condition (record/cover): NM / NM
2 inserts included.
A split LP and the inaugural major release on Cris X's then-new CX Records imprint. Cris X is Cristiano Luciani, improviser and sound-and-visual artist based between Rome and Berlin, who had founded the label in 2010. For his first split, he approached Maurizio Bianchi (the originator of the Italian industrial lineage and the composer of Symphony For A Genocide) as the "master" he wished to establish a link to, in conscious revival of the apprentice-master tradition.
The record was originally intended as a collaboration, but Bianchi told Luciani he had unofficially stopped making new music. Luciani sent him tracks anyway; Bianchi liked them, and proposed supplying unreleased archive material for Luciani to edit as he saw fit. The result is a genuine split LP rather than a proper duo, with Bianchi's side (Heczplaser) drawn from his archive and Luciani's (Black Pulse) newly composed. Luciani describes the album as stripped back and dark in tone, but homogeneous in its development.
The package was pressed in 300 copies on black vinyl with pro-printed glossy covers and two 30 x 30 cm full-colour inserts. Luciani is also a member of Lendormin, and his other solo collaborations include KK Null, Merzbow, and Cristiano Deison, which puts him inside an unusually dense Italian-Japanese-German network of extreme electronics. An unexpectedly tender encounter between two generations of the Italian post-industrial lineage.
