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digitalis vinyl (uk) #digiv038 lp

perispirit “spiritual church movement” long playing record

  • 14th annual séance

  • attn: deficit order
january 2012 release ; ... finally available, the “proper” debut album from luke moldof & ricardo donoso’s perispirit ...

... after ricardo’s recent success at forming cinematic, flowing electronic miniatures & luke’s solo guitar transgressions & (recent) modular synthesizer prowess, it’s easy to forget that, at their core, their perispirit duo always shared a love for jarring juxtapositions of noise-addled musique concrète ... here, across two side-length pieces, the duo cover an impressively wide area of ground, from the minimal crackle interference & low-bit blur of opening gambit, all the way through the melodic sub-bass arpeggiations of the closing minutes ...

this does a bang-up job at capturing a certain ca. 2012 zeitgeist, an apparent internal conflict in embracing both the noise-world’s sustained grey catharsis & the kind(s) of ever-so-slightly more variegated emotional timbres available with virtually identical tool-sets ...
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digiv038: perispirit "spiritual church movement" lp

it's almost winter as i write this and i am pretty sure everything is about to fall apart. perispirit is the duo of ricardo donoso and luke moldof and they have been haunting the northeast for a couple of years now. after a slew of releases on hospital & ricardo's own semata productions, spiritual church movement has perispirit taking an unexpected turn as they unleash their most cohesive and accomplished work to date.

spiritual church movement is the sound of two worlds colliding and forming something entirely new in the aftermath. in this case, digital and analog systems are turned against each other. moldof's analog source material was blitzed and manipulated while donoso worked his sorcery via digital matrix, showing that both approaches can win the prize. squalid sonic debris spilled out and melted together with beats that are barely there and melodic shrapnel to create this weirdly compelling, utterly disjointed composition. this is dense music with layer-upon-layer of treatments and tones that could only be combined by two people who are as confident as they are diabolical.

if you thought moldof and donoso were concerned about expectations, spiritual church movement is proof that that is the last thing on their minds. synthesizers are mauled by digital processes, battered down to bare bones. the duo turns these passages of melody into disease-stricken robots, lurching into the black of night. paired with fractured, plodding rhythms, at times this sounds like autechre attempting to make a noise record. it is well and truly fucked.

the expertise with which everything is constructed, though, is what makes these pieces excel. everything is where it should be and the combination is almost religious in its attention to detail. but before the duo gets too close to the sun, everything is burned to the ground and the process starts over. it's almost arrogant how often they fuck with your perception of what this record is, but that punk rock attitude is what helps take this to a different level. just when you think you have it figured it out, spiritual church movement is off to another disfigured frontier.

over the course of these two sprawling sides, the cult of perispirit is born. ricardo donoso and luke moldof are convinced that anything is possible and nothing is out of bounds. spiritual church movement is their manifesto and at the end of it all, they are the fucking kings.

mastered by james plotkin and cut to vinyl by rashad becker at d+m berlin.

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digitalis vinyl (usa) #digiv006 lp

ricardo donoso “progress chance” long playing record

  • chrome decadence
  • klatu
  • baiting disappointment
  • the deck of an ancient ship

  • morning criminal
  • the north quadrant (ascension)
  • conditional formatting (descent)
september 2011 release ; ... i suppose i should be surprised by this apparent 180º shift away from anything remotely “noise” ; but in truth ricardo’s been name-dropping goa & prog-trance as reference points since the day i met him 5 years ago ...

this set of contemporary electronic music heavily reminds me of cliff martinez’ film-score work from the past coupla years (while martinez is no brad fiedel or alan howarth, you can’t help but respect the sheer quality he pumps out, always on deadline) ; given everyone’s reference points these days (16-bit video games ala “altered beast”, late 80’s horror) this feels like a natural progression of things into the next evolutive step ...
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digiv006: ricardo donoso "progress chance" lp

in recent years, boston has become an epicenter for some of the best experimental music has to offer. a native of brazil, ricardo donoso has floated somewhat under the radar until recently but has become an integral piece of the boston puzzle. not only is he half of the exquisite perispirit and the brains behind the semata label, but he also is a member of avant-metal extraordinaires, ehnare. donoso's previous two solo efforts were both cassettes (on digitalis and razors & medicine, respectively) but progress chance presents an impressive leap forward into something quite unexpected.

while on a hiatus from working on the score for the upcoming film, the intensive, donoso was inspired to try something new. his roots as a jazz drummer in brazil haven't always been obvious on his previous solo efforts, but through his soundtrack work he realized that he wanted to make a record that explored his interest in techno and more specifically old goa and scandinavian trance. the idea was to strip out the four-to-the-floor beats and any other drum programming and create his own version of the 'morning dance music' he grew up with in the brazilian rave scene. as donoso explores his synthesizers in new ways, the result is something incredibly intricate yet surprisingly accessible. this is trance music without beats.

