SHAWN GREENLEE:
KATABASIS.1
3-inch CD-R / MP3 DOWNLOAD
4 MP3s at 320 kbps + 2 PDFs in .zip archive (45.1 MB)
Katabasis.1 © + ℗ Shawn Greenlee 2007, Some Rights Reserved.
Track listing:
01 - Chaldea
02 - Ataphos
03 - Empousa
04 - Henosis
Review from The WIRE #285: Both Nysa and Katabasis.1 offer hyperactive, aggressive assaults on notions of structure and harmony. All blast and breakage, these are dark, malevolent pieces, with Nysa especially combative. Greenlee is in a constant rage of erasure and defacement, destroying sound-shape after sound-shape...
Review from Vital Weekly #593: Its use of discernable devices and experimental electronica is the hall mark of interesting abstractionism whose ontology is given apriori, and this is true of the 3inch also - a very competent work - I'd consider it structured in a way that doesn't imply any danger yet still offers a definite presence as a work...