Sigillum S, Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte

condition (record/cover): M / M (still sealed)

Vinyl colour unknown.

A lockdown-period collaboration between Sigillum S (by then the four-piece of Bernocchi, Bandera, Di Giorgio, and Dorella) and Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte (MMM), the Roman doom-jazz project formed in 2001 by Adriano Vincenti. MMM's name refers to the New York subway system in Clive Barker's novella The Midnight Meat Train, and the group had built its reputation across albums like Profilo Ottimale Delle Ferite, Black Lake Confidence, and Noir Jazz Femdom on a blend of power electronics, noir atmospheres, and jazz-inflected songwriting.

The collaboration was initiated by Vincenti during 2020 as a way to work around the lockdown's performance restrictions; previous working-history between Bandera and MMM provided the starting point. The resulting two extended tracks (fifteen and fourteen minutes respectively) merge MMM's doom-jazz atmospheres with Sigillum S's fringe electronics into what Bernocchi has described as "a sleazy soundtrack for a future world still to be invented."

Personnel: Bernocchi on electronics and guitar, Bandera on electronics and samplers, Dorella on electronics, guitar and synth, Vincenti on samplers and sound-morphing tools, Lorenzo Macinanti on synthesisers and drum programming. Recorded across studios in London, Milan, and Ravenna; released by Subsound Records with characteristic Petulia Mattioli neon artwork. One of the most unusual collaborations in the Sigillum S discography and a substantial document of Italian post-industrial resilience under lockdown.