“Par dessus bord” is the first official release of Nonobstant, the music vehicle of swiss musician and maker of strange noise machines, K.Esseiva, following 3 self- released albums on tape and cd-r. Nonobstant is somehow the child of these terrible and terrifying last four years; and as such it reflects and expresses their pathology. The sense of unreal, the terror, the violent transformation of the intimate into alien and above all the everpresent, subconscious fear that “something wicked this way comes”; they are all present in the soundscape of “par dessus bord”, transformed into eternal autumn afternoons, cold winds, motion among ruins and hidden shadows looming everywhere. As the deranged powers of control and constant surveillance colonize not only the present, but parts of the past as well, so that “even the dead will not be safe”, “par dessus bord” creates a dark and ominous time-wrapped bubble; a moment of reflect outside of the manic onslaught of the eternal now of a new totalitarianism.
