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Cassette + Digital Album
Torture Garden sound-book!
2 X C90 Cassette Tapes. 180 min of recorded material.
Boxed in a classic, but rigid plastic fold, with original hand-drawn artwork. Bonus items included.
Limited edition of 50.
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"Definitely a lengthy album, we have been working upon, stretching and recording it over the period of 2016-2018, including many distinguished guests who have been involved in the album creation, we surely (during the process of completion) have raised the level and magnitude of the album presented.
We enjoyed the time during the process of recording, always getting back to the initial idea to keep it "raw as possible and with a sense of dynamic aliveness" and it 'demanded' of us quite a lot of attention in the ever-growing development and unfoldment as we moved and tracked down the ideas/associations, to form the sound story around the book by the same title i.e. Torture Garden.
For all the die-hard fans of Ontervjabbit and this album, we think that it deserves the attention, and that's why the pricing, at this point, goes a bit higher than the initial one.
Remastered version of an album (LP Box-set with all the original artwork, to give it its bigger and proper shine as an LP re-release) to be done in the nearest as possible future." — OVJ
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Torture Garden album is the sound interpretation of the book by the french author Octave Mirbeau (1848 - †1917), titled in french as Le Jardin des Supplices (1899). The album continually evolved throughout the 3 year period (2016 - 2018).
The album demarcates/inaugurates a new chapter in the works of both artists, releasing the sound material on their newly founded Vile Descent Tapes label, bringing a dynamic platform of creativity and fostering additional collaborative endeavour with other (sound) artists as well. – Torture Garden is available in both digital & physical format (double cassette case [2 x 90min], w/ 3 x LP-boxset to be released in the nearest possible future).
The album is structured like a sound book, of 30 tracks, with included chapters and their respectively fit titles that evoke the most vivid imagination when read and listened as a sound narration – a sonic depiction of a certain cognitive space, that the two protagonists, carefully brought forth to their listeners, in this really massive sound package.
[Sound-book structure]:
ENTRANCE: THE GATES OF LIFE
— The Tearing of Flesh (OPENING)
— Crimson Pillars of Beryllium (INTRODUCTION)
CHAPTER 1: PERFUMES AND GIBBETS
— The Apparatus of Crucifixion
— The Lovely Piece (ad int.)
— Demimondaine
— Clara
CHAPTER 2: MONSTRUOUS FLOWERS AND INSTRUMENTS OF ETERNAL HUMAN SUFFERING
— Les Fleurs du Mal (ad int.)
— Odor of the Thalictrum
— Of Butchery and Massacre
— The Bell (ad int.)
CHAPTER 3: CEASELESS DECLINE FROM ETERNITY
— Macabre Existentia
— Law as Murder (Part I - The Exercise Of {D}evil)
— Angel of Decomposition and Rot
— Law as Murder (Part II - The Executioner's Robe)
— Cascades and Cadences
— Torture Garden
CHAPTER 4: TRIUMPHS AND PASSIONS OF HUMANITY
— Anémone Blanche (ad int.)
— Split Thorax
— The Peacock Killer
— Can't Stand This Odor Any Longer (ad int.)
CHAPTER 5: VILE DEPICTIONS OF INEXORABLE TORTURE
— Love as Torture
— Azoth (Greater the Knowledge, Keener the Pain)
— All Our World Will End In Despair
— Vermillion Sands
CHAPTER 6: FLORAL ORGY
— Hacked Cranium (ad int.)
— The Shadow of the Gallows
— The Pullulation (ad int.)
CHAPTER 7: SUBJUGATION OF LIFE
— Shangri-La
— Tormented Will (Abnegation)
EXIT: THE PALACES AND GARDENS OF DEATH
— Atragene (CLOSURE)
[Drive and conceptual formulation of the album-project]:
Theory, concept and idea of the project follows and simultaneously re-interprets the »Torture Garden's« theoretical implications, of dealing with topics like politics, sexuality, spirituality (through philosophical lens), in a critical manner and with a sense of personal investigation into the matters of life's (existential) struggles and overall suffering (which is present on a massive scale).
The book is dealing with the subjects connected with rulership, power and authority, politics, sexuality, religion, murder and just in general with the organicity of life itself and its accompanying decomposing stench/odour of death. Slogans of the type: »Love as torture« and »Law as murder«, encompass in themselves, the divide between the two poles, demarcating between the bodily/physical and the symbolic order, – incessantly dismembering the subject, torturing it –, and as it seems, only through this process that the human being becomes constituted as a symbolic being.
Bodily and symbolic effects, their dualities, cuts, fluctuations and dislocations, all of them, keep maintaining their characteristic/their tension, through the pressure of the element of death – the organic finitude, the putrefaction and disintegration, together with the symbolic-law in-finitude inescapably tearing up the subject, holding him in the 'jaws' of dead letter and formal emptiness. On the one side we are presented with the purest ethical contents, cleared up reasons and concepts, and on the other side with the reality/brutality of murder – concreteness of blood and violence, as a price that we have to pay, for exiting the straightforwardly-natural-given-endowments (nature given reality as a natural being), that forever remains (and has always been) alien to us.
