Sigillum S, Ain Soph

condition (cassette/cover): EX / EX- (minimal wear)

Edition of 300 hand-numbered copies (this is 007/300) in special case.

A collaboration between Sigillum S and Ain Soph, one of the foundational Italian esoteric industrial projects of the Eighties. Ain Soph (named for the Kabbalistic concept of the infinite divine, literally "without end") was founded by Rodolfo Protti in Rome at the start of the Eighties, and became one of the first continental European projects to draw seriously on occult-philosophical sources (Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn tradition, Italian hermetic magic, the Ordo Templi Orientis) as both conceptual framework and musical material.

Ain Soph's sound-world (acoustic instruments, ceremonial voice, analogue synthesisers, martial percussion) laid out a distinctively Italian variant on what the English-speaking world was simultaneously hearing from Current 93, Coil, and (more distantly) Psychic TV. Sigillum S, formed in Milan in December 1985, entered the conversation a few years later and quickly established a productive working relationship with the Ain Soph circle that would continue for decades.

The specific Sigillum S / Ain Soph collaboration material (circulating through various Italian compilation tapes and rarities editions since the Eighties) documents the interface between two of Italian post-industrial's most committed projects. Any surviving artefact from this collaboration belongs in the same conceptual shelf as the Italian esoteric industrial core: Ain Soph's Ars Regia, Sigillum S's Astronomic Horror, the Thelema and Capricorni Pneumatici catalogues, and the cassette-culture exchanges that connected them all.