SIGILLUM S

DISPERSION: SLICED CARRIONS AND PIXEL HANDCUFFS

  1/  As the Snake Moves In Their Autopsies       (Bernocchi)                   5.56
  2/  R.A.W. Mindfuck                             (Bernocchi)                   2.54
  3/  Keeping High on Spreadsheet Blood           (Bernocchi)                   3.56
  4/  Virtual TOKYO Isotope Slaves                (Bernocchi)                   3.33
  5/  Microsex Succumbs to Allure of Total Media  (Bernocchi)                   3.01
  6/  Inwrought Cenobite in Meatphonick           (Bernocchi)                   5.24
                 Fast Forward
  7/  Hydraulick brains From Tolemaick Torsion:   (Bernocchi)                   6.49
                A Radiant Factory
  8/  Did You Deal With Worms?                    (Bernocchi)                   3.01
  9/  Die Pest:                                   (Bernocchi)                   24.31
       A. Xenopsylla Cheopis
       B. Canis Sydus Morbum Praenuciat
       C. Pestis Mnufacta
       D. Jung Frau/Kinetics
       E. Probe in the Sores of Power

          Produced by Sigillum S

Eraldo Bernocchi and Paolo Bandera: all sounds; Iugula-Thor: technical contribution.

          1991 - Minus Habens Records (Italy), MHCD 001 (CD)
          1995 - Verba Corrige (Italy), VCP005 (CD)

Note: The re-release is disc two of the 'Malattia' set.

REVIEWS :

Wonderful music from an increasingly well-known Italian group. The album title is representative: one surreal sound-track is titled Hydraulick brains from tolemaick torsion, a radiant factory. The music is a highly individual blend, with what seem to me to be frequent echoes of the diversity and character of Coil's music. The opening track evokes a dark ritualistic feeling through its tinkles, rumbles, and hollow laughter. In total contrast, R.A.W. Mindfuck mixes buried quotes from the works of Robert Anton Wilson with purposeful shards of noise and pounding percussion. The words don't get through but the music is still efficiently hostile. The final, 24-minute long Die Pest ranges through any number of little music worlds, from very unfriendly chanting to peculiar warbling sound-squiggle: a delightful little symphony for the damned. One or two tracks will appeal only to the sort of people who still get a kick out of treating themselves to unlistenable music, but on the whole this is a varied, imaginative and very enjoyable release.

Brian Duguid (courtesy of ESTWeb pages)