FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN — Black Trenchcoats & Swastikas'n'Shit
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Demos, Outtakes und Raritäten (2003-2006) vom ungewöhnlichen Projekt von FERRARA BRAIN PAN (man schaue sich nur das Cover mit dem Hakenkreuz-Klopapier an), der auch Mitglied bei DARMSTADT PHARMACY und URE THRALL ist. Wirre Collagen, experimentelle Drones, wahnsinnige Stimme & Tiersounds, oftmalig sehr schöner Instrumental-Einsatz (Klarinette, Altflöte, Harmonium, alles von ihm selbst gespielt), dann wird es sehr melancholisch, klassisch, mittelalterlich, oder dark ambient wie bei der Zusammenarbeit mit URE THRALL.... sehr breit gefächert! Enthalten auch der NURSE WITH WOUND-remix für das "Two shaves and a shine remix project".
"Regarding the title and the cover art here, Ferrara Brain Pan - the lone pilot of San Francisco's obscurant project Forms Of Things
Unknown - is taking the piss out of the perennial flirtations of Nazi culture found in experimental and post-punk musics over the past 30 or 40 years. It's an odd form of humor, but one that stops at the cover art, never to be brought up within these eccentric and disparate tracks that harken back to the early days of United Daires. Whimsical collages, complete with bongo-boy rhythms and cut-up vocal samples (which really could be an extract from Nurse With Wound's Funeral Music For Perez Prado), are juxtaposed against icy cold electronic
tone workouts that draw from the precisely constructed, psychoacoustic experiments of Ryoji Ikeda or John Duncan. Ferrara also interjects his favorite instrument, the bass clarinet, on a few somber pieces that warp the brassy notes of a maudlin funereal passage into air raid sirens. As beautiful as some of these pieces can be, Ferrara's deft use of electronics and the digital razor blade is all the better. All of these tracks are demos, outtakes, or compilation rarities, including the Forms Of Things Unknown contribution to the Nurse With Wound remix album of Two Shaves And A Shine. While there is a disjointed quality to the album, this is a well needed investigation
into this music of this seldom heard musician." [Aquarius Records review]
www.formsofthingsunknown.com
"Regarding the title and the cover art here, Ferrara Brain Pan - the lone pilot of San Francisco's obscurant project Forms Of Things
Unknown - is taking the piss out of the perennial flirtations of Nazi culture found in experimental and post-punk musics over the past 30 or 40 years. It's an odd form of humor, but one that stops at the cover art, never to be brought up within these eccentric and disparate tracks that harken back to the early days of United Daires. Whimsical collages, complete with bongo-boy rhythms and cut-up vocal samples (which really could be an extract from Nurse With Wound's Funeral Music For Perez Prado), are juxtaposed against icy cold electronic
tone workouts that draw from the precisely constructed, psychoacoustic experiments of Ryoji Ikeda or John Duncan. Ferrara also interjects his favorite instrument, the bass clarinet, on a few somber pieces that warp the brassy notes of a maudlin funereal passage into air raid sirens. As beautiful as some of these pieces can be, Ferrara's deft use of electronics and the digital razor blade is all the better. All of these tracks are demos, outtakes, or compilation rarities, including the Forms Of Things Unknown contribution to the Nurse With Wound remix album of Two Shaves And A Shine. While there is a disjointed quality to the album, this is a well needed investigation
into this music of this seldom heard musician." [Aquarius Records review]
www.formsofthingsunknown.com