Noumen - Apeiron - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The 37th Momus album started as a pre-election warning against the 47th US President in the form of a song called Orange Pills (Inchdon't swallow themInch being the take-away). Somehow the American electorate failed to listen and elected Trump anyway. The issue, for non-MAGA people, then became where to position oneself on a spectrum running from quietism to activism. It's a theme which bounces through Quietism, a quiet yet poppy album focused on the sound of a real acoustic guitar (the machine which Inchkills fascistsInch, as Woody Guthrie liked to say). One might want to reduce the idiotic noise of this world, to retreat into a privileged world of beauty and intelligence, to become an introvert or a recluse. But politics cannot be denied, even by a Paris-based aesthete. In a new take on the old cliché InchFirst they came for the quietists and I said nothing...Inch One tiny piece of aesthetic activism going on here is the choice of a South American musical idiom 1960s bossa nova, partly generated by 2020s AI tools which are North American. A secondary theme - very much related to the use of AI - is mimicry, and the dialectical tug between authenticity and the synthetic, human input and the impact of robotics. What's real, what's fake, and which of those - the mask or the supposed face beneath - gets us to a more interesting place? A filmic vocabulary appears there are continuity girls, spoiler alerts, actors whose props win Academy Awards. At the end the album presents it's human author with an imaginary medal, for this is his Inchimperial phaseInch - a double-edged sword representing both his own artistic zenith and a period in which the world is dominated by new empires, old oligarchs. Album Tracks 1. The Actor 2. Orange Pills 3 3. 30,000 Nights 4. My Apprentice Devil 5. Spoiler Alert 6. The Quietist 7. Noise Reduction 8. Trauma Bingo 9. Th

Album Tracks 1. The Unfinished 2. Under the Water It Glowed 3. There Wasn't Anything 4. Zerthis Was a Shivering Human Image 5. I Am So Much More Me That You Are Perfectly You

One of Canada's hottest industrial acts is Encephalon from Ottawa. The project featuring Matt Gifford, Sam Mainer (programming, production) and keyboard player Alis Keller (keyboards, visuals, multimedia) is now finally rounding up to present the much anticipated successor to their debut album InchThe Transhuman ConditionInch released by Dependent in 2011. Since then, the band has performed at various festivals in Canada and the US, fortifying their Inchup and comingInch status with energy-bursting live shows. Three years in the making, Encephalon's second album InchPsychogenesisInch possesses a far darker outlook towards the future than it's optimistic counterpart InchThe Transhuman ConditionInch. The new album is focusing on how the luxuries of technology could ultimately weaken the human experience, on nano-phobia, and the grim possibilities that may await those who would attempt to attain immortality at all costs. A soundscape of thunderous orchestras merging with searing electronics weave a vision of organic and mechanical lifeforms colliding as vocalist Matt Gifford's ominous yet versatile narrations let the tracks become chapters in a larger story continuing throughout the album. Album Tracks 1. Psychogenesis Zero 2. Desertropolis 3. Illuminate 4. Outbreaker 5. Starscorch 6. Genomica 7. Biological 8. Ultimate Breed 9. Malkuth 10. Ecophagy 11. The Descent (Psygen Infinity) 12. Atom & Eve