MotherHalo: 23 Plus Signs, towards a review and pirate release thereof
LET Start with the Sounds, yes, the album has an unusual range. Knotting together Motherhalo's unique sound is an analytically structured interweave of industrial dance and improvisational jazz/experimental soundwerk --- experimental in the best sense of the term--- chalk-lined full of groove orientated sonic rhythms, never so busy that it looses melodic legibility, rather Motherhalo treats their sonic portions as a matter of textual intensity, and whether subtle or harsh (on occasion) the album guides its users, lifting their soul into psychedelic realms of phat base and drum loops combined into
sonic walls of nitrously echoing heat, distorted vocoded voices bemoaning, leading the user through the DE-conditioning tales intertwined with lines of guitars that (s)weep, and gadgets that s(w)ing, "Blood", no. 6--"Surveillance
Bait", no. 7, quotes lifted and implanted...he talks to you... to the chopping block,
goodbye alcohol, goodbye t.v., FIRE, virtual game, you know not what you
do, and masterfully mixed experimental musical tale that is not simply
a conceptual album, but an album opened up to you, for you to open your self, to open up in
shock, awe, uncanny truth, that you are not home in your home, that you are home in no-where that is right t/here, clutching a dark razor blade, this is a game, blood
with a thought, cover your faces, virtual --- you know not what you do,
remove your faces, to the chopping block, clutching a dark razor blade,
this is a game, thoughts, fire, cover your face, good bye t.v., good
bye... blood with ink... know not what you do... the games of 23 plus
signs are a pathway into a ritual... you are entered and centered in
Blood, at the emblematic point, when you will have realized that you are too
far, its too late playing in this ocean, 23 Plus Signs' quiddity, this speak and spell of alternative dimensions that intrude and
include like rhizomatic infection, fragmenting the familial patterns that have long been set, by the time you
realize that you have been in a panic, anxiety, and its far too late as we have been trying to warn you away... this picnic is not as seems, TV (lies), that is why we are what we are ≈ nomads of the sound-waves and their productions underground we swim [are] we [are] moving forward. If so, its because the present is
going to murder someone, and television shows us that police are
terrorists, that self-expression is where revolution begins...remember you
where given a choice to choice, only the choice matters, resist these
choices, these camps that they will put you in, 23 plus signs, to let
you know to WAKE UP! you are now included! tag you're a trans-human-separatist... and perhaps not even human at all**
(welcome to our organization, Thee JFC, your ISP has been recorded, and reported! we are friendlies, you will be contacted, do not be alarmed when this happens, you will be then assigned a frequency and instructed on how to...)
23 Plus Signs :: A New Sound Project Realized by MOTHERHALO
will
it come? will you be able to hear about the "door that leads into the
garden that has been locked for years", no. 9, "Interstellar
Mystic"*Originally appeared on Spaceship Graveyard MetaSpace KRU, "The
Virgin and the Volcano"...
"When 37 First Stepped off the train, outside the Eternal Life Administration and Processing Station*"...
Islamic
Angels are submitting to God, with lies that comes from the bloggers,
that come from the media, that you give to your friends, they have
refused, given up the ghost, we are the holy spirit of fire, here our
catholic unity, can you not hear the whaling calls, they are burning
with Fire, no longer idiots, literal, they have burst into In-finite
Fire... and t/here in gold it stood awaiting, 23 Plus Signs. The hand
painted CD case, golden, opened up to a note on lined paper, "Please
review, online," is what was handwritten on the lined scrap of paper, on
the inside of the hand painted CD, 23 Plus Signs. 23 Plus Signs adored
the work. The CD itself also painted with the care only a hand can give,
not that the hand has no involvement, but the smooth laser printed CD
looses that human quality, some would call imperfection, we would dare
call life, not unlike a Subject of Truth/Da-sein, but rather so, we are
the creatures that are immoral. Remember, we kick followers... we eat
the meek... we crave you to be strong... you take to much drugs... the
1960s, they they changed times, we want to shock you out of your ways,
because we are doing nothing but the program that in uncontrolled into a
autopilot of desired disasters, all avoidable for something that tome,
which arrives to us as:
23 Plus Signs
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is it an album or manifesto ?!?!? Hunchbacks and Soldiers (Frater AC)
We
are not sure what it is that we have, that has been put into our hands.
