Label: Grubenwehr Freiburg

7インチスリーヴ仕様にて限定200部!!80年代よりイタリアノイズのパイオニアの一人として活動を続け、既に活動歴は40年を超えた重鎮Maurizio Bianchi。以前、氏のLP音源を出版していたドイツGrubenwehr Freiburgからの2024年新録[Bacillusmetrial Entopathogen]を入荷。終始腐敗のイメージが支配する氏のオールドスクール的方向性で仕上げられた一枚で、ササクレと歪みによる不安定なアンビエンスは毎度の如く最高。28分、17分、28分という尺の長い編成が催眠効果として見事に作用しています。





Factory-pressed CD in cardboard sleeve
housed in 7" sleeve with insert, ltd.ed. 200 copies (80 for sale via Grubenwehr)

M. B. : infectronics, muconoises, microbdrones, epithelpictures.
Fragmented sound material decomposed at Emoptyc studio in Opera, during the year 6047 A. M.
Suppurative thanks to Pharmakustik for his audiochemical interventions.
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Grubenwehr Freiburg has been amassing an impressive array of releases by highly regarded artists from the noise/industrial scene in a rather short time. This latest addition to their roster, by Italian genre pioneer M.B. (aka Maurizio Bianchi), comes as a co-release with attenuation circuit. The 75-minute CD is accompanied by an oversized 7” artwork insert, which neatly showcases the fact that M.B. is not only a prolific sound artist, but also has something to offer in the visual domain.
The three long tracks „Bacillus“, „Metrial“, and „Endopathogen“, as well as the sound sources „infectronics, muconoises, microbdrones“ point to the concerns with physical defects and decay present in M.B.'s works since its very early stages – the heritage of old school industrial's rather nihilistic outlook. Musically, M.B. makes the most of the underlying concept of inevitability: ambient loops overlap and circulate, pumping sound into the listener's ear like a heart pumps blood into organs, but gradually they slow down and die away. And from track to track the sound textures become harsher and more uncomfortable – not in a harsh noise kind of way, but in a more subliminal manner. Yet somehow the relentless pulsing – as long as it lasts – of the music is strangely comforting: as long as you can still hear these sounds, you are not dead yet.