Since the Memento Mori 10″ by the industrial junkyard outfit 156 is now sold out, group founder Adel Souto has decided to release all thirteen tracks from those sessions on a professionally produced CD-R digipak, and limited edition cassette tape.
Recorded from 2012 to 2015, due to the scarcity of the instruments, which include human skulls, femurs, and vertebrae, plus bone whistles, and Tibetan thighbone trumpets (known as kangling). Serving as a meditation on death, the work used only human bones, and the human breath passing through human bones, to function as an audial replacement for the human skull used in the Renaissance rite of ars moriendi for those who cannot afford to obtain one.
Recorded from 2012 to 2015, due to the scarcity of the instruments, which include human skulls, femurs, and vertebrae, plus bone whistles, and Tibetan thighbone trumpets (known as kangling). Serving as a meditation on death, the work used only human bones, and the human breath passing through human bones, to function as an audial replacement for the human skull used in the Renaissance rite of ars moriendi for those who cannot afford to obtain one.
Nine of the original works were originally pressed on bone-colored vinyl in 2016 as a 10″ EP. This new CD-R pressing comes in a full-color digipak which will remain in print, but the cassette tape is limited to only 50 copies, yet each contains four extra tracks not on the vinyl, one of which was previously unreleased.
The disc and tape are a mere $10 (complete with postage paid in the U.S.), and are available from the 156 Bandcamp. For an additional $5, you’ll get four different 156 stickers, and a chip of human skull! Please void in the the states of GA, LA, and TN, where the shipping of human remains is prohibited.