Not sure how many of you outside of Italy know about this old work of my band with two other people from my hometown area but here it became kind of a small cult release over the years.
It was originally released in 2008 on CD on Turgid Animal and HIE. It's a concept about album about death, depression, isolation, obsession, broken catholic upbringing and the devastating corruption of motherly love in a forgotten northern italian small village.
Mirko Sartori was found dead, crushed by his own car in his garage about two weeks after his death. Three years earlier his mother Anna died at home and his frail mind snapped. He washed her, dressed her and put her in a closet that he sealed. He went on living with the mummified corpse of his mother, talking to her every day and filling the walls of their home with bizarre drawings and prayers, desperate and depressing cries for help, devotional words for Anna, surprisingly lucid accounts of his mangled mental health...that's what we used as lyrics for the tracks. We didn't change or mix anything, we just wrote down his own words.
The sounds are more or less our twisted version of classic italian death-obsessed noise and power electronics. I think one of the few recordings of this genre in Italian language at all.
This January it was the 20th anniversary of the discovery of Mirko's body so the good people at Zerplan/Occidental Congress (also responsible for one of the longest running industrial/neofolk zines in Italy, for the amazing "As Wolves Among Sheep" book and many other things) decided to print a limited reissue on tape. It comes with an unreleased track, all new artwork and design, a beautiful new booklet (with english translations of Mirko's words!), a postcard from the village and a Mirko prayer card.
After almost 20 years from the original CD Lorenzo, the vocalist on this release, has vanished from society. I guess the aura of this work goes on.
My copies are gone but in case you're interested please contact Occidental Congress:
https://www.occidentalcongress.com/store.php
