 07:25

5. Fabirc Of Reality 02:43

6. Absolute Zero 06:49

7. Surgical Catharsis 03:13

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