Recording: Cetacea

Artist: Cetacea

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Steady Cafe & Bar (Kulture II), October 13, 2015.

Cetacea - [excerpt]

Kulture is culture, but louder. This occasional noise night was expertly assembled by David Jones (who performed this night as Hexzuul, but is also a member of Manticore and Bile Sister) and took place in the somewhat unlike setting of the backroom of The Steady, which feels a bit like a joint that got stuck somewhere in mid-transition from a diner to a tiki bar. This solo project from Gates' Bryan W. Bray closed out the night. Cetacea seems designed to give Bray an outlet for sounds that don't fit into Gates' heavy-doom aesthetic, but sometimes heaviness creeps in — seemingly despite himself, to gauge by his reaction to this set.