Aural Anagram
Comprehensive, 2CD edition of NWW co-conspirator Andrew Liles’ musical treatise on the art and ideas of controversial surrealist and doll maker Hans Bellmer, particularly his etching and theories on the human body as an anagram - RIYL Ronce, Coil, The Hafler Trio
Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist whose early c.20th sculptures of the human form - and photographs of his doll-like creations - would lead him to flee the Nazi party, who termed his work “degenerate art.” Bellmen moved to France, becoming part of the surrealist movement around André Breton, and subsequently moving into erotic art by the mid century. His work is hailed a key influence on the likes of Trevor Brown (whose depictions of dolls resembling pubescent girls has notoriously adored work by Whitehouse and Venetian Snares) and would become a cultural meme surfacing in the imagery of the ‘Silent Hill 2’ computer game and ‘Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence’ anime in the late century.
Andrew Liles musical interpolation of Bellmer’s often transgressive art is more concerned with his theories on the body as an anagram, than the more prurient themes he’s associated with. Originally issued in 2003 as a 9-track CD, and in 2011 as a ‘Complete Download Version’, this 19-part, 20th anniversary edition is now augmented by alternate versions and remixes from Steven Severin - original bass player for Siouxsie & The Banshees - and illbient artist Bass Communion, for over 2 hours of music that hovers on the line between unsettling and soothing in a manner well known to isles of his work with the masters of sinister whimsy, Nurse With Wound.
The morality of Bellmer’s work is covered in the sleeve notes by Graham Duff, but as for the music, it's an immersive suite of eerily clean digital ambient minimalism and spectralism, sometimes ruptured by glitches, but more often haunting the stereo peripheries and liminal interstices, suggesting rather than forcing the listener’s ear. It gets under the skin on ‘Aural Anagram (Anal Aura Gram Remix)’, and does go viciously noisy in ‘Anal Aura Gram II.’, while the remixers faithfully hew to the vibe in ‘The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche)’ remixed by Steven Severin, and the mulched digital ephemera oozing off Bass Communion’s ‘Corrosion Mix’.
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Remastered and expanded 2CD. Discs come in a mini LP sleeve which includes a biography of Hans Bellmer from writer Graham Duff.
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Comprehensive, 2CD edition of NWW co-conspirator Andrew Liles’ musical treatise on the art and ideas of controversial surrealist and doll maker Hans Bellmer, particularly his etching and theories on the human body as an anagram - RIYL Ronce, Coil, The Hafler Trio
Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist whose early c.20th sculptures of the human form - and photographs of his doll-like creations - would lead him to flee the Nazi party, who termed his work “degenerate art.” Bellmen moved to France, becoming part of the surrealist movement around André Breton, and subsequently moving into erotic art by the mid century. His work is hailed a key influence on the likes of Trevor Brown (whose depictions of dolls resembling pubescent girls has notoriously adored work by Whitehouse and Venetian Snares) and would become a cultural meme surfacing in the imagery of the ‘Silent Hill 2’ computer game and ‘Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence’ anime in the late century.
Andrew Liles musical interpolation of Bellmer’s often transgressive art is more concerned with his theories on the body as an anagram, than the more prurient themes he’s associated with. Originally issued in 2003 as a 9-track CD, and in 2011 as a ‘Complete Download Version’, this 19-part, 20th anniversary edition is now augmented by alternate versions and remixes from Steven Severin - original bass player for Siouxsie & The Banshees - and illbient artist Bass Communion, for over 2 hours of music that hovers on the line between unsettling and soothing in a manner well known to isles of his work with the masters of sinister whimsy, Nurse With Wound.
The morality of Bellmer’s work is covered in the sleeve notes by Graham Duff, but as for the music, it's an immersive suite of eerily clean digital ambient minimalism and spectralism, sometimes ruptured by glitches, but more often haunting the stereo peripheries and liminal interstices, suggesting rather than forcing the listener’s ear. It gets under the skin on ‘Aural Anagram (Anal Aura Gram Remix)’, and does go viciously noisy in ‘Anal Aura Gram II.’, while the remixers faithfully hew to the vibe in ‘The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche)’ remixed by Steven Severin, and the mulched digital ephemera oozing off Bass Communion’s ‘Corrosion Mix’.