An expanded CD reissue of Black Rain’s Obliteration Bliss, originally released on cassette via Downwards in 2023.
Degraded, faded cities now empty of people. You can hear household appliances in the kitchens still talking, but only to each other.
The phrases are distorted, unclear; broken English, Japanese and a few Korean and Chinese automated voices, syllables, shopping lists, play lists for dinner and recipes.
Somewhere one of the machines is dialled in on an isolated pre Buddhist monk chant, distant like from a high cliff meditation cell. The flow of the wide, long Black Mother River Kali Gandaki below them. Here is Obliteration Bliss A world in a flash of light. The world running faster and faster.