Maurizio Bianchi: SFAG (Recursion)
Purchased new at Mind Cure Records
Maybe, after staying mute for a time, I feel like writing.
I know I should probably be pouring my feelings into my music. It's my primary/fundamental art, right? Yet here I am, putting letters to words to sentences to paragraphs.
I have a largely illogical love of Maurizio Bianchi's music. Why so? He's someone with no skills whatsoever, running his primitive synth performances through an Echoplex and recording the results.
There's a dark ambience to what he does, that definitely appeals to me. "Dark Ambient" is a genre unto itself, and I often fall asleep to streaming radio stations that play dark ambient/drone sounds.
SFAG=Symphony for a Genocide. Unlike some of his early industrial music cohorts, I don't think MB is fascistic. He's eschatological, more concerned with the death of humanity.
I think this LP is a bootleg, though I'm not certain that Maurizio himself cares. He is himself a Jehovah's Witness, since his first retirement from music in the early 80s. To see his image now, he looks like a middle-aged business man mid-level on the corporate ladder; neither at the bottom, but never at the top.
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