Joy Von Spain – Scry Recordings

Update from Scry Recordings – Winter 2022 / New Live Video: TO END IT ALL / Vanessa Skantze

November 5, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

It’s been quite a year filled with highs and lows, successes and interruptions, darkness, light, and every grey area. As we had to (for several reasons) put on hold any new releases since April, we are looking at the future and seeking a path for re-emergence. Thank you for your support in the meantime and we hope to have some progress soon for the coming year to share.

For now, we offer up a new video filmed live with three cameras: TO END IT ALL with Vanessa Skantze – live at Azoth, Portland, OR (full concert)

Filmed by the tireless documentarian Shelby @ Blue Heron Video

Look forward to some live announcements this winter!

TO END IT ALL: Avant-Garde/Death Industrial trio Announces Spring Shows

March 26, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

Avant-garde/death industrial outfit TO END IT ALL will return to the stage this Spring. The rituals begin with a special show supporting Author & Punisher March 8th in Seattle before the band embarks on several shows spread throughout the month of April. The journey, which features a special cassette release show celebrating TO END IT ALL’s Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing (ft. Zvi), a partial soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, includes performances in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Eugene, Oakland, Sacramento, and Portland, with more to be announced in the months to come. The band will be joined by Butoh dancer Vanessa Skantze. See all confirmed dates below.

TO END IT ALL w/ Vanessa Skantze:
4/01/2022 Cryptatropa – Olympia, WA
4/02/2022 Substation – Seattle, WA * Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing release show
4/16/2022 Kvlt Mead – Tacoma, WA
4/20/2022 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR
4/21/2022 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA
4/22/2022 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA
4/23/2022 Azoth – Portland, OR

Since the fall of 2016, long-time collaborators sound artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Joy Von Spain have created new work as TO END IT ALL. Building unusual songs with massive dynamic range forged from voices, keyboard, obliterated samples, and guitar, the music encompasses dark ambient drones, operatic moments, harsh wall noise, rhythms, doom metal riffs, and even lush orchestrations.

In 2021, the duo became a three-piece with the addition of guitarist and vocalist Anne K. O’Neill (Serpentent) to the live group. The trio has appeared at the Peace Simulation pop-up and at Teatro De La Psychomachia in Seattle. TO END IT ALL frequently collaborates with Butoh dance artist Vanessa Skantze, as well as with ritual visual artist Anima Nocturna, and film maker Joseph Seuferling to create an immersive live experience with movement, lighting, or video projections.

During the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, TO END IT ALL released a single from “Strength Is Nothing” for a planned upcoming release. This longer work was composed with Zvi (Ron Varod) to accompany part of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece film, Stalker. German label Prophecy’s luxus edition of Eye Of Nix’s Ligeia (2020) features a cover by TO END IT ALL of the track “Stranded”.

In 2018, TO END IT ALL released their full-length Scourge Of Woman on LP as a duo through Scry Recordings. The album’s death industrial, dark ambient, melodic, and noise collage structures received accolades within the post-industrial and experimental music world and press. Scourge… features photography by Anima Nocturna in collaboration with Joy Von Spain. TO END IT ALL previously released a demo tape and a tour tape in 2017. In addition to touring the US West Coast and rustbelt, TO END IT ALL has appeared at Covenant Fest (BC), Litha Cascadia Solstice, and the Cascadian Yule gathering, as well as at many other interesting and unusual shows in Seattle.

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http://www.facebook.com/TEIAnoise
http://www.instagram.com/to_end_it_all
http://toenditall.bandcamp.com
http://www.scryrecordings.com
http://www.facebook.com/scryrecordings
http://www.instagam.com/scry_recordings

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VANESSA SKANTZE: Butoh Dancer Joins To End It All For Upcoming Spring Performances

March 26, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

Butoh dancer VANESSA SKANTZE will join avant-garde/death industrial outfit/Scry Recordings labelmates To End It All on their upcoming Spring shows. The journey features several performances spread throughout the month of April in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Eugene, Oakland, Sacramento, and Portland, with more to be announced in the months to come. Additional support will be provided by psychedelic doom folk collective (also on Scry Recordings) Geist And The Sacred Ensemble on select dates. See all confirmed dates below.

