MB & Nisi Quiernis: Phetalnuthrit (Red Light Sound)
Purchased through mail order
Besides my own work, am I on a personal crusade promoting certain people? I certainly can't be as obsessive out MB as some must be, considering how many releases he continues to make. MB/Maurizio Bianchi was early in on the cassette-trading scene. He started as Sacher Pelz, creating turntable abuses direct to tape. He later went by his initials, continuing his turntable manglings before his initial synth experiments and later running through his recordings through a haze of Echoplex.
The early turntable abuses don't interest me much, apart his obsessiveness. His early synth experiments sometimes hold interest, with left and right channels creating separate performances.
It's the echo-saturated albums that caught me. Endometrio/Carcinosi were the first I bought, at Eide's, reading the name in Op or some similar fanzine. The workers there filed it under E, which is why I beat Manny Theiner to that pair of LPs.
MB/Maurizio went from sub-underground superhero to retiree (becoming a Jehovah's Witness, no kidding) to returning to record-making. And now I think even he doesn't have every recording he's released.
This one's back in the dark ambient mold, noisy but underplayed sounds. Nisi Quiernis is a Maurizio nom de plum for spoken word performance. It's all in Italian, so every word escapes me. Mostly it's so-called dark ambient, soft-edged noise performances.
I out this on a stream a few days ago, lay down on the couch and drifted off. An hour later at the end, I woke up. I suppose MB has served his purpose.
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