Sigillum S
Members: Paolo Bandera
Riconnessione Iconoclastica Sacrale
“Does destruction of sacred images imply anything for the erosion of the role of the imperial icons? Because divinity being destroyed is not a representation of a spiritual form disappearing, but a consequence of historian interpretation, scientists are doing exactly what everyone would do when tripping in ego-fixation, creating a transformation which is itself subversive and self-deconditioning. The church of the Virgin has been rebuilt and lavishly refurbished, due to major insights regarding …
Cut UP. Deconstructing William Burroughs
* 200 copies limited edition. * Between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, the literary and stylistic technique of William S. Burroughs (Saint Louis 1917-Lawrence 1997) influenced an entire generation that was, in those years, in direct collision with the social system. A somewhat controversial and brilliant figure, a man on the fringes of civilization. From his mind emerged the creative writing technique that burst onto the scene under the name of Cut-Up. This procedure was pr…
Boudoir Philosophy
**Original 1988 copies of this obscure classic, few copies in stock** First LP album by these Italian post industrial legend (of Broken Flag fame), published by the Milanese label ADN, this is their praise of Marquis de Sade, entitled Boudoir Philosophy and inspired by the book of the same name: this is ritual dark electronica at their best. Formed in Milan, Italy on 23 December 1985 by Paolo Bandera (Sshe Retina Stimulants), Eraldo Bernocchi, and Luca Di Giorgio. Their unique sound is derived f…
Manuale di cultura industriale (Book)
*2023 stock. Italian language edition* This edition of "Manuale di CUlturea Industriale" entirely revised, updated, and increased by more than fifty percent from the previous edition edited by Paolo Bandera, remains the reference text of an uncompromising counterculture that has been able to resist the blandishments of the market for twenty years.
Music, performance, radical philosophies noisily sing the end of the industrial age. From here all "hard" musical forms have taken inspiration, from p…
Unburdened Underpass
Tip! “… extreme existentialism, an act of pure and unadulterated audio commentaries about old age, the transformation of libido and the irreversible path to death … naked and raw as spilled guts, while sophisticated as a post-sociology tome, an exercise in psychology dissection… deadly / funnily serious and fully unpredictable… voices explodes like dying worms and howling monsters, noises like falling stars and sudden earthquakes, frequencies like injected poisons and rumbling cascades… words in…
Endometrio / Endometrio De-Composto
*2022 stock* "Towards the end of 1982, I was living a moment of creative stagnation, and for avoid the risk of repeating myself with sterile modular secrations, I had an arterial idea: filering ancient recordings of mine through the aid of an Aiwa mucus echo machine , and so I set to process the sounds, transforming them into something completely new, so I coined the term “bionic music”, composed by concrete sounds recycled with electronic spraying… And as main theme I used the medical syncretis…
Klimax Axis
*300 copies limited edition* The work appeared originally in 1988 on cassette (between the first 2 Sigillum S vinyl LPs), thanks to Misty Circles, and was re-released as a limited, vinyl-only edition in 1999 by OEC. After having been available only through DL and streaming for many years, Klimax Axis has now been re-mastered specifically for the disc medium by Eraldo Bernocchi and has been visually enhanced through a blackened repackaging by Petulia Mattioli.
Here Sigillum S started shifting the…
Metamorfosi Asincrona e Discontinuità Biologiche
*200 copies limited edition* Hot on the heels of some striking recent productions, Corrado Altieri (Uncodified, Candor Chasma, Monosonik, TH26) and Paolo L. Bandera (Sigillum S, SSHE Retina Stimulants, Iugula-Thor, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons and much more) join forces for a brand-new collaboration, deploying audio science-fiction with a profound body horror obsession, in love with the intoxicating radicalism of extreme sound tissue surgery. Recorded, manipulated and assembled through a three-year p…
Coalescence of Time: Other Conjectures on Future
Sigillum S, have been covering unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics and occultist noise since 1985.The result has been an endless series of mutations, where, from the droning ritualism and ethnic explorations of the late ‘80s through the surreal science fiction soundtracks of the ‘90s, they have arrived at the super deep complexity of the new millennium.
