Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

Jellyfish Reproduce Black Magic

Hospital Productions

***Jellyfish Reproduce Black Magic is the companion EP to the Flying Fish Ambience album by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement. The nature of a "permanent record" whether digital or encrypted in the fossilized remains of evolutionary anthropomorphic species or "economic DNA" left behind only further supersedes "artificial reality" of environmental imprints. The alternative "occult economy" is both reproducing and perpetuating a lethal lifeforce. The essential premise of rainforest remains "artificial spaces" and "synthetic nature" where superstition and fantasy meet, collide, and decay. The moment one discovers that they themselves are the monuments and ruins at the journey's end destination.

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Flying Fish Ambience

Hospital Productions

***The Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement environs conceived by Dominick Fernow and Philippe Hallais complement "artificial spaces" and "synthetic nature" through the decay of "digital rain storms" and "falling comet bass drops". Flying Fish Ambience is the duo's first studio album together after a series of tours, and builds the RSE sound into a deep hypnotic synthetic topography and guided meditation into perpetual stress. The follow-up to the acclaimed Ambient Black Magic, Flying Fish Ambience is a treatise in anti-exotica—a purpose-built artificial ambient wilderness rooted in wobbling sub-bass, watered wastefully with glossy digital FX. Meticulously assembled over a series of trips, tours and sessions in various cities (Berlin, Paris, New York), Flying Fish Ambience crystallizes the expansive perpetual motion of salt vessels and water basins repopulating with ecological imbalance, this evolution—as an expression of the live blue entity.

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Panama Canal Left-hand Path

Hospital Productions

“Dominick Fernow’s RSE locks its attention to “the bloodshed and blind economics of the (panama) canal… and its consequences and absurdity, then and now” in one of the project’s finest dispatches since the early days With uncanny effect the music evokes its subject with soberly transfixing sound design, explicitly taking cues from Basic Channel’s hypnotic bass undulations to underline and power a series of rotting electro-acoustic soundspheres, never quite fully letting on, but bringing the sense of trudging linearity and humid menace thru suggestive inference.  Thru his combination of richly evocative titles and reserved sound design he prompts rather than tells, always leaving lots to the imagination. In ‘Hunting Down Individual Mosquitoes’ he evokes the feeling of a Predator-like character poised and patiently waiting for Schwarzenegger and co, with tense, lurkign pads offset by natural bird calls - half sleepy, half acutely focussed - before ‘Isthmus Dark Arts (Electricity Arcs Through Rain)’ brings nightfall with screeching parakeets and booming heartbeat. ‘Demons Tour The Canal’ then finds the perfect tension between blissed synths and distant, warning rhythms, priming for the extended isolation of ‘The Mountain Didn’t Want’ in two parts.”—Boomkat

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Simulated Thunderstorm

Hospital Productions

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Venus Flytrap Exotica

Editions Gravats

Lights-out dancehall voodoo from Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Low Jack as Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, following up ‘Red Ants Genesis’ with a potent new 7” - the 1st RSE release outside of Hospital Productions! After stumping one of 2018’s biggest surprises with their dread-filled collaboration, ‘Red Ants Genesis’, Dominick Fernow and Phillippe Hallais (Low Jack) come to bury the dance in two parts with ‘Venus Flytrap Exotica’. On the A-side’s noxiously swampy ‘Bridgetown Dub’ they underline mesmerising chants and skeletal drums with enormously powerful electro-dub subs - brought to life in-the-mix by Paul Corley - while lightning and thunder threaten collapsing skies. The B-side ‘Price To Pay’ follows in bassy suit, but almost shorn of drums and licked with currents of tropical warm air chords. Powerful spells, strongly recommend to fans of Demdike Stare, Equiknoxx, Shackleton, Burial.