through the heavy use of gates and arpeggiators, donoso lays down a series of rhythmic counterpoints. there are certainly vague traces of berlin school influence on progress chance. yet donoso finds his own voice, figuratively and literally. ghostly whispers and incantations drift in and out over the polyrhythmic layers of synthesizers like radio waves from the grave.

even if the aural similarities between progress chance and his past efforts, deterrence and linear transformation matrices, aren't straightforward, the meticulous nature of the composition and intense contemplation that goes into each piece is prevalent throughout. whereas much of his previous work has been dark and ominous, donoso is much more hopeful on progress chance. “conditional formatting (descent)” feels timeless with it's gradual build-up and hopeful repetition while “chrome decadence” is over-the-top without being gauche. even with the newfound hints of positivity prevailing, there is still something vaguely austere creeping in on “morning criminal.” this is music for the morning when you wake up in a stranger's bed and all you can think of is “i've got to get the hell out of here.” in the end, progress chance is an album about embracing the changes we face and moving forward and that's never as easy as it sounds.

mastered by james plotkin.
art, layout, & design by lee tindall.
cut to vinyl at d+m berlin.

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fun with asbestos (usa) #fwa-07 lp

ehnahre “alpha/omega” long playing record

  • leda and the swan

  • the second coming
march 2010 release ; essentially a “tour-only” lp (for a tour that didn’t actually happen, even) from undoubtedly the greater boston area’s leading serialist black metal group (yes, that means exactly what it implies ; the riffs are all 12-tone rows) with a revolving lineup here featuring all-star free-trumpeter greg kelley, semata’s ricardo donoso, ryan mcguire, and many others from our fruitful crossover metal / experimental music scene(s), all heard over the two side-length pieces here setting two yeats poems to music (!?) ...

comes in a hand-screened sleeve with two inserts ; one with the appointed yeats texts, and, inexplicably, one with a cy twombly print on one side & credits on the other (now that i think of it ; twombly metal beats serialist metal any day) in a hand-numbered edition of 100 ; these will most likely be gone (i.e. banished from the earth of regular, music-loving folks like you or i to the sulfurous underground realm of “the collectors”) before you can utter the words “private metal” ...
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boston based avant black/death/doom metal band ehnahre follow up their debut record “the man closing up” with their new 12" record, entitled “alpha/omega.” 

with 2009 seeing the addition of drummer/noise artist/wacko ricardo donoso, ehnahre plumbed even further into the depths of rhythmic flux and sway which characterized their debut release.  this record sees ehnahre starting to stretch out, and progress beyond their beginnings- more extremes, more chaos, more discordant guitar lines, and vocals akin to the outburst of a bloodthirsty, drunken schizophrenic. “alpha/omega”  was written based on the poems “leda and the swan” and “the second coming” by irish writer william butler yeats. utilizing mythological, mystical, and religious themes, the text alludes to the beginning of the world, and armageddon. taking their ugly, atonal and oppressive sound to new lows of stifling darkness and malevolence, the uncompromising dissonance and instability on this record will salt the earth with ehnahre’s aural depravity.

ehnahre is releasing “alpha/omega” on fun with asbestos records, in a limited run (100 copies), exclusively on 12” vinyl.  black on black record, with hand printed jackets. mastered by james plotkin, released march 1st, 2010.

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razors & medicine (usa) #r&m 31 cs

perispirit / virile games “split” c18 cassette

  • perispirit - we’re so happy or they aren’t dead

  • virile games - lapped
july 2010 release ; split release between luke moldof & ricardo donoso’s perispirit & kp / virgin spring offshoot virile games ... one 9-minute piece a piece ; perispirit’s laser-tight stereo-heavy electro-acoustic construct finesses its way through a series of different zones (guitar crackle, ominous organ-clusters, bit-crushed “whoosh”) before virile games’ more blown-out scrap-metal klang closes things out ...
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perispirit / virile games

(best perispirit track yet.
virile games is from the same guy who did that virgin spring tape and is a member of kp.)


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perispirit / brendan murray “untitled” c22 cassette

  • compliant marsman

  • birch victim
april 2010 release ; two massive plates of shifting sound, jointly channeled from the south boston electric grid by the trio of brendan murray, luke moldof, and ricardo donoso ... initially released as “tour merch” for their brief april jaunt, we’ve got a few straggler copies on offer ...
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sem-013 perispirit & brendan murray 'untitled' c22

hot on the heels of their split lp, here we have the accompanying collaboration cassette between perispirit & brendan murray. moving forwards with the exoskeleton imagery, this tape finds both parties in rare form.

the a side is a studio/mail collaboration between the artist's, resulting in a rising, enveloping drone. the b side is a live improvisation with no post processing or editing - less melodic than the a side, what where left with is a huge cloud of low end sub frequency rattle with piecing high end slowing creeping in and out of the mix. two takes on long form sound from these boston transplants, putting drone under the microscope for its ultimate dissection. co-released with razors & medicine. 

edition of 100 : pro-dubbed on tan type ii high bias cassettes with 2-panel jcard, silkscreened shells & shrink-wrapping. 

