Hidden Water

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir was a project by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson. Operating out of Bangkok, Thailand, the Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member started this audio and visual endeavour after Coil’s conclusion.

Despite the name, it was a solo project relying heavily on computer generated vocals. The name was derived from a play on words, combining the terms houseboy, house of boys, boys' choir, and Threshold House, which was Coil’s own label. "Form Grows Rampant" is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival in the south of Thailand) and his first major musical project since the tragic death of John Balance and Coil’s subsequent demise.

The music is a suite of lengthy dense atmospherics that combine shuddering electronics with sampled vocals, eerie digitalia, buried melodies and sinister undercurrents hinting at a gleaming heart of darkness, with a joyful melodic progression that sounds positively triumphant towards the end of the album. It's both Coil-esque and quite different, and is undoubtedly the worthy successor of the essential project that Christopherson created with his partner John Balance.

First released in small quantities in 2007 as a mixed CD/DVD set, this is the first time it is released on vinyl, CD, and digital. This reissue has been mastered from original files by Sidney Claire Meyer at former Deutsche Grammophon studios Emil Berliner in Berlin, using the half speed mastering process, and pressed on heavy vinyl at 45 RPM. Limited Edition of 1000. Printed on inside out on heavy 350g cardboard. Gatefold sleeve features stills from the movie in chronological order (Warning: contains explicit graphic images depicting religious devotees in trance-like states, tongue slashing, partial skinning, impaling through cheeks, ears, etc). Includes original liner notes by Peter Christopherson.

File under COIL Forever, Religious IDM, Ecstatic Classical, Post Ethnic Industrial Exotica, Erotic Trance and best album ever heard.

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir ‎- Intimations Of Spring

коли дізнаєшся, що в тебе є дихання,
коли дізнаєшся, що воно твоє,
коли розумієш, 
що від нього залежить: адекватність, емоції, сенс.
То кожного дня 
До останнього дихання
Відтепер і назавжди
Лиш перерви на тишу
Прислухання до часу
Завмирання лише 
при непорозумінні
До останнього дихання
Як голос з'явився
Як відчули що сила
Це стратегія змін
Це дослідження
Це дослідження
До останнього дихання
Партизани життів
Ми танцюємо під дощем
Ми очікуємо слушний момент
Ми підтримуємо права
Моя свобода- залишитись тут
Незважаючи на галас битого скла
Я бажаю смерті усім, 
хто не знає в 2022
Значення слів: 
свобода, санкції, війна, перемови;
Бо немає на світі людини без війни
Ти або добре знаєш її обличчя
Або не помічаєш свої страхи
Я боюся втратити це місто.
Бо пам'ятаю усю зверхність 
Усі нехтування, довгий шлях
Я знаю кому можна довіряти
Але ці 10 днів - найбільший жах.
Неочікувано показали
Що ми весь час по нашій землі ходили 
З відкритими надто широко очима 
Наші очі добре бачать не лише простір
Ми навчилися добре бачити час
Ми навчилися добре бачити час
І продовжуємо дивитись
Ми продовжуємо дивитись
Ми все бачимо
Кожного дихання
Ми все бачимо
Кожного дихання

 5.03.2022 Харків, Україна

Поки Дихаю

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 14

With relatively scant information online, and a deep musical world that sparks the imagination, Ukranian born Svitlana Nianio is a rare character in a world of all access social media accounts and information overload PR blasts. A public reacquaintance with Nianio's work — a shimmering and mysterious hybrid of neo-folk, ambient and traditional slavic songwriting — has occurred in the last few years, leading to live performances, and new material surfacing on SoundCloud.

Take a deep dive into the mysterious musical world of Svitlana Nianio on this In Focus.

