Perispirit - Spiritual Church Movement

Perispirit is the duo of Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof and
they have been haunting the Northeast of the United States for
a couple of years now. After a slew of releases on Prurient's
Hospital Productions label & Ricardo's own Semata
Productions, Spiritual Church Movement has Perispirit taking an
unexpected turn as they unleash their most cohesive and
accomplished work to date.

'Spiritual Church Movement' is the sound of two worlds colliding
and forming something entirely new in the aftermath. In this
case, digital and analog systems are turned against each
other. Moldof's analog source material was blitzed and
manipulated while Donoso worked his sorcery via digital matrix,
showing that both approaches can win the prize. Squalid sonic
debris spill out and melt together with beats that are barely there
and melodic shrapnel to create this weirdly compelling, utterly
disjointed composition. And if you thought Moldof and Donoso
were concerned about expectations, Spiritual Church
Movement is proof it was the last thing on their
minds. Synthesizers are mauled by digital processes, battered
down to bare bones, turning passages of melody into disease-
stricken organisms paired with fractured, plodding rhythms, at
times sounding like Autechre attempting to make a noise record:
It's well and truly fucked.

The expertise with which everything is constructed, though, is
what makes these pieces excel. Everything is where it should
be and the combination is almost religious in its attention to
detail. But before the duo gets too close to the sun, everything
is burned to the ground and the process starts over. Just when
you think you have it figured it out, Spiritual Church Movement is
off on another disfigured tangent.

Over the course of these two sprawling sides, the cult of
Perispirit is born. Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof carry with
them the conviction that anything is possible and nothing is out
of bounds. Spiritual Church Movement is their manifesto.

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