Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. - Das Platinzeitalter flac album

The mission has been terminated, once again. Without giving any reasons, Maurizio Bianchi has given up producing music. Of course, this is not the first time that Bianchi had ceased operations, as he famously disappeared from sight around 1984 after a frenzy of releases beginning around 1978. Those albums, in particular Symphony For A Genocide and The Plain Truth, as well as William Bennett's antics on two early MB records released on Come Organisation, secured his status as a heavy weight of Industrial Culture alongside Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Ramleh, and Whitehouse; and the demonstrative cessation only served to buttress his mythology.But by the late '90s, Bianchi began recording once again, gradually returning to the frenzied pace he set during his earlier peak of activity. Unfortunately, the new work has not always been up to snuff, as he didn't seem to turn down any collaborative offer and didn't seem too interested in the finer points of editing his content. BUT, there have been some real gems amidst the chaff.Hence, we announce Das Platinzeitalter. A quintessential Bianchi construction, this album meditates upon the minutiae of crumbling systems, returning to a common theme of Bianchi's classic period -- the cancerous body faced with a slow demise through ancillary pathogens. His sounds are blackened ambiences culled from stacked grey-smear loops and elongated ashen drones, some of which have been purported to originate from Jozef Van Wissem's lute recordings, although you'll be hard pressed to find anything lute-like in these shadowing sounds. Ominous. Grim. Foreboding. Oppressive. Neurotic. These are all apt descriptions to Bianchi's best work; and those all apply here, but with the strange twist that this ambience is somewhat contemplative, as if Bianchi's death-obsessed soundtrack is more of an enveloping invitation instead of a scream of horror.

"a finedouble-lp version of this collaboration between maurizio m.b.bianchi and contemporary/renaissance lutist jozef van wissem(in that most to all of the source material comes from van wissems a rose by any other name set) reissuing the ...incunabulum-label disc from ... about which ::just disc of creakinglow-end drone work from maurizio bianchi comprised solely of recordings of incunabulum-head jozef van wissems renaissance lute playing; in my mind the best m.b.-related release in years... huge walls of sound veering close to andrew chalk / ora / mirror territory ...certainly the scope of this music is far greater suited to the double-lp format ; bianchis cavernous / mutant treatments of van wissems lute just sing out on the one true format & of course chads attention-to-detail regarding the edition is nothing to frown at, including a giant folderover & an (both block-printed in silver on acid-free, archival-quality stock & the two lps themselves in slick black innersthis is the version to own.have you ever looked into the abyss? man, its scary! an infinite void of the blackest black where not even a gleam of light can escape its dark talons.needless to say, its not the most popular destination, but hey, it isthere. and believe me, sooner or later that day will come when you willsit on the cusp and fix your eyes on the vast nothingness that is everything. but until that hour beckons, you may as well prepare yourself by spinning das platinzeitalter.