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-w-svitlana-nianio-17th-july-2020

In Focus: Svitlana Nianio 170720

Papiro (@marcopapiro)
Automare
12" LP (Muscut 7)
Release date: TBA 2017
muscut.org/Papiro-Automare

A 
Rhenus Rebus

B
Automare 
Polmonella* 
Incom 
Latana Supurea

Performed by Marco Papiro with* 
Anthony Glass: Casio vibes 
Markus Stähli: Q-Chord 
Mastered by Alex Buess

From the city that brought you LSD comes a new album by Marco Papiro, a Swiss-Italian musician and graphic designer who has gained some notoriety with his album covers for the likes of Panda Bear and Sun Araw. "Automare" is Papiro's seventh solo album, recorded on 4-track cassette, on hard-disk, in public and in private, entirely self-produced and now released on Nikolaienko's Muscut label.

The five hauntingly evocative tracks offer a variety of atmospheres from surreal to arcane, from celestial to subaqueous. Synthetic sounds (some mature EMS, Moog and Roland) are combined with other assorted instruments (organ, shehnai, electric guitar and bass,) and emulsified through various time-and-space-bending devices. There are no percussions, with one surprisingly groovy exception, in which a drum machine is being generously treated with phaser and envelope filters – think of early Cabaret Voltaire with a North Saharan touch.

Papiro's handcrafted artificial vocals are anything but human, but all the more compelling: out of the fluorescent Plankton of the side-long opening track "Rhenus Rebus" rises a siren's voice, reminiscent of Alide Maria Salvetta in Battiato's "Campane", joined in a final mantra by an oboe borrowed from an inebriated Third Ear Band. Entering a chimeric karaoke bar, the title track "Automare" makes the album even more bizarre by introducing a distinctive pop feel. Back to the abstract world, the following "Polmonella" – a live recording with additional musicians Anthony Glass (aka Antenna Tony Monorail) and Markus Stähli (of Roy & the Devil's Motorcycle) – is a fevery exploration of cosmic territories in the manner of Harmonia, while the alien articulation of "Incom" sounds unlike anything else ever recorded.

Papiro - Automare (12", 2017) Excerpts

Taken from Keys to the Fields 23: Venetian Roses "Erosion of Love II"

Venetian Roses _ Drømmekvinden

Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Limpid as the Solitudes
Out on Nov. 9, 2018 on Shelter Press
SP101 — LP / DL

Preorder: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/limpid-as-the-solitudes

Distribution: Boomkat EU / UK / ROW
Distribution: Forced Exposure USA

Limpid as the Solitudes

INDEFATIGABLE PURPLE

FELICIA ATKINSON & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA 'INDEFATIGABLE PURPLE' (SP101)

Dedicated to Airkit   https://soundcloud.com/theairkit

Mårble & Minereed - Dedicated to Airkit

Order OHER PEPLE'S CRIMES: www.anaott.bandcamp.com/album/other-peoples-crimes

After ‘Cobraxine’, ‘Boogie Throb’, and the Ana Ott – released ‘Molochville’, Brecht Ameel (Razen/Ameel Brecht) gives us his new album under the Br’lâaB moniker ‘Other People’s Crimes’; a high-on-paranoia, pre-crime-surveillance narrative, constructed after hours in the studio from a combination of Ameel’s own recordings on a widely varied set of instruments, library music, flea-market broken vinyls and old cassettes. Part blind-overdub palimpsest-collage, part straightforward composition, the 10” contains both Br’lâaB’s loop constructions and tracks performed by the found audio phantom band called the Acid Boogie Quartet. Bearing more gritty layers of both sound and subtext than ever, the “Other People’s Crimes” EP stands as an artefact of wild paranoia and spy-thriller sonics, weaving vignettes of surveillance gone wrong, doublethink and confessional echolalia.

Police and thieves are in the streets, running wild with nosebleeds and ill will ids. Dial v for victim as the night horizon broods a neon luminol glow. Howling at the vortex, buried under blindfolds, vigilantes take to crime with fear and ketamines.

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir ‎- Intimations Of Spring

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