Megafortress:
Adversary

SOT008 - digital/cassette - Edition of 50 - Oct 4 2024
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Megafortress returns from a ten year absence with Adversary, an album of searing wind synth solos, clattering drum machines, and an air of giddy foreboding.

Each song hits like a swarm of chittering insects come to devour the landscape. Real and synthetic wind instruments rub against distorted polyrhythmic machine beats, acid-etched guitars, and lurching bass.
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The songs recall ‘Rated-X’-era Miles Davis and Joe Zawinul’s pseudo-world music, mixed in an alien simulacrum of Chicago footwork. It is the sound of an unholy ritual performed by an adversarial priest.
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Megafortress is the work of New York musician Bill Gillim. Started in 2008 as a series of imaginary field recordings, Megafortress has released albums on Curatorial Club, Software/Mexican Summer, and Driftless Recordings.
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