First up: HAVING TO TALK DESTROYS THE SYMPHONY OF SILENCE, a special edition four-way compilation featuring Richard Ramirez, Hive Mind, VOMIR, and Astro (A/K/A Hiroshi Hasagawa and Rocoh). This is a limited special edition of 50 box sets, pro-dubbed on red/white cassette shells, cased in a black box, and set with black leather obi strips. An edition of 500 2LPs will be announced for order in the new year.

Flesh Prison also announces the release of their first art book, “Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-Assembled: The Fashion Works of Richard Ramirez. NOT to be confused with the serial killer of the same name, Richard Ramirez is a prolific musician, widely recognized as a leading pioneer of the Industrial subgenre known as harsh noise. Ramirez uses predominantly homemade noise sources, using things from the earth, like rocks and human-made, decomposed, and repurposed steel and metal. At times, the piece works in conjunction with extremely well-crafted controlled feedback – and at other times, sporadic squealing feedback.

Although known predominantly for his work in the sonic realm, he is also a brilliant fashion designer. Ramirez began designing clothing in the ’80s. As a child, he learned sewing skills watching his bedridden paternal grandmother’s handicrafts. In homage to her, he named his fashion line Richard Saenz. 

THE FASHION WORKS OF RICHARD RAMIREZ

Informed musically by goth-rock and the local club scene, Ramirez has worked with the likes of Merzbow, The Haters, Con-Dom, Smell & Quim. Most recently, Ramirez has collaborated with Thurston Moore, which will soon be available in a powerful LP. Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-Assembled is out and available internationally, as well as alongside the book release, there will also be a limited edition of 25 hand-dyed long sleeve shirts, each unique to their own; as well as 10 crop-top shirts.

Hive Mind is the solo project of multidisciplinary LA-based artist Greh Holger (Chondritic Sound). Hive Mind blasts low-frequency oscillation and filter sweeps, giving the listener a hypnotic, trance-like experience. Holger collages sub-bass and grumbling classic MS-20 growls, concluding with pure content, silence.

VOMIR is the project of Romain Perrot, a noise artist based in Paris, France. With over 300 releases to his name, VOMIR is a pioneer of the harsh noise aesthetic. He describes his brutal monolithic sound as:  “No change, no development, no ideas, no remorse.” For this release, VOMIR offers his own repetitive, atmospheric harsh noise wall. The frequency of the resulting sound is determined by resonance frequencies and the acoustics of the room, the directional pick-up and emission patterns of the audio signal loop between the speaker, and the distance between them.

Astro is a Japanese noise unit that began in 1993 as the solo project of Hiroshi Hasegawa, who is best known for being a founding member, along with Mayuko Hino, of the legendary noise group C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center). In 2013, Astro became a duo with the addition of Rohco (Hiroko Hasegawa). Hasegawa pays homage to the concept, A Challenge to the Opposing Concepts of Silence and Noise. 

Japanese noise artist Psychiatrist, aka Yasuyuki Uesugi, is young yet extreme. In Uesugi’s words, “Experimental noise sounds are made by pedal effectors. These noise sounds portray my state of mind. Therefore, I am a ‘psychiatrist’ who analyzes the mind.” Each cassette is limited to 25, printing on O cards and bonded in leather cases with a steel FLESH PRISON logo emboss.

2 PIGS UNDER 1 UMBRELLA – TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE

The final addition to the batch is a collection of twenty-five special edition box sets from 2 Pigs Under 1 Umbrella, setting the scene for a soundtrack for your darkest desires. The Viennese duo is known for its rough and dark electronic tunes, as well as their distinct aesthetics using and playing with BDSM clichés. Techniques Of Pleasure includes tracks from limited edition cassettes, compilations, and unreleased material recorded for this release. 2PIGS create an electronic atmosphere, informed by EBM and the likes of Chris & Cosey.

The special edition will include pink glitter cassette shells housed in a black latex casing, wrapped in pink fishnet seals, and a pink leather obi strip. The remaining 75 edition will be available in a few weeks, pro-dubbed and pad printed in boxsets with a consumer-grade obi-strip.

FIT TO FASHION is a plus-size line by Edley ODowd. This collection for Flesh Prison includes XL-XXXL shirts that are dipped, dyed, bleached, and bolted, each unique to its own. Each piece features a classic Flesh Prison logo by J.S. Aurelius. Bleached black tote bags will also be available in a limited edition of 20 – and a limited number of black shirts in the same bleach splattered manner. Finally, we have 10 Flesh Prison mugs, printed by our friends at What We Do Is Secret.

As we move into 2022, we move onto our vinyl catalogue that will include our FP014 compilation on vinyl Vl/A – “The Shaft, the Blade, the Tip of the Spear” ft. Richard Ramirez, Pod Blotz, Vomir, Hive Mind, Test Dept, The Body, the Rita, Brighter Death Now, SPK, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Tone Generator & Laibach. 

