Von Bingen just release our Debut Lp on Amen Absen Records, keep and eye out!
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Artist: Von Bingen
Title: self-titled
Format: Long Playing Record, w/full color inner and outer
sleeve
Label: Amen Absen
Date of Release: September 15, 2009
We would like you to consider owning Von Bingen’s self
titled first lp either for your own personal betterment, or for the betterment
of your patrons. To aid you in this endeavor, we submit the following summary
of biographies, impressions, and predictions.
Von Bingen began life when husband and wife duo Jenni Pace
and Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing) temporarily suspended Hildegard (their
east coast group of clangorous misfits), and relocated to Vancouver, BC where
they soon met Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, and one-time JOMF member), and
Richard Smith.
Influenced by histories of conceptual art practices and
electronic and outsider music native to the west coast, Von Bingen’s sound is at
once reminiscent of distant sonics, such as those found in the labs of 60’s SF
pioneers, or overheard in Berlin’s Zodiac Club in the early 70’s, while also
anticipating the drone of future decades. Folk forms gleefully mutate, reborn as
new hybrids, dignified by analog modular and semi-modular synthesizer systems from
Serge, Buchla, and EMS. Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, guitar, and
the drum are defamiliarized through quixotic treatments, originating from
experimentations in the band’s studio. By rescuing tones, processes and
technology from dusty desuetude, Von Bingen happens upon a unique retrofit for advanced
audiences that is sure to confound, if not altogether please.
Within the grooves of this lp, you will not find
full-fledged allegiance to current fashions, nor will you find some light loop
of cheap sensations, hollow-core historical reenactments, or facsimile
sentiments. In fact, we are not sure what you will find at all, and that is the
beauty of nature, a potentially infinite system of chances, where the
opportunity to un-learn is as important as the opportunity to learn; where
memories possess the power to eclipse experience; where all history becomes synesthesia. Join Von Bingen in this new Eden, and
by all means, have an apple.
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F.O.L. Ministries, September 2009
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