Prurient side projects

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, October 27, 2015, 05:05:18 PM

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Andrew McIntosh

#15
I wasn't even thinking of craft or skill or anything of that nature, let alone referring to it. That's another issue entirely.
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Zeno Marx

"the overindulgent machines were their children"
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BTR

Roman Cross and Force Publique Congo are both amazing. I know he is only the drummer in the former, but it is some great stuff.

There have been several Hospital releases reissued on a larger (than the original) edition as LP/MLP...I'm honestly surprised the Force Publique Congo stuff hasn't been given that treatment yet.

Ron Dalvin


Theodore

Quote from: Si Clark on October 27, 2015, 10:47:35 PM
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on October 27, 2015, 10:31:41 PM
the gritty industrial of Geography of Hell was all aces, too bad that most/all of the tapes are very rare and pricey.
Is 'Geography of Hell' Prurient? If so this project is really great.

I don't know if there are infos in the web about who Geography Of Hell is, but i remember when i was listening a Geography Of Hell release [An MP3 rip, don't remember which release] some sounds reminded me the Volkl tape on Fusty Cunt. Volkl, discogs says, is Lussuria. Time passed. Earlier this summer a Hospital newsletter had dates of Lussuria tour in Europe. In them there was a 2-3 days off, in which Geography Of Hell had a live in Paris. Next date was a Lussuria live in Paris [1-2 days after GOH]. My guess is GOH is Lussuria. Maybe i am completely wrong though. I don't really know.
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holy ghost

I was buying the Ash Pool stuff from the demo onward but instead last few years I've realized I don't have much of a connection with them. I think I might like the aesthetics more than the music. I think I can feel a discogs purge about to happen as I type this.....

I haven't really kept up with his solo output. I think the last ones I truly liked were Cocaine Death and Black Vase.

I really enjoy somebody his collaborations, the CD with Kevin Drumm is excellent, I'd put it as a highlight of both their discographies. And that little 7" with The Rita was great.

ProgeriaYouth

Quote from: holy ghost on November 23, 2015, 05:14:33 PM
I haven't really kept up with his solo output. I think the last ones I truly liked were Cocaine Death and Black Vase.

Martin Shift turned me on to Black Vase shortly after it was released and it still, to this day, remains my favourite Prurient release.
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IronBloodBlasphemy

Quote from: Theodore on November 21, 2015, 04:02:15 AM
Quote from: Si Clark on October 27, 2015, 10:47:35 PM
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on October 27, 2015, 10:31:41 PM
the gritty industrial of Geography of Hell was all aces, too bad that most/all of the tapes are very rare and pricey.
Is 'Geography of Hell' Prurient? If so this project is really great.

I don't know if there are infos in the web about who Geography Of Hell is, but i remember when i was listening a Geography Of Hell release [An MP3 rip, don't remember which release] some sounds reminded me the Volkl tape on Fusty Cunt. Volkl, discogs says, is Lussuria. Time passed. Earlier this summer a Hospital newsletter had dates of Lussuria tour in Europe. In them there was a 2-3 days off, in which Geography Of Hell had a live in Paris. Next date was a Lussuria live in Paris [1-2 days after GOH]. My guess is GOH is Lussuria. Maybe i am completely wrong though. I don't really know.
you're close on this. GOH is a revolving line-up of members.

Brad

What is Noise Gym™?  Googling it with Fernow's name brings up only a single press release by Sacred Bones. 

QuoteLost Themes Remixed will be out on vinyl Oct.16th! Several immensely talented electronic producers contributed remixes to it, including; ohGr from Skinny Puppy, Ben Power of Blanck Mass & Fuck Buttons, Zola Jesus & Big Dean Hurley, Uniform (Berdan of York Factory Complaint & Greenberg), Bill Kouligas (Pan Records boss), JG Thirlwell (aka Foetus), Silent Servant (aka, Juan--the nicest man we've ever known), & Prurient (Dominick Fernow of Hospital Productions & Noise Gym ™). New art from the amazing Jay Shaw. Pre-orders are live on our site now.

totalabuse

I don't see any mention of side project Age of Enlightenment... Even though the tape list members as being "jason and mark" (or something?) I'm 99 percent sure Age of Enlightenment is Dom... Totally raw and well done Harsh Noise assault... nothing more with nice war themes present... Vampiric Treblinka is my favorite release but they are all pretty good if you can get your hands on them or a rip...


caveman

I don't think Age Of Enlightenment is his project, but I don't have any proof of that aside from vaguely remembering reading some message board comment regarding AOE at some point which confirmed Mark Harris and Jason Shoreman as actual, existing people behind it. The bits and pieces of AOE material I've heard have all been great though, I agree about that. Malicious and crude industrial harsh noise of the highest order.