Jenseit Der Anerkennung
Following many previous encounters of various nature (collaborations, split releases, sharing live line-ups, etc.), Joel Gilardini (The Land of Snow, Mulo Muto, Psychic Drones) and Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S, SSHE Retina Stimulants, Iugula-Thor, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons and much more) get back together for a very different new project “Jenseits Der Anerkennung”, released under their own names. An isolationist exercise in sonic psycho-geography, the album takes a series of Berlin-inspired images as…
Simulacra
"First released in 1989 as a tape on the legendary German label Cthulhu Records and re-released in 1998 by OEC as limited vinyl, this legendary album by Ain Soph and Sigillum S finally sees the light for the first time on CD format. An absolute masterpiece of Ritual Music by those two primer Italian post-industrial acts."
Socio-Magnetic Theory Of Fictional Mating
Private Edition of 30 hand-numbered copies. In the early 80s Paolo Bandera was a founder (along with Eraldo Bernocchi) of the monumental collective post-industrial Sigillum S. (of Broken Flag label's fame). In 1993 he created his solo project SSHE Retina Stimulants devoting himself to sharpen the edges of concepts and noise extremes. This ultra limited release is made together with Lorenzo Abattoir.
The Irresistible Art Of Space Colonization And Its Mutation
CD Edition. Sigillum S, the Italian deranged explorers of unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics and occultist noise, are back with a new album, the first one featuring the line-up of Eraldo Bernocchi, Paolo “NG5361” Bandera and Bruno Dorella.Since 1985, Sigillum S have been continuously developing their own special brand of post-industrial audio investigations, where theories lead trajectories and sound is employed as a tool for mapping of neglected areas of the subcon…
Organic Skyscrapers & Occult Wastelands
'I really don't know what to say... I have just released a 10' by my favorite band! Released to coincide with the first Sigillum S concert in the US, which we hosted in Chicago on June 7th, 'Organic Skyscrapers & Occult Wastelands' features three brand-new tracks. With unusual electronics, processed and treated guitars, piano, etc., and a host of other elements, rhythms and loops, it takes the listener on a bizarre and beautiful journey.The music and imagery of Sigillum S has intrigued and capti…
Bedscanner Philosophy: An Updated Boudoir Mode
Here it is: originating from source material previously released as the first SIGILLUM S vinyl LE "BOUDOIR PHILOSOPHY" (ADN, 1988), this is the digital perspective, a re-recorded, re-engineered version for contemporary absorption. Underlining the stark proposal of the analogical description with the surgical precision of technological evolution, the final result is a mirror for beams to feedback from present cascade to past streams and back again...UNLlMlTED RE-DEFINITION. A sonic manifesto of t…
Klimax Axis
Long deleted, Limited to 400 numbered copies edition. "here we started shifting our early drones and layers into concentrated outbursts of maniac consistency, reaching out for initiatory spasms of disjointed rhythms and super saturated vocals. Originally released in late 80s as tape only (between the first 2 LPs)"
23/20
This is the double LP version, featuring a full colour gatefold cover, full colour inner sleeves and 180 Gr. heavy vinyl ! "More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts of sonic pleasure: voices and drones clans across plans and peaks, fishing for universal tremors and sensorial catastrophes... iconic translations of lost symbols flow like pathogenic lava into temporal sequence and weather forecasts become performa…
Helix Parasites
"HELIX PARASITES": built on the idea of genetic modification via new channels, this is probably our most diversified and composite work so far. With a strong trend for rhythms and subliminal pipes, it has at the same time some of the most outlandish moments in digital psychedelia, where tons of events seem to happen in parallel. This is the voice of the incisive nucleus of newly born cells, extracted from the dreams of an artificial intelligence still to be conceived: lines of atomic maps draw t…