The music of Beneath the Lake is based upon compositions of soundscapes using samplers, guitars, bass, wind instruments, organs, effect processors, and field recordings to generate sound. The concept behind the music is to create a juxtaposition between the natural world and the industrial world. Many of the songs on the debut release The Inside Passage were influenced by time spent in rural Wisconsin and a past experience traveling up Alaska's coastal water way where the music invokes images of a barren landscape where nature in inherently more powerful than any human invention or alteration of the environment. Natural sample sources in the music include the sounds of Whales, Wasps, Water, Wolves and Wind.
The second full-length recording Silent Uprising continues in a similar vein with an emphasis on more melodic guitar playing and the influence of the urban landscape. The recording invokes images of a desolate rust-belt city where industrialism has begun to decline and nature has begun the process of re-growth.
The two members of Beneath the Lake, Nicolas Lampert and Dave Canterbury each have a long history in soundscape music. Nicolas Lampert (Milwaukee, WI) was a member of the Oakland, California based experimental-noise-punk band, NOISEGATE, from 1995-2000. During this time, NOISEGATE released two full-length recordings on the San Francisco label Tumult and toured the US and Canada extensively. Nicolas Lampert also set up numerous experimental-noise shows at the 40th St. Warehouse in Oakland, California for local and touring acts such as MERZBOW (Japan), MASONNA (Japan), ILLUSION OF SAFETY (Chicago), TRIBES OF NEUROT (Oakland), CAROLINA RAINBOW (San Francisco), UBZUB (Oakland), CRAWL UNIT (Sacramento), DEERHOF (San Francisco), THE THROWNS (Salem)
Dave Canterbury (Black Earth, WI) has self-released numerous recordings with the experimental-noise band, WAGE CLASS SLAVE and solo ambient-drone project DUST since the early 90's. He records and engineers all of the material by Beneath the Lake and his other sound projects.
Beneath the Lake exists currently as a studio band.
BENEATH THE LAKE <> COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY:
BENEATH THE LAKE "Silent Uprising", CD
(released in 2005, Glass Throat Recordings)
Track Listings:
01. The Empty City
02. Fire/Rain
03. Silent Uprising
04. Chasm
05. Blind Inspiration
V/A "Record of Shadows Infinite", CD
(released in 2003, Crucial Blast)
Track Listings;
01. Ruhr Hunter "In Memory with Blackest Wings I fly"
02. Troum "Uswena"
03. Unearthly Trance "Scarlet"
04. Thuja "Cave Floor"
05. House of Low Culture "A.T. Drone Home"
06. Scot Jenerik "Of a Dead God"
07. Amon "Drone/Evidence/Foundation"
08. Chaos as Shelter "Nihil"
09. Beneath the Lake "Hong Kong"
10. Francisco Lopez "Untitled #133"
BENEATH THE LAKE "The Inside Passage", CD
(released in 2002, Glass Throat Recordings)
Track Listings:
01. Water
02. Inside Passage
03. Tree Descendant
04. Near the Horizon
05. Temporal Tributary
06. Kutna Hora
07. Frail Singing Spirit
08. Nature Devastated
NOISEGATE <> Complete Discography
(previous band for Nicolas Lampert)
NOISEGATE "Suspended Animation, ambient recordings vol. 1", CD
(released in 2000, Tumult)
Track Listings:
01. As We Were Walking
02. Resuscitation
03. The Calling
04. Suspended Animation
05. Chorale
NOISEGATE "The Towers Are Burning", CD
(released in 1999, Tumult)
Track Listings:
01. The Towers Are Burning
02. Solar Eclipse
03. There Were Flies
04. Alamogordo
NOISEGATE / K.K. NULL "Split" 7"
(released in 1999, Wagenhalt Recordings)
Track Listings:
01. K.K. Null
02. Noisegate "We Stood There Watching"
V/A "In-Formation, a Tribute to Throbbing Gristle", CD
(released in 1999, ADR)
Track Listings:
01. Lockweld "Subhuman"
02. Psywarfare "6660's"
03. Radiosonde "Hot on the Heels of Love"
04. Zipper Spy "Octobre"
05. The Wizards of War "Distant Dreams"
06. Lesser "Hamburger Lady"
07. Non "Discipline"
08. 5/5/2000 "Ecoli"
09. Melvins "Track Five"
10. MSBR "Zyklon Bzombie"
11. Concentrick "ab/7z"
12. Noisegate "Persuasion"
13. 3 Bloody Monkeys "What a Day"
14. The Spacewurm w/Crash Worship "Scorched Earth"
15. Deerhoof "Blood on the Floor"
16. Abdomen "United"
17. Eric Core "Subhuman"
NOISEGATE "The Towers Are Burning", LP
(released in 1997, One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Track Listings:
01. Solar Eclipse
02. Towers Are Burning
WAGE CLASS SLAVE <> Complete Discography
(previous band for Dave Canterbury)
V/A "Total War Against State and Capital", CD
(released in 2001, Hidden Power Enterprises)
Track Listings:
01. Eye "Grave New World"
02. Bastard Noise "Mentality of Doom"
03. Hermit/Jalopaz "Consume-Conform"
05. Kamp Chaos "Anachitect"
06. KJDF "The Greatest Jihad"
07. Creed of Water "Revolution"
08. Christoph de Babalon "Buried in Cyberspace"
09. Wage Class Slave "Stratagem"
10. Wendy-O-Matik "Westbound"
11. Bomb20 "Reagonomics"
12. Jacinth "Corporate State"
13. Shiftplus "This is Hardcore"
14. Dyslexis Coup "Fuck America"
15. Unicorn "Fountain Hughes"
16. Ene "Ambient Government"
WAGE CLASS SLAVE "Pinched Hospital Pain", tape
(self released in 1998)
Track Listings:
01. Pinched Hospital Pain (one)
02. Pinched Hospital Pain (two)
V/A "Circuit Noir: Volume Two: A Collection of Dark Elektroniks", CD
(released in 1998, The United Endangered Front)
Track Listings:
01. Redonjon "Requiem/Ascent"
02. Testube "Convinced"
03. Eye "Blind Progress"
04. Fate Razor "Cold Comfort Logic"
05. Infrastructure "Governed by Time"
06. SMP "Pre-Emptive"
07. The Azoic "Parylize"
08. Wage Class Slave "Undercurrent"
09. Clone DT "Store and Forward"
10. Fockewolf "His Lost Reflection"
11. Bride of the Atom "Ibis Rising"
12. Nothing Inside "S.F.B.S.D."
13. Noxious Emotion "Cover Me Up v2.0"
14. Wrack Process "Last Breath"
15. Aya "Psychological Warfare"
16. Anti-Music Foundation "All the Pretty Colors"
17. End
V/A "Circuit Noir: A Collection of Dark Elektroniks", CD
(released in 1997, The United Endangered Front)
Track Listings:
01. The Azoic "The Intimate Incisions"
02. Eye "The Key"
03. Crimson Boy "Love Gone Wrong"
04. Numantre "Les Coeurs Danger"
05. Oneiroid Psychosis "Effacement of Projects and Purposes"
06. Fockewold "I am God"
07. Anti-Music Foundation "Your Loss"
08. Cesium 137 "Smegma"
09. Wage Class Slave "Fragmented"
10. Noxious Emotion "Nitrogen"
11. Nefarium "Dream Releaser"
12. Separate Faith "Synergy"
13. Society Burning "Broken"
14. Marble Orchard "Dementia"
15. Redonjon "Veracity"
WAGE CLASS SLAVE, "Standard Structural Adjustment Policy", CS
(self released in 1996)
Track Listings:
01. Arbitrary Deprivation
02. To Perpetuate
03. Manifest Destiny
04. Two Hundred Thousand b.t.u.
V/A "Cyberpuncture", CD
(released in 1996, The United Endangered Front)
Track Listings:
N/A
WAGE CLASS SLAVE "Assigning Monetary Value to Human Life", CS
(self released in 1995)
Track Listings:
01. Welding Oneself Into a Cage
02. Collapse
03. Dismemberment
04. Decay
05. Entanglement
06. Void
07. Prosthesis
08. Human Machine
Contact:
www.glassthroatrecordings.com
beneath the lake
PO Box 154
Black Earth, WI 53515-0154
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