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Red Ants Genesis

Hospital Productions

***Low Jack and Equiknoxx join Dominick Fernow's Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement on a new double vinyl expansion of Red Ants Genesis, originally issued on limited cassette in 2018. Recorded in winter 2017, Red Ants Genesis finds the Hospital Productions boss discovering strength in collaboration following the triumph of his classic Ambient Black Magic (2017), which was conjured with the crucial assistance of Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant. Here, he works with Phillippe Hallais aka Low Jack and of Editions Gravats, who also tags in his pals Gavsborg and Time Cow from Jamaican digidub futurists Equiknoxx for a killer new version of the title track. On the tape's original four tracks, Low Jack transmogrifies Fernow's high volume microphone recordings of synthetic field ecologies with masterful sleight of hand in-the-edits, resulting in a hyperreal detachment and realignment of spatial proprioceptions executed with exquisite textural tactility. It's far more oblique and desiccated than the relatively lush Ambient Black Magic outing, rendering the stark durational immersion of their 30 minute "Red Ants (Mics)" split over the first disc, while Low Jack's percussive edits really come into play on the utterly gutted "Shields Ferns / Brown Pine Magic" and the slow, febrile push of "Papua Land (Live Edit)." No doubt one of the biggest attractions here is the curveball of an Equiknoxx remix of "Red Ants Genesis." Surely one of the first meetings of Jamaican dancehall and dark ambient in existence, it's a spellbinding piece of dub physics that demonstrates the endless, mutable imagination of Gavsborg...

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Ambient Black Magic

Hospital Productions

***RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT is the ambient techno project of DOMINICK FERNOW. Focusing on slow paced bass studies and synthetic dub textures, surrounded by collaged and looped field recording environments, RSE shrouds sound over image to target the sector of brain where fear supersedes rationality—the imagination. As RSE appears live for the first time, it has transformed into an entity with rotating contributors on stage and on recording.Ambient Black Magic moves away from the extreme saturation of the early cassettes and the industrial environmentalism of Green Graves (2016), and defines itself simply as contemporary "fear/chill-out" dub. The new album Ambient Black Magic features sound-on-sound processing by SILENT SERVANT, a massive dub remix from SUBSTANCE, and mastering by PAUL CORLEY. The debut live performance of Fernow's most restrained project will feature studies in bass and field recording environments.

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Water Witches

Hospital Productions

“While all of Dominick Fernow’s work is driven by a sense of puristic, tortured expression, his Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement output renders some of the most diffusive, abstract and enigmatic thoughts and feelings in his entire catalogue. Where his other projects are known for intensely saturated sound design, RSE dwells in fathoms of stark negative space; conjuring a rare and arcane kind of acousmatic magick that massages the temples and squeezes open the third eye thru its textured tonal sensitivity and heartrate-slowing temporal pressure, as opposed to anything explicitly aggressive or panic-inducing.Collated as a sort of book of spells - Water Witches works best thru dedicated solo immersion and absorption - just as you would imagine with a mescaline or ayahuasca trip deep in the jungle - only with less physical sickness and actual mosquitos. Although you’re likely to encounter the sounds of parakeets, tarantula wasps and other hallucinatory creatures and tribes populating its dense drone canopies and humid, decaying surfaces.Do not treat this release lightly, and it will reward you manifold in return. Cross its path the wrong way, in a narrow frame of mind, however, and you’re almost certain to get irretrievably lost amid its plasmic moire of recursive energy channels and unidentified spectres, because you’ll find there’s few souls willing to come and repatriate your quickly rotting cadaver from this devil’s lung of mental mantraps.The set collates in their remastered entirety the following releases - Fallen Leaves Camouflaged Behind Tropical Flowers, Green Amulet Crafts Supernatural Qualities, Taking Place...

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Green Graves

Hospital Productions

Dominick Fernow (Prurient/Vatican Shadow) is your shaman for a jaw-dropping journey into the heart of dark, rhythmic ambient music with Green Graves. For the past five years, RSE’s rare flora has quietly unfurled as Fernow’s most reclusive, abstract and unpredictable alter ego, feted for a deeply psychedelic sensuality that sets it apart from practically all his other works, and almost anyone else beyond certain Plastikman, Coil or Demdike Stare records, for that matter. While entirely instrumental, it also proves to be one of Dominick Fernow’s most expressive outlets; a few thousand miles from Prurient, and more arid than Vatican Shadow, a place where his mind turns primal, panther like, stalking thru the undergrowth of his ambient nether worlds. Perhaps most arresting is the sense of scale of his pressure systems, maintaining a heady flux between physical bass and persistent, warm downpours in the 15 minute opener Return Of Yellow Herb Ambient, whereas Watery Grave leans back on a breezy sort of boogie pivot maybe best compared with Actress or NWAQ, and the perfectly portentous title of When Spotted They Are Killed On Sight is matched by the track’s clammy, petrifying nature. If willing to travel farther, we find some of Fernow’s most layered, even luxuriant harmonic arrangements and poised drum programming in Red Protection Against Black Magic, and the closest he’s come to cinematic detailing with Crustaceans Rise From Salt Water For Vengeance, and we find a possible clue to the project’s esoteric, tribal and anachronistic roots in the head-...

