Under Milk Wood
The new LSD March album Under Milk Wood is their first full length since 2007's Constellation Of Tragedy for Important Records. With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor & the perfect touch of heavy riffage this tremendously unique and original recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground. Recorded at Black Snowflake Studios in Japan, Under Milk Wood is a fascinating ghostly rock album full of clean untreated restraint and a grounded calm compliments of Takahashi Ikuro's drumming. I…
All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord
With so damn many records pouring out, there are precious few artists who strain against sagging shelves and actually merit the “must hear” designation. One of them for me is Kevin Drumm. Widely known “guitarist” and relentless disassembler of technique, expression, and expectation, Drumm has recorded seminal solo records (first on Perdition Plastics, then the epochal Sheer Hellish Miasma), tussled in some notable duos (with, for example, RLW with Ralf Wehowsky), and even shown up to upend some …
Superstitions
Amazing early P. Bastien tape Pierre Bastien (born Paris, 1953) post-graduated in eighteenth-century French literature at University Paris-Sorbonne. In 1977 he built his first musical machinery. For the next ten years he has been composing for dance companies and playing with Pascal Comelade. In the meantime he was constantly developing his mechanical orchestra. Since 1987 he concentrates on it through solo performances, sound installations, recordings and collaborations with such artists as Pie…
L\'Enorme Tragedia
rare original tape by LA 1919 (aka La 1919 Spontaneo) were a Milanese avant-progressive band that first started life in September 1980. Their sound is electronic-based, but still consists of traditional rock-band instruments, such as electric and bass guitar (with assistance by clarinets and saxophones on later releases). Mostly though, the band uses keyboard effects and tape looping, combined with a Frippian and Frithian guitar sound, supplied by Margorani (much more evident on their second an…
Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista
Vinyl compilation devoted to "Luigi Russolo" the father of Futurist music and the first man theorizing that music has to be composed mainly by rumors And not by harmonic sounds! His music was played with an instrument "l'Intonarumori" or "Rumorarmonio" which was invented by himself! Russolo is the forefather and theorizer of the "Electronic music" concept and for sure we can say today that he was the first man playing "Industrial" muzak! For this project we found four artists which are known for…
Aybasi
Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. used gelatinous comglomerates of consubstantial sounds, mixed with discretional eviscerated noises. Antithetic metal crucibles for contemplative adherents.
Bactérie
Maurizio Bianchi has been in the game for a long time. Since the late 70's he has proved himself to be a true pioneer of industrial minimalist tactics making it a goal to "produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence." I strongly believe that the most beautiful music is made through the filters of decay and slow demise. Bacterie is a fine example of this and only a sliver of what Bianchi has done over the last 30 years.
Mectpyo Saisei
A magnetotherapeutic leakage bridled in the impartial passivity of our univocal meditations the second haemodialysis generated by maurizio bianchi and akifumi nakajima, announces the new era of untamed audio-inflammation. both operators have sharpened their pathologist scalpels to intoxicate the aural hemisphere with rhizospheric microorganisms and mononuclear blood-cells. inside the parasite plasmodium of mectpyo saisei the clinical rhythm-impulses by aube and septic piano-fragments by m.b. for…
Junkyo
First collaboration between Maurizio Bianchi and Akifumi Nakajima, the second one being the Mectpyo Saisei on Para Disc. Four long tracks of drowsy noise ambiance.
SFAG
With these rare, lost recordings (1980) Mauritio Bianchi from Milano Italy , emerges into a new century of listeners as a cult figur of experimental electronics. MB´s compositions are influenced by the power of industrial technology and its dehumanizing effect on society and the individual. MB´s electronic storms create images ranging from industrial power to chaos, confusion and violence. Limited edition.
Spiritualis
The duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pioneer soundscapers of yesteryear (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Babbitt, Subotnick) more so than any straightforward diagrammatical connection with post-jazz avant-gardists... the duo delight in erecting a quakebasket quiverfest of extraordinarily well-articu…
Zyklusters
Versatile sounds macerated during the past two years, finally assembled by Siegmar Fricke using phonematic machineries. In the academese, a "cluster" is a simultaneous musical chord comprised of consecutive tones separated chromatically. In general parlance, a cluster consists of three or more contiguous notes sounded at the same time, and the notes are sounded fully and simultaneously, distinguishing them from ornamented figures involving acciaccaturas and the like. Diametrically opposed are th…
The Valley Of Deep Shadow
Are based on Psalm 23 the brand new recordings by the great Maurizio Bianchi. Maurizio surprises us again with his Valley of Deep Shadow changing again direction and going into new unespected sonic territories. Will you walk through the darkest valley ? To be discovered.. Edition of 515 hand numbered copies.
Akoustikoriginem
Improvisation is the practice of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. It's like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. "Akoustikoriginem" is a marginal and exhausted resource for experimental diffusion of uncompromised acoustic sounds from the convergent beginnings. Maurizio Bianchi prevalently uses a…
Dead Colours
This is the reissue of a CDR published by SILENTES a couple of years ago in only 120 copies. Now finally available on CD with restored artwork. DEAD COLOURS shows the more quite side of MB... with an incredible dark melanchonic tough in vein of David Lynch's atmospheres... Fantastic!
Menstruum Regles
Decomposition instead that composition. De-structured music that instead structured music. Not to complex and articulated technologies forrecording, mixing of the parts and mastering; not to onesophisticated production and maniacal and defined participations correct in post-production... This the new "challenge" capacityto the extreme limit from Maurizio Bianchi, a new musical effort,"directed", "raw", immediate, absolutely uncompromising new, to outsideof every law and from every pre-constitute…
The Self Portrait Of M.B.
An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerabi…
Muitnelis
Phonometric composition for concrete sounds and magnetic oscillations, electronically transformed by Siegmar Fricke in the summer of 2006. "We are sorrounded by the silence, and the fascination of such silence is as much impalpable existing. Just if there are vibrator movements coming from a sonorous source, our brain is able to perceive its pitch, its intensity and its timbre decoding them to transform in sounds. If we can't get such sensibility of perception, only the absolute silence exists.…
Elisionem
'The 'elision' in the traditional music is a coercive and systematic dispositive necessary to assimilate two syllabic notes in one only. The 'elisionem', in the avant-gardist branch, is a sound absorbent course used amalgamate various sonorous elements into one. The main purpose is to generate an eclectic and axiomatic damping of the electroacoustic particles in order to proportion the achromatic fulfilment of modern concretism. And the final effect is phonographically disarming... psycho-acoust…
Blut Und Nebel
Blut und Nebel "remixes" the first ten LPs of the early 1980s, is an excellent demonstration of Bianchi's skills at dadaistic collage, free-form improvisation and abstract soundsculpting, as accrued over twenty years of electronic manipulation. Noise is employed like an electric guitar to produce solos of manic intensity.