Eraldo Bernocchi, Paolo NG5361 Bandera, Luca Digiorgio
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Lou Reed, John Cale, Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Can, Faust, King Crimson, Neu, Amon Duul, Van Der Graaf Generator, Hawkwind, Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra , John Fahey, Neil Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Blue Oyster Cult, Tony Conrad, Patti Smith, Television, Black Flag, Germs, John Lydon, The Clash, Adam and the Ants, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Joy Division / New Order, Wire, Julian Cope. Throbbing Gristle, PTV, Chris Carter, Coil, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis P- Orridge, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Hafler Trio, John Duncan, Maurizio Bianchi, Merzbow, Lustmord. SPK, Boyd Rice, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Whitehouse, Zev, Hijokaidan, Masonna, Boredoms, Napalm Death, Earth, Godflesh, GRIND / DEATH / BLACK / DOOM, Skullflower, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, Michael Gira, Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Bruce Sterling, David Cronemberg, David Lynch, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger, James Ballard, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Jeff Noon, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker, Richard Kadrey, Jean Baudrillard, TOPY, Alesteir Crowley, A.O. Spare, Peter Carrol, Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Slayer, Scorn, Sepultura, midgets and freaks...too many...
"23/20" 20th anniversary album will be released on september 23rd!
Preorders start now, items will be shipped on a first come first served basis.
Now "23/20", the long awaited SIGILLUM S 20th anniversary album is finally ready.
"23/20" has 2 radically different formats : digipack CD and a limited edition gatefold double vinyl , with different track lists and sequences for each format (some tracks are on both formats, while others can only be found either on CD or vinyl).
"23/20" features sound contributions from long time Sigillum S collaborators as well from artists we estimate: to name just a few... Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Professor Shebab, SH Fernando and WordSound, Martino Nicoletti, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, ZU, Xabier Iriondo, Ephel Duath, various members of Crisis , Mark Solotroff, Thomas Fehlmann, Gudrun Gut, Andrea Marutti, Claudio Agostoni and many others.
Prices as follows:
Sigillum S "23/20" digipack limited cd edition euros 15,00, postage and packaging included. To order click the paypal button.
Sigillum S "23/20" double gatefold vinyl limited edition euros 29,50, postage and packaging included. To order click the paypal button.
Sigillum S "23/20" deluxe combo double gatefold vinyl limited edition + cd digipack euros 42,00, postage and packaging included. To order click the paypal button.
Since 1985, Eraldo Bernocchi (http://www.myspace.com/eraldobernocchi, HYPERLINK "http://www.eraldobernocchi.net/" http://www.eraldobernocchi.net/), P.NG5361.B (http://www.myspace.com/ssheretinastimulants) and Luca Di Giorgio (as well as a long list of friends and collaborators) have been working as SIGILLUM S (http://www.sigillum-s.com/ ), an Italian post - industrial audio project of many different natures, where concepts have led the effort and employed sound as a tool for the exploration of the forbidden areas of the subconscious: the result has been a endless paradigm of alien electronic mutations, merging concrete noise research with acoustic transmigration, while visuals and many other forms of media have been also adopted, in order to achieve maximum interaction intensity.
Ours is a glowing blend of occult anomalies, fringe science and esoteric carnality: here are a few compact references we wrote years ago for some of our key releases
"BOUDOIR PHILOSOPHY": the first album, dealing with DAF De Sade s philosophy thoughts and representing an imposing declaration of intents, emerging from endless symphonies of vocal agonies, ethnological references and rectified walls of tone.
"BARDO THOS GROL": a very special project, originally released as private edition of 108 tapes and then re-issued as a CD, this is re-interpreting inputs from the Tibetan Book of Dead. All the material features only original Tibetan and Nepalese instruments, treated via various particle permutations and merged with vocal rituals. This is an extremely focussed example of our approach to sound as documentation and key for gates to the unknown: moody and dense, a spiral of electro-acoustic clusters of fear and revelation.
"KLIMAX AXIS": 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), this was later re-released as a limited vinyl-only edition.
"STUDS AND DIVINITY": another originally tape-only release, recorded and published at the very beginning of the 90s, as a kind of introduction to a new phase interfacing physical performance with movie-like soundtracks, this deals with cryptic physics and frontier culture, probing border lines between oblique structure and coarse matter. A powerful reference for things to come, pushing harmonies into circuits and generating achromatic grief in return.
"HALLUCINATED MOISTURE OF SYNAPTIC SLAUGHTERHOUSE: the 2^ LP issued originally in 1991 and then collected with a 12 [Mutilated] into a global CD re-release), where the themes of mind deviation and psycho-social behaviour provided the basis for 23 compact sound explosions, ranging from delicate pitch dissection to brutal data overload: from a similar perspective, but with a different form a deranged sight-seeing of the inner regions of the human mind.
"CYBERTANTRICK QUANTUM LEAPS": with the digital era providing both new machinery and subjects, we created this in the early 90s, giving birth to a distinct brand of proton dissemination, where pulse and vibration collapse into angular jazzy twists and peculiar automations. Looking for bastard offspring from the debris of Information Technology, this filters across genres and brings in classic textures together with infra-low basses and ultra-high shrieks, in a contemporary arena for virtual sanctity.
"HELIX PARASITES": built (in 1993) 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 themselves into a screen where songs and discord eruptions may co-exist.
SIGILLUM S-"ABSTRACTION": released in 1999, here we used robust degradation and deep-rooted throbs to build transcendent objects. Tapping and hisses inflate the listening spectra with oblique passion for exotic territories, where dots become living entities and shuffle across lab displays.. a soaring indulgence for diverse iota fragmentation.
For more details on all releases, refer to our web site and to HYPERLINK "http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sigillum+S" http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sigillum+S
Meanwhile, we are working on scheduling a few live dates (of different nature) throughout 2007 (more details later).
This will be followed by a series of new releases, dealing with both unreleased stuff from the past and "to be recorded" material.
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