White Wigwam – Ground/Trigger

Published July, 2014
by Easterndaze

There is a quality to live music that often is lacking from bedroom or studio recordings. The slow, meandering build up, in anticipation of the climax (or anticlimax), the getting-lost-in-music, and the consensual surrender to the sonic mind-alteration. White Wigwam is a Prague-based musician, affiliated through various projects with the collective and label KLaNGundKRaCH. Remaining in the fringes of Prague’s experimental scene by choice, the group, even though favouring the anonymity of the collective spirit, has produced a number of intriguing projects and personalities over the years of its existence. No Pavarotti, Rouilleux, Core of the Coalman or Sister Body, just to name a few. 

White Wigwam, remains one of the more mysterious projects of the collective. Sonically, it revels in droney, psychotropic passages, coated in opiated atmospheres and dark alleyways with forlorn melodies appearing from the rhythmical structures. Ground/Trigger is a limited edition tape release, out on the blog/imprint Red For Colour Blind and the aforementioned KK.

Sourced from a live recording – all of the releases on his bandcamp are live recordings, actually – with this one made at the Cross Club in Prague in Spring of this year, it is a collection of three recordings, best listened to continuously.