mercoledì 24 dicembre 2025

P.NG5361.B.’s VERTIGO OF LISTS: BEST MOVIES OF 2025

 Guillermo Del Toro - FRANKENSTEIN


David Cronenberg – THE SHROUDS


David Charles Rodriguez – S/HE’S NOT HERE


Dan Trachtenberg – PREDATOR:  BADLANDS


Gabriele Mainetti – LA CITTÀ PROIBITA


Brent Corbet – THE BRUTALIST


Bong Joon-ho – MICKEY 17


Kathryn Bigelow – A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE


Robert Eggers – NOSFERATU


James Manfold – A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

 

martedì 23 dicembre 2025

P.NG5361.B.’s VERTIGO OF LISTS: BEST BOOKS OF 2025


 Ryuichi Sakamoto “SEEING SOUND, HEARING TIME – EXHIBITION CATALOGUE”


Graeme Revell “THE INEFFABLE GEOMETRY OF LIGHT”


Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith “CORRESPONDENCES – EXHIBITION CATALOGUE”


Alessandro Baricco "BREVE STORIA ERETICA DELLA MUSICA CLASSICA"


Mats Gustafsson, Byron Coley, Thurston Moore “NOW JAZZ NOW - 100 ESSENTIAL FREE JAZZ & IMPROVISATION RECORDINGS 1960-80”


Daniel Spicer “PETER BRÖTZMANN: FREE-JAZZ, REVOLUTION AND THE POLITICS OF IMPROVISATION”


Nicolas Ballet “SHOCK FACTORY: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC – English Version”


Jamie Taylor “STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE: THE SHEFFIELD SPACE AGE, FROM THE HUMAN LEAGUE TO PULP”


Patti Smith “BREAD OF ANGELS”


Luke Kemp “GOLIATH’S CURSE”


Oliver Moody “BALTIC – THE FUTURE OF EUROPE”


Anonymous Author “MOR”


Claude Gassian “PATTI SMITH: HORSES - PARIS 1976”

lunedì 22 dicembre 2025

P.NG5361.B.'s VERTIGO OF LISTS: BEST RECORDS OF 2025


 Patti Smith "HORSES - 50^ ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION" (Sony)


Sunn O))) “ETERNITY'S PILLARS” (Sub Pop)


Merzbow “NINE STUDIES OF EPHEMERAL RESONANCE VOLUME 1 – 9” (Urashima)


Frederikke Hoffmeier “THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE” (OONA Recordings)


Swans "BIRTHING" (Young God Records)


Hyunhye Seo "CONTINUATION" (Ubi Ku)


Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke "PAREIDOLIA" (Drag City)


Stephen O'Malley "BUT REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE HAD" (Portraits GRM)


Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne “HAND TO MOUTH” (Fat Cat)


Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith "CORRESPONDENCES VOL.2" (Bella Union)

 

Various Artists "METAL MACHINE MUSIC: POWER TO CONSUME, VOL. 1" (Legacy)


Peter Brötzmann / John Edwards / Steve Noble / Jason Adasiewicz “THE QUARTET” (Otoroku)


Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter "FOREVER, I'VE BEING BORN" (Ideologic Organ / Southern Lord)


Ramleh "HYPER VIGILANCE" (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)


Eiko Ishibashi "ANTIGONE" (Drag City)


The Necks "DISQUIET" (Fish On Milk)


Boris  "DRONEDEVIL - EXAMPLE" (Release)


Merzbow "SEDONIS" (Signal Noise)


Divide & Dissolve "INSATIABLE" (Bella Union)


BIG|BRAVE "OST" (Thrill Jockey)

venerdì 19 settembre 2025

An Imagined State of Things Where Everything Is Perfect by Sigillum S - DIGITAL RELEASE

 

lunedì 18 agosto 2025

SIGILLUM S “AN IMAGINED STATE OF THINGS WHERE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT” @ TOWER TRANSMISSIONS.

 


SIGILLUM S will be at Tower Transmissions, in Dresden, September 12/13, 2025, and will perform on Friday, September 12, presenting a 40th anniversary exclusive concert.

The set will start with a selection from the most recent 2025 album, “ABORTED TOWNS, THE DEADLY SILENCE BEFORE UTOPIA”, to then morph into “AN IMAGINED STATE OF THINGS WHERE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT”, a completely new work, to be executed live for the first and only time that night.

“AN IMAGINED STATE OF THINGS WHERE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT” is also going to be physically and exclusively available at Tower Transmissions, as a limited, numbered edition of 30 copies of a specially produced vinyl 12”.

This new work will showcase a radically different side of SIGILLUM S, aggressively peaking the current quest for post-apocalyptic redefinition of audio and conceptual parameters: organic icons and rhythmic synchronization are now layering each other into compressed outbursts of electronic noise and asymmetric structures, spilling out the fragmented seeds of Shangri-La. 

“ … embodiment of new time logic, where entropy feeds itself into a new form of knowledge: sound pushed to its pure essence to engulf and enhance historical perspective … contamination left over from a detonation that filled the universe at the beginning of its existence, translated into dynamic narrative of shifting landscapes and perverted stories during gloomy stretches … uniformity, acumen and the esthetics of immensity, when drones merge with beats and the primordial yawn before Big Bang … “

Copies of “ABORTED…” various formats, together with other older releases and some new merch items will be available too.

 

“… work of fiction and socio-political satire, Utopia is derived from the Greek prefix "ou-" (οὔ), meaning "not", and topos (τόπος), "place", with the suffix -iā (-ίᾱ) that is typical of toponyms; the name literally means "nowhere"… insistence on the existence of an afterlife and punishment for people holding contrary views were inconsistent with the essentially materialist view… Raphael meaning (in Hebrew) "God has healed" suggests that Raphael may be opening the eyes of the reader to what is true…. spectacle of bloodshed as reflective of More's own anxieties about the fragility of humanity … treatment of human-animal relations as significant ethical concerns intertwined with religious ideas of salvation and the divine qualities of souls…”

 


martedì 13 maggio 2025

 

Aborted Towns, The Deadly Silence Before Utopia

by Sigillum S


https://sigillum-s.bandcamp.com/album/aborted-towns-the-deadly-silence-before-utopia