Show June 21st at Heavy Gel

Blood Rhythms
Zack Kouns (OH)
Duncan Allen Burns
Health and Beauty

Heavy Gel

I've been told a screen printed poster is on the way.

Excerpts reviewed in Spanish

A positive review in Spanish of my bandcamp sample tracks, the writer seems to think that this in itself was originally a cassette release.   Thanks either way!

Saint Street reviewed

Saint Street cassette reviewed by PBK here

Arvo at Chicago Sonic Coalition (video)

Last year I took part in the first Annual Chicago Sonic Coalition, wherein bands are formed based on names being pulled out of a hat. It just so happened that the band I was supposed to be in dissipated before even one practice, and I performed solo.   It was a great night and there were some great bands.  Each band had to perform a cover.  I redid some of the lyrics of Flipper's "Life Is Cheap" and performed it, along with two other unreleased pieces.  I also recorded two of those tracks in a studio, to be released on a compilation record on Drag City, but the project fizzled.  I suspect those tracks will never see the light of day.  Here is a write up by the curator, John Yingling, at Impose Magazine, along with a 29 minute video of snippets from the event.   John also runs GonzoChicago and filmed the last Mopery Show.  Although he now lives in Missoula, Montana, he was a very important person in the Chicago music scene while he was here.   Thanks again John!

Blood Rhythms at Denver Noise Fest 2013

Thanks to Christopher Turner AKA Nookleptia for his invaluable contributions to this performance, also to Dolores Dewberry for her contribution to some of the source material I used.  Thanks to all at Denver Noise Fest for their overwhelming support!  It was my 3rd year there and I know it won't be my last!

Video and photos from the show at The Mutiny

Here are some photos from the show at the Mutiny with Gas Mask Horse, Breakdancing Ronald Reagan, Dromez, Blood Rhythms, and Nookleptia, thanks to blake edwards.   And here is video of just about the whole show, 38 minutes in duration, thanks to Garland Villanova.  

Review of TOMB/Blood Rhythms

Review of TOMB/Blood Rhythms split cassette on Locrian's private label, LAND OF DECAY.  As I write this, there is only one copy left.

Arvo Zylo LIVE on My Castle of Quiet, 2.8.2013

Arvo's performances on WFMU last February are now written up on their blog and available for listening on the Free Music Archive.  Very pleased to see this!  Many thanks again to Wm. Berger and WFMU!

Arvo Zylo's recordings / talents run the range from truly overwhelming, confrontational / chilling harsh noise, to thought-provoking experimental sounds rooted in the 1980s Raplh/LAFMS/post-TG international "noise boom." Over many releases and collaborations, he has maintained a character of the unexpected, though one always wants to hear what that next sonic mask will be.

Show at the Mutiny

This is sort of a kick off show for most of us going to Denver Noise Fest, so that we may make sure to arrive there in high altitude tired and hungover. 

BLOOD RHYTHMS
DROMEZ (TX)
gAS MAS HORSE
BREAKDANCING RONALD REAGAN (TX)
NOOKLEPTIA

Nookleptia celebrates his 20th year as an angry industrial dark ambient brutal slaughterhouse noise butcher. He's done releases with Luftwaffe, Emulsion, and Page 27. Nookleptia used to be a huge group collective in Denver, before C. Turner moved to Chicago years ago now. He plays animal bones and reed instruments made from plumbing material.

Breakdancing Ronald Reagan - J. Cash (no relation) from TX is steaming on tour and floating with the momentum of having curated a highly successful SUXBYSUXWEST noise fest which aggravated a lot of people, probably got him banned from the venue, and was written about in Vice Magazine by a person who is obviously racist against Texans. He is one of my favorite harsh noise artists going and one of the few who does silly right in my opinion.

