H.R. Giger's Studiolo - Vol.1 & Vol.2 [2LP]

Pacific City Discs / Discrepant

£41.38

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: PCD08
Barcode: 5065004291330
Release Date: 19 Apr 2024
Genre: Synth / Experimental

Gatefold 2xLP

An edit-reissue of this gargantuan double cassette released back in 2014 under the Typhonian Highlife moniker, 'H.R. Giger's Studiolo' finds netherworld voyagerSpencer Clark at a particularlybeguiling conjunction of his labyrinthine-esque soundworld. With complete disregard for linear timelines and trajectories, 'H.R. Giger's Studiolo' finds both inspiration in the swiss master's vision and the Cenobite iconographypreviously exploredby Clark on Fourth World Magazine's 'Pinhead in Fantasia'. The CD Head Cenobite picture adorning the cover makes the connection more than apparent.

A sprawling, two and half hour excursion on the tape version, here properly edited down to the wax container, the first two volumes of 'H.R. Giger's Studiolo' are some of Clark's most mystifying recordings. A baroque odyssey through an hermetic maze of alien voices, warping sound effects, oneiric keyboards and a quasi-orchestral sense of space and dynamics, 'H.R. Giger's Studiolo' feels like an hallucinatory fever dream still unlike everything else, either from before or after. Time doesn't apply here, anyway.

Mastered by Rashad Becker Artwork by Spencer Clark

Tracklist
A1. Flesh Ribbons Streaming Water Spiders
A2. Solo French Horn in Stuffetta
A3. Giger’s Bust of Mantegna
A4. Grotesqueries Metallic Wallpaper
B1. Giger’s Venusian Chestburster
B2. A Movement in the Cenobytes Journey to 15th Century Verona
B3. Giger’s Balinese Green Vaults
C1. (Salla D'Arco, Mantua) On Automated Feather in Salla Zodiaco
C2. (Salla D'Arco, Mantua) Giger’s Zodiac Fountains
D1. (Salla D'Arco, Mantua) A Nymphs Posture in Azzure
D2. (Salla D'Arco, Mantua) Zodiac Sign Fish
D3. (Salla D'Arco, Mantua) Aquatic Flush of Harpishord Vacui