KTL 3

Limited Edition Vinyl only
One-sided heavyweight vinyl + etching by Savage Pencil [SAVX]
Packaged in a tip-on style outer sleeve, heavyweight inner sleeve and sticker

2 tracks:

1. Loud Game 5:11
2. Sunday 12:44

KTL are Stephen O’Malley [Sunn O))), Khanate] & Peter Rehberg [Pita, eMego, mimeo]

The third part of accompaniments created for the theatre piece ‘Kindertotenlieder’ by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which was premiered in Brest, France, March 2007.

Perhaps the broadest bulletin from the duo of Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg featuring 2 contrasting tracks. The layered dementia bliss of 'Loud Game' counterbalances the fried dub of 'Sunday'.

Produced by Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg on location at Vienne Wintergarden, Grenoble & Manoir Kéroual, Guilers, July 2006 & February 2007.
Cut by Rashad at D&M, Berlin, July 2007.

Photos & Doll: Gisèle Vienne
Bird: Jean-Luc Verna
Text: Dennis Cooper
Narration: Jonathan Capdeville
Design: SOMA

Previous releases:

KTL2 [eMego 085, 2007]
KTL [eMego 084, 2006]

KTL Live Archive: editionsmego.com/podcast.xml

Previous reviews of KTL2:

Aquarius (USA):

The return of KTL! Maybe our favorite of the many satellites circling the Sunn 0))). One half of that dynamic doomdrone duo, Stephen O'Malley, hooked up with Austrian noisemaker Peter Rehberg (aka Pita) a year or two back, and the result was the godlike s/t debut, the soundtrack to a performance art piece (of which this also contains elements), which we can only assume was dark and creepy, considering the music on that disc was a black hole slab of expansive subterranean drones and damaged digital buzz. KTL managed to create an intense chunk of dark art, in the midst of a million bedroom drones, so while we played that disc to death, we secretly hoped it wouldn't be the last we'd hear from these two.

Not a year later, and KTL are back, with another sprawling journey, trawling through the bottomless depths of some hellish underworld and drifting weightless through a starless black sky. A bleak, but occasionally jarring landscape of sonic mystery rife with plenty of drone and buzz.

Foxydigitalis (USA):

Compelling and engaging psychedelic result than the cold. black. void. of. space. ‘dark ambience’ of its predecessor. Between them and their guitars, synthesisers, and effects, they conjure into being a monstrous, glistening beast which lumbers about with one hideous foot in a “Virgin: Selected Ambient Works” kinda place (you know, Klaus Schulze, Hawkwind, Faust), and the other in a sort of “sparkly doom drone” mode along the lines of for e.g. Hjarnidaudi, Sunroof! You know, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno fucking in The Silver Machine to the strains of a glitcho-tronica laptop orchestra rendering “Pictures At An Exhibition”; that kinda thing. Album closer “Snow 2” effects respite, tranquilising the beast in showers of sparks and arcing electrical cables, while heavenly choirs drift past at various speeds in various vectors demonstrating the Doppler Effect, angelic-styles. Glorious. 8/10

Rock-A-Rolla (UK):

Part standalone project, part theatrical soundtrack, KTL is a drone-noise collaboration between Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg, aka Pita. Lead track 'Game' insinuates itself, its sonic weapons subtle but potent - monstrous bass so deepas to be barely audible, flickering remnants of antique circuits conversing in menacing hums. 'Theme' begins with ominoous thuds, a flagging heartbeat reverberating down empty corridors. Slowly, so slowly, a crackling, phased psychedelic progression emerges, and everythin thats not bolted down begins to levitate. There's a sweet melody in there somewhere, albeit one that's impressionistic, time-stretched and distorted beyond all reason. The similarly delirious 'Abbatoir', named after one of the suitably atmospheric venues where 2 was recorded, drifts by as toxic cloud of guitar fuzz, its string-bent howls recalling the lowing and death-cries of cattle. Not exactly a beer-chugging partybanger then... Impressive, totally absorbing and cerebral cosmic drone.

Exclaim (Canada):

KTL is the continuing collaboration between Stephen O’Malley (of Sunn O))) and Southern Lord fame) and Peter Rehberg, who is behind digital noise project Pita and the inimitable Austrian label Mego. These two juggernauts of white noise and black drone first came together as KTL to soundtrack a piece of French theatre by Gisele Vienne and novelist Dennis Cooper, and the sessions proved so fruitful that they ended up with at least two albums worth of material. 2 is closer to the lulling drones of Sunn 0))) than it is to the high-frequency digital noise of Pita, though those do filter in to devastating effect as well. Whereas 1 suffered from too many cooks in the kitchen, 2 sounds more refined, as if O’Malley and Rehberg had set aside their usual work methods and decided to make recordings that would transcend the sum of their parts. Both of these musicians have a signature sound and a core cult of fans, but on 1 they sounded as if they were holding back or, alternately, making as much noise fuckery as possible. Not so in this second instalment. Delivered over four tracks — the shortest is nearly 11 minutes, the longest over 27 —2 takes its time to build from dungeon-like doom toward mesmerising yet horrific conclusions. I can’t imagine the reactions of theatregoers to this material (my guess is more than a few clenched their teeth), but it’s safe to say that fans of O’Malley’s will rank this amongst his better outings of the last two years, and fans of Rehberg can listen to this one without earplugs.

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