maria larocca
[mixtape #7 | 2022]





tracklist
Kink Gong – Haoshendd
Jessika Khazrik – Ra2i7a رائحة لا تذهب
Chrisman – Apana Gusa
Mai Mai Mai feat. Lino Capra Vaccina – Antiche Memorie 
Deena Abdelwahed – Arroubi (Mettani Rework)
Villaelvin – Headroof
Loris Cericola – Persian Opium Market
Sussan Deyhim – Turbulent
maral – lorestan reggaetone 
maral – the wind will carry us
Maria Violenza – Sicilian Ghost 





una fantasmagoria | mlr mixtape

"Born as a post-human evolution of his old dark ambient project Vacuum Templi (2014 – 2019), recovering its occult references and anti-catholic stances,“Iconocaust” is a 6-track noise enigma: a profane/ pagan reading of the ultra-catholic roots of The Marches region and the christian folklore of the South Italy in general, which it's the artist’s family roots (even if he was born in Turin, also historical land of anti-clericals from which was born its esoteric and occult background) but also with an underlying mysteric message, interpreting the concept of “the flesh of the body of Christ” as a metaphor of the organic and spiritual caducity of the human being, doomed to suffering to save itself.
Taking inspiration from his metal/ hardcore roots, he combine hardcore/ industrial/ dub rhythms, sharp guitars samples with existentialist/ nihilist punk lyrics, dehumanized synthetic screams and sulphureus atmospheres, in a sample-based metal/ horror-electronic processed mayhem.
Placenta is a synthetic compound reincarnated in a single post-human, being inspired by 80s dark/ industrial aesthetics, anarcho punk/ DIY ideologies,apocalyptic sounds and electronics."

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CCC CNC NCN, Crass, Nerorgasmo, Rivolta Dell’Odio, Burial Hex, JK Flesh.

Recorded between 2020 and 2022 at Cerchio23 and Weird Tapes Studio.
Mixed and mastered by Loris Cericola at Weird Tapes Studio in 2021/2022. 
credits
released December 17, 2022

Loris Cericola: Electric guitars, bass guitar, drum machine, monophonic synthesizer, tape machines, virtual instruments.
Foxconn Suicide: additional noises in "In nomine matris"
Larry Luminari: noise guitar in "Iconocaust".

Artwork by Mirco Ercoli (Foxconn Suicide / Cerchio23)
Graphic design by Gianmaria Garbuglia/ Groom Lake Weather (Sistema Mortal Tapes, Cerchio23).

Iconocaust

06) Iconocaust

Go to the Bandcamp release to pre-order the cassette/ digital:
loriscericola.bandcamp.com/album/memory-hole

"After releasing "Metaphysical Graffiti" (closer to tape music/ sound art inspirations) with weirdo Italian label Artetetra in 2022, "Memory Hole" is the second album by the musician and video-artist Loris Cericola.

Recovered some nocturnal sessions and recordings produced in the post-pandemic summer of 2021, this is a collection of tracks composed exclusively for the live performances and it's a spontaneous game of melodies, interlocks of sounds and liminal atmospheres.
Focused on using analog synthesizers, magnetic tapes and old keyboards manufactured in the 70s in the Marche region, "Memory Hole" mixing the "sonic" power with a specific melodic research, taking inspiration by elements from 70s European "kosmische musik", minimalism and early Italian experimental progressive, through cinematic compositions with a "horizontal" schematic made by harmonic and melodic stratifications, abrasive basses and repetions on themes.
"Memory Hole" is a phantasmagoric absence: a hauntologic liminal zone where we find fractures and repetitions, interruptions and weaves, hard to untangle, untraceable.

This album is dedicated to the deep loving memory of Romero, the cat."

Memory Hole

Sonic Flowers

PLACENTA it's an Italian one-being project and a sample-based crossover between industrial, hardcore punk, metal and raw electronics and dehumanized vocals in native language. Following the political and aesthetical line of unconventional 80s Italian punk bands as Nerorgasmo, Contropotere and CCC CNC NCN, its formula it's a raw electronic mash of industrial, punk and metal music made with an early 2000s Korg Electribe groove box with tons of metal guitars samples, digital hardcore drum patterns and processed vocals of existentialist and political themes such as anarchism and nihilism, bringing the heavy industrial sound of Godflesh and Coil to a hardcore attitude.

Actually, Placenta is occupying the body of the Italian musician, video-artist and producer Loris Cericola.

06) Iconocaust

Placenta

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