VANESSA SKANTZE w/ To End It All, Geist & The Sacred Ensemble:
4/01/2022 Cryptatropa – Olympia, WA
4/02/2022 Substation – Seattle, WA * To End It All Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing tape release show [tickets]
4/16/2022 Kvlt Mead – Tacoma, WA [tickets]

w/ To End It All:
4/20/2022 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR
4/21/2022 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA [tickets]
4/22/2022 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA [tickets]
4/23/2022 Azoth – Portland, OR [tickets]

VANESSA SKANTZE is a Butoh artist, yoga practitioner, and writer who has performed and taught in the US and Europe for over twenty years. She became a student of Jinen Butoh founder Atsushi Takenouchi in 2003, having already co-created improvisation ensemble Death Posture in New Orleans. Currently based in Seattle, SKANTZE is a co-founder of Teatro de la Psychomachia, a DIY space which has hosted national and international performing artists and musicians for more than a decade. She also co-directed Butoh ensemble Danse Perdue. Her recent work, Writhing Treasure Feast, premiered in Seattle in February 2020 and features a recorded score by ten musicians, accompanied by a seventy-two-page book of photography/text with two CDs released by Scry Recording, featuring artwork by Anima Nocturna.

VANESSA SKANTZE has toured with Tatsuya Nakatani, Lydia Lunch, and shared the stage with Jarboe, and has choreographed to the music of Kris Force (Amber Asylum). Locally, she creates frequent collaborations with Noisepoetnobody and To End It All. Her works have appeared at dance and film festivals and has taught Butoh workshops in various regions. SKANTZE’s performance Red Flag On The Red Planet was featured at NY Butoh Fest 2020.

http://vanessaskantze.bandcamp.com/releases
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http://www.facebook.com/scryrecordings
http://www.instagam.com/scry_recordings

NOISEPOETNOBODY: Experimental Noise Artist To Release Potential vs Eventual EP Via Scry Recordings; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available

March 26, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

Experimental noise architect NOISEPOETNOBODY will release his latest sonic immersion with the Potential vs Eventual EP, set for release on April 15th via Scry Recordings.

For two decades, Casey Chittenden Jones has been soundtracking the collapse of civilization under the moniker NOISEPOETNOBODY, utilizing homemade instruments, synthesizers, field recordings, tape manipulation and modular equipment to create haunting, discordant, and broken sounds to express the need for creativity in a dying ecosystem.

Comments Chittenden of his latest work, “Potential vs Eventual is an assemblage of sound designed to self-procreate advances forward toward hidden demise, where interactions with machines built for human pleasure turns disastrous leaving a degrading imprint of former aspirations abandoned to soaking in a vicarious pain bath of lost ambition.”

Today Chittenden reveals “Potential vs Eventual Part 1” calling it, “A sonic tribute to that moment when life becomes an unintended outcome of regrettable consequence.”

Stream “Potential vs Eventual Part 1” at THIS LOCATION.

Potential vs Eventual will be released digitally. Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.

Read the press release HERE

SATARAY: Blood Trine Moon – Out Today on Bandcamp

February 11, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

Today we release the new Sataray offering for you to hear: Blood Trine Moon. We’ve seen this artist refine and grow for over a decade, and are so thrilled to present her most recent venture into the depths of a shimmering shadow world. Hear for yourself and order on Bandcamp today HERE.

Sataray: Blood Trine Moon – Full Album Stream at Treble

February 10, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

“Blood Trine Moon is a gloomy and gothic creation, as much a piece of music as a dark ritual. Ostensibly, it’s ambient music, but it feels as much aligned with Dead Can Dance as it does with Lustmord or the most spacious of Tangerine Dream material, and featuring elements of industrial and dungeon synth throughout. Autumnal music (and pretty spooky), but perfect enough for the snow-drenched winter we’ve been having as well.” – Treble

Stream the EP and read more HERE.

