Artist: Atish Pare
Title: Satan Is The Only Friend I Got
Format: 12″ clear lathe
Label: Blod
Cat nr: BLOD#21
Genre: Ambient/Industrial/Electronica
Tracklist
| A1 | Born Naked, Buried In A Suit (Knots Of Life Mix) | |
| A2 | Hizbollah Dub | |
| A3 | Swim! Damned! Swim! | |
| A4 | Cloth Ear | |
| A5 | I’m Dying (My Feelings Are Hurt) | |
| B1 | Buddhist Violence | |
| B2 | Former Buddhist New Born Evangelist | |
| B3 | You Kill ‘Em All (By The Crack Of Dawn) | |
| B4 | The Corporate Lie That Ruined Our Lives | |
| B5 | Drinking Rain, Stealing Petroleum (Spite Cathedral – So Hungry, So Angry Mix)
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| B6 | I Taught Myself To Be Cruel | |
| B7 | Sactimonious Smile | |
| B8 | The Soul Laundry | |
| B9 | Wreck The Sunshine |
‘Satan Is The Only Friend I Got’ is an album full of slogans and pretexts used by many religions for generations to dominate mainly human fear.
Atish Pare (aka Dan Stielow Mortazavi aka Spite Cathedral’s Persian moniker) draws influence from this unnatural but real environment to create a sonically heterogeneous and descriptive work.
Each story expresses a situation sought by the author himself; ‘Born Naked, Buried In A Suit (Knots Of Life Mix)’ is shown as a pleasant and relaxed journey, with several layers flowing and intermingling in a gentle way until their disintegration. ‘Hizbollah Dub’, focuses on the combative aspect derived from violent religious fractions, a context that it conveys in sonic form in continuous bursts. Other tracks such as ‘Swim! Damned! Swim!’, ‘Cloth Ear’, ‘Buddhist Violence’, ‘The Corporate Lie That Ruined Our Life’, ‘I Taught Myself To Be Cruel’, ‘Sanctimonious Smile’ or ‘The Soul Laundry’, emulate fear, distrust or evil, basically generated from metallic, degraded and corrosive textures.
The content of the fourteen tracks is diversified in style and has communicative purposes. The concept of ‘I’m Dying (My Feelings Are Hurt)’ evokes a sacred and dignified moment, like a fanfare that presages the end of a glorious era. ‘Former Buddhist New Born Evangalist’ is brief, subtle and concise, with a rhythmic structure that manifests transition. ‘You Kill Them All (By The Crack Of Dawn)’ is a mental and totally psychological track, and it is remarkable
how a single arpeggio can perfectly convey this idea. ‘Drinking Rain, Stealing Petroleum (Spite Cathedral – So Hungry, So Angry Mix)’ is the consequence of the greed and misery that humanity endures, with an intimidating sonic undertone that puts the listener on alert. ‘Wreck The Sunlight’ closes the album with an apocalyptic plea in which biblical trumpets intermingle with earthly alarms.
Music: Dan Stielow Mortazavi.
Mastering: John Reidar Holmes.
Artwork: Alien Ink.
Catalogue number: BLOD#21
