One listen.

I’ve wanted to cover this song for a bit but haven’t gotten around to it. I think it’s a great bit of music that decontextualises voice in an interesting way. Didn’t get that across though; I stuck to just trying to describe what I was hearing and that’s a bit of a shame.

Grace Jones’ “Operattack” is from Slave to the Rhythm.

I hope you enjoy.

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Cascading layers of voice descend and seemingly crash into deepness. They repeat and they cascade and crash and it is rhythmically, harmoniously cacophonous. After these loops a cut seems to echo and speed up, various phrases come and go, and repeat, and the cut returns and repeats.

More voice calls out and it is a void in which they call, and they create a space and paint an image and a frame and context, and that cut shifts pitch and speeds past, and it repeats and changes whilst remaining static.

The cascading returns, though seemingly disjointed, and it rushes and crashes and seemingly disintegrates into something else as it distorts and lowers, and it stops and the song ends.