SATARAY: Blood Trine Moon – Meat Mead Metal review

February 8, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

SATARAY’S ALLURING, DARK AURA GETS INSIDE YOUR BLOODSTREAM, CHILLS ON EP ‘BLOOD TRINE MOON’

“This four-track collection is immersive in a way that it acts like a ghost within your body, guiding you and helping you achieve visions you didn’t know were possible. Sataray titled this EP metaphorically to describe her creative process of bleeding and reflecting, and it impacts the music in such a haunting and gorgeous way that it is impossible not to be overcome from endless chills down your spine. It’s impossible to describe with words, but that’s why we’re here, so let’s try…”

Read the entire review HERE

TO END IT ALL will be opening for AUTHOR & PUNISHER 3-8-22 @ Clockout in Seattle

February 8, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW

Tuesday 03/08/22
The Crocodile Presents:
AUTHOR & PUNISHER
+ Mutant
& To End It All
$18 ADV / $20 DOS
8:30pm doors // 9pm show
21+
At Clock Out

All attendees must have proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test from within 48 hours of the event start time.

Soriah (album release) w/ Sataray, Valourian Theatre @ Star Theater, Portland OR 3-20-22

February 8, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW

~ATRIUM MYSTIQUE~
A Spring Equinox Salon

Valôurian Theatre & Church of Hive PDX are thrilled to announce our very first Spring Equinox Salon at the historic Star Theater.

Starring:
SORIAH with the new Cathartes Album release

VALOURIAN THEATRE with Dancers:
Tiare Valouria
Sol’Aura Pearl
Rachel Smith
Autumn Sage KaliMah
& Paige Roselene

NIGHTMERRIMENT Puppet Theater

With Special Guest:
SATARAY (Olympia WA)

Join us for an evening of transcendental live music, mystical storytelling and Ritual Theatre followed by a Darkwave dance party for the Spring Equinox proper!

Limited guaranteed seating is available & VIP seating comes with extra special, magical goodies!

Sunday, March 20th

STAR THEATER
Followed by Church of HIVE

Atrium Mystique tickets cover HIVE entry

Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm 21+
11pm: HIVE Goth-Industrial-Darkwave

Tickets Available at startheaterportland.com
Link: https://www.ticketweb.com/…/atrium-mystique…/11769365

GA $22 Adv, $33 At The Door

GUARANTEED SEATING $33 Adv (limited availability)

VIP BALCONY SEATING $66
(Includes VIP magical gift baskets)

Vaccinated Policy for Patrons:
All patrons must provide proof of vaccination (vaccination card or photo ID of it) or a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours of the event.

Atrium Mystique is an all-inclusive event and welcomes any and all to join in the celebration of the season, music and the arts!

We look forward to basking in the magic with you as the wheel of the year turns and the budding of spring beckons us to revelry!

Track Premiere: Sataray – “Hexenacht” at Decibel Magazine

January 20, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

Stream the single at DECIBEL MAGAZINE

It’s not too soon to be lining up your playlist for Walpurgis Night, typically celebrated at the end of April, and we have the perfect lead-off track for all of your witchy indulgences. “Hexenacht” (which literally means “witches’ night” in German) is when European revelers don their witches and demons cosplay outfits, launch fireworks/build bonfires, play loud music and generally make spring celebration merriment. It’s a concept totally foreign to most Bible-thumping Westerners, but Olympia, WA-based dark ambient solo artist, Sataray, knows what’s up.

“Hexenacht” is the fourth track on her upcoming Blood Trine Moon EP, set for release February 11, via Scry Recordings, and the eerie piece is built around a repetitive organ-inspired melody and rumbling tribal thrum, with washes of distant synth and Sataray’s rangy incantations and wails. It slowly builds in intensity, like an invocation, then simmers to a haunting close. Like the rest of the EP, there are elements of industrial grime and dungeon synth. Blood Trine Moon was recorded and mixed by Sataray, mastered by Casey Chittenden Jones (Noisepoetnobody), and features artwork by Anima Nocturna.

Here’s what Sataray had to offer regarding the origins of “Hexenacht”:

“The outline of this track was created during the eve of Hexenacht one year, and encapsulates all of that which is evoked.”

Blood Trine Moon can be ordered here.