Suffering, death and decomposition, hiding behind every flower/richness of life/excitement of passion, together with the fist-blows (of the Law), moves like a shadow, shifting itself alongside the landscapes of "torture garden", where the perfumes of the colourful flowers interchange with the organic debris – like a signature to the word itself, to its letter, to its i/(m)mortal power, bringing forth its own dis-embodiment.
Justice, truth, liberty/freedom, love, all these concepts, – as a reigning of the diabolic and evil practices, that are inevitably springing forth from their ideations, as words, imprinted on the forehead of truth, righteousness and life, – bring only death with them, murder and disintegration and endless suffering in the name of abstract nothingness/'somethingness' of the non/being of the letter-body. — N.M.A. (2017)
credits
released June 6, 2018
Ontervjabbit — Torture Garden.
Guest appearances: Hiroshi Hasegawa (ASTRO), Manuel Knapp, Aphra Tesla, Marta Zapparoli, Jelena Novak, Simon Šerc (of Pharmafabrik Recordings), Dave Kirby (SATORI), Lorenzo Abattoir (NASCITARI).
Cover artwork (+ Ontervjabbit handwritten logo + Torture Garden handwritten title: Mirko Rossi / LE NEVRALGIE COSTANTI.
Handwritten tracklist: Aphra Tesla (A.T.O.S.)
All sound production & arrangement on the album: written/selected/mixed/recorded/mastered by Ontervjabbit.
Mixes done by respective guests include exclusive layer-recordings from Ontervjabbit (including their own, where stated in the info section below w/ additional info regarding mastering for particular collaborative track/s).
Mixes done by Ontervjabbit, received from the respective guests, for a particular track, include exclusive layer-recordings from their recording sessions.
Album based and inspired by the book "Le Jardin des Supplices" (Octave Mirbeau 1848 - †1917).
[Guestlist-tracks info & credits]:
–– [Hiroshi Hasegawa (jp)] - Odour of the Thalictrum [sound layers by Ontervjabbit & H.H.; selected/arranged/mixed/recorded/mastered by H.H.] + Split Thorax [sound layers by Ontervjabbit & H.H.; selected/arranged/mixed/recorded/mastered by H.H.]
–– [Manuel Knapp, (aut)] - Azoth (Greater the Knowledge, Keener the Pain) [high-freq. synth sound layer by M.K. from his album Azoth (Ventil Records, 2016), additional low-freq. synth by Ontervjabbit + sound excerpts from the Douglas Grossman's movie Hell High (1989) & Dario Argento's The Church (1989), directed by Michele Soavi. Final cut/arrangement/mix/recording/mastering by Ontervjabbit.]
–– [Aphra Tesla, (si)] - Demimondaine + The Lovely Piece (ad int.) + Can't Stand This Odour Any Longer (ad int.) [guest-track vocals by A.T., processed/manipulated/recorded/mastered by Ontervjabbit + noise-voice insertion of A.T's. voice on Split Thorax by H.H.]
–– [Marta Zapparoli (de)] + Simon Šerc (si)] - Of Butchery and Massacre [sound layers & field recordings by M.Z. + field recordings by S.Š.; selected/arranged/mixed/recorded/mastered by Ontervjabbit.]
–– [Jelena Novak (si)] - Les Fleurs du Mal + Anémone Blanche [book voice narrative from Les Jardin des Supplices by J.N.; selected/processed/recorded/mastered by Ontervjabbit.]
–– [Dave Kirby/Satori, (uk)] - All Our World Will End In Despair [all sound layers by Ontervjabbit; selected/arranged/mixed/recorded by D.K. Final mastering by Ontervjabbit.]
–– [Lorenzo Abattoir (it)] - Macabre Existentia [all sound layers + field recordings by Ontervjabbit (field rec. session done in the Vašhava hall aka The Black Room, the designated noise venue of Zasavje Noisefest International); selected/arranged/mixed/recorded by L.A. Final mastering by Ontervjabbit.]
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–– Opening track (The Tearing of Flesh): Intro insert taken from the movie Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), directed by Kevin Yagher.
–– Tormented Will (Abnegation): track layer by buddhist or probably Bon monk/shaman chantings (track source unknown), used as a low-freq. backdrop-layer for this track.
–– Hacked Cranium (ad int.): insert taken from the Suspiria (1977), by Dario Argento + added sounds of hacking and splashing by Ontervjabbit.
–– Shangri-La + The Peacock Killer - contains excerpts from field recordings via unknown internet sources.
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Ontervjabbit. OVJ production. Agalma/Učakar. 2016-2018.
Torture Garden. VILE DESCENT TAPES/VDT-001, 2018.
Double CS case w/ original artwork included (2X 90min).
Limited edition of 50.
Recorded at The Burrow Studios, Hrastnik, Slovenia.
Released 06/06/2018 (Vile Descent Tapes. Infundibulum Prods.)
Made in Slovenia.
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