Gas Mask Horse is Josh P., core member of noise/grind/punk band Disrobe, and for those who weren't born in the 90s, former blood drenched singer of URETHRA FRANKLIN AND THE GHETTO CHILDREN, whom I first saw in I think 1996. GMH is Josh's project that sprung from designing a DIY punk rock haunted house called the "Haunted Shack". I haven't seen him perform live but apparently it's pretty witchy. The tape is excellent.

DROMEZ is also on tour from Austin, TX. You may have heard her perform on the Delirious Insomniac Freeform radio show in November or seen her perform at TriTriangle or the Dust Bowl in Chicago. She has taken a hunting knife to a warlock guitar in a way that made me uncomfortable and screamed her head off in ways that aren't the feigned freakouts that some of us have seen a lot. She's genuinely pissed and she's got probably thirty guitar pedals in a suitcase, as if they were laser guns or secret plastic explosives. She's in a side project inspired by HP Lovecraft and she can handle her whiskey.

Blood Rhythms is Arvo, oftentimes with a revolving cast of collaborators/contributors. In the past it has featured the entire line up of ONO, Clayton Counts (Bull of Heaven, The Beachles), Elizabeth Floersch (Fatale), GX Jupitter Larsen, and others. The only consistent strain is the use of multiple layers, no effects pedals, and an intent towards primacy.

BLOOD RHYTHMS
DROMEZ
GAS MASK HORSE
BREAKDANCING RONALD REAGAN
NOOKLEPTIA

Arvo/Blood Rhythms at Denver Noise Fest in May

Blood Rhythms will be playing at Denver Noise Fest again this year.   There will also be a pre fest party  on May 9th featuring Arvo in collaboration with Little Fyodor and Clayton Counts (Bull of Heaven).  

Unreleased Flipper cover aired on Little Fyodor's Under The Floorboards Radio Show

I redid a version of Flipper's "Life Is Cheap" in a studio.  It was supposed to be released for a comp on Drag City, but that fell through.  Now you can listen to it as part of Little Fyodor's "Underneath The Floorboards" radio show on KGNU.  Little Fyodor has been on the radio since the 80s, I love his music and I appreciate that he only airs recordings that have been submitted to him.

01/13/2013 Playlist--- Artist/Album/Track
Boyd Rice/Non -Back To Mono- Turn Me On, Dead Man
Arvo Zylo -None- Life Is Cheap
Heatstick -7 " Vinyl Single- Willow's Song
Charles Rice Goff III -Acren Wacren Waney Vo- Simple Gifts
Ryan J. Boyd Many's New Car 2 - The Telekinesis Club Curse Go Back
Richard Young 7" Vinyl Single I Feel Like A Tree
Charles Rice Goff III Acren Wacren Waney Vo The Voice Of God
Edgar Valcarel Tensions At The Vanguard: New Music From Peru (1948-1979) Invencion For Magnetic Tape
Normal Love Survival Tricks Lend Some Treats
Normal Love Survival Tricks Electrolytes In The Brine
Kristen Norderval (post-ambient Arias For Voice And Electronics) Flat Ground
Esmerelda Strange Introducing Esmerelda Strange Track #7
Cactus Truck Brand New For China! The Snotgreen Sea, The Scrotumtightening Sea

Short Tour Recap

photo by Tankie Lemberg, at Hard Times Cafe, Minneapolis MN

It started off doing a show in Minneapolis, staying with Dolores Dewberry and doing some collaboration beforehand.  She took me to a Santeria shop and a German Restaurant which was delicious, among other things.  The show at Club Medusa saw harsh weather but nonetheless garnered a turnout that included people who were important to me.  People who ran labels and curated fests and otherwise had a genuine enthusiasm for what was going on.  Many thanks!

I visited some of my longest standing friends in Cleveland on the way to New York, and upon arriving to New York, went straight to WKCR to do a live performance on the radio show "Transfigured Night" (hopefully the archive will be up soon).  I was extremely humbled by this experience, as they were either airing my recordings or my performances for 3 hours.  Thanks to Narine for having me!

