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CD Feature/ Jan-M Iversen: "Drone 1.05"

  Tobias

It must have been around midnight when I caught the last tube out of town. Due to some local anaesthesia at public places before I didn't waste a thought about the fact of being the only lonely soul straying around underground. Getting to bed and laying down my grinded bones was all I was thinking about. So, no thought about that strange metallic tube rolling in, either.

"Gee, haven't been here before", was my inner voice mumbling. "Is it Antarctica?" Well - what happened to me was the Iversen metro was taking me into the belly of the moloch. A bit of an old man reciting Dante's decent into hell through a mouthpiece full of icicles. Only that this voyage was a horizontal one - no vertical.

I passed some glacial landscapes with metallic magpies glued to the grey shifting sky. Some of them with feet frozen to the ground, you know. Me, a part inside a closed system. Suddenly - I got aware of that atrocious snarling which must have been present all the time. As the tube was converging this ominious black something in the distance - I got it. There was a big monster waiting for the new passengers to arrive.

This all came up to my mind after listening to Iversen's new one-track-album " 1.05 Drone" for about 20 minutes. The climax was drawing nearer and nearer - supsense, irritation and fascination. After passing this "big monster" - the journey goes on for another 40 minutes. It felt just a little bit willfully stretched at times...but yes: if you wanna dive down into a glacial abode for a while - this one will give you a good journey.

By Mirko Uhlig

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