Mock Thrill released

Mock Thrill is a record about suffer, solitude and hypocrisy, and it's dedicated to people who are or feel stump.


Mock is a guy who's born with a malformation: it has no limbs. So the only happy moment of his life is into the womb, when floating in limbo (first track), and it makes no difference for him having or not legs and arms. His birth ends in a metallic clang: life entering shock.

At the restaurant he's still a baby, but perceive people pretending they're not noticing his deformity. A taste of false piety.

There is a brief episode when aunt Jamima don't realize he fell from the electric wheelchair - he's desperate because he can't get up, feels stuck and helpless, useless.

Then in Abandoned Dog Afternoon he lives one of the innumerable afternoons lying on the couch like a broken doll, ridiculously bored and slowly going mad.

In one of these afternoon, he's catched by a butterfly flight, so he has a beam of simple beauty and somewhat forget for a while about him, forced by solitude to face himself day by day he quits his (sad) solipsism.

He refuses to see the new false friends when he's a teenager (Please Do not Want to Know Nice Fake New Friends), distrust of others who obviously consider him a "monster".

But one day he knows Eddie, a friend who does not seem to think he's an "useless stump", as bad kids called Mock.

They become rapidly friends, and start to have experiences together: they have a trip (Eddy Gave me a Coriander), then they go to see an art exhibition (Me and Eddy at an Art Exhibition), in short, everything's great now.

Suddenly, Eddy knows a brasilian girl cruising nightlife and start to get "unavailable" , too busy... and while he's busy, Mock start to become paranoid. He's right, Eddy disappear forever.

So Mock get back to his bloody couch again and again.
And we see, at the end of this record, when Mock's mind collapses and goes nut (Blast of Fury).

DOWNLOADS:
BANDCAMP · JAMENDO · BITTORRENT mp3 · BITTORRENT Ogg

New videoclip from LaGuardia, 3:00 AM

A small story of not-so-ordinary rebellion from Outskirt.

Meanimal released on October 28

Very fast record (12 tracks for 18 minutes), minimal in song duration, but also an admixture among mean and animal, primitive, sometimes solar tunes.

There are 4 ska/reggae/dub tracks (Alaska, Anaconda, Kind Titan - hommage to Gentle Giant - and Epifonema), a pereubian waltz (Il Valzer di Paolo), avantprog (Gestalt, Roundabout), exerimental (Ammutinamento!, Glasgow Coma Score, Entropia), a strange stomp& harmonica endless startup (Catfight) and a drama number (Panic in the Elevator).

You can listen / download it directly from Bandcamp, Bittorrent (booklet included) or from Jamendo (no booklet).

Loki by Andrea Ferrantelli

My friend Andrea is a guitar/bass player and composer born in Turin and living in Helsinki. He started to play the guitar at the age of 17, in 1994.
He played in dozens of bands, ranging from Black Metal to Thrash, Technical Death Metal, Heavy Metal and Rock. Andrea recently started to play also the bass, both fretted and fretless.

He liked my intention to let replay Mjöllnir by (or with) other musicians (and change it if needed, according to their skills and attitudes), so he chose Loki. He first worked on a light keyboard + bass + drum version to add guitar layers, and I utterly remixed and deleted/changed some keyboars, to fit at the best Andrea valuable fretwork.

I'm really satisfied by this version of Loki, and Ferrantelli as well. He changed accents and mood, and even ranged into eastern scales, which is a common ground -as I indulged myself many times on it as well.
I believe it's very likely we'll further collaborate in next future.

Final track is already online on Andrea Ferrantelli MySpace page and Last.FM (in ./root: the Singles).

Dada (Cabaret Voltaire) is available now!

This record is a brief journey through Dada art movement. Opening track is dedicated to Cabaret Voltaire, a swiss nightclub where all started by a group of european artists. First founder, and subject of second track, was Hugo Ball (he wrote the small poem I-Zimbra, which was subsequently used as a lyrics by Talking Heads in their namesake song). Hence continues the portrait gallery of Dadaists, interrupted sometimes by three small tracks called Shiver.

To people with few, or no knowledge about dadaists, booklet here is strongly recommended.