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Black Magic Cannot Cross Water

Hospital Productions

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Jungle Black Magic And Highlands Green Sorcery

Hospital Productions

***Released on vinyl for the time, Jungle Black Magic And Highlands Green Sorcery is the most substantial and disorientating release in the RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT vinyl series yet, clocking in at 40 minutes and deploying some of the most uncomfortably humid productions in DOMINCK FERNOW's arsenal. Jungle Black Magic marks the third in a series of first-time vinyl editions of early RSE material. It was originally released as a double cassette release in 2012 in an edition of 49. Stalking phantom apparitions and infrasonic illusions from the dankest sectors of his imagination, Fernow plays voodoo tricks on charred opener "The Case Of The Male Witch From Goroka"— a tropical downer underpinned by larger than life sub-bass rumblings and what sound like field recordings of YouTube rainforest nightscapes rendered in abstract, digital form. "The Verdict Handed Down By A Kangaroo Court" furthers trance induction with a more tribal alignment of drums, before "For The Next Three Days There Was An Eerie Silence In The Village" ends the set with a completely bewildering alignment of synthetic sounds designed to play tricks on your senses; somewhere between a dark meditation aid and a reworked soundtrack to Predator (1987)—the vibe exceptionally heatsick and paranoid. These pieces operate in paradoxical dimensions where the calls of exotic birds convey a denseness that's at odds with acres of negative space. It feels like standing in a deforested land at the edge of thick jungle, the effect is uncannily transportive; your mind constantly grappling with contrasting sensory triggers....

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Papua Land Where Spirits Still Rule

Hospital Productions

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Taking Place In The Foyer

Hospital Productions

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Fallen Leaves Camouflaged Behind Tropical Flowers

Hospital Productions

***Marking six years of RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT's cultish, elemental output, DOMINICK FERNOW gives the project's first ever release a vinyl pressing for the first time, coiling up two extended tracts of impure, unnatural gloom ranking amongst his most cherished works. Fallen Leaves Camouflaged Behind Tropical Flowers was originally released on tape in 2011 in an edition of 59. When RSE was first conceived with Fallen Leaves Camouflaged Behind Tropical Flowers in 2011, the project was shrouded in a veil of mystery which left many fiends guessing to its provenance—it seemed too far reduced to be identified as Fernow's work, but also didn't easily resonate with anyone of Hospital Productions' usual suspects, instead holding a unique line of stygian slow techno that sounded like some our bleakest, febrile fantasies come to life. Soon enough RSE's creator and navigator was indeed revealed to be Fernow, and the project became regarded among his most prized golems by those in the know, not least because it was starkly defined in contrast to his myriad other pseudonyms—VATICAN SHADOW, PRURIENT, CHRISTIAN COSMOS, FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO, etc.—by dint of its perceived restraint and glowering minimalism. Perhaps because of that stringent, meditative asceticism, the hypnotic grip of RSE has remained undiminished and perhaps as strong as ever on this new vinyl edition, where the predator heartbeat and keening tonal groans of "Life Would Transform" sound more pensive and narcotically effective than ever, and the borderland industrial chug and clag of "Skull Covered In Moss" seems to be seated...

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Green Amulet Crafts Supernatural Qualities

Hospital Productions

***This is the second in a reissue series of DONICK FERNOW's early work as RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT, casting spells from the Green Amulet Crafts Supernatural Qualities (2011) tape onto vinyl for the first time and steadily closing the gap in your Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement collection.  Something like the soundtrack to one of Ballard's prophetic visions of sunken cities, this second RSE incursion was initially released in an edition of 63 tapes in 2011 and found Fernow dwelling in a dread-fueled, paranoid headspace.  Aesthetically, it forms an oblique inversion of PRURIENT's saturated noise assaults or a sort of chopped-and-screwed adjunct to VATICAN SHADOW, perhaps best located closest to his FORCE PUBLIQUE CONGO, but with fathoms more negative space and those full sunken sub base charges.  Thsi is some of the dankest, most precious work in Fernow's sprawling catalog.  Edition of 500.