The following evening I found myself at WFMU, where I was given a tour of the bizarre velvet portraits with varying degrees of efficiency/hilarity emanating from them, and various artifacts from this incredible and long standing institution.

We discussed the characteristics of feedback with radio and internet streams.  My first live set started off with near silence,  and gradually became more of an implement in the performance.  Wm. Berger played great music as only he can do, from doom/black metal to psychedelic madness and clips from obscure horror movies.  I was also honored by a short interview, being able to do a second live set, and on top of that, a recording of my live set on WZRD in 2006 closed out the show.   Their comment board had enough praise to make me blush and then some.

  WFMU has been my favorite radio station since I knew about it almost ten years ago, and My Castle of Quiet has been my favorite radio show since I knew of its inception a few years ago, headed by someone who was around for several years starting in the 80s and 90s, and took a ten year break that ended in 2009 or so.  This experience was the bedrock of what radio should be like, and I'm happy as a lark that I could be part of it for one evening.

The show the following day at Silent Barn was cancelled due to snow, and so I was lucky to be able to hang out with Wm. Berger at Castle HQ for one more day before flying to Pittsburgh.  It was great to have good conversation, overlapping likemindedness, and such a kind host!  Thanks again!

I will have to hang out with Richard Kamerman, Nat Roe, the guys from Grasshopper, and others, at another time, but I'm very thankful that I was invited to be part of what would have been an excellent show, an opening for a barber shop/record store/art gallery within the bowels of the longstanding Silent Barn venue.



In Pittsburgh, there were some cancellations and a low turn out, but the local sets were great and the saving grace was being able to get Panther Modern to do a set, coming all the way from Baltimore.  His work is some of the best going on right now.

I was also able to stay at local artist Seth LaDonne's house, and we had some great conversation/food before I left early in the morning for Cleveland.

Cleveland's scene is strong and diverse even on an off day.  I took part in NOISE LUNCH, a sunday after noon monthly affair that seems to come in the wake of their AUDIO VISUAL BAPTISM.  Each installation has a theme, this one being the use of contact mics.  Lisa Miralia's BAAT project was an excellent performance piece inspired by singing spiders, and she used contact mics to replicate sea breezes and kiddie talking bugs.  There was also the 14 year old Malware project, using a bowed steel sailboat and an effected toy piano.  Every act was great, and it had been my best rendition of this ongoing mutation of a piece I've been working with.  Everyone was very supportive (thanks to Lisa for playing my work on her radio show and passing around a hat too!).

After that I got to cook with Scott Hosner, the former owner of Bela Dubby, a defunct coffee shop in Cleveland.  I drank and worked on recordings with Wyatt Howland AKA Skin Graft, and there's such an abundance of source material that I can't help but be excited about what will come of it.   I must also say that I was waiting for a friend to meet me in a huge mall. because they wouldn't let me into the casino with my gear, and instead of playing the same drab RnB I recall hearing every time fate's unwavering hand drags me into a mall, I heard 60s music on the intercom, most notably Joe Meek's Telstar washed in the marble reverb of the 3 story mall, only a week after the anniversary of his death.  That was surreal.

The bus rides were largely peaceful, one highlight being a long conversation with 2 dominatrixes on the way into New York about various bizarre fetishes they've been able to provide services for.

New York has such an incredible energy to it, can only be experienced to be understood.  My preconceptions had been shattered before I even got off the bus.  And in all of two days there, I didn't experience an inkling of the rudeness that befits The Big Apple's reputation.  It was the city that never sleeps, and while I was within its parameters, I couldn't either.  It was a place where every square inch seems to permeate with a sense of urgency.

TOUR / SHIPPING / NO PART OF IT

I'm writing from Minneapolis, the show at  Medusa was a lot of fun.  I wanted to take a second to say that I'm on a short tour, if you happen to live in Pittsburgh or New York (hopefully also Cleveland) below.


