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 […]
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The Sound of Human Bones for Just A Buck! Church of Satan member Adel Souto’s industrial project 156 has recently released the last two previously unavailable tracks from the Memento Mori sessions (where all the music was made using only human bones) on the Humanhood Recodings EP, Music for the Bardo. While the 7″ has sold out, the digital version is only $1 until the end of April. It’s four tracks – two mono, and two binaural – for simply one dollar. Though the music from these sessions are still in the spirit of early Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, or […]
Free Gifts For CoS Members Who Order 156’s Memento Mori 10” For fans of ethno-ambient and primitive drone, 156 is down to the last 100 copies of the Memento Mori 10” EP. All the music on these recordings was played using only human bones, including human skulls, femurs, vertebrae, plus bone whistles, and Tibetan thighbone trumpets (kangling). Released as a limited edition, nine-track, bone-colored 10” vinyl disc—playable at two speeds—it was mastered by James Plotkin. To celebrate, 156, which is conducted by Church of Satan member Adel Souto, is offering two free gifts to anyone who orders a copy of the […]