Topic: Antoni Maiovvi - Zulawski EP (Fright Records) April 19th 2010!
My first 12":
Since introducing themselves under cover of darkness with the
auspicious release of the epic hellish hi-nrg "Optimus Maximus" EP by
Chicago's most menacing of macabre merchants, Gatekeeper, the shadowy
figures responsible for the demon disco label Fright have been busy
toiling away with their equally shadowy associates and are now ready
to unleash upon the world another wave of crimson covered dance
decadence with the release of …. Antoni Maiovvi's "Zulawski".
Utilising his experience on the UK underground noise scene, and
tapping into a beautifully sick love for all things giallo, … is
gripped in quiet violence and sensual chaos, transporting listeners to
a darkly glamourous place that has only ever truly existed inside the
fertile minds of madmen like John Carpenter, Mario Bava and disciples
like Maiovvi himself. Consequently "Tessa" is a pulsating and warped
update on the San Francisco sound of yesteryear, reimagining the famed
Castro stretch as a safe haven for seductive supernatural activity
where lust could easily transform into bloodlust once the clock passed
the stroke of midnight, and the fate that potentially awaited the
leather capped jackboot boys at the end of the darkened alleyways
behind dancefloor mecha, The City, was a sacrificial altar pieced
together with broken shards of mirrorball and the final sight of
Sylvester standing above them poised with a jade dagger, vibrating to
the sound of Patrick Cowley's ritualistic Prophet V beat emanating
from behind a purple veil in the corner. Meanwhile "Ghostray" conjures
up the tantalising image of Bernard Edwards and Niles Rodgers
collaborating with Goblin to jam out a soundtrack for one of Argento's
many "yellow" masterpieces, filtering an almost balearic bassline into
the analogue dread, while absorbing "Flesh for Frank Booth" makes it
possible to imagine Dorothy Vallen leaving her demons behind in
Lumberton, North Carolina to begin a new life as a performer of
Moroder classics in the luxurious nightclubs of 1980s Biarritz, still
haunted nonetheless by the face of her "daddy/baby." To
simplify…essential witching hour boogie.
April 19th 2010 - Limited edition marbled vinyl I'm told as well...
Audio clips coming soon.