New York
On the evening of February 6th and into the following morning, I will be on WKCR some time between 2AM and 5AM NY time.

On the evening of February 7th, and after midnight, he will be doing a live performance on Wm. Berger's My Castle of Quiet, broadcast out of the legendary WFMU radio station.

On the evening of February 8th, he will be performing at Silent Barn, sharing a large bill, and apparently 2 stages with Richard Kamerman, Grasshopper, and more.

 February 9th in Pittsburgh

Arvo Zylo

Satyr/Elfheim 

Liability

Wasp Nest Head Dress

at

Garfield Artworks

Cleveland Noise Lunch at Now That's Class Feb 10th 4pm

• curated by Eric Chimeliewski w/ Glacial 23 (Sam Harmon), Holy Stark MAA (Amanda Howland & Mitch Ribis) , Baat (Lisa Miralia), Rob Galo, Malware (Hunter Just), Moth Lung (Scott Schumacher), Ammo Spammo Killson, Progressive Discipline (Eric Chmielewski), and Fluxmonkey (Bbob Drake)

 I also wanted to say that I have been planning on running my modest little label NO PART OF IT outside of the internet, with only money orders, newsletters on paper, and paper mailing lists for a while now.  Now that the USPS has cranked up their rates (you can still sign a petition against it until February 4th), I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I'm quite confident it's not going to be on the internet, I had to let the cat out of the bag.  There are extremely exciting projects on the horizon.  I have a couple of releases already which have not been made for sale on the internet, and can take orders for domestic USA shipping without much concern, but I'm still not going to accept paypal anymore.  However, international shipping has become ridiculous.  I'm going to try to find a way to get my label's releases produced overseas or something, for customers who don't wish to pay roughly two times the cost of the item in order to get it shipped.  If you would like to get copies of my newsletter, feel free to contact me.



Best,

Arvo

Feb 9th Show in Pittsburgh

Arvo Zylo

Satyr/Elfheim 

Liability

Wasp Nest Head Dress

at

Garfield Artworks

Velcro Bismol (with Dental Work)

Pro CDr - 49 minutes.
Art by Arvo Zylo

Minneapolis show Feb 1st w/ Dolores Dewberry, Crusader No Remorse, +++

New York

Arvo has 3 affairs planned next month in the New York area!

On the evening of February 6th and into the following morning, he will be on WKCR some time between 2AM and 5AM NY time.

On the evening of February 7th, and after midnight, he will be doing a live performance on Wm. Berger's My Castle of Quiet, broadcast out of the legendary WFMU radio station.

On the evening of February 8th, he will be performing at Silent Barn, sharing a large bill, and apparently 2 stages with Richard Kamerman, Grasshopper, Ben Byrne (Australia) and more.

This is exciting!
More dates are in the works!

Nothing to Declare

I just received copies of the new Blood Rhythms release Nothing to Declare from Phage Tapes.  I'm extremely happy with the way they turned out.  This is a C20 cassette with cover/text/ imprint art by Si Clark and insert art by Marcel Hass (Apes of Doom).   This is heavy/harsh sound using no effects and only excessive shifting layers of various raw source material.  I scanned the cassette to show how intricate the art is.  Those who remember my ill-fated "Time Destroys All Things" art project will recognize Chronos in there.

Arvo/Blood Rhythms on wfmu radio/end of year list

Blood Rhythms was aired this week on Wm. Berger's My Castle of Quiet radio show, and mentioned on Wm. Berger's End of Year list at WFMU's Beware of the Blog!  It is an honor to be included!  Support this excellent radio show/station!  

Arvo on WFMU/My Castle of Quiet radio show

Ill-at-Ease in the U.S.A.

 A live track by Arvo was aired on Wm. Berger's My Castle of Quiet radio show, alongside The Cramps, Mundkrach & Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, New Age Hillbilly, Dhampyr, and Actuary among others! 

