Andrew Liles - (2014) The Equestrian Vortex 10''

Nurse WIth Wound's Andrew Liles serves a shit-the-bed rework of the score to Berberian Sound Studio's Giallo inception, 'The Equestrian Vortex'. Spinning the tale of "a coven of witches presiding under a riding academy" into his own demented yarn, Liles adapts the score to create a miasmic trip into the unconscious, soundtracked by the petrified screams and unheimlich incantations of Giallo actresses Silvia, Claudia, and Elisa. Quite honestly, it's f**king terrifying stuff. The A-side, 'Our Confessions were merely a formality. The acts that prompted our signatures are what remain here' makes particularly disturbing use of disembodied, blood-curdling shrieks, the sort you do not want to hear IRL, interjected by bone-freezing drone passages. The B-side, 'Lord, we beseech you' bears witness to the coven's conspiratorial dialogue and creeps under the skin more subtly, climaxing with a torture chamber noise inferno. Shocking record.