Funny thing is, until reading this topic I actually figured Geography Of Hell was a continuation of AOE, thanks to the thematic and occasional sonic similarity between the two. Guess not. Maybe the AOE guys have been involved with some of the GOH material?

Talking about the actual topic of Fernow's non-Prurient projects though, Exploring Jezebel is the one to beat. From what I've seen a lot of people shrug that project off as being an unsatisfying concept-first, sound-last thing but that sort of impotent unsatisfying shit noise is, to me at least, the perfect sonic manifestation of the subject.
There's a lot more merit to that project(and other projects which go for a that sort of warped approach) in my eyes than to a lot of more technically accomplished noise which gets by purely on the refinement of the sounds and fails to bring any actually fresh perspective to the table.

Vegas Martyrs are also pretty worthwhile, but I guess that's primarily Richard Dunn's band.

totalabuse

i guess we will never know for sure... A few people close to him (i sound so stupid) have said AoE was him but who knows... whenever i asked him in person he said "oh they are just some weirdos from down the street"... either way it's a great project IMO...

Exploring Jezebel is interesting to me because it is ( partially at least) about high concept over sound... the way so much noise does that anyway... the titles are full of content and long as hell and the actual "material" is shitnoise.. i remember a Hospital description for one of the tapes being something like "lowest level noise" or something akin to that...utilzing weirdo humor.. that type of humor was missing from noise back in 2009 (?) when the project came around..


Burial Hex

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I was just digging through the archives.. without being able to say who it is, I can definitely tell you that Geography of Hell is not Prurient or Lussuria side projects.. not related at all, actually.  I only know this because GoH turns out to be a personal friend of mine (and even I did not know for years that it was him!).

PTM Jim

#28
Quote from: Burial Hex on March 03, 2016, 07:44:11 PM
without being able to say who it is, I can definitely tell you that Geography of Hell is not Prurient.
Correct. However, I do know that there are many members and no one person is on every release. My guess is that no one actually involved knows everyone involved and that's the best part. I know there are people from the US, France, and Japan involved...possibly more.

As for other side projects and such, I more or less am attracted to the revolving conceptual aspect of each. The concept for that kind of stuff has always been way more important to me than the sounds...although if the sounds are great, it makes it all the better.

For instance, the way Vatican Shadow was conceived is important. He always said there was a lack of motivation and personalization in most techno music. One of the absolute best song titles is by Viodre called "Albert Titles Before He Records." And I am always torn when people do that. It doesn't make sense to do because you never know what will come of the recording and it could simply not match. BUT when you have a very strong underlying concept prior to recording, I think one can manipulate the sounds with a clear conscience on how to approach the matching concept. So VS can be whatever at times, but I think the sounds match the concepts very well, and that's what I like about it. The same can be said about Christian Cosmos and Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement.

Exploring Jezebel is excellent in concept because it's "doing something you don't want to do." The idea of releasing such shitty noise, knowing well that it's going to reflect poorly upon you, is brilliant. Any respectable artist would throw those recordings in the trash. EJ is the Hustler in the stack of Playboys.

I like all the black metal stuff for various reasons about each, but Ash Pool has evolved quite well since the First Taste Of Power demo. I appreciate all the stepping stones from then to now.

All the one offs are hit or miss with River Magic and Winter Soldier being some of the better ones.

Age Of Enlightenment might be him and another, but deep down I kind of hope that Jason and Mark exist. Vampyric Treblinka and Holocaust Adventure are incredible with VT being one of the better obscure releases on all of Hospital.

With Mitochondrial DNA i didn't care at all about the artwork because I loved the name so much. There was supposed to be a 3xCS on Fusty, but I don't know if they ever got around to finishing it. Connelly now uses Empty DNA (a spin on the abbreviation mtDNA) as a solo alias.  


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To my big surprise, I really liked Exploring Jezebel. It got just about everything right.