Video excerpt from Show on November 27th

Thanks to P. from SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS for sharing, and for the kind words! 

Xylowave/Zylowave cassette reviewed at Memory Wave Transmission

READ HERE

Arvo aired on WFMU, KOWS-FM, KKUP, and KBRP

WFMU's Wm. Berger played "Upheaval (Version 29)" on his recent My Castle of Quiet radio show, alongside Teatro Satanico, Altar of Flies, Havohej, and Wretched Worst. listen here!

Arvo was also aired on Nat Roe's "crass appropriation" themed WFMU radio show with vintage cumbia from Peru, Senegalese big band music, and new Muslimgauze.

 In addition, there've been 3 instances of recent airplay from Don Campau, on his longstanding No Pigeonholes radio show in a number of incarnations out of California. Also featured were Oren Ambarchi, If, Bwana, and Vanessa Rosetto among others.

 Topping that off, Arvo recorded a little message for a small radio show in Bisbee, Arizona, called "Noisesense", explaining the "Upheaval" series. Halalchemists, Emil Beaulieau, and Maurizio Bianchi were also played. Archives not available.

Show November 27th at ex-Enemy space

Tritriangle 
1550 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 3
 Chicago, IL 60622
Tuesday, November 27th
8pm

 SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS (Italy)/Neil Jendon
Dromez (Austin, TX)
Arvo Zylo

LYMPHOMANIA: A BENEFIT FOR KARINA NATIS

LYMPHOMANIA: A BENEFIT FOR KARINA NATIS

November 10, 2012 8:00pm
Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 3
Chicago, IL

Chances are, you've been in a photograph by Karina Natis. You might not know it. You might not know her. You might be a flailing limb, a shock of falling hair, drowned in a swath of light, capsized in a pool of sweat, blood, or beer. But you're there.

In June, Karina was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's B-cell Lymphoma, manifesting as a six-inch tumor between her left lung and heart. After 18 weeks of chemotherapy, her tumor has all but disappeared, and a final month of radiation treatment will hopefully cure her for good.
Like so many thousands of people in this country and many of us in the underground music community, Karina is uninsured, and the cost of the chemotherapy alone extends into the tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention the numerous surgical procedures needed for access to the tumor site and the weeks spent recovering in-hospital.

We're thrilled to announce that some wonderful people (who also happen to be fantastic musicians) have stepped forward to donate their time and talent in an effort to help stem the flow of the enormous cost of Karina's treatment. We invite you to join them in giving back to Karina, who has shared so much of her artistic gift with us and the Chicago DIY community at large. An incredible audio-visual lineup has come into being, bringing musicians and artists from all corners of Chicago together to make sound and light in celebration.

We are proud to present:
Battleship
Pandava (featuring members of Quicksails, Chemtrails, and Mines)
Arvo Zylo
Dead Dragon Mountain (members of Sunsplitter)
Instinct Control
Wish Fulfillment

and visuals by Theodore Darst

November 10, 2012. 8pm
$8 in advance (paypal link coming)
$10 at the door

For more information about Karina's photography, please visit www.karinanatis.com

Delirious Music for Delirious People reviewed by My Lovely Figment/Dictafawn label

http://dictafawn.blogspot.com/

  Holy shit. 

 This is easily one of the best and, dare I say, most relevant compilations I've heard in the past few years. Not only does this comp have some head-turning artists to make it well worth the purchase--Big City Orchestra, Boyd RIce, fucking CONTROLLED BLEEDING and WOLD(!)--but a lot of the acts on here that are unknown, at least unknown to me, are truly exceptional; The Cenitmeters' bizaare [i guess] new wave-ish sound, Pharmakon's intense power electronics and even the charmingly goofy, vintage spook show-esque opening track by Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet, just to name a few, stand out amongst the waves of either mediocre or just plain shit things I've heard from other artists in these general categories. 

