From the record label:
“A masterpiece of a double CD that redefines atmospheric music and noise. Electro-accoustic and industrial are forced into a coherent sound used to express the atmospheres of the 1940’s in sound. A dusty photo album of this period, transferred into sounds by one of today’s masters of sonic experimentation, the whole thing in an awesome packaging.”
From Premontion.org:
“It’s hard to believe when you listen to his productions, but James Keeler (Wilt’s only member) started his musical career as lead singer in a death metal band. Well, not so hard actually if you think of the number of musicians who transferred from noisier scenes with rather “classical” musical writing systems (starting with Scorn’s Mick Harris) and eventually managed to stand out in a completely different genre… And the two CDs composing this fourth album corroborate this irrefutable fact by plunging us in over two hours of surprising (to say the least) experimental dark ambient. Not so much so by the originality of the result, but rather by the singularity of the means used to achieve it. Though an industrial designer by trade, Keeler crafts his sounds as a jeweller or a goldsmith, as the list of his instruments suggests: glass, stone, concrete, feathers, iron… but also broken records, mattresses’ springs and radio noise, as a reference to the title of this concept album. For Keeler found his inspiration in the cultural history of the 40’s to compose all of Radio 1940’s 19 tracks, and curiously manages to transcribe the antiquated atmosphere of an era he yet never hasn’t experienced. Tirelessly, he materialises the time/space relationship by creating an atmosphere fringed with astonishing sensory landscapes, and you eventually understands why the man cites Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana or Merzbow as main influences. This ambitious project is up to the capacities of a sound creator as imaginative as he’s prolific.”
Wilt
Radio 1940
(Ad Noiseam, 2002)
Part 1 DL Link
Part 2 DL Link
01. Radio Tower
02. Noise Musique: Metal Assemblage #1
03. Social Occult Machine
04. Depression Modern
05. Propaganda
06. Silence Between War
07. Untitled Post-War Piece
08. Pale Skin Memoirs
09. Gray Transmission
10. Sandman
11. Painting Sound Into Futurism
12. Noise Musique: Metal Assemblage #2
13. To The Fallen (B&W)
14. Charcoal And Soot
15. The Shadow Out Of Time
16. Hour Of The Wolf
17. Under The Roofs Of Paris
18. Dawn Of Technology (End Time)
19. Radio Failure
