Uochi Toki\/Cadaver Eyes Subsound Split Series #5 vinyl Uochi Toki/Cadaver Eyes Subsound Split Series #5 vinyl is a 180 gram LP from Subsound Records documenting a live improvisation session between an Italian band and an Israeli band who spent a full day recording together, the result being what the label describes as a desertic, death-silence landscape built around the character Necroeterno. The Subsound Split Series exists specifically for this kind of cross-cultural noise and experimental pairing, and this fifth entry delivers on that premise fully.
Uochi Toki\/Cadaver Eyes Subsound Split Series #5 vinyl
Uochi Toki come from Italy; Cadaver Eyes from Israel. The two bands came together to improvise in a live recording session over the course of a single day, with no overdubs and no editing of the recording to fit a predetermined concept or structure. The result is what happens when two bands with compatible interests in drone, noise, and experimental improvisation commit to a full day of shared sound-making and capture it exactly as it occurred. The Subsound Split Series has built a reputation for pairing underground bands from different countries in genuine, uncommercialized collaborations rather than manufactured pairings.
What the Music Sounds Like
The session is described as producing a desertic sound, silence of death, earthquakes, and aggressive sun, all in service of depicting Necroeterno, a character who decides never to change. That framing is useful for understanding the music’s intentions without requiring a literal interpretation: this is improvised noise and drone that builds a specific world, holds it without resolution, and does not apologize for the difficulty of the listening experience it creates. The day-long session gives the material a scope that shorter collaborations cannot achieve.
The Pressing
Subsound Records pressed this on 180 gram vinyl, which is the appropriate weight for a record intended to sit in serious collections of experimental and noise music. The heavyweight pressing signals the label’s commitment to the physical object and to treating the music with the seriousness it demands. For collectors who take experimental and improvised music seriously, this LP is the kind of release the Subsound Split Series was built to produce and document in the best possible physical format.
The Subsound Split Series has built a catalog of experimental collaborations that document what happens when underground artists from different countries commit to a shared day of improvisation without a safety net. The fifth entry in the series with Uochi Toki and Cadaver Eyes is the series at its most expansive and most committed, and the 180 gram LP is the physical format that gives the full weight of that commitment its proper physical presence in a collection.
