CRISIS -Reactor4 - (Syndrom Records-UK-2009)

The Crisis project came about in early 2009 after recording the album ‘Reactor4’. Reactor number 4 was the nuclear reactor that exploded within the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, in 1986. It was considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history. The disaster left the city of Prypiat abandoned. To this day the city remains an exclusion zone. The recordings on this album were made to create a soundtrack to the whole era, when in 1986 the Western world learned of the disaster.(Crisis are not linked to the early punk band of the same name).[from Discogs]

The project CRISIS hailing from the UK and came to life after the recordings for ’Reactor4’ were finished. The album got his name from the notorious “Reactor 4” that ultimately caused what is commonly referred to as Chernobyl. For most of us, this is merely a name we connect with a nuclear disaster that happened long time ago. But in fact, it’s one of the most horrifying nuclear catastrophes mankind has experienced in recent history and this album is for us to see it that way again.
If you push the play button, you’ll be entering a desolate environment. In the beginnings, it feels almost like you’d be sort of examining the remnants after the catastrophe with a team of specialists, so from a more detached view, but then a disquieting dread about the cold, dehumanized nature of this place overcomes you. You’re starting to feel the terror that still haunts these ruins, the fear the employees must have felt, the fear of dying. As you walk on you can hear voices all of a sudden; muffled voices buried under the dust of decades, desperate cries and alarms sounding through the corridors like all of this is just happening. ‘Reactor4’ revives all these past events in your mind; makes them horrifyingly real. For that purpose, the project employs cold industrial sound sculpturing coupled to an array of overdriven electronic noises.
Also the voices aren’t a product of a vivid imagination; this is indeed original audio material from the Chernobyl disaster. In my view this underpins once more the graveness of the compositions. All that’s left to say at the end now is that the debut album of this mysterious new project marks an ambient highlight in a year that’s drawing close to its end. I am already looking forward to the next release.(review taken from Reflections Of Darkness webzine)

An interesting interview to this project is on the Syndrom Records blog.    click me