A short one…
ProToHuman, to start with, is a collaboration by ProTo Carentz and EnnAycht. ProTo is a visual and aural artist from NY, known from different (vocal) performances with sometimes slightly explicit content, from weird outfits, from unusual poetry, from schizoid videos, and from disturbing (charcoal?) paintings. EnnAycht then again is the (famous) moniker of productive Industro-Noisesician Tommy Lenahan, also originating from NY (and currently living in Arizona, if I am not mistaken).
Dishumanus is their first collaborative work, consisting of four elegies that last from almost four to six minutes each (total running time: just over eighteen minutes). It’s part of a series kindly provided at the end of 2025 via David Kozin’s mostly outsider / progressive / experimental / liberal-minded label No Sides Records. It’s a 3”MCD that comes with bizarre, explicit, yet really stunning cover artwork.
The first track, DUST (This Thing Called Human), sets the tone for this four-tracker, an eighteen minutes long weird sonic experiment. DUST (This Thing Called Human) (03:54) opens quite dubby, with discordant bass-lines, eclectic bleeps, particular beats, and crazy, remarkable voices. This mixture of Dub, Industrial, Electronics and down-tuned Drone creates a feeling of discomfort and oppression, and at the same time a sense of liberation and chimera. The instrumentation permanently pushes, trying to break through walls that have not been built yet (which makes it so successful, haha).
ProToFables (04:35) also delves into a mud of Dub, D’n’B, Angst Pop and Deep Industrial. Striking is the vocal timbre, which sort of reminds of a mixture of ElizaLL (Sui Generis Umbra), Alastrelle (Dead Souls Rising) and Björk. Seriously, ProTo’s voice swims in oceans of invocative, seductive and sermonizing depths. Together with the down-themed instrumental part, it works quite intoxicating and mesmerizing.
Next comes Animals (03:49), which is much more harsh and intense in sound and execution. Distorted vocals, discordant beats, industrial keyboard-molestation and gritty noise-textures; the result is as disturbing as it is intriguing.
The mini-release ends with Sacrifice, the most lengthy track with its duration of 05:50. It offers trancelike Electronic Music, guided by a huge amalgam of beats, drum patterns and percussions, with post-industrialized sequences, evocative voices and mechanical sound-effects.
Dishumanus is an unhuman (hence the album’s title, evidently) noise-collage, an expression of contrarian organization and complex disharmony. Somehow it does work very well, for the interaction in between ProTo and EnnAycht sounds meticulously neat…
https://nosidesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/protohuman-dishumanus
https://ennaytch.bandcamp.com/album/dishumanus
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0mugAXoTaSpIVPguKMmeA
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