Vinyl reissue of one of a key Maurizio Bianchi side, 1983’s The Plain Truth. First issued by the UK’s legendary Broken Flag label in an edition of 500, The Plain Truth marks the beginning of a major transition in his approach. Mostly consisting of obsessively overlaid synth sounds, the recording has very organic feel, with arcs of electronics that are more overtly beautiful and austere than his earlier work. Still a personal favourite. “Dedicated to all the redeemed people”. Recorded in one day, “the day of the plain truth”.

Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies, Endometrio reissues a privately-pressed LP originally available in an edition of 400 copies in 1983 that features “de-composition for synthetic sounds and electronically generated noises.” This was intended as Bianchi’s introduction of his ‘bionic music’ concept and it’s still a pretty staggering conceptualisation of noise atomics, one that ranks alongside Masayuki Takayanagi’s Mass Projection and Gradually Projection modes in terms of obsessively regulated formula. Impossibly dense noise-clouds dissolve into cells of pure silver. This edition is fully remastered and it has never sounded better. Recommended. 

Edition of 216 copies that restores a previously lost and unreleased private 1981 cassette from Italian avantist and power electronics avatar Maurizio Bianchi. Oirt/Emo-Dne presents sound sketches that would go towards the realisation of his 1983 masterpiece Endometrio. Endometrio was intended as Bianchi’s introduction of his ‘bionic music’ concept and it’s still a pretty staggering conceptualisation of noise atomics and one that ranks alongside Takayanagi’s Mass Projection and Gradually Projection modes in terms of obsessively regulated electro-formula. Indeed, it’s the Gradually Projection style that dominates here, with some of Bianchi’s most spectral conceptions combined w/the sound of haunted air filtered through primitive effects and analog tape dirt to create a form of oppressively bleak psychedelia. Already sold out from the label: highly recommended. 

Stunning long-form work from this legendary Italian avant gardist that trades his usual miasmic electronics for a ghostly choral form, using decomposed and restructure choral fragments to create a haunting holy music, one that is populated by wraith-tones and high wordless arcs of vocals, all dosed with F/X to the point of oblivion. Think William Basinski’s disintegration of Arvo Part or the cosmo tonefloat of the furthest vectors of the Taj Mahal Travellers catalogue dissolved in disappearing voices and occluded fragments of song while distant keyboards sound heavenly chord patterns in an approximately infinite style. It’s immediately recognisable as a Bianchi work – that same focus on repeating, self-generating cells, the dark, bubbling atmosphere – yet it’s a singular entry in his back catalogue, approaching the same heavenly environs of early Grouper, Nijiumu’s Era Of Sad Wings, Andrew Chalk and Alan Lamb’s Faraway Wind Organ. Packaged in ornate, fold-out card sleeves with colour postcard inserts in an edition of 500 copies. Another excellent side from this exciting new label. Recommended.