Comprised of released singles, unreleased tracks, and works for installations, this 8-track album is incredibly organic and transports the listener on a deep journey into darkness, with cinematic obscure sounds and sepulchral drums, ancient rituals for this new era, Crowleyan influences and suggestions from the deep space.
Silent Chaos‘ composition is based on performative improvisation framed in a pre-decided structure, thus their sound appears organised even if unpredictable, with ever-changing textured drones that hypnotise the listener.
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
2 panels Digipack, glossy finish, with a 12-page booklet. Each page features a digital painting inspired by a track. The artwork has entirely been created using Midjourney AI, then manipulated and assembled by NoOne.
Includes digital pre-order of Pure Chaos. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around January 23, 2023
NoOne (modular synth, voice, autogenerative, sound and fx programming, chaos) Ugo Vantini (loops, electronic percussions, evolving sounds, field recordings manipulation, synthesised cymbals)
Silent Chaos “Pure Chaos”: performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Silent Chaos
Artwork by Silent Chaos + Artificial Intelligence, digipack format, 12 pages booklet
Yet, despite pandemic, post-lockdown and lockdown again, the multi-instrumentalist from Vicenza (an all-around artist with more than 80 albums to his credit, including collaborations and project sides) has continued to manipulate and experiment music, sending his new Confinement record creature, released on October 31st for the British label We Don’t Give A Fuck.
What better title to represent and depict the thematic core of the release and the historical period of social isolation, and not only that, which we have been experiencing for almost a year now. Confinement, as confinement, confinement and imprisonment of the mind, emotions, our nature and our individual and collective identity freedoms.
One wonders if that of Daniele Santagiuliana (who for the occasion sets aside every type of monicker) is the attempt of those who want to put their demons on a leash, of those who want to free them once and for all, or of those who, instead, feel the human urgency to disconnect from the contemporary world.
Likely, the above transcendental issues could all be valid. On the other hand, what Daniele proposes is not a genre of humoral art that goes well with moments of cheerfulness and lightheartedness. Far from it. It can be considered more as an outpouring, denial and social protest of the human being against pre-established conformism and the incommunicability of the present.
We are therefore talking about a gloomy artistic form with sinuous features, with fluid and cinematic contours, characterized by instinctive, lacerating and visionary Kafkaesque brushstrokes devoted to the obscurity of the sickness of living and the literary loneliness of cursed poets, and above all of the sounds of not easy to enjoy: in short, forget the Moltheni-style “pop” melodic lines, to understand.
The eight tracks of Confinement project us into a psychotic, disturbed, dystopian and cathartic dimension, highlighting an aesthetic deconstruction made of experimental electronics, breathtaking glitches, ambient shades and dronic frequencies, between background hums, baritone flows of consciousness and dark illuminations. and fleeting that seem to come from the memories of an indefinite time.
Santagiuliana’s sonic, visual, theatrical, psalmodial and solemn expressionism expands through the reflected and never entirely clear light of a melancholic, anguished, anxious and nihilistic photographic perspective, dragging and ferrying the listener into the Strindbergian metropolitan underworld, in contrast between the natural and mediocre surface of things and the supernatural abysses of everyday life, the latter depicted as an enormous and decadent carnival of floating souls and dying horses.
Entering the musical world of Daniele Santagiuliana means finding oneself in the presence of a stylistic mantra devoted to sound research, to spiritual suffering, to existential torment, to that liturgical tension that comes from internal malaise and that sinks the nails into the translucent contemplation of the most hidden layers of our Self.
After appearing in more than 80 albums under different roles and monikers (Testing Vault, Anatomy, Albireon, Black/Lava, Pariah, etc.) in which he proved to be a versatile artist in the world of sound design and production, the Italian Daniele Santagiuliana this time choose to use his birth name to reveal what is his most personal work ever: “Confinement”.
Bleak, hostile and cold are the first things coming in mind listening to this release – but, as every good release teaches us, under the surface, there are more layers to discover: the spoken streams of consciousness recorded during the first three weeks of lockdown in Italy by night showing some deep wounds of a person who’s dealing with loss at many levels, meanwhile the music shows some feeble spotlights where the listener can rest, and even enjoy it, although if it is not recommended for the faint-hearted.
Conceived with a sort of cinematic breathe to it, this release proves the maturity of a fully grown-up author after years of tribulations and dealing with his own inner demons.
Silent Chaos‘ new album MACRO is out on WDGAF label for the Spring Equinox 2Ω2Ω – the end of the Old Era, the start of the New Aeon.
“MACRO” is the story of a journey, the one that takes the spirit from the Microcosm (as in the album “micro”) – where is staged the destruction of the worldly self that allows access to the Mystery – to the Macrocosm, in which, recognized the self and the world limits, the Intellect is pushed toward unknown horizons, with the terrible and sublime purpose of making the deconstruction of the Whole, to finally reconstitute itself as a primordial Adam.
Silent Chaos “MACRO” out on 20 March 2020 for WDGAF label silentchaos.co.uk
“MACRO” is the second, long due, part of the project “micro//MACRO”.
The music on “MACRO” is the evocation of archetypes buried in the collective unconscious, shown in a new emotional light. The use of electronic tools, such as modular synthesizers and electronic drums that control loops, samples and field recordings, offers to Silent Chaos a wide sound palette, from which Silent Chaos draw to define their personal stylistic framework. Each composition determines a special universe in which crop up echoes of musique concrete, choirs, tribal sounds, noise and ambient, in sound experiments that envelop and surprise even those not accustomed to listening to these genres.
All vocals, instruments, arrangements, programming and rituals are conceived, composed, performed and recorded by Marko Anzu at KILANA studio between July 2017 and July 2018.
Mixed and mastered at JUNGLE MUSIC FACTORY during March 2019 by Francesco Grammatico.
