Crawl is a one-man experimental sludge project from San Antonio TX. With his vocal mic shrouded in a parastacoidean mask, Emperor Crawl drums with one hand while. With the other, he controls a home-built bass string instrument made of actual bones. He likes to build things, he says, and to run sound through a wall of amps. The result is eloquently blackened doom with nods to Khanate's Things Viral and Sunn O)))'s Black One.
I stumbled into Crawl's incredible live performance at Sux by SuxWest, Austin's second-annual anti-sxsw noise festival. I'd originally biked to way out Bernadette's for Rat Bastard and the supremely funky Olneyville Sound System, who were at the top of their game in duo form. Crawl's set was an unexpected highlight of my time in Austin, and left the entire room stunned. After our applause faded into an uncomfortable silence (yo where's the DJ?), Emperor Crawl removed his mask to let us know that he does not have any merch— but! There is this demo recorded in 2010 that you encouraged to download and share:
A photo of Crawl's bass string instrument and video of an earlier Crawl performance after the jump...
(Photos from March Creative Commons BY Jason Sigal // Video from February via Acolyte)
Crawl: thouartdead.com | Free Music Archive | Bandcamp
Remind me of Zero Kama — not the sound but the fact that it's MADE WITH FUCKING BONES. And that's always cool.
Posted by: Editor B | March 22, 2012 at 03:42 PM
"parastacoidean"?
crayfish-like, spelled wrong?
Posted by: al d'amato | March 23, 2012 at 09:18 AM
yeah, something like that.
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