Lussuria

Lussuria

Three Knocks

Hospital Productions

***Definitive Hospital Productions artist JIM MROZ aka LUSSURIA, follows duties on Prurient's Rainbow Mirror LP and an appearance on Vatican Shadow's Berghain 09 mix/compilation with a new opus worthy of comparison to his dank ambient classics, American Babylon (2012) and Industriale Illuminato (2014). In the foreboding Three Knocks, Lussuria limns an unconscious, near-death experience based on a tale told by his mother, who was admitted to ER after an allergic reaction escalated into something inexplicable. She was put in a medically-induced coma and administered a breathing tube. When under the effect of heavy sedatives, she spoke of a visit by angels who warned of an impending disaster. She eventually came around, and recounted that her illness was preceded by three knocks at her office door, slow and heavy—proposing that each knock was a mockery of the Holy Trinity; one knock for each crucifixion—but when she answered nobody was there. This omen, and its confirmatory hallucination form the basis of Lussuria's utterly absorbing new album. Using a Hawaiian flute made from a human femur, and an iron lung for percussion (don't ask how he accessed it), together with operatic tape cut-ups and field recording made on the shores of Long Island's empty asylums, Lussuria stages his mother's vision in four parts of lugubrious, black metal ambient gloom. The atmosphere is just frighteningly tangible, revealing a sense of depth perception and stone cold clamminess that brings its spirit vividly within touching distance. First copies on silver vinyl.

Lussuria

Scarlet Locust Of These Columns

Hospital Productions

Lussuria

Standstill

Hospital Productions

“One of Hospital Productions’ key players commits a staggering corpus of new, unreleased work to the label’s 20th anniversary festivities with Standstill, adding to his illustrious string of label highlights from the last five years such as American Babylon [2012] and Industriale Illuminato [2014]. By some distance the quietest, most contemplative character on the label, Lussuria’s exquisite atmospheric sensitivity and ritualistic patience is in full effect across this breathtaking boxset.Where other, more orthodox noise makers on Hospital Productions are all about exothermic reaction and violence, Lussuria applies a sort of endothermic induction with the poised, relative stasis of Standstill working like a series of seductive glances caught in a well cut jewel, rather than any sort of staring match or outright violenze. If pushed to pick any from this stunning run of new Hospital Productions, the 8-tape Standstill collection is definitely one that we’ll be devoting time to in the sanctity of our personal listening space for a long time to come.Hugely recommended!”—Boomkat

Lussuria

Industriale Illuminato

Hospital Productions

One of the most intriguing artists on the Hospital Productions roster, Lussuria came to prominence with the release of three tapes as part of the ‘American Babylon’ series in 2012 which were eventually compiled into a double vinyl edition last year. His opiated atmospheres brought together the ritualistic appeal of late ‘70s and early ‘80s Italian industrial music crossed with the claustrophobia of early material from The Cure and the decadent, voyeuristic compulsion of Pasolini flicks so enamoured by Coil.   Having been in the works through late 2013 and in post-production for several months since, ‘Industriale Illuminato’ is in some respects the first release by Lussuria conceived as a standalone album, and is perhaps his most unique, unsettling body of work to date.  Inspired by Deconstructionism and an overriding sense of anxiety, the album revolves around the dislocated narrative of album opener ‘Boneblack’, a dense and evocative fade into shadowy realms inspired by composer Giacinto Scelsi and the enigmatic mind-tricks of Alain Resnais’ ‘Last Year at Marienbad’.  ‘Petra Marina’ sees Lussuria use real drum sounds alongside electronic ones for the first time, layered through with odd, foreboding drones constructed out of handmade Japanese music boxes, feedback manipulation and mangled tape loops which together sound like an industrial, shadowy counterpart to the hazy nostalgia of Boards of Canada.  ‘Venus In Retrograde’ was inspired by and evokes the paranoid narrative of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’, making use of snatches of barely tangible dialogue to form an unnerving backdrop, before ‘Breath Of Cinder’ brings...

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Immemorial

Hospital Productions

Lussuria

Truth Begins In Lies

Hospital Productions

Lussuria

American Babylon

Hospital Productions

"Compiling all three volumes of Lussuria's 'American Babylon', Hospital Productions have just unleashed one of the most terrifying pieces of dark ambient you'll hear all year. In fact, the ambient tag maybe sells this a little short; it's heavily atmospheric, in the most literal sense, but there's also encounters with industrial rhythms and sadistic black metal voices to anticipate from the comfort of your puddle of piss in the corner of the basement. Strong recommendation."--Boomkat

Lussuria

Ghost Entanglement

Hospital Productions

***From the phantasmal electronics domain, this seamless sound collage takes you through all the various rooms in the house. Blindfolded, you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark. A state of ambience is interrupted by déjà vu. For fans of early CMI, Mlehst, and the atmospheric end of Goblin. Edition of 200.