G-Nox's "Ventre" is the latest fatigue by French industrial veteran Gerome Nox (previously known as a band member of Nox with now members of Electronicat, Cape Fear, Zonk't and other solo projects). "Ventre" escapes the serial-killer themed concept of his previous "Blood-Red Poppies" dance/theater production and makes a decisive move toward a tense and intense blend of claustrophobic ambient-noise and throbbing power-electronics. You may think of it in terms of a cold-industrial album. I found it to be a very well done one, because of the new found balance between the right amount of noise and ambience. In other words you'll never be overwhelmed by too much and you'll always be on the verge and on the edge... Probably if you took Vidna Obmana's calm soundscapes and you processed them through the distortions of Vromb and Maurizio Bianchi and then you added some Dive/Sonar-like pulsing rhythmical structures you'd be close to the G-Nox sound. Unfortunately we didn't receive the artwork for it so we can't really say, but we hear it's nice too.

 

Reveiw by Marc Urselli-schaerer (6 July 2003) for Chain D.L.K. Web (www.chaindlk.com)