M.B. + M.D.T. - Psalmodiam

from Vital Weekly # 568

Fricke's partner Bianchi converted to Jehova witness' in the 80s and still sings praise of god.
Together with Museo Della Tortura (although the cover just says M.B. + M.D.T.) he made seven tracks, 'psalmodian', which on the cover is explained as an 'experimental way how to interpret the psalms'.
All pieces are about psalm 63, which is when King David was alone in the desert and God was still with him. This desolation is captured quite well in the music. Sometimes it seems like a heavily processed choir singing, such as in 'During My Lifetime', but throughout there is a heavy, dark cloud hanging over this music.
Dark ambient music for sure, deeply atmospheric, and if I'm not mistaken, there is a fair amount of computer processing going on. M.D.T. is credited here with 'sound source manipulation'. The music didn't bring me much closer to God I must admit, so I can only say something from the perspective of a non-believer: it works well.
It's contemplative, dark and experimental. All good things mixed up to make a sincere piece of music.

(Frans de Waard)

Label: menstrualrecordings
Cat. #: LH03
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - In A Dry And Exhausted Land (05:49)
02 - During My Lifetime (07:52)
03 - My Soul Is Satisfied (07:35)
04 - During The Night Watches (08:06)
05 - In The Shadow Of Your Wings (03:47)
06 - Into The Lowest Part Of The Earth (03:23)
07 - Mouth Stopped Up (09:44)

Links:
M.B.
M.D.T.
menstrualrecordings

Maurizio Bianchi & Craig Hilton - PU 94

"Built in a laborious radioactive atmosphere, this electro-atomic work is finding several dwarf eccentric sounds nearly equal to combinations scientifically distinguished in non-arbitrary limits and arbitrary fractions.
The declared proton velocity of every sonorous period is systematically moving between observatory longitudes, supporting implications across the typical outlining positrons.
The metagenetic "PU 94" is influenced by theoretical accelerators and faintness proximities to useful investigations. An angular nucleus resulted in the calculation of the technologic radiology changes the extreme categories of occultated particles.
Significantly sublimated from some unusual gamma rays, the erosive modulations have isotopic resonance with the gravitational fission between the avant-gardist longitudes, while the elements system knocks out a captured fusion.
The authors simply offer a relativistic definition of what they suspected all along: the experimental knowledge might not be so frequent and easy, merely conservative."

(Maurizio Bianchi)

Label: Simple Logic Records
Cat. #: simlog041
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - PU (34:41)
02 - 94 (21:23)

Links:
Maurizio Bianchi
Craig Hilton
Simple Logic Records

M.B. - Symphony For A Genocide

Symphony For A Genocide came out in 1981, after some releases on tape for this Italian Industrialist.
On this album, MB construct brutal, hallucinatory blasts of electronic noise and grinding rhythms of hand-cut tape noise and overblown synthetic distortion.
These, bleak chilling drones are reminiscent of Conrad Schnitzler at his most neurotic, Nurse With Wound at their most droning, and Whitehouse at their least annoying.
MB's very prolific career in the early 80's with more than a dozen records was cut short in 1984 at which time he declared himself a Jehovah's Witness and ceased making music until recently when he finally returned to the blackened ambience of old.
Symphony For A Genocide is the first M.B. album, reissued now by Hospital Productions label.

Label: Hospital Productions, W.M.O./r
Cat. #: HOS-183, w.m.o/r30
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Treblinka (9:10)
02 - Auschwitz (3:54)
03 - Maidanek (6:34)
04 - Auschwitz (Reprise) (3:42)
05 - Belzec (7:12)
06 - Chelmno (6:21)
07 - Sobibor (9:52)
08 - Accop (6) Ehte (3:05)
09 - Sordide Sentimental (2:50)
10 - Anesthesie Total (3:11)

Links:
Hospital Productions