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NOISEPOETNOBODY: Cvlt Nation Streams Concrete Vitalist From Experimental Sound Architect; Record To See Release Friday Via Scry Recordings

November 20, 2019 by Joy Von Spain

Cvlt Nation is currently streaming Concrete Vitalist, the latest full-length from experimental sound architect Casey Chittenden Jones, otherwise known as NOISEPOETNOBODY, in its curious entirety.

Set for release Friday, November 22nd via Scry Recordings, Concrete Vitalist was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jones with layout by Zach Wise. The audio collected for Concrete Vitalist’s four movements includes performances on city sculptures and utility structures with a contact mic, destruction of major road over passes, hummingbirds in violent confrontation, and an old decaying piano harp with e-bows pressed towards strings and rusty nails thrown into it. Angular minimalist synthesizer textures interact with sounds from other times and places. Reconstructed reality for imaginational dreamscape soundtracks.

Write Cvlt Nation of the release, “NOISEPOETNOBODY makes end of times music. But it’s unlike most music we describe as ‘apocalyptic’… This is the sound of post-apocalypse; a quiet shuddering of what remains of human civilization. It’s the creak of useless metal and the static hum of wasted land. It’s the slow crawling of nature as it swallows the framework of our creation and buries it in ancient history… Concrete Vitalist may not be something you throw on to jam out to, but it’s something that will captivate your imagination and take you to a world we’re fast approaching…”

**Stream NOISEPOETNOBODY’s Concrete Vitalist, exclusively at Cvlt Nation, at THIS LOCATION.**

Concrete Vitalist will see release on CD and digital formats November 22nd. For preorders, visit the NOISEPOETNOBODY Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION.

For well over fifteen years, Jones has been soundtracking the collapse of civilization under the moniker NOISEPOETNOBODY utilizing homemade instruments, synthesizers, field recordings, and modular equipment to create haunting, discordant, and broken sounds to express the need for creativity in a dying ecosystem.

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. NOISEPOETNOBODY has collaborated frequently with Butoh dance artists and released a 12” (The River) with choreography instructions composed by Vanessa Skantze.

Most commonly associated with the genres experimental, minimalism, noise, industrial, drone, his solo works and collaborations have been released by Scry Recordings (Drone Box, 2019), Lens Records, and Public Eyesore, among others. NOISEPOETNOBODY has participated in numerous festivals and series including NorCal Noise Fest, Perpetual Dune, 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.

“With masterful construction, something as benign as two hummingbirds having a slight confrontation becomes menacing and unsettling, and the sounds of urban living and urban destruction wind around it. This is soundscaping at its finest.” — Toilet Ov Hell

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EYE OF NIX: Seattle-Based Avant-Doom Collective To Release Black Somnia Full-Length LP; Sample Tracks Posted

December 3, 2017 by Joy Von Spain

Following up their critically lauded debut full-length Moros, Seattle-based avant doom bringers EYE OF NIX recently completed their sophomore opus, Black Somnia.

Captured by legendary sound sage Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Om, Pallbearer) at The Hallowed Halls in Portland, Oregon and mastered by Brad Boatwright (Gatecreeper, Necrot), Black Somnia will see release December 15th.

Black Somnia centers itself on themes of fear, control, and anxiety while shape-shifting through a lens of blackened psychedelia and doom. Vocalist Joy Von Spain comments, “Black Somnia includes five new pieces and a re-imagining of ‘A Curse.’ Our goal for the recording was to frame the songs’ turbulence and tension with layers of atmosphere. We also worked intensively with occult artist/photographer Anima Nocturna (Carlos Melgoza) and an international group of Butoh performers to create the album’s ritual-based visual element.”

Black Somnia will be available digitally and in a full color gatefold LP presentation with 180-gram black vinyl, limited to 250 copies. Excerpts of “A Curse” and “Fear’s Ascent” are available below. Preorder Black Somnia at THIS LOCATION.

Black Somnia Track Listing:

Wound And Scar
Fear’s Ascent
A Curse
Lull
Toll On
A Hideous Visage

Words from the already-converted about their debut LP, MOROS:

“With crust and sludge-influenced riffs meeting black metal’s tremolo picking at the noisiest crossroads, the band sets a tumultuous backdrop for vocalist Joy Von Spain’s otherworldly, operatic banshee wails. Her Siouxsie Sioux-gone-black metal vocals will give you chills, and add to the chaos instead of softening the band’s sound.” – Noisey

“Moros is all over the place sonically — not a moment is wasted and there’s no room for an iota of boredom… [Joy] Von Spain’s operatic vocal tendencies make it epic, the psychedelia embedded in it makes it hypnotic, and the blackness and sludge creates a harsh abrasiveness.” – Invisible Oranges

“If your tastes… touch on a wide expanse of sonic darkness, then this album dabbles in all of those with equal mastery – be it black metal, post-punk, sludge, slow-core or noise rock.” – Cvlt Nation

“EYE OF NIX are in a league all of their own and have crafted one of the most interesting releases of 2015. Moros is a strange, dark and destructive record that defies categorization. The maddening, churning, claustrophobic doom and gloom EYE OF NIX create on this record will satisfy those looking for a new sonic twist. The metal outsider will be so enthralled by these blackened compositions, he or she won’t even feel it when Moros drags them to Hades.” – American Aftermath

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Decibel Magazine Premieres Eye of Nix’s “Wound And Scar” From Forthcoming LP, BLACK SOMNIA

December 3, 2017 by Joy Von Spain

Black Somnia is the impending new LP from Seattle-based avant doom conjurors EYE OF NIX. Slated to drop on December 15th via newly-launched Scry Recordings, the stunning new offering was captured by legendary producer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Om, Pallbearer) at The Hallowed Halls in Portland, Oregon and mastered by Brad Boatwright (Gatecreeper, Necrot).

In advance of its release, Decibel Magazine offers up the punishing sounds of “Wound And Scar” for public consumption. Issues EYE OF NIX vocalist Joy Von Spain of the track, “In the song ‘Wound And Scar,’ we strove to evoke finality and resolution through repetitive bass-heavy rhythms accentuated with piano and distorted gong. The lyrics came from a dream about a woman brutally intent upon ending a cycle of fear imprinted on ancestors and passed down through DNA, halting a lineage of misery at any cost. I had been reading about an experiment in which two generations of mice were shown to react with anxiety when exposed to a new and innocuous scent (cherry blossoms), simply because their predecessors had been made to fear it.”

Hear “Wound And Scar,” courtesy of Decibel Magazine, at THIS LOCATION.