'If you know Carlos Giffoni's work as an artist, a festival organizer (No Fun Festival) and the head of No Fun Productions, you might be expecting a noise bash from Adult Life. You would be wrong -- to an extent. This solo album is not an all-out, balls-to-the-wall noise record. There is some harsh noise involved, mostly toward the end of the album, and always in a controlled manner. Adult Life is a set of five electronic compositions exploring the more meditative side of noise, with structuralist (almost...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Carlos Giffoni's heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7" format does not harm Giffoni's work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of g...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen-printed jacket. A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. Side A on this LP is a live realization of this piece recorded at the Compound in San Francisco in 2006 (mastered by Lasse Marhaug). Carlos composed and performed this piece live on several tours in the U.S./Europe/Japan all throughout 2006 and 2007, if you saw him live in those two years, t...   [ read more ]

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