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 best of 2010 !!! 
semata productions (usa) #sem-010 lp
razors & medicine (usa) #r&m 25 lp

brendan murray / perispirit “birches and marksmen’s graves (voice and computer #1) b/w compliant victim” long playing record

  • brendan murray - birches and marksmen’s graves (voice and computer #1) (16:30)

  • perispirit - compliant victim (17:00)
march 2010 release ; new music from two of the greater boston area’s finest ...

brendan’s side-length piece shows him branching off in a new direction ; constructed entirely from recordings of avant-vocalist noeill dorsey, “birches” recalls penderecki’s eerie/orgasmic glossolalia with the chromatic dissonance of ruggles’ “sun-trader” ... largely computer-smeared/granulated sounds with stray dottings of “dry” vocals at key dramatic moments ... super effective and seriously creepy !!!

on the flip, luke moldof & ricardo donoso’s perispirit take the reigns, offering up a single, crackle-heavy burst of rectified digitalia, harsh-noise blasting, and lulling guitar waves (and that’s just in the first 3 minutes !!! ) building into a twin-peak climax (listen to the sound-sample for the tail-end of #1) that’s both finely nuanced & quite powerful ...

lovely beige-cream vinyl, full-color labels & jacket ; one of the key releases of the year thusfar ... highly recommended !!!
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brendan murray / perispirit split lp
semata productions (sem-010), razors & medicine (r&m25)

razors and medicine and semata productions are pleased to announce the first long playing record release of both brendan murray and perispirit. murray has been making waves around boston, the usa, and the world since 1999. perispirit, the collaborative project of ricardo donoso and luke moldof formed in late 2007, is known by their dynamic live performances and two cassette releases.brendan murray’s “birches and marksman’s graves (voice and computer #1)” is a clear summation of his interest in controlled drones and gestural improvisation with a step into the unknown. murray is always keen to transform and manipulate an instrument sound color to the point of non-recognition, utilizing a single source for this piece: the voice of noell dorsey.

the piece opens with dissonant clusters, moving up and down generating momentum, keeping the music physical while still highly controlled. vague hints of melody lie underneath the cracks trying to seep through but are swallowed up by the turbulence. it gradually gives way to extended technique vocalisms that call to mind sound poetry and at times even the sprechstimme of schoenberg. later the swirling tones return with a combination of both the higher and lower pitch clusters. it sounds like falling infinitely downward.

perispirit’s side offers a statement that is equally focused but bares little if any resemblance to murray’s piece. it can be described as more active than their previous material, utilizing quick sectional transitions, relying on three key components: harsh noise, delicate melodic work, and degraded lo-fi manipulations.

the piece begins with dynamic harsh cutups that pay attention to sound specialization and stereo field manipulations inspired by the likes of sickness and pain jerk. the momentum grows and is quickly brought down to almost nothing creating a feeling of aural blue balls. the process is resumed and then the piece breaks into looping guitar passages with a subtle electronic underpinning. the layers build than disappear. the noise returns building to a heightened peak of frustration until it drops off and we are left with the sound of life’s monotony. gradually a wall of drone begins to creep in and eventually overtakes all else.

edition of 250 pressed on 160 gram off white vinyl featuring full color lp jackets & labels; mastered by kris lapke. available march 1st 2010

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semata productions (usa) #sem-001 cd

the epicurians “introducing the epicureans” compact disc-recordable

  • sweetly violent revisionists (7:40)
  • scum of the earth (5:19)
  • not produced by john cale but dont you wish it was (3:20)
  • benefits, disclosures and accommodation of nothing (2:05)
  • the good life (6:59)
  • thoughts i lost but it didn't matter because i'm sure it was bullshit (10:11)
august 2008 release ; debut by this boston-area trio featuring dave gross, semata’s ricardo donoso, and ryan mcguire ... coming in somewhere between free improv, sound-poetry, and death metal (gross’s through-sax vocalizations remind me a bit of atila csihar sans the cavern-verb) ...

a promising start, no doubt. comes as a printed cd-r in a full-color, pro-printed digipack ...
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sem-001 "introducing the epicureans" cdr

formed in 2008 the epicureans have the hottest new sound out there. they range from sparse 'lowercase' type music to "full on" (as the kids say these days) noise with a hardcore metal edge. at once playful and brutal, the epicureans are your best friends and your enemies worst enemy. when they say 'we love you' at the end of every show they mean it. music is all about love and the epicureans, with their thirst for seeking pleasure, are here to provide.

dave gross sax
ricardo donoso drums
ryan mcguire bass

featuring ex members of kayo-dot and fetish and having releases on tzadik, sedimental, hydrahead and others between them - these players have developed a highly singular and curious approach to their instruments, i urge you to check them out.

edition of 200 (full color digipak w/ shrink wrap)

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