NO PART OF IT: Mister Fuckhead Interview, "Greatest Improvement in Dance" book by Edgar Amaya

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Mister Fuckhead Interview, "Greatest Improvement in Dance" book by Edgar Amaya

Edgar Amaya, a writer, DJ, and one half of the band EaViL, has published a book on lulu.com
which contains album reviews, live reviews, some personal thoughts on various musical ventures, and 2 interviews. Mister Fuckhead shares honorable company with Lydia Lunch in the interview section of this all around thoughtful and organic/poetic/abstract publication.

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NO PART OF IT is a "private label" of sorts, headed by Arvo Zylo in secret.

It was kicked off in 2008 with a locked groove 7 inch compilation called "Trunculence" featuring Nurse with Wound, Dave Phillips, Crash Worship, To Live and Shave in L.A., Anakrid, SIXES, and more. 55 artists in total. The initial aim of the label is to release products of active imagination, rather than attention-starved gimmicks, and generally focuses on the work of conceptually isolated, visionary individuals.

Money orders or demos are not being accepted at this time.

Sounds

BLOOD RHYTHMS - "CIVIL WAR" LP

Various Artists - "HETEROPTIKS"

EaViL - "Les Fleurs du Mal" pro CDR

Various Artists - "PUSSIFICATION" pro CDR

Arvo Zylo - UPHEAVAL (93-99) pro CDR

Various Artists (Arvo Zylo Re-Worked) - "333REDUX" DVD

Machine Listener - "Sentient System" Pro CDR

Architeuthis Dux - "SUBMERGENCE" Pro CDR

BLOOD RHYTHMS - "Cutting Teeth" (live) Pro CDR

Arvo Zylo - "333"
BUY

Blood Rhythms - "Assembly" LP
BUY

Ataraxic Ataxia - "Shadow Sea"

Thirteen Hurts - "UVB-76"

Arvo Zylo - "Hello Walls"

Illusion of Safety - "Surrender"
BUY

WILT - "Nocturnal Requiem"

Bryan Lewis Saunders / Arvo Zylo - "The Pleasure Tunnel / The Temple of Paradise" (collaboration)

Arvo Zylo / Dental Work - "Velcro Bismol" (collaboration)

Arvo Zylo - Sequencer Works Volume Two

BIO

SHORT:

Active since 2000. Experimental sound structures wavering around industrial noise territory, often characterized by excessive layering of similar direct sources/samples, or constant integration of a YAMAHA RM1X Sequencer.

Recent work has been more performative and based on mic'ed objects, including group ensembles, primal / conceptual vocal work, and soundtrack-oriented premises.

LONG:

Arvo Zylo has been making experimental music that wavers around but is undeniably anchored in the vein of industrial noise, since the year 2000. He works under his own name as well as under the collaborative umbrella moniker "Blood Rhythms".

Zylo started out having no previous knowledge about experimental music, with a primitive sequencer, where he'd destroy presets and cause malfunctions as a primary source of compositional inspiration. His work has evolved to fetishize extreme layering, repetition, raw material action, feedback, human/animal/onomatopoeia sounds, and naturally abrasive elements without the use of effects pedals.

Arvo Zylo has toured the midwest numerous times, as well as being featured at Denver Noise Fest four times, Dead Audio Fest in Houston (2010), St. Louis Fest (2010), Heavy Focus (Minneapolis, 2010), St. Petersburg Noise Fest 2013, Indiana Noise Fest 2013 and 2014. Radio stations he's been interviewed or featured on include WFMU (New Jersey), WZRD (Chicago), WCSB (Cleveland), and WKCR (New York).

In terms of recorded output, both under his own name and under the Blood Rhythms project, he has done split releases with GX Jupitter-Larsen, Le Scrambled Debutante, TOMB, and Death Factory. Some releases have been produced by such outfits as Locrian's private label Land of Decay, Banned Productions headed by AMK, Phage Tapes, Spleencoffin, OUT-OF-BODY RECORDS (headed by Rob of Terminator 2 and FILTH), and others. A handful of collaborators that Zylo has been involved with include Daniel Burke (Illusion of Safety), renowned collage artist Christopher Ilth (ex Daily Void), German Dadaists Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer, "avant-industrial gospel" band ONO, and industrial noise veteran Christopher Turner (Nookleptia).

Blood Rhythms has featured either live or recorded contributions from Bruce Lamont (Corrections House, Bloodiest, Yakuza), Ben Billington (Tiger Hatchery, Quicksails), Mike Weis (Zelienople), Alejandro Morales (Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan, RUNNING), Clayton Counts (Bull of Heaven, the Beachles), the aforementioned GX Jupitter-Larsen (the Haters), Elizabeth Floersch (Fatale), and members of the entire band ONO, to be short.

Previous group incarnations started off being based around the concept of playing layers of live brass instruments in a drone fashion with as many live players as possible, but it evolved to incorporate junk metal, prepared guitar, tape loops, power tools, and synthesizers.

These earlier projects have featured Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Bloodiest), Michael Krause (Death Factory), Michael Kendrick (Rope, Redemer, Maco Sica), Richard Syska, Dave Purdie (Silver Abuse), Rik Garrett, Right Eye Rita, Bobby Danger (Black Bear Combo), and several others.

People have remarked that Zylo's releases are always very different, but his most representative solo release is "333". There are now over 700 copies in existence, and it took 6 years for him to complete it.

Some select quotes about "333":

"...this recording feels like it had to be made, and it transcends its limited equipment resources as if the music couldn't be stopped..."

