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Operation Northwoods

by Katja Institute

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I just must tell you what I saw in a field – one young pig cross the field with a great big bundle of hay in its mouth and deliberately lay it down at the feet of an old pig. I could hardly believe my eyes. I’m sorry to say that the old pig didn’t take the slightest notice. Perhaps it couldn’t believe ITS eyes either.

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released July 26, 2017

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Vital Weekly 1094 -

So far the releases by Katja Institute came as a CDR with no cover, no print and virtually no information, and so to have four in a DVD case but with some cover, including twenty-four titles (six pieces per disc) is quite a step up I think. It says 'Ka Pahana 7' on the cover but upon looking at their Bandcamp page the title might also be 'Operation Northwoods'. They are listed as 'Memorandum 1', 'Memorandum 2' etc. and as tags we find ‘Alex Jones, Eddie Bravo, Electronic, Reflected Sound and California’, which may or may not be an indication towards band members and approach to sound. Like before the band operates within the genre of drone music with each track flowing neatly into the next. I still have no clue as to how this music is made but surely with an extensive amount of computer processing and/or sound effects cobbled together to cause some internal feedback, which is then stuck into the endless loop of delay pedals. Sometimes there is some sort of digital distortion, resulting in some clicks. The fourth disc opens with 'percussion' bits through a wall of reverb, but over the course of the other pieces on this disc the sound slowly dies out and a machine hum stays behind. The machine hum that has been part of the four discs all around. The music of Katja Institute is drone and dark, atmospheric and minimal. Sometimes, perhaps, a bit too minimal for my taste, I'd say. It seems as if the sound gets stuck in the machine and we don't know when it is going to be released. Four hours of music is quite a sit through as you can imagine, but I found it best to enjoy this at a somewhat lower volume and engaged myself in different activities, which included falling asleep for a short while. That I guess all belongs the nature of true ambient music and as such Katja Institute succeeds wonderfully well. Just below the surface, upon closer inspection, there are perhaps a few things that could be improved. (FdW)

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