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TO END IT ALL 2022 photo: A. K. O'Neill

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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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

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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.

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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.

 

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SATARAY: The Lake – song premiere at New Noise Magazine

December 8, 2021 by Joy Von Spain

THE LAKE – Song Premiere today at new Noise Magazine

 

One-woman dark ambient project Sataray has been composing, performing, and recording her own music entirely, focusing intently on a specific sound. Sataray will release her Blood Trine Moon EP on February 11 through Scry Recordings.

Listen to “The Lake” below:

In her live show, Sataray displays create a ritualistic space and atmosphere, often including performance art elements such as butoh dance and other movement inspiration.

Blood Trine Moon follows on from Sataray’s first solo full-length album, 2019’s Nocturnum, the 2020 single “Saturn,” and her recent Argyropoeia split EP with Zania Morgan. The EP was recorded and mixed by Sataray, mastered by Casey Chittenden Jones (Noisepoetnobody), and once again features artwork by Anima Nocturna.

Metaphorically titled for the creative process, that of bleeding and reflecting, Blood Trine Moon is a vessel of contained rituals, exploring varied states of consciousness within occult explorations of the natural world. The EP intones rich, dark, ambient textures and further explorations into various vocal caverns. Elements of dungeon synth and harsh industrial genres blend seamlessly into this complex four-track EP.

On the release of “The Lake,” Sataray states:

“This track explores the desire to soothe the ferocity of one’s inner landscape through the energy of a deep, dark body of water.”

Pre-order Blood Trine Moon here.

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POISONING WAVE: New Track From Project Featuring Members Of Agalloch And Eye Of Nix Now Playing At Treble

July 29, 2021 by Joy Von Spain

Stream / Share POISONING WAVE’s “As Fog In Sunlight” at Treble at THIS LOCATION.

POISONING WAVE is a new project created by Jason Walton (Agalloch, Sculptured, Snares Of Sixes) and Joy Von Spain (Eye Of Nix, To End It All), bringing together elements of dark ambient, noise, and vocal music. Combining electronics, guitar, bowed steel with both melodic and harsh vocals, the duo creates an intimate rumination upon tragic themes.

Debut single, “As Fog In Sunlight,” currently streaming at Treble,  is the first in a series of pieces to be created in a remote collaborative setting. All proceeds from this song’s release will benefit The Bail Project, a national revolving bail fund and critical tool to prevent incarceration and combat racial and economic disparities within the bail system by restoring the presumption of innocence, reuniting families, and challenging a system that criminalizes race and poverty.

Comments Jason Walton, “Amidst the pandemic and the blatant, horrific displays of systemic racism in America this year, I was feeling helpless and despondent. I had been working on a few albums but wanted to do something different.  I was experimenting with guitars, synths, and various electronics in a way I hadn’t really done before. Upon wrapping up this first track, the news of the killing of Seattle protester Summer Taylor reached me and impacted me greatly. I then revisited this track and made it angrier, more visceral and at that point knew I wanted to ask Joy Von Spain to collaborate with me on this.”

Adds Von Spain, “The spirit-laden environment created by Jason in this piece illustrated to me both sorrow and despair, inspiring these lyrics in memory of those who’ve lost their lives in the ongoing battle for racial justice and equal rights. While compelled to sing a lament for those killed and injured, this moment called also for rage at the perpetrators of these horrific acts who typically experience little or no personal repercussions. While we tread a treacherous path throughout the piece, in the resolution of the song we can find a moment of solemn meditation.”

Writes Treble, “The track is a haunting juxtaposition of avant garde drone, noise and dark ambient with Von Spain’s expressive, gothic vocals. It feels every bit as heavy and powerful as the musicians’ other bands, but delivered without the specific conventions of metal—it’s graceful and mournful, but still leaves an impact.”

Stream POISONING WAVE’s “As Fog In Sunlight” at Treble at THIS LOCATION.

To purchase the single, visit the POISONING WAVE Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION.

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RISING PLAGUE INCINERATOR – DEBUT TRACK OUT NOW

March 8, 2021 by Joy Von Spain

Rising Plague Incinerator: Bacteriophaged Body Wreckage premieres Friday 3/5/21:

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Rising Plague Incinerator is an immersive conceptual music project created by A.D. Carter (of the death industrial act Pathogens) utilizing synthesizers, electric guitar, drum machine, samples, effects pedals, hardware, metal, & power tools. Recorded at Minecrawl studios between October 2020 – January 2021, mastered by MS Waldron.
“At night, even at a distance, the low emanating drone of the Rising Plague Incinerators can be heard in still lifeless towns and cities with no heartbeat. There, they loom high, transmitting their ominous presence through dead black air. Standing tall, they won’t let us forget our dead, the present dead, the future dead. In our future, no burial ground remains for the endless diseased. No burials exist, only grey ash forming a blanket to smother the horizon. In the stillness of a birdless sky, whirls of smoke rise, purposeless debris drifts off to nowhere, and the expired ascend to high heaven, until silence reigns permanent. Rising Plague Incinerators are mechanical apparatus used to reduce infected bodies to ash to contain the spread of a virus. No burials, only burning.”

All proceeds from the sale of this single will go to the Black Lives Matter fund to help eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

NOISEPOETNOBODY: Experimental Sound Alchemist To Release Insanity Mirror Full-Length Via Scry Recordings April 2nd; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available

March 3, 2021 by Joy Von Spain
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Experimental sound alchemist NOISEPOETNOBODY, a project led by one Casey Chittenden Jones, will release his Insanity Mirror full-length via Scry Recordings April 2nd.

For well over fifteen years, 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.

