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Sold out / please check Boomkat or Forced Exposure. Perispirit - Spiritual Church Movement LP It's almost winter as I write this and I am pretty sure everything is about to fall apart. Perispirit is the duo of Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof and they have been haunting the Northeast for a couple of years now. After a slew of releases on Hospital & Ricardo's own Semata Productions, Spiritual Church Movement has Perispirit taking an unexpected turn as they unleash their most cohesive and accomplished work to date. Spiritual Church Movement is the sound of two worlds colliding and forming something entirely new in the aftermath. In this case, digital and analog systems are turned against each other. Moldof's analog source material was blitzed and manipulated while Donoso worked his sorcery via digital matrix, showing that both approaches can win the prize. Squalid sonic debris spilled out and melted together with beats that are barely there and melodic shrapnel to create this weirdly compelling, utterly disjointed composition. This is dense music with layer-upon-layer of treatments and tones that could only be combined by two people who are as confident as they are diabolical. If you thought Moldof and Donoso were concerned about expectations, Spiritual Church Movement is proof that that is the last thing on their minds. Synthesizers are mauled by digital processes, battered down to bare bones. The duo turns these passages of melody into disease-stricken robots, lurching into the black of night. Paired with fractured, plodding rhythms, at times this sounds like Autechre attempting to make a noise record. It is well and truly fucked. The expertise with which everything is constructed, though, is what makes these pieces excel. Everything is where it should be and the combination is almost religious in its attention to detail. But before the duo gets too close to the sun, everything is burned to the ground and the process starts over. It's almost arrogant how often they fuck with your perception of what this record is, but that punk rock attitude is what helps take this to a different level. Just when you think you have it figured it out, Spiritual Church Movement is off to another disfigured frontier. Over the course of these two sprawling sides, the cult of Perispirit is born. Ricardo Donoso and Luke Moldof are convinced that anything is possible and nothing is out of bounds. Spiritual Church Movement is their manifesto and at the end of it all, they are the fucking kings. Mastered by James Plotkin. Digitalis Bandcamp

Sold out / please check Boomkat or Forced Exposure. Ricardo Donoso - Progress Chance LP In recent years, Boston has become an epicenter for some of the best experimental music has to offer. A native of Brazil, Ricardo Donoso has floated somewhat under the radar until recently but has become an integral piece of the Boston puzzle. Not only is he half of the exquisite Perispirit and the brains behind the Semata label, but he also is a member of avant-metal extraordinaires, Ehnahre. Donoso's previous two solo efforts were both cassettes (on Digitalis and Razors & Medicine, respectively) but Progress Chance presents an impressive leap forward into something quite unexpected. While on a hiatus from working on the score for the upcoming film, The Intensive, Donoso was inspired to try something new. His roots as a jazz drummer in Brazil haven't always been obvious on his previous solo efforts, but through his soundtrack work he realized that he wanted to make a record that explored his interest in techno and more specifically old Goa and Scandinavian trance. The idea was to strip out the four-to-the-floor beats and any other drum programming and create his own version of the 'morning dance music' he grew up with in the Brazilian rave scene. As Donoso explores his synthesizers in new ways, the result is something incredibly intricate yet surprisingly accessible. Through the heavy use of gates and arpeggiators, Donoso lays down a series of rhythmic counterpoints. There are certainly traces of Berlin school influence on Progress Chance. "Baiting Disappointment" and "The Deck of an Ancient Ship" would not feel out of place with Mirage-era Schulze. Yet Donoso finds his own voice, figuratively and literally. Ghostly whispers and incantations drift in and out over the polyrhythmic layers of synthesizers like radio waves from the grave. Even if the aural similarities between Progress Chance and his past efforts, Deterrence and Linear Transformation Matrices, the meticulous nature of the composition and intense contemplation that goes into each piece is prevalent throughout. Whereas much of his previous work has been dark and ominous, Donoso is much more hopeful on Progress Chance. "Conditional Formatting (Descent)" feels timeless with it's gradual build-up and hopeful repetition while "Chrome Decadence" is over-the-top without being gauche. Even with the newfound hints of positivity prevailing, there is still something vaguely austere creeping in on "Morning Criminal." This is music for the morning when you wake up in a stranger's bed and all you can think of is "I've got to get the hell out of here." In the end, Progress Chance is an album about embracing the changes we face and moving forward and that's never as easy as it sounds. Mastered by James Plotkin. Digitalis Bandcamp

$7ppd (USA/Canada) $11ppd (World) Ricardo Donoso - Zerovinteum 7" More known for his percussion work in avant-metal unit Ehnahre, his deconstructed approach to the drums in The Epicureans and his electronic work in noise/drone champions Perispirit, Zerovinteum is Ricardo Donoso's debut solo release. An homage to The Marvelous City and its duplicity, the music, although bright eyed and hopeful simultaneously treads with a sinister undercurrent of desolation and longing. The title track was generated primarily with an electric guitar, along with some tapes, contact mics and analog synths. Hot and sunny tonal passages infiltrate the murk of tape hiss and ambiguous guitar resonance only to get lost again in the bleak New England winter - the sexuality of Carnaval. The B side 'Plate Fourteen', is an experiment in minimalism - amplified cymbals shift to form micro-tonal structures of a doom laced angelic drone - the yearning for home. Edition of 300: black vinyl with printed labels housed in a proprinted fold-over sleeve with double sided 6x4 insert.

$7ppd (USA/Canada) $9ppd (World) Ricardo Donoso - Deterrence c34 digitalis ltd description: i think ricardo donoso has to be one of boston's best-kept secrets. when he's not performing as 1/2 of perispirit (recent tape on hospital) or in the avant black metal outfit, ehnahre, he runs his semata productions label. in other words, donoso is busy and responsible for a lot of excellent things. his solo work is no exception. on "deterrence," donoso finds his peak. generated with guitar, analog synth, piano, tapes & contact mics, this is an album of layers. each repeat listen finds new elements and new sounds floating deep in the mix. donoso's interest in game theory and behavioral psychology are the theme to which the music wraps itself around. by the time the final pieace, "mutually assured destruction," reaches its inevitable climax, the listener is left to pick up the pieces. in these slow-decaying sounds are the roots of introspection. listen closely and make your own choices. edition of 80. LP reissue forthcoming.

$7ppd (USA/Canada) $9ppd (World) Ricardo Donoso - Linear Transformation Matrices c30 Razors & Medicine description: The most definitive solo statement from this Perispirit and Ehnahre member. Dirty oscillator destruction and blown out synth edited in that meticulous Perispirit style. A recording of contrast. Heavy use of dynamics. The loud and the soft. The pretty and the ugly. Noise and tonality. These tracks take you different places. Not a recording where you jump ahead a minute and the track sounds exactly the same as it did before. Sometimes you're allowed to relax but only briefly. It's a busy world. No time for burnouts. View your reality through the eyes of Mr. Brazil. edition of 100.

$7ppd (USA/Canada) $9ppd (World) Perispirit - Abysmal Penetrations c26 Hospital Productions description: dynamic noise bursts and rip through some of the most lush soaring underworlds. first release for hospital. includes members of craniopagus/stillbirth, ehnahre and more... edition of 200.