We have it, playing now on our desktop, playing as we write these
words, of a promised review. We open the inside of the CD side of the
case, in between the plastic side there is more paper, notes, liner
notes. Mother Halo (is that one word or two, on the front of the case
its spelled MOTHERHALO, and so that is the spelling we shall conform to)
is the name of the band. The album is a compilation of sorts, or rather
the album is a collaboration. Here we quote:
THANK
YOU! I HAVE NEVER BEFORE WORKED ON A MOTHERALO ALBUM USING CONNECTION
AND DATA LOADING TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE ONLY ON THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY INTERNET, THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF 23 PLUS
SIGNS (37 COPIES) WAS ACCOMPLISHED ENTIRELY WITHOUT THE USE OF THE WEB.
ONE-OF-A-KIND HAND-PAINTED DISCS WERE DIRECT MAILED THROUGH THE POSTAL
SERVICE TO RECIPIENTS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY SIGNED UP FOR MY [JPD] "TIME
CLUSTERS" MAILING LIST. INCLUDING EVERY ARTIST ON THE ALBUM 12 IS A
COMPLETE SUCCESS...
And
that is the truth of the matter. And so we ask you, or that is we here a
question, a voice being raised. What is the purpose of doing a review
of an album which has only 37 copies and hence can only be heard by a
few individuals. Ah! You got us... what is the point? Well, there is a
point. As there is no copy right that we see on the work, we have the
ability and the go ahead to distribute this work across the internet as
we see fit. Review? Review?
We will do one better for you... we will be
bringing you 23 Plus Sign in video... we of The Jack Frost Committee,
are committed to making video works, visuals, for the album 23 Plus
Signs. We do this so that the revelation that is 23 Plus Signs may
spread I.T.s wings and Fly... we have only one command, we are to follow
our good, not the good, but thee good, the extra E makes a difference,
thee good shall be followed, thee good that is beyond a simply good and
evil, a process that does not collapse into the right or left, but
continues onward open, in faith to the truth of this event, these
events, we mark, no longer records, but discs, put out into the world.
And 23 Plus Signs addresses these worlds; from the prophetic "32 Sights In
Site 23", no. 5 on our version of the album, to no. 4 & 5. Blood
(aural and emblematic mix respectively), (with work from Obiekt, thee
Uncondemning Monk, Sidney S-Ickness, Spaceship Graveyard, and more, not
to give it all away in this review), we are going to now and over the
course of the summer be working with other members on the album to
release this puppy in digital formats, beyond the 37 copies... there
will only ever by 37 o.v. thee hand-painted originals mailed out to list
members. These copies will remain as they are, as special as they are,
for all time that they are and are remembered. The truth set forth on
this album is immense.
A.A. o.v. Thee Uncondemning Monk (St. Stephen, and Aglaeca)
under
the sign of 23 & 37 (God is the obvious responsibility---"self
expression is where revolution begins" from the song, "Surveillance
Bait", track no. 7)
God
No. 8, "Thirty-Seven Kills Twenty-Three At 4:15" (is sooo fucking!! and
its heavy-groove hypnotic-rocking, really digging these sounds... the
only comparison one can make is to an alien spaceship invasion that
knows warfare as a dance of droning sonic magick)
*Words on "The Gathering" Taken from the book "This Number Speaks" by Jason Patrick Doherty (check out on amazon or lulu)
or
write to Thee Uncondemning Monk (look for our blog on the web or visit
one of our pages on Facebook, also St. Stephen, and [the members of] The
Jack Frost Committee)
= 5 × 10-9 M
yr-1 MK UBV --- o.v.---- IX Vel
What we have in 23 Plus Signs is
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12+7=23=5; 1+2=3...7.... 3+7=10=1+0=1... 3,7 = 0,1
Discourse of the Analyst - Deliberate subversion of the prevailing master discourse
The four positions in each discourse are:
Agent = Upper left. This is the speaker of the discourse.
Other = Upper right. This is what the discourse is addressed to
Product = Lower right. This is what the discourse has created
Truth = Lower left. This is what the discourse attempted to express.
The four variables which occupy these positions are:
S1 = the master signifier
S2 = knowledge (le savoir)
$ = the subject (barred)
a = the objet petit a or surplus-jouissance
Q: What makes a Lacanian joke funny?
A: Its signifier by its very nature anticipates meaning, unfolding its dimension before it.
*donations = survival (move to the bioexchange)
** what is matter? where is it that we are? is energy eternal? and what is Spinoza, Cantor, Maurice Merleau-Ponty are the right way to start?