 More importantly, this compilation isn't confused like other compilations tend to be when presenting a variety of different styles; no, this compilation knows exactly what it wants to present and comes out exactly what it intended to be: delirious music for delirious people.

 Smashing work, man.

333 gets 3 new reviews

Memory Wave Transmission

..."at times, the rhythms shift from music to noise, with little strands of static and percussive elements keeping a hold of the ideas, or at other times, bass-heavy beats and stuttery staccatos create a march of sound. It’s easily the best showcase of 333 because of its length, but it’s also a good song altogether, and 333 could have stood on its own with just this track."

Gumshue Grove

"Either way I’m voting yes. FUCK YES. Adjourned."

ninehertz
"'You ask your mom please, but she... melts off your face with a shoulder-mounted laser'... "

Blood Rhythms and le Scrambled Debutante Split on Banned Production

BLOOD RHYTHMS has done a split with veterans of odd experimental spacescapes, le Scrambled Debutante, now out on Banned Production, a ground breaking label that was started in 1984.  The Scrambled side is like a melange of tape warble induced bugs bunny transcendental chaos.   This incarnation of Blood Rhythms is assembled with collaborative recordings between NV13 and Arvo Zylo.  It  shapes up to be deflating balloons of organs, synth noise and horrific screaming.  At present time, this tape is not on the site, although it has been available for over a month.  Those wishing to acquire a copy should contact AMK.

T.O.M.B./BLOOD RHYTHMS split out now on LAND OF DECAY!

Now available on Land of Decay:  T.O.M.B/BLOOD RHYTHMS split c50 cassette.  T.O.M.B. works in a realm of their own around the fringes of black metal, industrial, dark ambient, and noise.  They perform with human bones and stolen tombstones, and they have been released on Prison Tatt Records, as well as Crucial Blast, among others.   This incarnation of BLOOD RHYTHMS features contributions from Christopher Turner (Nookleptia), Michael Esposito (Phantom Airwaves), and NV13.  Our side is a sprawling affair that incorporates Electronic Voice Phenomena with subsonic frequencies, a sample of a feraliminal lycanthropizer, and excerpts from a recording of Arvo screaming through a contact mic'ed gas mask for almost 2 hours straight.   Land of Decay is a private label headed by the founding members of Locrian.  We are proud of the way it turned out, and to be included in part of their vast, highly calculated body of work!

333 reviewed in WORDS ON SOUNDS

Excellent review from WORDS ON SOUNDS

Our next DIY artist is Chicago's Arvo Zylo, a genre-defying musician who is also the host of The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio show on WLUW, which airs from midnight to 4AM on Monday mornings (Facebook page for the show here). Zylo sent a copy of his "333" on CD (it's also been available in a cassette edition), an incredibly deep record whose creation spanned six years. I've been digging into this recording for a few months--while it makes a powerful statement on first listening, it continues to reveal new secrets every time I put it on.

The story behind this album points to discipline through adversity: "333" was started in 2003, using only an RM1x sequencer while squatting in an abandoned house, and the piece continued to evolve until being mastered in 2009. As one might expect from the circumstances of its birth, it's a dark, bleak outing, but it's not a simple release of rage. This is detailed work, rich in nuanced layers of sound whose precise deployment points toward careful working and reworking of every element. Most records I hear that gravitate toward harsh noise/power electronics have a certain immediacy or even haste evident in their production, but the nature of "333" involves time and architecture.

For a recording created with a device that functions essentially as a step sequencer, this music is incredibly varied--you never get the vibe of someone simply pushing buttons to move between simple sequences. And these pieces use a huge dynamic range, from walls of noise to pensive, early-industrial textures. There isn't a lot of pitch-driven content: sounds and textures are used rhythmically, articulated with filters and other onboard effects, which is another approach I don't often associate with sequencers. But this recording feels like it had to be made, and it transcends its limited equipment resources as though the music couldn't be stopped.

