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 cure.6 Tape
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KRANK / THE GRIMSEL PATH “VERDANT HUM” KRANK, formerly also known as KRAANG in various spellings, is one of the main projects of prolific Australian drummer John Murphy (Shining Vril, Knifeladder, Last Dominion Lost, Ex-SPK). While doing percussion for a large number of bands on a regular basis, Murphy revives KRANK only in longer intervals, and shows up with a rare number of gigs and recordings. On this tape, which is the first official release by KRANK since the debut album “Chaos“ (Dark Vinyl, 1991), he shows that he is far more than just a percussionist, but also a virtuous sound manipulator and a master of sonic chaos. “NAOS Number 1”, which was recorded and produced together with Gerechtigkeits Liga`s Till Brüggemann in 2007 and 2012, is a twenty minute collage of abrasive noise particles, creepy voices and deranged fragments of percussion. In carefully chosen moments, the piece gives room to little islands of harmony, but at the same time avoids anything, that comes even close to a flow. With their new project THE GRIMSEL PATH John Murphy and Jon Evans (Last Dominion Lost) team up again to further fathom their industrial roots. In the six fragmented tracks which were recorded live in Berlin 2012 a lot of sounds and structures echo the chaotic vortex of the longer KRANK piece – sampled sounds of dubious industrial origines, rudimentary beat particles, haunting voices and not at least a dark fatalistic atmosphere. Yet there is a subtle kind of order in every track, which makes this sonic journey more scenic and less unpredictable. THE GRIMSEL PATH (Side B) |
| cure.5 CD/LP |
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LAST DOMINION LOST “TOWERS OF SILENCE” In Mumbai there are a number of brick towers, into which the Parsi people of India throw their dead ones, bound for their final journey up to heaven inside the vulture's bellies. This habit of sky burial derives from the Zoroastrian cult of Ancient Iran, where heaven was imagined as a very physical place. The towers, which remind of archaic silos, are called Dakhma or in English Towers of Silence. The Australian unit LAST DOMINION LOST, originally founded in 1992 by Dominik Guerin (SPK) and Jon Evans, leave it to the listeners to guess where “Towers of Silence”, the allegorical title of their new album, really refers to – the fatal nature of physical life? The awkward edges between biological mortality and the idea of an eternal afterlife? The dreadful content which you may find inside what people built up? It's all open. One thing that LAST DOMINION LOST clearly show is how loud and infernal the silence of ending can be imagined. Screams of rage and anxiety intermingle with the shoutings of warriors – if the latter is not rather the croaking of vultures, which gather around corpses – until all is buried under an avalanche of infernal noise. More than 20 years after the recordings for their debut album “The Tyranny of Distance” (Tesco, 2004), LAST DOMINION LOST come up with brand-new material recorded between 2012 and 2014, brilliantly mastered by James Plotkin in June 2014. Besides the core band members Jon Evans, John Murphy (Krank, Knifeladder, Shining Vril, Ex-SPK) and Julian Percy (Ratbag), “Towers of Silence” includes guest contributions by Ash Wednesday (Ex-Einstürzende Neubauten), Till Brüggemann (Gerechtigkeits Liga) and Annie Stubbs among others. |
| cure.4 . 2015 DVD |
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CON-DOM “WE WHO WERE LIVING ARE NOW DYING” Super 8 short films and experimental movies of Mike Dando/CON-DOM, who has operated in the multimedia domains incorporating sound, film and performance since his early years. Dando confronts the audience in extreme ways, touching on taboo subjects suppressed or reduced to primitive stereotypes by the mass media of today. With a devastating barrage of noise he traces the unconscious religious subtext of modern mass society, cross-fades religious and political (border) phenomena and relates them with violent and pathological aspects. In the six short films, created in the 1980s to early 1990s and finally digitally restored in 2013, daily routine scenes are juxtaposed with grainy photos of criminals, dictators and clerics and book pages bearing crude, racist interpretations of Scripture, filmed line by line.
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Various/Artists “EPICUREAN ESCAPISM II” Epicurean Escapism II Compilation CD + Con-Dom DVD “We Who Were Living Are Now Dying” + 20-page catalogue with essay & art works On the occasion of the second Epicurean Escapism Festival 15th of June 2013 a CD/DVD compilation was released, including a CD with exclusive tracks by the performing artists KE/HIL, POST SCRIPTVM, ANEMONE TUBE, DIETER MÜH & TREPANERINGSRITUALEN, a DVD by CON-DOM with super 8 short films and experimental movies created by Mike Dando in the 1980s to early 1990s and finally digitally restored in 2013 and a 20-page catalogue with essay & artworks by ALEX TENNIGKEIT, ANDREW LILES, CARMEN BURGUESS, DENNIS RUDOLPH, PHILIP BEST & RUDOLF EB.ER. _ 1 Ke/Hil - Dark Germany 3:55 1 Impressions of a System 6:12 |
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cure.1 Tape/CD-R
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Various/Artists “EPICUREAN ESCAPISM” On the occasion of the Epicurean Escapism Festival 7th of July 2012 |
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