We are also very excited to release the aforementioned Richard Ramirez/Thurston Moore LP, as well as re-issue of SPK’s first single from 1979 –Mekano/Slogun on 7” vinyl.  We have also welcomed Ralf Wehowsky/P.16.D4, Kouhei Matsunaga and Bastard Noise.

Find all of these releases and more at the Flesh Prison Store.

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Flesh Prison is an artist-owned and operated label & imprint where the artists we work with retain ownership of their material and maintain an equal share of the proceeds from that material. The label has no aesthetic directives other than to deliver what they feel is the best creative work. Informed by Industrial Music, Experimental, Minimal Electronic, and the Occult, Flesh Prison’s ethos is defined by a sense of community, inclusively, and integrity.

Flesh Prison member Craig Leonard provides a penetrating perspective into the two 90 minute audio recording archives from proto-drone master Charlemagne Palestine. Given the fact that his first official release, Four Manifestations On Six Elements (issued in an edition of 2000 copies by Sonnabend Gallery in 1974), these recordings may be presented as the first to be released by Palestine. Leonard put together this more in-depth review of the release, its circumstances, and its significance:

“January 1973: Charlemagne Palestine presents to the Art Now class at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with synthesizers built by Serge Tcherepnin at California Institute of the Arts and some hand-made chimes built by a friend. I am not a musician, he explains to the students, but an artist shaping sound to a space, a continuous sound, a mass of sound changing its hue, its colour, its pure essence of sound-colour. He says continuous sound approaches its pure essence, lets you get involved with it, live it, see what one sound does to another devoid of the composer’s presence. Real chemical properties mixing with other chemical properties like a painter mixing colours or the alchemical magic of the mixing over incredible lengths of time. A month, a year of continuous sound where Charlemagne can get close to the voice of sound as material by becoming intimate with its properties, not just the composer manipulating things, but by becoming an extension of those properties—as close to sound as he can be. The presence of the artist merges with the essence of the material, a desire to be less aware of the difference between himself and sound, how he can meld with sound without tension, living with sound to become intimately acquainted with it. Where Charlemagne begins and sound ends cannot be discerned. Let the material do something it wants to do, not something you bend to your will so quickly, he says. His intimate acquaintance with sound is the prerequisite before going on to make a statement with it. This recording is a statement to Charlemagne’s intimacy with the material of sound by choosing to leave it alone more often.”

Listen to “Continous Sound Environment” below:

Next is Flesh Prison’s compilation entitled “ …The Wild World Itself Is Holy “ is a collection that features songs recorded over the last 40 years which despite the differences in time and climate collectively offers a communal reflection on the state of global affairs. The compilation features Flesh Prison artists Thee Majesty, who offer an eerie, nostalgic soundscape fronted by the voice of late and great Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, as well as a contrasting cut from Black Leather Jesus’ harsh noise wall. With an LP to be announced at a later date, Sprung Aus Den Wolken lay their classic avant-garde/bizzaro industrial imprint. The label’s magick council Carl Abrahamsson offers a spoken word introduction, a track that hints at his spoken word release currently being worked on. Xambuca, one of the most recent producers to join Flesh Prison’s catalog, fills an industrious soundscape mirroring our current realities. Additionally featured are contributions from Silent Servant, Bourbonese Qualk, Das Ding, Cipolla Varieté, Parade Ground, Staccato Du Mal, and No Master, No Servant.

Watch the promo for “The Wild World Itself Is Holy” below:

The third release from the label’s debut is especially noteworthy and perhaps monumental for the members of Flesh Prison, as it was the last live music show the collective attended together before the pandemic. The event was a live performance of HRT (formerly known as Dregqueen) who performed at Montreal’s oldest strip club, Cafe Cleopatra.

The release also marks the debut from the hot live Montreal trans EBM duo who have been performing for quite some time, and, needless to say, the release is overdue. The audio was recorded straight from the mixing board into a handheld recorder, Anastasia Westcott and Lees Brenson managed to bang out a punishing full stereo master, a close analogue to the visceral live experience that is an HRT performance.

As Flesh Prison’s Matthew Samways, who founded the label and collective under the mentorship of Genesis P-Orridge recounts:

“I can recall that night and their set with the sonic energy booming through my body, a possession dictating my actions on that dance floor – thrashing around the floor into lead singer Lees Brenson, where she is often known for joining the crowd as a rhythm marker. I’ve heard some say she appears demonic while performing – but for me it is a kindred spirit. Anastasia’s live complex sequences and visceral – hard hitting – percussion all comes from her own programming using a conjunction of predominantly analog eurorack and digital synthesis. There simply has never been, or is, a genre or band quite as defying and unique as HRT – perhaps a historically prominent precedent and imprint to be set for new performers and groups to come.

Watch the video for HRT’s “Weight” below:

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