Label: Hallow Ground - HG1603

COILのライブ・ショーでの印象的なステージでその存在が知られる事となったMassimo & Pierceによるパフォーマンスアート・プロジェクトBlack Sun Productions。オリジナルは2007年に自主制作CD-Rで発表、現在は結構なレア音源と化している[Dies Juvenalis]をHallow Groundがヴァイナル再発。どこか東洋的な匂いも感じ取れるメランコリック且つストレンジなリズム作品集。このレーベルという事で作りもしっかりしています。大推薦。



The musicians and performance artists Pierce and Massimo aka Black Sun Productions initially acquired renown in the noughties with their impressive stage performances at COIL live shows.
With "Dies Juvenalis", Black Sun Productions have served up a captivating concept album. The album opens with a reflection on one's own perception (Percettive Riflessioni), which sets an unusually upbeat tone for the duo. Pierce and Massimo's heavily manipulated voices interweave with strings and oscillating beats. Over the course of ten minutes this refines the listener's perception enabling the full beauty, drama and mysticism of the music to manifest itself when the title track "Dies Juvenalis" starts. Polyrhythmic percussion and layers of sampled flute sounds provoke an altered state of consciousness: a beatific, playful and melancholic energy evocative of one's adolescence. The album closes with "Veneration XXX"; an ethereal homage to pleasure and lust.