Most commonly associated with the experimental, minimalism, noise, industrial, and drone genres, his solo work and collaborations have been released by Scry Recordings (Drone Box, Drone Relief, Concrete Vitalist), Lens Records, and Public Eyesore, among others. NOISEPOETNOBODY has participated in numerous festivals and series including NorCal Noise Fest, Eugene Noise Fest, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, and Modular On The Spot. Jones also originated the Driftwood Orchestra, Seattle Dismal Fest, and currently joins Peter Keller in the duo Dosenöffner.

Notes Jones of his latest output, “Insanity Mirror is the result of a process that self-imposes limitations in order to create a reproducible form of sound collage, an exercise that was repeated multiple times over the course of several months. Each session begins with a single audio cassette – a copy of Fissure from Public Eyesore Records in San Francisco (2016) featuring the percussion work of Eveline Müller and homemade instrumentation from NOISEPOETNOBODY. The cassette is placed into a player that does not have a motor – all audio tape performance is done via manual wheel controller. Improvisations of cassette playback along with analog and digital audio manipulations create the foundation of sounds needed. That foundation track is then copied and reversed and then placed on top of itself like a mirror audio image. Edits from these recording sessions are then polished to create the finished examples of Insanity Mirror.”

In advance of the record’s release, Jones today unveils “Can’t See It Now,” describing it as, “abstract conversations about manipulations of perception and multi-directional audio reproduction.”

Stream NOISEPOETNOBODY’s “Can’t See It Now” HERE.

Insanity Mirror will be released digitally via Scry Recordings. Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.

Insanity Mirror Track Listing:
1. Can’t See It Now
2. Blind Light Box
3. Look At This View
4. Your Other Image
5. Ugly Bent Reflection
6. Zero Focus Angle

Previously (and hopefully again soon), NOISEPOETNOBODY has spent much time performing in underground venues, bars, art galleries, abandon buildings, and illegal DIY spaces and forever seeking to promote mental deprogramming through anti-commercial sonic immersion, each NOISEPOETNOBODY set is a one-of-a-kind exchange of energy employing analog electronics and improvised inspirations via speaker cones. Jones has collaborated frequently with Butoh dance artists and released a 12” (The River) with choreography instructions composed by Vanessa Skantze. During the pandemic year, he has spent much time creating new work and expanding his techniques for production.

In related news, NOISEPOETNOBODY has composed soundtracks for three special Butoh dance videos by Briana Chittenden Jones featuring three different performers. Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques, and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Briana Jones has been photographing the Seattle Butoh community for more than a decade. In light of a rapidly changing world, where live performances have come to a temporary standstill, Jones has turned toward video to capture the haunting beauty of Butoh while incorporating an intentional custom soundscape created by NOISEPOETNOBODY. View the first of the trio of videos HERE.

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ZANIA MORGAN: Distorted Sound Premieres “Crepulsculum;” Harrowing Argyropoeia Split EP With SATARAY Released

February 6, 2021 by Joy Von Spain

This Friday, January 29th, Scry Recordings will unleash Argyropoeia, the new split EP from SATARAY and ZANIA MORGAN. The disquieting, five-track offering is a ritual purging for nocturnal metamorphosis… their voices heralding a birthing of new form in unearthly flight.

In advance of the EP’s official release, today ZANIA MORGAN presents “Crepulsculum,” now playing at Distorted Sound. Notes MORGAN of the unsettling track, “It’s an anamorphotic gateway to the philospher’s magnus opus.”

Stream ZANIA MORGAN “Crepulsculum,” exclusively at Distorted Sound, HERE.

Argyropoeia is eloquently rooted in an esoteric entanglement of two women, deeply embroiled in their life’s work through audio frequencies. Many years ago, SATARAY and ZANIA MORGAN crossed paths by means of a select few whom had leanings similar in design to their own. The particular artistry and path working with Anima Nocturna was most certainly at the core of that newly found unity. From the point of that meeting on, the slow weaving of a surreal conjunction took place. This is their gift to each other and to you. Mastered by Casey Chittenden Jones (noisepoetnobody), Argyropoeia features cover art by Anima Nocturna in collaboration with Cypher Sothis.

For preorders, visit the SATARAY Bandcamp page HERE, where previously released track “Rain” can be streamed or the ZANIA MORGAN Bandcamp page HERE, where previously release track, “Nyx Ambrosia” can be streamed.

SATARAY is a one-woman ambient creation. It is ceremonial in nature, using incantations, whispers, and death vocals as the blade along with layers of synth and other electronic elements, creating a raw dark terrain. She performs live rituals with her music, often in accordance with artists such as Anima Nocturna and various Butoh dancers. In the Spring of 2019, she released her first solo full-length, Nocturnum, via Scry Recordings.

ZANIA MORGAN is the solo project of Zaskia S. Morgan (also a member of Ehecatl, Madison Mandrake, and Aixela). For the last thirteen years, ZANIA MORGAN has been performing live music for ritual events/gatherings along the West Coast, immersing her audience in an evocative pulse of dark “ritualwave” and birthing from its depth an ecstatic formula of gnosis in sound. In the Autumn of 2017, French label, Falco Invernale Records (F.I.R.), released her first physical recording on vinyl entitled Shapeshifter.

“Sometimes something comes along, and it is so unique, it makes you stop, and give it your full attention, just to make sense of exactly what it is that stopped you in your tracks. Argyropoeia, the split album that’s being imminently released by solo artists SATARAY and ZANIA MORGAN, is exactly one of those moments.” — The Sleeping Shaman

“There’s something about music that’s takes you on a mental journey and forces you to reevaluate where you’re standing that can be incredibly rewarding, as this album is for me. Or, you can just take a dark journey along with both artists and let yourself touch the face of the spirit world.” – Meat Mead Metal

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