"....Arvo Zylo's work is often the product of literal years of toil, the potent result of countless hours refining, perfecting, and focusing wild energies. Projects like his "333" and "Assembly" feel more like they've been finished in a metal refinery than a mastering house, their labyrinthine vertical layers chosen and fixed in place with firm force."

Scott Scholz/Words on Sound/KZUM's "Other Music Radio Show"

"First, I was really focused on the intensely constructed sequenced structure - then, today, I was struck by the more organic components that seem to grow around the more rigid parts. It is an intense listen, for sure. "
Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, Anatomy of Habit, Intrinsic Action)

"A technicolor nightmare..." "...A cyber punk thrill ride" "...totally assaulting music without actually relinquishing the conventional rules of what music should be."
Drew Dahle/Auxiliary Out

"It has a good balance of minimalism and complexity."
Boyd Rice/NON

Having been active in live venues for experimental music and noise since 2003, Zylo at one time ran or co hosted two separate weekly experimental showcases, aside from several well received one-off events and warehouse parties. He's been writing on the subject of sound art periodically since around 2006, having written for Roctober, Special Interests, Heathen Harvest, WFMU's Beware of the Blog, Chicago's NewCity, and others. Arvo's "Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show", which ran for 7 years on WLUW, has afforded him the rare opportunities to interview cultural pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, world-renowned recording artist J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus), veteran noise artist Boyd Rice, meditation teacher Light Watkins, travis from the avant-gospel/industrial band ONO, alchemical artist Steven Leyba, and several other luminous characters of widely varying backgrounds.

"NO PART OF IT" is a label that kicked off in 2008 with a 7 inch compilation (titled "Trunculence") of 100 locked grooves by 55 artists. Some of those artists were Nurse With Wound, Crash Worship, Helios Creed, Black Leather Jesus, Anakrid, dave phillips, and Sudden Infant.

Aside from personal releases, the label has released a CD compilation celebrating the 4th anniversary of Arvo's radio program (active on WLUW 2007-2014), The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show. Before that, Zylo was a regular clandestine DJ at WZRD between 2004 and 2007, and continues to make irregular appearances there. "Delirious Music For Delirious People" included songs by Controlled Bleeding, Zola Jesus, Pharmakon, Gary Wilson, Haunted George, Big City Orchestra, Rancid Hell Spawn, WOLD, and more within its 23 tracks.

Blood Rhythms' debut LP "Assembly", co-released with RRRecords, kicked off 2015, featuring Arvo manipulating source material from five brass and wind players in a meat locker.

NO PART OF IT went "off-the-grid" for a couple of years, (there are some releases that sold out without any representation on the internet, we are pleased to say) selling only by xerox newsletters and money orders, but is now back on "the digital scene". (Bandcamp)

Select Discography

other artists on NO PART OF IT;

Illusion of Safety - Surrender pro CDR (still in print, $7 ppd USA) and pro cassette c60 (last copies)

WILT - Nocturnal Requiem pro CDR (still in print, $7 ppd USA)

Tonetta - S/T pro cassette c90 (deleted)

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Various Arvo related:

Blood Rhythms - Assembly LP co-released with RRRecords, if they're out, there may be some copies at Tedium House. Handmade / collage LP covers from Ron Lessard and Arvo Zylo, Zylo's versions come with an anti record.

Arvo Zylo - Sequencer Works Volume Two, co-released with Rainbow Bridge, CIP, and Forever Escaping Boredom. c60

Bryan Lewis Saunders & Arvo Zylo - "The Pleasure Tunnel / The Temple of Paradise" collaboration cassette c40

Arvo Zylo - "Falling Tower / Terrible Fountain" pro cassette c30 on Side of the Sun Recordings

Blood Rhythms - Untitled cassette (collaboration with Christopher Ilth) c70

Blood Rhythms - "Nothing to Declare" pro cassette c20 on Phage Tapes

Blood Rhythms / TOMB - split pro cassette on Land of Decay (c50)

Arvo Zylo - Sequencer Works Vol. 1 pro cassette c60 on OUT-OF-BODY RECORDS

Arvo Zylo & Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer - "UUUNNNDDD" collaborative 2xCDR on Memorial Fond

Arvo Zylo & Dental Work - "Velcro Bismol" pro CDR (still in print, $7 ppd usa)

Arvo Zylo & Cock ESP - "Fuck ESP" collaborative cassette c20 on Rainbow Bridge / EF Tapes

Arvo Zylo / Gas Mask Horse - split cassette c15

Arvo Zylo / Death Factory - split pro CDR (still in print, $7 ppd usa)

Blood Rhythms / Le Scrambled Debutante - split cassette c30 on Banned Production

Arvo Zylo & Wyatt Howland / Sharlyn Evertsz - split cassette c40

Arvo Zylo - "A Prayer For Powerful Hands" c32 cassette in jewelry box with greeting card, prayer card, rosary.

Arvo Zylo - Saint Street c80 pro cassette, pro CDR (still in print)

Arvo Zylo - 333 c66 cassette, pro CDR (still in print)

Arvo Zylo - Hello Walls c80 cassette in black bag with 3 post cards, dirt from a cemetery.

Trunculence locked groove compilation - 7 inch on red vinyl in a ten inch sleeve with silver on black ink. 55 artists, 100 locked grooves. features locks by Nurse with Wound, Crash Worship, Dave Phillips, Sudden Infant, Helios Creed, and more. 333 copies.

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