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Recommended by us on 15th June 2011
...according to our Ant on Wed 15 Jun, 2011.
(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE STERILE REPRESS AND NOT THE WEIRD FOREST EDITION) Much needed reissue of this early Bianchi all time classic. The sonic portrait for some ultra grim subject matter and so it was never gonna be pretty. Face the facts, mankind has dispensed a fair amount of cruelty to fellow man, the atrocities throughout history are sickening. So here bear witness to the sounds inside the minds of the victims and the executors. Bianchi's crude electronics buzz away like a relentless nightmare, sadly it wont go away, this is real life. Shrieking analogue sounds from 1981 that still retain their power. Comes in accurate reproduction sleeve with inserts. Numbered of 520 copies.
M.B., aka Maurizio Bianchi, has enjoyed a deserved renaissance in recent times as a new generation discovers his charred brand of industrial noise, particularly the artist's formative early 80's period before he disappeared in pursuit of religion. In the ensuing years, many of these early records became prized collector objects, garnering hundreds of dollars -- if they could even be found. Bianchi has since returned to creating music and many of those pricey releases have been re-issued on vinyl except for what's widely considered to be his seminal work from that time, SYMPHONY FOR A GENOCIDE. Weird Forest is proud to rectify this situation.
To the uninitiated, SYMPHONY may sound like so much noise with its unyielding factory-of-death buzzsaw sound making Throbbing Gristle's industrial music almost top-40 by comparison. But buried underneath the unrelenting martial rhythms and analog siren sounds is a great deal of musicality, including synth melodies and basic chord progressions. Bianchi uses all these elements at his disposal to create a gripping audio portrait of the grim subject matter.
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