THE BODY & DIS FIG - Audiotree live

I'll leave it to you if you read this post as an actual review or just an appreciation of anticipation. Because almost everytime Roadburn posts anything about one of the shows and artists of the upcoming edition of the festival, I'm like: Wow, this looks way too interesting! It will be a hell of cruel clashes...

And this new Audiotree live session / digital EP just falls right into that sentiment as a preview of one of the many amazing experiences to chose from come April.

THE BODY & DIS FIG - Audiotree live (Download) (2025)

Holy cow! No, actually "Holy Lance" is the first track of this live performance. The American duo The Body provides eery textures of Ambient and noises, which soon develop into a slow and super heavy clod of Sludge, which Berlin-based singer / Electronic artist Felicia Chen aka Dis Fig uses as a pedestal for an intensly powerful and emotional vocal performance. While her voice is distinct from both of them, the fearless mindset of her singing reminds me a lot of Big|Brave's Robin Wattie and fellow Experimental artist Otay:onii.

The longest track "Coils of Kaa" amps up all qualities of the opener, adds more effects and Noise both from The Body and Dis Fig, while her voice gets more daring and extreme and is aided by Chip King's infamous weird shrill shrieks (which arguably chip away at many listeners' attraction to The Body). 

Even with a different, more synthetic sound palette the slow atmospheric and majestic Drone of "Back To The Water" finally feels very akin to - again - Big|Brave. And it's fucking incredible - what a beautiful brutal Doom Noise masterpiece! Yeah, I always dig a great Audiotree session. And these twenty-three minutes very certainly aren't the exception. Quite the opposite.

So I guess I should really check out that studio album from last year, which they made together, right? And of course hope hope hope with twenty fingers crossed, that their Roadburn show will be attendable for me without major crashes.