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Monday, August 16, 2010

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - erthion -


MAURIZIO BIANCHI - erthion -
YGR 34
CD-R (7€ + postage)
+ double poster by Jonas Delaborde & Hendrik Hegray + pictures by Federica Ravanelli + insert by Steve Billet


Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence". In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. Until 1984, Bianchi published on other labels intensively as either MB or simply Maurizio Bianchi, sometimes several albums and/or tapes per year, as well as numerous tracks to compilations. Bianchi became religious and withdrew himself from the music business. Much of his work is sought today by collectors, especially as they appeared in extremely small editions.
Soundohm

Poster by Jonas Delaborde & Hendrik Hegray (Nazi Knife, Frederic Magazine, Kaugummi Books, Shoboshobo Books, ...)

j'avais plus allumé la télé depuis deux ou trois ans. je savais pas ce que c'était Maurizio Bianchi. enfin bref. dans le jardin. à Eghezée. il y avait deux grands piquets et un long fil entre les deux pour pendre le linge. on faisait le goal à l'intérieur des deux piquets. c'était un peu injuste pour le gardien. mais on s'amusait quand même bien. le ballon finissait souvent dans les sapins juste derrière le goal. on passait plus de temps à retrouver la balle qu'à jouer au foot. un jour. on s'est donc dit qu'on était fait pour explorer. chercher. on a commencé par s'inscrire à un stage de l'ADEPS. un stage de planche à voile. puis un stage de voile. pour voyager quoi. pour s'acheter un voilier. partir à l'aventure. vous voyez le genre. on l'a évidemment jamais fait. oui. les stages c'était bien. mais on a préféré faire les malins en lisant Blaise Cendrars et à en parler aux filles qui s'en foutaient. que traverser l'atlantique pour découvrir l'amérique. bref. on avait pas la carrure de nos héros. il a fallu du temps pour l'admettre. le temps d'avoir un peu plus de poils sur le torse. maius avant. fin des années 90. passage d'un siècle à l'autre. chez une cousine. avec des enfants partout. 0h01. tout le monde regarde l'ordinateur. il n'a pas explosé. ça va donc recommencer.
Yves Billet, 2010.

1984. il aurait pu faire facile. la référence à Orwell par exemple. faire semblant d'être un jouet cassé. il s'est contenté de partir. d'être loin de nous. ou ce serait plutôt l'inverse. nous qui étions loin de lui. mettre de la distance alors qu'il était toujours là. nous n'étions pas prêt à écouter. oh ! oui ! je sais. tout cela est flou. est-ce vraiment important ? cette fois. c'est bouclé. probablement définitivement. il refait le coup. c'est donc la dernière sortie sur Young Girls et sur les autres labels. il nous laisse faire. il ne sortira plus rien. ça a été quelque chose de l'écouter, de le lire.
Yves Billet, août 2010.

Depuis plusieurs mois, je voue une admiration sans faille à tout ce que j’ai pu entendre de Maurizio Bianchi : morceaux récents ou oeuvres plus lointaines, datant du tournant fertile qui s’est opéré entre la fin des années 70 et le début des années 80. Bianchi opère dans une sphère assez inatteignable. Bien sûr, sa musique pourrait être réduite à plusieurs dénominations faciles : industrielle, drone, post-punk, noise… Pourtant, rien de tout cela, au fond : Bianchi manipule des sons, qu’il laisse s’éterniser comme on regarderait vaciller une flamme, ou mourir les bruits d’un être proche. Sa musique évoque des instants cendrés, comme ceux que l’on trouve au bout de pellicules vieillies, de vinyles rincés. Il y a de l’hypnose et de la folie entravée, une sorte de regard maladif sur un monde qui l’est plus encore, pleinement malade. Pas facile de pénétrer dans son oeuvre, pourtant, une fois à l’intérieur, on n’en sort plus. On en sort d’autant moins lorsque l’on se rend compte qu’en plus d’éditer des morceaux sous son propre nom, il faisait aussi des merveilles sous le pseudonyme de Sacher-Pelz et qu’il continue, aujourd’hui, à sévir avec un bonheur fou.
Joseph Ghosn

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - dekadenz -

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - dekadenz -

YGR 20
CD-R (5 eur)

Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence". In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. Until 1984, Bianchi published on other labels intensively as either MB or simply Maurizio Bianchi, sometimes several albums and/or tapes per year, as well as numerous tracks to compilations. Bianchi became religious and withdrew himself from the music business. Much of his work is sought today by collectors, especially as they appeared in extremely small editions.
Soundohm

Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. played a decadent piano using sostenuto and damper pedals effects.
Front picture by Maurizio Bianchi, drawing (insert) by the awesome Wouter Vanhaelemeesch (Audiomer ; Flickr)

Monday, June 18, 2007

YGR # 8

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - Aybasi

YGR08 (SOLD OUT)

TAPE - - 91 copies (5€)

"AYBASI"
by Maurizio Bianchi/M. B.

