Joachim Nordwall and Aaron Turner – Malign Seeds LP

There was no premeditated methodology in place when Swedish electronics manipulator Joachim Nordwall and American guitar mangler Aaron Turner decided to collaborate on an album together. Initial experiments involved Turner submitting improvised guitar compositions to Nordwall for dissection and reassembly. While these exercises yielded interesting returns, the project truly began to bloom when Nordwall pitched several beat-oriented tracks for Turner’s perusal. Beginning from a place of structure and finding ways to corrode and disrupt the patterns proved to be a more satisfying tactic than molding chaos into something resembling cohesive form. And it was from this approach that Turner-Norwall’s Malign Seeds album took shape. From white noise to beats and drones, damaged rock, the xenomorphic sounds of Turner-Nordwall’s Malign Seeds represent both the grisly meat and the scraped-out husk of the 21st century’s niche permutations of rock music and is ultimately an exercise in language.