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(BloodLust! - B!097) CDR $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
The duo of ISIDRO REYES and MARK SOLOTROFF, both key players in the power- electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows show off their kinder, gentler side via guitar, bass, and synth to improvise. Quoth the Chicago Reader: "Sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth."
II
(BloodLust! - B!106) CDR $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
The duo of ISIDRO REYES and MARK SOLOTROFF, both key players in the power- electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows show off their kinder, gentler side via guitar, bass, and synth to improvise. Quoth the Chicago Reader: "Sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth."
III
(BloodLust! - B!107) CDR $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
The duo of ISIDRO REYES and MARK SOLOTROFF, both key players in the power- electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows show off their kinder, gentler side via guitar, bass, and synth to improvise. Quoth the Chicago Reader: "Sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth."
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(BloodLust! - B!114) CDR $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the power-electronics outfit Bloodyminded, a unit known for its confrontational live shows. Reyes and Solotroff show off their kinder, gentler side, using guitar, bass, and synth to improvise what Bill Meyer calls "sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth."
Pelusium: 540 AD
(BloodLust! - B!145) CDR $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Drawn from the last of the first wave sessions recorded by Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, this release delves deeper into a heavier drone mode; thick walls of bass and guitar noise envelop the mix, creating a contrast for the occasional loop, melody, or slothful beat rising to the surface. Fifty-eight minutes, previously released on cassette (Cipher Productions 2007).
Syria: 638 AD
(Diophantine - N18) LP $16.50
Two 17+ minute extremely dense, powerful, and brooding tracks, with absolutely monstrous bass. Comprised of Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, and the BloodLust! label) and Isidro Reyes (BLOODYMINDED), the dense and murky Fortieth Day lurks between noise, industrial, and ambient. Various recording sessions are processed, re-processed, and mixed together to create the final studio recordings. Live shows also incorporate live real-time video projections by Noise Crush. White vinyl, silver-printed and die-cut jacket, 300 copies.
Syria: 638 AD (The Complete Recordings)
(BloodLust! - B!128) CDR $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Extremely dense, powerful, and brooding, with absolutely monstrous bass. Comprised of Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, and the BloodLust! label) and Isidro Reyes (BLOODYMINDED), the dense and murky Fortieth Day lurks between noise, industrial, and ambient. Various recording sessions are processed, re-processed, and mixed together to create the final studio recordings. This CDR contains the remastered, 61-minute-long version of the complete recordings from the "Syria: 638 AD" sessions. Diophantine Discs previously released an abridged version of these recordings (approximately 36-minutes in length) on vinyl.
THE FORTIETH DAY / SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS
The Fortieth Day & Sshe Retina Stimulants
(BloodLust! - B!142) CDR $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Re-mastered CD with bonus tracks not on the original 1997 cassette. Opening track is the original live recording performed on WLUW Chicago -- the first live outing by The Fortieth Day, in collaboration with P.NG5361.B (aka Sshe Retina Stimulants, also a founding member of Sigillum S) -- subsequently processed in Milan by P.NG5361.B, which are tracks two thru five.