Tracks:
A. AYBASI
B. ISABYA

Dedicated to Batur Sonmez.

Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. used gelatinous comglomerates of consubstantial sounds, mixed with discretional eviscerated noises.

Antithetic metal crucibles for contemplative adherents.

Biography
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Italian composer
Maurizio Bianchi (1955) produced his first tapes of noise in the early 1980s, at the peak of the industrial scene, but his chaotic dissonant orgies harked back to the musique concrete of the 1950s, despite similarities with Nocturnal Emissions, Metabolist, Whitehouse, early Throbbing Gristle. He debuted under the moniker Sacher-Pelz with the home-made cassettes Cainus (1979), Venus (1980), Cease To Exist and Velours, later collected on Mutation For A Continuity (Ees'T). They were all-instrumental collages of electronic sounds. Mectpyo/Blut (1980) was the first cassette to be released under his own name. Under the moniker Leibstandarte, Bianchi released his first vinyl albums: Triumph of the Will (Come Organization, 1981), which recycled material already released on cassette, and Weltanschauung (1982). His most relevant works came out under his own name: Symphony For A Genocide (Sterile, 1981), possibly his most terrifying work, Nh/HnMenses (EEs'T, 1982), another classic of horror-shock musical reportage, divided in two lengthy suites (particularly Scent). There followed less powerful works, such as the film soundtrack Morder Unter Uns (Mectpyo Sounds, 1982), and two "softer" albums divided in two lengthy halves each, Regel (EEs'T, 1982) and Mectpyo Bakterium (DYS, 1982), possibly his softest album of the decade. (Grafika Airlines, 1981),

He quickly return to his usual standards with Endometrio (EEs'T, 1983), his second artistic peak and the manifesto of his "bionic" aesthetics, the more accessible Carcinosi (EEs'T, 1983), Das Testament (Mectpyo Sounds, 1983), announced as his last record and containing two of his most extreme suites, and the film soundtrack Armaghedon (EEs'T, 1984), all of them comprised of lengthy free-form suites of noise. The one notable exception was The Plain Truth (Broken Flag, 1983), in the vein of German electronic music.

Industrial Murder (Banned Production, 1992) and Aktivitat (Zabriskie Point, 1992) collect unreleased and rare material.

After a long hiatus, Bianchi returned to music with a metaphysical trilogy of sort, Colori (Ees'T, 1998), First Day Last Day (1999) and Dates (2001), in which religious and philosophical themes dominate, and the sound is much calmer and almost ambient, while FrammentiAntarctic Mosaic (2003) seemed to hark back to his original style of the 1980s. These works, possibly influenced by new-age music, were much more relaxed and almost negated the expressionist power of his early experiments. (2002) and

Chaotische Fraktale (2003) and Letzte Technologie (0404) are collaborations with Frequency In Cycles Per Second (Sandro Kaiser). Zehn Tage/Touka (2004) and The House Of Mourning (Radiotarab, 2005) were collaborations with German duo Telepherique. Through these collaborations, Bianchi slowly returned to atonal industrial music.

The hypnotic Cycles (Ees't, 2004) explored different kinds of loops and pauses.

A M. B. Iehn Tale (Small Voices, 2004), a collection of "piano decompositions," (minimalist/ambient pieces for piano and electronic dissonances) and the double-CD Mind Us Trial (EEs't, 2005) continued his regression to darker moods.

M. I. Nheem Alysm (Silentes, 2005) contains two lengthy piano suites a` la Cycles (Ees't, 2004).

Blut und Nebel (EES'T, 2005), that "remixes" the first ten LPs of the early 1980s, is an excellent demonstration of Bianchi's skills at dadaistic collage, free-form improvisation and abstract soundsculpting, as accrued over twenty years of electronic manipulation. Noise is employed like an electric guitar to produce solos of manic intensity.

Junkyo (Noctovision) and Mectpyo Saisei (Para Disc) are collaborations with Aube.

New collaborations include: Psychoneurose (Manifold, 2005) with Land Use, one of the best of this phase, Final Signal (2005) with Frequency In Cycles Per Second, Secluded Truths (Silentes, 2005) with NIMH.

Bianchi's prolific career continued with Niddah Emmhna (Silentes, 2005), Neuro-munalpMen's True Hated (Menstrualrecordings, 2005), The Testamentary Corridor (Staalplat, 2006). (Small Voices, 2005),

The Epidemic Symphony No 9 (Octpia, 2006) is actually a work mainly by Japanese soundsculptor Hitosji Kojo.

Arkaeo Planum (Small Voices, 2007) is a collaboration with Italian sound artist TH26.


LINKS
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Interview by Marcello Aguirre
Interview by Alternative Zine
Myspace
The sonic Abyss