JOB KARMA - set up in 1997, is an audiovisual project from Wroclaw that explores
the trans-ambient area of postindustrial aesthetics. The band was formed by
Maciek Frett and Aureliusz Pisarzewski. The visual side of the project is the
scope of Arek Baginski's contribution.
"In their suggestive live shows they combine
performance and video art showing the relations human - machines and machine
- sacrum. They picture the collapse of values at the cost of growing commercialization
of everyday individual and social existence. In the meticulously prepared musical
domain, Job Karma combines the analog and digital sound of electronic instruments
with looped movie sequences and a prepared trance rhythm."
discography:
"Cycles per Second", 2000 - CD - ARC OV LIGHT
"Oscillation Ritual", 2000 - VHS - ARS MORTA UNIVERSUM
"Newson", 2001 - CD - OBUH
"98 Mhz to Extinction", 2002 - 3'CDr - NEFRYT
"Ebola", 2003 - CD - AMPLEXUS
"Ebola + Ambient 2002 Live", 2003 - CD+CDr - AMPLEXUS
"Strike", 2005 - CD - ARS BENEVOLA MATER
"Ecce Homo", 2005 - DVD - ARS BENEVOLA MATER
"Tschernobyl", 2007 - CD - ARS BENEVOLA MATER
And if this new place appears to be as nice for gigs as I think it is, we'll definitely have to work on something... Just have to find the good timing!
Thank you for adding me. The sound effects-samples in Shekle was incredible. You create such an atmospheric alien sound. Really impressive synth. I love that delay on the drum beat. Tension had such a bazaar feeling. The distant screams/samples were interesting. Keep up the awesome work and keep in touch, J
As winter hibernation and spring awakening gives way to summer, Halo Manash rises radiant into luminosity, with wings spread into all worlds, and brings forth Taiwaskivi, an opulent work of solar ambience and primordial Ur-music.
Taiwaskivi, a work of sonic flame and aural ash, consists of seven interrelated tracks, utilizing such diverse instrumentation as organ, horns, vocals, drums, gongs, percussions and various string instruments as well as field-recordings captured during the pilgrimage that the creation of the work embodies.
An air of finality abounds, as Taiwaskivi, although a complete work in itself, can also be viewed as the third and final facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation – a treelogy, with seed, root, trunk and finally, branches. Being the culmination of an ascending journey through the aforementioned realms within and without, Taiwaskivi is the celestial crown at the peak, reaching toward Sol, source and beyond; it is the leaves and fruit of the branches and their skybound nectar ever-flowing - the sacred fire, the consummation and conjunction of All.
Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet. Two different editions are available; regular CD edition and CD + DVD with inserts. Both are limited to 500 copies.
