M.B. (MAURIZIO BIANCHI) — Symphony for a Genocide
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"Symphony for a Genocide", die allererste LP (nach diversen Tapes) von MB, dürfte die wohl mit am bekanntenste frühe "Industrial"-Veröffentlichung dieses Projekts sein, erschien im Original 1981 auf Sterile Records in einer Auflage von nur 227 Kopien. Die Stücke sind nach Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagern benannt und waren für damalige Verhältnisse auch wegen des klanglichen Materials schockierend. Quälend analoger Synthesizer-Lärm mit den so typischen Brumm-, Quietsch & Sirenen-Sounds, simple Rhythmusboxen laufen im Hintergrund mit, alles rauh und low-fi und abrupt endend.. bevor ein neues Stück Agonie beginnt.
"Hospital Recordings has just reissued the first proper M.B.
album, which first came out on Sterile Records in 1981 and then again
on CD on Alga Marghen in the mid '90s. They've redone the design,
making it look more stripped down, lo-fi and punk rock with gritty
scans of the Alga Marghen artwork and old school cut and paste liner
notes (that unfortunately seem to be missing some of the original
notes), but don't let the makeover fool you, this is still some of
the most abject and brilliantly bleak dronemusic ever.
Symphony For A Genocide wasn't the first recording for the
Italian Industrialist, as he did have some earlier recordings as
Sacher-Pelz and the infamous Leibstandarte SS MB albums (on which
Whitehouse's William Bennett dubbed various Nazi speeches on top of
Bianchi's music without Bianchi's permission). Bianchi's work does
come out of a transgressive mindset; but one that is uniformly
misanthropic, nihilistic, and utterly black. 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.
It should also be noted that the recordings of Symphony For A
Genocide are drastically different from another set of recordings
called SFAG (Symphony For A Genocide), which has also gotten the
reissue treatment twice, adding extra confusion into the mix." [Aquarius Records]
www.hospitalproductions.com
"Hospital Recordings has just reissued the first proper M.B.
album, which first came out on Sterile Records in 1981 and then again
on CD on Alga Marghen in the mid '90s. They've redone the design,
making it look more stripped down, lo-fi and punk rock with gritty
scans of the Alga Marghen artwork and old school cut and paste liner
notes (that unfortunately seem to be missing some of the original
notes), but don't let the makeover fool you, this is still some of
the most abject and brilliantly bleak dronemusic ever.
Symphony For A Genocide wasn't the first recording for the
Italian Industrialist, as he did have some earlier recordings as
Sacher-Pelz and the infamous Leibstandarte SS MB albums (on which
Whitehouse's William Bennett dubbed various Nazi speeches on top of
Bianchi's music without Bianchi's permission). Bianchi's work does
come out of a transgressive mindset; but one that is uniformly
misanthropic, nihilistic, and utterly black. 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.
It should also be noted that the recordings of Symphony For A
Genocide are drastically different from another set of recordings
called SFAG (Symphony For A Genocide), which has also gotten the
reissue treatment twice, adding extra confusion into the mix." [Aquarius Records]
www.hospitalproductions.com