Downloads:

Bittorrent
http://www.mininova.org/tor/13195590

Jamendo
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/76024

Bandcamp
http://hoxvox.bandcamp.com/album/dada-cabaret-voltaire

Dada EP released

This EP includes first 4 tracks from forthcoming new record Dada, a concept album about Dadaism art movement seen through famous Dadaists' points of view.
Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara are two electronic ballads, winding between kraut rock and trip-hop. Hans Arp is a tragic cabaret piece with a war scenario on the background, George Grosz is quite Motown meet Stockhausen.

Downloads:

Jamendo http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/72821
Bandcamp http://hoxvox.bandcamp.com/album/dada-ep

The Wanderer track on Dandelion Radio show july schedule

The schedule for this month's show on Dandelion Radio (with its special Apskaftian section) is now available http://www.dandelionradio.com/schedule.htm. Playing almost daily through July.

The aforementioned apskaftian section is an experiment by Greg Healey (see HealeyIsland; also member of Apskaft collective). He asked if someone would create on purpose a track for his Dandelion radio show with these boundaries:

• Each song must be exactly 3 minutes in length.
• The songs must be an original Apskaftian interpretation of POP MUSIC.
• All songs must be original material. No cover versions.

I joined the project with The Wanderer from The Wanderer EP.

The results will be analyzed in Greg's show second part.
Pay attention: schedule is in british summer time, so UTC +1

The Wanderer is out

It's seventh record in Hox Vox discography, a story about a doped killer on the way to catch his victim, during a whole night in Savannah (GA). Five scenes including an introduction (The Wanderer, genre alt. pop), where the killer wake up from drugs effects, and the subsequent route through the latin area (La Posada de Joaquín Ortega, latin jazz), downtown (Downtown Strut, funky), and actually on Savannah waterfront (Port of Savannah, avant prog). Last three minutes of blistering hysterical chase are enclosed in ending track, Gotcha (hardtechno).

Downloads:

Jamendo (mp3 only) http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/68437
Bittorrent (+ booklet) http://www.mininova.org/tor/3193717

New videoclip for It's the Loveliest Thing I Ever Heard (Eight-Bit Deboned)

I made a clip from this old track because its theme was domestic violence, loneliness within a couple, and women discrimination issue. I pointed directly to domestic violence and related despair ("legal" raping - which isn't in any way true, except in a known abetment among machos). It can be disturbing for sensible people.

Mjöllnir released

Mjǫllnir (also spelled Mjöllnir or Mjölner, pronounced /ˈmy-oll-nir/ or /ˈmjɔːlnər/ in English) is the hammer of Thor, a major god associated with thunder in Norse mythology. Distinctively shaped, Mjöllnir is depicted as one of the most fearsome weapons, capable of leveling mountains. Though generally recognized and depicted as a hammer, Mjöllnir is sometimes referred to as an axe or club. In the 13th century Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson relates that the Svartálfar Sindri and Brokkr made Mjöllnir at the command of Loki.

The Prose Edda gives a summary of Mjöllnir’s special qualities in that, with Mjöllnir, Thor:

... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.

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This record was finished during night between 4 and 5th of April, and uploaded on Jamendo. Assignment of Safecreative cose and acceptance by Jamendo staff on April 7.

First part is made by eight portraits (Jörð, Odin, Sif, Thor, Baldr, Loki, Freyr and Heimdall), plus two finals tracks:

• Ragnarök ("final destiny of the gods"), in Norse mythology is a series of major events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Freyr, Heimdall, and the jötunn Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.
• Epilogue, referring to the afterwar.

Music is avantprog, loosely inspired by Magma, Frank Zappa, Faust, King Crimson, EL&P.

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This record, as usual, is released with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, so it's free to listen, download and share.

You can download it in mp3 192 Kbps format directly from Hox Vox HQ official Hox Vox website (booklet included) or from Jamendo (without booklet). Also available via Bittorrent (booklet included).

Mjöllnir - passed track Hermóðr to Eros Zabeo

Today I gave to Eros, a skilled guitar/bass player form Venezia (he played in Ugly Duckings, a rock band in the city) Hermóðr scheme. He'll work on guitar and arrangements.

Mjöllnir - passed track Loki to Andrea Ferrantelli

Andrea Ferrantelli is an italian young mad (but very elegant) scientist living in Helsinki, who started to play guitars and basses 15 years ago in avant/jazz/prog/extreme metal area. He was interested in cooperate in making Mjöllnir, so I asked him to work on Loki, a track from first record half, and on 6 february I sent him a few waves.