"333" is made of three long compositions. The first, "Quicksand Eggs of a Beaten Pathos," is over 30 minutes, quite a ride on its own. "Quicksand" starts with a short bass-driven introduction before leaping headfirst into walls of sound. Power electronics textures dominate until we reach the 7-minute mark, where a midrange riff begins to take over. The interplay between evolving textures and riffs continues for much of the piece, punctuated with really harsh rhythms that propel the music forward. Around 18 minutes, the piece dissolves into near-silence, eventually coalescing into a really cool synth ostinato figure, turning on itself repeatedly, and this section gets extensively reworked with sections of pads and countermelodies that shift focus momentarily toward harmonic function. Some almost drum & bass-sounding rhythms bring up the energy toward the end, followed by some stuttering rhythmic stabs and heavily filtered synth blips. From drones to harsh noise, "Quicksand" integrates a number of compositional impulses into a powerful whole.

The other two pieces, "Deadbeat Deluxe" and "Plasthma," are shorter, their combined length not quite reaching that of "Quicksand" alone. But these are complex pieces that travel across compositional approaches, too. "Deadbeat" uses some interesting, almost dub-like drops between rhythmic ideas, eventually melting into clusters of colliding note sequences driven by brutal quarter-note rhythms. "Plasthma's" first half is perhaps the most texturally-driven section of the album, eventually giving way to some of the most harmonically-dominated writing on the record in its second half, which almost sounds like an early Residents recording at times. As other reviews of the album have noted, one can certainly hear a lot of early industrial, noise, and electronic music influences in "333," but there is a certain compositional flair that combines and juxtaposes the musical sections in a more classical sense. I'm sometimes reminded of the most explosive trill/repeated-note moments in Nancarrow's player piano studies, or "Systems Emerge"-era Flying Luttenbachers. These works all share an especially personal energy that is usually only possible when a composer is also the sole performer/programmer of their work.

Listening to this album as a purely aesthetic experience is satisfying enough, but there is a larger concept behind this music that I think is worth exploring for a deeper context. As Zylo describes it, "To this day, and for at least 9 years, the artist has seen a series of numbers, "333," on clocks or other various places constantly; nearly every day, to the degree that it has become a fixation." In keeping with some of the magical resonance in the early industrial movement, the "333 current" seems to play a significant role in this recording. The Thelemic tradition associated 333 with the Crossing of the Abyss, essentially a process of confronting and (hopefully) transcending the Ego, and with the figure of Chronozon, essentially a "chaos god" of the Abyss itself, beyond good and evil (but usually pretty evil-looking!). The number gets associated with concepts like forgetfulness, lies, "breaks," redemption, and the darkness/overwhelming potential of total revelation. Later chaos magic traditions have continued to associate the 333 current/Chronozon concept with the Ego, somewhat softening the drama of the encounter to more of an acknowledgement/release process rather than confrontation/transcendence, in rituals such as Peter Carroll's "Mass of Chronozon."One doesn't need to be a believer or practitioner of such traditions to find their philosophies and archetypal implications interesting, and knowing a bit about them seems to illuminate this record nicely, with its ever-shifting shapes and conversations between melodic and textural ideas. You can find more information about "333," as well as other projects involving Arvo Zylo, at http://www.nopartofit.com.

--also published at Killed in Cars

Arvo/Blood Rhythms on 2 new cassette compilations

 E.F. Tapes will be releasing 2 compilations, as well as 2 other releases, on 9/11 in honor of their 20th anniversary:  One is a compilation of interpretations of the Star Spangled Banner, another is a compilation of Midwest noise artists, both of which include Arvo/Blood Rhythms, as well as artists such as Animal Steel, Disthroned Agony, Dental Work, Panicsville, Breakdancing Ronald Reagan, RU 486, Cock E.S.P. and many more!

Delirious Music For Delirious People Reviewed in Hiroshima Yeah!

Click on the image to read the review of Delirious Music For Delirious People in the latest issue of Hiroshima Yeah!

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