A bitter Monday evening ... a church filled with half tramp / half hipster figures ... an absence of women is notable. Apparently this was a rendition of Ravedeath 1972 but I would have no idea, as have often tried to 'like' Hecker's output, but so far not persuaded. But a gig in a church is hard to refuse.
Lights out, hush, street lights through stained glass ... a slowly building cloud of vibrato pipe organ via a multitude of effects pedals (I guess) resulting in a quite beautiful undulating fuzzed up noisy mass ... for my liking the extended peaks of deep bass driven drones could have been even louder, but that would be straying into pure noise ... but then who doesn't like pure noise ...
'Too many notes ... ' on occasion in my opinion, but the majority of the 45 minutes or so of rising, swelling, falling, wheezing, distorted, maltreated organ sounds, with a little decay / echo in places were quite a joy. Not so sure those fans expecting his more ambient efforts would have appreciated the sometimes almost industrial evening. Certainly, an event if not, a concert.
Martin
